Officials say US helping to arm Somalia against rebels (3news)
The Obama administration has decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia’s embattled transitional government by providing money for weapons and helping the military in neighbouring Djibouti train Somali forces, U.S. officials said.
Violence taking heavy toll on Somalia (Mail and Guardian)
Spiralling violence in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is taking a heavy toll on civilians, with more than 250 killed and 160 000 forced to flee their homes over the past seven weeks, aid agencies said on Friday.
U.S. giving weapons aid to Somalia government (Los Angeles Times)
The arms assistance is aimed at helping Somali leaders fend off Islamic militants. The step is a sign of wider U.S. commitment. The Obama administration has begun sending arms aid to the beleaguered government of Somalia, officials said Thursday, in an escalation of its commitment to one of the world’s most troubled states.
U.S. Supplies Somalia’s Interim Government With Arms To Fight Islamist Rebels (INO News)
(RTTNews) – The United States has sent arms and ammunition to Somalia to help the country’s UN-backed interim government in its fight against the Islamist militants who are threatening to take over the Horn of Africa country, said the State Department on Thursday.
Suicide bombings on the rise in Somalia (UPI)
MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 25 (UPI) — The number of suicide bombings in Somalia has increased during the last three years as a result of an initial 2006 attack, a terrorism expert says.
US send arms to Somalia to thwart Islamist rebels says report (TVNZ)
The United States said it had sent weapons to Somalia’s government to help thwart Islamist insurgents, who cut hands and feet off thieves and paraded the severed limbs in the streets of Mogadishu
Somalia: Ethiopia Plays Down Crisis in Mogadishu (AllAfrica.com)
Addis Ababa Ethiopia has said it will not send troops to Somalia because the Mogadishu administration was not in danger of being deposed by Islamic militants.
Somalia: U.S. Confirms Arms Shipments to Bolster Besieged Govt (AllAfrica.com)
Washington The U.S. State Department Thursday confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias which, according to some analysts, are linked to al Qaeda.
Somalia: Somaliland Educators Call for Warring Sides in the South to Stop Fighting (AllAfrica.com)
Gargeisa The educators of the breakaway republic of Somaliland have Friday called for the Islamist forces and the transitional government soldiers to stop the fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Somalia: The Crisis and Prospects for Lasting Peace (AllAfrica.com)
The following is the prepared testimony of Ted Dagne of Congressional Research Service before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health on June 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was entitled, “Somalia: Prospects for a Lasting Peace and Unified Response to Extremism and Terrorism.”
U.S. providing weapons to Somali government, officials say (CNN)
The United States is providing weapons and ammunition to Somalia’s transitional government as it fights al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday.
