Somalia

Somalia 'to ratify UN child pact'

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Somalia says it will ratify the UN's child rights convention, leaving the US as the only nation not backing the accord.

Somalia: Woman Stoned To Death for Adultery

Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

I really hope the defenders of Sharia Law would come out of the woods more often and try and defend this… Memri A Somali woman has been stoned to death for committing what a judge has said was adultery. The 20-year-old divorcee was executed November 17 after confessing to having had sex with a 29-year-old unmarried man. Sheikh Ibrahim [...]

• Somali Woman Stoned to Death After Being Convicted of Adultery - lockandload
• Found Guilty of Adultery - Mick Hartley
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Somalia, Afghanistan ranked most corrupt countries in annual survey

JURIST (Free subscription) | yesterday

[JURIST] The conflict-ravaged nations of Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Iraq rank among the world's most corrupt, according to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published Tuesday by Transparency International (TI). The index ranked 180 countries based on observations by businesspeople and analysts, giving each a score between 0 and 10. Somalia had the lowest score of 1.1, while...

• New Zealand tops Denmark as world's least corrupt nation - World Affairs Board
• Report on Corruption - The Whig
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Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | yesterday

Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S. PJM Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur...

Russian warships to resume anti-piracy mission off Somalia in late Nov.

Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Russian naval task force led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer will resume an anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa later this month, the Navy said on Thursday. It said the destroyer and an auxiliary vessel were currently crossing the Mediterranean and should reach the Suez Canal on November 23. The Navy will maintain a constant presence off the Horn of Africa, with each fleet dispatching...

Somalia: Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin No. 45, 13 - 20 Nov 2009

Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Somalia: Minister 'On Behalf of TFG President, We Are Apologizing for Ahlu Sunna Clerics'

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.

Somalia: Blast Wounds 5, Convulses North of Galka'o Town

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.

Somalia: Galkayo Threatened by Rising Insecurity

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.

Somalia: Residents and Sandbank Stymie Pirates' Plan

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away.

Roy Greenslade: Two journalists shot and wounded in Somalia

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Two journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in Somalia. On Tuesday, Voice of America reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the shoulder by a police officer just after being stopped at a police checkpoint. And yesterday, Abdirahman Warsame of Xinhua news agency was hit by a stray bullet while standing outside a hospital in Mogadishu. He was covering the fighting that continues...

Somalia: Two Government Soldiers Killed, More Wounded in Fire Exchange in Mogadishu

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.

Somalia: President Farole - 'I Am Sorry to Misunderstand President Sharif'

All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has Thursday said that he was very sorry for the misunderstand between him and TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in their last meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

Somalia's Civil War Is About To Spread To Neighboring States

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Somalia's Islamist Militants Spill Into Neighboring Countries -- Christian Science Monitor Somalia's Islamist militant group Al Shabab now controls much of the country, and it has made viable threats against neighbors Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Kampala, Uganda; and Johannesburg, South AFrica - When he fled his native Somalia for Uganda 18 months ago, Ali Yasin thought he had escaped the...

Russian warships to resume anti-piracy mission off Somalia in late Nov.

Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Sovereignty, Human Rights, Responsibility to Protect

alexgreat | 17/10/2009

Sovereignty involves rights and duties among which the protection of one's fellow citizens is paramount. Historically people have organized in territorially distinct and independent states to build up the power and security necessary for achieving their goals of prosperity and peace. When a government either fails to fulfill its mandate or malevolently turns against the people, they can overthrow it