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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 
AU chairman says peacekeeping troops should be deployed in Somalia
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.













 

Somalia: Country Will Not Withdraw Personnel From Somalia Unless Asked By TFG

By Dagnachew Teklu
Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Leader Brushes Off Threat by Somalia Islamists

13 December 2006
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has dismissed an ultimatum from Somalia's Islamist movement to pull his troops off Somali soil.









 

 Eritrea calls for special meeting of IGAD over Somalia
13 December 2006, Asmara (shabait.com) –

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

The ScotsmanSomalia on brink of religious war as PM flees country

 
HASSAN YARE IN BUUR HAKABA, SOMALIA
Thu 14 Dec 2006
Text Box: Ethiopia: Military Commits Atrocities against Anuak Civilians -(Cambridge, MA, December 13, 2006) a report issued by the International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program
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Somalia’s Islamists and Ethiopia Gird for a War
Published: December 14, 2006 
..A growing number of Democrats in Congress are urging the Bush administration to change course and deal with the Islamists for what they are: the power on the ground. 
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Regional War May Loom in Africa Strife Between Ethiopia, Islamic Group in Somalia Intensifies By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, December 14, 2006; Page A19
"according to a report due out this week from the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. It describes "a general
 
Somali IslamistsSomalia’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.
EthiopiansSomalia: 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

Somalia PM says government surrounded
By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

 
Tue Dec 12, 8:22 PM ET BAIDOA, 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 ...
Text: Kofi Annan's speech - International Herald Tribune

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Kofi Annan interview: Text
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.

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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
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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
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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.

Home Page(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.
 

Physicians for Peace Announces Eritrean Health Initiative Partnership Formed to Establish Graduate Medical Education in Eritrea

NORFOLK, VA -- (12/04/2006; 0912)(EIS) --

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.
 

Potable water supply project in Mai-Dima finalized
By Shabait.com
Nov 25, 2006, 17:32
 

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.

 Hagaz sub-zone: 2.4 million Nakfa potable water supply project finalized
 By Shabait.com  Awenjeli, 24 November 2006 -
In line with the Government’s relentless efforts to expand social services, a 2.4 million potable water supply project has been finalized in Awenjeli
administrative
 
 
 
 

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Updated: December 5, 2006

Probing the Somali Hornets Nest

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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.

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Iraqization of Somalia Could Widen the Divide between the West and the Islamic World
12/07/06
by Abukar Arman -

Somalia Remains in Political Stasis Despite Mounting Tensions
Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
http://www.pinr.com

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.

"Storm Clouds Over Somalia As Rivals Prepare For Battle"
Matt Bryden, The Nation (Kenya), 8 December 2006, full article: 

Britain Appreciates Progress in Bakassi
Emmanuel KENDEMEH, [08/12/2006]

The British High Commissioner to Cameroon Syd Maddicott held talks with Minister Dion Ngute yesterday.

Ethiopia and Somalia
The rumbling rumors of war
The Economist
December 2, 2006

Instability on the March in Sudan, Chad and Central African Republic
Drafted By: Adam Wolfe
http://www.pinr.com
 


Ethiopia-US: Outsourcing the Somali war
Sunday 26 November 2006 01:00.
 By Haile Kassahun

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."