(3 may) Uganda Hosts Somalia Reconstruction Meet

The Monitor (Kampala):

UGANDA is hosting a high level meeting of Somali leaders engaged in the reconstruction programme of the war wrecked country.

The leaders attending the Kampala meeting are drawn from Non-governmental organisations and civil society groups, officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have said.

The reconstruction package to Somalia will include training of judicial officers to handle a backlog of cases that have accumulated as result of lawlessness, education and water supply, an official said.

A negociated solution to the conflict can be a cheaper way to exit of the chaos sistuation in the country. If Somalia can solve it's internal war situation, the international comunity can see that Somalia have's a stable basis, so the international capitals can enter to the country. It would improve the industrial and services sector, making the unemployment decreases and the wellfare of the population bieng improved.

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(30 may) U.S. Ambassador Optimistic About Country's Future

Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa):

Somalis are "truly tired of the many years of chaos and conflict" and there is more reason to be hopeful about Somalia than ever before, says Michael Ranneberger, the U.S ambassador to Kenya, USINFO reported Friday from Washington.

The amount of assistance being provided is not yet sufficient, but we are continuing to press others to do more," he said, adding that the United States is a leading donor government and for many years has been the nation contributing the most humanitarian aid to Somalia. President Bush has requested from Congress an additional 60 million USD in assistance for Somalia, he said.

The United States supported the deployment of Ugandan military forces to Somalia and has pledged additional support for other AMISOM forces, he said. In addition, the United States very soon will provide Somalia with 10 million USD in development assistance, mainly for social services. There is also a plan to help security forces become more professional, he said.

The international assistance is a very important development factor in some countries, Somalia is not the exeption, for the internal war in Somalia overs, the international comunity must contribute. The end of the war in Somalia is ths short's run sollution, but the education to the childrens can be the long's run sollution, so a mixture of short run with long run sollution must be a better idea than spend the money only in war.

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(may 28) Hospital in Jalalaqsi District Reopens After a Long Time of Closure.

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu):

The only Hospital in Jalalaqsi district in Hiiraan province of central Somalia was reopened yesterday after local population and SalSal organization, a local NGO have cooperated in the reopening of the hospital.

shortly, after the hospital was reopened, health services have proceeded with free of charge eye surgery operation to more than 369 patients as confirmed to Shabelle Media Network by Head of SalSal organization, Mr. Hadi Abdi Yusuf.

Mr. Hadi detailed that the different sections of the hospital such as the emergency ward, the TB treatment section and mother and child care section were all established.

Head of Salsal organization told that the hospital would cover all health needs in Jalalaqsi and villages around it.

The importance of the population in a country is critical, due to is the population that works in the enterprises who generate the added value to a country. It is reflected in the growing of the GPD and so, the wellfare can be improved. Is for that reazon that a government must ensure the health of is people, so the Somalian effort for reopen the hospitals makes grow the level of life of it's people.

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24 may: Largest Number of Police to Operate in the Capital

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu):

Mogadishu mayor, Mohammed Omar Habeb (Mohammed Dheere) has revealed Thursday that more than one thousand Somali police officers would be operational in Mogadishu's junctions and main roads starting form Friday, May 25.

In a speech he delivered to around 200 young men from the Mogadishu's 16 districts in Lafweyn hotel, north of the capital, Dheere said the police have had their training ended in early this month and have been fully prepared to secure the gun-infested city.

The effort of the goverment to ensure the capital, can be reflected in a mayor stability in the country. If it happens, the economy can grow and the poblation can improve their wellbeing.

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22 may: Country Ready to Send More Troops to Somalia

The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa):

Uganda has expressed readiness to deploy more troops to Somalia if requested by the African Union, the Daily Monitor of Uganda reported.

The paper quoted Defence Minister Ruth Nankabirwa as saying
Sunday that Uganda has a large contingent of soldiers trained in peacekeeping and "should we be asked for more troops, we will give them a short induction course and send them for the mission".

She also appealed to other African countries to send troops for AU peacekeeping mission to Somalia.

Despite the war is a big obstrucion for the development, combat the war is the most viable option in the short run; but it's very expensive, so the international help is a very loable option. The end of the internal war will give to Somalia a stability enviroment to the economy can grow.

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20 may: Pirates Attack UN Aid Ship, Prompting Call for Action

UN News Service (New York):

Following a deadly attack on an aid ship in the waters off Somalia, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for international action against piracy, warning that it is seriously threatening relief deliveries to the country.

On Saturday, a Somali guard was killed when he helped repulse a new pirate attack on a ship that had just delivered WFP food assistance to the Somali port of Merka. As a result, the agents of a WFP-contracted vessel this morning refused to allow the ship loaded with food to sail for Somalia.

Shipping is the main and fastest route WFP uses to move large amounts of food to Somalia. Despite the challenges, the agency recently began a new round of food distributions to 122,500 people forced to flee fighting in Mogadishu.

Pirates have hijacked at least five ships off Somalia this year. The UN estimates that since February between 300,000 and 400,000 people fled Mogadishu, where fighting has flared between the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and anti-TFG forces.

If a country can't ensure it's infrastructure, the lines of distribution can not function, so the country's industry couldn't work. Somalia must assegurate it's infraestructure to the economy can grow and so the wellbeing of the people can grow.

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18 may: UN Increases Food Deliveries in Country Amid Piracy

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began a distribution of food to 122,500 Somalis affected by violence while warning that piracy is hampering its operations.

"We are expanding our distributions to the displaced - many of whom are women and children - with this round of distributions, which means WFP should be reaching 80 per cent of the 150,000 we plan to feed," said Peter Goossens, the agency's Somalia Country Director in Nairobi.


Mr. Goossens charged that the pirates "are very cruelly playing with the lives of the most vulnerable women and children who had to leave their homes because of fighting" and appealed to the Somali authorities to act "before they cause more misery both to the crews of hijacked ships and to the people who rely on WFP food for their survival."

The food is a very important component to ensure the wellbeing of the poblation of a country. With no food, the county's people can not perpetuete themselves, so the lavor force won't be ensured for the tomorrow. In this form, the country wouldnt can expect grow in the further generations.




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16 - May: Bomb Explodes As Ugandan Troops Pass By

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu):

A bomb explosion could be heard in part of Mogadishu on Wednesday morning. The explosion evidently was targeted at a convoy of Ugandan forces passing by the main of Hamaraweyne neighborhood at the center of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Hamaraweyne district commissioner, Ibrahim Saahal, told Shabelle that the explosion occurred near former Finance Ministry where the AU troops onboard their military trucks were passing by. "Well, it is hard to know casualties because the whole area was sealed off by the soldiers," he said.

AU troops in Somalia have been busy de-mining Mogadishu lately as they seemed to gain confidence from the population in Mogadishu. They have never been targeted until Wednesday morning.

The big control of the revel forces on the capital, Mogadishu, is a show of the vulnerability of the goverment. It is shown in these type of terrorist atakcs. The uncapability of the government to control the country, gives a social and economic unstability that makes no one investor whants invest in Somalia.

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16 - May: (Opinion) 'Coalition of the Willing' the Only Answer

The Nation (Nairobi):

Jackson MbuviNairobi

IN A POLICY STATEMENT TO THE United Nations Security Council early in the month, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a passionate case for the formation and facilitation of a "coalition-of-the-willing" as a lasting solution to the crisis in Somalia.

Such a coalition, in UN-speak, refers to a group of like-minded countries that take action in a trouble-spot on authority of the United Nations, but not under UN control. This is opposed to UN peacekeeping troops.

So is there a "coalition-of-willing" ready to venture into the troubled Horn of Africa nation?
The answer is yes. Already there is Ethiopia which last year sent fighter jets, tanks and thousands of troops to oust the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), and re-instal in power the UN recognised Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

Then there is Uganda, which was among the five African nations that early in the year pledged to send a peace-keeping contingent to Mogadishu. Kampala has since kept its word.
TO COMPLETE THE TEAM ARE THE likes of Nigeria, Ghana, Burundi, and Malawi, which pledged to send troops, but are yet to do so.

Why then the continued bloodshed in Mogadishu when there is a coalition willing to help? Apparently, with all its good intentions, the "coalition-of-the-willing" has not delivered for diverse reasons.

To start with, Ethiopia, though it did a fantastic job in routing the UIC, bungled on the transition programme. Apparently, the Ethiopians underestimated the ability of the Islamists to regroup, and sent back home two-thirds of the contingent that defeated the militants.

With the TFG under-capacitated by the withdrawal of the Ethiopians, the UIC returned to the streets, this time not as an organised army, but as snipers. But they are just as deadly.

As for Uganda, a 1,500-strong contingent was dispatched to Mogadishu all right, but for the wrong reason. It was sent on a peace-keeping mission when there was not yet any peace to keep!

As the president of the UN Security Council, Mr Emyr Jones Parry, put it early in the month, Somalia is a country at war, hence there is no point talking about peace-keeping in Mogadishu.
That explains why 1,500 people have been slaughtered and 400,000 others - actually nearly half the population of Mogadishu - fled the capital as Uganda troops watched helplessly.

Their strict instruction as peace-keepers is: Don't fire unless you are fired at. Indeed, their first act on landing in Mogadishu was an MoU with the Islamists in which either side vowed to keep off the other and there would be no problem.

The case of the other three in the "coalition-of-the-willing" - Ghana, Malawi and Burundi - is equally pathetic. Much as they are willing to help, they are handicapped in terms of resources. While each has set aside at least 1000 troops for the Somalia mission, none has done so on account of logistics.

The last in the coalition, Nigeria, has a unique problem. It has the capacity to send troops to Mogadishu, but it won't do so because Abuja is unhappy that Ethiopia is the country calling the shots in the Somalia affair.

Nigeria's problem is one of ego. The continent's most populous and oil-rich country always likes it when it is leading from the front!

But when all is said and done, and in the words of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, a "coalition-of-the-willing" still remains the most viable approach to the Somali imbroglio.

The way forward now is for the "coalition" to have a clear mind as to what is needed in Somalia and the guts to do it.

Second, such a coalition should be fully facilitated, and, third and very important, that it be willing to stay on in Somalia until the mission is accomplished.

THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM IN Somalia is lack of a central authority with enough muscle to contain the numerous warring clans and sub-clans. Since the TFG is the internationally recognised authority, it must be enabled to rout the clan and sub-clan militias.

Second, the TFG should be facilitated to bring all the willing to the negotiation table and draw a road-map for the return of sanity in Somalia.

This will require patience. After 16 years of mayhem, two-to-three years helping Somalis put their country back on the rails is not asking too much.

Mr Mbuvi is a consultant on security matters.

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26 April: African Union Lacks Funds for Somalia

New Vision (Kampala):

THE chairman of the African Union Commission, Alpha Conare, has deplored the lack of funds to deploy desperately needed troops to pacify Somalia.

A number of countries, including Britain, USA, Norway and France, had pledged financial support to the Somali mission.

Countries like Burundi, Nigeria, Ghana and others have pledged troops but they cannot deploy due to financial problems.

If other countries do not commit troops soon, it will be a total disaster for Africa," the former President of Mali said during a press conference in Kampala yesterday.

In a country with an extremly internal chaos, as is Somalia today, and a small public budget, a very good factor that can help to improve the country's situation. But this help is destinated to pay the internal war; if these money would destinate in education, there will be a bigger possibility for Somalia skip poverty trap.

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April 16, 2007: Two Eritrean Journalists Captured Held With 'Foreign Fighters'

Reporters sans Frontières:
Reporters Without Borders has called on the Somali and Ethiopian governments to explain why two Eritrean state TV journalists have been held in secret after being arrested late last year along with several Somalis and foreigners near the border with Kenya.

"Like many other foreign journalists, they were reporting on the situation in Somalia and were not foreign fighters, as those arrested with them appear to be," the worldwide press freedom organisation said. "They were journalists from one of the world's most closed-off and repressive countries and we fear for their safety, whether they continue to be held or are returned to their own country."

The freedom of thougts, believes and opinions is a indicator of the development of the country. In this way, a government who unrespect the free press, means that the people doesn't have a freedom. It carry us to conclude that the government of Somalia wants to theyr people don't see the real situation.

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April 16, 2007: Diarrhea Kills 12 in Southern Region

Shabelle Media Network:

At least six persons died from watery diarrhea in Afgoi district, 30 km south of Mogadishu on Monday.

According to Nour Abdulle, the medical coordinator in Afgoi, six persons, four of them children, died in a hospital in Afgio where more than 40 patients were being treated from the plague.

Meanwhile six other people died from diarrhea in Dhobley district, near Kenya. Reports say most of the people who perished fled to the district after a heavy gun battle took place in their neighborhoods in the capital Mogadishu.

The extreme pobrety in Somalia, united to the null of the goverment invertions on infraestructure or public services, let the population in a several difficult situation. The sources of water are unsalubrious, and the worst situation is that the people haven't another option, so the are constantly exposed to the chronic diseases that the unhealthy water sources, is on this way, the epidemics on Somalia are very frecuent. Is like this the labour force in Somalia haves almos zero productivity.

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April 12, 2007: Goverment Warns of Expired Aid Food

Shabelle Media Network:

Somali's interior minister Mohamed Mohamud Guled known as has accused the international relief agencies of delivering expired food in the country and warned it to avoid such that job.

Mr. Gama-dere made the statement in a news conference held today in the capital Mogadishu where he strongly attacked the aid agencies operating in the country

The government is responsible to guarrantee the population a good quality on the food they recieve as donations, is in that respect that some of the agencies of donations take advantage of the weak institutional level of the public statements, and this situations occurs.

A country where the governmetn is waek, can not guarrantee the respects of the laws, and so the help and even the invesments couldn't be respected. It can make the international investors do not invert in a country like that.

April 9, 2007: Somalia: UN Agency Welcomes Release of Hijacked Ship Used to Carry Food Aid

UN News Service:
Calling on authorities to take action to curb piracy in Somali waters, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) hailed the release of a hijacked ship used for carrying food aid which had been hijacked in February off the coast of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in the northeast of the African country.

The MV Rozen and its 12-member crew, comprising six Kenyans and six Sri Lankans, had completed its contract with WFP on 22 February when it dropped off 1,800 metric tons of food from Mombasa in Kenya to Bossaso in Somalia when it was hijacked on 25 February.

Due to the unsecurity in Somalia, this kind of incidents has caused reluctance among shippers to carry cargoes to Somalia, creating delays in delivering much-needed food aid to the country, letting the country in a even more poor and desesperant situation.

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March 30 - Helicopter shot down as battles engulf Mogadishu

Reuters: By Sahal Abdulle - Rebels shot down a helicopter gunship in Mogadishu on Friday and Ethiopia said its forces had killed 200 insurgents in a two-day joint offensive with Somali troops against Islamists and clan militia.

Aid workers said scores of civilians also died in the city's worst fighting in years. Shells crashed down and deafening tank fire shattered buildings as guerrillas replied with barrages of mortars, missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.

The attemp of the government to stabilize the city of Mogadishu, helped whit the Ethiopian forces, had left many dead and wounded people. This effort is to give to Somalia a face of stablity on the gobern basis, and a axample of government control. But it's more expensive than was expected, because of the stabilized revel forces in the city for many years and the high number of civilian poblation wounded and dead.

This stabilization fo Mogadishu, can show to international witness a face of stabilization in Somali, to the investors con invest on Somali. However, thesituation is very critucal, and the government's efforts have not shown results.

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March 21 - Somali Insurgents Drag Soldiers' Corpses

The Associated Press (MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN) - Insurgents dragged the corpses of two soldiers through the streets of the Somali capital and set the bodies on fire Wednesday after a fierce street battle killed at least seven people, witnesses and medical officials said.

Somali and Ethiopian troops, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, entered an insurgent stronghold in central Mogadishu before dawn and were met by hundreds of masked insurgents.
'Ethiopian tanks rolled out of the former Defense Ministry and moved into the nearby
Shirkole area, which is seen as the stronghold of the insurgent groups, and they met with stiff resistance,' said Ali Haji Jama, a resident of the northeastern neighborhood at the center of the fighting

Other witnesses said minibuses filled with insurgents were racing through the city to reach Shirkole and defend against the Ethiopian advance. The same minibuses were used to carry away casualties, said Muqtar Abdulahi Dahir, a Mogadishu businessman who witnessed the fighting.

Somalia's government began the operation at about midnight Tuesday at the former Defense Ministry headquarters and plans to move forces into other parts of the capital, said Mohamed Ali Nur, the country's ambassador in neighboring Kenya.

The operation is meant to try to stop militants from firing rockets at government installations, he told the AP

What we can say about this situation is that the city of Mogadishu is an very anachical territory where even the forces of the government can not enter to take the control. The declaration on the past days of the government to install their see in the city had incremented the violence in the city. Many people dead and many onther is woundled.

With a extreme violent conutry, the investments do not make theirs invesments in this country because of the socual and political inestability.

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24 March - Crew Killed in Missile Attack on Cargo Plane in Somalia

Officials in Somalia have confirmed that a cargo plane carrying 11 people aiding the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia was shot down by a missile Friday, killing everyone aboard.

The Russian-built cargo plane was attacked shortly after taking off from the airport near Mogadishu. Officials say 10 crewmembers were killed instantly, while one died at a nearby hospital.

The plane had delivered crew and equipment to Mogadishu to repair another plane that had been seriously damaged in an earlier missile attack.

According to Reuters, Belarus said on Saturday a missile caused a plane crash in Mogadishu that killed 11 of its citizens, while the Somali government said the incident looked more like an accident than an attack by ever bolder insurgents.

It can be seen that the declarations made by the Somalia's goverment is a weak attemp to show a chimerical situation of peace in Somalia. If Somalia would be in peace, the investors may make theirs investments in this country, situation that can make the country grow and can the people improve their wellfare. Is by the previous reason that the goverment is trying to show a peacefull situation in Somalia.

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March, 17 - Price of Arms Increases in Mogadishu

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
The price of small arms sold in Mogadishu's Bakara Market has increased lately, according to arms sellers in Irtogte within Bakara market.

Irtogete is a market in which the various types of weaponries are exclusively sold.

One of the arms sellers in the market, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in fear of reprisal, told Shabelle that the price of weapons rose high after insecurity in Mogadishu mounted.

This is an easy conclution, because of the crecently unsecure situation in the capital city, Mogadishu, lead to the people buy weapons for their protection, making the stock of weapons decrease, situation that makes gow the prices.

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March, 16 - President Refuses the Routed Islamists to Attend the National Assembly

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed stressed on Friday that the mortar attacks on the presidential compound in Mogadishu recently was the work of the remnants of the defeated Union of Islamic Courts.

According to London based Asharqalawsat, the president accused the insurgents of terrorizing the capital of Somalia. "Thanks to Allah (God), I was safe. I was not harmed by the explosions at Villas Somalia. One of the mortars fired at the compound hit a home near the Villa and several children were killed," he said, expressing his sorrow over the incident.

The position of the gobern of Somalia must be strong. It may convince the revel isntitution to let the weapons and iniciate a peace process. And at least the pecae in Somalia can give good conditions to the inversion and the development.

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March, 16 - Somalia: Mine Explosion Kills Seven Near the Capital

A mine explosion demolished a house in Afgoi district closer to the anarchic city, Mogadishu on Friday, killing seven people inside.
The commander of the police in the district, Dhame Ibrahim Isak, said the explosion was not sparked by a bomb thrown at the family house. "It was a mine in the house that exploded and killed the family of seven. We have made investigations and we have found out that some young men inside the house propelled it and that is how the blast came about," he said.

This kind of situations can make us understand the type of war that is lived in Somalia, where there are an intern conflict involved in the civilian population. It can seen that the war is made "inside the homes".

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March, 13 - Somali government moves to Mogadishu

afrol News / IRIN, - Somalia's interim parliament has voted to move the transitional government to Mogadishu, the capital, from its temporary seat in Baidoa, barely three months after Ethiopian-backed government forces ousted the Islamist movement from the city. Despite the growing violence, the government has aimed at securing Mogadishu within 30 days.

Many Mogadishu residents have already left the city to escape the daily exchange of mortar and artillery fire between the government forces, supported by African Union peacekeepers, and Islamist insurgents. Rough estimates put the numbers of people displaced from Mogadishu since January at 18,000-30,000.

Government security officials detained Hassan Sade Dhaqane of 'HornAfrik' radio and television on 9 March and he has not been seen since, according to 'HornAfrik' managing partner, Ali Iman Sharmarke. "We have not seen him or heard from him since Friday," Mr Sharmarke said. "It is becoming a trend to harass the free media. The arrest of Hassan is meant to discourage others from reporting unfavourable news," he added.

It can be concluded thqt the effort of the government to move to the capital of the country is to generate a enviroment of confidence in the autority of this nation. In adition, the denunciations of some members of the free press of Somalia, induce to think that the goverment is trying to hide the real situation of public order in the country.

The strong effort of the goverment to show a stable public situation, is exlained because of if the country is stable, the risk-country rate, become lower. It makes the investors more factible invest in Somlia.

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(March, 9) UPDF plane on fire

New Vision, A cargo plane carrying military equipment and six UPDF soldiers for the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia caught fire as it landed in Mogadishu yesterday morning.

A Somali Islamic group has claimed it shot at the aircraft, but the spokesman for the UPDF said evidence so far suggests a technical problem.

According to a witness, the pilot and the UPDF soldiers escaped safely and hastily removed all the cargo.

It took one hour for the only fire-fighting truck available at the airport to reach the plane as it had no fuel.

In a country where the goverment doesn't work, the revel forces attributes these acts, but the goberment denyes these self acusations. This kind of situations, can be a attemp of the gobernment to show some kind of control to the international community to on this way the possible investors wants to invest in Somalia.

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(March - 6) African force greeted with mortars in Somalia

afrol News, The African Union (AU) peacekeepers deployed in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, have been greeted with mortar attacks. During a welcome ceremony at the Mogadishu airport, unidentified militia fired 8 mortars at the first batch of 400 Ugandan troops under the aegis of the AU.
None of the mortars met the target, although one person was wounded as a result.

These troops are formed by the Ugandan troops that was sended to the Somalian army to they can teach to the somalian forces about the new strategys to fight against the local revels.

The critical situation in Somalia gives to the government a unstable basis to can make a correct and efficient goberment policies. It give to the international investors a very strong pain when they try to invest in somalian economy, because of these inversions can be lost because of the critic social and political situation in Somalia.

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1 March, Uganda says AU mission to train Somalia's army

(afrol News / IRIN) The African Union (AU) peace mission now due to be deployed in Somalia will not try to disarm armed groups in that country, but will instead train a Somali national army, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said today while sending away 1,500 Ugandan soldiers to the war-ridden country.

Somalia has had no effective national government since the overthrow in 1991 of the regime headed by Dictator Muhammad Siyad Barre. The country plunged into factional bloodletting soon after his government was toppled as rival armed groups and warlords fought for power, resources and territory.

It can been saw that no one goverment wants put a leg on the somali terrytori to fight against the anarchy forces. The unique labor that the Ugandan forces is to teach the somali army to can fight angainst revel forces. Economically speaking, this aid can give to Somalia a air of confidence in the peacification process. It in a future, can show to the international investors, that the somali gobernment is stable and finally it can impel the investment process.

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27 February - Somalia pirates fleeing with UN food vessel

The 'MV Rozen', a vessel hired by the UN food agency WFP to deliver food aid in Somalia, and its crew of 12 remain under control of a group of hijackers. Local sources say six of the hijackers were arrested while ashore, while police boats and a US warship monitor the fleeing vessel.

The 'MV Rozen' is still under control of the pirates, whose number is unclear. Puntland sources said that only four hijackers now remained on the vessel. But they are believed to be heavily armed and pose a threat to the crew of six Sri Lankans, including the captain, and six Kenyans. The crew is now held as hostages,

This fleeing of the UN food vessel is a show of the hard social condition in Somalia, where the anarchy remains in all the territory. Economically speaking, this kind of situations force the invertionists to keep their capital away form this country, because of the risk of be lost by anarchy.

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Socially, it is a very hard strike to the people in somalia, because many population depends of this kind of help to can survive, to they can not die by undernourishment.

22 February

afrol News / IRIN, 22 February
Somalia has welcomed a resolution by the UN Security Council authorising a six-month deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers to the Horn of Africa country, which has had no functioning regime in more than 15 years. The peacekeeping mission is seen to be the best chance to restore law and order in Somalia in over a decade.

This is the best chance in many years to Somalia can have a stable gobern. This situation can give to Somalia a boost in its economy because of the stability in the economic policy may give to Somalia a stable basis to can grow in it's economy.

History

Somalia was formed by a merger of two former colonial territories: British Somaliland, in the north, and its larger and more populous neighbour, Italian Somaliland.

The United Kingdom established a protectorate in British Somaliland in 1886, following the withdrawal of Egyptian garrisons from the area. Italian Somaliland originated in 1889, when Italy concluded agreements with two local rulers, who placed their territories under Italian protection.

Italy´s occupation of the region was extended along the coast and inland, and Italian control was completed in 1927. Accordingly, the union of former British and Italian Somaliland took effect on 1 July 1960, when the independent Somali Republic was proclaimed.

On the same day representatives of the two component territories elected Dr Aden Abdullah Osman, hitherto President of the Somalia Legislative Assembly (the legislature of the southern territory), to be the first President of the new Republic.

During 1991 Somalia was riven by battles for territory between armed groups, mostly divided along clan lines.By contrast, Somaliland enjoyed several months of relative peace and stability following its declaration of independence, and work began, with the assistance of non-governmental aid organizations, on rebuilding the territory´s infrastructure.

"Somaliland", however, was not recognized as an independent state by the international community, and consequently did not receive the substantial financial aid that its economy required. Sub-clan rivalries within the Isaaq clan, to which the majority of the population in "'Somaliland" belong, emerged in December, when an armed group opposing the SNM took control of the port of Berbera.

Forces of the SNM recaptured the port, but in January 1992 fighting between rival factions within the army was reported in Burao. In March serious fighting resumed in Berbera. President immed Ali ´Tur´ dispatched forces of his own sub-clan, the Habr Yunis, to wrest control of the port from the Issa Musa sub-clan.

Six months of hostilities ensued in Berbera and the town of Burao. In October peace talks were initiated by elders of the sub-clans concerned, which resulted in a cessation of the conflict. The SNM Government was also threatened by non-Isaaq ethnic groups within the borders of "Somaliland" who opposed the secession of the territory. Islamic fundamentalist groups, which were funded by Sudan and Iran, also presented a threat to security.

In January 1992 the UN imposed an embargo on the sale of (armaments to Somalia. In the following month the UN, OAU, the the Arab League and the OIC issued a joint appeal for a cease-fire, stating that it was a prerequisite for the granting of humanitarian aid to Somalia.

Representatives from the rival factions in Mogadishu subsequently joined the conference, and agreed to the terms of a cease-fire accord devised by the international organizations.

In March of 2006, in discussions with a joint mission of the UN, the OAU, the OIC and the Arab League in Mogadishu, Gen.

Aidid agreed to some form of monitoring of the cease-fire by a foreign observer mission: The terms of the cease-fire accord signed by both Gen.Aidid and Ali Mahdi provided for a visit, in late March, by a UN technical team, to survey the situation in Mogadishu, in advance of an unarmed observer mission which was to be dispatched to monitor violations of the accord.

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In this blog I will publicate the principal Economnic News from a country named Somalia, which is one the three poorest countries in the world according to aneki http://www.aneki.com/poorest.html who coments that Somalia has a GPD per capita of $500= dollars. Is for this reason that Somalia is the choosen country to investigate about his economy.

Hoping you enjoy the readings:

The Streetjax Myself