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The Michigan Daily
April 12, 2018
Vice Media's documentaries have cultivated a bit of a reputation for sending white Brooklynites with unkempt hair to romp around dangerous locales, searching for the likes of Somali warlords and black-market kidney brokers. It's a style that's grating at best, ignorant at worst and, more often than not, does aÃâà...
ANSA
March 30, 2018
(ANSA) - Rome, March 30 - A Somali man wrongfully convicted in the Mogadishu murder of RAI reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Milan Hrovatin on Friday got three million euros in compensation for his almost 17 years in jail. Hashi Omar Hassan received 3.181 million euros in a ruling from theÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 27, 2018
March 27, 1993: Somalis celebrate peace agreement. Disarming the population was one of the main aims of US-led troops who arrived in Somalia to restore order. Image Credit: Gulf News Archives. Somali women clench their fists as they salute the peace agreement between the Somali warlords, during aÃâà...
SomalilandPress
March 11, 2018
Somalia warlords/ Al-Shabaab buddies overestimated their political legitimacy, their regional geopolitical and economic leverage and their other influences in and around the international arena. It took them hours to understand that they were not a superpower country. Once they realized their internationalÃâà...
The Times
June 10, 2013
Fierce clan fighting between opposing warlords in a Somali city has killed 18 and forced hundreds to flee, threatening a return to chaos in a city recently recaptured from Islamist extremists. The dispute over control of the port city of Kismayo pitches the city's most powerful militia leader — credited withÃâà...
Capital FM Kenya
June 8, 2013
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, MOGADISHU, June 2013 – At least eight people have died in fighting between rival Somali warlords battling for control of the southern port city of Kismayo, witnesses said Saturday. Gunmen from the Ras Kamboni militia of former Islamist warlord Ahmed Madobe recentlyÃâà...
TIME
December 15, 2008
Somalia is a land that has descended so deeply into misery that "failed state" is now too generous a description for the country. Yet it was hard not to marvel at local politicians, appointed by outside forces, wielding almost no power at all but still able to find ways to make things worse. Case in point: onÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
August 26, 2008
The hijackings coincided with a violent week on the mainland. Islamists seized a key port and fighting raged in the capital Mogadishu, where two Western journalists were kidnapped. Test your knowledge Could you pass a US citizenship test? Pirates help fund Somali warlords Ãâ÷ Photos of the Day Photos ofÃâà...
BBC News
June 15, 2006
East African countries have agreed to impose sanctions including a travel ban on a group of Somali warlords recently defeated in a battle for Mogadishu. Kenya's Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said the sanctions, which also mean an assets freeze, would apply immediately. He said that the warlords,Ãâà...
BBC News
May 12, 2005
The most powerful warlords in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, have agreed to set up a united force, which they say will restore security to the lawless city. They say they will start withdrawing some of their battle wagons and gunmen from the city by the end of the week. The BBC's Hassan Barise, just backÃâà...
gulfnews.com
December 31, 1999
1994 - American troops withdraw from Somalia after a 16-month humanitarian mission marred by fighting with Somali warlords. 2002 - An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale strikes the districts of Nahrin and Burkha in Afghanistan, killing more than 4,800 people. 2007 - Yemen becomes theÃâà...
