Somalia news on the world press
We collect here for you to see what the world is saying about Somalia and we
would like to make it clear to our readers not to get confused by the Transitional
Federal Government this is the Exile government that the UN and others created
and now they have found out it is most corrupt thing on the planet they will sell
their body to get one dollar. They also call the Somali people fighting against the
Corrupt inapt exile TFG many names like Jihadest , or islamest or insurgents.
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DECEMBER STORY BY SINDIYA DARMAN
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LINK TV: Middle East news Monday to Friday
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US newspaper says Taylor worked for US intelligence
Somalia news: 19 January 2012 A startling revelation made by a US
newspaper indicates that former Liberian President Charles Taylor
was aided by American intelligence agents to escape from a Boston
prison where he was awaiting extradition back to his country
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Kenya: no to Kismayu attack without back-up
Somali news: 19 January 2012 Defence Minister Yusuf Haji told The
EastAfrican that the country’s military incursion into Somalia had
created conditions that would allow the international community to
help create lasting peace, but Kenya is unwilling to continue
underwriting the financial burden of an open-ended war.
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Five European tourists killed in attack in Ethiopia
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 18 January 2012 Bereket Simon,
the country's communications minister, said the attackers struck
before dawn on Tuesday. The dead were two Germans, two
Hungarians and an Austrian; two Germans and two Ethiopians were
kidnapped, and an Italian and a Hungarian were wounded in the
attack
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Intervening in Somalia - Risky Business With No End in Sight
Somalia news: 17 January 2012 History Tells Us No!In the early
nineties UN peacekeeping missions and a US-led task force entered
Somalia after the fall of the dictator Siad Barre. Rebel leaders
manipulating clan dynamics and international humanitarian relief
efforts were given a seat at the negotiating table, which only served
to further encourage their tactics. After 18 US servicemen were killed
during 'the Battle for Mogadishu' international forces pulled out
without completing their mission leaving Mogadishu and Somalia in a
state of civil strife.
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Kenyan Islamic group announces alliance with al-Shabab
Somalia news: 16 January 2012 The Muslim Youth Center was
named in a United Nations report last year for recruiting, fundraising,
and running training and orientation events for al-Shabab. An official
al-Shabab spokesman did not answer questions about whether the
center now represents al-Shabab in Kenya, but a statement
published on the center’s blog on Wednesday was unequivocal
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Nairobi joins Uganda in arms shopping spree
Somalia news: 16 January 2012 The latest report by the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), analysing arms deals
by African countries said that Operation Linda Nchi illustrates “the
importance of arms imports for facilitating military responses to
threats to security.”
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UN doubts claims Eritrea supplied weapons to Shabaab
Somalia news: 16 January 2012 “The Monitoring Group also pursued
its investigation into alleged arms deliveries by air to the Al Shabaab
controlled airfields in Southern Somalia in late October and early
November 2011. The SEMG’s preliminary assessment is that these
reports were incorrect and that the alleged deliveries to Baidoa
probably did not take place,” the report reads in part
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UK, US Sailors Capture Suspected Somali Pirates
Somali news: 14 Janurary 2011 Britain's Royal Navy says it has
captured 13 suspected pirates off Somalia's coast in a joint operation
with a U.S. Navy destroyer. The defense ministry says helicopters,
Royal Marine snipers and two military vessels - one British, one
American - were deployed early Friday to intercept a dhow in the
Indian Ocean
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Shabaab Displays Four Abducted Kenyans
Somali news: 14 January 2012 The four Kenyans abducted by
Al-Shabaab on Wednesday have been displayed by the militants in a
Somali town, local media has reported. The militants paraded the
four, among them a district officer, and a chief in the town of
BardherBardere, Gedo region, about 380 km southwest of Mogadishu
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Grenade attack at UN's Mogadishu base
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 11 January 2012 Unidentified men
attacked the main United Nations compound in the Somali capital
Mogadishu, hurling two hand grenades that exploded near the wall,
UN officials and witnesses said on Wednesday
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Kenyan troops kill six Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia
Somali news: 12 January 2012 Kenya's military said its troops killed
six Somali militants and injured dozens others during a fierce clash in
Tabda in southern Somalia on Tuesday. Military Spokesman Major
Emmanuel Chirchir said the clash which took place early on Tuesday
also saw a Kenyan soldier succumbed to injuries while two others
sustained minor injuries.
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TFIs leaders shouldn’t be allowed to
privatize Somalia’s
After seven years, the Transitional Federal
Institutions (TFIs) that formed the Transitional
Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) have
irreversibly morphed into the property of three
venal leaders used by foreign powers,
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Turkey to start distributing potable water to Somalis from well
Somali news: 11 January 2012Turkish State Water Works (DSI) will
start distributing potable water to Somali people from well opened in
the country. Turkey's Forestry & Water Works Ministry said on
Saturday that DSI team had drilled a water well near a tent-site in
Somalia, and found water in 90 meters dept
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Pirate rescue eases U.S.-Iran tensions
Somali news: 7 January 2012 The political tensions between the U.S.
and Iran over transit in and around the Persian Gulf gave way Friday
to photos of rescued Iranian fisherman happily wearing American
Navy ball caps
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Aid groups lobby US not to shut off remittances to Somalia
Somalia news: 5 January 2012 It is estimated that $100m in
remittances goes to Somalia from the US every year. This is the worst
time for this service to stop. Any gaps with remittance flows in the
middle of the famine could be disastrous," said Shannon Scribner,
Oxfam America's humanitarian policy manager. "The US government
should give assurances to the bank that there will be no legal
ramifications of providing this service to Somalis in need
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Somalia: Pirates Hijack Another Italian Cargo Ship
Somalia news: 28 December 2011 Somali pirates have hijacked an
Italian cargo ship and its 18 employees and are holding it for ransom,
Radio Garowe reports. The ship is an Italian cargo ship named Enrico
Ievoli and belongs to a Italian company named Marnavi which was
hijacked near Oman
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Troubled Ethiopia-Somalia history haunts Horn of Africa
Somali news: 28 December 2011 Five hundred years ago, an Imam
who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of
Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and
slaying all who resisted.
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Ethiopian court: 2 Swedish reporters guilty
Somalia news: 21 December 2011 Ethiopian troops captured Johan
Persson and Martin Schibbye six months ago during a clash with
rebels in Ethiopia's restive Somali region in the country's east, a
no-go area for reporters. Ethiopia considers the rebel group a
terrorist organization, and it is very difficult for journalists to gain
access to the region. Rights groups say that is so abuses there are
not exposed
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Second bomb attack in 2 days in Kenyan refugee camp
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 20 December 2011 Albert Kimathi
says no one was injured in Tuesday's blast in Dadaab refugee camp.
It is the second explosion there in as many days and the fifth bomb to
be planted in Dadaab in two months. Three police officers in Dadaab
have been killed
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Famine in Somalia – from worst to better
Somalia news: 19 December 2011 “Boats were used to take the food
to pre-deployment sites in the Jubas,” said Andrea Heath, who is in
charge of the ICRC's economic-security activities in Somalia. “The
presence of crocodiles was another challenge. For three weeks in
late October and early November, several trucks were regularly stuck
in the mud on their way to Gedo, Bakool and the Jubas.
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Conflict situation in Somalia - IFRC Statement
Somalia news: 19 December 2011 Geneva: In light of a worsening
conflict situation in Somalia, including an air attack on a nutritional
centre in the southern Somali town of Bardera on December 10th, the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(IFRC) urgently calls for the mandate of the Somali Red Crescent
Society to be respected at all times.
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Kenyan Policeman Killed In Explosion At Dadaab Camp
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 19 December 2011 One Kenyan
policeman was killed and two others injured in an explosion
suspected to have been caused by a roadside bomb at the Dadaab
refugee camp near the border with Somalia, news reports citing local
officials said Monday
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IFJ Condemns 'Cold Blood' Murder of Prominent Journalist
Somalia news: 19 December 2011 The International Federation of
Journalists (IFJ) today urged the Somali Transitional Federal
Government to launch an immediate investigation to identify the killer
- and whoever ordered the murder - of Abdisalan Sheik Hassan, a
prominent Somali journalist who was gunned down in Mogadishu on
Sunday
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U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over
Somalia news: 15 December 2011 The United States military officially
declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday even as violence
continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains
distrustful of American power.
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Another Pirate Gets Life in Yacht Killings
Somalia news: 15 December 2011 Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali was the
commander of a band of 19 pirates that hijacked the 58-foot Quest in
February several hundred miles south of Oman. The pirates intended
to bring the Americans back to Somalia where a bilingual interpreter
would negotiate a ransom payment
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Ongoing support is crucial for Somalia
Somalia news: 13 December 2011 The arrival of the prolonged
seasonal rains, coupled with a scaling up of humanitarian and early
recovery operations in recent months, has improved the situation on
the ground in southern Somalia, with three regions –Bay, Bakool and
Lower Shabelle - being downgraded from famine status to that of
humanitarian emergency
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Somalia air strike hits empty Red Crescent feeding
BREAKING NEWS: 10 December 2011 A warplane bombed the
rebel-held southern Somali town of Baardheere Saturday, hitting a
feeding center run by the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) that
was empty at the time, local residents said
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Minn. Banks to End Routing of Money to Somalia
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 10 December 2011 Money
transfers by Somalis living in Minnesota to their Somali families in
Somalia will end by December 15, 2011. Fearing that a portion of the
money transfers might be used to fund terror organizations like Al-
Shabaab, Minnesota banks will discontinue its service with money
transfer businesses called hawalas
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Eurozone banking system on the edge of
collapse
Somalia news: 10 December 2011 "If anyone
thinks things are getting better then they
simply don't understand how severe the
problems are. I think a major bank could fail
within weeks," said one London-based
executive at a major global bank
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U.S. Somalis get reprieve on money transfers
Somalia news: 10 December 2011 St. Paul-based Sunrise Community
Banks works with money-transfer businesses known as hawalas to
handle millions of dollars in remittances. But bank officials said they
worried that they might violate government rules intended to clamp
down on terror financing.
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New clashes in capital Mogadishu
BREAKING NEWS: 8 December 2011 The Somali capital,
Mogadishu, has been hit by some of the fiercest fighting in the city in
months, in a major setback for the TFG.The clashes began shortly
after dawn between Islamist al-Shabab militants and TFG, backed by
African Union (AU) troops
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Somali issues top discussions between
Ban and Kibaki
Ban Ki-moon today discussed the situation in
Somalia and Sudan with Kenyan President Mwai
Kibaki, with the United Nations chief taking note
of progress since the adoption by Somalia’s
leadership of a political roadmap on the
restoration of peace and stability in the Horn of
Africa country.
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Iran Shows Video It Says Is of U.S. Drone
ISomalia news: 8 December 2011 ran paraded
what its military described as a captured C.I.A.
stealth drone on national television on Thursday
and lodged an official diplomatic protest,
portraying the visual images as an intelligence and
propaganda windfall in its conflict with the West
over its nuclear program
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16 Days: A Dangerous Climate for Women
Somalia news: 8 December 2011 This week, events are taking place
across the globe to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender
Violence, a campaign to end violence against women, which,
according to the UN, 70 percent of women will experience in their
lifetime
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Bin Laden not at Qaeda helm before raid: US
source
Somalia news: 8 December 2011 "The writings we
recovered are mostly general position papers, along
the lines of 'We must continue to attack the US' or
'Can the Somali Shebab be trusted?" the source told
AFP.
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Money transfer shutdown has Rochester Somalis worried
Somalia news: 7 December 2011 The imminent shutdown of the
money-transfer system that links Somalis in Minnesota to their native
country "is the only thing we are discussing nowadays," said
26-year-old Abdihakim Arab of Rochester
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Mogadishu car bomb kills 3
BREAKING NEWS: Somalia news: 6 December 2011 A suicide
bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of
deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and
Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south
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Aid Organizations Struggle to Meet Demands
Somalia news: 6 December Private aid organizations are struggling to
maintain their funding levels for relief efforts in the wake of multiple
crises around the world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro
reports on the trend as part of the Under-Told Stories projec
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Kenya: Hospitals crippled as doctors go on strike
Somalia news: 6 December 2011 he boycott was called by the Kenya
Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union (KMPPDU)
after negotiations for better pay with the government collapsed.
Most affected were provincial and district hospitals, but the Health
ministries ruled out a quick-fix to the crisis
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