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  • Somalia Calls For Closer Security Ties After ‘Barbaric’ Kenya Massacre

    news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 03 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Somalia and Kenya must boost security cooperation between them, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Friday, as he offered his condolences a day after “barbaric” Islamist gunmen massacred 147 students. Mohamud said he mourned the “lives of innocent students” killed in the university in the no...
  • Kenyan leader vows to crush al-Shabab after massacre

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 05 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's president, has said the al-Shabab assault that killed 148 people at a university is an "attack on humanity" and vowed to take harsh measures against what he called "extremists". Kenyatta also declared three days of national mourning on Saturday, in a televised speech deliv...
  • Convicted Pirates Freed In Yemen Prison Attack Reach Puntland

    news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 05 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Convicted Somali pirates who were freed following an Al Qaeda attack on a prison in the Yemeni city of Mukallah arrived back in Puntland, Garowe Online reports. Speaking on VOA Somali Service on Saturday afternoon, Mahdi Isse said he was serving a sentence in the prison after he was convicted of tak...
  • Why al-Shabab has gained foothold in Kenya

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 05 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Kenya grieves for 148 lives gone too soon. My country is in shock at the cold-blooded murder of young students in their hostels and lecture halls at Garissa University College. Garissa is the place where I grew up and after Thursday's gruesome attack, life will never be the same again. The scale ...
  • Red Cross given permission to deliver aid to Yemen

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 06 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it hopes to bring vital medical supplies and aid workers into Yemen after receiving approval from the Saudi-led military coalition. The aid agency has been negotiating for nearly a week to deliver life-saving supplies and equipment to Yemen, w...
  • War Planes Hit Areas In Gedo In Response To Garissa University Attack

    news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 06 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Residents in Gedo are reporting airstrikes, presumably by Kenyan air forces responding last week’s Garissa university attack. War planes are mostly hitting rural areas suspected to be Al Shabab hideouts. Residents has told Goobjoog that there are casualties but could not confirm the extent. The airs...
  • Yemen's humanitarian crisis worsens as aid delayed

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 07 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Rebels fighting for the control of Yemen and forces backing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have engaged in fierce clashes in the country's south, leaving more than 140 people dead in 24 hours, as the Red Cross faces delays to deliver vital supplies. Monday's clashes happened in Aden, a power ba...
  • Scores of foreigners airlifted out of war-torn Yemen

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 12 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    At least 16,000 foreign nationals are stranded in Yemen, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that it has evacuated 143 people, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded for the resumption of peace talks in the war-torn country. The IOM said on Sunday it had flown...
  • Saudi soldiers killed in fighting near Yemen border

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 12 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Three Saudi officers have been killed and two others wounded after Houthi fighters in Yemen fired a mortar round at a Saudi border post, according to Saudi Arabia's defence ministry. A statement from the ministry on Saturday said the incident took place the previous day in the Saudi border provin...
  • Somali refugees urge Kenya not to close Dadaab camp

    news Al Jazeera, 13 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Somalis living in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp are asking the government to reconsider its decision to close it. The Kenyan government has given the UN three months to move the camp into Somalia. The move comes only days after fighters of al-Shabab, the Somali-based armed group, killed 148 peop...