Govt blames recruiters for rise in RP seamen abduction in Somalia (GMA News)
Malaca ang blamed unscrupulous recruiters for the government’s inability to stop seafarers from defying a deployment ban to pirate-infested Somalia.
Alleged terror financier lived in Minn. (UPI)
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 14 (UPI) — A man held in the Netherlands on suspicion of financing Somali terrorists is a former Minneapolis resident, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children’s Treaty (CommonDreams.org)
by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS – When the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) commemorates the 20th anniversary of its landmark international treaty protecting the rights of children next week, there will be two countries skipping the celebrations: the United States and Somalia. “It is embarrassing to find ourselves in the company of Somalia, a lawless land,” presidential candidate Barack Obama said …
Arrest of Somali with local ties is ‘heart-breaking’ (Post-Bulletin)
The arrest in the Netherlands of a Somali man with a Rochester connection is “heart-breaking” for local Somalis, said a local Somali community leader
Somali man arrested in Netherlands isn’t an extremist, Minnesota relatives say (Pioneer Press)
A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn’t afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers who live in Minnesota.
Somali insurgents say Puntland region “unIslamic, oppressive” (People’s Daily)
An Islamist insurgent group in Somalia on Saturday accused authorities in the semi-autonomous northeastern Somali region of Puntland of being “unIslamic” and of suppressing its people. Sheikh Hassan Yaqub Ali, spokesman for the Al-Shabaab-appointed Islamist administration in Kismayu, south Somalia, told local Shabelle radio that the region’s authorities did not implement Islamic Sharia law and …
