2012-02-08
Kenyan Forces Claim to Kill Rebel Commander
[Nation]
An Al-Shabaab commander is among 14 militants reported dead after they were ambushed by Kenyan troops in Southern Somalia, the military claimed on Wednesday.2012-02-09
Country Seems Ripe for the Picking - Bring Out the Knives and Chop It Up
[Nation]
On February 23 something very important for East Africa, and indeed all of Africa, will happen in London. 2012-02-08
Suicide Car Bomb Blast Rocks Capital
[Shabelle]
Mogadishu -
A huge suicide car bomb explosion on Wednesday targeted at Muna hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 15 people while dozens wounded, witnesses said. 2012-02-08
President Meets With AU Envoy in Mogadishu
[Shabelle]
Mogadishu -
The president of Somalia's Transitional Federal government (TFG) Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed met with AU especial envoy Jerry Rowlings in the capital Mogadishu, sources said on Wednesday. 2012-02-08
Puntland Leader Warns of 'New Civil War' As Somaliland Forces Attack Buhodle
[Garowe Online]
Buhodle -
The President of Somalia's Puntland government has sent a strong warning to Somaliland forces after an attack on Buhodle city left dozens dead, Radio Garowe reports. 2012-02-08
Al-Shabab Militants Desert From Strongholds
[Shabelle]
Badade -
The militants of Al-shabab have vacated from a number of key towns in southwestern Somalia as Somali government soldiers backed by Kenyan army are heading to a new strategic locations, witnesses said. 2012-02-08
The Country Is Training Ground for British Would-Be Terrorists, Report War
[Shabelle]
London -
Royal United Services Institute warns jihadist threat has spread to separatist movements in Africa and elsewhere. 2012-02-08
Dead Bodies Were Found in Central Town
[Shabelle]
Baladweyn -
At least two dead bodies of young men were seen on early on Wednesday morning lying at Bundo-Weyn village found in the town of Beledweyne, the capital of Hiran region in central Somalia, about 350-Km north of Mogadishu, witnesses said. 2012-02-08
Defense Minister Promises to Continue Battle Against Al Shabaab
[Garowe Online]
Mogadishu, Somalia -
The Minister of Defense Hussein Arab Isse promised to continue the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia's fight against Al Shabaab in southern Somalia, Radio Garowe reports. 2012-02-08
Puntland President Returns to Garowe
[Garowe Online]
Garowe, Somalia -
Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole returned to Garowe on Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports. 2012-02-08
Local, Kenya Forces Move On to Al Shabaab-Held Villages in Gedo Region
[Shabelle]
Burdubo -
Pro-Somali government soldiers backing by the neighboring Kenya forces were reportedly advancing to a new Al-shabab stronghold in Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, reports said Wednesday. 2012-02-08
Heavy Fighting Resumes in Northern Region
[Shabelle]
Ayn -
Heavy fighting between the self-declared state of Somaliland soldiers and local militia has resumed again on Wednesday in a town in Ayn region in northern Somalia, residents say. 2012-02-08
Ambassador - Somali Refugee in Local Camps Still Remain At Risk
[Shabelle]
Nairobi -
Hundreds of thousand s of Somali refugees in north eastern Kenya camps say they are facing sever appalling living condition after international aid agencies left for security reasons. 2012-02-08
Is Famine the Only Worthy Story From This Part of the World?
[Citizen]
Six months after declaring the famine in Somalia as one of "biblical proportions", the United Nations has now said that Somalia is a famine-free area, but that nearly a third of the country's people are still "in crisis". 2012-02-07
A Political Solution for Somalia
[Chatham House]
Last week Foreign Secretary William Hague made a surprise visit to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, ahead of an international conference on Somalia taking place in London this month. The visit comes at an important juncture for Somalia's internal politics and its relations with the rest of the world. 2012-02-07
London Conference 'An Opportunity' for Somaliland
[IRIN]
Hargeisa -
More than two decades after it unilaterally asserted its independence from the rest of Somalia, Somaliland plans to lobby hard at a major conference in London in February for something it has sorely lacked since its inception: international recognition of its sovereignty. 2012-02-07
Calls for Independent Probe of Journalist's Murder
[IFJ]
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the National Union of Journalists of Great Britain and Ireland, and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), today called on the British Foreign Secretary William Hague to ensure that the "independent inquiry" he called for into the murder of Hassan Osman Abdi, director of Shabelle Media Network, is truly independent. 2012-02-07
Heads of Govt to Debate Nation's Future
[African Arguments]
If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone. But the seizure of more than 200 ships by kids with guns in small craft has changed all that. 2012-02-07
Getting Somalia Wrong - a History of International Misreading
[African Arguments]
Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death. 2012-02-07
UN Insists Interim Political Arrangement Must End in August
[UN News]
The international group that brings together the United Nations and its diplomatic partners in support of efforts to restore peace and stability in Somalia insisted today that the country's current transitional governing arrangements must end on 20 August this year, as stipulated in recent agreements, and called for a new draft constitution by mid-April. |
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