19 Sept 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- President Sharif advice government soldiers
- U.N: Somalia has world’s highest mortality rate for children
- Pirates hold kidnapped British woman in Somalia
- Roadside bomb targeted AMISOM convey in Mogadishu
- MPs give their views about the second phase of the consultative meeting
SOMALI MEDIA
President Sharif gives advice to government soldiers
16 Sept – Source: Radio Mogadishu, Bar-Kulan – 174 words
The president of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has called upon the Somali National army to observe discipline, he urged them to fight for the freedom and independence of their country. The president gave the advice last Thursday at a function for the official opening of a training center for the soldiers at Jazeera.
Fighting kills, 3, injuries 5 in Mogadishu
17 Sept – Source: Mareeg Online – 52 words
At least 3 people were killed and 5 others wounded after between Shabaab and TFG forces backed by AMISOM occurred in Mogadishu, reports said. The battle occurred in Dharkenlay district last friday killing 3 people and injuring 5 others, reports said.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.
Roadside bomb targeted AMISOM convey in Mogadishu
17 Sept – Source: Radio Shabelle, Kulmiye and Risala – 70 words
A roadside bomb targeted a military convoy belonging to African Union forces in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Saturday. Eyewitnesses said the AMISOM convoy came under the attack while on its way to a military base in Mogadishu’s Hoosh neighborhood after moving from Aba-gado area in the capital. The number of casualties has yet to be determined.
Al Shabaab urged release of the kidnapped British woman
17 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 187 words
The Somali parliament’s Security Committee on Saturday called for al Shabaab to release a British woman kidnapped from a luxury Kenyan beach lodge last week. The Deputy Chairman of the parliament’s security committee Hussein Arale Adan said that the Briton is the hands of al Shabaab who control large swathes of southern and central Somalia.
http://www.shabelle.net/
Unknown planes bomb parts of Jubba regions
16 Sept – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 156 words
Unknown planes last Friday bombed some areas in Jubba region particularly Taabta and Galab areas which are controlled by al Shabaab. The first attack inflicted casualties in the area of Taabta; the second bombing brought no casualties in the area it targeted which was Hoosingo, an area 113 km afar western Kismayu. Reports say the bombing caused the death of one Gamca- Dheere who was the senior leader of Al-Shabab in Taabta.
Somali MP: We will clear out al Shabaab from Bay, Bakol regions
16 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 126 words
Al Shabaab fighters will be driven out of Bay and Bakol regions in southern Somalia, a Somali parliamentarian said on Friday. Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade, a Somali MP, said that the rebel group has bothered the people in those regions and thus need to be attacked.
http://www.shabelle.net/
MPs give their views about the second phase of the consultative meeting
16 Sept – Source: Radio Kulmiye, Shabelle – 241 words
Some Somali MPs on Friday gave their views about the second phase of somalia’s consultative meeting which will be held in Puntland’s Garowe town. Taking part at Shabelle’s Friday Debate Programme, Ali Mohamoud Farah better known as Ali Seko, an MP, said he already decried the first phase of meeting, adding that the meeting can not be described as to be for Somalis.
Ahlu Sunna declares all-out war against al Shabaab
17 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 184 words
Somalia’s moderate Islamist group of Ahlu Sunna Waljama on Saturday declared that it will launch a decisive offensive against al Shabaab. Addressing a crowd of people in the Dusamareb town, Sheikh Mohamed Yusuf Hefow, the chairman of Ahlu Sunna’s executive council said the all out-war is aimed at clearing al Shabaab militants from central Somalia.
http://www.shabelle.net/
REGIONAL MEDIA
Bank funds education campaign in Somalia
18 Sept – Source: Gulf Times – 146 words
Barwa Bank has paid for the education of a number of students for one year in Somalia, as part of its joint charity initiative launched in August, in co-operation with Qatar Charity. The bank donated a year’s fees for a student’s education for each and every new salary transfer during Ramadan.
http://www.gulftimes. com/site/topics/article.asp?
Man set to be charged with tourist’s kidnap
19 Sept – Source: Daily Nation – 200 words
The prime suspect in the abduction of a tourist two weeks ago at a hotel in Lamu County will appear in court today. Mr Ali Babitu Kololo, 25, will be charged with the abduction of Mrs Judith Tebbutt at Kiwayu Safari Village. A second suspect, arrested last Wednesday in Kiunga, is still being questioned.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
U.N: Somalia has world’s highest mortality rate for children
16 Sept – Source: CNN – 156 words
Somalia has the world’s highest mortality rate for children under age 5, according to data released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/
Somalia aid workers’ ban
17 Sept – Source: Reuters – 455 words
Somalia has banned foreign aid workers and journalists from entering areas controlled by al Shabaab insurgents after members of a Turkish charity took food to famine victims in an area under the Islamist group. Nearly all aid agencies have already barred their expatriate workers from operating in Somalia as famine grips the country, due to the risk of kidnapping as the hard-line militants control most of the southern part of the country.
http://af.reuters.com/article/
Pirates hold kidnapped British woman in Somalia
19 Sept – Source: China Daily/ BBC / New Times / AP / Reuters – 224 words
Somali pirates are holding in central region of Somalia a British woman kidnapped last week after her husband was killed in Kenyan town of Lamu, witnesses said Sunday. Judith Tebutt, 56, was taken hostage after armed gang stormed a resort in the remote Safari Village in Lamu and killed her husband last Sunday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
How the war on terror caused Somalia’s famine
19 Sept – Source: Nation – 1,113 words
By late June and early July, when their goats were all gone and the last of their cows had sunk to their knees and died, the men told their families it was time to leave. In Daynunay, Haji Hassan and his children packed up what they had — a few rags, plastic bottles, some old cooking pots — and set out for Mogadishu, 250 km to the east.