UN Security Council
17 Nov 2008
Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia (S/2008/709)
Report to Security Council
The first two sections of the report are shown below. The complete report is available in PDF format at the link above.
I. Introduction
1. The present report is submitted pursuant to the statement of the President [...]
Reporter, Ethiopia
November 22, 2008
CBE wants gov’t to intervene
An over 170 million birr loan taken by Midroc Construction in which the Sheraton Addis was used as a collateral has been listed by the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) as non-performing loan.
CBE wants to foreclose the hotel but says it has problems and wants the government [...]
BBC
November 21, 2008
Ex-Somali Army Colonel Mohamed Nureh Abdulle lives in Harardhere - the town closest to where the hijacked Saudi oil tanker, Sirius Star is moored. He tells the BBC, via phone from his home, that the town’s residents are more concerned about the apparent dumping of toxic waste than piracy.
The Harardhere-born military man [...]
BBC
November 22, 2008
Pirates in Somalia have released a Greek-owned ship that was hijacked two months ago.
Greek officials say the tanker’s cargo of refined oil is intact and its 19 crew members are safe.
The owners of the MV Genius declined to say whether a ransom had been paid to the pirates.
In the past two weeks Somali [...]
BBC
November 21, 2008
There are fears if the ransom is paid other super-tankers will be targeted
Somali pirates have been paid more than $150m (£101m) in ransoms in the past 12 months, Kenya’s foreign minister says.
“That is why they are becoming more and more audacious in their activities,” Moses Wetangula said, urging the world to take [...]
November 21, 2008
Fri 21 Nov 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Airlines said on Friday it had signed an agreement to buy eight Bombardier nextgen turboprop aircraft worth $242 million to satisfy growing domestic demand.
“Following the rapid growth of the Ethiopian economy, we have been experiencing an appreciable rate of growth in market demand on the domestic [...]
afrol News, Norway
21 November 2008
The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has blamed Washington’s alleged policy of “balkanising Somalia” for being the root cause behind piracy off the Somali coast, adding that breakaway Somaliland and Puntland must return to Somalia to create a forceful unit.
Eritrean government statement
According to the official Eritrean statement, [...]
Reuters
November 21, 2008
DUBAI - The U.S. Navy and operators of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates could not confirm on Friday reports that the hijackers had demanded a $25 million ransom.
“I’ve read the reports but I can’t confirm anything independently on that,” Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet, [...]
Peacefm Online, Ghana
Friday, 21 November 2008
A reporter with a France-based publication, Le Monde Diplomatique, once wrote that “the Nigerian film Industry has served in no small measure in laundering Nigeria’s battered image abroad”. How true the statement rings. From Nairobi to Kampala, from Dar es Salam to Addis Ababa, Nigerian home videos are selling like [...]
BBC
November 21, 2008
Islamists again control much of Somalia
At least 15 people have been killed after insurgents attacked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses say.
Heavily armed men were repulsed after they attacked the house of district commissioner Ahmed Da’i just after dawn prayers, resident Ahmed Mumin said.
Mr D’ai confirmed the attack and said the [...]
