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Somalia: Burundi Defense Chief Visits Mogadishu
allafrica.com 5 hrs ago 5 related
Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Burundi's defense minister, Major-General Niyoyankana Germain, spoke with reports Thursday at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. At first, the Burundian Defense Minister condemned an April suicide car bomb attack at the Mogadishu...
Top 10 hells on earth
abs-cbnnews.com 5 hrs ago
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Type of hell: Disease With over 115 new HIV and AIDS cases diagnosed every month, the capital of Papua New Guinea is in trouble. Linfen, China Type of hell: Darkness Linfen, China, is sooty and dark, located in a 12-mile industrial belt, and...
John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen: Africa's Iraq
huffingtonpost.com 14 hrs ago 4 related
This month's U.S. airstrike in Somalia was a rare military success in a region where U.S. counter-terrorism policy is failing spectacularly. Each invading power -- the U.S. in Iraq and U.S.-backed Ethiopia in Somalia -- lacked a post-war political strategy. Not so in Somalia, where Ethiopia and...
SECURITY COUNCIL EXPRESSES STRONG SUPPORT FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL’S INTEGRATED
un.org yesterday 28 related
STRATEGY FOR PEACE IN SOMALIA, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1814 (2008) Requests Updated Version of Plan within 60 Days; Welcomes Recommendation to Move Political Office from Nairobi to Mogadishu The Security Council this afternoon expressed its strong support for Secretary-General Ban...
Uganda: Hospitals Overwhelmed By Violence Victims
allafrica.com yesterday 4 related
Faduma Dalel Farah, a mother of four, is a typical victim of the ongoing conflict in the Somali capital. She and four of her six children were wounded when the insurgents attacked forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Wardigley district in central Mogadishu. Her husband, Said...
Somali gunmen kidnap Kenyan lecturer in Mogadishu
hiiraan.com yesterday
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Three gunmen abducted a Kenyan teaching at the Mogadishu University campus in the latest seizure of a foreigner in the lawless Horn of Africa country, witnesses said on Tuesday. Yasin Abdi, a student at the Taleh campus in the bombed-out Somali capital, said the armed men...
Letters from Somalia: Risking education
hiiraan.com yesterday
In a partly deserted neighborhood in the Somali capital - in particular an area that has been the scene of recent and frequent clashes between Somali government forces and insurgents - stands a very ordinary house; a house that is, despite the danger all around it, bustling with activity as if it...
Somalia: Former Islamist-Allied Warlord Rejects Peace Talks in Djibouti
allafrica.com May 13, 2008 15 related
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 A former warlord allied to Somalia's collapsed Islamic Courts movement has rejected peace talks that opened in Djibouti yesterday. Yusuf "Indho Ade" Mohamed Siad, one of the country's most notorious warlords, told a Mogadishu radio station Tuesday that delegates at...
Insecurity Grips Kismayo
allafrica.com May 13, 2008 8 related
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Nairobi Gangs of armed men have set up roadblocks in and around Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of Mogadishu, causing serious insecurity. "People's livelihoods are at stake and aid agencies have abandoned Kismayo because of the security problem," said...
Backgrounder: Somalia’s Transitional Government
globalsecurity.org May 13, 2008 1 related
Council on Foreign Relations Authors: Eben Kaplan, Associate Editor Stephanie Hanson, News Editor Introduction On January 8, 2007, Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed set foot in the capital city of Mogadishu for the first time since taking office in 2004. His arrival symbolized a victory by...