Council Majority Leader, Mayor Bickering Just Weeks After Election In New Britain Nov 14, 2009
- November 13, 2009 - Once a week at the Hartford Public Library, women from war-torn Burma, Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq meet to sew slippers and handbags, lace. . (FOX61, CT)
Nigeria: Hints of a new chapter Nov 13, 2009
An American intelligence report from 2005 speculated that Nigeria might be on its way to becoming a failed state, a bigger version of Congo or Somalia. Such forecasts are all the more worrying because, merely by virtue of its size and its natural resources, Nigeria is Africa s giant. (The Economist)
Pacifying Afghanistan: a dangerous dream Nov 13, 2009
The precedent is there: Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia. Obama should consider having a private chat with Matthew Hoh, a former combat Marine Corps officer in Iraq who later served the State Department in Afghanistan. (Christian Science Monitor)
Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ... Nov 11, 2009
We should never forget the fate that befell the American soldiers in Somalia. We should also not forget the fact that the Americans at the time of the Vietnam war possessed the most sophisticated weapons ever to be developed in the history of warfare in its armoury, she could not defeat the Viet Congs. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Writing through the rubble Nov 10, 2009
In the 1980s and 1990s, this led to "triumphs" over such powers as the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and Panama, a country whose "defense forces," in total, numbered just 12,000 (about half the size of the U.S. ground troops in the invading force) -- and cut-and-run flops in Lebanon and Somalia ... More recently, the American experience has included outright defeat in Vietnam, failures in Laos and Cambodia; debacles in Lebanon and Somalia; a never-ending four-president-long war in Iraq; and... (Salon)
Congo-Kinshasa: New Multinational Partnership Launches Peace Efforts [interview] Nov 6, 2009
In fact, one of the things that I think will become increasingly clear in the months ahead is that the Obama administration and Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton are determined to address three areas of conflict that have been terribly neglected because of the preoccupation with Sudan and Somalia as the dominant issues. Aubrey Graham/IRIN. (allAfrica.com)
Afghan corruption deeply ingrained Nov 4, 2009
Only Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar and Somalia were worse. Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, November 04, 2009. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Somali pirates: Western boats 'loot' Somali fish Nov 1, 2009
Somali pirates who are demanding $7 million in ransom for a British sailing couple say boats from other countries are plundering Somalia's fish-rich waters, a pirate spokesman said Saturday. Ahmed Gadaf, who says he's a spokesman for the pirates, said the group holding the couple hostage off Somalia's coast was made up of "voluntary guards" - not pirates ... A Somali pirate claiming to speak on behalf of a group holding a British couple says they will move the couple to another hijacked ship... (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good? Nov 1, 2009
If Afghanistan and Somalia became breeding grounds for terrorism after we ended our involvement, how much more virulent an enemy will be bred in a nation as vast, populous and accessible as Iraq. And what of the Iraqis themselves. (Salon)
Matt Frei's diary Oct 30, 2009
US troops were despatched to Somalia but soon hurried to the exit when it got too hairy. Former President Bill Clinton agonised for one month in the spring of 1994 over Rwanda while almost a million people were systematically butchered. (BBC News -- Americas)
LETTER: Stop waging war and provide health care Oct 27, 2009
Criminals will just get bigger guns than you have and before you know it the US will look like Palestine or Somalia or Afghanistan, with men with automatic weapons and rocket launchers walking down our streets. " The Question wrote on Oct 25, 2009 4:41 PM:" On Wikipedia, you will find attempts to distort the U.S. budget picture of how your income taxes are spent by including trust funds (Social Security, which is funded by payroll taxes) and by counting the expenses created by past military... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
US bans senior Kenyan official Oct 27, 2009
But the country is a vital ally in the region which the US relies on to help to dowse the flames of Islamist militancy in neighbouring Somalia, our correspondent says. Sealed envelope. (BBC News -- Africa)
Truth must stand in Afghanistan Oct 27, 2009
On the other hand, if we eventually succeed, they will only regroup in places like Somalia or Yemen. It's a lose-lose proposition. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
East Africa: Integrate Refugees Into the Host State, Leaders Told Oct 26, 2009
This is because of civil war in Burundi prior to the peace talks, strife in Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the post election violence in Kenya. The latest report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says people fleeing their home countries cite poor human rights record, discrimination on account of ethnicity, persecution for political beliefs, lack of sound democratic ideals, poor governance and intolerance to dissent. (allAfrica.com)
Somalia: Somaliland Parliament Approves New Election Commission Oct 26, 2009
com: Somalia: Somaliland Parliament Approves New Election Commission (Page 1 of 1) ... Hargeisa Lawmakers in Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland have approved a new election commission in order to move forward the election process, Radio Garowe reports ... Located in northwest Somalia, Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from the rest of the country in 1991 but has not been recognized internationally. (allAfrica.com)
Labor's policies are not encouraging boat people Oct 23, 2009
And in Yemen, 50,000 people arrived by boat from Somalia. To combat people smuggling to Australia, the Rudd Government has implemented a $654-million strategy to strengthen Australia's borders, which includes increased maritime and aerial patrols and surveillance, and a boost to the AFP's resources to investigate people smuggling syndicates. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
this feature for the Huffington Post. Oct 23, 2009
Target of Political Prosecution By Bush-Era Justice Department Fights Back. What's Your Reaction. (Harper's Magazine)
Somalia: Somalia - Puntland Sentences 10 to Jail Terms Oct 18, 2009
com: Somalia: Somalia - Puntland Sentences 10 to Jail Terms (Page 1 of 1) ... Somalia - Puntland Sentences 10 to Jail Terms ... Bossaso, Somalia A court in Somalia' s Puntland region has sentenced six pirates to various jail terms, as the regional government continues to crack down on piracy, Radio Garowe reports. (allAfrica.com)
Post-Katrina Images Featured in an Exhibit at Hotchkiss Oct 16, 2009
His work has taken him across America, to Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, and he has covered such stories Nelson Mandela's election as president of South Africa, investigated an alleged al Qaeda training camp in central Somalia and traveled to Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban. A year later he was embedded with the Marines when the war in Iraq began. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
The road to stability in Afghanistan runs through Pakistan and India Oct 14, 2009
The US attempts at halfhearted nation-building failed dramatically in Somalia, and a bare-bones approach would condemn Afghanistan to a similar fate. The US would, in essence, be subcontracting Afghanistan to Pakistan. (Christian Science Monitor)
How Hillary became Empress of Ireland Oct 13, 2009
Where Washington has over the past 15 years run into big trouble in Somalia, Bosnia, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, it has met with no resistance in its subordination of the Irish political agenda to Washington s will ... The early months of the Clinton administration were defined by failures and bloody interventions in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, and by a collapse of faith amongst the American public in Clinton s promise of domestic renewal (10). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Obama discusses troop levels for Afghanistan Oct 10, 2009
The vice president proposes significantly increasing the use of unmanned Predator drones and special forces for the kind of surgical anti-terrorist strikes that have been successful in Pakistan and Somalia ... us citizen wrote on Oct 8, 2009 6:39 PM:" this bunch of liberals, better take the recommendation's of the people in charge over there and not worry about doing the politically correct thing or they are going to get a lot of our troops killed! biden wants a few troops and special... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Uganda: New Terror Threat Oct 9, 2009
The alert was followed this week by the dramatic arrest of Somalia's junior minister of Defence in Kampala ... Uganda provides the bulk of troops serving in the African Union Mission to Somalia and for some time now Islamists have targeted these soldiers who are perceived as enemies of Islam ... This followed intelligence reports at the time that some extremists opposed to Uganda's peacekeeping mission in Somalia planned terror attacks in the country. (allAfrica.com)
Crisis point Oct 9, 2009
Somaliland has been hailed as a beacon of stability in the troubled Horn of Africa region since declaring independence from Somalia in 1991 ... In his report for the Chatham House think-tank, he says that if the situation is not resolved, the territory will inevitably lose many of the gains it has made since breaking away from Somalia ... "With international attention focused on piracy off the Puntland coast, the rise of militant Islam in southern Somalia, and the threat this is perceived to... (BBC News -- Africa)
Somalia: Somaliland Rivals Meet to Push Forward Election Deal Oct 7, 2009
com: Somalia: Somaliland Rivals Meet to Push Forward Election Deal (Page 1 of 1) ... Hargeisa Political leaders in Somalia's separatist republic of Somaliland have met for the first time since last week's election deal, Radio Garowe reports ... Somaliland, located in northwest Somalia, unilaterally declared independence from the rest of the Horn of Africa country in 1991 but has not been recognized internationally. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya clans 'rearm for 2012 poll' Oct 7, 2009
He blamed the country's porous borders and its proximity to unstable states like Somalia for the influx of guns. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Africa)
Uganda releases Somali minister Oct 7, 2009
Somalia's junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda's army spokesman says ... Mr Siad was apparently visiting his family who have relocated from Somalia to Uganda ... He was previously a member of Hizbul-Islam - an Islamist group that has been fighting the Somali government, which is itself supported by Ugandan peacekeeping troops attached to the African Union force in Somalia. (BBC News -- Africa)
East Africa: Museveni Wants Joint Force Oct 6, 2009
Referring to the situation in Somalia, he said terrorism and piracy made the issue of defence in East Africa critical. "What do we do with Somalia? Who are the forces in Somalia and what do they want? They are there, killing people." ... He explained that Uganda had deployed its troops in Somalia because of a possible spill-over of the insecurity to the rest of the region. (allAfrica.com)
Hard decisions ahead on Afghanistan Oct 5, 2009
Our strategic assumption is that they will return if the Taliban win this war, and thus pose an even greater threat to the United States than they do from their current locations in the Pakistan border areas, Somalia, a Hong Kong hotel room, Hamburg and Detroit. We assume that the primitive but very adaptive Taliban will welcome back with open arms the very trouble-makers who led to their overthrow and exile and eight more years of war. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Somaliland Elections - Fifth Time Lucky? Oct 5, 2009
com: Somalia: Somaliland Elections - Fifth Time Lucky ... After the end of colonialism in Africa, Somaliland was independent for a short period in the 1960s, between the end of British rule and the establishment of a union with the former Italian colony of Somalia ... According to Iqbal Jhazbhay, an associate professor at the University of South Africa and author of Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition, "while the momentum for Somaliland's recognition is... (allAfrica.com)
Suicide Bomber Kills 2 in U.S. Convoy Oct 3, 2009
Islam does not want to bomb Hiroshima or Nagasaki nor do they start unlawful wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. in order to kill, injure, ruin the lives of, and displace millions of people. (CBS News)
Commentary: Now's the time for Obama to just say 'no' Oct 3, 2009
Latest Political Stories. Latest World Stories. (Fresno Bee)
Ghana is sixth best governed country in Africa Oct 3, 2009
At the bottom of the list are Chad, Sudan and Somalia. When the report was first published in 2007, Ghana stood at the 8th position, making the current position an improvement from the first. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
* World News Quick Take Oct 2, 2009
SOMALIA Fighting breaks out. Heavy fighting broke out yesterday between rival Islamist factions in the port of Kismayo, shattering a key alliance in the insurgency against the Western-backed government. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Somalia: President Calls for More Aid in U.S. Visit Oct 2, 2009
com: Somalia: President Calls for More Aid in U.S. Visit (Page 1 of 1) ... Washington Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the leader of Somalia's beleaguered Transitional Federal Government (TFG), appealed here this week for increased U.S. and international security and humanitarian assistance for his efforts to defeat hard-line Islamist rebels and reconstruct his war-torn nation ... It was hoped that Sharif's election and his government's adoption of Sharia law, combined with the withdrawal late last... (allAfrica.com)
Somali Islamists clash over port Oct 2, 2009
If the two groups fall out nationally, Somalia's woes could worsen. Two Islamist groups who were previously working together in Somalia have become embroiled in a fierce fight for control of the southern port of Kismayo ... SOMALIA - FAILED STATE ISLAMISTS ON THE RISE. (BBC News -- Africa)
On Afghan War, Obama Could Turn to GOP Oct 2, 2009
a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, citing U.S. operations in Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere. The emerging Democratic position could compel Obama, whose domestic agenda is facing stiff Republican criticism in Congress, to rely on those same opposition lawmakers for support if he decides to send more combat troops to Afghanistan. (CBS News -- US)
Obama: Don't give up on Afghanistan Oct 1, 2009
The US and allies have been successful in recent weeks in taking out senior Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, Somalia, and Indonesia. In the late 1980s, as many as 150,000 Afghans fought against the Soviets. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Without Bush, media lose interest in war caskets... Sep 30, 2009
Where is the coverage of a recent Victory Against Al Qaeda in Somalia By U.S.Special Forces. Bill. (The Drudge Report)
A new cold war in Kashmir Sep 30, 2009
Inevitably, someone in the room will say: "Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia ... is that what you would prefer?". Whether democracy should be the utopia that all "developing" societies aspire to is a separate question altogether. (Asia Times Online)
UN Chief's 11th Hour Climate Jihad Sep 30, 2009
Highlighting the UN s more recent policy failures over Burma, the war in Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and the Congo, the memo zeros in on Ban s lack of engagement and interest in studying well enough the problems. he is supposed to handle. (Human Events Online)
Confusion Over Kashmir Sep 30, 2009
Inevitably, someone in the room will say: 00004000 "Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia... is that what you would prefer?" ... (And Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, the Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan it's a long list. (CBS News)
Somalia: Somaliland Parliament Refuses Term Extension for President Sep 26, 2009
com: Somalia: Somaliland Parliament Refuses Term Extension for President (Page 1 of 1) ... Hargeisa The upper house of parliament in Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland has refused to endorse another term extension for President Dahir Riyale, Radio Garowe reports ... Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991 but has not been recognized internationally. (allAfrica.com)
HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy... Sep 25, 2009
This means Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, etc. 4. (The Drudge Report)
Fighting kills at least 12 in Somali capital Sep 24, 2009
MOGADISHU, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed at least 12 people and wounded 17 others after Islamist insurgents attacked government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers, witnesses said on Wednesday ... The al Shabaab rebel group, which Washington says is al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, said last week's attack on the AU mission AMISOM was in revenge for the U.S. killing of a senior al Qaeda suspect days earlier in rebel-held southern Somalia ... "Our brothers... (AlertNet)
Stay and fight or cut and run? Sep 24, 2009
Rupert Cornwell: Has America reached the turning point in Afghanistan. - Rupert Cornwell, Commentators - The Independent. (The Drudge Report)
Kenya criticises US Somali raid Sep 23, 2009
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula has criticised last week's raid by US forces in Somalia in which a suspected al-Qaeda member was reportedly killed ... US Special Forces flew into Somalia by helicopter, killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and carried away his body, officials said ... It is believed he fled to Somalia after the 2002 attacks and was working with the al-Shabab group, which the Americans see as al-Qaeda's proxy in Somalia. (BBC News -- Africa)
Nepal beset by chaos and conjecture Sep 23, 2009
The group found that conditions in Nepal are not as bad as Somalia, Afghanistan and Uganda, but more disturbing than in Lebanon, Burkina Faso and Colombia. But Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal does not like to present himself as the leader of a trouble-torn. (Asia Times Online)
Leading the way Sep 23, 2009
International donors give lip service to environmental rehabilitation and protection because who will notice what happens in Somalia and whose interest does it serve among the rich ... Fatima Jibrell, Bosaso, Somalia. (BBC News -- Americas)
The Imaginary Pirate of Globalization, Antoine Garapon, Eurozine Sep 23, 2009
So it is in no way surprising that, in our own rapidly changing world, we should witness the reappearance both of true pirates, such as those that infest the waters off the coast of Somalia, and of "anti-pirates" in the form of illegal immigrants who roam the seas in improvised craft, like the boat-people of the past. Utterly destitute, totally inoffensive, the latter claim to exercise not so much the basic right to depart as the right, just as basic in their view, to be received a right we deny... (Harper's Magazine)
Q&A: Camp migrants' rights Sep 23, 2009
Top 10 nationalities applying for asylum in the UK Afghanistan: 3,505 Zimbabwe: 3,165 Iran: 2,270 Eritrea: 2,255 Iraq: 1,850 Sri Lanka: 1,475 China: 1,400 Somalia: 1,345 Pakistan: 1,230 Nigeria: 820 Source: 2008 immigration statistics, Home Office. Firstly, there is the historic links of language and culture with other parts of the world. (BBC News -- Europe)
Piracy 'spike' in South China Sea Sep 22, 2009
Most of the incidents involve pirates robbing the crew and stealing stores from ships, unlike in the waters off Somalia where ships and their crews are often held for ransom. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Read the story Sep 21, 2009
1993, The Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia ... "When the going gets tough the tough get going" (we leave so that our allies get massacred after we cut and run, so no one trusts the US anymore, like here at Afghanistan when we cut and run after the USSR Occupation, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq after the Iran Iraq Wars, etc. (CBS News -- Evening News)
SCENARIOS-What could suicide bombings mean for Somalia? Sep 19, 2009
Reuters AlertNet - SCENARIOS-What could suicide bombings mean for Somalia ... SCENARIOS-What could suicide bombings mean for Somalia ... NAIROBI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Twin suicide car bombs that struck the main African Union (AU) military base in Mogadishu and killed 17 peacekeepers have raised serious questions about the credibility of Somalia's feuding government. (AlertNet)
Afghans react to electoral uncertainty Sep 18, 2009
Suicide attack on Somalia base. Japan space freighter docks. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Somalia: Who's Who in Somaliland Politics Sep 18, 2009
com: Somalia: Who's Who in Somaliland Politics (Page 1 of 1) ... Nairobi Since Somaliland unilaterally broke away from the rest of Somalia in 1991, it has prided itself on its relative peace and the development of democratic institutions, but political events in recent months have rocked its stability ... Riyale, who once served as a colonel in Somalia's infamous National Security Service under the late president Mohamed Siad Barre, comes from Borama near the Ethiopian border and belongs the... (allAfrica.com)
Newsweek: Why we don't care about Somalia anymore Sep 18, 2009
Somalia Is Worse Off Than Ever ... John Moore / AP In 1992, starving Somalian children like these galvanized the United States into action ... Why we don't care about Somalia anymore. (MSNBC -- International)
Obama, legislators hear of Afghan progress Sep 17, 2009
He noted that a senior Al Qaeda operative was killed in Somalia earlier this week without a significant US presence there. But Stephen Biddle, a defense specialist at the Council on Foreign Affairs, said that effectiveness of such strikes declines drastically if there is no human intelligence on the ground. (Boston Globe)
Obama: No Quick Decision on Afghan War Sep 17, 2009
Then when we all have healthcare, jobs, and money in our pockets, we can go and attack F^&* Somalia, Afghanistan and all the other worthless piece of crap countries that we should not be worried about. Priorities: Save America first then go bomb the worthless F%^&'rs. (CBS News)
* Keating cautiously optimistic on US-China relations Sep 17, 2009
Keating, who steps down next month, pointed to Chinas resumption of military exchanges with the US and its landmark anti-piracy naval mission off Somalia, where it cooperated informally with US forces. All of which leads me to be cautiously optimistic about the way ahead with China and even more optimistic than that about the region in its entirety, Keating said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
US curbs 'behind WFP Somali cuts' Sep 17, 2009
The US embargo is stopping American aid funds from reaching the vast areas of southern and central Somalia, where the UN estimates half the population is now in need of food aid ... "We take all precautions to ensure that our food only goes to the most needy and is not handled by any particular political groups in Somalia or elsewhere and in particular al-Shabab in Somalia," she said ... "We hope to work through these difficulties and challenges. "Right now in Somalia, WFP has by far the biggest... (BBC News -- Africa)
Somalia: Keeping a Lid on Somaliland Sep 16, 2009
com: Somalia: Keeping a Lid on Somaliland (Page 1 of 1) ... Most Active Stories: Somalia. (allAfrica.com)
Sudan: Be Tough On Al-Bashir, Activists Tell Obama Sep 15, 2009
Washington has warned repeatedly that it will move to punish Eritrea unless it ends its reported support for Islamist fighters in Somalia. . (allAfrica.com)
Norway's leftist government ahead in vote Sep 15, 2009
In recent years the biggest groups of asylum seekers have come from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea. There was virtually no talk about joining the European Union, which Norwegian voters have rejected twice, and whose members on average have been more severely hit by the recession. (MSNBC -- International)
Brown 'to talk of spending cuts' Sep 15, 2009
Page last updated at 06:59 GMT, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 07:59 UK. Brown 'to talk of spending cuts. (BBC News -- UK)
