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By Peter Clottey Washington, D.C 01 April 2009 Tensions in the Southern region of Somalia are escalating after former Baidoa administration officials continue attacks on hard-line Islamic insurgents al-Shabab in a bid to retake control of the city. The former Baidoa security force claims it has been significantly strengthened after another opposition, al-Sunnah Waljamaca, joined its ranks to wrest power from al-Shabab. Al-Shabab, which Washington describes as a terrorist organization with ...

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-03 15:30:39 Print BEIJING, April 3 (Xinhua) -- The second fleet of Chinese escort ships set sail for the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters Thursday to replace a flotilla sent there earlier for escorting missions through pirate infested waters. The Liberation Army Daily published an exclusive interview with the commander of ...

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Published: March 31, 2009 Confirming the fears of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Health Department agreed Tuesday that young Somali children there appeared to have higher than usual rates of autism. Though health officials emphasized that their report was based on very limited data, they concluded that young Somali children appeared to be two to seven times as likely as other children to be ...

President Saleh receives Somali counterpart in Doha Doha, March 31 (Saba) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh received on Tuesday at his residence in the Qatari capital Doha Somalia President Shraif Shaikh Ahmed and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, they discussed and exchanged viewpoints on the topics and results of the 21st Arab summit that was concluded last Monday in Doha. The Somali President briefed President Saleh the latest developments in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 30 (UPI) -- Thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya are being abused by a violent and corrupt police force in the world's largest refugee settlement, a rights group said. Human Rights Watch said Monday in a 58-page report that the Kenyan government should immediately crack down on police misconduct and provide more land for refugees. "People escaping violence in Somalia need protection and help, but instead face ...

Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Date: 27 Mar 2009 This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 27 March 2009, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The number of Somalis seeking refuge in the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camps in north-eastern Kenya continues to grow despite the election of ...

The following Q&A is based on a translation of an Arabic article taken from the website of the Ameer of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Sheikh Ata Ibn Khaleel Abu Al-Rishta. The original Arabic article can be viewed here. Background An Ethiopian official has announced that Ethiopia has decided to withdraw their armed forces from Somalia by the end of this year. This statement comes in the wake of substantially increased piracy activities ...

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA Are Somali pirates roaming farther from home to avoid the U.S.-led multinational force? A story by the American Forces Press Service suggests that the pirates are plying their trade in the Indian Ocean now that Task Force 151 is patrolling their more traditional hunting area in the Gulf of Aden. In the last week, pirates seized two chemical tankers in the Indian Ocean: one Bahamian-flagged and ...

By admin on March 25th, 2009 24 views Geneva - Somalia is the scene of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and its citizens have been victims “of most terrible human rights and humanitarian law abuses,” the United Nations expert on the east African country said Wednesday. Shamsul Bari, addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said a third of the 9 million Somalis have become ...

by wsws (reposted) Wednesday Mar 25th, 2009 7:53 AM Wednesday, March 25, 2009 :, having succeeded in uniting Somalia's various Islamic and clan-based militias against it. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi complained that the West had not given Ethiopia enough political and financial support. Washington had backed the stooge Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of warlords, which recently collapsed following the Ethiopian withdrawal. After Ethiopia withdrew, the African Union Mission in ...