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World Food Program says attacks on ships carrying supplies to Somalia combined with drought could force the east African country into a famine like the one seen in the early 1990s. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/wfp-ship-attacks-could-cause-famine.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:33:09 EDT When they talk of their government's failure, South Africans in the tangle of shacks and narrow lanes that is Alexandra point to an unfinished modern brick and steel building near the edge of the township. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/92795-south-africa-dreams-deferred.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/poor-south-africans-still-awaiting-homes-jobs.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/poor-south-africans-still-awaiting-homes-jobs.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:48:46 EDT A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency's workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/somalia-5th-world-food-program-worker-slain.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:45:01 EDT Bond. Jane Bond. Britain's secret spy agency, home to the very white and very male 007, is hunting for women and minorities to tackle global terrorism. More than 20,000 people have applied since MI6 began its open recruiting campaign about a year ago, in a drive that has all but replaced the famous shoulder tap used to recruit author Graham Greene and others in World War II. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/jane-bond-british-recruiters-seek-female-spies.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:43:06 EDT Gunmen shot and killed two Somali aid workers and wounded a third within 24 hours, witnesses said Saturday, in the latest sign of spiraling violence against workers struggling to deal with the war-ravaged country's humanitarian crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080712/3-somali-aid-workers-shot-in-24-hours.htm Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:09:16 EDT Pirate attacks worldwide surged 19 percent in the past three months compared to the January-March period, largely due to increased incidents in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime agency said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/global-pirate-attacks-rise.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:38:09 EDT Zimbabwe warned the U.N. Security Council Thursday that the sanctions it is considering could push the African nation toward civil war. Zimbabwe's U.N. mission also said in a letter to the council that the punitive measures proposed by the U.S. and Britain against President Robert Mugabe's government could turn Zimbabwe into another Somalia, a Horn of Africa nation where warring factions have clashed for the past 17 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/zimbabwe-warns-un-of-civil-war.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:16:23 EDT Somali insurgents killed at least two people in an overnight attack on an army base 15 miles northeast of the government headquarters in Baidoa, a village chairman said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/somali-insurgents-attack-government-base.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:42:46 EDT What are you going to listen to? Norway's 24-hour folk music channel Allttid Folkemusikk? The public hearings of the California Integrated Waste Management Board? Radio Banadir--the Most Trusted News in Somalia? http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88687-tech-test-wifi-radio.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/review-wi-fi-radios-bring-the-world-home.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/review-wi-fi-radios-bring-the-world-home.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:31:36 EDT The U.N. food agency says Somali gunmen have shot and killed one of its drivers in southern Somalia. The World Food Program says Ahmed Saalim is the fourth agency employee to be killed this year in Somalia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/somalia-un-agency-driver-killed.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:04:39 EDT A German cargo ship held captive for 41 days off the coast of Somalia was released and all aboard were safe and unharmed, a shipping company said Wednesday. A Somali official said the pirates received a large ransom. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/pirates-off-somalia-free-german-ship.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:25:04 EDT Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan are among "special interest" countries identified by the U.S. government as sponsors or supporters of terrorism. Since 2003, the number of East Africans caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally has gone up--from 22 in 2003 to 125 in 2007. So far in 2008, 159 have been caught--138 of them from Eritrea. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/african-countries-seen-as-possible-terror-threat.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:04:32 EDT The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87371-smuggling-east-africans.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/african-smuggling-rings-possible-us-terror-threat.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/african-smuggling-rings-possible-us-terror-threat.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:03:09 EDT The U.N. has condemned the slaying of a senior staff member in Somalia but says there are no plans to halt operations. Officials say unidentified gunmen shot Osman Ali Ahmed as he was leaving a mosque in Mogadishu on Sunday night. Ahmed--who was head of the U.N. Development Program in Somalia--died on way to the hospital. His brother was seriously wounded in the attack and his son suffered minor injuries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/un-condemns-somalia-slaying-of-aid-official.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:29:52 EDT The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing a binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/eu-shrugs-off-biofuels-complaints.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:10:10 EDT Europe and the U.S. must reconsider their biofuel policies because of rising food prices around the world, aid officials and food policy experts said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84997-belgium-eu-agriculture.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/experts-eu-us-must-reconsider-biofuel-policy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/experts-eu-us-must-reconsider-biofuel-policy.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:24:04 EDT More than 20,000 Africans have crossed the Gulf of Aden to Yemen this year, paying brutal smugglers who cram them into boats and often throw the weakest overboard, an aid group said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/group-reports-rise-in-human-trafficking-into-yemen.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:23:05 EDT Insurgents battled troops allied to Somalia's government in some of the worst fighting in this lawless country in weeks, killing at least 20 people, witnesses said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/witnesses-say-20-people-killed-in-somalia-clashes.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:11:21 EDT Rich and poor nations have more in common this year--a growing sense of economic insecurity, the U.N. says in an annual survey of world economic and social trends released Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/un-economic-insecurity-hits-rich-and-poor-nations.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:35:28 EDT A nearly 700-page study released Sunday by the Army found that "in the euphoria of early 2003," U.S.-based commanders prematurely believed their goals in Iraq had been reached and did not send enough troops to handle the occupation. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/82497-iraq-us-troops.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/army-study-iraq-occupation-was-understaffed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/army-study-iraq-occupation-was-understaffed.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:56:23 EDT