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SOMALIA: SOMALI NATIONAL UNION CONDEMNS KIDNAPPING OF AID WORKERS
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One of Somalia's oldest political parties met in Mogadishu on Wednesday to issue a plea to the captors of eight Red Cross workers and two pilots to set them free.
Leaders of the Somali National Union, made up of various...
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Ethiopian PM urges intl community to create routes for humanitarian aid for Somalis
1. Wide of summit hall and delegates
2. Mid of delegates at Horn of Africa summit
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister
"But we still can''t reach huge areas, even many districts that are not controlled by the...
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US ass Sec of State Frazer comment on talks over regional peacekeepers
1. Jendayi Frazer, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Africa, enters room, shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
2. Cutaway of Ethiopian official
3. Various of Frazer and Meles sitting down
4. Frazer walks down...
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WRAP Somali president says US "has right" to target embassy bombers ADDS gvs, voxes
1. Various of streets outside the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu
3. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Yusuf, Somali President:
"We have not pardoned the leaders of the Islamists but we can give an amnesty to the fighters if they lay down...
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Journalist groups confirm Canadian and Australian journalists kidnapped
1. Wide of Shamo Hotel where kidnapped journalists were staying
2. Workers repairing exterior of hotel
3. Wide of street outside Shamo Hotel; push-in on entrance
4. Close-up of hotel sign above entrance
5. Street outside hotel
6. Various...
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Somalia - Emergency aid for flood victims
Aid agencies are racing against time to get emergency supplies to thousands of starving Somalis, whose towns and villages have been cut off by flood waters. A month of flooding has left large areas of southern Somalia under water. In...
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Famine misery continues, but aid projects offer hope
1. Various of internally displaced transit camp in Dollo, Somalia
2. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Mahmud Aden Ahmed, internally displaced person from Bokol region, southern Somalia:
"We came here after God had taken all our livestock. We could...
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Somali buries four-year-old son who died of dehydration
1. Various of Osman Ali Aliyow Mursal carrying body of his four-year-old son Aden Ibrahim, who died of dehydration
2. Various of preparations for burial of Aden Ibrahim
3. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Osman Ali Aliyow Mursal, father of Aden...
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US govt briefs media on Somalia and Ukraine
The Pentagon said Tuesday the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of US military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle on Monday night.
Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby said the results of the...
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Somali community react to arrest of bomb suspect
1. Various of Muslims on the streets of Birmingham
2. Exterior of Somali restaurant
3. Close up of restaurant sign
4. Men eating inside restaurant
5. Exterior of hut where meeting took place
6. Various of meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (English)...
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News conference on peacekeeping force for Somalia
1. Wide shot of International Contact Group on Somalia news conference
2. Reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jendayi Frazer, US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa:
"Today we are also announcing another 24 million dollars of which 10...
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African Union news conference on suicide attack in Somalia
1. Wide exterior of building containing African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) headquarters
2. Various wide shots of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicolas Bwakira, African Union envoy to Somalia:
"The chairperson of the...
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AU troops say they've driven Islamist militants out of capital, fighting
October 9, 2011
1. Black smoke billowing from residential area as an African Union tank advances towards insurgent positions in northern Mogadishu
2. Civilians and government troops crossing a road where insurgent snipers are firing...
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News conference on release of kidnapped MSF aid workers
1. Wide of beginning of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dag Horntvedt, Interim Head of Mission for Somalia, Medecins Sans Frontieres:
"Two MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres) staff abducted on the 9th of April in the Bakool region of...
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President and PM meet elders to negotiate takeover of capital
1. Wide shot, meeting
2. Centre left (grey shirt) Somalia President Abdullahi Yusuf, centre right (checked shirt) Somalia Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi and extreme right (suit) Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Mohamed Aideed seated at...
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Security an issue as Somalia aid ramps up
HEADLINE: Security an issue as Somalia aid ramps up
CAPTION: The U.N. says it plans to start airlifting emergency rations into parts of drought-stricken Somalia this week, but security remains a concern for those plans and other aid...
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SOMALIA: DROUGHT BRINGS FAMINE FEAR
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Food and relief agencies are warning of massive food shortages in southern Somalia unless large quantities of seeds, tools and food are supplied to impoverished residents.
Months of drought have destroyed a series of...
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Somalia - US Marine Troop Evacuation With New Weap
A vanguard of US Marines already ashore in Mogadishu on Friday
(24/2) began setting up the evacuation of the last UN troops and
their equipment from Somalia. A Marine spokesman said it was an "other-than-war situation" and the American...
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Council of elders discusss Ethiopian forces in the country
1. Various street scenes
2. Wide of clan elders sitting during outdoor meeting
3. Close-up of hand holding prayer beads
4. Various of clan elders
5. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Dahir Abdi Kulima, clan elder:
"The people who live in Mogadishu......
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UNHCR airlift supplies into Mogadishu for first time in 5 years
1. Wide of aircraft taxiing on tarmac
2. Various of cargo of aid being unloaded from plane
3. Close of aid parcels on tarmac
4. Wide of plane and cargo
5. Aid being taken away
6. Mid of aid on pallet
7. Close of "UNHCR" (United Nations...
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Closing session of the African Union summit
1. Wide shot of podium at African Union summit
2. Close up of African Union chairman, Alpha Oumar Konare, former president of Mali
3. Mid shot of Laurent Gbagbo, president of Ivory Coast
4. UPSOUND: (French) Alpha Oumar Konare, African...
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Somalia - Piracy
Video of seized ship
Indian Ocean, off coast of Somalia - September 30, 2008
1. Various of pirate-held merchant ship MV Faina
2. Screens monitoring Faina
World Somalia Piracy
Indian Navy/AP Television
Various, 19 Nov 2008/File
Indian...
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U-S military analyst comments on future of anti-terrorism war
Tora Bora, Afghanistan - APTN - 12 December 2001
1. Close-up opposition fighter looking at sky.
2. Wide view of figure eight in sky, close-up U-S bomber.
Rosslyn, Virginia - APTN 12 December 2001
3. Mid view of Daniel Goure with...