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	<title>Child Soldier Relief &#187; Somalia</title>
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		<title>Country Background: Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick Summary The ongoing Somali Civil War, which began in 1991, brought with it a huge humanitarian crisis that has decimated the ability of the country to function.  The conflict among clans, government, and anti-government forces, along with militant Islamic groups, has resulted in an extremely poor country with no central government that has control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible violations by the United States in supporting Somali military</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has been accused by the United Nations in the annual report of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict of being one of the “most persistent violators” of using child soldiers. As a result of their ongoing support of the Somali Transitional Government &#8211; as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children Forced to Plant Bombs in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report, released recently from the United Nations, cited grave children rights violations – including child soldier recruitment – being committed by all fighting forces in Somalia, including the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), and Al-Shabaab (designated a terrorist organization by U.S. Dept of State in March). From UN.org. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children forced to plant bombs in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/?p=3996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report, released recently from the United Nations, cited grave children rights violations – including child soldier recruitment – being committed by all fighting forces in Somalia, including the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), and Al-Shabaab (designated a terrorist organization by U.S. Dept of State in March). From UN.org. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3,000 Child Soldiers show up in Somalia, trained in Ethiopia…</title>
		<link>http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/region/africa/3000-child-soldiers-show-up-in-somalia-trained-in-ethiopia%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[…according to this article: Over 3000 child soldiers arrived in Afgoye town, 30 km away from Mogadishu, on Tuesday [emphasis added] and started to attack civilians and loot shops, Press TV corresponent reported. The soldiers are estimated to be less than 15 years old and they came to town on foot after 9 days. Four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible violations by the United States in supporting Somali military</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has been accused by the United Nations in the annual report of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict of being one of the “most persistent violators” of using child soldiers. As a result of their ongoing support of the Somali Transitional Government &#8211; as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child soldier issue makes the New York Times</title>
		<link>http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/region/asia/burma/child-soldier-issue-makes-the-new-york-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.childsoldierrelief.org/region/asia/burma/child-soldier-issue-makes-the-new-york-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, an article in the New York Times highlighted the new report on child soldiers by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers – in section A of the paper (page 18). A quote: The number of conflicts in which children are used as soldiers has dropped sharply in the past four years, [...]]]></description>
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