Michael Gallie and Carrie-Anne Burns have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in the vicious beating death of a down-and-out immigrant in Hintonburg last year.

..."This revives the moments when my son was killed," Ali Hashi told the Sun after flying in from Virginia with his other son Yassin.

Read more at: Ottawa Sun Tue May 9, 2000

...THE Clinton administration has experienced two defining moments in Africa, barely six months apart. The first was the slaughter of 17 American soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993 and the dragging of one of the bodies through the streets. The following spring, the administration remained largely silent as a genocide unfolded in Rwanda after the United States agreed to the removal of a United Nations military force there.

After Mogadishu, President Clinton chose to shy away from risking such casualties or humiliation again; after Rwanda, he said genocide could not be tolerated again.

Asked what his most difficult moment as vice president had been, he answered without much hesitation, "The day our soldiers in Somalia were killed." - (Vice President Al Gore - USA)
Qouted from New York Times May 6, 2000.

Addis Ababa - Italy has announced an airlift of food aid valued at US$ 250,000 to assist the drought-affected Somali region. The first flight of CSB ( a supplementary food consisting of a cornsoy blend) arrived in Gode the previous Thursday and will be followed by six additional aircraft in the coming four days.

TORONTO: The conflict between the Somalis and Borans in the Isiolo District was created by the Kenya Government and they are still encouraging this conflict. Both communities are victims of a divide and rule policy of the Kenya Government.