Somalia frees U.N. food official: witness
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The Somali government on Tuesday released a U.N. food official held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu, a witness said.
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Three foreign UN workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said. &quot;They were released a while back this morning,&quot; said a government official, who
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Four pirates, who are part of the gang that hijacked a food aid ship in Somalia, have been arrested, aid officials say.
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Palestinian gunmen freed a top security  official on Thursday hours after abducting him in the Gaza  Strip in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule  amid a wave of unrest, witnesses said.
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Mediators welcome the return of a Somali warlord to the peace process in neighbouring Kenya.
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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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Suspected tribal rebels released on Sunday a kidnapped Bangladeshi man working for Danish aid agency Danida after 12 days of being held captive, security officials said.
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A leader of a banned Kenyan sect is freed by a judge, days after gruesome killings were blamed on the group.
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A commander of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army has surrendered in northern Democratic Republic of Congo and is in the custody of Congolese authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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High levels of malnutrition and the difficulties of delivering aid make Somalia the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis, the U.N. refugee agency's representative there said on Tuesday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday praised the inauguration of Col. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as transitional president of Somalia.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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The head of the World Food Programme in Somalia, detained on Wednesday for investigation, is set free.
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Suspected Islamist insurgents hurled at least seven grenades at a United Nations compound in Mogadishu but no one was hurt, a U.N. source said on Saturday.
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KARACHI: Security forces have arrested the head of the Jaish-e-Muslimeen, Mohammed Akbar Agha, here in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He allegedly masterminded the kidnapping of three United Nations workers in Afghanistan.
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The international community is willing to help Somalia as long as there is "progress on the ground," the United Nations' political chief said during a four-hour trip to the Somali capital.
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Officials have held an American citizen in custody for more than a year in Ethiopia's restive Somali region, the region's top security official said Sunday.