02 Nov 2011 – Morning headlines
Key Headlines:
- Somali president departs for Kampala
- Somalia: ICRC resumes food distribution in Jilib after air strike
- Arms flying into Somalia for militants Kenya says
- A trickle of aid reaches Somalia
- In pictures: Somalis flee north after Kenyan incursion
- Kenya Somalia request international help to fight al Shabaab
SOMALI MEDIA
Somali president departs for Kampala
01 Nov- Source: Radio Mogadishu, Bar-kulan, Shabelle- 121 words
Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has departed for Uganda on an official two day duty. The President left the country yesterday and was accompanied by a high level Somali government delegation.
Several arrested for Las Anod’s Monday night attacks
01 Nov- Source: Radio Bar-kulan- 120 words
Police in Las Anod town have arrested at least 20 people following the attack on a police station, south of the city, injuring two officers two days ago. Las Anod mayor, Keyse Mohamed Hajji Hussein said the attacks involved two hand grenades targeting a police station, adding that both attacks took place within a minute of each other.
MPs welcome Somalia-Kenya agreement
01 Nov – Source: Shabelle – 143 words
Some Somali government lawmakers have cordially welcomed the cooperation agreement Somalia signed with neighboring Kenya. The MPs have also opposed the formation of new regional autonomous administrations in parts of Somalia.
http://www.shabelle.net/
Al Shabaab ambushes TFG-Kenyan convoy
01 Nov- Source: Somalia report- 57 words
More than 40 al Shabaab fighters ambushed a convoy carrying Kenyan and Somali government forces along the road between Taabta and Dhobley in the Lower Juba region late yesterday. Residents in Dhobley said they saw several injured Kenyan troops among the hundreds of forces coming back to Dhobley from the urban areas between Tabta and Dhobley.
Ethiopian military crosses the border into Somalia
01 Nov- Source: Radio Shabelle, Mareeg Online – 110 words
Forces of Ethiopian military on Tuesday crossed the border into Somalia at the side of Galgudud region of country’s center. Witnesses told Shabelle Media Network that eight military wagons carrying Ethiopian forces could been seen in the villages of Qeydar and Marodile situated between the districts of Guri El and Banbal in central horn Africa nation.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Kenya to probe alleged Somalia civilian deaths
01 Nov- Source: Capital FM- 775 words
Prime Minister Raila Odinga says any civilian deaths as a result of Kenya’s military operation in Somalia “will be thoroughly investigated.” Odinga was categorical that troops sent into Somalia were only targeting al Shabaab militants and not innocent civilians.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/
Kenyan Police recover illegal arms in refugee camp
01 Nov- Source: Nairobi Star- 360 words
A security operation to recover illegal firearms in the three refugee camps in Garissa county in North-Eastern region has unearthed a cache of firearms believed to have been used in crime including hijacking vehicles belonging to humanitarian organisations and foreigners in refugee camps.
http://www.the-star.co.ke/
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
ICRC resumes food distribution in Jilib after air strike
01 Nov- Source: Alert Net- 187 words
The distribution, which is being carried out in cooperation with the Somali Red Crescent Society, was temporarily suspended following an air raid on 30 October that left a number of people in the camp killed or wounded.
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/
Arms flying into Somalia for militants, Kenya says
01 Nov – Source: New York Times – 670 words
The Kenyan government said Tuesday that aircraft were delivering weapons to Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia, widening the international nature of a war that has already engulfed several African nations.
A trickle of aid reaches Somalia
01 Nov – Source: New York Times – 2,400 words
Banadir Hospital is a chunky block of a building in downtown Mogadishu, built in the 1970s by the Chinese. It has cracked windows, ceiling fans that don’t turn and long, ghostly hallways that stink of human excrement and diesel fuel — all that the nurses have to wash the floors. Each morning, legions of starving people trudge in, the victims of Somalia’s spreading famine.
In pictures: Somalis flee north after Kenyan incursion
01 Nov – Source: BBC News – 100 words
The number of Somali famine refugees flowing into Kenya has slowed to a trickle since Kenyan troops moved into Somalia in pursuit of Islamist al-Shabaab militants. As a result, many thousands of people are displaced within Somalia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Attorney: Somalia too dangerous to travel to and provide adequate defense for accused pirate
01 Nov – Source: Washington Post – 449 words
The attorney for a Somali man accused of being the highest-ranking pirate the U.S. has ever captured wants all charges against him dismissed, saying that the U.S. does not have the proper jurisdiction to prosecute and that even if it did, Somalia is far too dangerous a country to travel to and mount an adequate defense.
Somali pirates hijack Greek-owned chemical tanker
01 Nov- Source: Reuters- 243 words
Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden with a crew of 22 people on board including an unarmed guard, a regional maritime expert said yesterday. The Marshall Islands-flagged Liquid Velvet was seized on Monday in the Gulf of Aden, said Andrew Mwangura, maritime editor of the Somalia Report.http://af.reuters.com/article/
Kenya, Somalia request international help to fight al Shabaab
02 Nov – Source: VOA – 524 words
Somalia’s PM Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and his Kenyan counterpart Raila Amollo Odinga display the joint communique issued following their talks in Nairobi, October 31, 2011. More than two weeks after Kenyan troops first crossed the border into Somalia in pursuit of al Shabaab militants, the leaders of the two nations are calling for backup.