<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Somalia</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa/eastafrica/somalia?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><description>Somalia</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Muslims Say Dell Forbade Them to Pray at Work]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28616-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28616-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Abdi Halane, a Somali refugee living in Nashville, is looking for a new job this month.]]></description><author> Mike Musgrove</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking Back on the Lessons of Crises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18655-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18655-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sadako Ogata , a quiet scholar of diplomatic history and political science, found herself plunged into horrific humanitarian crises from the Balkans to Iraq to Somalia when she was plucked from academia in Tokyo in early 1991 to become the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Rules Against Detention of Cubans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4065-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4065-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government cannot continue to detain two Cuban illegal immigrants who have completed their sentences for felony convictions while it seeks to deport them back to a nation that refuses to accept them.]]></description><author> Darryl Fears  and Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Pilgrims, Familiar Dreams]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11645-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11645-2004Nov25.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Francis Ayoub has no idea what Thanksgiving is. He has never tasted turkey. Someone mentioned the other day that Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together. That would be nice. But for him, it's a Thursday, a workday. He will be at the Doubletree Hotel in Tysons Corner today stacking piles of sheets and towels in linen closets and emptying trash.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somali Expatriates Charged With War Crimes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43102-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43102-2004Nov11.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Rights group has filed lawsuits alleging that two Virginia residents ordered torture, killings, rapes and other acts of brutality against a rival clan during the 1980s when they held positions of power in their homeland.]]></description><author> William Branigin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Charged With Aiding Terrorists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37993-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37993-2004Nov9.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Wyoming college student has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, officials said Tuesday. FBI agents began a probe of Mark Robert Walker, 18, on Oct. 28, after his college roommate called authorities.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 Are Reported Killed In Violence in Somalia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12517-2004Oct30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12517-2004Oct30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hostilities erupted after Puntland's leader was elected president in a new effort to reunite Somalia under a national government.]]></description><author> Hussein Ali Nur</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somali Leader Seeks African Peacekeepers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57466-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57466-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Somalia's newly elected president has asked the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of Africa country, a spokesman for the organization said Saturday.]]></description><author> Tsegaye Tadesse</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career Soldier Wins Somali Election]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22672-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22672-2004Oct10.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Members of Somalia's transitional parliament on Sunday elected Abdullahi Yusuf, a former army colonel, as interim president  of the war-torn nation in the Horn of Africa, the parliament speaker said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somali Parliament Sworn In as Clan Dispute Flares]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24809-2004Aug22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24809-2004Aug22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Members of a new Somali transitional parliament were sworn in Sunday, a key step toward establishing the country's first national government since 1991. But a dispute within a major Somali clan over its delegates threatened to scuttle the peace process, mediators said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Export of Strict Islam Raises Suspicions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13266-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13266-2004Aug18.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The collision of Saudi missionary work and suspicions of terrorist financing in San Diego illustrates the perils and provocations of a multibillion-dollar effort by Saudi Arabia to spread its religion around the world.]]></description><author> David B. Ottaway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayers in Pr. George's Take On a New Dialect]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9865-2004May7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9865-2004May7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Worship services on a recent Sunday at Hyattsville Presbyterian Church began with Hymn No. 205, "Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain." In her ringing soprano, Rita Clowes sang to a sea of empty pews:]]></description><author> Hamil R. Harris and Phuong Ly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Iraq, Looking Through  The Unfiltered Lens of Hatred]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40720-2004Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40720-2004Mar31.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Without a shift in the moral vision, we could not heal the sick, bury the dead or eat a steak. And yet a closely related power of objectification is also the root of cruelty. To see a human being only as an object -- an enemy, an occupier or an animal -- unlocks the possibility for war, revolution and genocide.]]></description><author> Philip Kennicott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elderly Refugees Losing Federal Aid Benefit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64977-2003Dec14.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64977-2003Dec14.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thousands of disabled and elderly refugees are being cut off from the benefits as a provision of a 1996 welfare-reform law kicks in.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chronic Hunger Is Increasing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16578-2003Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16578-2003Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The number of hungry people in the world increased during the last half of the 1990s by 18 million, to a total of 842 million, reversing a steady drop over the past three decades, according to a new study by a U.N. agency.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[General Apologizes for Talk of God, War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43507-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43507-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An Army general who stirred a storm of criticism by framing U.S. battles against Islamic militants in religious terms said Friday that he was "not anti-Islam or any other religion" and apologized to "those who have been offended by my statements."]]></description><author> Bradley Graham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fearless Healer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59254-2003Oct7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59254-2003Oct7.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Annalena Tonelli spent her adult life rescuing, treating and curing people with tuberculosis and other diseases in East Africa, where she was killed Sunday night.  <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By David Brown</B></FONT>]]></description><author> David Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital Founder Killed in Somalia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53232-2003Oct6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53232-2003Oct6.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An Italian aid worker who dedicated 33 years of her life to helping Somalis was shot and killed outside the hospital she founded to treat tuberculosis patients, a Somali official said Monday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somalian Women Struggle to Cope With Past, Present]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56144-2003Aug27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56144-2003Aug27.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[They are, in several respects, like so many other refugees newly arrived in the Washington area.]]></description><author> David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizens Stress Liberia Is Not Another Somalia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51677-2003Jul13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51677-2003Jul13.html?nav=rss_world/africa/eastafrica/somalia</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 5:01:56 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Many Liberians say they understand why President Bush is taking so long to decide whether U.S. troops will referee another civil war in Africa, but they distinguish their situation from what happened a decade ago in Somalia.]]></description><author> Karl Vick</author></item></channel></rss>