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  • Factbox: Conflict in Somalia 9 Dec 2009 05:37 GMT
    ... 2006, Islamist militia loyal to the Somalia Islamic Courts Council seized Mogadishu after defeating U.S.-backed ... the Kenyan border after rival insurgents, Hizbul Islam, fled. The two groups were former allies ... rival clerics and publicly stoned to death women accused of adultery. -- In 2004 lawmakers elected ...

  • NEWS ALERT: Eritrea Detains 30 Christian Women, Group Says 9 Dec 2009 11:07 GMT
    ... Eritrea have detained dozens, mostly elderly, Christian women in the capital Amara as part of ... the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea and Muslim groups to register, although within recognized Christian ... of medical attention. ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia, Jonathan Racho said his ...

  • What Fate of Uganda's Troops in Somalia Reveals About Our Politics [column] 9 Dec 2009 06:53 GMT
    ... another deadly attack, this time on the African Union peacekeepers, where several members of the ... East African security. Right now, the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab that controls most of Somalia ... don't expect them to return with local women in tow and chicken dangling from their backs, ...

  • African minors seeking new life in Gulf 8 Dec 2009 19:26 GMT
    ... number of minors fleeing the Horn of Africa is becoming a challenge for the UN ... the sexual abuse that many young Somali women suffer in Saudi Arabia, she decided to ... she told IRIN, “But as we are Muslims, we need to take care of them. ...

  • NEWS ALERT: Asmara Detains 30 Christian Women, Group Says 8 Dec 2009 08:53 GMT
    ... By BosNewsLife Africa Service ASMARA, ERITREA ( )-- Security forces ... Eritrea have detained dozens, mostly elderly, Christian women in the capital Amara as part of ... the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea and Muslim groups to register, although within recognized Christian ...

  • What fate of Uganda's troops in Somalia reveals about our politics 8 Dec 2009 22:57 GMT
    ... another deadly attack, this time on the African Union peacekeepers, where several members of the ... East African security. Right now, the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab that controls most of Somalia ... don’t expect them to return with local women in tow and chicken dangling from their backs, ...

  • Bomber kills 19 in Somalia 4 Dec 2009 10:04 GMT
    ... Sheik Sharif Ahmed's Western-backed government is battling Islamist terrorists including the hardline al-Shabab group. - ... hardline militia was part of the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) movement that pushed U.S.-backed ... rival clerics and publicly stoned to death women accused of adultery. In June, it ordered ...

  • The Guilty in Suicide Bombing in Somalia Has not Been Found Yet 7 Dec 2009 10:53 GMT
    ... the worst in the failed Horn of Africa state for five months. Suspicion had immediately ... government to impose its harsh interpretation of Islamic law across the country. "We declare that ... that attacked AMISOM (peacekeepers), that has stoned women and children to death," he told Reuters ...

  • FACTBOX-Conflict in Somalia 4 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... 2006, Islamist militia loyal to the Somalia Islamic Courts Council seized Mogadishu after defeating U.S.-backed ... the Kenyan border after rival insurgents, Hizbul Islam, fled. The two groups were former allies ... rival clerics and publicly stoned to death women accused of adultery. * ATTEMPTS AT GOVERNMENT: -- ...

  • Ministers among Somalia blast dead 4 Dec 2009 02:50 GMT
    ... -- A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing killed three members of Somalia's U.N.-backed ... hijab -- a garment worn by some Muslim women to reflect modesty -- at the ... served as the foreign secretary of the Islamic Courts Union when it held Mogadishu. But ...

  • France condemns terrorist bombing in Somalia 3 Dec 2009 14:14 GMT
    ... praise the courage of these men and women," he said. "In these particularly tragic circumstances, ... time France promised continued support for the African Union force in Somalia that has been ... trying to halt the civil war between Islamist groups and the government. (End) jk.ajs KUNA ...

  • African Activism Against Female Circumcision Is Focus of New Film 3 Dec 2009 20:55 GMT
    ... new film focuses on the fight by African activists against an ancient practice that is ... that works to promote human rights for women. The film opens with 14-year-old Mary Solio ... out it is not practiced in most Islamic countries, and is not mentioned in the ...

  • Pirate payoffs feed big-money lifestyle in Somalia 6 Dec 2009 17:37 GMT
    ... ransoms has changed life in this coastal Muslim community, driving prices up and creating a ... "Pirates do not waste time to woo women, but instead pay them a lot," said ... to this report. Miss World in South Africa and more ...

  • Al-Shabab 7 Dec 2009 09:33 GMT
    ... mid-2004 as the military wing of the Islamic Court Union, a radical group that controlled ... and maintains control through often brutal methods. Women accused of adultery are publicly stoned to ... Ethiopian troops. Although Somalia is a majority Muslim nation, its faith has traditionally been far ...

  • Views on Sudan and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement 5 Dec 2009 09:45 GMT
    ... The Sudan is now being governed by Islamic law. For instance, I am a Christian. ... Sudan the first people will be the Muslims, the second will be the Muslim women, then the third will be the southerners, ...


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