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June 18, 2013
Somalia. Chaotic And Dangerous Is The New Normal
(WMC) A growing number of Somalis are returning, often from sanctuary they found in Western countries. About 4,000 a month are returning from refugee camps in Kenya, but those from Western nations bring cash (sometimes a lot) and new skills. In Mogadishu there is economic opportunity and that is expected to eventually extend to the [...]
Somalia: Remarks At a Security Council Briefing On Somalia
Press Release: US State Department U.S. Mission to the United Nations: Remarks At a Security Council Briefing On Somalia AS DELIVERED Thank you, Mr. President, Minister Simmonds, for hosting this session and thank you, Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, for your briefing. I wish to welcome the presence of the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign [...]
Somalia: Strengthen Human Rights Law
(Nairobi) – The Somali parliament should revise the draft law establishing a national human rights commission to ensure a robust, independent body with a broad mandate and enforcement powers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Parliament should hold public hearings on the draft law and consult widely with civil society during the [...]
Somalia: Worries Grow As Child Labour Violations Increase in Somaliland
Hargeisa — Every day, dozens of children aged 7 to 14 shine shoes and wash cars in the front parking lot of the Adani Cafeteria in Hargeisa’s June 26th district. “I come very early in the morning from my home in Dami neighbourhood to support my family by working as a shoe-shiner,” 9-year-old Ahmed Hassan [...]
Liberia, Japan Sign U.S.$50 Million for Somalia Drive
(WMC) The Governments of Liberia and Japan Monday signed a US$50 million agreement for the reconstruction and expansion of the Somalia Drive. The Monday June 10 signing ceremony followed a Detailed Design Agreement that was signed in March of this year between both governments, as Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan signed on behalf of the [...]
The future of Al-Shabab and Al-Qaeda in Somalia
(WMC) Somali people were Sunni Muslims who were devoid of any kind of extremism originally, but from 1980s radicalization reared its head in Somalia. After the ouster of the former Regime in 90s the country slipped into anarchy and lawlessness that paved the way for the coming of foreign jihadists in Somalia. Background The initiators [...]
Interview with Minister of Defense Somali Abdihakim Fiqi, on a mission in Kismayo….
In late September 2012, the Kenyan troops have liberated Kismayo occupation of Islamic extremists of Al Shabab. Kismayo is to Somalia as Naples is Italy. And ‘the third largest city in the country and an important center for the whole economy of the south of the country. Al Shabab has fueled liquidity with their duties [...]
Somalia seeks return to global fold
YOKOHAMA – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has told Japan’s and Africa’s leaders that his country faces four challenges as it struggles to become a constructive member of the global community again after decades of civil war and anarchy. Meeting on the eve of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, African rulers on [...]
Spy drone crashes in Puntland region of Somalia
A surveillance drone has crashed in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, according to Puntland Ports and Anti-piracy Minister Saeed Mohamed Rage. The drone crashed on Saturday in Qaw, a village located 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of the port city of Bossasso, the minister of the Puntland State of Somalia said. The US military [...]
In Somalia, some parents reject polio vaccine over rumors spread by Islamic extremists
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a campaign in Somalia to administer a polio vaccine, charging that it contains the virus that causes AIDS or could make children sterile, a battle of words that is frustrating health workers. Al-Shabab, the rebels linked to al-Qaida, have discouraged many parents from getting their children inoculated [...]
