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EL-WAK, Somalia (Keydmedia) - Undependable sources confirmed to Keydmedia by phone from El-Wak town in Gedo region that Barre Hirale, Somali warlord accompanying with senior army offices have arrived in town on Tuesday, Keydmedia reports.
HARGEISA (Keydmedia) — Deadly clashes over a land dispute in Somalia’s northern town of Hargeisa on Tuesday killed at least seven people, three of them soldiers, Keydmedia reports.
ISTANBUL ,Turkey (Keydmedia) - Turkish commandos have arrested 14 pirates thought to be from Somalia off the coast of Oman and freed seven Yemeni sailors they were holding hostage, the army said Sunday.
KAKOLA ,Uganda (Keydmedia) — The heart of the Obama administration’s strategy for fighting al-Qaeda militants in Somalia can be found next to a cow pasture here, a thousand miles from the front lines.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (Keydmedia)-Somalia’s militant group of Al shabab aligned with Al Qaeda has ruthlessly beheaded a man in Qansah-Dheere district after they accused of joining into Somali government troops in Bay region, Keydmedia reports.
MOGADISHU, Somalia(Keydmedia)- At least one person was killed and six others in an explosion rocked on Saturday Somalia’s chaotic capital, Mogadishu, the latest surge of bombings as Somali government forces struggled to secure the city, Keydmedia reports.
Nairobi (Keydmedia) - Poppy farmers in Afghanistan, addicted prostitutes in Ukraine, war-torn neighbourhoods in Somalia and drug tourists in the Netherlands... Heroin leaves a trail of destruction across the globe. Dutch journalist Antoinette de Jong and photographer Robert Knoth spent 20 years researching the Afghan herion trade and the devastation it causes.
KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia)-Somali government soldiers in border region of lower Jubba said Saturday that they have captured a senior Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabab militant with explosive devices, Keydmedia reports.
KISMAYU, Somalia (Keydmedia) – More than 300 fighters carrying with battlewagons and heavy weapons loyal to the renegade warlord Gandi have on Saturday defected and surrendered to TFG forces in Lower Jubba region, south Somalia, Keydmedia reports.
TEHRAN (Keydmedia) - Iran will dispatch a 15th cargo of humanitarian aid to Somalia in the near future, head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society's Relief and Rescue Organization announced on Saturday.
AMSTERDAM (Keydmedia) - Shots fired off the coast of Somalia on Thursday missed hitting a Royal Netherlands Navy helicopter.
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Dozens of Somalis in the Twin Cities are being joined by members of the area’s Latino community to protest their inability to transfer money back home to their loved ones.