Somalia: 200 government-deserted soldiers unite with Islamists
17,dec,06 Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 17, Dec.06
( Sh.M.Network)
–Nearly
200 fresh government militias armed with automatic weapons have deserted
from their barracks in Baidoa, the current temporary seat for the
transitional government of Somalia.
Ethiopian PM,
Sudanese defence minister discuss Somalia
Saturday 16 December 2006 06:10. Printer-Friendly version Dec 15, 2006
(ADDIS ABABA) —
The Sudanese president on Friday 8 December rejected the deployment of
foreign troops in Somalia. He further considered plots against the Union
of Islamic Courts (UIC) as part of the attack against Islam and Islamic
countries in the region.
Somalia: The Islamic Courts are now able to announce a
government--Islamist Aweys
Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 14, Dec.06
( Sh.M.Network)
The Islamist
delegation led by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, Islamic Courts chairman and
Ibrahim Adow, foreign affairs chairman of Islamic Courts explained their
meeting with Yemeni authorities in the capital Sana..14,dec,06
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 14,
Dec.06 ( Sh.M.Network)
– At an
African states summit in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Thursday, the
chairperson of AU Commission Alpha Omar Konare has incited heads of
African governments to dare sending peacekeeping troops to Somalia to
find military balance between the government and Union of Islamic
Courts.
By VOA News 13 December 2006
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has dismissed an ultimatum from
Somalia's Islamist movement to pull his troops off Somali soil.
The President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, is calling for a special meeting of IGAD
Foreign Ministers on the Somali issue in view of the fact that the recent
UN Security Council resolution on deploying peacekeeping force in Somalia
is both distorted and one that would further aggravate the situation
HASSAN YAREIN BUUR
HAKABA, SOMALIA
Thu 14 Dec 2006
Somalia’s
Islamist fighters grab a fresh settlement.
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 13, Dec.06 ( Sh.M.Network) Forces loyal to Islamic Courts headquartered in the Somali
capital Mogadishu have grabbed Ufurow settlement that was one of the few
settlements under the weak government’s control
Islam
Is the Future Religion in Africa
Tuesday 12 December 2006 Sudan Vision
...SUNA interviewed Dr. Yousif from Eritrea ,who introduced a work paper
on " the history of the Islamic Kingdoms in Eritrea" The paper informed
about the history of Al-gaberta tribe in particular , who establish a
strong Islamic state. She added that we represent a majority in the
society, as we reached to about 75% of the population ,but they need
support in fields of health and education services. Dr Badrea call Moslems
to cooperate to support the weak societies in rehabilitating and reach the
modern advanced world.
Somalia:
Ethiopia to react harshly if attacked
Aweys Osman Yusuf,
Mogadishu 13, Dec.06
( Sh.M.Network) Ethiopian
information minister Zemhon Tikelli accused union of Islamic Courts trying
to create agitations in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in general,
rebuffing Islamic Courts claim that around 30, 000 Ethiopian troops were
in the country
Tue Dec 12, 8:22 PM ETBAIDOA, Somalia - Thousands of Islamic militants have
surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government
controls, the prime minister said Tuesday as a top Islamic official
promised to attack within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia
leave.
Iran
welcomes Eritrean proposal to establish diplomatic ties Islamic Republic News Agency
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 7:46 AM PST
Iran - Eritrea - Mottaki Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on
Tuesday that Iran welcomed the Eritrean proposal to set up diplomatic
relations between the two countries.
Islamists
count for Ethiopia seven days to leave Somalia
Tue. December 12, 2006 09:09 am
(SomaliNet) The powerful Islamic Courts Union, controlling much of
southern and central Somalia, has on Tuesday given Ethiopian government
seven days to pull its troops out of Somalia and warned Kenya not to allow
Ethiopia to use its land as base for the war on Islamists.
Eritrea
to protect entire coast
in world first AFP via Yahoo! News
Tue, 12 Dec 2006
2:09 AM PST
Eritrea aims to become the first country in the world to turn its entire
coast into an environmentally protected zone to ensure balanced and
sustainable development, officials have said.
Annan
says farewell with a swipe at Bush
Times Online, UK - 5
hours ago Kofi Annan used a farewell speech yesterday as
United Nations Secretary-General to accuse the United States of abandoning
its own ideals in the War on Terror. ...
Uganda wary of sending troops to Somalia - minister
Reuters AlertNet, UK -
14 hours ago
KAMPALA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Uganda will not send a
peacekeeping force to Somalia unless security improves and the risk of war
in the Horn of Africa country ...
Excerpt from outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan's last BBC
interview, with Lyse Doucet. ... UN secretary general Kofi
Annan gave his last BBC interview to Lyse ...
Number of forces
desert from the Somali government
Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu 10, Dec.06 ( Sh.M.Network) –At least 70
government forces, who hail from Gedo province in southern Somalia,
defected from the government military camp dubbed Manas on the edge of
Baidoa, a temporary seat for the transitional government.
Potential confirmed at Eritrean zinc-gold-copper
prospect
Mining
Weekly - Gardenview,Eastern Cape,South Africa ... Resources announced on Monday that
its joint -venture partner, Sunridge Gold had
confirmed the potential of the Emba Derho
prospect, in Eritrea, which forms ...
General Sibhat Efrem inaugurates New Referral
Hospital in the Southern Red Sea
By Shabait.com
Dec 10, 2006, 17:28
Assab, 10 December 2006 - The
Minister of Defense General Sebhat Efrem
officially inaugurated and opened the new Dehtom
Referral Hospital of the Southern Red Sea region
that was built at an expense of 175 million
Nakfa.
Members
of 19th
round National Service
Program graduate
By Shabait.com
Dec 9, 2006, 17:15Kiloma, 9 December
2006 – As part of the Southern Red Sea region Week,
members of the 19th round National Service Program
graduated in Kiloma and took oath.
(AGI)
- Rome, Dec. 5 - Italian prime minister Romano Prodi
met yesterday with the
President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, who is in
Italy on a private visit. Bilateral relations were
at the centre of the conversation between the two
leaders. "The prime minister expressed his concern
about the political situation currently underway in
Eritrea which has prompted the government in Asmara
to adopt increasingly rigid stances which may prove
damaging for Italy's legitimate interests" an
official statement reads.
WHAT: Physicians for Peace is announcing a
partnership with The George Washington University
Medical Center and the Eritrean Ministry of Health
to jointly establish a pediatric and surgical
residency training program at the Orotta School of
Medicine in Asmara, Eritrea, Africa, starting in
July, 2007.
Mai-Dema, 25 November 2006 – A potable
water supply project built at a cost of 1.6 million
Nakfa in Mai-Dima town, Areza sub-zone, has been
finalized. The project was undertaken in collaboration
with the local inhabitants, the regional administration
and its partners.
The United States has proposed a UN Security
Council resolution calling for a regional peacekeeping force to
bring stability to Somalia, but some experts say such a resolution
might achieve precisely the opposite.
During the second half of November and into December, the conflict
in Somalia between the Islamic Courts Council (I.C.C.), which seeks
to establish an Islamic state in the country based on the
implementation of Shari'a law, and Ethiopia, which is determined to
prevent that outcome and backs the powerless clan-based Transitional
Federal Government (T.F.G.) militarily and diplomatically, continued
to teeter on the brink of war, with the two major actors gazing into
the abyss and regional states and organizations, international
organizations, and Western powers attempting to head off the
outbreak of full-scale armed confrontation through diplomatic
initiatives.
Opinion
Somalia: Defend the Motherland!
26 Nov 26, 2006, 00:35
By Mohamoud A Gaildon
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister has just delivered to the parliament of
his country worrisome words pregnant with peril for Somalia.
Ostensibly, the Union of Islamic Courts, not Somalia, is the source
of a “clear and present danger.” But to deal with this “clear and
present danger,” Ethiopia will have to invade and occupy Somalia.
The words of the Ethiopian Prime Minister are, therefore, nothing
but a declaration of war on Somalia.
Historic
and religious factors, and US backing, shaping Ethiopia's aggression
in Somalia
by Mahmoud Ahmed Shaikh (Friday November 24 2006)
"There is no doubt whatsoever that the Ethiopian
regime is corrupt and oppressive. But despite this the US
government, which claims to be working for the entrenchment of
democratic rule in the African continent, is a strong ally of Addis
Ababa and of Zenawi."