Reuters
December 29, 2008
David Clarke
NAIROBI - Somalia’s President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned on Monday after four years in power and returned to his homeland in the semi-autonomous Puntland region. [ID:nLT23433] Here are some questions and answers as to what happens next:
WHY DID YUSUF GO?
* Yusuf had been blamed for hindering a U.N.-hosted peace process. He came under [...]
Category Archives: Somalia
Q+A-What happens now Somali’s president has resigned?
December 30, 2008 – 6:37 am
Islamist Militants in Somalia Begin to Fight One Another
December 30, 2008 – 6:36 am
NY Times
December 28, 2008
Jeffrey Gettleman
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia’s Islamist militants, long a bane of the country’s weakening government, are now officially fighting one another.
The New York Times
Fighting may have been set off by an episode in Kismaayo.
On Sunday, a powerful, newly militarized Islamist group declared a “holy war” against other Islamist factions, [...]
Somalia’s president quits office
December 30, 2008 – 6:31 am
BBC
December 29, 2008
Somalia’s President Abdullahi Yusuf has told parliament he has resigned - a move which adds to the chaos in the country as Ethiopian troops withdraw.
Mr Yusuf’s resignation follows a power struggle with Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, who parliament backed after Mr Yusuf tried to sack him.
Ethiopian soldiers, who support the [...]
Moderate Islamists seize two central Somali towns
December 30, 2008 – 6:26 am
Reuters
Sun 28 Dec 2008
Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU - A moderate Islamist group captured two towns in central Somalia on Sunday from al Shabaab, a hardline militia on the U.S. list of terrorist groups, residents and Islamists said.
The Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a government-allied Sunni Islamist group, vowed on Saturday to seize towns controlled by al Shabaab after [...]
AMISON Confident of Somali Stability Following Ethiopian Troop Pull Out
December 30, 2008 – 6:24 am
VOA
Peter Clottey
29 December 2008
The African Union Military Mission on Somalia (AMISON) says it is ready to handle the security situation following the imminent withdrawal of Ethiopian troops. The assurance comes after the Islamic group Al-Shabab Sunday attacked the offices of some non-governmental organizations in the capital, Mogadishu. Some political analysts believe the withdrawal of [...]
AU condemns Puntland media for spreading false reports about its special rep
December 27, 2008 – 10:04 am
APA
December 22, 2008
Mogadishu (Somalia) The African Union has accused certain media houses in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland of spreading false reports attributing some comments to the AU’s Special Representative for Somalia Nicolas Bwakira.
“The office of the African Union (AU) Special Representative for Somalia has learned with surprise, dismay and shock that certain media in [...]
AU prolongs Somalia peacekeeping mission for two months
December 27, 2008 – 9:46 am
AFP
December 22, 2008
Slideshow: Somalia Unrest
ADDIS ABABA – The African Union on Monday decided to maintain its peacekeepers in conflict-torn Somalia for another two months, and appealed for more countries to send troops to bolster the force.
The decision to extend the mandate of the 3,400-strong force, due to expire at the end of the month, [...]
Chinese ships head to Somalia, Japan may follow
December 27, 2008 – 9:32 am
Reuters
Fri 26 Dec 2008
Ben Blanchard and Isabel Reynolds
BEIJING/TOKYO - Three Chinese naval vessels left for Somalia on Friday to help tackle piracy in a sign of the country’s rising global clout, and Japan said it may soon follow suit.
The destroyers Haikou and Wuhan, two of China’s navy’s most sophisticated warships, set sail from the southern [...]
Somalis held in Ethiopia capital
December 27, 2008 – 9:31 am
BBC
December 26, 2008
Elizabeth Blunt
Hundreds of young Somalis have been arrested in the past few days in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
A number were questioned and then released but it is thought at least 200 are still being held.
Most of the arrests took place on Tuesday night and Wednesday in the Bole area, the [...]
SENATOR FEINGOLD, IN DJIBOUTI, CALLS FOR NEW STRATEGY FOR SOMALIA AND THE HORN
December 27, 2008 – 9:20 am
Eastafro.com
December 22, 2008
Djibouti – Today, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) called for a new strategy to address instability, terrorism and the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and the Horn of Africa while visiting Djibouti, which is hosting the Somalia peace process. Feingold, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, met with the [...]
