28 Jul 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- TFG completes training more 600 soldiers in Jubba region
- Ahlu Sunna: Top Al shabaab officials killed in central Somalia attack
- Kenyan soldiers slain in border town bomb blast
- UNICEF to vaccinate 300000 Somali children in Kenya
- UN begins food airlift to Somalia
- Somalia urges humanitarian groups to expedite aid to refugees
SOMALI MEDIA
Ahlu Sunna: Top al Shabaab officials killed in central Somalia attack
27 Jul- Source: Shabelle- 191 words
Top al Shabaab officials have been killed and others injured in central Somalia surprise attack, the moderate Sufi group of Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ) said on Wednesday. Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abdurrahman, the spokesman of ASWJ confirmed that they killed and wounded officials of al Shabaab including Sheikh Yusuf Sheikh Isse (Kaba Kutukade), a Shabaab’s chairman of Galgudud region in central Somalia.
http://shabelle.net/article.php?id=9351
TFG completes training more 600 soldiers in Jubba region
27 Jul- Source: Radio Mogadishu- 47 words
The chief of commander of Somali national forces, General Abdulkadir Sheikh Hassan Diini participated in closing ceremony for 600 TFG soldiers who recently completed training in Dhobley district of Lower Jubba region.
Somali PM: Shabaab selects war from peace
27 Jul – Source: Mareeg Online – 75 words
The prime minister has stated that al Shabaab preferred war to peace and that the government is ready to talk to all armed groups in Somalia, reports said.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=20556&tirsan=3
Elders on peace mission arrive in Hees, Hiiraan region
27 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 125 words
A committee of elders from Beledweyne town has arrived in Hees area, 62 kilometers east of Beledweyne town, on a peace mission aimed at persuading local elders in the area to stop fighting against al Shabaab.
Kenyan soldiers slain in border town bomb blast
27 Jul – Source: Radio Mogadishu, Shabelle, Kulmiye and Risala – 144 words
Four Kenyan security officers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack at a checkpoint in Mandera district on Kenya-Somalia border.
UNICEF to vaccinate 300,000 Somali children in Kenya
27 Jul- Source: Radio Mogadishu- 105 words
UNICEF says it is trying to vaccinate more than 300,000 children in Kenya in an emergency program designed to prevent an outbreak of disease as refugees stream into northern Kenya from famine-hit Somalia.
REGIONAL MEDIA
UN begins food airlift to Somalia
27 Jul – Source: Al Jazeera – 681 words
The World Food Programme airlifted tonnes of emergency supplies to Mogadishu to feed thousands of malnourished children in drought-stricken Somalia, officials said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/2011727161129916789.html
Kenyan Officer dies, three injured in an explosion in Mandera
27 Jul- Source: the Standard, Daily Nation, NTV Kenya, Capital fm – 357 words
A police officer has been killed and three others seriously wounded in an explosion in Mandera Town along the Kenya-Somalia border. The officers were on patrol and had taken a break under a tree in the town when an improvised explosion went off.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000039703&cid=4&ttl=Officer%20dies,% 20three%20injured%20in%20an%20explosion%20in%20Mandera
Al-Nomes announces USD 500.000 in emergency aid to Somali people
27 Jul- Source: Kuwait News Agency- 254 words
Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Minister of State for Housing Affairs Mohammed Abbas Al-Nomes of Kuwait announced that the Endowment General Secretariat has decided to grant emergency humanitarian aid worth USD half a million to the people of Somalia.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2182417&Language=e n
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
UN flies food into famine-hit Somali captial
27 Jul – Source: Reuters, VOA, Xinhua, BBC – 424 words
The United Nations airlifted emergency food for starving children into the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday as aid groups warned of a growing influx of hungry families from the famine-hit south of the country.
http://af.reuters.com/article/somaliaNews/idAFL6E7IR22F20110727
Somalia urges humanitarian groups to expedite aid to refugees
27 Jul – Source: VOA – 414 words
Omar Osman, a spokesman for Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), described his visit Wednesday with Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali to three refugee camps in the capital Mogadishu. “The conditions Mohamed Ali saw were appalling,” said Osman, “and he could not believe that some of the UN agencies had not reached those camps. At one of the camps we went to, we were informed that a child had died, just minutes before we visited.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Somalia-Urges-Humanitarian-Groups-to-Expedite- Aid-to-Refugees-126285403.html
Somalia: Aid groups battle to deliver aid
27 Jul – Source: New24 – 197 words
Relief groups struggled to deliver emergency aid on Wednesday to hunger-stricken Somalia, where the World Food Programme was to airlift 14 tons of food for victims of an extreme drought.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Somalia-Aid-groups-battle-to-deliver-aid-20110727