New Development in the Horn of African Nation: Crisis Has Been Successfully Reversing. But Will Somalia Have Peace and Stability After So Many Years of Anarchy? Time Will Tell!
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Addis Ababa, February 04, 2007 (WIC) - The United Nations (UN) is sending a mission to Somalia to prepare for the eventual takeover of a planned African Union peacekeeping force,according to VOA.
Addis Ababa, January 26, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - Lord David Maxim Triesman, Britain’s Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State and Minister for African Affairs has said the measure Ethiopia has taken in Somalia created an enabling condition for the creation of peace and stability in the Horn of Africa country.
Addis Ababa, January 26, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says all African nations including Malawi have supported Ethiopia’s action in Somalia.
Addis Ababa, January 26, 2007 (WIC) – Police have arrested five more foreigners at the Kenya-Somali border bringing the number of suspects arrested in the area carrying passports of countries outside the East African region to 18 in less than a week, The Nation newspaper disclosed.
Addis Ababa, January 23, 2007 (WIC) - The transitional government of Somalia said today that the first peacekeeping forces from Uganda, Malawi and Nigeria would arrive in the country within three days, Shabelle Media Network reported.
Mogadishu, January 23, 2007 (WIC) - Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyoum Mesfin met and discussed with President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
Ethiopia Begin Withdrawing Troops From Somalia Nasdaq via Yahoo! News - Jan 23, 2007 3:55 AM (RTTNews) - Ethiopia has started pulling out its troops out of Somalia, four weeks after they crossed the border to help the government defeat Islamists.
Ethiopia starts Somalia pull-out BBC News via Yahoo! News - Jan 23, 2007 12:58 AM Ethiopian troops begin to leave the Somali capital, four weeks after they crossed the border.
Defense Minister Reporting on Somailia's successful military operation (WIC)
MOGADISHU, Somalia: The first African peacekeepers to help the government assert its authority in Somalia are expected by the end of January, the prime minister said Tuesday. (Source: International Herald Tribune via WIC)
Ethiopia launches African diplomatic offensive on Somalia AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 15, 2007 Ethiopia has launched a diplomatic offensive to explain its military intervention in Somalia to African nations and ask for help in restoring peace there, the foreign ministry has said.
Addis Ababa, January 13, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - South African President Thabo Mbeki said Africa has no choice but to help bring peace to war-torn Somalia, Xinhua, the Chinese News Agency reported.
Mogadishu , January 13, 2007 (Mogadishu ) President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf continued meeting and discussing with clan leaders, civil society group and former politicians in Somalia.
A/A, January 12, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - The government and people of the United States appreciate the Ethiopian government and its people since the Ethiopian defense forces freed the people of Somalia from terrorist groups, a member of the US Senate said.
UNITED NATIONS, January 12, 2007 (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the global community Thursday to redouble efforts to stabilize Somalia and he reiterated his concern that a U.S. airstrike could have "unintended consequences."
CAIRO, Jan 11 (KUNA) - Egypt's assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs ambassador Ma'asoum Marzouk said Thursday that President Hosni Mubarak's call for sending African peacekeeping forces to Somalia would prevent more bloodshed there. (Source: WIC)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a senior al Qaeda suspect wanted for bombing U.S. embassies in East Africa has been killed, a Somali official said Wednesday as witnesses said U.S forces launched a third day of airstrikes.
Eritrea says war in Somalia will continue while Ethiopia remains AFP via Yahoo! News - Jan 10, 2007 Eritrea has warned that war will continue in Somalia as long troops from Ethiopia remain there, accusing its arch-foe neighbor of conducting US-backed "naked aggression" in the lawless nation.
Addis Ababa, January 10, 2007 (ENA) - Ethiopian Minister of Information Berhan Hailu said Ethiopia has efficiently and effectively concluded the operation it launched to put an end to the threat posed by terrorist groups in Somalia.
Addis Ababa, January 9, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, suggested on Monday that U.N. peacekeepers go into Somalia after the first batch of African Union troops is deployed, Reuters reported.
Addis Ababa, January 09, 2007 (ENA) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the government of Eritrea desires to attack Ethiopia using the blood of the Somali people, who have no interest to enter into conflict with Ethiopia.
U.S. support key to Ethiopia's invasion USA Today via Yahoo! News - Jan 08, 2007 The United States has quietly poured weapons and military advisers into Ethiopia, whose recent invasion of Somalia opened a new front in the Bush administration's war on terrorism.
Kinijit” and the Somali CrisesJanuary 5, 2007 Tecola W. Hagos-The true essence of Kinijit Press Release is its hunger and blind greed for power. Here we have a situation that is a threat to the very survival of the state of Ethiopia, and this opposition group is lamenting its loss of the election of 2005. It is unbelievable to see such blind hunger for power by individuals who had such terrible sense of timing and no political savvy. No matter how the election of 2005 was lost, the continuation of a struggle based on such loss in disregard of the current Somali crises is in itself poor political judgment not to mention its damage to the security of the Ethiopian State. The danger of the Islamic Courts must be appraised as a danger to Ethiopia not to Meles Zenawi and his government. ....
Somali and Kenyan presidents meet(Spero News) Discuss the security situation in volatile Somalia and how to prevent the conflict from spilling over into Kenya Tuesday, January 02, 2007
After 15 years, someone's in charge in Somalia, if barely (Herald Tribune) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan. 2 - The prime minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, said today that his country, one of the poorest in the world, could not afford to keep its troops in neighboring Somalia much longer, and that Somalia's stability depended on the quick injection of foreign peacekeepers.
Ethiopians to stay on in Somalia (BBC) 2 January 2007 The prime minister of Somalia's fragile interim government, Ali Mohamed Ghedi, says that heavily-armed soldiers from Ethiopia would be needed for months. But Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told MPs that he hoped his forces could withdraw within two weeks. . . . Mr Ghedi said Uganda and Nigeria have offered to send contingents of troops, but details about who would fund such a force still need to be thrashed out.
ANALYSIS-Somali Islamists fought wrong kind of war Reuters.uk, UK - via Google, 2 Jan 2007 ... said a military expert and combat veteran who follows Somalia and is ... No independent casualty figures are available from Ethiopia's latest war, but the Somali ...
"Now lets start talking about reconstruction, we call on the UN, other Orgns to rebuild Somalia. We have lots of things to do. We also call on the neighbouring countries to seal their borders, if UIC smuggles give us back" : Amb Farah (Watch)
Somalia to declare martial law (Al Jazeera English News) Ali Mohamad Gedi, the Somali prime minister, has said that parliament will declare a period of martial law to maintain control of the country after Ethiopian and government troops wrested the capital from rival Islamists
Mogadishu, December 28, 2006 (Addis Ababa) - The fundamentalist forces who have controlled Somalia's capital for months abandoned the city to clan rule on Thursday after government forces advanced to within striking distance. Looting broke out and clan leaders called for calm, Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday from Mogadishu.
P.M. Meles Zenawi Address to the Nation:Radio |TV| Text(Dec 24, 2006)
Somalia's Islamists prepare for war with Ethiopia International Herald Tribune via Yahoo! News - Dec 13, 2006 Unlike the anarchy that has consumed Somalia for 15 years, the looming battle is now with Ethiopia, threatening to further destabilize an already troubled region.
6 December 2006 – The Security Council today authorized the establishment of an African protection and training mission in Somalia to help defend the troubled country’s Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs). The new force, which will be set up by the African Union (AU) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an east African group, has an initial mandate of six months, according to a resolution adopted unanimously by the Council. . . . No countries bordering Somalia will be able to deploy troops in the force, which is to be known as IGASOM and is being created amid mounting international concern at the lack of progress in peace talks between the TFIs and the Union of Islamic Courts, which controls the capital, Mogadishu.
Informal comments to the Media by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Somalia, Ambassador Idd Beddel Mohamed, on the situation in Somalia. [UN Webcast: Video- 3 minutes]
Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, Ambassador John Bolton, on the situation in Somalia and other matters. [Webcast: Video- 7 minutes]
Security Council: The situation in Somalia. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Webcast: Video- English: 26 minutes] [Webcast: Video- Original Language: 26 minutes]
Outstanding development for peace at the Horn of Africa! I hope this will be the stepping stone for future peace. Ben (Source: Ben News)
Addis Ababa, December 02, 2006 (WIC) – The government of Ethiopia has continued its efforts to resolve the threat of invasion it has been facing through diplomatic means by holding discussions with the Somali extremist forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MoFA) disclosed.
Eleven nations feed Somali war build-up - experts NAIROBI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Militant groups and 11 countries are funnelling the military aid needed for a full-scale war into Somalia, widening the threat of conflict into the Horn of Africa and beyond, sources said a United Nations report will say. (Source: Tigray.net)