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• Kenya Closes Border With War-Torn Somalia

• 29 December 2006

• FLOOD EMERGENCY
• Heavy   floods have seriously affected most of Southern Somalia
• Mogadishu   05, Dec.06
• Most roads   are impassable and food and other essential assistance cannot easily   reach the flood-affected people
• two Helicopters and other chartered aircrafts have started   humanitarian relief operations in flood affect areas

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• Mogadishu   02, Nov.06
• so hard to travel the muddy roads off the main
• Kurtunwarey is the   most affected
• International committee of Red Cross who were already   assisting people stranded in the flooded affected nearby villages   of Kurtunwarey
• ohamed Am
• amiin@shabelle.net

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• 13 November 2006, 09:52 GMT
• Kenya bans all flights to Somalia
• Islamists who control much of southern Somalia banned the sale of khat during the holy month of Ramadan
• were six flights a week from Nairobi to the Somali capital, Mogadishu
• services to three other towns

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• 12/26/2006 10:22 AM ET
• MOGADISHU
• Ethiopian jets bombed Somalia's two main airports
• two bombs on Mogadishu International Airport
• irstrikes also hit Baledogle Airport outside Mogadishu
• "We heard the sound of the jets and then they pounded," said Abdi Mudey, a soldier with Somalia's Council of Islamic Courts
• On Ethiopian television Monday night, the defense ministry said troops would move toward the city of Jowhar, about 55 miles from Mogadishu
• Somalia's government also sought to seal its borders in order to prevent foreign Islamic militants from joining the Islamic courts forces.

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