Category: Somalia
Seventeen Year Old Somali Refugee Detained in Egypt
CAIRO(HAN) February 1, 2016. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Campaigners have called on Egypt to immediately release a 17-year-old Somali refugee, who has been detained for nearly six months.Youssef Mohamed Aden was arrested in Egypt on July 6, 2015. A member of a small minority clan, he had fled home after his brother was killed by al-Shabab,…
Somalia: AU Forces Arrest 50 Al-Shabaab Suspects in Middle Shabelle
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 31, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. At least 50 Al-Shabaab suspects have been arrested in a joint security operation conducted by Somalia and AU peacekeeping mission forces in Jowhar town, the capital of Middle Shabelle on Saturday. Somali government’s police commander in Jowhar town Mohamed Siyad Anjeh told reporters…
Somalia: A Legitimate Government is the Only Antidote to Al-Shabaab Terror
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 30, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News.By: Wachira Maina. The Al Shabaab raid on the KDF camp at El-Adde is the fourth attack on Amisom forces in Somalia in twelve months. In June 2015, the militants killed 70 Burundian soldiers in Lego, south of Mogadishu; in September they killed another…
Somalia: Ban Ki-moon Congratulates the New Somali Style Leadership on Prompt Decision
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. By: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations Headquarters. Following is a transcript of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press conference, held in New York: Commending Decision by Somalia on Process to Establish New, Bicameral Parliament, Secretary-General Urges Plan’s Timely Implementation in Spirit of National…
Somalia: British Colonel Hope for Forgotten Kidnapped Yachters
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. By Colin Freeman. Even by Somalia’s standards, the village of Amara is a lawless place. A tumbledown hamlet in the sunbleached scrubland north of Mogadishu, it lies in a “no man’s land” between turf controlled by local warlords and the al-Shabaab Islamist militia.…
Somalia: UNSC says Somalia’s Success Depends on Managing Threats
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Security Council heard today from the top United Nations official in Somalia that success in the country this year will depend upon managing threats, notably those posed by the terrorist groups Al-Shabaab, while announcing a “breakthrough” political achievement. “It gives me…
Somalia: Michael Keating on Over a Mission that is in Good Shape
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Statement made by SRSG Michael Keating on Security Council consultations on Somalia, 28 January 2016 Mr. President, I am delighted to speak to you so early in my tenure. It is my pleasure to be briefing you alongside Ambassador Madeira who has been…
Somalia: The Final a Compromise on the Electoral Process for 2016
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The National Leaders Forum (NLF) was reconvened in Mogaishu on the 24th of January 2016. The conference was hosted by the Federal Government of Somalia and was attended by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, the 2nd Deputy Speaker of…
Somalia: Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Secretary-General welcomes today’s decision by the Federal Government of Somalia on a model for the electoral process to establish a new, bicameral Federal Parliament in 2016, based on inclusivity and representation. He congratulates the Somali leadership on this decision, which paves the…
Somalia: Kenyan President “There is no greater love than to die for your friends”
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 29, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud (Somalia) and Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) on Wednesday paid tribute to the courage of Kenyan soldiers who were killed two weeks ago following an Al Shabaab attack in El Adde, Somalia. The three Presidents said the only way…
