By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 31 March 2008 African Union peacekeepers in Somalia say the year-old mission needs at least 20,000 troops to stabilized the war-ravaged country, 12,000 more than the mission's original mandate. From the Somali capital, Mogadis

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

A Somali politician says a major conference has been held in a town near Somalia's border with Kenya and Ethiopia to develop a plan to establish a regional government in southern Somalia. Al-Shabab Islamic militants, who largely control the regions u

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A pledge by donor nations last week to provide more than $200 million to enhance security in Somalia is being hailed by some, criticized by others. Analysts in the United States say the international community is narrowly focused on trying to stabil

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A plane carrying eleven people aiding the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia crashed Friday near the capital, Mogadishu. Officials say it was shot down by a missile shortly after takeoff from the

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AS IT IS 2013-10-25 Somali Diaspora Returning to Mogadishu 索马里侨居者回到摩加迪沙 From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. I'm Christopher Cruise. Welcome back. On the show today we look at progress in Mogadishu, Somalia and it stru

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For Once, Mogadishu Can Watch World Cup with Little Fear For years, people living in Somalias capital of Mogadishu wanting to watch the World Cup on television have done so at great risk. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab threatened violence agai

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As pro-government troops continue their push to oust Islamist insurgents from southern and central Somalia, Uganda and Burundi have pledged additional troops to reinforce the African Union peacekeeping mission. It has been slightly more than a month

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By Dan Robinson Washington 29 March 2007 A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being escorted by two U.S. soldiers Arguments for and against the closure of the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba used for the interrogation and detention of suspected t

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A rising dispute between militants in Somalia may have split the country's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group into two factions. Reports say the suicide bombing at a Mogadishu hotel earlier this month deepened divisions between an al-Shabab leader close

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week -- new developments in two stories we reported on last year. In August, a federal judge tried to stop what the Bush administration calls the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A presidential order le

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. (SOUND) Ugandans buried their dead this week after bombings that killed more than seventy people in Kampala. The victims, including an American, were watching the World Cup final on television Sunday at two

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AS IT IS 2016-03-05 Al-Shabab Attacks Continue in Somalia 索马里极端组织青年党持续制造自杀式炸弹袭击 The Al-Shabab terror group continued its latest offensive in Somalia on Tuesday. Witnesses and officials say 16 people died and

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Africa's top peace and security official is to begin urgent talks on Thursday at the United Nations in an attempt to save Somalia's fragile U.N.-backed administration from collapse. The pending withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia is focusing

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E. African Nations Back Kenyan Offensive in Somalia The six-nation east African regional group the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has pledged full support for Kenya's military offensive against al-Qaeda linked militants in southern

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Remains of Crashed US Helicopter Still Lie in Mogadishu Somalia, now in the grip of famine, is also remembered as the scene of the Black Hawk Down incident, in which two U.S. helicopters were destroyed and 18 American soldiers killed in 1993. One of

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Aid Agencies Face Conflict, Shortages in Mogadishu 摩加迪沙难民状况不容乐观 More than 300,000 Somalis are seeking refuge from drought and famine in the capital Mogadishu. But, because of security problems, many aid agencies have been unab

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Islamist militants in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, launched a pre-dawn raid on African Union peacekeepers Friday, triggering fierce fighting that killed more than 20 people. Meanwhile, government-led military efforts to take control of insurgent-h

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Nearly a dozen people have been killed in fighting in central Somalia between a Sufi Muslim group and al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 02 January 2010 Radical Islamists in Somalia Ahlu-Sunna spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik Abu

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January 29 was supposed to have been a day of celebration. In the sprawling presidential compound known as Villa Somalia, preparations had been made to mark the one-year anniversary of the new transitional government with poetry readings and a milita

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Somalias Capital Struggles with Trash Problems Before the civil war in Somalia, the capital, Mogadishu, was known for its wide beaches, fresh sea air and pure blue ocean water. Today, however, large amounts of trash are spreading everywhere. Mogadish

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