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• Somalia, Sudan: UN chief sees obstacles to helping Darfur, Mogadishu
  2008-10-08 04:32:30 - (SomaliNet) The U.N. chief said Tuesday that the beleaguered peacekeeping force in Sudan\'s violence-wracked Darfur region cannot be significantly strengthened this year because of increased dangers.
  
• Somalia: Unidentified gunmen shoot dead key clan elder in central Somalia
  2008-10-08 04:29:36 - (SomaliNet) Unidentified gunmen in the central Somali town of Beledweyn shot dead a prominent clan elder who opposed the ban on the operations of aid agencies by an Islamist group, an Islamist spok
  
• Kenyan suspects not arrested in Kenya, but in Somalia- says Ethiopia
  2008-10-08 04:26:33 - (SomaliNet) Saying they had been captured during fighting in Somalia, Ethiopia denied on Tuesday that eight Kenyans who were flown home at the weekend had been arrested in Kenya early last year as sus
  
• Somalia: UN Security Council adopts new Somalia piracy resolution
  2008-10-08 04:22:30 - (SomaliNet) In an effort to actively join the fight against rampant piracy off the coast of lawless Somalia, the UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution urging states to deploy
  
• Somalia: Two abducted Western aid workers healthy in Somalia
  2008-10-08 04:02:48 - (SomaliNet) Local residents said on Tuesday that the two Western aid workers kidnapped by Somali gunmen on the Ethiopian border are in good health and ransom negotiations are underway for their releas
  
• UN council again urges nations to deploy navy vessels to fight Somalia piracy
  2008-10-08 03:59:04 - (SomaliNet) In a repeated call, the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday again urged countries with naval vessels deployed around the Horn of Africa to do whatever is needed to stamp out piracy off the co
  
• Somalia: Pirates want $8 mln ransom to free Ukraine ship
  2008-10-08 03:55:02 - (SomaliNet) The pirates are demanding an $8 million ransom deal under which the boat would be freed in the next few days, an onshore associate of Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship with tanks and
  
• South Korea considering dispatching navy ship to waters off Somalia
  2008-10-08 03:45:05 - (SomaliNet) South Korea’s top diplomat said Tuesday that South Korea is considering dispatching a navy ship to waters off Somalia in a bid to protect its fishing and cargo ships from piracy. \"Con
  
• Somalia: Armed Ethiopian troops leave southwestern Somalia, head to Ethiopia
  2008-10-08 03:39:45 - (SomaliNet) According to witnesses in Somalia, a large number of Ethiopian troops with more than 30 armoured vehicles left Luuq town in southwestern Somalia and headed to Ethiopia. Local resident
  
• Somalia: Pirates attack six more ships off of Somalia-NATO
  2008-10-07 03:46:58 - (SomaliNet) According to data from NATO, pirates have attacked six more vessels off the coast of Somalia in just the past week. The now-infamous, weapons-clogged MV Faina remains in pirates\' hand
  

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