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All-Somali refugee cast carries Asad to Oscar nomination for Best Narrative Short
Asad is a short film written and directed by famed commercial director Bryan Buckley of Hungry Man Films. The film received an Academy Award nomination on 10 January 2013, landing...
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Somalia: Burkas to tracksuits
The Somali Athletics Federation will select one female runner from a field of 10 to compete in the 400-metres at this year’s London Olympics. The youngest of those currently training...
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Mobile phones could help fight Somalia famine
NEW YORK: Mobile phones may bring relief to famine victims in parts of Somalia controlled by al Shabaab insurgents as donors seek new ways to circumvent the hard-line militants, a...
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SOMALIA: Free education “too expensive” for Somaliland
HARGEISA, 25 January 2011 (IRIN) – The self-declared republic of Somaliland has introduced free education at primary and intermediate levels and doubled teachers’ salaries but these decisions will be hard...
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SOMALIA: Fighting for an education
NAIROBI, 12 January 2011 (IRIN) – Sometimes the teachers make it to school but the children do not – when the fighting is too intense for them to venture outdoors....