AFP September 2, 2010 KAMPALA — Uganda said Thursday it can provide up to 10,000 troops for deployment to Somalia where it already has soldiers in the African Union mission protecting the country’s embattled government. “We have the capacity, as the army leadership has indicated, to raise up to 10,000 soldiers to fill up the [...]
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Ethiopia rejects dam criticism, targets 10,000 MW
September 2, 2010 – 9:28 pm
Reuters September 2, 2010 Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia on Thursday rejected criticism of its massive hydropower dam projects and vowed to push ahead with plans to boost its power generating ability from 2,000 MW to 10,000 MW within five years. The Horn of Africa nation’s ambitious dam building programme has drawn fire from [...]
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Refugees embrace life “out of camps”
September 2, 2010 – 9:24 pm
lRIN August 30, 2010 Photo: Wikimedia Commons A boy carries water at the Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA – Kibrom Sebhatu, 45, is among hundreds of Eritreans expected to benefit from a recent Ethiopian government ruling allowing Eritrean refugees to live outside the camps. “I am happy that UNHCR [the UN Refugee [...]
UN says 270,000 at risk as floods loom in Ethiopia
September 2, 2010 – 9:13 pm
Reuters August 30, 2010 Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA – More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the country, according to government estimates issued by the United Nations on Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 19 [...]
African Union peacekeepers killed in Somalia
September 2, 2010 – 9:09 pm
BBC August 30, 2010 Four African Union peacekeepers were killed when a mortar hit Somalia’s presidential palace, officials say. It is not clear if any Somalis were hit by the shells, fired as Islamist insurgents continue to battle government forces. Those killed were from Uganda, one of just two countries to have sent troops to [...]
Somali Government Appeals for Help as Islamists Advance
September 2, 2010 – 9:07 pm
VOA August 30, 2010 Photo: AP Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel which was stormed by a suicide bomber and a gunman in Mogadishu, Somalia, 24 Aug 2010 Somalia’s government is urgently appealing for more help as insurgents threaten to seize full control of the capital, Mogadishu. The appeal Monday came on the [...]
Somalia’s Government Expects `Major’ Surge in Violence in Mogadishu Today
August 28, 2010 – 11:38 am
Bloomberg August 27, 2010 Sarah McGregor Somalia’s government expects a “major” surge in violence today as the rebel al-Shabaab militia steps up an offensive over the Ramadan period, the Information Ministry said. The militants are expected to target civilian, government and African Union-peacekeeper bases in the capital, Mogadishu, in their bid to oust the government, [...]
Breaking News: Ethiopian Troops Enter Somalia
August 28, 2010 – 11:37 am
Addis Neger online, US/UK August 27, 2010 Ethiopian troops crossed the border and entered Somalia. “Around 1,000 soldiers are heading in the direction of Beledehawa and Elwak,” a source in Dolo told Addis Neger online. Beledehawa and Elwak are towns along the Kenya-Somalia border. According to the source, nearly 6,000 soldiers are also deployed on [...]
Accused Somali pirate pleads guilty in U.S. court
August 28, 2010 – 11:32 am
Reuters August 27, 2010 Washington – An accused pirate from Somalia pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Virginia to criminal charges over an April attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa, according to the court and the U.S. Justice Department. The defendant, Jama Idle Ibrahim, pleaded guilty as part [...]
Ethiopian Government Denies Plans to Intervene in Somalia `At This Point’
August 28, 2010 – 11:31 am
Bloomberg August 27, 2010 William Davison Ethiopia denied reports it is planning to send troops into war-torn Somalia, where an al-Qaeda militia began a new offensive this week against the country’s Western-backed government. “We have made no decision to intervene at this point,” Communications Minister Bereket Simon said in a mobile phone interview from the [...]
