08 Jul 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Government soldier opens fire at civilian bus kills two passengers in Mogadishu
- OIC appeals for urgent relief assistance for Somalia
- Shabelle launches drought relief effort
- Kenya teen arrested over al Shabaab link
- Rebel leader says al Shabaab loosing ground in Somalia
- Somali detainee linked to Qaeda cleric: US
SOMALI MEDIA
Government soldier opens fire at civilian bus, kills two passengers in Mogadishu
07 Jul – Source: Mareeg Online – 169 words
At least two people have been killed and another wounded after government soldier opened fire at civilian bus at a bus station in Hamar Weyne district in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Thursday.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=20311&tirsan=3
Somaliland president travels to Southern Sudan
07 Jul- Source: Radio Hargaysa-24 words
Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo and cabinent ministers officially traveled to southern Sudan to participate in the first indpendence declaration of the Southern Sudan.
Shabelle launches drought relief effort
07 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 157 words
Shabelle Media Network has launched a fundraising drive through its radio and television stations to aid those affected by the drought especially those that have been arriving in Mogadishu over the last few days.
http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=8442
Gunmen kill a man; injure two in Bosasso
07 Jul- Source: Raxanreeb- 142 words
Gunmen on Thursday killed a man and injured two others in Bosasso, the commercial hub of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
http://www.raxanreeb.com/?p=102739
REGIONAL MEDIA
Kenya teen arrested over al Shabaab link
07 Jul- Source: Daily Nation – 249 words
Kenya Police in Holugho town, Garissa county have arrested a class four pupil who was recruited by al Shabaab militia in Somalia last year. Adan Bashir, 17 years, dropped out of Nasib Primary School to join other teenagers being recruited by al Shabaab.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenya+teen+arrested+over+Al+Shabaab+link/-/1056/1196148/- /84hhqu/-/
We have a lot to learn from Rwanda – Somali minister
07 Jul- Source: New Times – 499 words
The Rwandan experience is a source of inspiration in rebuilding and bringing peace back to our conflict-torn country, a Somalian Minister said yesterday. Zahra Samantar, the Somali Minister of Women Affairs and Human Rights, made the remarks during the opening of an AMISOM roundtable on Enhancing Respect of International Humanitarian Law.
http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14679&article=42968
OIC appeals for urgent relief assistance for Somalia
07 Jul- Source: Qatar News Agency- 180 words
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has urged Member States, the international community, civil society, philanthropists and all people of good-will to extend urgent relief assistance to the people Somalia to mitigate the calamitous situation brought about by the unprecedented drought.
http://www.qnaol.net/QNAEn/News_Bulletin/News/Pages/11-07-07-1957_1_0046.aspx
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
East Africa drought: DEC appeals for funds
08 Jul – Source: BBC – 388 words
A group of UK aid agencies has launched a joint fund-raising appeal to help more than 10 million people affected by severe drought in the Horn of Africa. Thousands of families in desperate need of food and water have trekked for days from Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14060545
Rebel leader says al Shabaab loosing ground in Somalia
07 Jul – Source: VOA, – 423 words One of the leaders of the al-Qaida-linked Somali insurgent group al Shabaab has acknowledged the group is losing ground in its fight against the Somali government. As forces of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government continue to make advances throughout the country – often with the help of African Union troops – the country’s main insurgent group, al Shabaab, appears to be weakening.
UN says militants must ensure safe aid to Somalis
07 Jul- Source: AFP, news.yahoo- 192 words
The United Nations is urging the Somali-based militant group al Shabaab to pledge it won’t attack humanitarian aid workers so that millions of famished Somalis can be rescued.
http://news.yahoo.com/un-says-militants-must-ensure-safe-aid-somalis-113844894.html
Somalis seek refuge from drought in Ethiopia
07 Jul- Source: BBC- 321 words
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says more than 110,000 Somalis have arrived at the remote camps at Dolo Ado in south-eastern Ethiopia. The camps are already severely overcrowded, but another 1,600 people are arriving every day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14064276
US court denies cash for suspected Somali pirate
07 Jul- Source: AP- 392 words
A federal judge has denied a request from a Somali man accused of piracy to have $1,600 in cash returned to him for humanitarian needs, saying he failed to prove he was lawfully in possession of the money.
Somali detainee linked to Qaeda cleric: US
07 Jul – Source: AFP – 370 words
A Somali terror suspect captured and detained by the United States has links to Anwar al- Awlaqi, a key leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, a US official said Thursday. Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, who was captured in the Gulf by the US military on April 19 and is now facing terror charges, had contacts with Awlaqi and “was a key interlocutor” between Somalia’s Shabaab Islamist insurgency and Awlaqi’s Al-Qaeda outfit in Yemen, the official told AFP.