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ADDIS ABABA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010.
Promising both "true brotherhood" and "fun," several Somali men convinced fellow immigrants in Minneapolis to return to their East African homeland and take up arms with a terrorist group, according to federal charges unsealed Monday against eight individuals.
An Ethiopian court on Thursday convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others.
Eight Somali-American men from Minnesota are charged with federal terror-related counts for attempting to recruit fighters for al-Shabaab, a Somali group considered a terror organization by the United States, officials said Monday.
Eight Somali-American men from Minnesota are charged with federal terror-related counts involving al-Shabaab, a Somali group considered a terror organization by the United States, officials said Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Promising both "true brotherhood" and "fun," several Somali men convinced fellow immigrants in Minneapolis to return to their East African homeland and take up arms with a terrorist group, according to federal charges unsealed Monday against eight individuals.The charges are part of an unfolding federal investigation into the disappearance of as many as 20 young Somali men from ...
The FBI and Justice Department announced charges Monday against eight people, the latest effort by the U.S. government to dismantle a terror recruitment ring that has sent dozens of Somali American youths to join an extremist Islamic insurgency in Somalia, officials said.
Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight defendants they said recruited young Somali-American men to return to their homeland to fight for an Islamist militant group.
Toronto— SunOpta Inc. ("the Company" or "SunOpta") (Nasdaq:STKL) (TSX:SOY) announced Nov. 19 that the SunOpta International Sourcing and Trading Group , in hand with its joint venture partner, has completed the construction of the first natural and organic sesame hulling plant in Ethiopia, operated as Selet Hulling Plc.
Why Sudan Matters Foreign policy realists sometimes ask how much seemingly marginal states such as Sudan really matter. The answer is that Sudan matters for...
Church serves free Thanksgiving dinner A free community Thanksgiving dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 255 Maxwell Road. The menu will include turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, green beans and pumpkin pie. For information, call 688-2027. Art sale …
The charges are part of a sweeping investigation of more than 20 young men who left the U.S. to join a militant Islamist group in Somalia, the Shabaab.
The government of Ethiopia said it will build 10 hydroelectric projects over the next decade at a cost of US $10 billion, according to Nazret.com, an online news service in Ethiopia.
Eight people face terrorism charges in the case of 20 young men missing from Minnesota after allegedly being recruited for an Islamist militia in Somalia, officials said Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - On a damp, chilly Tuesday, guest chef Marcus Samuelsson was still out tromping around the White House garden picking herbs for that evening's state dinner at the White House.
As of Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at least 845 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST.
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