26 Jul 2011- Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Somali administrations plan to launch joint attacks on al Shabaab
- Rome emergency meeting rallies to aid Horn of Africa
- Somalia famine: UN WFP to airlift food to Mogadishu
- Perfect storm: Why famine hit southern Somalia first
- Somalia famine: Minister warns of starvation in rebel controlled areas
- Children abandoned on east Africa’s “roads of death”
- Kuwait Emir donates $1 million to help Somalia
SOMALI MEDIA
Somali administrations plan to launch joint attacks on al Shabaab
25 Jul- Source: Radio Shabelle, Radio Kulmiye- 134 words
Officials of the TFG administration in Ceel Waaq, Gedo region, south western Somalia and the recently formed Azania administration plan to launch joint attacks against al Shabaab in the region.
Rome emergency meeting rallies to aid Horn of Africa
25 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 844 words
The international community rallied today to the aid of drought- and famine-affected populations in the Horn of Africa with an immediate, twin-track programme designed to avert an imminent humanitarian catastrophe and build long-term food security in the region.
http://www.shabelle.net/
Al Shabaab bans selling of livestock meat in Afgoye
25 Jul – Source: Mareeg – 124 words
Reports from Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region say that al Shabaab has banned selling and slaughtering of livestock’s meat in the region.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.
REGIONAL MEDIA
UN urges massive action for Africa drought
25 Jul – Source: Al Jazeera – 582 words
The United Nations has urged “massive” action to save millions of people in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. “The catastrophic situation demands massive and urgent international aid,” said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which hosted Monday’s emergency meeting of UN aid agencies and charities in Rome.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Kuwait Emir donates $1 million to help Somalia
25 Jul – Source: gulfnews – 168 words
Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, has donated $1 million, marking the opening of a donations campaign to aid drought-stricken victims in Somalia, a senior official said on Monday.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Kenya petitions AU humanitarian groups to aid Somali refugees
25 Jul – Source: VOA – 362 words
Kenya’s deputy internal affairs minister Orwa Ojode says his government has petitioned the African Union (AU) and humanitarian organizations. He says Nairobi wants them to consider opening a new refugee camp in a “third country.”
UN WFP to airlift food to Mogadishu
25 Jul – Source: BBC, Skynews, New York Times – 591 words
The UN World Food Programme will begin airlifting food to Somalia on Tuesday, WFP head Josette Sheeran said at crisis talks on East Africa’s drought.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Perfect storm: Why famine hit southern Somalia first
25 Jul – Source: VOA – 633 words
The regions of southern Somalia devastated by famine used to be the breadbaskets [major foodproducing areas] of the country. The deadly combination of drought, inflation and the militant group, al Shabaab, however, have turned a food crisis into a famine.
Somalia famine: Minister warns of starvation in rebel controlled areas
25 Jul – Source: Guardian – 1177 words
The vast majority of people in insurgent-controlled areas of Somalia may starve to death unless aid reaches them in the next few weeks, said Mohamed Ibrahim, Somalia’s deputy prime minister.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Children abandoned on east Africa’s “roads of death”
25 Jul – Source: Reuters – 567 words
Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centers in drought-hit eastern Africa, U.N. aid officials said Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/
Government seeks urgent help for Mogadishu’s malnourished children
25 jul – Source: IRIN – 759 words
At least 1,000 of an estimated 14,000 malnourished children in 50 camps for the droughtdisplaced in Somalia’s capital are in a critical condition and government officials have appealed for immediate help.
http://www.irinnews.org/
Piracy threat growing in Southern Africa: minister
25 Jul – Source: AFP – 222 words
Southern African nations need to be on high alert as the region’s coastline and shipping lanes were vulnerable to piracy which was moving southwards, South Africa’s Defence Minister warned Monday.