Cartoonish U.N.: Pitiful caricature (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Wanted: A cartoonist for the United Nations Development Programme to produce a comic that addresses the agency’s Millennium Development Goals for Somalia. A sense of humor is a plus. Seriously.
Somalia: Government Opposes Creation of International Tribunal to Trial Somali Pirates (AllAfrica.com)
The Somali transitional government has opposed the creation of international tribunal for convicting Somali pirates, an official told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
Child Among Two Civilians Killed In Somalia Fighting (Nasdaq)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)–Two civilians, one of them a child, were killed Sunday when Islamist militants clashed briefly with Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said.
AN UNLIKELY SECOND HOME (The Lantern)
AMBER PHELPS /THE LANTERN Owner Yasin Isse stands outside of his Somali restaurant, Banadiry Cuisine, on Cleveland Avenue on Sunday. The restaurant is one of many stores in the International Mall, also known as Banadir to locals. Raised in Mogadishu, Somalia, Ahmed Hosh awoke each morning to the reverberations of the bustling market industry common in the nation’s capital city. Located along the …
Pirates, Inc.: Inside the booming Somali business (The Christian Science Monitor)
Meet the modern-day brigands behind the sometimes sophisticated, always risky operations that raked in an estimated $80 million in ransoms in 2008.
G8 vows legal cooperation to tackle Somali piracy (Deepika)
ROME, May 31 (Reuters) Ministers from G8 industrialised nations agreed today to work toward a legal framework for the trial of Somali pirates, seen as a major obstacle to policing the dangerous shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa.
Child among 2 civilians killed in Somalia (Gulf Times)
Two civilians, one of them a child, were killed yesterday when Islamist militants clashed briefly with Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. Insurgents had attacked police positions in the city s northern Sanaa district, said police officer Mohamed Hashi.
Puntland turns against Somali pirates (BBC News)
The BBC’s Peter Greste visits Puntland in Somalia, where groups are trying to provide displaced people with alternatives to piracy.
Somali pirates’ story to be told on big screen (The Daily Star Lebanon)
The attempted hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates and hostage-taking of a US merchant captain last month is to get the big screen treatment, Hollywood press said on Friday. Columbia Pictures has bought the film rights to Richard Phillips’ story – the seaman who gave himself up to Somali pirates in return for the free passage of his crew.
G8 vows legal cooperation to tackle Somali piracy (Nine O’Clock)
ROME – Ministers from G8 industrialised nations agreed on Saturday to work toward a legal framework for the trial of Somali pirates, seen as a major obstacle to policing the dangerous shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa.
