January 19, 2012 | Morning Headlines.


	AMISOM launches training course for Somali Police 19 Jan – Source: Radio Mogadishu – 275 words The Police Component of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) has launched a capacity building and leadership training, contributing to an ongoing Somali Police Force by training ninety-seven junior police commanders. The training which is currently underway at Brigadier General Kahiye Police Academy in Mogadishu has been organized and funded by the SPF. The 12-week training course will equip junior police commanders selected from various police stations across Mogadishu.
Key Headlines AMISOM launches training course for Somali Police (Source: Radio Mogadishu ) MPs compete for Vice Speaker (Source: Garowe Online) Somalia MPs in Kenya for talks on al Shabaab war (Source: Daily Nation) Somalia: Hunger and homelessness ( Source: Al Jazeera) Al Shabaab releases photos of hostages (Source: Daily Nation) Successful pirate attacks drop (Source: New York Times)

SOMALI MEDIA AMISOM launches training course for Somali Police 19 Jan – Source: Radio Mogadishu – 275 words The Police Component of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) has launched a capacity building and leadership training, contributing to an ongoing Somali Police Force by training ninety-seven junior police commanders. The training which is currently underway at Brigadier General Kahiye Police Academy in Mogadishu has been organized and funded by the SPF. The 12-week training course will equip junior police commanders selected from various police stations across Mogadishu. MPs compete for Vice Speaker 19 Jan – Source: Garowe Online – 152 words Somali MPs are holding votes for the position of Vice Speaker to the controversially elected new Speaker of Parliament, Radio Garowe reports. MPs who are competing for Vice Speaker include Mohamed Omar Dalax and Mowlid Ma’ani Mohamud who have given speeches in Parliament on why they should be elected for Vice Speaker. MPs have not yet specified when the vote for a Vice Speaker will be held. Elders detained in Berdale, Bay region 19 Jan – Source: Radio Bar-kulan – 73 words Al Shabaab have reportedly detained six traditional elders in Berdale town for allegedly having links with Somali government officials in Luq, Gedo region. An elder in Bardale town confirmed the detention of the elders, saying that they were treated inhumanly during their arrest yesterday evening. He claimed that rebel fighters physically assaulted the elders. Two killed in Somalia capital explosion 19 Jan – Source: Shabelle – 107 words A huge explosion went off at former US embassy in Mogadishu’s Wadjir district, killing two civilians and wounding two others, some seriously, witnesses said Thursday. Witnesses told the media that a landmine blast was heard in a refugee camp at the former US embassy in Wadajir district, claming the lives of two people and injuring two others who were taken to hospitals. Alleged militants handed over to National Security Agency 19 Jan – Source: Radio Bar-kulan – 122 words Suspected al Shabaab fighters have been handed over to the Somali National Security Agency after they were seized in parts of Mogadishu’s Shibis district, early this week. Shibis District Commissioner, Daud Abdulle Mohamed told reporters that the area security officials arrested the four suspects while hiding in parts of the district following a tip-off from the locals. REGIONAL MEDIA Somalia MPs in Kenya for talks on al Shabaab war 19 Jan – Source: Daily Nation – 184 words A delegation of Somalia MPs is in Kenya to discuss with the international community the ongoing war against al Shabaab. Led by former Somalia Prime Minister Mohamed Abdi yusuf the delegation arrived in Nairobi on Sunday. Somalia MP Awad Ahmed Ashareh said the delegation had already met UN representatives and officials from various embassies. Al Shabaab releases photos of hostages 19 Jan – Source: Daily Nation – 500 words Kenya is making attempts to secure the release of hostages abducted by al Shabaab. Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula declined to give details of the efforts, saying it could jeopardise the safety of the four Kenyans and four foreigners seized by the militia in separate incidents since September last year. INTERNATIONAL MEDIA Somalia: Successful pirate attacks drop 19 Jan – Source: New York Times – 152 words Pre-emptive strikes by naval forces, the deployment of private armed guards and protective measures by ships helped to almost halve the number of successful hijackings by Somali pirates last year, the International Maritime Bureau said Thursday. Landmine blast hits Ethiopian military in Baledweyne 19 Jan – Source: All Africa – 132 words A powerful landmine blast hit Thursday on Ethiopian military vehicle in Beledweyn town of Hiran region in central Somalia, killing two civilians while injuring five others, witnesses said. Reports said, the remote-controlled landmine explosion detonated a military pick-up with Ethiopian soldiers at Howlwadag village in the western of Beldeweyn town, the capital city of Hiran province, but none of targeted Ethiopian troops was killed, according to officials. SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE / OPINION / EDITORIAL / BLOGS/ DISCUSSION BOARDS Somalia: Hunger and homelessness 19 Jan – Source: Aljazeera English – 856 Words The mounds that mark the roadside graves of Mogadishu’s children are so small, you’d miss them if they weren’t pointed out. They lie on the edges of ragged camps that have sprung up all over this shattered city, which has become a home to hundreds of thousands of desperate Somalis seeking to escape the drought and conflict that plunged them into the worst hunger crisis seen here for two decades. In Mogadishu, escape is a relative term. The city has become the epicentre of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. While new arrivals say that conditions in the capital are better than elsewhere in the country, they are atrocious by any other measure. Malnutrition rates are more than double the emergency threshold and the borders of the camps are lined with human excrement. Some of the displaced huddle into makeshift tents held together with string, while others eke out an existence amongst the shells of buildings ruined by decades of war. Aid agencies can operate here, but the security situation is a constant concern; visits to the camps are punctuated by gunfire. Meanwhile the endless stream of new arrivals means that the scale of the problem is growing faster than the resources required to meet it.