NY Times August 10, 2011 JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT Todd Heisler/The New York Times A Ugandan soldier leads Richard Rouget, a military adviser with Bancroft Global Development, to the roof of a building to monitor a firefight. More Photos JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT MOGADISHU, Somalia — Richard Rouget, a [...]
Category Archives: Somalia
With U.S. Support, Private Security Company Trains African Troops in Somalia
August 11, 2011 – 8:48 pm
Somalia ‘needs more AU troops’ after al-Shaba pullout
August 10, 2011 – 12:10 am
BBC August 9, 2011 AU peacekeepers have led an offensive against the al-Shaba Islamist group The African Union force commander in Somalia has appealed for thousands of extra troops to secure the capital, after militant Islamists left the city. Maj Gen Fred Mugisha said the militant al-Shabab group still threatened stability in Mogadishu and troops [...]
Somali refugees pack capital after rebels quit
August 9, 2011 – 11:56 pm
Reuters August 9, 2011 Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU – Thousands of Somali refugees, fleeing famine and years of violence, streamed into Mogadishu on Monday searching for food after Islamist rebels withdrew from the capital. The al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab insurgents began pulling their fighters out of Mogadishu over the weekend, raising hopes that [...]
Somali pirate ransoms skirt US directives
August 9, 2011 – 11:39 pm
Reuters August 8, 2011 David Clarke and Mohamed Ahmed NAIROBI/MOGADISHU – A $3.6 million ransom seized in Somalia in May was destined for a pirate boss subject to U.S. sanctions, an illustration of how a criminal enterprise that costs the global economy billions of dollars pays scant heed to policy directives from Washington. Documents obtained [...]
Famine: ‘Hundreds of thousands of kids could die’
August 9, 2011 – 11:34 pm
AP August 8, 2011 JASON STRAZIUSO DADAAB, Kenya — Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with [...]
UN Council Asked to Target Eritrea With Sanctions on Mining
August 9, 2011 – 12:33 am
Bloomberg August 4, 2011 Flavia Krause-Jackson and Bill Varner Eritrea, one of the world’s poorest nations whose citizens earn just over a $1 a day, may face tougher United Nations sanctions targeting the mining and remittances that keep its economy afloat. Neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti are urging the 15-member UN Security Council to impose sanctions [...]
Measles Outbreak In Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia
August 9, 2011 – 12:07 am
Scoop/UN August 6, 2011 UN Urges Rapid Response To Measles Outbreak In Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado camps in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already vulnerable population. [...]
Somali government declares Islamist rebellion defeated
August 8, 2011 – 11:43 pm
Reuters August 6, 2011 Mohamed Ahmed and Ibrahim Mohamed Somalia”s Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali addresses the media in the Badbado settlement after two groups of Somalia government soldiers clashed inside the camp in the capital Mogadishu, August 5, 2011. One soldier was killed and a dozen residents wounded when three trucks loaded with food [...]
FACTBOX-UN Monitoring report on Somalia, Eritrea
August 6, 2011 – 2:45 pm
Reuters July 29, 2011 David Clarke Link to the Monitoring report (Note: it is a 419-page report) NAIROBI – A U.N. Monitoring group report seen by Reuters on Thursday said Eritrea was behind a bomb plot in Ethiopia and that the Red Sea state bankrolled Somali al Shabaab rebels. The report also said networks run [...]
Famine a boon for Somali militants, Ethiopia opens 4th camp for fleeing Somalis
August 6, 2011 – 11:49 am
AP/Washington Post August 5, 2011 GENEVA — Islamic militants in Somalia who deny there’s famine and block most aid are enjoying a boon in recruitment by giving people money at a time of rising food prices, United Nations officials said Friday. The hardline militant group al-Shabab, whose control of much of southern Somalia and ties [...]