Somali Islamist Fighters Seize 2nd Town

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamist insurgents killed five government soldiers while briefly taking a strategic town in central Somalia, police and residents said, the second such seizure within 24 hours.

The attack late Thursday took place in Belet Weyne, near a critical road junction that links Somalia to the border with Ethiopia. Hundreds of troops are stationed at the junction, which is also Ethiopia's main supply route.

"They launched a surprise attack on the town from different directions, facing pockets of resistance from government forces and immediately took the control of the police station, the prison and a hotel government regional officials were using," said a police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The town's police chief, Col. Abdi Aden, confirmed that five government soldiers had been killed.
Local resident Duniyo Ali said the fighters had retained control of the town for about three hours before voluntarily withdrawing. The area was now calm, she said.

Also Thursday, residents said Islamists had seized Hudur, a strategic southwestern Somali town that lies along the road leading from Ethiopia into Somalia, without firing a shot.

Islamist fighters have vowed to wage an Iraq-style war on the shaky Western-backed transitional government after Somali troops supported by their Ethiopian allies chased the Islamists from power in December 2006.

The Islamists had seized control of much of the south and the country's capital, Mogadishu, which they had held for six months.

Since the Islamists launched their insurgency, thousands of Somalis have been killed. Somali government troops and officials come under daily attack and the U.N.-backed administration is viewed by many Somalis as corrupt and ineffective. The impoverished country is riven between warring clans and awash with weapons.

The U.S. has linked the militiamen to al-Qaida. On Monday, the U.S. launched a missile strike in a Somali town along the Kenyan border, targeting a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Source: AP

Islamic Fighters Move Into Somali Town

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN –
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — More than 100 masked Islamic militiamen entered a strategic town Thursday in the latest bold move by a force defeated two years ago at the hands of Somalia's Western-backed government and its Ethiopian allies.

The Islamists held the capital, Mogadishu, and much of southern Somalia for six months before they were pushed out by the Ethiopians in December 2006.

They have since waged a deadly insurgency and carried out numerous attacks in Mogadishu. They have also staged brazen raids in towns including Bur Haqaba, a hilltop town about 35 miles from the provincial capital of Baidoa in the south. The group released prisoners from jail and killed a police chief before retreating, witnesses said.

Last month, Islamic fighters briefly took over Dinsor in southern Somalia, killing nine soldiers, police said.

The U.S. has linked the militiamen to al-Qaida, and on Monday, the U.S. launched a missile strike in eastern Somalia targeting a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

On Thursday, the masked fighters entered Hudur, a southwestern town that lies along the road leading from Ethiopia into Somalia.

"There was not a single gunshot," said Mustaf Mahad, a well-known businessman in Hudur.
"The fighters took positions at two locations in the town, we do not know if their aim is to take over the town or not," another resident told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. He and other residents said there have been only a smattering of government troops in the town recently.

A government spokesman said he could not confirm Islamists had moved into the town and had no comment.

Thousands of Somalis have been killed in the fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky government over the past 12 months.

Late Wednesday, a fire fight between Somali insurgents and police killed five people — four police officers and one civilian — on the outskirts of Mogadishu, witnesses said. The insurgents used machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles in the surprise attack, said Asho Nur, who sells tea at the site.

A spokesman for the military wing of the radical Islamic movement, Abdirahin Isse Adow, said the aim of the raid was "to cripple both the military and the economic sources of the enemy."
On Monday, fighters linked to the group overran Bur Haqaba, a hilltop town about 35 miles from the provincial capital of Baidoa in the south. The group released prisoners from jail and killed a police chief before retreating, witnesses said.

Last month, Islamic fighters briefly took over Dinsor in southern Somalia, killing nine soldiers, police said.

Source: AP

Official: Missile aimed at FBI target in Somalia

Official: Missile aimed at FBI target in Somalia
It is unclear whether Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed when a U.S. submarine fired a tomahawk missile at the target, the official said Tuesday.

The FBI wants Nabhan, 28, for questioning in the 2002 suicide bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel and the unsuccessful attack on an Israeli charter jet in Mombasa, Kenya.
Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed when three suicide bombers detonated a car bomb outside Mombasa's Paradise Hotel.

The bombing took place within minutes of an unsuccessful missile attack on an Israeli charter jet, which was taking off with 261 passengers and 10 crew members.
Nabhan is also thought to be an associate of al Qaeda member Harun Fazul, who was indicted for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Saalam, Tanzania, according to the FBI.

More than 200 people were killed and 4,000 wounded in the attacks, most of them Kenyans.
The U.S. military has long sought Nabhan because he is believed to be deeply involved in al Qaeda's East African operations, the senior official said.
The FBI announced in February 2006 that it was seeking information on Nabhan and any possible links to those incidents.

The Pentagon on Monday confirmed that the U.S. military struck "a target against a known al Qaeda terrorist."

The strike hit near the town of Dhoobley along the Somali-Kenyan border, a U.S. military official said Monday.

It was aimed at a "facility where there were known terrorists" affiliated with East African al Qaeda operations, the official said. Watch report on what U.S. calls a precision strike »
The strike destroyed two houses -- killing three women and three children and wounding another 20 people, said Dhoobley's district commissioner, Ali Nur Ali Dherre. Dherre said the remains of the missiles were marked "US K."
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World should stop neglecting Somalia-U.N. envoy

By Ingrid Melander
BRUSSELS, March 4 (Reuters) - The international community should stop "collectively punishing" Somalia for past errors by neglecting it, a senior United Nations envoy to the war-torn country said a day after a U.S. missile attack there.

Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. Secretary General's High Representative for Somalia, said Monday's missile strike by the United States highlighted the need to put the lawless Horn of Africa state back on top of the international agenda.

"This is not new, and the only comment I can make on it is that Somalia deserves attention," Ould-Abdallah said when asked about the two missiles fired at what Washington called "a known Al Qaeda terrorist".

"They (Somalis) have made a number of mistakes ... They destroyed their country ... They have not been cooperative with the United Nations in the 1990s, but these are not reasons for collective punishment which I think the international community is doing by ignoring their plight," Ould-Abdallah told Reuters in an interview.

In Brussels for talks with European Union ambassadors, he urged the 27-nation EU to do more than just send food aid, saying the priorities were to protect civilians and ensure there was no impunity for humanitarian crimes committed in Somalia. The U.N. Security Council has the primary responsibility to take up the divided country's future and work for a solution, he said, but the African Union, the Arab League and the EU also have some responsibility.
International organisations are not backing efforts by the Somali government to talk with the opposition, he said.

The toll from Monday's attack was not known. Hundreds of residents of Dobley, the remote town in southern Somalia hit by the missiles, staged an anti-U.S. demonstration on Tuesday. Residents said they thought the missiles were aimed at senior Islamist leaders meeting nearby.
The Islamists have been waging an insurgency against Somali government forces.
On Jan. 8, 2007, a U.S. AC-130 gunship struck Islamists in southern Somalia in Washington's first overt military action there since pulling out of a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in 1994 after the "Black Hawk Down" incident.

That attack, and a similar one shortly afterwards, struck Islamists fleeing Ethiopian and Somali troops who cornered them in southern Somalia during a two-week war to rout the militants.
On June 21, a U.S. Navy ship fired missiles at Islamist fighters and foreign jihadists hiding in the mountains in the northern Puntland region.
The United States accuses Somali Islamist insurgents of harbouring al Qaeda fugitives responsible for planning and executing the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (Editing by Tim Pearce)

Somalia: Situation Report no. 7 – 22 Feb 2008

Main Developments

A major search for arms in the main market in Mogadishu, Bakara, triggered heavy fighting this week between Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and anti-government elements. Following the fighting on 18 and early hours of 19 February, at least seven people died including three civilians and several others were wounded. Fresh fighting broke out again on 21 February with about five casualties reported. There was restricted movement in and out of the market during the week completely paralysing trading for thousands of civilians left in Mogadishu who solely depend on the market for their daily income. Despite the skirmishes, WFP supported 'wet feeding' programme is ongoing in 10 districts feeding an average of 53,000 people on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, on 20 February, the UN Security Council extended the African Union-led mission in Somalia for another six months. Currently, the mission, which has also been attacked several times by anti-government elements, consists of 1,700 Ugandans and 192 Burundian troops.
In order to eventually phase out water trucking along the Mogadishu/Afgooye road and establish more sustainable water supply, partners in the water cluster are rehabilitating and developing existing water supply systems including extension of water pipeline, and construction of water tanks, bladders and kiosks. Construction of 1,100 additional latrines and wash basins are also ongoing. UNICEF and partners commenced the second round of a health campaign to provide 56,000 children under five and 11,200 pregnant women in the Afgooye Corridor with basic immunization, Vitamin A and iron supplementation and de-worming. The first round took place in early December 2007.

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) latest Weather Hazards Impact Assessment confirms that rainfall has been below-normal for the short rains season (October - December) in most parts of east Africa. In the central regions of Somalia, this has caused poor pasture conditions and limited water availability for the pastoral and agro-pastoral populations. Already, the central regions of Mudug and Galgaduud are experiencing severe drought. In southern Somalia, the assessment says crops suffered from the low rainfall totals, which could limit food availability until the next harvest season in March.

The priorities in the area are food and water and a number of UN agencies and Non Governmental Organisations are in the area responding to the crisis. In Galgaduud, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed a non-food items distribution to about 8,000 households and another to 4,000 households in Mudug region. Plans in the coming weeks to upscale operations in the area are at an advanced stage.

Puntland

The overall security situation in Puntland has been unsatisfactory following threats of kidnapping of aid workers and actual kidnappings. The current situation does not yet allow a return of NGO international staff and might also compromise smooth running of operations in the area.

Severely wounded people from the bomb blast on 5 February might be discharged as authorities claim that they are taking up much needed space in the hospital. The discharges could cause concerns as some of them have undergone amputations and may need further specialized care. Humanitarian workers in Bossaso are advocating for alternative places where the people can stay. Other victims have been supported with provision of 24 jerry cans, 34 insecticides treated bed nets and plastic sheets during the week.

In response to the fire that broke out in five Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP)' camps in Bossaso on 7 February; UNICEF has provided 140 family relief kits and 280 jerry cans.
For those displaced by the Sool conflict, UNICEF has so far provided 2,000 family relief kits and supplies to purify water, including over 6,000 jerry cans, eight bladder tanks and two drums of chlorine along with training on how to use it. Agencies continue to rehabilitate wells, truck in water and construct latrines (400 planned), as well sd raise awareness amongst IDPs about the importance of hygiene. In addition, eight health posts have been provided with supplies and essential drugs, and some 6,380 IDP families have received mosquito nets. Health and Nutrition mobile teams continue to reach locations where no health facilities are available with basic health services and immunisation.

Other

CARE International Somalia, with support from the Disaster Emergency Committee (UK), has prepared a Somali language version of 'The Sphere Project' manual to be shared with humanitarian workers (both UN and NGO) and Government officials in Somalia. The Sphere manual gives minimum standards in disaster response as well as a broad process for collaboration, and is an expression of commitment to quality and accountability in humanitarian work.

Further Information, contact:

Rita Maingi on +254 734 800 120 - maingir@un.org
Muna Mohamed on + 254 733 643 737 - mohamed26@un.org

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“Ma garanayo goorta deeq Burco iyo Hargeysa la gaadhsiiyey reer Boorama dembi ka dhigeen” Cabdiraxman Saylici

Cabdirahan Zaylici oo difaacay sifihii Xisbiga uu Wareejiyey deeqdii qalabka caafimaad
Musharraxa xisbiga Kulmiye ee mansabka Madaxweyne kuxigeenka, C/raxmaan C/laahi Ismaaciil (Saylici), ayaa dafaacay sifihii xisbigiisu kula wareegeen iyo sidii ay qalabkii caafimaad oo deeqo ahaa ugu wareejiyeen wasaaradda Caafimaadka iyo xukuumadda Somaliland.

Sida uu ku soo waramay Maxamed Cumar Sheekh, Weriyaha Haatuf ee gobolka Awdal, C/raxmaan Saylici oo shalay shir-jaraa’id ku qabtay Boorama, ayaa dhinaca kale waxaa uu kaga hadlay ujeedooyinka laga leeyahay ama xukuumad iyo kuwa gobolkan Awdal ka taageera xisbiga udub ka leeyihiin hadalada beryahan dambe lagu durayo isaga iyo xisbiga Kulmiyeba, taas oo uu ku tilmaamay inay tahay dacaayad siyaasadeed oo xukuumaddu miciin moodday markii dadweynaha Reer Awdal ka soo jabeen xisbiga UDUB iyo Dawladda Rayaal,e danna ay u arkaeen Xisbiga Kulmiye.

C/raxmaan Saylici ayaa shalay shirkiisan kaga hadlay arrimo kale oo door ah oo ay ku jiraan sida isaga iyo taageeraayaasha xisbiguba uga go’antahay in aanay dhegaysan doonin aflagaado kasta iyo dacaayaad kasta oo ay xukuumaddu miciin mooddo.

Hadalakii uu halkaa ka yidhina waxa ka mid ahaa “Waxaad mooddaa in xukuumadda iyo kuwa taageera ay waayadan dambe hal-hays ka dhigteen Saylici baa Kulimiye siiyey deeq dadka gobolka Awdal loo soo ururiyey, hadaladaasi iyo kuwa kaleeba waxaad arkaysaa inay yihiin kuwa gobolkan Awdal ka dhigaya inuusan ku jirin Somaliland, deeqda reer Awdal loo soo ururiyo ama reer Somaaliland loo ururiyaanna tahay mid ku kooban gobolka Awdal, iyadoo siday hadalka u dhigayaanna ay dareemayso in deeqda reer Awdal ama xisbigaa qaranka ee Kulmiye uu gadhsiiyo goboladdaa kalena ay reer Boorama u tahay dembi gobolka laga galay, waana xaasidnimo iyo cunsurinnimo, maadaama gobolada kale ee ay Somaliland ka kooban tahayna xaq u leeyihiin in la gaadhsiiyo wixii dadkeedu soo ururiyaan.

Taageerayaasha xisbiga Kulmiye ee gobolka Awdal waxa qalabkaasi kaga baxday lacag dhan $15,000 oo Doolar, oo lagu soo gaadhsiiyey, dawladduna xaq uma lahayn inay cashuurto ama tidhaa cashuur baan ka dhaafnay, inaan qalabkaasi ka kulmiye ahaan u guddoonana xaq baan u lahayn, inaan dedaalkayaga sheeganana xaq baan u lahayn, waayo dawladu magacayaga horee ayey u sheegi weyday dedaallo aan muujinay oo taageerayashiisu ku geeyeen gobolada Sool.
Waxa wax lala yaabo ah oo daciifnimo ah in la yidhaa ha sheegina xisbigaasi kulmiye wixii uu dalka keenay, waxaanan u aragnaa laba arrimood.

Waa tan kowaade inay maamulayaasha dawlaadda ee daba ordayey qalabkan dhkhtarka weyn mooyee aan la dhigi karin tuulooyin aan lahayn cisbitaallo la doonayey in la lunsado oo agaasimayaasha daba ordayey doonayeen inaan Kulmiye la tusin.Iyo tan labaad oo ah in xukuumaddu Kulmiye u quudhi la’dahay sida daacdnimada leh ee ay dalka u soo gaadhsiiyeen, loona qaybiyo cisbitaalada dalka.

Tan sadexaad waxaan odhan karaa waa markii u horeysay ee deeq lagu wareejiyo xisbigaasi, isla markaana uu si daacadnimo ku jirto dawladda ugu wareejiyo, mana dhici jirin tan oo kale oo dawladda uun baa wixii shicibka debedda ee Somaliland iska soo ururiyaan meel dhigan jirtay, isla markaana aan la ogeyn meesha ay mareen.

Waxaan la yaabaa oo kale wasiiro iyo taagerayaasha xisbiga Dawladdu waxaan u sheegeynaa in qalabkaasi annaga oo xisbiga kulmiye iyo taageerayaashiisa gobolkan Awdal uu ku qornaa, magacoodana uu dalka ku yimi, iyagana loo soo wakiishay, wakhtigaasina uu ahaa wakhti ka horreeyey aafada ka dhacday gobolka Awdal, alaabtaasina ay dalka timi aafadaasi ka hor, ciddii ujeeddo ka lihina iyadaa og, waxanan leeyahay raggaa maanta leh goboblkii awdal baa Kulmiye ka qadiyey qalabkaasi, waa ragga maanta ka xun qalabkaasi inuu gaadho Somaliland cisbitaaladaeeda, sida deeqaha reer Awdalba loo geeyo Sanaag iyo gobolka Sool, mana fiicna in gobolkan laga dhigo mid u xidhan xisbi keliya iyo dad keliya, afkana laga sheegto Somaliland, deeqda reer Somaliland ay gaadhsiiyaan reer Awdal siyaasiyiinta Hargeysa fadhida iyo kuwa halkan jooga ee dawladda taageeraa ka dhigaan qalab dad shisheeye ah la siiyey oo aan Somaliland ahayn.

Sidee reer Awdal lagu dooran doonaa haddii halkaa la marayo. halaga waantoobo arrimaha keenaya kala qoqobnaanta Somaliland iyo cunsurinnimda. Ta nalagu haystaa waa taa, kana yeeli mayno inaan gobolaysi iyo qabyaalad wax ku bixinno ee qarannimo ayaan wax ku bixinaynaa”.

Xigasho: Haatuf