SOUTH AFRICA: Foreigners (still) beware
CAPE TOWN, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, she heard the armed men outside shout: "We're going to kill you because you don't want to listen."
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SOMALIA: Crops destroyed, families displaced as Shabelle bursts banks
NAIROBI, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalia's Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed after the Shabelle river burst its banks, displacing thousands of people, officials said.
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SOMALIA: Dozens die in diarrhoea outbreak
NAIROBI, 18 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 100 people have died in the past four weeks after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in and around the town of Abudwaaq, in Galgadud region of central Somalia, medical sources said on 18 November.
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SOMALIA: Cutting charcoal use in urban Somaliland
HARGEISA, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - Authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have embarked on efforts to reduce charcoal use in urban areas to curb deforestation, officials said.
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SOMALIA: “TFG on brink of collapse”
NAIROBI, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - The widening split between Somalia's leaders could lead to the total collapse of the transitional federal government, a Nairobi-based regional analyst, who requested anonymity, has warned.
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SOMALIA: Hostility rises in Hargeisa after suicide bombings
HARGEISA, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - Somalis displaced to the self-styled independent republic of Somaliland from other parts of the Horn of Africa country have faced increasing hostility after three suicide bombing incidents in late October.
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SOMALIA: UN and local elders slam aid worker kidnap
NAIROBI, 6 November 2008 (IRIN) - The UN has called for the immediate release of four aid workers and two pilots who were abducted on 5 November in central Somalia's Galgadud region.
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SOMALIA: Floods displace thousands, destroy farmland in Bardera
NAIROBI, 4 November 2008 (IRIN) - Flash floods in south-western Gedo region have displaced hundreds of families and inundated hectares of farmland in and around Bardera, the regional capital.
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SOMALIA: "One message" on FGM/C in Somaliland
HARGEISA, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - Hawa* is determined her young daughter will not undergo female genital mutilation/cutting, which is widespread in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland.
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SOMALIA: Jamal Abdi: "There’s real panic and confusion in town"
HARGEISA, 30 October 2008 (IRIN) - As security forces investigate the three suicide car-bombs that went off on 29 October targeting a UN compound, the presidential residence and Ethiopian embassy in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Jamal Abdi, 22, a local journalist, spoke to IRIN from hospital about the experience:
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