Topic: East Africa

Somali arrested by U.S. sought to expand al Shabaab

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An accused leader of the Somali militant group al Shabaab captured by U.S. forces and charged in a federal court sought to expand the group's operations beyond his home country, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, believed ...
In November 1992, William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States despite claiming less than 44% of the popular vote. The roadmap to foreign policy failure by the Clinton administration, which included bouts of indecision partnered with inaction or inconsistency ...

Somali torture victims take case to US top court

Victims of the former brutal Somali regime appealed to the US Supreme Court Wednesday to allow them to take legal action against an ex-leader they accuse of torture.Three victims and the families of two others, also now living in the US, are ...

REP PAYNE NARROWLY ESCAPES HARM IN SOMALIA

The article reports that Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey has almost put his live in danger when a mortar attacked while he was visiting Somalia. Payne was visiting Somalia to help end the conflict that has destabilized the government for years. ...

PIRATES ABOUND

The article announces that U.S. President Barack Obama has reassured Americans that his administration is on top of the Somali piracy issue. President Barack Obama reassured the American people on April 13 that his administration was on top of the Somali piracy ...

Clinton warns Eritrea, backs Somali leader

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday threw her support behind Somalia's embattled president and warned Eritrea to stop sponsoring Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents turning the country into a terror hub.Clinton held the highest-level US meeting yet with Somali President Sharif Sheikh ...

Clinton meets embattled Somali president

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went into talks Thursday with the embattled president of Somalia, a country experts fear is poised to turn into a global terrorist haven.The meeting in Nairobi was the highest-level US meeting yet with Somali President Sharif ...

Clinton pledges strong support for Somali government

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged strong support for Somalia's fragile government Thursday and said that Eritrean interference in the Horn of Africa nation was " unacceptable. ""It is fair to say that President Obama and I want to ...
The United States on Wednesday warned Eritrea that it had a " very short window" of time in which it could improve ties with Washington and avoid a possible US push for sanctions. "There's a very short window for Eritrea to signal, ...
Human drama or pop-culture fascination, Americans are riveted by the pirate storyWe're going through a crippling recession. "Captain Hook, Treasure Island, the Disney ride, Blackbeard," Kaplan muses. The inauguration of Barack Obama, and the dramatic ditching of that US Airways jet in ...
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