AFP/Mail & Guardian, South Africa
December 22, 2008
EMMANUEL GOUJON
BADME, ETHIOPIA Every morning at dawn, groups of Ethiopian soldiers poke long metal-tipped poles into the soil on the dirt track linking Badme, a dusty border town, with civilization, looking for landmines.
Major Shale Taame says Eritreans sneak across the border to plant the landmines at [...]
Category Archives: UN
Disputed Ethiopia-Eritrea border town still stirs war fears
December 22, 2008 – 8:42 am
Nigerian troops ready for Somalia deployment - AU
December 22, 2008 – 8:35 am
Reuters
Sun 21 Dec 2008
Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA - Nigerian troops are expected to strengthen an African force in Somalia in January and prevent a security vacuum when Ethiopian soldiers pull out, the African Union said on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s decision to withdraw its 3,000 or so troops from the anarchic Horn of Africa nation by the end of [...]
Africa seeks Somalia peacekeepers
December 22, 2008 – 8:33 am
BBC
December 22, 2008
Ethiopian troops are leaving after two years in Somalia
Members of the African Union’s peace and security council are holding urgent talks on the crisis in Somalia and how to boost the peacekeeping force there.
The UN envoy to Somalia said there was a “hidden genocide” taking place.
Ethiopia says its 3,000 troops [...]
Somalia crisis talks in Ethiopia
December 21, 2008 – 7:53 pm
BBC
December 21, 2008
Ethiopia is hosting a series of talks on the deepening crisis in its neighbour, Somalia.
Foreign ministers from east Africa are meeting in the capital, Addis Ababa, to be followed by talks by the African Union’s peace and security council.
The emergency meetings come after Ethiopia decided to withdraw its troops from [...]
Ethiopia readies to pull troops from Somalia
December 21, 2008 – 7:53 am
AFP
December 20, 2008
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia said on Saturday it has begun preparations to withdraw troops from Somalia, with the planned pullout raising fears of further chaos in the conflict-torn country.
Addis Ababa is to pull its forces out of Somalia, where it deployed in 2006 to back an embattled government, by the end of the [...]
Report of Monitoring Group on Somalia - 10 December 2008
December 21, 2008 – 7:17 am
Report of Monitoring Group on Somalia
UN Security Council’s Monitoring Group on Somalia
10 December 2008
Monitoring Group Report
UN arms embargo on Somalia constantly broken
December 20, 2008 – 8:47 am
AFP
December 19, 2008
UNITED NATIONS — A 16-year arms embargo against Somalia has been constantly violated with weapons mainly coming from Yemen and financed by Eritrea as well as Arab and Islamic donors, a UN report said Friday.
“Most serviceable weapons and almost all ammunition currently available in the country have been delivered since 1992, in violation [...]
More Ethiopian troops arrive in Darfur bolstering peacekeeping operation
December 20, 2008 – 8:36 am
UN News Centre
December 17, 2008
More than 300 Ethiopian troops arrived in Darfur over the last two days to boost the strength of the joint United Nations-African Union force, known as UNAMID, deployed earlier this year in an attempt to suppress the violence and humanitarian suffering in the war-torn Sudanese region.
More personnel from the Ethiopian Infantry [...]
Regional approach crucial to bring Somali pirates to justice, says UN anti-crime chief
December 19, 2008 – 1:21 pm
UN News Centre
December 16, 2008
Antonio Maria Costa
The United Nations crime-fighting agency today proposed a regional approach to bringing pirates off the Somali coast to justice similar to one that has proved successful in fighting drug traffickers in the Caribbean.
“Gunboats are necessary, but not sufficient,” UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio [...]
US Somalia peacekeeping idea hits resistance at UN
December 17, 2008 – 10:22 pm
Reuters
Wed 17 Dec 2008, 21:26 GMT
Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. chief and France on Wednesday cast doubt on U.S. calls to authorize a U.N. peacekeeping force for Somalia quickly, saying the situation was too dangerous for blue helmets.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday for the first time that the U.N. should [...]
