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Somali Crisis Update
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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Fifteen people are killed in clashes in Somalia's capital where angry crowds dragged soldiers' bodies in the streets.
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Ethiopia to withdraw third of Somalia troops by Sunday 
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jan 27, 2007
A third of Ethiopia's troops in Somalia are expected to have withdrawn by Sunday, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
The New Breed of Pen-warlords
(Source: Garowe Online), 27 Jan 27, 2007,
Kenyan police capture 18 fleeing foreign Islamist suspects in less than one week
| 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. |
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An Ethiopian soldier is killed and another seriously wounded after gunmen open fire on them in Somalia.
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Somalia's main airport is attacked a day after Ethiopian forces began their withdrawal from the capital.
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Seyoum meets, discusses with Somali President
| 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.
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The UN envoy to Somalia urges the country not to waste "the best opportunity for peace for 16 years".
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Somalia's transitional parliament votes to sack its speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan.
BBC News
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |
UN delegation holds talks with TFG Deputy Prime Minister on ways of assisting Somalia (ENA)
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AU peacekeepers due in Mogadishu in 15 days: PM Gedi
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.
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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.
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President Mbeki says Africa must help Somalia (ENA) |
| 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. |
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TFG Somalia President continue discussing with clan leaders
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| 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. |
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Ethiopian-backed troops capture the last stronghold of Somalia's Islamist militia, the defence minister says.
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U.N. chief urges new efforts on Somalia
| 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." | (Source: WIC) |
Peacekeeping forces in Somalia will prevent bloodshed
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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)
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Somalia: Al Qaeda militant killed
| 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.
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Air strikes targeting Islamist militias in southern Somalia resume as the UN mulls sending peacekeepers.
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The US launches at least two air strikes against Islamist fighters and al-Qaeda suspects in southern Somalia.
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CBS: U.S. Strikes Al Qaeda In Somalia, MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 9, 2007
New Air Strikes Reported As Forces Target 1998 Embassy Bombing Suspects
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EU's Solana suggests UN peacekeepers for Somalia
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| 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. |
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.
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Somalia's interim president flies into Mogadishu amid tight security, for his first visit since Islamists fled.
(BBC News)
8 January 2007 |
Kinijit” and the Somali Crises January 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. ....
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The voice was said to be that of Ayman al-Zawahiri |
A recording said to be of Al-Qaeda's second-in-command has urged Islamists to join a fight against the Somali government and its Ethiopian allies. |
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Islamist forces in Somalia have been routed by Ethiopian troops |
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has called for a "speedy deployment" of peacekeepers in his war-torn country.
He said there was a rare chance for a real political breakthrough in Somalia, plagued by violence for 15 years. |
Jan 4th 2007 | NAIROBI
From The Economist print edition
After a stunning victory over its Islamist enemies, the government has to act quickly if the country is not to slip back into its usual civil strife
The score in Somalia: so far, so good (New Day)
Jan 4, 2007
The hunt for defeated Islamic militias intensifies in Somalia, as a minister says there are 3,500 fighters in the capital.
Somalia: EU supports African peacekeeping mission (Somali Net)
January 03, 2007
Humiliated Eritrea blames US for Somali war (Afrol News)
Jan 02, 2007
Somalia and Ethiopia to be united, says Somali minister (Somali Net)
Somalia's prime minister: Major fighting over (CNN)
Jan 02, 2007
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.
Somali Islamists say refuse govt amnesty offer (Reuters)
02 Jan 2007
02 Jan 2007 11:15:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
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 ...
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Interview with Amb. Farah
| "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's PM Ali Mohamed Ghedi gives overpowered Islamist fighters three days to hand in their weapons.
 BBC Focus on Africa
Eritrea blames Washington for Somalia war (Reuters)
Mon Jan 1, 2007 5:32 PM GMT
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By Amber Henshaw
BBC News, Addis Ababa, 01 Jan 2007 | |
Somali Islamists flee their last major stronghold as Ethiopian and Somali government troops close in Kismayo.
Somalis flee fresh fightings (Al Jazeera English News)
December 31, 2006
Fight Erupts Near Somalia Islamic Center (AP)
Somalia‘s PM promises peace, stability (WIC)
A Year End Victory (The Claremont Institute)
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
Joint Communiqué - AU, AL and IGAD (Source: ENA)
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Fundamentalist forces abandon Somalia’s capital
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| 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. |
 BBC Analysis On developments in Somalia. Very comprehensive report!
 For the latest BBC Televsion report
 pm meles update
(12-26-06 amharic)
Dr. Tekeda Alemu's interview with CNN
Ethiopian, Islamist Forces Clash in Somalia
npr discussion
Click Here for BBC report!
  Interview with Somali Ambassador in Ethiopia (WIC)
  The Latest From Somalia (Economist)
Somalia Fighting (BBC)
Ethiopia Steps Up Attacks on Somalia (Washington Post)
Dr. Tekeda Alemu's interview with CNN
Ethiopia sees victory against Somali Islamists (Reuters)
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)
Ethiopia has held direct talks with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, despite appearing on the verge of war.
 Interview with MP Ato Ledetu Ayalew about the issue of UIC (Amharic)
[Dec 2, 2006]
Source: Ethiopia First
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| 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. | |
United Nation webcast on resolution
(Source: WIC)
(Source: WIC)
 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)
Ben's Point of View regarding Ethiopia Vis-à-Vis UIC (Amharic)
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