“The situation in Jowhar is now calm, but people have been frightened by yesterdays fighting and are staying indoors,” recounts HornAfrik journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Mualimu from Jowhar. After the fall of Mogadishu last week the Union of Islamic Courts advanced rapidly and furiously and now Jowhar is also in their hands. Jowhar is a strategically vital place, located 90 kilometres north of the Somali capital, apart from this it’s also where many warlords have sought refuge having fled from Mogadishu. The Islamic militia, loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts ferociously attacked the city on two fronts entering it from the north and south
SCO (the NATO of the East) holds summit in Shanghai. Tehran wants in. The choice of Shanghai, where the SCO Secretariat is located, also marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Five, the organization from which SCO was formed when Uzbekistan joined in 2001 and the group changed its name. And now, much to Washington's dismay, it may be Iran's turn.
While no systematic, clear law protecting the rights of homosexuals exists in any European country, the Brazilian government has begun the process of approving a bill that protects the movement and defines homophobia as an offence on the same par as racial discrimination. It' an important step, designed to give a strong signal against the numerous acts of aggression carried out in recent years.
Statesmen, politicians, and opinion makers have searched for years to promote a positive image of war, or at least a neutral and ascetic one, to the end of making public opinion “digest” it.
The United Nations Security Council has extended for six more months the UN peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights, an area claimed by both Israel and Syria. UN peacekeepers currently number a thousand; they have been stationed there since 1974
During the “European Day” celebrations Greek Cypriots presented Baklava, a sweet made with nuts or pistachios and drenched in syrup as the Greek national dessert, causing an uproar in Turkey
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05/17/2006 An Ayatollah for Comoros
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05/03/2006 Pizza and Coke
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04/19/2006 The underbelly of the beast
04/18/2006 A burning story
04/14/2006 Fighting in N’djamena
04/13/2006 Born in the dust
04/12/2006 Schwarzy isn’t waiting for Bush
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04/07/2006 Russia, the untouchables
04/06/2006 Afghanistan, the war reappears
04/05/2006 Broken Promises
04/04/2006 To Study in Peace
04/03/2006 License to Torture
03/29/2006 The Revolt of the Slaves
03/27/2006 Aceh has been betrayed
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03/22/2006 Syriana in Plain Terms
03/21/2006 Exiled in Belorussia
03/20/2006 United against everyone
03/17/2006 Hope for Haiti
03/15/2006 Zimbabwe, a bitter birthday
03/14/2006 The War in Amman
03/13/2006 The Forgotten Children
03/10/2006 Die or escape
03/09/2006 Lorena between two fires
03/08/2006 8 March
03/07/2006 Women As Bargaining Chips
03/06/2006 Armoured Killers
03/03/2006 United, one wins
03/02/2006 Another Year of Madness
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02/27/2006 The War Disease
02/24/2006 The War Disease
02/23/2006 Mohammed Is Not the Only Cause for Protest in Nigeria
02/22/2006 Crooks with fees for services
02/21/2006 Ethnic Tensions Rising in Kirkuk
02/17/2006 It is now time to ask forgiveness