UN News Centre
20 November 2008
The recent agreement on political cooperation signed between the Somali Government and an Islamic opposition alliance has given the peace process in the strife-torn country renewed impetus, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today.
But Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios warned that the continuing tensions [...]
The Economist
Anarchy in Somalia
Nov 20th 2008
Pirates are only part of a much bigger problem in east Africa
IT IS tempting to be jaunty about piracy. So what if a few Robin Hoods in skiffs nick the odd tanker off the Horn of Africa? Often enough, the owners pay ransom and nobody gets hurt. Everyone needs a [...]
McClatchy Newspapers, US
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Shashank Bengali
NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country’s internationally backed government nears collapse.
The rise of al Shabaab — from [...]
Reuters
Tue 18 Nov 2008
Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia said on Tuesday it was not prepared to continue propping up Somalia’s interim government “indefinitely” and urged leaders there to embrace a peace process to stop 17 years of conflict.
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf’s government has been unable to stop a two-year insurgency by Islamic militia, despite backup [...]
AFP
November 10, 2008
BRUSSELS — The European Union launched Monday a security operation off the coast of Somalia — its first-ever naval mission — to combat growing acts of piracy and help protect aid ships.
Dubbed Operation Atalanta, the mission, endorsed by the bloc’s defence ministers at talks in Brussels, will be led by Britain, with [...]
UN News Centre
November 5, 2008
The prolonged drought across much of Ethiopia is likely to continue into next year, and the outlook for crop production in the east of the country remains grim, the United Nations humanitarian wing said today.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a recent UN crop assessment found that [...]
Garowe Online, Somalia
November 2, 2008
Abdirashid K. Hashi
Abdirashid K. Hashi is a Somali-Canadian writer and formerly Deputy Chief of Cabinet, Somali Prime Minister‘s Office
IGAD’s highly intrusive “declaration” on Somalia is more detrimental to the strategic interests of Somalia than the combined perils of the Ethiopian military intervention, the Al-Qaeda infiltration, and the rampant high [...]
IRIN
November 3, 2008
DIRE DAWA Like many teenagers in rural Ethiopia, Shekuria Mume, 19, became pregnant, quit school and got married at 15. The birth of her first baby remains one of her most traumatic experiences, as an untrained traditional birth attendant (TBA) delivered her.
“I had heard that some women die while giving birth so [...]
UN Security Council
October 23, 2008
FULL REPORT
Security Council
SC/9480
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Security Council
6000th Meeting (AM)
PRESIDENT OF DJIBOUTI URGES SECURITY COUNCIL TO PRESS ERITREA ON ENDING BORDER
DISPUTE, SAYS ‘THE LAST THING THE HORN OF AFRICA NEEDS IS ANOTHER CONFLICT’
Eritrea ’s Representative [...]
October 3, 2008
Final Report of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission to the Security Council
Complete report is attached as a PDF file.
Border Commission Report
