September 7, 2012 | Morning Headlines.
Somali Presidential Election Commission distributes 25 applications
06 Sept – Source: Hiiraan onlines – 106 words
The Somali Presidential Election Commission has given applications to 25 presidential candidates, commission spokesman Osman Libah Ibrahim told UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan on Tuesday (September 4th).
The commission began receiving candidates’ applications on Monday. Completion of the form is one of several conditions set by the commission in accordance with the constitution. Candidates must also be Muslim, pay a $10,000 registration fee, possess a Somali passport or birth certificate, and have the support of at least 20 members of parliamen.
Key Headlines
- As presidential vote nears UN envoy urges Somali parliamentarians to choose wisely
- Calm returns to southern Mogadishu after battle (Shabelle)
- Hand grenade explodes in Afgoye (Bar-Kulan)
- Uganda changes Somalia troop deployment (New Vision)
SOMALI MEDIA
Somali Presidential Election Commission distributes 25 applications
06 Sept – Source: Hiiraan onlines – 106 words
The Somali Presidential Election Commission has given applications to 25 presidential candidates, commission spokesman Osman Libah Ibrahim told UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan on Tuesday (September 4th).
The commission began receiving candidates’ applications on Monday. Completion of the form is one of several conditions set by the commission in accordance with the constitution. Candidates must also be Muslim, pay a $10,000 registration fee, possess a Somali passport or birth certificate, and have the support of at least 20 members of parliamen.
Calm returns to southern Mogadishu after battle
06 Sept – Source: Shabelle – 99 words
Calm returns to Mogadishu’s southern Ex-control Afgoye checkpoint, after heavy fighting between Somali forces and al Shabaab fighters on Wednesday night. Ahmed Yare, a Somali military official said the public movement and business resumed on Thursday normally as the troops maintain security.
http://shabelle.net/calm-
Somali PM meets youth in Mogadishu
06 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 82 words
Last night Prime minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali hosted leaders of youth organizations in his house in Mogadishu to debate on the role of the youth in politics and their constitutional rights.
Hand grenade explodes in Afgoye
06 Sept – Source: Bar-kulan – 64 words
A bomb exploded on Wednesday night at Afgoye corridor where one person was killed and three more injured. Locals in Damaley village of Afgoye corridor told Bar-kulan that a hand grenade was thrown into a house where illegal drugs were sold. Reports indicate the victims of the explosion were local people.
Somaliland vice-president on visit to Borama
06 Sept – Source: Hadhwanaag Times – 86 words
A delegation led by Somaliland vice president Abdurrahman Abdullahi on Wednesday arrived in Borame as part of an official visit. The vice president’s delegation received a warm welcome from the governor of Awdal region Ahmed Hadi Sidi and the mayor of Borama Abdurrahman Shidde and other officials.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Uganda changes Somalia troop deployment
06 Sept – Source: New Vision – 103 words
Uganda has withdrawn a contingent of UPDF soldiers serving under the African Union peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and replaced them with another contingent of troops. The Commander of the Land Forces, Lt. Gen Katumba Wamala Thursday received the withdrawing officers and men led by Brig. Paul Lokech. The newly deployed contingent of 2,830 Ugandan soldiers commanded by Brig. Michael Ondoga, left for Mogadishu as part of the routine rotational exercise.
Youths arrested over Mombasa riots bailed
06 Sept – Source: The Star – 152 words
35 youths arrested by police and charged with taking part in riots that rocked Mombasa following the shooting of Sheikh Aboud Rogo have been released on bond by a Mombasa court. Controversial muslim preacher Aboud Rogo on was killed on August 29th on Mombasa-Malindi highway. The 35 had been charged before senior resident magistrate Elvis Michieka with two counts of taking part in unlawful assembly.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
As presidential vote nears, UN envoy urges Somali parliamentarians to choose wisely
06 Sept – Source: UN News Centre – 400 words
As Somali parliamentarians prepare to elect a new president next week, the top United Nations envoy in the country urged them to choose a credible and effective leader who can advance peace and development in the Horn of Africa nation.
“After two decades of civil war, a collapsed state and innumerable indignities to the proud Somali people, we are hours away from the election of a new president – the event that will completely end the transitional period and move us towards a phase of political and socio-economic transformation,” the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, said in an open letter to the country’s parliamentarians.
Kismayo feels the heat ahead of AMISOM assault
06 Sept – Source: IRIN News – 155 words
Hundreds of civilians have over recent weeks fled the Somali port city of Kismayo, where tension is rising amid sporadic shelling by the Kenyan navy in the run-up to an African Union military operation to dislodge Al-Shabaab militants from their last stronghold in the country. Some 800 people left Kismayo between 30 August and 6 September, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which tracks population movements in Somalia.
Conn. attorneys take on the challenge of opening office in Somalia
06 Sept – Source: Connecticut Law – 153 words
Two West Hartford, Conn. lawyers with a successful practice are about to give up their comfortable lifestyle and hang up a shingle in the dangerous, war-torn country of Somalia in Africa. “This seems like something that makes sense to me. Something I can be proud of,” said attorney Ryan Bausch. Bausch, a Quinnipiac University School of Law graduate, did some criminal defense law in Middletown, Conn., before deciding to share office space in West Hartford with former Quinnipiac classmate Abdul Abdurahman, who focuses on immigration law.
SOCIAL MEDIA
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“It takes cluster of likeminded, committed, and harmonious leaders with grand ambitions, and who can see eye to eye on key fundamental items such as interior conflict external political affairs, and above all, have the ability to articulate vision and sense of direction in order to put the finger on the existence and the root of the problem. There is a real synergy that forms when committed like-minded leaders speak in unify language and take same position on key important issues. “Great minds run in the same gutters.”
Like-minded leaders are needed to complete tasks ahead
06 Sept – Source: Hiiraan Online – 743 Words
Despite the major setbacks and the political anxiety expressed privately and publicly by some TFG top government leaders, Technical Selection Committee (TSC) had succeed in filtering the process of selecting MP’s from warmongers on which by the way many of whom did not meet the minimum level of education and experience needed to serve as a members of parliaments.