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July 30, 2006

Somalia PM Survives No-Confidence Vote / Islamist leader rules out peace talks in Sudan / Somalia Has 1st Commercial Flight in Years / Canadians quit Somali regime / Abducted South Korean ship's crew released in Somalia

Links to various items that update, most recently, the previous batch (updated to add the AFP story):

"Fists fly in Somali assembly as PM survives vote" (by Reuters' Guled Mohamed; earlier versions are also still available on AlertNet)

"Somalia's leader survives no-confidence motion" (by Mohamed Olad Hassan, for SAPA/AP; related)

"Somalia PM Survives No-Confidence Vote" (VOA; related)

"Somali PM survives ousting vote" (BBC; related)

"Islamist leader rules out peace talks in Sudan" (Reuters)

"Somalia Has 1st Commercial Flight in Years" (by the AP's Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

"First passenger flight in 11 years leaves Somalia" (by Reuters' Mohamed Ali Bile; related)

"Canadians quit Somali regime" ("Toronto Star")

"Egypt denies arming Islamists" (AFP)

"Abducted South Korean ship's crew released in Somalia" (DPA)

"Somali Militants Free 25 Kidnapped Sailors" (AP; related)

"Somali militia free S. Korean sailors - maritime group" (by Reuters' Andrew Cawthorne; related; an earlier version--"S. Korean sailors set to leave Somalia - Korean source"--is also still available on AlertNet)

"117-Day Ordeal Ends for Korean Fishermen" ("Korea Times"; related; an earlier version--"Somali Captors Release 8 Korean Sailors: $800,000 Ransom Paid to End 4 Months of Captivity"--is also still available)

"Korea OKs Somali Pirate Ransom Demand" ("Dong-A Ilbo"; related)

"Fishing Boat Hostages Released in Somalia" (Arirang TV, reprinted by the "Chosun Ilbo"; related; a shorter version is also still available)

"Procedures completed for release of sailors from Somalia: officials" (Yonhap, reprinted by the "Hankyoreh"; related)

"A perfect storm brewing across Horn of Africa" (column by Gwynne Dyer)

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