20 Jul 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Jerry Rowlings arrives in Mogadishu
- Drought displaced families reach border towns of Dobley and Liboi
- President Sharif visits Badbado refugee camp in Mogadishu
- UNHCR set to open new refugee camp in Dolow Ethiopia
- U.N. set to declare famine in parts of Somalia
- UN wants security guarantees for Somalia aid work
- Somali children at risk of death on the front line
SOMALI MEDIA
Jerry Rawlings arrives in Mogadishu
19 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan, Radio Shabelle, and Radio Risala – 75 words
African Union Special Representative to Somalia, Jerry Rawlings, on Tuesday arrived in Mogadishu. Rawlings held talks with the AU deputy envoy to Somalia, Wafula Wamunyinyi, on the current security situation in Somalia and the activities of the Africa Union peacekeeping forces in the country.
Drought displaced families reach border towns of Dobley and Liboi
19 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 131 words
At least fifty displaced families fleeing the ravaging drought in southern Somalia have reached the border towns of Dobley and Liboi along the Kenya-Somali border.
Al Shabaab arrests people in southern Somalia town
19 Jul – Source: Radio Mogadishu, Radio Risala, and Radio Shabelle – 77 words
Al Shabaab fighters on Tuesday arrested 20 people after search operations in parts of Middle Shabelle region in southern Somalia, witnesses said. The group accused the arrested people of committing deeds against the Islamic religion.
President Sharif visits Badbado refugee camp in Mogadishu
19 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan, Radio Mogadishu – 112 words
President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Tuesday visited Badbado refugee camp in Darkenley district and handed aid to drought victims fleeing their homes due to the worsening situation in the country.
Somali soldier guns down his colleague
19 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 88 words
A Somali soldier on Tuesday gunned down his colleague in Garbaharey town in Gedo region of southern Somalia after a dispute.
http://www.shabelle.net/
UNHCR set to open new refugee camp in Dolow, Ethiopia
19 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 196 words
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is set to open a new camp in Dolow on the Ethiopian side of the border, to ease congestions in a newly opened camp which has been overwhelmed by thousands of drought displaced Somali refugees crossing into the neighboring Ethiopian in search of humanitarian help.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Piracy: The Somali natives tell their side of the story
19 Jul – Source: The Star – 1168 words
As the morning sun casts a lavender hue over Eyl, a village in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, residents are up to eke a living; women sell tea in makeshift kiosks, young boys and girls attend Madrasa- Islamic religious schools. However, the fishermen have abandoned their boats. They are scared of venturing into the sea. (…) “I am scared the ships that want to capture pirates might shoot us. There’s no way to differentiate who is a fisherman and who is a pirate.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Somali children at risk of death on the front line
20 Jul – Source: Independent, AFP, and Bloomberg – 591 words
The brutal reality of childhood in Somalia is laid bare today in a harrowing report that says children under the age of 15 were systematically recruited to fight in the country’s decades-long civil war.
UN wants security guarantees for Somalia aid work
19 Jul – Source: AP – 402 words
The United Nations said Tuesday it needs further safety guarantees from armed groups in Somalia if it is to help hundreds of thousands of people in need of emergency aid because of drought and conflict in the East African country.
UN set to declare famine in parts of Somalia
19 Jul – Source: Reuters, BBC, and VOA – 621 words
The United Nations is set to declare famine in parts of southern Somalia, aid officials said Tuesday, signaling to donors the need for more aid and to insurgents that the population’s suffering is taken seriously.
http://www.reuters.com/