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HARGEISA, Somalia, August 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dahabshiil Group has donated five hundred head of livestock to public hospitals in major cities across the Somali territories. Dahabshiil Group - which consists of Dahabshiil Money Transfer, Dahabshiil Bank International and telecommunications company Somtel - offered the livestock in celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, during which philanthropic giving and altruism are encouraged. A donation ceremony was...

Text of report by Somali independent Radio Gaalkacyo on 20 SeptemberPuntland has banned the airlines which obeyed Al-Shabab's order banning flights to Adan Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. Puntland has received a directive from the aviation department of the Transitional Federal Government and from the president of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad, to ban the airlines that obeyed the order of Al-Shabab. A Puntland official has told Radio Gaalkacyo that the administration has decided...