Search results for ‘al-shabaab’
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Aid workers kidnapped at gunpoint from refugee camp
Two women working for the aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at the world’s biggest refugee camp, Dadaab, are kidnapped by gunmen.
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Somalia bombing kills at least 70 people
A massive truck bomb kills at least 70 people outside government buildings in the centre of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab fighters have claimed responsibility.
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Kenyans step up search for French hostage
As a French woman is kidnapped in a tourist resort near the Somali border, weeks after a similar incident nearby, the International Maritime Bureau say ‘governments need to step up.’
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Somali refugees in Mogadishu camps ‘not safe from attack’
In an exclusive report, Channel 4 News has spoken to refugees who say women in camps in Mogadishu are being raped and not enough is being done to keep them safe.
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Kenyan denies kidnapping British holidaymaker
A Kenyan man has denied kidnapping British holidaymaker Judith Tebbutt, whose husband David was shot dead in a remote resort.
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Militants deny kidnapping British woman in Kenya
A Somali Islamist group denies kidnapping a British woman at a remote holiday resort in Kenya.
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Kidnap victim Judith Tebbutt 'taken to Somalia'
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the killing of David Tebbutt and the kidnapping of his wife Judith in Kenya
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Kidnap of Briton by militants ‘most worrying scenario’
Somali militants could be responsible for killing a British man in Kenya and kidnapping his wife, a Chatham House expert tells Channel 4 News.
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Just 27 per cent of drought aid money going to Somalia
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
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Somalia famine: US withholds aid to rebel-held areas
The US gives $28 million in aid but says the money won’t be used in rebel-held famine regions, unless it receives assurances from militants. Channel 4 News talks to the head of the UN in Somalia.
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Fears of ‘death on an epic scale’ in Somalia crisis
An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.
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UN: Somalia is ‘world’s worst humanitarian disaster’
The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency describes the drought in Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world and urges Kenya to build more camps, after touring the region.
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Somali rebels lift ban on food aid
The hard-line Somali armed group al-Shabaab welcomes “Muslim and non-Muslim” foreign aid groups as the region suffers one of its worst droughts in 60 years.
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UN Somalia chief calls for urgent action on drought
The head of the UN in Somalia exclusively tells Channel 4 News he is “not sure the population can survive until the end of the year” unless urgent action is taken, amid the worst drought in 20 years.
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Why Somalia's refugees are not being fed at home
Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.