HYDRO WORLD Saturday, May 30, 2009 Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water Resources announced it finalized a feasibility study to construct a 246-MW hydroelectric station on the Genale River in Somali State. The government’s Ethiopian News Agency reported May 19, 2009, the ministry said a plan is set to build the station in Somali’s Liben zone. The [...]
A federal terror investigation into about a dozen missing Somali men from Minnesota has dominated recent headlines. But gang-related street violence remains a much more common trap for troubled Somali-American youth. Many of these young refugees live in poverty and are struggling to adjust to American life. Minneapolis, Minn. — Since December 2007, eight Somali [...]
MOGADISHU, May 30 (Xinhua) — Unknown gunmen overnight killed a senior insurgent commander who recently defected from the Somali government side to join the armed opposition groups in the war-wrecked Somalia, insurgent officials said. Abelkadir Hassan Abu Qatatow was shot dead by men armed with pistols as he walked in a street in the south [...]
ROME (Reuters) – Ministers from G8 industrialized nations agreed on Saturday to work toward a legal framework for the trial of Somali pirates, seen as a major obstacle to policing the dangerous shipping lanes off the Horn of Africa. Justice and interior ministers from the world’s eight leading industrial powers, concluding a two-day meeting in [...]
Cumar Xaashi oo ku sugan Godey Warar aan la xaqiijin ayaa sheegay in Wasiirka Ammaanka ee Soomaaliya, Cumar Xaashi, lagu weeraray gudaha dalka Ethiopia. Ilo dowladda Soomaaliya iyo tan Ethiopia ah ayaa labaduba u xaqiijiyay BBC, in Wasiirku uu dayaarad ka raacay magaalada Addis Ababa, ugana degey magaalada Godey. Halkaa ayuu baabuur uga baxay isaga [...]
Ethiopia will only intervene in Somalia as part of the regional Igad grouping, Mr Yelibu Lijalem, the deputy head of mission at the Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi, has said. He said the threat posed by the advance by radical Islamist forces in Mogadishu was not particular to Ethiopia. “We will decide as a region, we [...]
Jem rebels have attacked two army bases in Darfur in just over a week Sudan’s army says it has taken control of a town near its border with Chad, recently seized by rebels. Sudan says more than 60 people were killed during the fighting with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement around the town of [...]
NAIROBI, May 29 (Xinhua) — International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday warned of a sharp deterioration of humanitarian situation in the war-torn Somalia, saying hopes of thousands of Somalis have been shattered by the ongoing fighting. In a statement issued in Nairobi, the organization said dozens of people have been killed in [...]
By Ibrahim Mohamed MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Foreign warships blocked a cargo vessel from entering Somalia’s rebel-held Kismayu port on Friday in a new strategy to try and choke the militant insurgent group al Shabaab, the government said. Ports and Sea Transport Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Habasade said the action was taken in line with resolutions by [...]
May 29 (Reuters) – Somalia’s long-running civil conflict has flared again this month, with battles in Mogadishu between Islamist rebels and government forces. Here are the main actors in Somalia’s war: GOVERNMENT: * The government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed — himself a moderate Islamist and former rebel — controls only a few districts in [...]