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US State Dept on the crisis in Somalia
1. Wide shot US state department spokesman Sean McCormack enters press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Sean McCormack, US State Department spokesman:
''Of course we're dealing with a different situation in which the Ethiopian troops...
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The Maersk Alabama arrives in port in Mombasa, Kenya. The ship was hijacked by pirates off of Somalia's coast. Its captain remains a hostage on a lifeboat.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Hijacked ship arrives in Kenya port
CAPTION: The Maersk Alabama arrives in port in Mombasa, Kenya. The ship was hijacked by pirates off of Somalia's coast. Its captain remains a hostage on a lifeboat. (April...
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The prosecution of a Somali teenager accused of leading a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the coast of Africa was taken off the fast track Thursday after a lawyer said more time will be needed to translate some Somali recordings into English.
HEADLINE: Trial delayed for accused Somali pirate
CAPTION: The prosecution of a Somali teenager accused of leading a pirate attack on an American cargo ship was taken off the fast track Thursday after a lawyer said more time...
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3.7 million in Somalia are among the worst-hit by the famine
1. Mother with crying baby at camp for people displaced by drought
2. Close-up of crying baby
3. Various of people in camp
4. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Amina Hussein, Displaced by drought:
"We have been displaced by drought, the like of which...
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WRAP Friday prayers, reax to Zawahiri, contact group news conference
Mogadishu, Somalia
1. Wide shot of military swearing-in ceremony
2. Various of soldiers sitting down on the ground
3. Guards surrounding Ali Mohamed Gedi, Somali Prime Minister, sitting behind table
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ali Mohamed...
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WRAP GRAPHIC Soldiers' bodies burning, dead civilians; ADDS US ambassador
Mogadishu, 21 March 2007
1. 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 in the street
6. Body of...
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Yemen becomes refuge for Somalis fleeing trouble at home
Yemen has become a refuge for Somalis, who are fleeing violence and unrest at home.
They're now the largest refugee group in the country - but many say they're finding life tough.
A crowd of men, women and children gather at Somali...
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Kenyan forces pledge further push into Somalia
1. Mid of armed Kenyan soldier in moving vehicle
2. Mid of soldiers in reversing vehicle
3. Mid of group of soldiers
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major Seif Said Rashid, Kenyan Army:
"They have freely welcomed us here. If I give example of...
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Modern military and civilian aircraft wow crowd
1. Wide of plane in the sky, as Moscow''s International Aviation and Space Show at Zhukovsky started on Tuesday
2. Mid of a man with a girl watching the airshow
3. Wide of plane doing aerobatics
4. Wide of a rescue team running...
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Somalia - Reports indicate American jihadi Omar Hammami killed in Somalia
Reports indicate American jihadi Omar Hammami killed in Somalia
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Man believed to be Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki:
"This is the promise of Abu Mansoor, the official spokesman of Harakaat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen. That we...
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Missionary news agency confirms 2 nuns kidnapped in Kenya, taken to Somalia
Gunmen seized two Italian Catholic nuns from a church in northern Kenya before dawn on Monday and took them across the border into a Somali region largely controlled by Islamist insurgents, officials and witnesses said.
The editor of the...
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Somalia - US Marine Landing
An advance team of American troops arrived in Mogadishu on
Wednesday (8/2) to help coordinate the final withdrawal of un
peacekeepers from Somalia. In all, some 2,500 us marines, backed by a
force of Italian troops, will take part in...
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Kenyan military patrols border, UNICEF steps up immunisation
Dadaab, Kenya, along the Somali border - 29 July 2011
1. Wide of Kenyan military on patrol on the Kenya-Somali border
2. Close up of Kenya military on patrol on Kenya-Somali border
UNICEF immunisation centre in Dadaab, Kenya, 5...
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Africa expert says Islamic militant al-Shabab group will be forced to turn to guerrilla tactics
1. Editor of Africa Confidential, Patrick Smith, checking copy of Africa Confidential newsletter
2. Close up of newsletter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Smith, Editor, Africa Confidential
"No, I don't think it is the end of al-Shabab....
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World Refugee Day - the struggle to survive in one Kenyan camp
North Eastern province, Kenya - 18 June, 2008
1. Mid shot of refugees pushing to get through a door into the main camp
2. Mid shot of child crying as he is pushed to the fence
3. Mid shot of UNHCR official trying to calm down the...
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The Pentagon said Tuesday the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of U.S. military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle Monday night in Somalia but the U.S. can't yet confirm he was hit. (Sept. 2)
The Pentagon said Tuesday the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of U.S. military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle Monday night.
Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said the results of the strike...
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Bank loans tractors to help boost Somalia's agricultural industry
Somali farmers are being given new tractors, as part of a project launched by the International Bank of Somalia.
It's hoped the equipment will help boost the agricultural industry, as the country tries to stabilise after two decades of...
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Somalia - Aftermath of severe flooding
Damage was being assessed in southern Somalia on Wednesday (12/11) as flood waters from the River Juba receded after leaving thousands of people homeless. The Juba river in the south of the country had overflowed due to torrential rains...
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Somalia - Increase In Number Of Casualities
An upsurge of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has caused more than five hundred casualties with ten days, putting severe pressure on medical facilities. The International Committee of the Red Cross sent eighteen tonnes of...
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GRAPHIC Soldiers' bodies burning, dead civilians, US ambassador; ADDS 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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Replacement crew for Alabama arrives as Maersk crew leave
1. Mid shot, Maersk Alabama
2. Man on deck of Maersk Alabama
3. Men disembarking from Maersk Alabama
4. Man with backpack on deck of Maersk Alabama
5. Various, men standing next to containers from Maersk Alabama
6. Various, relief crew...
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A year after famine declared, people again flee low rainfall and taxes
A year after the UN declared a famine in Somalia, displaced residents are again filling up refugee camps as they flee low rains and an intensified campaign by the Islamist al-Shabab militant group to tax families.
The UN warns that 2.5...
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A top terror suspect apparently wasn't killed by a U-S airstrike in Somalia.
HEADLINE: U.S. official: Warplanes miss target in Somalia
CAPTION: A top U.S. official in Africa says that none of the al-Qaida suspects believed to be hiding in Somalia died in a U.S. airstrike this week, but Somalis with close ties...
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Exclusive interview with US ambassador in Uganda; funerals of victims
Nakawuka, 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) from Kampala
1. Coffin is placed on stand at gravesite
2. Mourners singing
3. Photo of deceased - Becky Tendo - on top of coffin, pull back
4. Two women mourners
5. Close of mourner
6. Wide of...