Food Prices: Hunger Strikes
As the sun sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet smell wafts through a small house where Malahasen Juma is cooking dinner for her eight children: a handful of onions, chopped and tossed into a pot of steaming maize porridge and leftover vegetables. Until recently Juma would spice up suppers with beef or fish stews. But not now. "Everything is more expensive," she says. "The children need milk, but I cannot afford that. Meat is a luxury now, not a necessity. We are just living at God's mercy."
Nations:India Somalia Uganda Myanmar China Niger People:Ban Ki-moon Robert Zoellick George W. Bush Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(Time)
2008-06-11
Alleged head of al-Qaida in Somalia said killed in airstrike
The U.S. military said Thursday it launched an attack against an al-Qaida target in Somalia, and an Islamic insurgent group said the head of the terror network in the African country was killed in an overnight American airstrike.
Nations:Somalia Tanzania
2008-05-01
US says it hits Somali terrorist target
The U.S. launched an airstrike Monday on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a group of terrorist suspects, U.S. defense officials said.
Nations:Somalia Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2008-03-03
Kenya election violence spreads in west
Some 2,000 people from rival tribes faced off on a main road on Monday in this previously quiet tourist town, divided only by a handful of police who fired into the air to force their retreat.
Nations:Somalia Uganda People:Kofi Annan Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-28
Kenya opposition calls 3 days of protest
Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation.
Nations:Somalia Ethiopia Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-11
Up to 1,000 killed in Kenya crisis: Odinga
Riots and post-election violence in Kenya may have killed up to 1,000 people, the opposition said on Monday as it halted protests and President Mwai Kibaki invited his main rival to talks.
Nations:Somalia People:George W. Bush Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-07
Kenya opposition calls for new vote
Kenya's opposition party called for a new presidential election to settle a dispute over the vote that has sparked days of deadly riots, and police hurled tear gas to scatter more than 1,000 protesters in the coastal city of Mombasa Friday.
Nations:Kenya Somalia Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-04
Kenyan official calls for vote probe
Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds heading for a banned rally to protest Kenya's disputed presidential election, and the attorney general called for an independent body to verify the vote tally.
Nations:Uganda Kenya Somalia Tanzania Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-03
On Christmas, pope urges end to wars
Pope Benedict XVI issued a Christmas Day appeal Tuesday to political leaders around the globe to find the "wisdom and courage" to end bloody conflicts in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo.
Nations:Somalia Vatican Sri Lanka Lebanon Ethiopia Activities:Israel-Palestine Conflict Darfur Genocide Crisis
2007-12-26
Residents flee Mogadishu as government battles rebels
Residents fled the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, adding to a growing humanitarian crisis as government forces backed by Ethiopian tanks stepped up efforts to crush Islamist-led insurgents.
Nations:Somalia Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-11-12
UN official detained in Somalia
The head of U.N. food agency operations in the violence-wracked Somali capital was taken away Wednesday by 50 to 60 heavily armed government security officers who had stormed the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, the agency said.
Nations:Somalia
2007-10-17
Bin Laden wants 'caravan' of martyrs
Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the "caravan" of martyrs as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Nations:Somalia Pakistan Activities:Islamic Terrorists
2007-09-11
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