Somalia: Somaliland Leader Hosts EU Special Envoy to Somalia in Hargeisa
(Salaamanews)- The leader of Somalia’s separatist region of Somaliland Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo hosted the European Union’s Special Representative to Somalia Amb. Michele Cervone in Hargeisa on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
After the meeting, Somaliland’s foreign minister, Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, and Amb. Cervone held a joint press conference at State House in Hargeisa, capital...
What happened to Somalia’s pirates?
(Salaamanews)- ON MAY 10th pirate-busters celebrated the fact that one year had passed since a ship was successfully seized by Somali hijackers. Pirates have been attacking vessels passing the Horn of Africa since at least 2005, when they received a $315,000 ransom for Feisty Gas, a ship owned by a company in Hong Kong. Since then, payments have risen continuously, reaching a high last year of...
Kenya wants the Amisom troops in Somalia expanded
(Salaamanews)-Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya’s security situation.
According to Kenya’s Standard newspaper, he spoke when he met Congo Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Gabon counterpart Ali Bongo separately in their respective countries.
The leaders talked about the need to expand the African Union forces in Mogadishu...
EU to step up security involvement in Somalia
(Salaamanews)- The European Union is to move military training of Somali soldiers from Uganda to Mogadishu in a show of confidence in Somalia’s growing stability after two decades of turmoil, the EU special envoy to Somalia said on Wednesday.
Western donor countries have been unwilling to deploy soldiers inside the Horn of Africa state, but instead fund the African Union’s Amisom peacekeeping...
Somalia: European Union Training Mission To Train Somali Forces In Somalia
(Salaamanews)-The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, today welcomed the deployment of the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) to Somalia, calling it a “paradigm shift in relations” between the EU and Somalia.
For the last three years the EUTM has trained over 3,000 Somali troops at a base in Uganda, and today the full training operation opened in Mogadishu,...
SOMALIA: IOM assists Kenyans stranded in Bosaso to return home
(Salaamanews)-Six Kenyan migrants workers stranded in Bosaso are due home on 15 May 2013 after they were rescued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The six fishermen were abandoned by their employer at the port of Bosaso, Puntland in November last year.
The fishermen, who were part of ten Kenyan crew members employed in a fishing vessel, left the port of Mombasa on 8 November 2102...
WHO Investigates Possible Polio Case in Somalia
(Salaamanews)- Tthe World Health Organization reported the investigation of a possible wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in Somalia’s Banadir region. A 32-month-old girl had become ill due to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP – essentially, muscle weakness or paralysis) on April 18, and preliminary lab tests indicate WPV1. While other diseases and conditions can cause AFP, they are rare (about...
Somalia: EU support for justice and police
(Salaamanews)- Somalia will receive €44 million from the European Union to further support its justice system and police force, Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs announced on 7th May, during the Somalia conference in London.
“In Somalia, like anywhere else, there can be no development without security. Over the last year, we have seen some encouraging advances. Larger territories are...
Somalia: New Police Commissioner Takes Over Office
(Salaamanews)-A handing over ceremony attended by a high government officials and politicians was today held in Mogadishu to announce the official takeover of office by the newly appointed police commissioner Mr. Abdi Hakin Dahir Said.
The official who attended the ceremony include, the prime minister of the federal republic of Somalia and other members of his cabinet, members of the Somalia defense...
Up to 3,000 African peacekeepers killed in Somalia since 2007: U.N.
(Salaamanews) – As many as 3,000 African Union peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia in recent years in an attempt to end an Islamist insurgency and bring stability to the Horn of Africa nation, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.
“I want to pay tribute to the countries and to their soldiers who paid such an enormously heavy price,” U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson...
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