12 Sept 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Somalia denies CIA rendition base in Mogadishu
- East African leaders set to issue communiqué on humanitarian crisis in the region
- Officials express views on parliament reform
- Fresh fighting erupts at the Kenya-Somalia border
- Cholera kills 49 more Somali children
- EU voices ‘great satisfaction’ on Somali political ‘roadmap’
SOMALI MEDIA
Somalia denies CIA rendition base in Mogadishu
10 Sept – Source: Radio Mogadishu – 361 words
Somalia has dismissed reports that the US runs an underground detention centre where the CIA helps interrogate terror suspects in the capital Mogadishu. UK rights group Reprieve says it has evidence that the base lies underneath the presidential compound, and that some inmates are as young as 14. The group says one man was taken there from Kenya and held for 18 months without seeing lawyers – or daylight.
East African leaders set to issue communiqué on humanitarian crisis in the region
09 Sept – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 169 words
East African leaders meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are today expected to issue a communique on how to tackle humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. Somali government spokesman Eng. Abdirahman Yarisow told Radio Bar-kulan that the summit which kicked off in Nairobi on Thursday will be attended by East African heads of state including Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
Explosion kills 4, injuries 8 others in Mogadishu-Somalia
10 Sept – Source: Radio Shabelle, Kulmiye and Risala – 85 words
At least 4 children and a woman were killed, and 8 others injured after an explosion occurred in the second largest market in the capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses said. An explosive device that the children were playing with exploded late on Friday.
Somali mp calls Angola for Somali youth release
10 Sept – Source: Shabelle, Mareeg Online – 144 words
Professor Mohamed Omar Dalha, one of Somalia’s MPs on Sunday called for the Angolan government to release Somali youths in their custody, reports said. The MP said that the youths had not yet been charged in court.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=21020&tirsan=3
Farewell party for outgoing AU peacekeepers held in Mogadishu
11 Sept – Source: Radio Mogadishu, Bar-Kulan – 137 words
A farewell party for 750 outgoing African Union peacekeepers was on Saturday held in the former Somali National University in the capital, Mogadishu. The 750 Burundians serving the AU mission in Somalia are set to go back home after several years in the war-torn Hon of African country. They will be replaced by fresh officers from the same country.
Officials express views on parliament reform
09 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 233 words
Some members from the Somali parliament, the regional administration of Gal-mudug and Ahlu Sunna on Friday gave their views over the planned reform of Somali parliament during a programme (Friday Debate) aired by Shabelle Radio and local television. Suleiman Mohamed Ibrahim, a Somali MP who took part in the debate, said the transitional federal parliament has already decided to reform the 550-member Somali parliament.
http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=10614
Somalia: Ahlu Sunna orders armed militias in Galgudud to lay down guns
10 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 145 words
The administration of Somalia’s moderate Ahlu Sunna Waljama ASWJ on Saturday ordered two local armed militias in the village of Hanad-Bure in Galgudud region of central Somalia to lay down their guns.
http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=10651
Al Shabaab robs millions of Somali Shillings livestock traders in Mogadishu
11 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 161 words
Unknown armed men, said to be members of Al shabaab, have robbed livestock traders in Mogadishu’s Daynile district of millions of Somali Shillings, witnesses said Sunday.
http://www.shabelle.net/article.php?id=10668
Al Shabaab: Radio stations, journalists go apostate
11 Sept – Source: Radio Andulus – 90 words
Sheikh Abdikadir Mumin, one of the officials of the rebel group al Shabaab, on Saturday accused local F.M stations in Mogadishu, the VOA, BBC and other journalists of being apostates and said they were not worth listening to, reports said.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Fresh fighting erupts at the Kenya-Somalia border
11 Sept – Source: KBC – 101 words
Fresh fighting has erupted between Al-shabaab militia and Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government forces near the Elwak Kenyan border in Mandera. According to Somalia report, 25 people among them TFG soldiers have been killed and 30 others seriously injured.
http://www.kbc.co.ke/news.asp?nid=72405
Museveni â ~queried Kenya army ability’
10 Sept – Source: Daily Nation – 338 words
President Museveni allegedly questioned the capability of the Kenyan army to fight the Somali insurgents in Somalia, a leaked US diplomatic cable has revealed. According to the US ambassador to the African Union, Mr Michael Battle, Museveni questioned Kenya’s army bush-fighting credentials and the ideological commitment of its Somali proxies.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Museveni+queried+Kenya+army+ability/-/1056/1233426/- /dbj3njz/-/
Ugandans eye businesses in Somalia
12 Sept – Source: New Vision News – 273 words
THE business community in Uganda received the news of AMISOM’s recent victory against the al-Shabaab militants in Mogadishu with a smile of hope. The community had long wanted to venture into Somalia but the insecurity in the country had hindered it.
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/764866
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
EU voices ‘great satisfaction’ on Somali political ‘roadmap’
10 Sept – Source: AP – 278 words
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday urged Somali leaders to press ahead with a “roadmap” to set up a government to replace the transitional body that has failed to bring peace to the country.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gr6NSeKbchIcRCl17fqrDAdnXzzQ?doc Id=CNG.d4f84b5e07fc041894b51b397f3a85be.4b1
Cholera kills 49 more Somali children
11 Sept – Source: Press TV – 229 words
Cholera has killed 49 more children in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, where cases of waterborne diseases have increased due to unhygienic living conditions, Press TV reports.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/198478.html
Somali Gunmen Attack British Tourists in Kenya
11 Sept – Source: New York Times – 555 words
A boatload of Somali gunmen attacked an exclusive beach resort in Kenya on Sunday, killing a British tourist and kidnapping his wife before racing back into Somalia, Western diplomats said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/world/africa/12kenya.html?_r=1