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Appeal for yacht couple's release

The family of a British couple seized by pirates appeals for their release after seeing footage of them with gunmen.
BBC Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:30:48 GMT

Can Somali pirates be defeated?

The BBC's Paul Wood, on board an EU warship in the Gulf of Aden, asks why the world's most advanced navies have failed to end piracy off Somalia's coast.
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:23:06 GMT

Somalia 'to ratify UN child pact'

Somalia says it will ratify the UN's child rights convention, leaving the US as the only nation not backing the accord.
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:55 GMT

Deadly journey: Minneapolis to Mogadishu

The BBC's Jonathan Beale travels to Minneapolis to investigate reports of teenagers from the city's immigrant Somali community going missing and turning up dead in Somalia. Could they have been recruited by militant Islamists?
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:50:00 GMT

UN marks child rights anniversary

Ceremonies take place around the world to mark 20 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
BBC Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:51 GMT

UN hails progress in child rights

The lives of children have been transformed by a treaty protecting their rights, the UN children's agency says.
BBC Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:52:18 GMT

African view: Old bones

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene considers the ageing process.
BBC Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:19 GMT

SOMALIA: Residents and sandbank stymie pirates' plan

NAIROBI Thursday, November 19, 2009 (IRIN) - Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away.
IRIN

SOMALIA: Aden Muhumed Hassan, "I am better at collecting charcoal than my friends who have hands"

HARGEISA Thursday, November 19, 2009 (IRIN) - Aden Muhumed Hassan, 46, a divorced father of one, lost his hands 11 years ago after he accidentally picked up unexploded ordnance [UXO] planted during fighting between the Somali National Movement (SNM) and fo...
IRIN

MIDDLE EAST/ASIA: Crunching the swine flu numbers

DUBAI Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (IRIN) - More people have died from H1N1 influenza in Iran than in any of the 22 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, according to WHO's 14 November update.
IRIN

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