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Aug 01, 2011	Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine QUOTE: The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.	New York Times
Jul 05, 2011	U.S. to Prosecute a Somali Suspect in Civilian Court QUOTE: The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it would prosecute in civilian court a Somali accused of ties to two Islamist militant groups. The decision to fly the man to New York for trial, after interrogating him for months aboard a United States naval vessel, is likely to reignite debate about the detention and prosecution of terrorism suspects.	New York Times
May 25, 2011	Chasing Riches From Africa to Europe and Finding Only Squalor QUOTE: Experts say thousands more — many of whom have been moving around North Africa trying to get to Europe for years, including Somalis, Eritreans, Senegalese and Nigerians — are likely to follow, sure that a better life awaits them. But for Mr. Jallow and for many others who arrived before them, often after days at sea without food or water, Europe has offered hardships they never imagined.	New York Times
Jun 11, 2010	To Save Africa, Reject Its Nations QUOTE: Buttressed by the legality and impunity that international sovereignty conferred upon their actions, too many of Africa’s politicians and officials twisted the normal activities of a state beyond recognition, transforming mundane tasks like policing, lawmaking and taxation into weapons of extortion.	New York Times
Mar 04, 2010	Somali official's immunity case raises legal, policy issues QUOTE: The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) protects foreign states and their "agencies and instrumentalities" from lawsuits, with a few limited exceptions. But the Torture Victim Protection Act authorizes lawsuits, and was passed specifically to ensure that those "who avail themselves of the protections and privileges of residency in the United States also bear responsibility for their actions, especially actions as significant as torture," according to a brief filed by its congressional sponsors.	Washington Post
Nov 28, 2008	Legal Hurdles in West Slow Pursuit of Pirates QUOTE: bureaucratic and legal hurdles facing international institutions and national governments have so far defeated most efforts to deal with the nimble crews of pirates in speedboats....But some legal experts in Germany said that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and an existing United Nations mandate to combat Somali piracy already provided all the legal cover necessary for muscular action against the pirates.	New York Times
Nov 20, 2007	As Somali Crisis Swells, Experts See a Void in Aid QUOTE: Top United Nations officials who specialize in Somalia said the country had higher malnutrition rates, more current bloodshed and fewer aid workers than Darfur, which is often publicized as the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis and has taken clear priority in terms of getting peacekeepers and aid money.	New York Times
Oct 01, 2006	Not So Welcome in South Africa: Somali Shopkeepers' Lives Shattered by Violent Attacks QUOTE: In the past three months, community leaders say, 32 Somalis have been killed in attacks in townships as South African businessmen have violently defended their turf against the newcomers.	Washington Post
Jun 18, 2006	Gender-Based Violence Galvanized Warlords' Foes: Somali Women Gave Crucial Support for Islamic Militias QUOTE: An epidemic of sexual violence during 15 years of lawlessness in Somalia was among the factors that strengthened opposition to this city's notorious warlords...	Washington Post
May 17, 2006	Discredited Somali Quits Dutch Politics: Advocate for Women Is Critic of Islam QUOTE: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali woman who moved to the Netherlands, won a seat in the Dutch parliament and became one of Europe's best-known champions of immigrant and Muslim women's rights, said Tuesday she would give up her seat and leave the country because she is being stripped of citizenship for lying on an asylum application 14 years ago.	Washington Post
Dec 28, 2005	On Education: Plucked From Africa, but Still Isolated in Their Classes QUOTE: While their mostly Hispanic classmates have many teachers who are bilingual and can clarify lessons in Spanish, the Somalis have received little or no classroom translation help during their two years here.	New York Times
Nov 23, 2001	US Shuts Down Somalia Internet QUOTE: Somalis living abroad use it to send money to their relatives back home as there are no other banking systems in Somalia since the downfall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991.	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Nov 10, 2001	Longer Visa Waits for Arabs; Stir Over U.S. Eavesdropping QUOTE: ...pro-immigration groups and organizations representing American Muslims said the new requirements amounted to profiling by religion or nationality, a shift to methods they called antithetical to American values....Robert E. Hirshon, the president of the American Bar Association, said that the new eavesdropping regulation clearly violated the Constitution's guarantees...	New York Times

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