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# Somalia

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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
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Oct 14th 2011, 8:32 AM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Wednesday
In tonight’s Fix: The latest in the Áras race; sparks fly between RTÉ and TV3; and can we tell what babies are thinking?
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Oct 12th 2011, 7:51 PM
# Pirates
Pirates attack Italian ship near Somalian coast
Some 23 crew members were aboard the vessel, which was reportedly attacked by five armed men.
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Oct 10th 2011, 9:35 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Tuesday
In tonight’s Fix: All the latest from #Aras11 ahead of tonight’s debate; why the Universal Social Charge has been good for the government; and has Robbie Williams left Take That?
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Oct 4th 2011, 8:09 PM
# Explosion
Mogadishu bomb attack kills 70 people
“It is the most awful tragedy I have ever seen,” a doctor dealing with the stream of maimed and dead being brought to hospital in Mogadishu has told the media.
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Oct 4th 2011, 3:12 PM
# Pirates
Somali pirates receive life in jail for fatal hijacking
Four American citizens were killed earlier this year after their yacht was hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of Oman.
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Oct 4th 2011, 2:21 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Sunday
In this evening’s fix: the latest from the presidential campaign trail and the Sinn Féin/Fine Gael war of words, 700 arrested in New York, and an early Halloween fright…
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Oct 2nd 2011, 7:56 PM
# kidnapped
Suspected pirates take Frenchwoman from Kenya to Somalia
Kenyan and French authorities are working to free Marie Dedieu from her captors in Somalia. She was abducted amid a shoot-out on the sea yesterday.
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Oct 2nd 2011, 1:55 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you should known this morning…
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Oct 2nd 2011, 8:43 AM
# Horn of Africa
Ireland increases aid for Horn of Africa famine victims
The Department of Foreign Affairs has announced a further €1 million in support for famine victims, while Bono has joined a group of celebrities calling for more action.
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Sep 23rd 2011, 3:03 PM
# Somalia
Inside Somalia: How violence is trapping the starving
As the Somali government bans foreign aid workers from militant-controlled areas for their safety, the situation deteriorates for the famine-stricken explains Oxfam’s PRO in Somalia.
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Sep 22nd 2011, 5:19 PM
# Somalia
Somali children given guns and grenades in radio contest
Islamist group al-Shabab gave the prizes to children aged between ten and 17 after testing them on their knowledge of the Koran.
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Sep 21st 2011, 11:44 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Two arrests over Meath drugs haul, fears for hundreds of jobs at Aviva, how hurling is now a ‘foreign game’, and proof that death and taxes really are certainties in life…
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Sep 21st 2011, 8:34 AM
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Sep 20th 2011, 4:50 PM
# Somalia
Somali government bans foreign workers from delivering aid
The Somali government has placed a ban on foreign aid workers delivering food to dying citizens in militant-contolled areas.
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Sep 20th 2011, 4:10 PM
# Kenya
British man killed and wife kidnapped in northern Kenya
It was not known if the attackers came from neighboring Somalia, where pirates often prey on foreigners, or if they were Kenyans.
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Sep 11th 2011, 5:42 PM
# Pirates
Danish family kidnapped over six months ago released by Somali pirates
The family, including three teenagers, and two crew members were kidnapped by pirates as they sailed in the Indian Ocean – a piracy hotspot.
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Sep 7th 2011, 1:23 PM
# Horn of Africa
750,000 Somalis now at risk of death from famine - UN
The UN says a fourth region in southern Somalia is now suffering from famine – meaning half of the south is now in crisis.
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Sep 5th 2011, 10:14 AM
Voices
Column: Some of the malnourished children have bodies so swollen they look about to burst
A Somali coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres tells the story of the forgotten tens of thousands trapped and starving to death within Somalia’s war-torn districts.
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Aug 19th 2011, 8:00 AM
# Child Deaths
UN: Ten children dying each day at Somali refugee camp
Child mortality at a camp in Ethiopia has reached an “alarming” level, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
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Aug 16th 2011, 5:46 PM
# Somalia
WFP investigating serious food aid theft in Somalia
Families at makeshift camps say that once photographers leave, they are forced to hand over their food aid.
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Aug 15th 2011, 5:10 PM
# Somalia
All sides to blame in Somali disaster, says human rights group
In its latest report, Human Rights Watch says that government troops,
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Aug 15th 2011, 11:45 AM
Voices
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
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Aug 14th 2011, 10:59 AM
# Horn of Africa
Second airlift of Irish aid reaches the Horn of Africa
Irish Aid has delivered aid worth €8.2 million to the region. Meanwhile aid agency GOAL has criticised the UN for “reluctance” to provide peacekeepers, and has said the “international community “has no stomach to tackle terrorists”.
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Aug 11th 2011, 10:24 PM
# Somalia
Somali children reportedly recruited by extremists
The United Nations has warned that children are being targeted for recruitment by the Somali militant group who are working to overthrow the country’s unstable government.
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Aug 11th 2011, 4:19 PM
# Famine
World Food Programme begins airlifting food to East Africa
The WFP is sending 800 metric tons of emergency aid to the region, where 12 million people are suffering from hunger.
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Aug 9th 2011, 4:12 PM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Monday
In today’s fix: Obama says ‘yes we cAAAn’, more violence in London, picture emerges of Norway’s killer polar bear, and the man who’s gone back to his desk job, after being president of Somalia…
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Aug 8th 2011, 8:09 PM
# Somalia
Seven shot dead during food distribution in Mogadishu
Reports from Somalia say that seven people died after looting broke out at a World Food Programme distribution point in the capital.
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Aug 5th 2011, 2:56 PM
# Somalia
29,000 children 'killed by Somalia famine'
The crisis in Somalia is worsening, with three new regions declared famine zones.
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Aug 5th 2011, 11:04 AM
# Somalia
Somali refugees moved as camps overflow
The UN has begun to move people to into extended camps as the numbers of refugees swell – while aid agencies appeal for continued support to help battle the crisis.
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Aug 2nd 2011, 11:07 AM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Saturday
Every evening, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the day’s main news stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.
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Jul 30th 2011, 8:15 PM
Voices
Column: Here’s the real problem with the world economy
In Ireland and other similar countries, we worry about spending too much. Many people don’t have that luxury, writes economist Ronan Lyons.
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Jul 30th 2011, 6:04 PM
# Somalia
UN warns famine will spread in Somalia
Somali militant have been preventing aid from reaching parts of the country suffering serious food crisis amid major regional drought.
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Jul 30th 2011, 12:20 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: War of words in Ronan Kerr inquiry, priest apologises for comparing Taoiseach to Hitler, and new details emerge of Anders Behring Breivik’s arrest…
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Jul 28th 2011, 8:33 AM
Voices
Column: The UN must brave up to terrorists to get aid to Somalia
Charity GOAL’s chief executive John O’Shea says that while agencies are trying to help refugees flooding out of Somalia, some four million people are trapped inside and facing death.
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Jul 28th 2011, 8:11 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Government may ban smoking in cars, man charged over assault on Irishman in Canberra, and the fishy tale of some Christchurch quake survivors…
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Jul 27th 2011, 8:32 AM
# Daily Fix
The Daily Fix: Tuesday
In today’s fix: Thursday election decision criticised, farewell to Tipperary North and South, and some politicians have a spot of bother with the birds…
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Jul 26th 2011, 8:06 PM
# Somalia
First consignment of Irish aid to reach Somalia tomorrow
Officials have warned that 800,000 children could die across the Horn of Africa, with the worst affected country being drought-ravaged Somalia.
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Jul 26th 2011, 6:15 PM
# Somalia
Irish colonel to head EU training of Somali security forces
The training will take place in Uganda and also involves the cooperation of the United Nations, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Uganda and the United States of America.
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Jul 26th 2011, 3:42 PM
# east africa
UN launches urgent appeal for donor help in East Africa
Some mothers have had to make the “horrifying choice of saving the strongest” of their children while leaving the weakest behind to die as starving families make the long, desperate trek to refugee camps, says the UN.
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Jul 25th 2011, 9:03 PM
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