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SOUTH AFRICA: WE WANT SOMALIAN SHOP, NOT A CHURCH!

0 Visits: 0 | Wednesday April 22, 2015 - 18:26:43
THE Somalians' corner supermarket used to be a hive of activity. And because the shop owners even assisted the poorest with credit, it was very popular. Then xenophobia spread across parts of KZN like wildfire. Soon the Somalians fled for their lives, leaving the building empty.

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Kenyan police assault journalists investigating corruption-CPJ Says

0 Visits: 5052 | Tuesday April 21, 2015 - 09:45:56
Nairobi, April, 20, 2015-Two journalists were beaten by officers from Kenya's paramilitary police wing, the General Service Unit (GSU), at a cattle ranch in southeastern Kenya on April 18, according to news reports. Nehemiah Okwembah, from the privately owned paper Nation and Reuben Ogachi, a cameraman…

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Somalia: Forced Evictions of Displaced People-Tens of Thousands at Risk in Capital

0 Visits: 4363 | Monday April 20, 2015 - 10:29:52
(Nairobi, April 20, 2015) – Somali state security forces forcibly evicted about 21,000 displaced people in the capital, Mogadishu, in early March 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities beat some of those evicted on March 4 and 5, destroyed their shelters, and left them without water,…

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Somalia: Col. Abdihakim Farey nominated as the head of National Security Agency's Mogadishu Branch=

0 Visits: 3858 | Friday February 13, 2015 - 19:57:06
Mogadishu, 13 Feb 2015, (Qalin) – The chief of Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency -NISA Gen. Abdirahman Mohamud Turyare had this week nominated Col. Abdihakim Ahmed Farey, a well-known figure in the private education sector, to lead the National Intelligence and Security Agency's…

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Somalia: Daljir Party urges the parliament to approve the cabinet!

0 Visits: 6305 | Saturday January 31, 2015 - 20:29:56
Mogadishu, 31 Jan 2015. (Qalin) - Daljir Party is a strong believer that Somalia should gain firm political stability based on dialogue and understanding.

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Somalia Prime Minister Appoints 20-Member Cabinet

0 Visits: 3295 | Wednesday January 28, 2015 - 14:39:10
Mogadishu, 28 Jan 2015, (Qalin) - Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has appointed a new council of ministers following extensive consultation with the President, Speaker of the Parliament, Members of Parliament and key stakeholders within the Somali society.

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Somalia: EHAHRDP supports historic first country visit by the African Commission's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

0 Visits: 2942 | Tuesday January 27, 2015 - 20:16:04
Mogadishu, 27 Jan 2015 (Qalin) - The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) today concluded a high level mission to Mogadishu, Somalia, that marked the first visit to Somalia of a Special Mechanism of the African Commission on Human & Peoples' Rights in the country's…

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SOMALIA: Minister of Information's speech at the Human Rights Conference in Mogadishu

0 Visits: 2683 | Tuesday January 27, 2015 - 15:47:03
**H.E. Mustafa Duhulow**

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BOOQASHADA ERDOGAN: MID HUWANEYD HIIL-QARAN IYO HILOW WALAALNIMO --Qalinka Abuukar Albadri,

0 Visits: 6249 | Tuesday January 27, 2015 - 15:26:59
Muqdisho, 27 Jan 2015. (Qalin) - Maalintii Axadda waxaa Muqdisho lagu soo dhoweeyey madaxweynaha Dalka Turkiga Md. Rajab Dhayib Erdogan (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) oo dalka ku yimid Booqasho taariikhi ah oo qalbiyadda ummadda Soomaaliyeed ku reebtay xusuus iyo hilow kalgacal, kaas oo waayo badan jiri donna…

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Somalia President: The Turkey's role in Somalia, a model of solidarity in tough time!

0 Visits: 5730 | Sunday January 25, 2015 - 21:20:14
Mogadishu, 25 Jan 2015 (Qalin) - Somalia is recovering. Somali national forces, working with those of the African Union, have regained control of the most of Somalia's population centres and critical infrastructure such as the port of Barawe, our government structures are growing stronger by the…

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Turkish President Erdogan makes a landmark visit to Somalia

0 Visits: 5841 | Sunday January 25, 2015 - 20:45:56
Mogadishu, 25 Jan 2015, (Qalin) - The president of Turkish Reccep Tayyip Erdogan made a landmark visit to Somalia Sunday with large delegation including ministers businessmen and parliament members.

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Somalia President: "We welcome our Turkish friends back to Somalia"

0 Visits: 2661 | Sunday January 25, 2015 - 20:45:56
Mogadishu, 25 Jan 2015, (Qalin) - HE President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today welcomed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey to Somalia.

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Suicide bombing targeted to hotel that hosted IGAD ministers

0 Visits: 4884 | Thursday January 22, 2015 - 21:18:49
Mogadishu, 22 Jan 2015 (Qalin) - At least three people including two suicide bombers died in at attacked tarted to SYL hotel in Mogadishu where a preliminary Turkish Delegation ha a meeting.

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Somalia President: "Alshabaab seeks to thrive on headlines, but we will give you better headlines tomorrow

0 Visits: 5812 | Thursday January 22, 2015 - 21:18:49
Mogadishu, 22 Jan 2015 (Qalin) - the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, today spoke to the media on a terrorist attack that took place at the SYL Hotel in central Mogadishu this afternoon. The President spoke to the media from the hotel itself.

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President orders use of Somali as official language of communication

0 Visits: 1827 | Thursday January 22, 2015 - 12:09:43
Mogadishu, 21 Jan 2015 (Qalin) - President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today led celebrations to commemorate the adoption of the standard written form of the Somali language – first written down 42 years ago. Attending the celebrations in Mogadishu were the Speaker of the Federal Parliament Hon Mohamed…

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The President: "Advancing and protection children's rights advances and protects Somalia's future"

0 Visits: 2210 | Tuesday January 20, 2015 - 19:39:59
Mogadishu, 20 Jan. 2015, (Qalin) - The President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, signed the Convention for the Rights of the Child.

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The Somali Forum for Unity and Democracy (SFUD) welcomes the prime minister's withdrawal of the list of cabinet appointees

0 Visits: 20404 | Sunday January 18, 2015 - 06:22:19
Mogadishu, 18 Jan. 2015 (Qalin) - The Somali Forum for Unity and Democracy welcomes the decision of the Prime Minister to withdraw the list of cabinet appointees, responding to the deep concerns over the list held by an overwhelming majority of parliamentarians.

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Somalia PM Sharmaarke dissolved cabinet after parliament shown rejection

0 Visits: 2628 | Saturday January 17, 2015 - 07:20:47
Mogadishu, 17 Jan, 2015 (Qalin) – Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmaarke dissolved his sixty cabinet members that existed only five days after the the parliament shown its rejection to the members in the list.

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The List of the cabinet members announced by the Somalia PM

0 Visits: 3496 | Monday January 12, 2015 - 07:05:36
MOGADISHU, 12 Jan. 2015 (Qalin) – The PM announced 25 ministers, 25 deputy ministers and 9 state ministers who will replace the former cabinet that lost the vote of confidence in the parliament in December 2014.

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Somalia PM announced 60 member cabinet list

0 Visits: 2008 | Monday January 12, 2015 - 06:49:22
MOGADISHU, 12 Jan. 2015 (Qalin) – The Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmaarke announced a cabinet list consisting of 60 members on Monday morning at a ceremony in the Statehouse in Mogadishu.

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