July 11, 2012 | Morning Headlines.

Main Story Somali prime minister and UN envoy discuss future policy

10 Jul – Source: Radio Kulmiye/Shabelle/Hiiraan Online /Radio Mogadishu – 204 words

With slightly more than a month to go before Somalia’s current transitional governing period comes to an end, the top United Nations political official for the East African nation yesterday called on all Somalis to help their country on its path to peace and stability.

“The end of the transitional period will be an important benchmark, but it is time for us all to begin to look past 20 August and think about the future political dispensation of Somalia,” the SRSG and head of UNPOS, Augustine Mahiga, said in an open letter to the people of Somalia.

Key Headlines

Foreign minister welcomes country investment by diaspora (SONNA)
ASWJ Ethiopian and TFG forces vow to crush al Shabaab (Shabelle)
Mark Bowden visits Garowe Puntland (Bar-Kulan)
Al Shabaab militant leader surrenders to ASWJ in Gedo (Bar-Kulan)
Kenyan court charges Somalis for illegal entry (The Star)

SOMALI MEDIA

Somali prime minister and UN envoy discuss future policy

10 Jul – Source: Radio Kulmiye/Shabelle/Hiiraan Online /Radio Mogadishu – 204 words

Foreign minister welcomes country investment by diaspora

10 Jul- Source: Radio Mogadishu/SONNA- 106 words

Minister of foreign affairs of the TFG, Abdullahi Haji Hassan has warmly welcomed the diaspora homing back and investing their country.

Speaking to UN- funded Radio Bar-kulan, Somali government’s minister of foreign affairs, Abdullahi Haji Hassan said that the cause of Somali communities in the diaspora coming back home and currently investing the country comes the government’s efforts on the security progress.

ASWJ, Ethiopian and TFG forces vow to crush al Shabaab

10 Jul – Source: Shabelle – 105 words

Army chiefs of Somalia government, Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a (ASWJ) and Ethiopian, promised on Tuesday that they are committed to terminate swiftly the long-running fighting against al Shabaab militants in south of the country. “Our troops will pursue and crush al Shabaab fighters inside Somalia’s Southern regions of Bay, Bakol and Gedo with an iron fist approach” said the ASWJ official.

Mark Bowden visits Garowe, Puntland

10 Jul – Source: Bar-kulan/Jowhar Online – 110 words

A UN officials led by the UN’s Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden has just arrived in Garowe where they held talks with Puntland officials. Bowden and his team held talks with Puntland president Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamoud Farole and discussed possible ways to tackle humanitarian crisis in Puntland and entire Somalia.

Puntland president addresses Parliament

10 Jul – Source: Garowe Online – 11 words

Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole gave the Puntland Parliament a detailed summary about his foreign trips, Garowe Online reports. President Farole addressed the Puntland parliament on Monday, about what the Puntland delegation encountered while on their 2 month trip abroad.

Al Shabaab militant leader surrenders to ASWJ in Gedo

10 Jul – Source: Bar-kulan – 106 words

A senior al Shabaab militant leader and his bodyguard have surrendered to the allied forces in Garbaharey town of Gedo region, ASWJ has claimed on Tuesday. The alleged militant, Mohamed Hassan Abu Amara, is said to have been responsible of the militant group’s security wing in Burdubo town.

REGIONAL MEDIA

Kenyan court charges Somalis for illegal entry

10 Jul- Source: Star- 239 words

Six Somali nationals were yesterday fined a total of Sh90,000 by a Mwingi court after they were found guilty of entering the country illegally. The six were also charged for possessing Kenyan ID cards belonging to other people. Mohamed Muktar, Ismael Hassan, Mohamed Abdi, Faat Mohamed, Ifrah Said and Lul Ashur were fined by Mwingi principal magistrate Hezron Nyaberi after they pleaded guilty to the charges. T

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Nigeria follows violent path of war-stricken Somalia

10 Jul – Source: Human Events – 199 words

Unless the Nigerian government quickly acts that African country could collapse into sectarian civil war and eventually become a terrorist haven like Somalia. That prospect creates a serious challenge for American interests in the region. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is inciting a religious crisis by attacking Christian churches in an attempt to destabilize the government.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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“The territories of post-independence Somalia now face a new four-year transition with a presumptive government that replicates the one that it will replace (if the Roadmap process does not founder in its final stages), with a draft provisional constitution (if it is approved) that leaves unresolved the most basic political issues, and without the assurance of adequate support by the “donor”-powers that engineered the process.”

Somalia – a Transition to a Transition

10 July – Source: Garowe Online – 2752 Words

On July 2-3, the International Contact Group (I.C.G.) held the last large international meeting on Somalia before August 20, 2012, when that country is supposed to have completed a transition to a new government to replace the current Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) that has been in place since 2004.