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UN proposes Green Zone-style base in Somalia (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:59 GMT
Three masked gunmen fatally shot a Somali aid worker Tuesday, as the U.N. envoy to Somalia said the United Nations should create a Baghdad-style Green Zone in the African country so he can base all his aid workers there.

U.N. aid worker killed in Somalia (UPI)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:30:12 GMT
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday one of its staff was gunned down while monitoring a school feeding program in the southern part of Somalia.

Official: UN plans to move operations to Somalia (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:11:29 GMT
The U.N. envoy to Somalia says the United Nations must establish a proper base inside the country in order to help it overcome almost 20 years of conflict, hunger and disease.

Piracy raises pressure for new international tack on Somalia (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT
With Islamist militias in control of much of the country, pirates using Somali coasts to attack commercial ships with ease, and mounting hunger among civilians, Somalia is a failed state begging for new ideas in 2009.

AU chief urges UN to play due roles in Somalia (People's Daily)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:59:30 GMT
The chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Jean Ping, on Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council to play due roles in the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in Somalia. In a statement from the AU headquarters, Ping said he would like once again to underscore the primary responsibility of the UN Security Council for the maintenance of international peace ...

World Food Programme Employee Shot Dead in Southern Somalia (Bloomberg)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:36:43 GMT
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Masked gunmen killed a World Food Programme employee in Somalia , Executive Director Josette Sheeran said.

WFP Employee Shot Dead In Southern Somalia (Nasdaq)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:52:44 GMT
(RTTNews) - Somali gunmen have shot and killed an employee of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in the Gedo region in southern Somalia, the agency said Tuesday.

UN top envoy sees window of change in Somalia (People's Daily)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:58:40 GMT
The UN envoy for Somalia on Tuesday called for unity and solidarity in the war-ravaged African nation, saying there is renewed hope for the international community to help stabilize the country. Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, called on the Somali elites to help reconstruct the country and ...

Ugandan peacekeeper killed in Somalia (TVNZ)
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:19:43 GMT
A roadside bomb has killed a Ugandan soldier in Somalia's capital and masked gunmen have murdered a man working for the United Nation's World Food Programme in the southwest of the Horn of Africa nation.

Chinese naval fleet arrives off Somalia (UPI)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:22 GMT
BOSASO, Somalia, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A Chinese anti-piracy naval fleet began a three-month mission in the Gulf of Aden Tuesday to protect shipping from Somali pirates, officials said.

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