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• Somali pirates holding arms-laden Ukrainian tanker may extend deadline on ship\'s fate
  2008-10-14 01:02:28 - (SomaliNet) A spokesman said Monday that Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia may extend the deadline on their threat to destroy the vessel. Media reports say in Kiev
  
• Somalia: Burundian troops arrive in Mogadishu
  2008-10-14 00:55:54 - (SomaliNet) A military plane which has taken off from the Burundian capital Bujumbura military base landed at Somalia’s Adan Ade international airport on Monday morning. The troops’ arrival on M
  
• Somalia: Somali forces kill pirate, wound 2 others on Panama ship
  2008-10-13 08:00:27 - (SomaliNet) A local Somali government official said security forces from northern Somalia killed a pirate and wounded two others during a shoot-out on Sunday with hijackers aboard a Panama-flagged shi
  
• Ethiopia: 4.6 million Ethiopian now need emergency food assistance-Oxfam
  2008-10-10 03:28:30 - (SomaliNet) The aid agency Oxfam said on Friday that the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food assistance has jumped to 6.4 million from 4.6 million in June. Meanwhile, drought and high foo
  
• Somalia: Briefly abducted Briton freed in northeastern Somalia
  2008-10-10 02:59:40 - (SomaliNet) A local security official said a British national working for an oil company operating in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeast Somalia was on Wednesday freed hours after bei
  
• Somalia: Kenya set to begin training up to 10,000 Somali troops
  2008-10-10 02:58:19 - (SomaliNet) Kenya is set to begin training up to 10,000 Somali troops. Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula told African ambassadors meeting at the Serena Hotel that the training of the mi
  
• Somalia: British oil worker briefly kidnapped in Somalia
  2008-10-10 02:56:21 - (SomaliNet) According to officials, security forces on Wednesday freed a British national working for a Canadian oil firm in Somalia\'s breakaway region of Puntland, hours after gunmen had kidnapped hi
  
• Somalia: Aircraft bombs Islamist stronghold in Somalia-witnesses
  2008-10-10 02:54:09 - (SomaliNet) Witnesses said an unidentified aircraft bombed an Islamist rebel stronghold in Somalia Thursday, but it was unclear if there were any casualties. Meanwhile, in recent months, U.S. for
  
• Somalia: Pirates seize another ship off Somalia-Gov’t official
  2008-10-10 02:52:13 - (SomaliNet) A government official said on Friday that a ship laden with cement was hijacked in the pirate-ridden waters between Somalia and Yemen. The panama-flagged Wail was en route to Bosasso
  
• Somalia: Kenya responds to piracy threat in Somali waters
  2008-10-10 02:50:00 - (SomaliNet) Kenya on Wednesday woke up to the piracy shock in its economy with an announcement that it is teaming up with Somalia to ensure the safety of ships around the Gulf of Aden. Kenya’s fo
  

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