Weapons trafficking in Somalia condemned
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The U.N. Security Council condemned a "significant increase" in the flow of weapons to and through Somalia in violation of a 1992 arms embargo and voted unanimously Wednesday to keep monitoring weapons trafficking in the poor and lawless Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia's government on Thursday said a new opposition movement vowing war on Ethiopian troops in the Horn of Africa nation was a "terrorist alliance" posing no real threat.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A radio ad urging   Haitians to reveal illegal weapons caches to the U.S. Embassy   has angered politicians and fueled debate on whether the   troubled Caribbean nation has become a tacit U.S. protectorate.
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Islamists from Britain, Sweden and Pakistan are killed in joint US-Somali operations, Somali officials say.
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A watchdog criticises Palestinian armed groups in Gaza for using civilians as human shields against Israeli attacks.
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NAIROBI (Kenya): Delegates at a major landmine conference in Nairobi on Thursday called on states still outside an international ban to join the treaty, and condemned the continued use of the deadly devices that kill or main some 40 people every day.
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The UK has complained to Beijing about Chinese-made weapons being used by the Taleban, the BBC learns.
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MOGADISHU -- Leaders of the Islamic militia controlling much of Somalia ordered the handover of all unauthorized weapons yesterday but did not say how it would enforce the directive in a heavily armed country amid fears of a regional war. The directive, issued by senior Islamic leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and announced on local radio stations, applies to all ...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A US destroyer pounded Somalia's remote coastal northeast, targeting Islamic militants hours after a gun battle with Somali government forces that left eight insurgents dead, officials said yesterday.
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JERUSALEMâA US human rights watchdog has accused Israel of exaggerating the threat posed by Palestinian arms-smuggling tunnels to justify a military thrust into a Gaza refugee camp that has left an estimated 16,000 homeless.
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Ever since the Republic of Somalia forcefully gained its independence from European colonialists in 1960, the country is plagued by a number of serious problems including clan based governments, bad governance, chronic corruption, nepotism, favouritism
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Human Rights Watch criticises a UN inquiry which cleared all but one Pakistani peacekeepers of smuggling.
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A video circulating in Somalia's capital shows a masked man firing a surface-to-air missile &#151; a graphic but unsubstantiated claim that Islamic insurgents in the country are capable of shooting down planes.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the killing of up to 10 civilians after US forces opened fire following an ambush, a statement from the president's office said Monday.
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Afghanistanâs President Hamid Karzai has declared a âholy warâ on Afghanistanâs runaway narcotics industry, calling for international aid to counter a threat he said was more dangerous than any his country has faced in more than 20 years of war.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Fears of regional conflict soared as angry demonstrations against Somalia's radical Islamic militia grew into deadly violence yesterday in a southern port city, and the militia for the first time acknowledged getting help from foreign Muslims.
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A senior Islamist leader on Friday rejected the prospect of African peacekeepers for Somalia, as fresh violence in the capital killed five civilians and underscored the continued threat in the war-ravaged country.