Somalia: Demonstration Against President in Mogadishu (AllAfrica.com)
Somalia A large demonstration against Somali president’s decision of sacking Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein took place in different parts of Mogadishu on Monday.
Ghana: Ghana’s Fisheries Palavers, Any Lesson From Somalia? (AllAfrica.com)
Accra Somalia, a country in Eastern Africa and a population of less than ten million, consists of the former Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland, both of which united to become independent Somalia in 1960.
Somaliland offers port to fight pirates (The Washington Times)
Somaliland – a breakaway region of Somalia – plans to offer its harbor on the Gulf of Aden as a base for U.S., British and Indian warships to battle pirates.
Should ground troops hunt pirates in Somalia? (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
NAIROBI, Kenya A Bush administration proposal to allow foreign forces to go ashore into Somalia to hunt the country’s notorious pirates is getting a cool reception from U.S. military leaders, regional analysts and some Somali officials.
Somalia: Sheik Sharif Meets Elders And Civil Society Groups (AllAfrica.com)
Mogadishu The chairman of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed had talks with some of the Somali traditional elders and civil society groups in Lafwein hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.
Somali lawmakers declare PM ouster illegal (UPI)
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Dec. 15 (UPI) — The Somali Parliament gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, declaring his weekend ouster by the country’s president illegal.
Somalia’s President Fires Prime Minister (Washington Post)
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Dec. 14 — Somalia’s president fired his prime minister Sunday and accused him of paralyzing the government with “corruption, inefficiency and treason.” Hours later, as the government veered toward collapse, Islamist insurgents held a brazen news conference in the capital and …
Analysis: To Beat Somalia’s Pirates, Fix Their Country (Time Magazine)
The world’s most failed state needs a government that works and a reason to hope
Somalia: Grenade Attacks On Amisom Base (AllAfrica.com)
Mogadishu Islamist groups have carried out grenade attacks on Former Somali University, a base of Burundian peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Sunday evening, witnesses said.
Somalia: Death Toll Rises After Ethiopian Troops Kill 12 Civilians (AllAfrica.com)
Somalia Ethiopian troops killed 12 Somali nomads after being attacked by insurgents in Kaba Hirig about 80 kilometres west of Mogadishu, but now the number has risen to 23, eyewitnesses said on Sunday.
