19 Jul 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Security a concern in areas between Bur-hakaba and Wanlewein
- Closer ties between Somali and Yemeni jihadists threatens oil through Aden Gulf
- Qatar Red Crescent implements water project in Somalia
- UN to host Somalia drought crisis meeting on July 25
- Somalia cries for help as world boosts drought response
SOMALI MEDIA
Security a concern in areas between Bur-hakaba and Wanlewein
18 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 199 words
Security has been raised in areas along the road between Bur-hakaba district in Bay region and in areas between Bur-hakaba and Wanlewein district in Lower Shabelle.
Women, kids die of hunger in southern Somalia
18 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 131 words
At least 7 people including children, women and old people have died of hunger in Lafole village in Lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia.
http://www.shabelle.net/
Pope calls for international aid for drought-stricken Somalis
18 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 99 words
Pope Benedict XVI has urged the international community to move quickly to aid hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing drought and famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa.
Somali soldier shoots a civilian driver in Mogadishu
18 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 127 words
A Somali government soldier on Monday shot and killed a civilian driver in Mogadishu. Eyewitnesses told Shabelle Radio that the soldier fired intentionally at the bus driver while he was traveling along Mogadishu’s KM4 junction.
http://www.shabelle.net/
REGIONAL MEDIA
Closer ties between Somali and Yemeni jihadists threatens oil through Aden Gulf
18 Jul – Source: Al Arabiya – 874 words
Affiliates of Al Qaeda operating on opposite shores of key oil-export routes through the Gulf of Aden have forged closer ties in what could emerge as a substantial threat by a group that has been dealt severe body blows by the Arab revolt sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and the killing in May of Osama Bin Laden by US Navy Seals. The closer ties between Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al Shabaab in war-shattered Somalia is sparking concern among intelligence and counter-terrorism officials who suggest that AQAP may be the driving force behind closer cooperation between the two groups.
http://english.alarabiya.net/
Qatar Red Crescent implements water project in Somalia
18 Jul – Source: Qatar Tribune, QNA – 149 words
The Qatar Red Crescent has announced the implementation of a water project in Somalia where people are suffering from drought for 15 months due to poor rainfall —the main source of water in the country.
http://www.qatar-tribune.com/
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
UN to host Somalia drought crisis meeting on July 25
18 Jul – Source: AFP – 248 words
The UN food agency will host a crisis meeting on the escalating humanitarian crisis in droughthit Somalia on July 25, a spokesman for the Rome-based organization told AFP on Monday.
Somalia cries for help as world boosts drought response
18 Jul – Source: AFP – 660 words
Somalis stranded in war-ravaged Mogadishu pleaded for drought relief on Monday, as the UN called an emergency meeting to tackle what Britain’s premier described as the region’s worst catastrophe in a generation.
Half a million children ‘at risk’
18 Jul – Source: IRIN – 690 words
At least 500,000 malnourished children in the Horn of Africa’s drought-affected areas risk death if immediate help does not reach them, Anthony Lake, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) executive director, has said.