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How a life-long madness built Somaliland’s first teaching hospital

HARGEISA – Edna Adan Ismail became interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father struggle to treat the sick in the then British protectorate of Somaliland. She later became the first Somali woman to be appointed to an international civil service position in 1965 when she joined the UN World Health Organization as a nurse-educator based in Libya.

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Over 100 dead in Libyan plane crash

An Afriqiyah Airways-owned aeroplane, originating from South Africa, has crashed on approach to Tripoli International Airport in Libya at around 06:00 Eastern European time (0400 UTC). Initial reports indicated everyone on board died, which officials say is 93 passengers and 11 crew, but later developments say an eight-year-old boy was the sole survivor; however, this is unconfirmed.

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Shocking end of immigrants dismissed from Italy

A video tells the shocking end of a group of immigrants dismissed from Italy and brought back by force in the desert from the Libyan authorities. The rotting corpses lay abandoned in the sand, these people have not had the strength to walk (without stocks of water) for 80 miles that separated them from [...]