Thursday, July 14, 2011

Horn Famine Update 14 July, 2011


CIA Assists Somali Terror Interrogations but Doesn't Run Secret Prison in Somalia

ABC News (blog) - ‎17 hours ago‎
A US official tells ABC News that the CIA has provided assistance to Somalia's fragile government as it interrogates terrorism suspects, but refutes a report that the agency runs a secret prison in that unstable country. A story published in The Nation ...

Red Cross Provided with Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA on ...

Huffington Post - ‎19 hours ago‎
Today on Democracy Now!, The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides Yves van Loo, an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson, with the location of the secret prison used by the CIA he uncovered in the Somali capital of ...

Deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia

Washington Post - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
UN officials are warning of a deepening crisis in East Africa caused by a severe drought and fighting in Somalia, with tens of thousands of children at risk of dying. A displaced Somali family arrives with their belongings at a camp in southern ...

WFP considers returning to rebel-held Somali regions

Daily Nation - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
By AFP The World Food Programme said Wednesday it was mulling a return to Somali regions controlled by the radical Shabaab rebels, who last week appealed for help for thousands of drought-ravaged civilians. The Al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents expelled ...

WFP considers returning to rebel-held Somali regions

AFP - Otto Bakano - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
NAIROBI — The World Food Programme said Wednesday it was mulling a return to Somalia's rebel-held regions to help residents facing hunger due to a harsh drought that prompted the insurgents to appeal for aid. Around three million Somalis, about a third ...

African Union calls for Somalia drought aid

AFP - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
ADDIS ABABA — The African Union called Tuesday on the international community to come to the aid of Somalia, where one in three people are suffering from the combined effect of unrest and drought. "Close to three million people, that is one in three ...

US MAGAZINE REPORTS CIA HAS SECRET BASE IN SOMALIA

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
(AGI) Washington - The Central Intelligence Agency supposedly has its own secret organization in Somalia that is being used in the fight against terrorism according to the American weekly 'the Nation' which has quoted its own secret sources. ...

Somalia: Rains in Mogadishu Affects Transportation Movement

AllAfrica.com - ‎3 hours ago‎
Mogadishu — Heavy rains that lasted more than 12 hours have badly impacted the transportation and people movement in lawless Mogadishu, the capital of war-torn Somalia. Bus fares in Mogadishu skyrocketed as some of the main roads were filled with rain ...

Kenya: National 'Held At Secret CIA Jail'

AllAfrica.com - Kevin J Kelley - ‎6 hours ago‎
New York — A Kenyan who disappeared from Nairobi's Eastleigh suburb two years ago is being held at a secret CIA prison in Mogadishu, claims a US magazine. Mr Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan is among several people snatched from Nairobi streets and "rendered" by ...

Somalia: US$ 800 Delivered to Shabelle Drought Committee

AllAfrica.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
Mogadishu — One of Somali parents on Wednesday delivered 800 US dollars to the drought committee of Shabelle Media Network to help the drought displaced Somalis in Mogadishu. Sheikh Yahye Cali Ibar, the dad of prominent Somali peace activist who was ...

Mark Bowden meets Somali leaders in Mogadishu

Sunatimes - Faduma Farah - ‎16 hours ago‎
Mogadishu (Sunatimes) United Nations' representative for humanitarian affairs to Somalia, Mark Bowden has on Tuesday arrived in Mogadishu to assess the drought situation in Somalia and ways forward in helping drought-stricken Somalis. ...

America's Expanding Presence in Somalia

The Atlantic Wire - ‎16 hours ago‎
On Monday, the US pledged $5 million to assist Somalis battered by a severe drought that has, in the words of UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres, precipitated the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world right now. ...

The CIA's Secret Sites in Mogadishu, Somalia

Sunatimes - Lisa Shannon - ‎17 hours ago‎
Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, ...

African Union makes aid appeal for drought stricken Somalia

International Business Times - Anissa Haddadi - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
The African Union called Tuesday on the international community to come to the aid of Somalia, where one in three people are suffering from the combined effect of unrest and drought. ...

Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as US Expands Covert ...

Democracy Now - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
Read the first chapter of "Haiti after the Earthquake," the new book by Paul Farmer, renowned physician and social justice advocate. On Thursday's show we will talk to Farmer about his book, and his experience working with Special Envoy for Haiti Bill ...

Famine in Somalia, Horn of Africa Described as "Worst Humanitarian Disaster in ...

Democracy Now - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued an urgent appeal over the crisis in Somalia, where more than 11 million people are in need of life-saving assistance as they face the worst drought in decades. The United Nations describes the Somali drought ...

CIA aiding Somali government

UPI.com - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- CIA officers have helped the transitional Somali government interrogate suspected terrorists allegedly operating in the Horn of Africa, an official source said. The transitional government in Somalia is struggling to expand ...

WFP mulls resuming S.Somalia food aid

Reuters AlertNet - Megan RowlingRebekah Curtis - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
An al Shabaab soldier stands next to women during food distribution at a displaced persons camp in Shebelle, about 50 km (31 miles) south of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, July 6, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal Omar By Megan Rowling LONDON (AlertNet) - The World ...

CIA running secret facilities in Somalia

Press TV - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
The US Central Intelligence Agency is using a secret facility in Mogadishu for counterterrorism purposes as well as a secret prison, The Nation magazine reported Tuesday. The report said the CIA has "a sprawling walled compound" on the coast of the ...

A Mogadishu soup kitchen feeds the hungry

New Internationalist (blog) - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
Kaltuumo is a 63-year-old mother of eight. Born in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, she married at the age of 20. Her husband used to work at the Mogadishu seaport as a porter, but he died 11 years ago. The family's source of income is Kaltuumo's ...

UN considers resumption of food aid in rebel-controlled Somalia

Monsters and Critics.com - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
Rome - The growing severity of food shortages in Somalia because of drought has prompted the World Food Programme (WFP) to consider the resumption of aid activities in parts of the country controlled by Islamist insurgents, the United Nations agency ...

'Secret CIA prisons in Somalia'

Bureau of Investigative Journalism - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
Suspected Islamic militants are seized from parts of east Africa and taken to underground cells in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where they are held without charge and interrogated by the CIA and Somali agents who are in their pay, the US weekly ...

National drought committee calls international community for quick aid to the ...

Mareeg - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
Mogadishu (Mareeg)-National Committee for aid of droughts of the Somali transitional federal government has called for international community to the poor drought affected people in the south and central Somalia , reports said. ...

Statement by the World Food Programme on humanitarian access to southern Somalia

StarAfrica.com - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
ROME, Italy, July 13, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Drought and conflict are threatening lives in southern Somalia and forcing refugees to stream across the border into Ethiopia and Kenya. The World Food Programme (WFP) is aware of ...

Somalia: National Drought Committee Appeals for Urgent International Aid

AllAfrica.com - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
The chairman of Somalia's drought committee and the minister of defense Abdihakim Hajji Mohamoud Fiqi said Somalia is experiencing a very serious drought situation, pointing out that there are a lot of people dying of hunger and malnourishment almost ...

'US is an example of a totalitarian state'

Press TV - ‎Jul 13, 2011‎
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is running a secret facility and a prison in Somalia for 'counterterrorism' purposes, says a report. The report, published by The Nation magazine, says the US spy agency has "a sprawling walled compound" in a ...

Somalia is a failed state with a failed harvest: editorial

Plain Dealer - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board Farah Abdi Warsameh, Associated PressA government soldier stands guard as refugees from southern Somalia carry their belongings to a camp in Mogadishu. Drought-stricken, war-blighted Somalia could use a helping hand ...

'US runs secret facility in Somalia'

Press TV - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
The US Central Intelligence Agency is using a secret facility as well as a prison in Somalia for the alleged purpose of fighting against the al-Shabab fighters, a report says. The facility is in a back corner of Aden Adde International Airport in the ...

Qatar Charity takes part in Somalia relief effort

Gulf Times - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
Qatar Charity (QC) has taken part in the international urgent relief efforts for victims of drought and famine in Somalia. The non-governmental humanitarian organisation has allocated QR800,000 as urgent relief for the victims in four provinces in ...

Somali Islamists stand no chance against battle-hardened Amisom troops

Africa Review - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
By CHARLES BIGIRIMANAPosted Tuesday, July 12 2011 at 11:26 Media reports pointing to the fact that Somalia's al-Shabaab Islamists are losing ground to troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) are hardly surprising. ...

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