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Somalia
Last Updated     03/02/2010    20:05:00
Naval officer confesses failure to fight piracy in Indian Ocean
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Commander of the European Naval Force deployed in the Indian Ocean to track down pirates, Commodore Peter Hudson, said on Tuesday that it was impossible to fight the phenomenon.    03/02/2010   full text...
More people forced to flee drought, renewed fighting in Somalia
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - With drought and renewed fighting in Somalia, m alnutrition among children under the age of five in war-ravaged Somalia has reached alarming levels as families a re unable to provide them with a properly-balanced diet, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reported.    03/02/2010   full text...
'UN may deploy peacekeepers to Somalia'
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United Nations is to increase its presence in Somalia and may soon deploy a peacekeeping force there if the conditions improv e on the ground, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said here Sunday.    31/01/2010   full text...
UN Security Council extends mandate of AU mission in Somalia
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to e xtend for one year, the mandate of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission i n Somalia (AMISOM).    29/01/2010   full text...
AMISOM to welcome police component
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A group of 34 police officers is expected to arri ve by February in Mogadishu as part of the deployment of the police component of the African Union peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), official sources tol d PANA in Addis Ababa on Thursday.    28/01/2010   full text...
Burundi officer killed in Mogadishu
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A Burundian officer taking part in the African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was killed Monday in a blast reportedl y perpetrated by the Islamic insurgents, the Burundian press agency (APB governme n tal) reported Wednesday, quoting Gaspard Baratuza, spokesman of the National Def e nce Force (FND).    27/01/2010   full text...
UN envoy deplores deadly bombing in Mogadishu
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has condemned Monday's deadly explosion at a hospital in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.    26/01/2010   full text...
Minister pledges to solve salary problem for Burundi peacekeepers
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's minister of National Defence Force and Former Combatants has given himself a couple of weeks to solve the problem of salary arrears which is a source of discontent among Burundi's contingent of the African peace keeping Mission in Somalia (AMISON).    25/01/2010   full text...
Somali conflict leaves 63,000 people displaced
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Continuing fighting and general insecurity in southern S omalia has displaced an estimated 63,000 people since the beginning of this year , the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has said.    25/01/2010   full text...
AI calls for tight control on military aid to Somalia
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Amnesty International (AI) has called for arms transfers to the Somali government to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war crimes and human rights abuses.    20/01/2010   full text...
French FM rallies support for Somali president
Paris, France (PANA) - French Foreign minister Bernard Kouchner on Tuesday urged the international community to support the president of the Somali transitional federal government, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, saying the fight against terrorism stro n gly depends on such a support.    19/01/2010   full text...
'European Union will not block rebel-held Somali ports'
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) will not organize an operatio n to block rebel-held ports in Somalia, an EU official said in Brussels on Tuesd a y.    19/01/2010   full text...
Kenyan police arrest 300 illegal Somali immigrants
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Responding to Friday's deadly demonstration by Muslim yo uth, Kenyan police have detained 300 illegal Somali immigrants during a sweep at dawn Monday The raid on the city's Eastleigh neighbourhood, where thousands of Kenyan Somali s and Somalis from the neighbouring Somalia live, was carried out by the elite G e neral Service Unit and anti-terrorism police following claims by the government t hat Somali hardline Islamist Shebab group infiltrated the demonstration.    18/01/2010   full text...
UNHCR expresses concern over displacement of Somalis
New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Tuesday expressed concern ov er the escalating violence in Somalia, saying the widening strife in the lawless nation was having a devastating effect on the civilian population.    12/01/2010   full text...
Yemeni terror elements complicating Somali crisis, AU warns
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) warned Friday that the int ernational community must step up its efforts to save Somalia from further ruin in 2010, saying the intere sts of the rest of the world would be at stake unless the emergence of Al Shabab and its links with Yemeni terrorists was tackled.    08/01/2010   full text...
Armed attacks disrupt WFP supplies to needy population in Somalia
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Rising threats and attacks on humanitarian oper ations, as well as the imposition of a string of unacceptable demands from armed groups, have made it virtually impossible for th e World Food Programme (WFP) to continue reaching up to one million people in need in southern Somalia, the UN relief age ncy has said.    06/01/2010   full text...
US says Somali piracy not due to illegal fishing
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United States Wednesday scoffed at the explanation b y Somali pirates that their criminal activities in the Indian Ocean are motivated by illegal fishing by foreign companies.    23/12/2009   full text...
UN-backed talks call for help to stabilise Somalia
New York, US (PANA) - A UN-backed international meeting on Somalia has called on the international community to support initiatives aimed at stabilising the Horn of Africa nation which has had no central government for almost two decades.    18/12/2009   full text...
Somalis, Tanzanian sailor arrested in Kenya with deadly arms
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Seven Somali nationals and a Tanzanian sailor have been arrested and charged in Kenya after authorities found weapons, including rocket-propelled grenade lau nchers, 200 live ammunition, assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, inside a ship at the P ort of Mombasa.    17/12/2009   full text...
Belgian Frigate leaves Somali coast
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Belgium's frigate, Louise Marie, which operated unde r the EU anti-piracy "Atalanta" mission off Somalia will be back in the Belgian p ort of Zeebrugge by 23 December, military sources told PANA here.    15/12/2009   full text...
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