Somalia: Zanzibar Refugees Complain Without Health Care (AllAfrica.com)
Mogadishu The Zanzibar refugees in the Somali capital Mogadishu are complaining bout with out health care and livelihood difficulties, one of the refugees told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
Somalia: Number of Citizens Uprooted By Violence in Capital Tops 200,000 – UN (AllAfrica.com)
More than 200,000 people have now been forced to flee the Somali capital Mogadishu since fighting broke out between the Government and opposition groups in early May, in the biggest exodus from the troubled city since Ethiopian forces intervened in the Horn of Africa nation in 2007, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today.
Today from VOA: (Voice of America)
Intense diplomatic activity is underway in East African capitals aimed at saving Somalia’s embattled government from a determined onslaught by well-financed radical Islamist rebels.
Over 200,000 flee Mogadishu fighting: UNHCR (AFP/File via Yahoo! News)
Some 204,000 people have fled fighting between government forces and hardline militia in Somalia’s Mogadishu over the past eight weeks, marking the biggest exodus of the local population since 2007, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.
Global piracy: the hidden side (San Francisco Chronicle)
While Somali pirates top headlines with brazen ship hijackings for ransom, many smaller-scale attacks in the world’s oceans _ maritime muggings, essentially _ go unreported, depriving mariners of information about possible threats to their safety and vessels…. Sponsored Topics: Piracy in Somalia – Ship – Somalia – Piracy – Maritime
Kenya to support peace efforts in Somalia (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
Kenya will continue supporting efforts geared towards restoring peace in Somalia, President Mwai Kibaki has said.
Somalia: President Visits Libya, Stopover in Ethiopia (AllAfrica.com)
Addis Ababa President Sheikh Sharif attended the AU Summit in Sirte, Libya, where he pushed for changing the mandate of AU peacekeepers (AMISOM) in Mogadishu to use force against insurgents.
Somalia: New Fighting in Mogadishu Displaces More Than 200,000 (AllAfrica.com)
The escalating conflict in Mogadishu is having a devastating impact on the city’s population causing enormous suffering and massive displacement.
U.N.: Fighting in Somalia’s capital sparks massive refugee exodus (CNN)
Around 204,000 people have fled their homes in the Somali capital of Mogadishu as a result of a militant offensive against government forces, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Somalia: Sixth Somali Journalist Killed This Year (AllAfrica.com)
New York The Committee to Protect journalists is saddened by the death of Radio IQK journalist Mohamud Mohamed Yusuf who was shot twice in the stomach on Saturday in the capital, Mogadishu.
Somalia: Somaliland Minister Downplays U.S. Congressman’s Comments (AllAfrica.com)
Hargeisa Mr. Abdullahi Mohamed Du’ale, Somaliland’s foreign minister, answered lawmakers’ questions Monday in Hargeisa, the regional capital. U.S. Congressman Donald Payne with Puntland President Abdirahman Farole in Washington, D.C.
