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UN To Push Ahead With Aid Effort In Somalia

The UN on Friday shrugged off a claim by Qaeda-inspired insurgents that a ban on foreign aid groups remained in force ...

UN to start airlifting food aid into Mogadishu: WFP

The World Food Programme will start airlifting aid into Mogadishu "within days", the UN agency`s director said ...

Somali Women's Minister Abducted By Islamists

Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents abducted and detained Somalia's newly appointed women's minister Thursday while she was ...

Somali rebels welcome UN famine declaration

Somalia`s Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents on Wednesday welcomed the United Nations declaration of famine in parts of the ...

Pirates attack oil tanker off Yemen, crew safe - (d)

Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) into a fuel oil tanker near the Yemeni port of Aden on Wednesday ...

African leaders meet in summit dogged by Libya

African leaders sought backing for a roadmap out of the Libyan conflict at a summit Thursday where an invited ...

India detains fresh group of suspected Somali pirates

Indian police have detained 18 suspected Somali pirates -- the second batch to be taken into custody in Gujarat state ...

News Focus: RI voices NAM`s concern about nuclear weapons threat

As the Coordinator of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)`s Working Group on Disarmament, Indonesia has been very active ...

Yemen, Somalia discuss bilateral coop

A Yemeni envoy and a Somali official reviewed Wednesday bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of ...

Govt reveals efforts to save its citizens overseas

Facing `hails of bullets` from its critics that it has failed to protect Indonesians abroad as showcased by the ...

Govt able to save four citizens from execution : Marty

The Indonesian government in the last two years succeeded in preventing four of its citizens from undergoing the death ...

Deaths of seafarers in Somali pirate attacks soar

The number of seafarers killed due to Somali piracy has escalated in the past four years, with 62 merchant sailors ...

Somali premier resigns under Kampala accord

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Sunday announced he was resigning following an agreement ending the ...

Somali pirates free German ship after ransom paid

Somali pirates have freed a German-owned cargo ship, seized in April, after they received a ransom, a pirate and ...

Egypt boat held by Somali pirates freed after 10 months

An Egyptian boat seized with its 22-member crew by pirates off the coast of Somalia in August 2010 has been freed, an ...