04 Aug 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Somalia famine summit postponed
- Somalia: More famine zones declared
- PM meets civil society groups in Mogadishu
- Somali police commander says security forces would operate recently seized areas
- IDPs in Mogadishu receive financial aid from women group
- UN: Somali refuges top 860000
- Somalia’s Islamists appear divided on blocking famine aid
- Boy fighters of Somalia warn of Shabaab cruelty
SOMALI MEDIA
Somali police commander says security forces would operate recently seized areas
03 Aug- Source: Mareeg- 87 words
Police officials on Wednesday declared that police officers will be deployed to the areas where Somali national army backed by AMISOM removed al Shabaab, reports said.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.
PM meets civil society groups in Mogadishu
03 Aug- Source: Radio Mogadishu- 35 words
The Prime minister held discussions with civil society groups in Mogadishu on Wednesday. The prime minister and groups agreed to cooperate on how to bring peace and stability back to the country.
IDPs in Mogadishu receive financial aid from women group
03 Aug- Source: Radio Bar-kulan- 140 words
Somali Women Development Centre (SWDC) on Wednesday delivered financial aid to droughtstricken families in IDP camps in districts of Waberi and Wadajir in the capital, Mogadishu.
Recently appointed education assistant minister assume office
03 Aug- Source: Radio Bar-kulan- 77 words
The newly appointed Assistant Ministers for Education, Heritage and Higher Education, Abdulkadir Mohamed Barre and Abdulkadir Sheikh Ibrahim have officially assumed office following a handover ceremony held in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
TFG forces executes soldier who killed his colleague
03 Aug- Source: Radio Mogadishu – 24 words
The Somali National forces in Dhobley district of Lower Juba yesterday executed a TFG soldier who killed his colleague in the distict on Tuesday.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Kayihura issues new terror alert
04 Aug – Source: Daily Monitor – 195 words
The Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen Kale Kayihura, yesterday issued a fresh terror alert just 48 hours after suicide bombers tried to infiltrate a Ugandan Amisom force contingent position in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/
Somalia famine summit postponed
03 Aug- Source: Al Jazeera, AP, Washington Post – 171 words
An African Union meeting on the famine in Somalia has been delayed for two weeks. The emergency summit was scheduled for August 9, but officials say that this leaves insufficient time for all heads of state to gather.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
UN: Somali refuges top 860,000
03 Aug – Source: VOA – 212 words
The United Nations says the number of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa has topped 860,000, many of them forced out by the ongoing drought and famine.
http://www.voanews.com/
Somalia’s Islamists appear divided on blocking famine aid
03 Aug – Source: Christian Science Monitor – 532 words
International aid desperately needed by starving Somalis is ready to be shipped, but leaders of an Islamist insurgency blocking its delivery show few signs of lifting their ban, aid workers and diplomats said.
http://www.csmonitor.com/
Somalia: More famine zones declared
03 Aug – Source: New York Times, AP, VOA, Guardian, The Independent – 112 words
The United Nations declared three new regions in Somalia to be famine zones on Wednesday, expanding the area where the highest rates of malnutrition and deaths are taking place, including the refugee camps in the capital of Mogadishu.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
Boy fighters of Somalia warn of Shabaab cruelty
03 Aug – Source: AP, CBS – 1054 words
The former al Shabaab foot soldiers assigned to a drab cement housing bloc are young — too young. One is only 9, yet they were enforcers of harsh edicts from Islamist militants who are preventing thousands of Somalis from escaping famine.
http://www.cbsnews.com/
Somali official: al Shabaab gets weapons from Yemen
03 Aug – Source: VOA – 152 words
A Somali official says the insurgent group al Shabaab has received weapons from allies in Yemen. The Somali consul in Yemen, Hussein Haji Ahmed, tells VOA that the Yemeni wing of al-Qaida recently sent 10 ships full of weapons to Somalia.
http://blogs.voanews.com/
AMISOM signs an agreement with Somali Women Development Center (SWDC) to launch a quick humanitarian impact project
03 Aug – Source: APO – 398 words
A signing ceremony organized to launch a quick impact project took place at AMISOM base camp in Mogadishu.