Reuters July 15, 2010 Elias Biryabarema * Uganda wants peacekeeper mandate changed * Al Shabaab leader says planning more attacks * Kenya says hands over Ugandan member of al Shabaab KAMPALA – Uganda wants new rules of engagement allowing its peacekeeping troops in Somalia to go on the offensive against Islamist rebels who claimed responsibility [...]
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How Somalia’s civil war became new front in battle against al-Qaida
June 8, 2010 – 5:05 pm
Guardian, UK June 7, 2010 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Mogadishu where presence of US drones reveals western anxiety over country’s conflict Photograph: Ghaith Abdulahad for the Guardian A government soldier patrols the devastated frontline in Mogadishu. On a side street off Mogadishu’s Wadnaha Road frontline a young officer is explaining the unwritten rules of the [...]
U.N. rejects claims aid diverted to Somali rebels
February 21, 2010 – 2:59 pm
Reuters February 17, 2010 Frank Nyakairu * U.S. fears aid benefits al Shabaab, withholds funds * U.N. could fail to raise required $900 mln for Somalia NAIROBI The U.N.’s food agency on Wednesday rejected claims some of its staff had diverted aid to hardline Somali rebels and the country’s U.N. humanitarian coordinator called on the [...]
Ukraine supplying weapons to Darfur rebels through Eritrea: report
February 21, 2010 – 2:57 pm
Sudan Tribune/Kyiv Post, France/Ukraine February 16, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – A Ukrainian weapons company has been shipping arms to rebels fighting in Sudan’s Western region of Darfur, according to a Russian newspaper. Vremya Novostei reported that according to the data that appeared in Kiev, Ukrainian company Ukrspetsexport supplied artillery systems and small arms with assistance of [...]
Dibaba falls short in world record bid at Reebok Boston Indoor Games
February 8, 2010 – 8:42 am
Athletics Weekly, UK February 7, 2010 Steven Mills Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba won the 5000m in 14:44.53 but the double Olympic 10,000m champion did not threaten Meseret Defar’s world record DOUBLE Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba fell short of regaining her world indoor 5000m record at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on February 6 but the Ethiopian [...]
Somalia’s booming piracy trade
January 27, 2010 – 8:46 pm
The Star, Malaysia January 24, 2010 BUNN NAGARA IT was supposed to be an ordinary Somali pirate hijacking for ransom, but that was not to be during the week for the Greek supertanker Maran Centaurus. A band of pirates had been holding the vessel since hijacking it on Nov 29, along with its 28 crew [...]
U.S. Transfers 12 Guantanamo Detainees, Six to Yemen
December 23, 2009 – 2:09 pm
Bloomberg December 23, 2009 William McQuillen The U.S. transferred 12 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, sending half the prisoners home to Yemen and the others to Afghanistan and the Somaliland region. Yemeni detainees Jamal Muhammad Alawi Mari, Farouq Ali Ahmed, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, Muhammaed Yasir Ahmed Taher, Fayad Yahya Ahmed al Rami and Riyad Atiq [...]
Sponsors and (Ethiopian) Runners wanted for NY Half Marathon!
December 17, 2009 – 9:38 pm
THE FRESH AIR FUND NYC Half-Marathon Participate in this year’s NYC Half-Marathon on March 21, 2010! If you’d like to get involved with the race in any way, please email kbrinkerhoff@freshair.org. Thank you! Congratulations to our 2009 Fresh Air Fund-Racers who completed the NYC Half-Marathon and raised almost $90,000 this summer! On August 16th, the [...]
Somali piracy tribunals unlikely, despite calls
December 12, 2009 – 11:08 am
Reuters December 10, 2009 Reed Stevenson * Efforts to establish piracy tribunal unlikely to succeed * Prosecuting and policing pirates seen as main obstacle THE HAGUE – Efforts to establish an international court to prosecute Somali pirates face complex laws governing the seas and national sovereignty as well as the lack of an effective police [...]
Ethiopia convicts 27 over coup conspiracy
November 19, 2009 – 9:09 pm
Reuters November 19, 2009 Barry Malone * Government says group planned assassinations * Convicted men guilty of charges carrying the death penalty * Relatives say convicted men were tortured in prison ADDIS ABABA – An Ethiopian court convicted 27 serving and former soldiers on Thursday of planning a coup and found them guilty on other [...]
