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The focus of this first section of the semester was on migration and refugees, international humanitarian law and diplomacy, the United Nations and its evolution, global security and geopolitics, and Switzerland and its foreign policy. One of our...
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However, data passed to the Guardian showed children were still being detained, it added. The case that resulted in the payout involved girls and boys, including 25 aged 14 to 16, from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Eritrea,...
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A Somali government soldier looks at the wreckage of a car bomb that detonated inside the compound of the police central investigations department in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. The car bomb exploded inside the police compound, rattling... View Photo »
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The Monitoring Group also pursued its investigation into alleged arms deliveries by air to the Al-Shabaab controlled airfields in Southern Somalia in late October and early November 2011. The SEMG's preliminary assessment is that these reports were incorrect and that the alleged deliveries to Baidoa pro...
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The Secretary-General will begin a three-nation trip next week that will take him to the United Kingdom, where he will attend an international conference on the situation in Somalia, before proceeding to Zambia and Angola, where he will meet with...
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The breadth of intelligence Lemonnier provides goes a long way toward explaining how U.S. Special Forces were able to find two lone aid workers and rescue them from that pirate camp in Somalia. Every chapter in the book is braided with intelligence...
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One can almost imagine Mr Hague studying a map in his vast corner office to find uncharted, exotic places to explore like some sort of Victorian collector. A few weeks ago he was in Mogadishu, a place most politicians consider too dangerous to trouble...
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People gather at the scene of an explosion in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 17, 2012. A car bomb exploded next to a police department building in the Somali capital on Friday, wounding two police officers, the latest in a wave... View Photo »
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Our mission in Somalia has always been to degrade and reduce the capacity of Al Shabaab to be a threat to the security of this nation
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Davutoğlu spoke with Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Shawkat al-Khasawnah. He also spoke with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jasim Bin Jaber al-Thani by phone, diplomatic officials said Feb. 16. Davutoğlu and his Kenyan counterpart...
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At least 2.34 million people still need support across Somalia, while experts fear hunger will grow in the lean period before the next harvest in the conflict-ridden Horn of Africa nation. The Shebab insurgents that killed Ibrahim’s husband still...
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Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال translit: aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is located on the Horn of Africa in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the north-west, Kenya on its south-west, and the Gulf of Aden on its north, and the Indian... Full Article
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People gather at the scene of an explosion in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 17, 2012. A car bomb exploded next to a police department building in the Somali capital on Friday, wounding two police officers, the latest in a wave of attacks in Mogadishu.
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Government policemen inspect the scene of an explosion in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu February 17, 2012. A car bomb exploded next to a police department building in the Somali capital on Friday, wounding two police officers, the latest in a wave of attacks in Mogadishu.
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African Union and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers stand guard on February 13, 2012 at a new frontline location near the Mogadishu University which they captured from Islamist al-Shebab rebels in January. Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said today he...
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Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers stand guard on February 13, 2012 at a new frontline location near the Mogadishu University which they captured with the support of AMISOM soldiers on January 20. Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said today he hoped an...
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Somali Al-Shebab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage speaks on February 13, 2012 in Elasha Biyaha, in the Afgoei Corridor, during a demonstration to support the merger of Al-shebab and the Al-Qaeda network. Shebab insurgents staged rallies across Somalia on February 13 to celebrate their...
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Somali Al-Shebab fighters gather on February 13, 2012 in Elasha Biyaha, in the Afgoei Corridor, after a demonstration to support the merger of Al-shebab and the Al-Qaeda network. Shebab insurgents staged rallies across Somalia on February 13 to celebrate their group's recognition by...
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A member of Somalia's al Shabaab militant group sits during a public demonstration to announce their integration with al Qaeda, in Elasha, south of the capital Mogadishu February 13, 2012. Somalia's government called on Monday for the lifting of an arms embargo to help it resist an al...
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A member of Somalia's al Shabaab militant group stands in front of a crowd during a public demonstration to announce their integration with al Qaeda in Elasha, south of the capital Mogadishu February 13, 2012. Somalia's government called on Monday for the lifting of an arms embargo to...
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Displaced Somalis are pictured as they flee the Afgoye corridor after African Union (AU) peace keeping forces advanced on suspected Al-Shebab bases, south of Mogadishu, Somalia on February 16, 2012. Up to 400,000 people live in the Afgoye area. Thousands of Afgoye inhabitants are...
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A Somali fleeing the town of Elasha Biyaha transports his household belongings on a donkey cart on the road to the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Thousands of Somalis are fleeing the insurgent-held town into the capital because they fear a military offensive by...
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A Somali government soldier provides security at a government-organized rally against militant group al-Shabab in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Thousands of Somalis marched through the capital during an anti-militant protest attended by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh...
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Somalis march through the streets at a government-organized rally against the militant group al-Shabab in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Thousands of Somalis marched through the capital during an anti-militant protest attended by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, with...
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African Union (AU) Special Representative to Somalia Jerry Rawlings stands in front of a guard of honour at the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) headquarters following his arrival for a two-day visit in the Somali capital Mogadishu February 7, 2012. Rawlings flew into Mogadishu...
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This picture taken on January 12, 2012 shows a gay couple, who wish to remain anonymous, who fled deadly persecution in their home country due to their sexual-orientation, speaking during an interview in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people...
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View shot through the window of an African Union (AU) armoured personel carrier shows a IDP (internally displaced person) camp in Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu on February 13, 2012. Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said today he hoped an upcoming conference in...
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View shot through the window of an African Union (AU) armoured personel carrier shows young IDPs (internally displaced person) waving to the passing vehicle during a patrol at a camp in Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu on February 13, 2012. Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed...
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An African Union (AU) soldier mans a gunmount on a armoured personel carrier on February 13, 2012 at war-raveged Somalia capital, Mogadishu during a patrol of a new frontline location near the Mogadishu University which was captured during a joint offensive with Somalia's Transitional...
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Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali speaks during an interview at his office in the war-ravaged Somalian capital, Mogadishu. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped an upcoming conference in London on the war-torn country would produce a 'Marshall Plan' to end two decades of...
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An African Union (AU) soldier scans the horizon on February 13, 2012 using binoculars at a new frontline location near the Mogadishu University which they captured following a joint offensive with Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers in January. Somali Prime Minister...
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Uganda's Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Okello Oryem (2nd L) greets officers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) at AMISOM's headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team...
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Armed members of the militant group al-Shabab attend a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Hundreds of Somalis gathered at a militant-organized demonstration on the outskirts of Mogadishu in support of the merger of the Somali militant group al-Shabab...
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Armed members of the militant group al-Shabab attend a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Thousands of Somalis gathered at a militant-organized demonstration on the outskirts of Mogadishu on Monday in support of the merger of the Somali militant group...
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Displaced Somali children queue as they wait for food-aid rations on January 19, 2012 at a distribution centre in Mogadishu. Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after they were declared, but the situation remains dire with a third of the population needing...
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A photograph taken on June 24, 2006 shows an ICRC (International Red Cross Committee) plane waiting on the tarmac of the K50 airport, outside Mogadishu in Somalia. Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels on January 30, 2012 banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ordering...
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CORRECTION NAME IN CAPTION - Former President of Ghana and UN Special Envoy to Somalia, Jerry Rawlings (2-L), Former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo and Former President South Africa Thabo Mbeki (R) attend the official opening of the African Union, AU, Summit in the Ethiopian...
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People gather at the scene of an explosion in Hodan district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, February 17, 2012. A car bomb exploded next to a police department building in the Somali capital on Friday, wounding two police officers, the latest in a wave of attacks in Mogadishu.
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