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1. Media Rights Groups Call for Probe Into Shooting of VOA Reporter in Puntland November 19, 2009 International media rights groups are expressing shock and concern over reports a journalist working for VOA's Somali Service in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland may have been deliberately shot by the police.  Tuesday's shooting of reporter Mohamed Yasin Ishaq in the Puntland-administered part of Galkayo in central Somalia has sparked alarm among international media groups already distressed by deteriorating working conditions for journalists in Somalia. The head of the Africa Desk for the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, Ambroise Pierre, tells VOA reports a Puntland police of... (read more)

2. Aid Groups Alarmed Over Delay in Somali Famine Relief November 10, 2009 A 15 Oct 2009 photo of a woman feeding her child at a new IDP camp at Guraale, in Somalia's Galgadud regionAid groups are raising increasing alarm over a delay in international food aid towards famine-stricken Somalia. Concerns over the misdirection of aid to an Islamic militant group has threatened contributions from the United States and other Western donors. The World Food Program says nearly half the Somali population is in need of emergency food relief.  Ongoing lawlessness, plus a brutal drought has left much of central and southern Somalia with a severe food deficit, threatening mi... (read more)

3. Eyewitness: Somali Pirates Tried to Seize Plane, Passengers November 10, 2009 An eyewitness account of an attempted plane hijacking last week in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous Puntland region suggests would-be hijackers were members of a pirate gang, whose operations have been affected by the increased international naval patrols in the Gulf of Aden.Last Tuesday, about 30 passengers boarded a commercial plane in the northeastern town of Bosasso for a short flight to neighboring Djibouti.Among the passengers was Yusuf M. Hassan, a Somali-American journalist and the former managing editor of Garowe Online Web site. Hassan tells VOA he noticed two German journalists o... (read more)

4. Thousands of Somalis Moved to New Camp In Kenya October 13, 2009 The International Organization for Migration, the U.N. refugee agency and their partners say they have successfully completed the relocation of more than 13,000 Somali refugees from overcrowded camps in Kenya's northeastern region of Dadaab to Kakuma, in the northwest of the country. The emergency operation began in mid-August in an effort to ease the pressure on the heavily congested Dadaab camp complex. Newly arrived Somali refugees wait to register at Hagadera camp in Dadaab (file photo)Conditions for the Somali refugees who have been moved to Kakuma have changed for the better. But, for ... (read more)

5. Rights Groups Decry Ban on VOA in Somali Region October 05, 2009 Media watchdog groups are condemning a ban placed on the Voice of America's Somali news service by the government of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in northeast Somalia. Three reporters connected to the VOA Somali service were also ordered to cease their journalist activities.The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the Mogadishu-based National Union of Somali Journalists, and the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders are all decrying the unexpected move to ban the VOA broadcasts in Puntland. In a directive issued Thursday by Puntland's Ministry of Security, local radio stati... (read more)

6. Al-Shabab Leader Threatens Somaliland September 04, 2009 The spiritual leader of the radical Somali militant group al-Shabab has sharply criticized the leadership of the breakaway region of Somaliland for having ties with Ethiopia. The radical leader also called the brand of democracy practiced in the Somaliland un-Islamic and demanded implementation of Sharia law. In a thinly-veiled message warning of future attacks, al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Sheik Muktar Abu Zubayr, warns residents of Somaliland not to do business with Ethiopians and to stay away from Ethiopian-owned property.In the taped message, the al-Shabab leader also... (read more)

7. Ethiopian Troops Reported to Leave Somali Town August 31, 2009 Residents in the Somali town of Beledweyne are reporting that Ethiopian soldiers, who had apparently seized the town two days earlier, have partially withdrawn from the formerly rebel-held western part of town. Ethiopia's alleged military action on Saturday has been condemned by influential clan elders. Somalia's Shabelle Radio says residents in Beledweyne, near the Ethiopian border in the Hiran region, saw a large number of Ethiopian troops withdrawing from the western side of town.  It was not immediately clear why the troops withdrew. But the report comes just two days after hundre... (read more)

8. Al-Shabab Militants Enforce Laws Alien to Somali Culture August 13, 2009 In Somalia, militant Islamists have begun enforcing new laws in the areas they control that are challenging the views of many traditionally moderate Muslims in the country.   The leader of al-Shabab militants in Somalia's Banadir region, which includes the capital Mogadishu, says all women living in towns and districts under al-Shabab control must now cover themselves completely or face severe punishment.  Ali Mohamud Hussein says al-Shabab will not tolerate anyone who disobeys the order. Hussein says in the Koran, Allah orders all women to be covered from head-to-toe and that ... (read more)

9. Gunmen Kill 5 in Somali Mosque August 12, 2009 Masked gunmen have stormed a mosque in Somalia's Puntland region, killing at least five preachers from Pakistan.Witnesses say the gunmen forced the Islamic preachers out of the Tawfiq Mosque in Galkayo on Wednesday, and killed them nearby. Five of the preachers died at the scene. Two other men were wounded.No one has claimed responsibility for the shooting.Puntland, a semi-autonomous region, has been relatively peaceful compared to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which sees near-daily violence and killing.   Somalia has not had an effective government for 18 years, since 1991 when wa... (read more)

10. Somali Government Forces say Insurgents Pushed from Strategic City July 27, 2009 Forces loyal to Somalia's embattled government say they have pushed out Islamist insurgents from the strategic capital of Beledweyne in the central Hiran region. But the insurgents claim they made a tactical retreat and have not been defeated. Controlling Beledweyne has long been a vital goal for the Somali government. A Somali wounded in fighting between government forces and Islamist rebels in Mogadishu is brought to Madina hospital, 27 Jul 2009According to a local lawmaker, Mohamed Dhaqane Elmi Aar, Somali government forces assumed full control of Beledweyne on Sunday after driving Hisbu... (read more)

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