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Somali kidnappers release two journalists

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80584§ionid=351020501

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph (R) and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon Somali abductors have released two foreign...

Journalists kidnapped in Somalia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7750433.stm

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A British and Spanish journalist in Somalia have been kidnapped from the north-eastern Puntland region, local authorities say. Government officials...

Farah Yusuf: "I can raise my children with clean money"

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Farah Yusuf, 31, is a fisherman in Bosasso, the commercial capital of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia. A...

SOMALIA: Raising awareness against FGM in Puntland

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation...

SOMALIA: Explosions in Bosasso leave 21 dead, dozens injured

IRIN

Monday, February 11, 2008

Explosions in the port town of Bosasso, the commercial capital of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, killed 21...

Somalia: MSF demands access to the area where the two MSF expatriates are still in captivity, in order to check their status

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

More than 48 hours after their abduction, Mercedes Garcia and Pilar Bauza continue in captivity . Médecins Sans...

MSF asks Somali authorities for the safe and immediate release of our two staff members

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

"Our priority now is that our two colleagues are released without harm." After confirming that two staff members have...

SOMALIA: Zeinab Ali - "Every day someone you knew had died”

IRIN

Thursday, December 20, 2007

In late November, Zeinab Ali, 22, fled fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and is now living in a crowded camp for the displaced in the town of...

SOMALIA: Risking all for a new life in Yemen

IRIN

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Genet Mengesha left her home in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to undertake the uncertain, often treacherous, journey to Yemen shortly after the...

Bosasso, Somalia