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Will UAE-controlled port bring self-determination closer?
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Somaliland's Foreign Minister says nations' increasing acknowledgment of his country's sovereignty is not tied to their economic interests.
STORY-LINE:
This is the city...
Bloomberg
Somalia Moves Closer to Revive Oil Sector, Oil Minister Says
Jun.30 -- Somalia Oil Minister Abrirashid Ahmed said that his country is open to business and has moved a step closer to alleviating more than two decades of oil-sector paralysis. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg in London, Ahmed...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Mozambique faces jihadist threat in remote northern region
Until last October Mozambique did not appear on the global jihadist threat map
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Locust swarm threatens Somalia food crisis
At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Swarms of locusts threaten food security in Kenya: govt
Large swarms of desert locusts are spreading through Kenya after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia posing a significant threat to food security the agriculture minister says (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : The women-only gym breaking stereotypes in Somalia
Somali student Aisha Muhyadin is the co-founder of the first gym class in Mogadishu to offer a workout space dedicated to women (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Somalia swears in lawmakers after chaotic election process
Somalia's newly elected lawmakers are sworn in, in the country's capital of Mogadishu after a long-delayed and chaotic voting process that was marred by deadly violence and a power struggle between the country's top leaders (Footage by...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : The women-only media start-up fighting stigma in Somalia
Armed with mobile phones, tripods and laptops, the crew at Bilan Media, a Somali start-up staffed entirely by women, is on a mission to break the silence around gendered violence in the African nation (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Government neglect could have stoked Islamic extremism, says analyst
The Kenyan government's neglect of the country's coastal areas may have helped to spread Islamic extremism, according to one political analyst.
In November, authorities led a number of raids on mosques, which they said had become a...
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WRAP GRAPHIC Soldiers' bodies burning, dead civilians, US amb; street scenes
Mogadishu, 21 March 2007
1. ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ Cheering crowds on the streets of Mogadishu
2. Car driving up and people running across road
3. Ethiopian soldier on fire and woman beating his body
4. Body on fire
5. People cheering...
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FAO Director General calls for govts and donor partners to donate
1. Wide back view of meeting
2. Jacques Diouf, Food and Agriculture Organisation''s director-General (centre)
3. Wide of audience
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General:
"If governments and their donor partners do not...
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Memorial service for nun slain in Somalia held at main church in Nairobi
1. Holy Basilica church
2. Religious cross in front of church
3. Interior of church during the special service for the slain nun
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Holy Basilica priest (no name given)
"Let us pray for her soul, that (the) Lord may...
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Amnesty Int accuses Ethiopian troops of atrocities in Somalia
1. Wide of the Sarova Stanley Hotel in Nairobi
2. Wide of news conference
3. Mid of Amnesty International officials
4. Cutaway of media and audience
5. Close up of former Somali law maker in audience
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michelle...
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SOMALIA: AT LEAST 130 DROWNED AS FLOODS FOLLOW TORRENTIAL RAIN
Somali/Natsound
At least 130 people have drowned in Somalia, where nearly three weeks of torrential rain has pushed rivers beyond their banks.
As many as 300,000 people have been displaced or trapped in the southern Juba valley....
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Somali troops patrol streets, conduct searches on second day of calm
1. Various of Somali government soldiers searching cars for weapons and explosives
2. Somali government soldiers patrolling street on foot, soldier pushing man away
3. Soldiers and people on street
4. Traffic controller directing...
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SOMALIA: MOGADISHU: HUSSEIN MOHAMED AIDID SPEAKS TO SUPPORTERS
Somali/Natsound
Enemies of the slain Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid have said their forces are on alert after the general's son took over as faction leader in the troubled African country.
The appointment of Hussein Mohamed Aidid...
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Reaction as gunmen kidnap 2 aid workers in Somalia
1. Tilt down exterior of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) office
2. Close of sign
3. Mid of Michel Peremans, MSF Belgium spokesman at news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michel Peremans, Medecins Sans Frontieres Belgium...
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Six mortar shells were fired toward the airport in the Somali capital of Mogadishu as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off, an airport employee at the control tower said.
HEADLINE: Mortars fired near plane carrying Congressman
CAPTION: Six mortar shells were fired toward the airport in the Somali capital of Mogadishu as a plane carrying a U.S. congressman took off, an airport employee at the control...
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Interview with mother of captured alleged pirate
Galkayo, Somalia - 22 April 2009
1. Wide tracking shot of Galkayo town
2. Various exteriors of the home of suspected pirate now in US custody, Abduhl Wali-i-Musi and his mother Adar Abdirahman Hassan
3. Wide of Hassan coming out of...
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WRAP 74 killed: restaurant, president, US injured, Opolot, Al Shabaab spox
Kampala, Uganda
1. Wide of security at 'Ethiopian Village' restaurant blast site
2. Close up of blood stained staircase
3. Close up of sign reading (English): "Welcome to Ethiopian Village"
4. Wide of blast site, tables and chairs...
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Kenya / Somalia - Westgate shopping mall siege / fire at Nairobi's main international airport / Kenyan troops in Somalia / al-Shabab file
AP cover of large blaze at Nairobi's main international airport
Nairobi - 7 August 2013
1. Wide of fire crews spraying huge flames at Jomo Kenyatta international airport with water, smoke billowing out from terminal building
2. Tilt up...
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The United Nations says that environmental crime is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorist groups. According to a new report, the militant group al-Shabab makes up to $56 million dollars per year from illegal charcoal. (June 24)
SOUNDBITE: (Swahili) Matthew Mutie, charcoal trader:
"We face many challenges. It is difficult to get water, as the rivers are as far away as Makindu, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from here. We don't have agricultural land we can't plant, as...
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International aid agencies struggle to deliver aid to Somali flood victims
27 November 2006
1. Various aerials of flooding in Somalia
2. Wide tracking shot of displaced Somali people standing on high ground above flooded river
28 November 2006
3. Various of Islamic Courts soldier, Medecins Sans Frontieres...
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Somali PM would welcome airstrikes against al-Qaida targets
1. Start of news conference, leaders approaching lecterns, zoom in to mid of UK Prime Minister David Cameron
2. Mid of Cameron (right) and Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Cameron, UK Prime...