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Lack Of Funds Pushes Al-Shabaab Towards ISIL-Puntland
news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 27 Oct 2015 (9 years ago )Funding crises have pushed Somali terror group, Al Shabaab to shift balance towards the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Puntland Government in Northern Somalia claimed on Tuesday. The remarks come less than a week after key Al Shabaab ideologue Abdulkadir Mumin defected to Islamic State... -
KDF Aids Illicit Sugar Trade In Kismayu, Says UN
news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 27 Oct 2015 (9 years ago )The United Nations has once again accused Kenya of aiding a flourishing illicit sugar trade at the port of Kismayu in Somalia. UN Monitoring Group for Somalia and Eritrea, in its report released last Friday, said the trade is worth more than $800,000 (Sh81.8 million) annually. The report says this p... -
Yemen conflict: MSF hospital destroyed by air strikes
news BBC, 27 Oct 2015 (9 years ago )The first, which occurred around 22:30 (19:30 GMT) on Monday, hit part of the facility in Saada province that was not being used, according to the charity. All staff and patients had been evacuated by the time the second strike hit about 10 minutes later. However, the Saudi-led coalition battling ... -
Saudi-led coalition drops weapons for allies in Yemeni city
news Reuters, 28 Oct 2015 (9 years ago )Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed the Iran-allied Houthi movement across Yemen on Wednesday and dropped weapons to Islamist militias battling the group, a day after being accused of bombing the hospital of an international medical aid charity. The sorties showed the coalition was determ... -
AMISOM Force Commander and SNA Chief of Defence Forces Pledge Stronger Partnership
news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 28 Oct 2015 (9 years ago )The Force Commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Lt. Gen. Jonathan Rono today met with the new Somali National Army (SNA) Chief of Defence Forces Maj. Gen. Mohamed Adan Ahmed, with discussions focussing on how to strengthen working relations between the two organizations they re... -
Puntland Government To Host Consultative Meeting In Seven Towns
news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 13 Nov 2015 (9 years ago )The administration of Puntland State has said it will hold consultative meetings in seven towns to discuss the future of Somalia and the ways to hold election in 2016. The Federal government has in the past revealed that due to financial constraints, the consultative meeting cannot be held in all o... -
Yemeni refugees seek shelter in Djibouti
news Oualid Khelifi/UNHCR - Aljazeera, 14 Nov 2015 (9 years ago )Markazi refugee camp, Djibouti - As fighting intensifies in Yemen, over 120,000 people have fled since April. Around 30,000 of those have sought safety across the Gulf of Aden in Djibouti. Since late September, the population of Markazi camp near the Djiboutian coastal town of Obock has quadruple... -
Growing Tension In Beledweyne Town After UN Official Is Killed
news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 15 Nov 2015 (9 years ago )Tension ran high in the central Somali town of Beledweyne after government troops shot dead a UN official in the town on Saturday, residents said on Sunday.Mahdi Hussein Shekhal, a field officer with the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) was killed after armed troops opened fire at his car ... -
US releases five Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo
news Al Jazeera, 16 Nov 2015 (9 years ago )The US defence department has announced the release of five Yemeni men held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. Al Jazeera Correspondent - Growing Up Guantanamo The group, who had spent more than a decade in Guantanamo, were transferred to the UAE, the Pentagon said in a statement publish... -
UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, in Dollo Ado
news UNHCR, 18 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )In Dollo Ado, UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, a multi-media library, for Somali refugee children and youth. The project is implemented by Save the Children and Libraries without Borders, in coordination with UNHCR Innovations Unit in Geneva. Facilitated by the governmen...