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  Protecting the Protecters

  By Kendall Hunter | Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:50 AM ET

  Center for International Cooperation and the Overseas Development Institute tallies a total of 122 aid worker fatalities in 2008 including 45 in Somalia, 33 in Afghanistan and 19 in Sudan.(Don't worry, it gets better!)With this horrific trend in mind, Jeffrey Paul Vance has started an appea Read More

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  Life Line in Somalia

  By Darragh Worland | Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:42 PM ET

  that we can dial 911, 999 or some other two- or three-digit emergency phone number and expect help to arrive within minutes.That's not the case in Somalia, which has been increasingly destabilized by an on-going civil war since 1991, and which has been without leadership and a basi Read More

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  CGI Live Blog: Closing Session With Hillary Clinton

  By Caroline Walker | Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:02 AM ET

  savings are. #cgi09 2:34 Steve Enders: talking about Somalia 2:35 Steve Enders: and an award winner who was insistent on the people of Somalia - not everyone is fighting. 2:35 Steve Enders: going through the CGI award winners 2:35 Katherine Gustafson: He just thanked Ruchir Read More

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  Angelina Takes Zahara Home During U.N. Mission In Africa

  By Wynter Mitchell | Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:44 AM ET

  young women with three small children with distended stomachs and streaming noses who just reached the camp in Kenya after walking for days to flee Somalia, where half the population – or some 3.8 million people –are in need  of aid," said the UN.Following her visit, the UN High Commissione Read More

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  Building a Better School for Haiti's Poor

  By John Casey | Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  has a long history of authoritarian rule and governmental corruption. In many ways, according to Sinor and others, Haiti is a "failed state," like Somalia in Africa, where no central government exists. "People should be more aware that Haiti is our neighbor, and that its people live in extrem Read More

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  Spread the Wealth, Already

  By John Casey | Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  For a long time, Norway was deeply involved in aid to Peru, Brazil and South Africa. But, Koch notes, Norway's aid groups are now active in Laos, Somalia and Mali, where aid money is more urgently needed. Koch has tracked more than 60 Western aid organizations such as World Vision, Care an Read More

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• Pressing the Issues

  By Jimmy Langman | Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:12 AM ET

  in 2009. Hirabe had run Radio Shabelle since 2007, taking over for Bashir Nur Gedi, who was also murdered. An estimated 100,000 persons have fled Somalia in the past month as fighting between Islamic insurgents and the Western-backed government intensify with daily atrocities reportedl Read More

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  High Seas Survival

  By Caroline Walker | Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:00 PM ET

  offered himself up in exchange for his crew's safety, there was an all-day takeover of the Mearsk Alabama, hundreds of miles off the coast of Somalia.The 20 crew members on board followed their training procedures with such precision that, miraculously, all survived. While most of the me Read More

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