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Kenyan Fighter Jets Strike Militant Targets in Southern Somalia

By Paul Richardson and Ilya Gridneff Kenyan fighter jets attacked al-Qaeda-linked militants in southern Somalia, two days after explosions in its capital city left at least 12 people dead. The Kenyan air force struck an explosives-making compound at Jilib, about 334 kilometers (207 miles) southwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir...

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UN troops deploy in Somali capital to defend staff

United Nations Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Kay, flanked by Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) and European Union Special Envoy to Somalia Michele Cervone d’Urso (R), addresses the ceremony marking Europe Day in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar   MOGADISHU: A special UN military force to protect aid workers deployed for...

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Fat people DO have fewer friends: Study finds ‘normal weight’ people reject them

By Emma Innes Sticking together: The researchers found that as a consequence of being rejected by slimmer people, overweight people tended to have larger friends Overweight young people have fewer friends than their healthy weight counterparts, researchers claim. This is because they are more likely to be rejected as friends by slimmer people. The U.S....

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Mark Haddon’s Ethiopian adventure

The curious incident of the novelist who conquered his fear of flying with the help of Valium, Mogwai and Ethiopian Airlines flight 707 to Addis Ababa Mark Haddon i Experts in their field: Mark at the Halaku irrigation Scheme in Awassa. He is talking with farmer Alamu Kufa, who is 35 and has seven children....

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Montreal based Canadian NGO, IHDO Distributed Medicines in Mogadishu

Press Release Mogadishu – International Human development Organization (IHDO) donated a 20 feet container of first line medicines to Somalia. The medicines were donated to hospitals in Mogadishu during the month of April 2014. IHDO Mogadishu office coordinator, Hamad Abdulqadir, visited local hospitals to assess their needs. Based on this assessment IHDO distributed the medicines...

‘Ethiopia committed to ‘genuine negotiations with Egypt’: Ethiopian minister
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‘Ethiopia committed to ‘genuine negotiations with Egypt’: Ethiopian minister

Ethiopia prepared for “realisation of shared benefits and a win-win approach” with Egypt and GERD Basil El-Dabh Ethiopia is “committed to genuine negotiations with Egypt” in order to address the downstream nation’s concerns about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), said Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Tedros Adhanom. Adhanom added that his country’s government was...

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No Silver Lining for Somalia’s Child Labourers

By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble 11-year-old Hassan Abdullahi Duale works 12-hour shifts at a car-repair shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Credit:Alinoor Salad/IPS NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Halima Mohamed Ali wakes up every morning at five am, but unlike her peers she does not go to school. Instead, she begins her duties as a nanny for five children,...