“Fighters from the town of Zintan stormed into and shot up the luxury hotel that is the de facto base for members of Libya’s ruling Transitional National Council over the weekend, days after members of the council acknowledged that a rival militia from Misurata had kidnapped and briefly detained two of its members last week.” [...]
“The Shabab Islamist militant group, which still controls a few large patches of Somalia, said Tuesday that it was expelling the Save the Children aid agency because it had distributed expired food and tried to bribe Shabab officials.” The New York Times They were simply trying to give some aid to the official. Most aid-agencies [...]
“Rebel groups said Monday they had captured a Sudanese Army garrison near the border with South Sudan. The rebels said they killed 130 members of the government forces in the attack. ” The New York Times Sudan came asunder last year, with the birth of South Sudan, a new state in the international system. And [...]
“World leaders pledged new help to tackle terrorism and piracy in Somalia, but insisted Thursday that the troubled East African nation must quickly form a stable government and threatened penalties against those who hamper its progress. 55 nations and international organizations, including Somalia’s United Nations-backed transitional government, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and [...]
“Somalia’s famine is over six months after being declared, due to a good harvest and significant humanitarian aid, the UN said today.” – Global Post It is a good day for our brothers and sisters living in Somalia: the famine is over. We saw much from the Islamic World when his sad episode started in [...]
