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(Photo: AP)Arms for Somalia diverted to militias: UN experts
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Arms for Somalia 'diverted to al-Shabab'
New York: United Nations monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case were destined for an al-Shabab rebel commander. | A confidential report by the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group fou...Full Story
Arms for Somalia 'diverted to al-Shabab'
Strife: Two Somali soldiers walk past after a car bomb explosion near Mogadishu's airport on Thursday. Photo: AFP | New York: United Nations monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case wer...Full Story
Somali government accused of diverting weapons to warlords
The experts, who are monitoring the partial lifting of an arms embargo on Somalia, recommended that the UN Security Council re-impose a full arms embargo when the 12-month partial suspension ends in early March. | As a possible alternative, it said the government m...Full Story
Decentralization - a Delicate Balancing Act
[African Arguments]The issue of decentralization has been hotly debated in Somalia for the past decade. Following the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1991, few Somalis openly advocate for the return to a centralized authoritarian state that monopolizes power in...Full Story
Govt Weapons Diverted to Militants
[Deutsche Welle]Weapons shipped to the Somali government have been diverted to al Qaeda-linked militants and clan leaders, according to a team of UN monitors. Senior Somali officials have been implicated in the illicit arms transfers. ...Full Story
Authorities Detain Two Radio Directors Without Charge
[CPJ]Nairobi -The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned by reports that two radio directors in the capital, Mogadishu, were arrested and held without charge for two days by Somalia's National Security Agency. ...Full Story
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Arms for Somalia 'diverted to militias’
Sydney Morning Herald New York: United Nations monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case were destined for an al-Shabab rebel commander. | A confidential report by the Somalia and Eritrea ...
Arms for Somalia 'diverted to militias’
Canberra Times Strife: Two Somali soldiers walk past after a car bomb explosion near Mogadishu's airport on Thursday. Photo: AFP | New York: United Nations monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias...
Arms for Somalia diverted to militias: UN experts
New Straits/Business Times UNITED NATIONS: UN monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case were destined for a Shebab rebel commander. | A confidential report by the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring...
UN says arms for Somalia diverted to militias
Al Jazeera UN monitors say they have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case were destined for an al-Shabab rebel commander. | A confidential report by the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Gr...
Arms for Somalia government diverted to militias: UN experts
The Times Of India UNITED NATIONS: UN monitors have found evidence that arms shipments to the Somali government have been diverted to clan militias and in one case were destined for a Shebab rebel commander. | A confidential report by the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring...
Living like a Somalian to look like Brad Pitt
New Straits/Business Times I MUST confess that these last few months, I have been worrying about my weight gain. A 2kg weight gain is alarming enough. A 5kg weight gain is catastrophic. | I have not slowed down on my exercises, including strenuous workouts on the treadmill and...
News From Africa
Scoop Saturday, 15 February 2014, 9:04 am | Press Release: | News From Africa | ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Second High Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership was held at Ministerial level on...
Fri 14 Feb 2014
Turkey condemns attack on UN convoy in Somalia
Turkish Press ANKARA - Turkey's Foreign Ministry has condemned Thursday's deadly attack on a United Nation (UN) convoy in Somali capital Mogadishu. | "We strongly condemn the terrorist attack which targeted an UN Convoy near the airport in Mogadishu... resulting i...
Somalia diverting arms to al-Shabab, UN report claims
BBC News A UN report has warned that "systematic abuses" by Somalia's government have allowed weapons to be diverted to warlords and al Shabab militants. | The report for the UN's sanctions committee calls for the restoration of an arms em...
The World’s Best (Unaltered) Photos
The New York Times In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. | In a striking departure from past years, the World Press Photo top prize was given not for a hard-news image, but was awarded to John Stanmeyer for a photo of...
Fisherman Safe After Being Rescued at Sea By EU Naval Force Frigate FGS Hessen
All Africa [EU Navfor]On Wednesday 12 February 2014, a German Navy sailor, who was conducting 'lookout' duties on the bridge of Federal German Ship (FGS) Hessen, sighted a person waving for help from the top of a capsized boat off the Somali coast. ...
Police Tell Rape Survivor to Wash Her Blood Off Floor and Go Home
All Africa [AlertNet]The Somali government should deploy police officers to protect vulnerable women in camps for displaced people and stop arresting and persecuting rape victims who try to report such crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. ...
Govt Must Protect, Not Arrest and Harass, Rape Survivors - HRW
All Africa [AlertNet]The Somali government should stop arresting and persecuting rape victims and instead deploy police officers to protect vulnerable women in camps for displaced people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. ...
Mother of British soldier stabbed to death in nightclub weeps at inquest as his Somalian ...
The Daily Mail Lisa Minott’s son Fusilier David Collins, 18, was fatally knifed in the heart with a switchblade as he tried settle a dispute in a nightclub in the resort of Ayia Napa. ...
Five challenges for Somalia’s economic reconstruction
IRINnews NAIROBI, 14 February 2014 (IRIN) - Somalia’s economy has managed to survive state collapse, maintaining throughout the country’s two-decade-long civil war. Now, with political recovery and transition slowly underway, the country’s e...
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