Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

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  Int'l donors pledge $300 million-plus for Somalia

  International donors heeded warnings about the need for increased support for Somalia by pledging more than $300 million Tuesday toward bolstering ... 

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  Car bomber kills 7 in Somali capital

  Seven people were killed Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a ... 

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  16 killed in attack on Somali Supreme Court

  A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia's main court complex, ... 

• Somalia president admits rapes by security forces

  After months of denial, Somalia's government has for the first time acknowledged that its security forces were involved in rape cases that drew an ... 

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  USAID chief visits Mogadishu, says US is committed

  Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development ... 

• Britain pledges $4.7M for Somalia's new government

  The British government says it will give 3 million pounds ($4.7 million) in new aid to Somalia to help the war-ravaged nation's institutions and its ... 

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  UK backs talks between Syrian opposition, regime

  Britain on Thursday welcomed the surprise declaration from Syria's top opposition leader that he would negotiate with President Bashar Assad's regime ... 

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  Suicide bomber kills 2 at Somali president's villa

  A suicide bomber Tuesday detonated explosives outside the prime minister's home in Somalia's presidential palace compound, killing two people, ... 

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  Somali government arrests 3 over scholarship fraud

  Three officials have been arrested for mismanaging a scholarship scheme that sends Somali students to Turkey, Somalia's education minister said ...