Africa News
Ban says Sudan may have violated international law (3rd Roundup)
Apr 18, 2007, 21:19 GMT New
York - The Sudanese government may have flown weapons and heavy military
equipment to its troubled Darfur region in defiance of UN resolutions, UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. 'If substantiated, such actions
would be in clear violation of international law and in contravention of the
UN's international status,' Ban said in reaction to a report accusing Sudan of
weapons- running and use of military aircraft disguised as UN and African Union
planes to carry out the shipments.
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BAN'S BLATANT DOUBLE STANDARD |
WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully
pressed the
United Nations to impose strict sanctions on
North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration
officials allowed
Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what
appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American
officials.
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Did the Secretary General even mention the North
Korean arms shipment to Ethiopia? |
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 Somali
leaders call for immediate and unconditional withdrawal of invading Ethiopian
forces
By Shabait, Apr 18, 2007, 16:23
Asmara, 18 April 2007 – Somali leaders who have been holding a
meeting here from April 10 to 17 on the objective situation in their country
have called for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the invading
Ethiopian forces.
In a joint communiquй they issued following their week-long meeting, the
Spokesman of the Somali Parliament, Sherif Hassan Sheik Aden, the Chairman of
the Executive Council of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), Sheik Sheirf Sheik
Ahmed and Eng. Hussein Mohammed Farah Aideed expressed thanks to the Government
of Eritrea and particularly to President Isaias Afwerki for the role he is
playing to promote a solution to the Somali issue by the Somali themselves. They
asserted that the people of Somalia have the capacity and potential to resolve
their issue themselves.
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So, who is the real terrorist and international-laws-violating outlaw?
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89 Ethiopian soldiers arrived in the Arqa area in southern Yemen
Apr 17, 2007, 17:51 GMT
Sana'a - Scores of Ethiopian army troops have arrived off the coast of Yemen
onboard two boats belonging to smugglers after they fled fighting with Islamic
insurgents in Somalia, a press report said on Tuesday.
Some 89 Ethiopian soldiers arrived in the Arqa area in southern Yemen after
crossing the Gulf of Aden from Bosaso city in the semi-autonomous region of
Puntland in northeast Somalia, the al-Ayyam daily newspaper said in a report on
its website. |
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By Ann Talbot
17 January 2007
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By Ann Talbot
16 April 2007
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Bush says prime minister is committed to human rights
Nick
Wadhams, Chronicle Foreign Service
Monday,
April 16, 2007
(04-16) 04:00 PDT Ghimbi, Ethiopia -- First, the police
threw Tesfaye into a dark cell. Then, each day for 17 days, it was the same
routine: Electric shocks on his legs and back, followed by beatings with rubber
truncheons. Four or five officers would then surround and kick him. At last, a
large bottle of water would be tied around his testicles. He'd pass out. |
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 Somalia:
Former prime minister warns of turbulent times
Mon. April 16, 2007 11:49 am.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah
(SomaliNet) The fighting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu is supported by the
local people aiming to oust the Ethiopian soldiers from their city, former prime
minister of transitional national government said in one of the Somali
gatherings in UK.
..He said the international community turned a blind eye to the illegal
occupation by the Ethiopians in Somalia.
He further said that the United Nations Security Council approved on 6 December
2006 that non-frontier countries should be deployed in Somalia. |
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Somalia:
Ethiopian soldiers accused of rape
Aweys Osman Yusuf Mogadishu 15, April.07 ( Sh.M.Network)
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Libya will host Darfur conference that includes U.S.
The Associated Press Published: April 15, 2007
TRIPOLI, Libya:
Libya said Sunday it will host representatives from the U.S. and several
European and African countries in late April to discuss the crisis in Sudan's
Darfur region.Ali al-Teraiki, the African Union
representative in Libya's foreign ministry, said the conference will be held in
Tripoli on April 28th and will include officials from the U.S., the E.U., the
AU, Sudan, Chad and Eritrea. |
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Wolfowitz fights on as World Bank split over scandal
by Jitendra Joshi, 04/15/2007
The ministers said they would await the findings of a review by the World Bank's
executive board into the conduct of Wolfowitz, who directed that his Libyan-born
partner, Shaha Riza, get a pay deal worth nearly 200,000 dollars. The former
deputy US defense secretary echoed that the board should be allowed to complete
its work. |
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Somali courts leader
expressed readiness to work with interim President Abdullahi
Yusuf...."If there is a good reconciliation that is accepted by all Somalis,
then I am one of them and I do not reject reconciliation.."
14 Apr 14, 2007 - 5:32:14 AM
Aweys, who vanished after his forces were routed by
Ethiopian-backed Somali government troops over the New Year, expressed readiness
to work with interim President Abdullahi Yusuf "if he agreed to get the
Ethiopian and African forces he brought to Somalia to leave", the report on
Saturday quoted him as saying. "If there is a good reconciliation that is
accepted by all Somalis, then I am one of them and I do not reject
reconciliation," he said. |
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Meeting
of Eritrean Cabinet of Ministers, Regional Administrators and Operation Zone
Commanders concludes
adopting work programs
By Shabait.com
Apr 14, 2007, 17:08 |
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Islamic Courts offer Somali talks
UPDATED ON: SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007 19:13 MECCA TIME, 16:13 GMT
 A senior
leader of the Union of Islamic Courts has offered to negotiate with Somalia's
interim government if its Ethiopian allies leave the country. |
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