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    SOMALIA: SAFER PASSAGE OF AID NEEDED URGES UN ENVOY December 15, 2005

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) An appeal for safe passage of humanitarian aid to Somalia was Wednesday made by United Nations envoy. UN warned that insecurity was blocking deliveries of relief and jeopardizing the lives of people in urgent need of assistance. Safe access for humanitarian workers

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    UN CALLS FOR MORE RESOURCES AND EFFORT TOWARDS SOMALIA, SUDAN AND UGANDA MINE ACTION December 15, 2005

    UN Calls for More Resources and Effort towards Mine Action Nairobi (15 December 2005) – The United Nations today launched the Portfolio of Mine Action Projects 2006 appealing for a total of USD 85.4 million for Mine Action activities in Somalia (USD 5.5 million), Sudan (USD 76.5 million) a

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    NEW POLICE ACADEMY OPENS IN SOMALIA December 21, 2005

    UNDP Somalia Press Release Armo, Puntland (20 December 2005) – The first police academy to be built in Somalia for several years officially opened today, Somali Police Day, at Armo, 100 kilometres south of Bossaso in the northeast of Somalia. In its first operational phase, the initial

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    SOMALIA: BAYDHABO RESIDENTS NOT HAPPY WITH CURRENT POLITICAL PROCESS December 22, 2005

    <|baydhaba1222051.jpg||left|>(SomaliNet) Hundreds of Baydhabo residents took their anger and frustration with the current political process in Somalia to the streets today in a peaceful demonstration, chanting “Jowhar cannot decide our future and similar slogans. Baydhabo is the capital of

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    SOMALIA AND ETHIOPIA AMONG MANY COUNTRIES FACING FOOD INSECURITY January 3, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea are among the many countries in need of urgent food assistance. The Food and Agriculture Organisation has said. Reports The Standard 3rd January. The United Nations body in its latest global information and early warning system on food

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    SOMALIA: PUNTLAND SATE AGREES TO BANKROLL NATIONAL GOVERNMENT January 3, 2006

    (SomaliNet) After many months of back and forth negotiations, Puntland regional administration and the federal government of Somalia reached a settlement in which Puntland agreed to allocate long-term financial support for the interim government. In return, the federal government will not object Pun

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    SOMALIA: GOVERNMENT RIVALS EXTEND VITAL MEETING January 4, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Somalia’s rival political leaders have extended their meeting as they try to reach an agreement that could lead to the restoration of central government. Somali President, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan are reported

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    SOMALIA: LEADERS AGREE ON GOVERNMENT'S MOVE TO MOGADISHU January 5, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) A final agreement to move the government to Mogadishu, ending a rift that has almost paralysed the administration has been reached by Somalia's president and parliamentary speaker. Somalia’s President, Abdullahi Yusuf and speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan hav

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    SOMALIA: THOUSANDS MAY STARVE DUE TO DROUGHT January 12, 2006

    Apunyu Bonny (SomaliNet) Thousands of people in parts of southern Somalia may starve unless immediate help arrives. This was Thursday revealed by The Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) spokesman. TFG spokesman Abdirahaman Dinari said the information they are getting is that thous

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    SOMALIA: FIERCE BATTLE IN KISMYO January 16, 2006

    <|somalia_map.jpg|Somalia|left|>Heavy fighting continues in coastal city of Kismayo for the second straight day. Colonel Barre Adan Hirale's militia is trying to flush out a renegade commander within the Jubba Valley Alliance faction and his tribesmen who control small pockets in the city. Many peop

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