Somalia frees U.N. food aid boss
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The Somali government on Tuesday freed a senior U.N. food aid official who had been held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu.
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A senior aide to rebel Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr was released from U.S. detention on Thursday,  an aide to Sadr, Sheikh Mahmoud Sudani, said.
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A Filipino oil worker kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria last month has been freed unharmed, the foreign ministry in Manila said Friday.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from an Afghan prison after paying a bribe.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dozens of heavily armed government security forces stormed a United Nations compound yesterday and spirited away the official overseeing emergency food aid for Somalia's war-ruined capital, prompting the agency to suspend distribution.
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A British man held hostage in Nigeria's Delta region is released, apparently because of his poor health.
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Three foreign United Nations workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan for three weeks were released, police and officials told AFP.
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The UN World Food Program halted its food convoys to the Sudanese region of Darfur after rebels clashed with government forces in the commercial town of Ghubaysh, UN aid officials said.
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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A U.S. warship is approaching the area off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates have anchored a hijacked ship carrying U.N. food aid, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.
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An Italian aid worker abducted in the Philippines was released unharmed early Wednesday, the military said.
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Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi  Yusuf was elected Somali president by lawmakers on Sunday in  the 14th attempt in a decade to restore government to the  lawless African country.
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Somalia's president has flown to Ethiopia for a medical treatment a month after being hospitalized with a chest illness, officials said Friday, creating more uncertainty for his volatile country.
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A Moroccan soldier has been released  five days after he was kidnapped while serving in a United  Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, the U.N. said on  Tuesday.
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, leader of the Barod clan, one of the four major clans of Somalia, was elected president of Somalia, parliament speaker Shariff Hassan Shek Adan announced here Sunday.
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Top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed -- seen by Washington as a potential key to reconciliation in post-war Somalia -- was out of custody in Kenya on Thursday and reported to be leaving soon for Yemen.