September 14, 2012 | Morning Headlines.
Somali leader taken to presidential complex after attack
13 Sept – Source: Radio Netherlands/AFP – 144 words
Somalia’s newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been moved to the secure residential compound following an assassination bid at his hotel, officials said Thursday. Hassan was unharmed after two blasts went off Wednesday outside the hotel where he had been meeting a visiting Kenyan delegation, but three soldiers were killed in what appeared to be an attack by multiple suicide bombers.
Key Headlines
- Unknown warplanes bomb al Shabaab bases in Somalia (Raxanreeb)
- Outbreak in Hosingow kills 12 (Garowe Online)
- Kuwaiti Amir congratulates newly elected Somali President (Kuwaiti News Agency)
- Attack on Somali president exposes fragile “new era”(Reuters)
SOMALI MEDIA
Bar-kulan’s Borame correspondent in custody
13 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 100 words
Police in the northern Somali town of Borame on Thursday arrested Bar-kulan’s correspondent Hashim Sheikh Omar Goth for allegedly covering a story on the views of locals on the election of the new Somali president. Goth is now being held in Borame’s central police station. In his coverage, locals welcomed Mr. Mohamud’s election saying that the new president may usher in a new era for the war-torn Somalia and contained no any political incitement against the area’s administration.
Al Shabaab says it will not leave Kismaayo
13 Sept- Source: Radio Mustaqbal- 133 words
The Governor of al Shabaab for Jubba region Abdirahman Abu Hudeyfa said in public that al Shabaab will not be removed from Kismayo.
Abu Hudeyfa spoke about the battles taking place inside the Jubba regions. Abdirahman said that their fighters called “Mujahidin” will defend Kismayo from the allied troops fof AMISOM and government forces.
Unknown warplanes bomb al Shabaab bases in Somalia
13 Sept – Source: Raxanreeb – 108 words
Residents in a southern lower Jubba region of Somalia say planes have bombed bases belonging to al Shabaab militants. Residents in districts of lower Jubba regions of southern Somalia say that unknown warplanes have bombed and shelled Birta dhere location and other surrounding areas. The number of casualties is currently unknown as officials of the TFG and al Shabaab could not be reached for comment.
Somalia’s government forces allegedly raped a female in Lower Shabelle region
13 Sept – Source: Radio Mustaqbal – 200 words
The reports received by Mustaqbal radio based in Mogadishu said that three of Somalia’s government forces have raped a female in El-Jalle settlement under Marka town, the head quarter of Lower Shabelle region in Southern of Somalia. Ahmed Moalin Abdirahman the commissioner of Marka district confirmed to Mustaqbal radio that 3 soldiers of government forces raped the female in El-jalle a residence under Marka town. The commissioner added the perpetrators were arrested and detained in custody in Marka town and investigation on the rapers is underway.
Cabinet welcomes election of president Hassan Shiekh Mohamud
13 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 92 word
Somalia’s cabinet has welcomed the recent presidential election in Mogadishu in which President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was voted In a special meeting in Mogadishu chaired by the outgoing PM Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the cabinet hailed the way the election was conducted and the winding up of the transitional period. The cabinet also strongly condemned the Wednesday suicide attacks at Jazeera hotel.
Puntland officials successful in reducing crime in Galkayo
13 Sept – Source: Garowe Online – 148 words
Governor of Mudug region Mohamed Yusuf Jama Tigey and police officials have continued their security efforts in the region in a bid to reduce crime in the region Governor Tigey and Puntland’s Deputy Police Commander Col. Muhyadin Ahmed Musse have been visiting various sites and towns in and around Galkayo, speaking at public venues and walking in the capital of Mudug region, Galkayo. On Tuesday, Governor Tigey lead police forces to the town of Bursalah located 50 kms away from Galkayo where police officials found many cases of alcohol and food stolen from WFP.
Outbreak in Hosingow kills 12
13 Sept – Source: Garowe Online – 93 words
In the district of Hosingow, at least 12 people have died due to an unknown outbreak which causes excessive vomiting and diarrhea. Health officials in Hosingow still do not know what caused the outbreak in Hosingow, located in the lower Jubba region approximately 150 kms south of Kismayo. According to WHO health officials, there were over 100 people treated for this outbreak and 13 people still being treated.
REGIONAL MEDIA
MPs’ hell in Somalia’s Big Day
13 Sept – Source: Daily Nation – 318 word
The suicide attack in Mogadishu’s Aljazeera Palace Hotel came just two minutes after Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Ongeri had begun delivering Kenya’s “goodwill message” to Somalia’s newly-elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
MPs, who were with Prof Ongeri during the attack, on Thursday told the Nation that the militants were dressed in Somalia’s military uniform, and that is “why they were able to penetrate the security perimeter around the hotel”.
Al Shabaab vow to multiply attacks on Somali government workplaces
13 Sept- Source: Daily Monitor/Africa Review- 319 words
Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the Spokesman of Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda linked radical Islamist group in Somalia, promised more attacks on vital government offices and installations.
The spokesman’s remarks came after militants loyal to Al-Shabaab waged suicide attacks on Wednesday on a hotel in Mogadishu where Somali president-elect, Professor Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, was receiving a Kenyan delegation led by its Foreign Minister, Professor Sam Ongeri.
Kuwaiti Amir congratulates newly elected Somali President
13 Sept – Source: Kuwait News Agency KUNA – 139 words
The Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent o Thursday a cable of congratulations to the newly elected Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. The Amir wished the new president health and the Somali people prosperity and stability.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Somali leader taken to presidential complex after attack
13 Sept – Source: Radio Netherlands/AFP – 144 words
Somalia’s newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been moved to the secure residential compound following an assassination bid at his hotel, officials said Thursday. Hassan was unharmed after two blasts went off Wednesday outside the hotel where he had been meeting a visiting Kenyan delegation, but three soldiers were killed in what appeared to be an attack by multiple suicide bombers.
Somalia’s new president
13 – Sep : Source: The Economist online – 100 word
The election of a civil-rights campaigner as Somalia’s new president has engendered a rare wave of hope in a country that has had no proper government since 1991, when its military dictator, Siad Barre, was overthrown in a coup. This week’s issue of The Economist looks at whether he can really rescue the place.
Attack on Somali president exposes fragile “new era”
13 Sept- Source: Reuters- 873 words
The peacekeeper guarding the Mogadishu hotel smiled and said: “Leave your body armour behind. It’s safe here.” Mogadishu was a city beginning to relax, and the soldier’s advice to reporters arriving to meet Somalia’s new-elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud reflected that. But moments into his news conference, the bombings and shooting began.Optimists have hailed a “new era” for Somalia after decades of war, insurgency and little in the way of central government.
SOCIAL MEDIA
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“In fact, many young people in Somalia hope that the new president will improve the country’s education sector, which is among the organs paralyzed in the two decades of war”.
New pro-education president gives Somali youth hope
12 Sept – Source: Radio Netherlands World Wide – 505 words
On Monday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was declared President of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Minutes after the parliament speaker announced the country’s new chief, celebratory gunfire erupted in what has of late been a volatile Mogadishu.
It was by a landslide that the 57-year-old founder and chairman of the Peace and Development Party won over former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as his running mate. Mohamud also beat a score of other candidates, including the once US-based technocrat Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and Maslah Siad Bare, son of a former Somali president.
Pro-Mohamud demonstrations were held across Somalia in support of the newly elected chief. RNW spoke with some of Mogadishu’s youth to see how welcoming they might be of this relative newcomer to Somalia’s dynamic political arena.