Saturday, January 28, 2012
Britain may try and jail Somali pirates
By Aaron Maasho -ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Britain may put on trial and jail Somali pirates in the United Kingdom if its citizens are attacked at sea, but the government's priority is to help Somalia boost its inadequate prison capacity, a British minister said on Saturday.
Bahrain inks $1.5m Somalia institute deal
Bahrain Royal Charity Organisation has signed a deal to build a $1.5 million teachers institute in Somalia, in co-operation with Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRWW).Somalia journalist shot dead in capital
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A producer at a Somali radio station says gunmen shot dead the station's director in the chaotic capital, Mogadishu.
Mu'awiye Ahmed Mudey, a producer at Shabelle radio, said unidentified gunmen killed Hassan Osman Abdi on Saturday. He was on his way home. The 29-year-old father of three had worked at the station for three years.
Attacks on journalists are common in war-ravaged Somalia. Two journalists were killed last year, and there have been numerous attacks in the northern semiautonomous region of Puntland.
Ethiopia says won't leave Somalia until AU forces arrive
ADDIS ABABA Jan 27 (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops will stay in Somalia until African Union forces replace them to avoid creating a power vacuum that could see a resurgence of Islamist militants in the lawless Horn of Africa country, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Friday.
SOMALIA: Yemeni and Saudi forces kill 11 Somali immigrants
HARGEISA — At least eleven illegal immigrants from Somalia have been killed this week as they crossed into Saudi Arabia from Yemen according to the Somali embassy in Sana’a.
Hussein Haji Ahmed, Somalia’s Deputy Ambassador to Yemen, said the bodies of eleven Somali immigrants were recovered near Yemen’s border with the oil rich kingdom
Dakar-Djibouti trans-African highway to traverse 10 African countries
PANA- The 8,715 km trans-African highway linking Dakar (Senegal) to Djibouti (Djibouti) will traverse 10 West, Central and East African countries, according to a document made available to PANA on Wednesday in Addis Ababa.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Cooperation between Finland and Somalia dates back to 1980s
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| The Somalia seminar was held at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on 25 January 2012. |
Canadian Oil Firm Drills First Oil Exploration Wells in Somalia in More than 20 Years
(OilPrice.com ) - Dear Mohammed , Greetings from London... Another interesting week in the oil markets and an even more interesting week at Oilprice.com. For those of you who haven't visited in the last few days please do stop in and take a look at our new site. We have new sections, detailed commodity price charts, company news and access to all our old newsletters and a nice new layout which should make finding news and analysis much easier than on our old version.
Somalia pirates threaten to kill hostage in wake of Navy SEAL rescue
( By JILL REILLY -Mail Online )-Somali pirates have threatened to kill an American hostage after a daring night-time U.S Navy SEAL mission to rescue two foreign aid workers.
The pirates have moved the hostage at least three times in 24 hours in reaction to the rescue of the U.S. woman and Danish man.
Ethiopia slaps prison terms on three journalists
By Aaron Maasho -ADDIS ABABA | (Reuters) - Ethiopia sentenced two Ethiopian journalists to 14 years in jail and an exiled blogger to life imprisonment on Thursday on charges of conspiring with rebel groups against the government, the second case in a month targeting the media.
Asylum-seekers soar at school in shadow of Heathrow Airport
The names of illustrious independent and state grammar schools may always appear near the top of exam league tables, but it is schools such as Uxbridge High in west London that are really top of the class.
Obama thought of daughters in Somalia raid planning
(AFP) LAS VEGAS, Nevada — President Barack Obama said Thursday his role as a dad of two daughters offered him an inkling of the agony endured by the father of a US aid worker freed in a daring US commando raid in Somalia.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Last will of the man who carried bombing against Ethiopian troops
The following Translated audio was released by Somalimemo website; a news website sympathetic to the insurgent group.
“And do not say about those who are killed fighting in the Path of Allaah that they are dead. Rather, they are alive!” [Quran 2:154].
Letter from Hargeisa - a city where the pillars of peace stand strong
By Nuria Abdullahi Abdi - 25 January 2012 - It can be no surprise to anyone that building lasting peace in the Somali Region can be delicate at the best of times. The issues are fluid, the environment can be a challenge and the dynamics change so fast it can sometimes seem that the conditions in which we all work are like shifting sands. So finding the right people who can put stakes firmly in our sand and lay the crucial foundations from which peace can be consolidated can be tricky.
Rape Stalks Helpless Somalis
MOGADISHU – (http://www.onislam.net )Driven from their homes by a killer combination of conflict, drought and hunger, rape is adding to the endless suffering of Somali refugees.
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