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Somalia
Seeking End to Oil Dispute

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Published on 06.02.2008 at 11:00 GMT Lire en français

Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is presently in talks with the breakaway province of Puntland on a compromise concerning oil. [...]

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