Hargaisa (Keydmedia) - At least 20 people have been wounded after an unknown attacker hurled a grenade at a crowded market in the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

Nairobi (Keydmedia) - Kenya should immediately stop deporting back to Somalia civilians fleeing the conflict there, Human Rights Watch said today. Kenya should allow humanitarian agencies to assist Somalis displaced by fighting and should not close makeshift camps without providing alternative sites and offering displaced people the opportunity to seek asylum.

By Ali M. Mohamed Aden - As director of the Center for Democracy and Political Reconciliation in Somalia, I am proposing an alternative peace initiative that I believe would end the long and difficult Somali conflict. The CDPRS is poised to assist the United Nations, the European Union and the United States in the reconciliation process to bring peace, to reinstitute the Somali constitution and to rebuild the Somali Republic.

Duekoue (Keydmedia) - The International Committee of the Red Cross has said at least 800 people have been killed during fighting for control of Ivory Coast's western city of Duekoue.

Alexandria (Keydmedia) - A judge ruled Friday that a former Somali prime minister who has been living quietly in the U.S. for the last 14 years can be questioned under oath in a federal lawsuit alleging he oversaw war crimes and other abuses against his own people more than a quarter century ago.

TOKYO (Keydmedia) - Japan appeared resigned on Monday to a long fight to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years after high radiation levels complicated work at its crippled nuclear plant.

London (Keydmedia) - The Stop the War Coalition says the bombs and missiles that the US-led military alliance has dropped on several Libyan cities contain depleted uranium (DU).

Mogadishu (Keydmedia) - Mohamed Omar Habeeb, former Mogadishu mayor has been freed from jail in Mogadishu after 40 days of captivity.

Elbur (Keydmedia.net) - Al-shabaab fighters in Elbur district in Galgaduud region, central Somalia, confiscated four stores of maize and threatened the businessmen, who brought maize there to make interest.

Djibouti (Keydmedia) - INTERPEACE coordinated forum to discuss discrimination and how to be stopped kicked off in Djibouti.

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Mogadishu (Keydmedia) - AMISOM and Somali government troops attacked Tuesday morning one of Al-shabaab defense bases in Howl-wadag district in Mogadishu.