Reuters
March 13, 2010
WASHINGTON – The United States on Friday denied coordinating plans by Somalia’s embattled government to launch an offensive against Islamist fighters, saying it had no plans to “Americanize” the conflict.
Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson described as inaccurate reports suggesting that U.S. officials were ready to get more militarily involved as Somalia’s government [...]
Category Archives: EU
U.S. has no plan to “Americanize” Somalia conflict
March 14, 2010 – 8:33 am
East Africa is next hot oil zone
March 11, 2010 – 5:43 pm
UPI
March 10, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s
Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored by the energy industry, [...]
Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
March 10, 2010 – 7:11 am
World Politics Review, US
March 9, 2010
Lauren Gelfand
Lauren Gelfand is a Nairobi-based political and security analyst
NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi’s Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to [...]
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm
Guardian, UK
March 7, 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards [...]
France captures 22 suspected pirates off Somalia
March 7, 2010 – 10:48 am
LA Times/AP
March 6, 2010
This image issued by EU NAVFOR shows the French warship FS Nivose with Somali pirate skiffs off the Somali coast. (Associated Press / March 5, 2010)
PARIS – France’s Defense Ministry says a French frigate involved in an EU anti-piracy mission off Somalia has detained 22 suspected pirates from six separate boats in [...]
Vikings Sink Pirate Skiff Off Somali Coast, NATO News Issues Overblown Report
March 5, 2010 – 4:21 pm
Newsblaze, US-based independent news website
March 3, 2010
Alan Gray
ECOTERRA reports that a NATO destroyer sank a “pirate mothership” in the Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast on Sunday. The official NATO statement said the Danish warship HDMS Absalon disrupted a pirate operation, by “scuttling” a pirate skiff, one of the boats Somali gangs use to transport [...]
Somali Islamist rebels ban English, science lessons
March 5, 2010 – 4:08 pm
Reuters
March 5, 2010
NAIROBI – Somalia’s hardline Islamists have banned English and science studies in schools in the southern Afmadow town after the education centres there ignored the rebels’ call for fighters, residents and teachers say.
Residents of the town near the border with Kenya said three schools had been given one month to comply with the [...]
Brief: Somali Pirate Mother Ship Sunk By NATO
March 3, 2010 – 8:17 am
Stratfor, US independent intelligence analyst website
March 1, 2010
A Danish NATO warship scuttled a pirate mother ship off the horn of Africa on Feb. 28, according to a statement issued by NATO March 1.
According to the statement, specialist teams were deployed by the NATO counterpiracy mission flagship, the HDMS Absalon, to intercept and sink the [...]
EU implements international restrictive measures against Eritrea
March 3, 2010 – 8:15 am
European Union
March 1, 2010
Summary: 1 March 2010, Brussels – The European Union implements international restrictive measures against Eritrea
The Council of the European Union today adopted a decision11 (5534/10) imposing restrictive measures against Eritrea in line with the United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1907 (2009).
The restrictive measures consist of an arms embargo, as well as [...]
Eritrea says US-led sanctions won’t derail economy
February 25, 2010 – 8:55 am
Reuters
February 24, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Eritrea’s ruling party will press ahead with its economic development plans despite U.N. sanctions and what it sees as anti-Eritrean hostility manufactured by the United States, local media reported on Wednesday.
Abdalla Jabir, head of organisational affairs in the ruling party, accused the United States of masterminding the U.N. resolution and [...]
