Al-Qaeda is using Somalia to train, regroup and plan further attacks, the Somali prime minister said Wednesday, warning it was also beginning to threaten regional stability."Somalia has now clearly become a haven for the pariah that is Al-Qaeda," Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke said in a speech in London."We cannot be certain of the precise size of their presence in our country but Al-Qaeda are here, they...
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Novosti) A 112-year-old Somali man has married a 17-year-old girl in central Somalia.The wedding took place in the village of Guriceel in central Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the world.Ahmed Muhamed Dore already has 18 children from five wives. He said he would like to have more children with his new teenage wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is young enough to be his great-great-granddaughter.'Today...
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Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said on Friday.Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly exactly 20 years ago. The most widely ratified international human rights...
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Moscow: A 112-year-old Somali man has married a 17-year-old girl in central Somalia.The wedding took place in the village of Guriceel in central Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the world.Ahmed Muhamed Dore already has 18 children from five wives. He said he would like to have more children with his new teenage wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is young enough to be his great-great-granddaughter."Today...
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money-transfer company has made a piece of banking history in Somalia - introducing the first-ever debit card in the breakaway region of Somaliland.The firm, Dahabshiil, hopes eventually to roll the system out to all Somali-speaking areas from Djibouti to Kenya.They say large shops and hotels in areas with good internet connection and electricity can sign up to the service.The card was launched in...
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lang="EN"> Mogadishu (Somalia), Nov. 18: A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair.
Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, the judge for the group al-Shabab, says the woman was killed on Tuesday in front of a crowd of some 200 people near the town of Wajid.
Judge...
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Moscow, Oct 31 : A 112-year-old Somali man has married a 17-year-old girl in central Somalia.The wedding took place in the village of Guriceel in central Somalia, one of the poorest countries in the world.Ahmed Muhamed Dore already has 18 children from five wives. He said he would like to have more children with his new teenage wife, Safia Abdulleh, who is young enough to be his great-great-granddaughter."Today...
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Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship captured briefly by pirates in April, came under fire again off Somalia's coast, but evaded the attackers....
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Japanese Naval ships, returningafter Anti Piracy operations in Somalia, will arrive heretomorrow on a two-day visit.The ships -- JDS Amagiri and JDS Harusame -- are en routeto Japan after the operations in Somalia, naval sources said.They said Commander, Escort Division, Captain MasaiArihara would meet Rear Admiral S S Jamwal, Chief of StaffSouthern Naval Command, tomorrow.Meanwhile, Indonesian Warship...
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Saudi Arabia has lifted a ban on the import of livestock from Somalia imposed nine years ago to prevent the spread of Rift Valley fever.It means they can profit from increased demand for livestock during the Eid al-Adha festival when Muslims traditionally sacrifice an animal.The export of sheep, goats and cattle is a mainstay of Somalia's economy and Saudi Arabia had been a major market.The failed...
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