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Somalia

Somali refugees are seen at a United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kharaz (150 km east of Aden city) in Yemen, 11 July 2007. Refugees are dying in ever increasing numbers in their attempts to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia into Yemen, with more killed in the first half of 2007 than in the whole of the previous year, the United Nations refugee agency said yesterday.'At least 367 people died making the crossing, while 118 remain missing' after the first six months of the year, UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis told journalists. This compares to at least 328 dead and 310 missing for the whole of 2006, when far more people also made the crossing, she said.

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  • Africa is riskiest place to be born, report says

    (AP) -- More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, according to a new report released Tuesday, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa.Somalia, Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Central African   Read more »

  • No hijacking by Somali pirates in nearly a year

    (AP) -- The fight against Somali pirates has been so effective that they haven't been able to mount a successful hijacking in nearly a year, the chair of the global group trying to combat the pirates said Thursday.U.S. diplomat Donna Leigh Hopkins credit   Read more »

  • Reporte: 260.000 murieron en hambruna en Somalia

    (AP) -- La hambruna del 2011 en Somalia mato a unas 260.000 personas, la mitad de ellas menores de cinco anos, de acuerdo con un nuevo reporte que se va a publicar esta semana y que eleva a mas del doble los calculos anteriores, le dijeron funcionarios a   Read more »

  • 9 killed by gunman in Kenya, near Somali border

    (AP) -- A police chief says that a masked gunman believed to be a member of an al-Qaida-linked Somalia militant group stormed a hotel in a Kenyan city near the border with Somalia and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing nine people.Vitalis Okumu s   Read more »

  • 16 killed in attack on Somalia's main court

    MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu yesterday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia's main court complex, officials said, in a two-hour attack that shows the country's most dangerous milit   Read more »

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About Somalia

Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال‎ translit: aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is located on the Horn of Africa in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the north-west, Kenya on its south-west, and the Gulf of Aden on its north, and the Indian Ocean at its east. The Somali state currently exists solely in a de jure capacity; Somalia has no recognized central government authority nor any other feature associated with an established independent state. De facto authority resides in the hands of the governments for the unrecognized entities of Somaliland, Puntland, the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and the United Nations-recognized, interim Transitional Federal Government (TFG) until recently just in Baidoa about 260 kilometers north-west of the capital Mogadishu. Violence has plagued Somalia since warlords ousted former Supreme President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

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