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Kenyan leader vows to crush al-Shabab after massacre
news Al Jazeera and agencies, 05 Apr 2015 (9 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... -
Somalia Calls For Closer Security Ties After ‘Barbaric’ Kenya Massacre
news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 03 Apr 2015 (9 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... -
Convicted Pirates Freed In Yemen Prison Attack Reach Puntland
news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 05 Apr 2015 (9 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... -
Somali refugees urge Kenya not to close Dadaab camp
news Al Jazeera, 13 Apr 2015 (9 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... -
Scores of foreigners airlifted out of war-torn Yemen
news Al Jazeera and agencies, 12 Apr 2015 (9 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 (9 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... -
The IKEA Brighter Lives for Refugees campaign raises €10.8¬ million for UNHCR
news UNHCR, 10 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, thanks IKEA customers and co-workers for supporting ‘Brighter Lives for Refugees’, a global cause-related campaign that raised €10.8¬ million for refugees this year. The campaign ran in IKEA stores globally from 1 February to 29 March 2015. During this period, for every... -
Deadly attack targets UN staff in Somalia's Puntland
news Al Jazeera and agencies, 20 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )At least seven people have been killed in an attack on a UN vehicle in Garowe, the capital of Puntland in northeastern Somalia, local security sources told Al Jazeera. Four UNICEF staff members were among the dead and four other staff members were in a serious condition, the United Nations Childr... -
Dozens killed as large explosion rocks Yemeni capital
news Al Jazeera and agencies, 21 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )At least 46 people have been killed in the Yemeni capital after Saudi-led air strikes targeted a suspected weapons base held by Houthi fighters. Health officials told Al Jazeera on Monday that more than 300 people were wounded when warplanes reportedly struck a Scud missile base in Faj Attan, a d... -
Jubbaland Parliament To Be Inaugurated On Saturday
news AMISOM daily media monitoring, 20 Apr 2015 (9 years ago )The newly formed Parliament of Jubbaland which was sworn in recently is set to be inaugurated on Saturday amid controversy surrounding how the selection process was carried out. Officials of the Jubbaland presidency who spoke to Wacaal.com on condition of anonymity confirmed that the inauguration ce...