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Three Somali aid workers shot dead - officials

A gunman killed three Somali aid workers, including two with the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), in Somalia on ...

Somali rebels block ICRC food aid convoys

Islamist militants in Somalia have blocked two International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoys carrying ...

More aggressive action on pirates, EU

European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to ...

Muslim states to discuss Somalia aid: OIC

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said Wednesday foreign ministers of member states will meet in Turkey next ...

AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu

Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital ...

UN to start airlifting food to Somalia

The UN World Food Programme was set on Tuesday to start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya after an ...

Somalia famine `worst I have ever seen`: aid chief

The plight of children escaping from famine in Somalia is "the worst I have ever seen," the head of the UN`s World ...

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 ...

Bulgarian helicopter crew freed in Darfur: WFP

Three Bulgarian helicopter crew on a UN contract kidnapped in Sudan`s troubled Darfur region were released on Monday ...

250,000 have fled Libya: UN

More than 250,000 people have now fled Libya into neighbouring countries since the revolt against Moamer Kadhafi ...

Some 100,000 Flee to Libya Neighbors in Past Week: UNHCR

The UN refugee agency said Sunday that close to 100,000 people, mainly foreign migrants, have fled Libya to ...

Libya`s food chain at risk of collapse: UN agency

The UN`s World Food Programme warned on Friday that Libya`s food supply chain was "at risk of collapsing", as aid ...

Three U.N. contractors kidnapped in Sudan`s Darfur

Three helicopter crew members contracted to the U.N. World Food Programme were kidnapped in Darfur on Thursday, the ...