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    Somalia parliament debated on NISA and Immigration bills

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    Education stakeholders call for reforms, standardisation and resource allocation

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    Somali students arrive in Serbia for scholarship programme

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    Five-day National Education Conference opens today in Mogadishu

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    Floods kill 22 people in Somalia-UN

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    Flooding In Somalia Displaces 200,000 People

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    Somali soldiers allegedly tortured former MP

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    NUSOJ impasse deepens as ILO recognises Farouk as Secretary General

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    Boost for Somalia as EU approves €20.5m budget support

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    African pharmaceutical technology foundation receives endorsement

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    Prime Minister Barre in Egypt for the AfDB annual meeting

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    US pledges to support East Africa’s private sector

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    Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new minerals

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    Uganda successfully launches its first satellite into space

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    Banaadir Hospital gets major upgrade from Chinese government

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    A deadly decade for Somalia’s journalists

    President Mohamud: There is no turning back. We must finish off Al-Shabaab

    President Mohamud: There is no turning back. We must finish off Al-Shabaab

    Left behind: Deeply broken Somalia

    Left behind: Deeply broken Somalia

    OP-ED: Terrorism has no nationality, ethnicity nor religion. FETO threatens humanity as a whole”

    OP-ED: Terrorism has no nationality, ethnicity nor religion. FETO threatens humanity as a whole”

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      US airstrikes fail to weaken Al-Shabaab’s grip on Somalia

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      Two men executed for murder in south-western Somalia

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      Puntland forces retake Af-Urur village in Puntland region

      Three soldiers reportedly killed in clash over elections in Puntland

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      Senate passes National ID and Registration bill

      Senate passes National ID and Registration bill

      REVEALED: Al-Shabaab mass destruction ahead of Sabiib fall

      ANTI-TERRORISM BILL: Somali gov’t to seize property of convicted terrorists

      Somalia’s Upper House approved National Audit Bill

      The Upper House postpones a critical bill

      Somalia’s Upper House approved National Audit Bill

      The power bill got the OKay from the Senate.

      Somalia parliament debated on NISA and Immigration bills

      Somalia parliament debated on NISA and Immigration bills

    • Education
      OP-ED: The journey of a book

      OP-ED: The journey of a book

      National Education Conference: Expanding access and quality education in Somalia

      National Education Conference: Expanding access and quality education in Somalia

      Education stakeholders call for reforms, standardisation and resource allocation

      Education stakeholders call for reforms, standardisation and resource allocation

      Somali students arrive in Serbia for scholarship programme

      Somali students arrive in Serbia for scholarship programme

      Five-day National Education Conference opens today in Mogadishu

      Five-day National Education Conference opens today in Mogadishu

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      Somalia could plunge into famine by June-FAO

      UN, major donors to mobilise drought response for Horn of Africa in New York

      FAO, HirShabelle appeal for urgent aid as floods wreak havoc in Hiiraan region

      FAO, HirShabelle appeal for urgent aid as floods wreak havoc in Hiiraan region

      Thousands at risk as floods wreak havoc across Somalia

      UN warns of looming floods in Bulo Burte in Hiiraan region

      Floods kill 22 people in Somalia-UN

      Floods kill 22 people in Somalia-UN

      Flooding In Somalia Displaces 200,000 People

      Flooding In Somalia Displaces 200,000 People

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      Saudi government donates food aid to thousands of families in Somalia

      Saudi government donates food aid to Somalia

      Mogadishu Port Remains Closed Over Tariff Dispute

      Former Somali lawmaker involved in Mogadishu twin explosions

      World expresses solidarity with Somalia after attack

      Somali soldiers allegedly tortured former MP

      Somali soldiers allegedly tortured former MP

      NUSOJ impasse deepens as ILO recognises Farouk as Secretary General

      NUSOJ impasse deepens as ILO recognises Farouk as Secretary General

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      Boost for Somalia as EU approves €20.5m budget support

      Boost for Somalia as EU approves €20.5m budget support

      African pharmaceutical technology foundation receives endorsement

      African pharmaceutical technology foundation receives endorsement

      Prime Minister Barre in Egypt for the AfDB annual meeting

      Prime Minister Barre in Egypt for the AfDB annual meeting

      US pledges to support East Africa’s private sector

      US pledges to support East Africa’s private sector

      Somalia inches closer to debt relief-IMF

      IMF to release $9.4m to Somalia, warns of degraded economic growth

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      Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new minerals

      Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new minerals

      Uganda successfully launches its first satellite into space

      Uganda successfully launches its first satellite into space

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      Banaadir Hospital gets major upgrade from Chinese government

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      Climate change; a shared global concern

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      A deadly decade for Somalia’s journalists

      President Mohamud: There is no turning back. We must finish off Al-Shabaab

      President Mohamud: There is no turning back. We must finish off Al-Shabaab

      Left behind: Deeply broken Somalia

      Left behind: Deeply broken Somalia

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      Deadly strikes hit Syria army air base after US, France warning

      Monday April 9, 2018
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      An image grab taken from a video released by the Syrian Civil Defence in Douma shows an unidentified volunteer holding an oxygen mask over a child’s face at a hospital following an alleged chemical attack on the rebel-held town. AFP / HO

      A Syrian military airport was hit with deadly missile strikes, state media reported Monday, after the US and France warned of a strong response to “horrific chemical weapons attacks” on a rebel-held region near Damascus.

      Washington denied responsibility for the strike on Syria’s central Tayfur air base, which came just hours ahead of an urgent UN meeting Monday over the reported use of toxic gas on the town of Douma.

      US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone and vowed a “strong, joint response” to the suspected chemical attack that killed dozens, the White House said Sunday.

      It added that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “must be held accountable for its continued human rights abuses”.

      Trump had earlier taken to Twitter to issue a blistering warning to the Syrian regime and its allies.

      “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” Trump wrote, lashing out at Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a key ally of the regime.

      AFP / AFPDouma

      “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay,” he said.

      Damascus and its allies have denounced the accusations, with the Syrian regime brushing them off as an “unconvincing broken record”.

      Russia’s foreign ministry called the latest reports of a chemical attack a provocation.

      “A military intervention under far-fetched and fabricated pretexts in Syria, where there are Russian soldiers at the request of the legitimate Syrian government, is absolutely unacceptable and could have the most dire consequences,” it said.

      Syrian state news agency SANA said early Monday that “several missiles” had hit the Tayfur airport, later adding that there were “dead and wounded” in the strike, without giving exact casualty numbers.

      SANA first said the missile strike on the Tayfur base was a “suspected US attack,” but later withdrew all reference to America.

      The Pentagon denied it was behind the Syria raid. A military spokeswoman for Israel, which has bombed Syrian government positions including those linked to chemical weapons, declined to comment Monday.

      Regime forces, backed by Russia, have pounded Eastern Ghouta in a seven-week assault to dislodged rebel fighters, killing more than 1,700 civilians and prompting tens of thousands to flee.

      Late Saturday, Syria’s White Helmets, who act as first responders in opposition-held areas of Syria, said “poisonous chlorine gas” was used on Douma — the last sliver of territory held by rebels.

      – ‘Bodies in the streets’ –

      In a joint statement with the Syrian American Medical Society, the White Helmets has said more than 500 cases were brought to medical centres “with symptoms indicative of exposure to a chemical agent”.

      It said six died while being treated, and rescuers found 42 more people dead in their homes with similar conditions.

      AFP / STRINGERA picture taken on April 8, 2018, shows Syrian Army soldiers advancing in an area on the eastern outskirts of Douma, as they continue their offensive to retake the last opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta

      Footage posted online by the White Helmets, which it was not possible to verify, showed victims with yellowed skin crumpled on the ground and foaming at the mouth.

      “The scene was horrifying. So many people were choking, so many people,” White Helmets member Firas al-Doumi told AFP from inside Douma.

      A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) inside the town said volunteers were still trying their best despite the organisation’s Douma branch being out of operation.

      “This morning, we drove around and found bodies lying in the streets. We took four trips to bring the corpses back, each with three or five dead,” the SARC member told AFP.

      The reports prompted international anger, with UN chief Antonio Guterres saying any confirmed use of chemical weapons would be “abhorrent”.

      The European Union said “the evidence points towards yet another chemical attack by the regime”, while opposition ally Turkey stated it had a “strong suspicion” Assad was to blame.

      But key backer Iran came to Assad’s defence, saying the allegations were a Western conspiracy and echoing Russia’s warning against foreign military action.

      – Evacuation within 48 hours –

      Since February 18, Syrian and Russian forces have waged a fierce military onslaught and negotiated two withdrawals to retake control of 95 percent of Ghouta.

      Agreements, brokered by Moscow last month, saw more than 46,000 rebels and civilians bussed to opposition-held northwest Syria, and a preliminary deal saw hundreds of civilians and rebels from Jaish al-Islam quit Douma last week.

      After days of talks and a respite from bombing, negotiations collapsed and strikes resumed Friday, killing nearly 100 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

      AFP / Nazeer al-KhatibBuses carrying families of Jaish al-Islam fighters from the former rebel bastion’s main town of Douma arrive near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, on April 5, 2018

      On Sunday, state media announced a deal was agreed for Jaish al-Islam to leave Douma within 48 hours and release hostages it was holding.

      Russia’s military said it had hammered out an agreement for a “ceasefire, the disarmament of this armed group and resumption of the operation for the withdrawal of fighters”.

      Moscow said all military operations around Douma had now halted and that 100 buses had arrived in the town to help start ferrying out some 8,000 fighters and 40,000 of their family members.

      It said the move proved “no chemical weapons were used in this area”.

      Jaish al-Islam did not confirm the deal, but a civilian committee from Douma participating in the talks said a “final agreement” was reached for rebels to leave.

      Ghouta was among the areas hit in a 2013 sarin gas attack blamed on Syria’s government.

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