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Salim Lone

A Kenyan journalist, political adviser and former director of the News and Media Division of the United Nations. From 2005 to 2012, he was the spokesperson for then-Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya.

StoryJul 27, 2015

Obama Visits Ethiopia and Kenya, Land of His Father, to Discuss Counterterrorism, Gay Rights, Jobs

StoryNov 14, 2007

Former U.N. Spokesperson Salim Lone: International Community Turning Blind Eye to Worsening Somalia Crisis

StoryApr 27, 2007

“The Most Lawless War of Our Generation”–Fmr. U.N. Spokesperson on Somalia

StoryApr 03, 2007

400 Die in Mogadishu’s Worst Fighting in 15 years

StoryJan 09, 2007

U.S. Launches Targeted Assassination Airstrikes in Somalia, Many Reported Killed

StoryDec 28, 2006

Conflict in Somalia: Islamic Courts Abandon Mogadishu as U.N. Warns of Humanitarian Crisis

StorySep 05, 2001

BRITISH ATTEMPT TO BLOCK EU APOLOGY FOR SLAVERY

StoryMar 03, 1997

Burma and New York Activists

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