This video says about itself:
Ethiopian Occupying Force Comitted Genocide in Mogadishu by Setting Fire on Bakaara Market, The Largest Market in Somalia On Tuesday October 3rd, 2007, in Retaliation of the Killing of two Undercover Ethiopian Soldiers Dressed As Islamic Clerks in The Market a day Earlier.
The Fire Demolished entirely The Market after Ethiopian Occupying Forces Shelled The Market with Heavy Rockets , twenty People Most of Them Homeless Died.
From British daily The Morning Star:
Three protesters killed, four injured
Somalia: Three people were reported killed and four injured on Saturday after government soldiers confronted protesters resisting the forced demolition of their homes.
Hundreds of poor families are being evicted at gunpoint from a shanty town near Mogadishu airport which the government claims could be used by Islamist fighters.
Human rights groups said that the families, who squatted the idle land, have nowhere to go.
Somali military officials have acknowledged that hundreds of soldiers whose training is funded by the US have deserted because they are not being paid their $100 monthly wage, and some have even joined the militants they are supposed to be fighting: here. And here.
The UN refugee agency warned on Wednesday that an estimated 315,000 Somalis will be uprooted in the course of the year because of escalating violence in the war-weary country: here.
Controversial dam project on the Omo River in southern Ethiopia cannot be stopped says African Development Bank: here.
Obama Expands Military Involvement in Africa: here.
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Garowe Online (Garowe)
Somalia: Force Demolish Houses Near Mogadishu Airport
26 March 2010
Somali police force demolished several homestead built near the Mogadishu Airport after reports emerged that they were funded and used by Al-Shabaab insurgent group.
The force, which was acting on order from Mogadishu local administration, razed down all the houses on what the officials said was plans to avert a possible attack on the airport carried within the area by the insurgents.
“The houses were demolished so as to tighten the security around the airport,” said Mogadishu’s council Secretary General Abdikafi Hilowle.
Col. Abdullahi Hassan Barise, Police Spokesman told the reporters that the insurgent group Al-Shabaab funded the construction of the houses near the airport so that I can use to carry out its attacks.
“It was a counter-plan if we look on one side, the other side is maintaining the security of the government-controlled areas. The government will relocated those affected by relocated to Medina district,” he said.
However, the affected population says the operation was conducted in an unethical manner where the police forcible uprooted the innocent civilians and demolished the houses early in the morning.
“I and my six children are homeless now, we don’t where to spend tonight which is our biggest nightmare”. “We built our houses here because we felt it is more secure than any other place,” said Muhubo Nur, one of the mothers whose house was demolished.
The order to demolish the houses was issued by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh, according to district commissioner of Hamarjajab.
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Somali official: Clashes between government and those protesting home demolitions kills 3
By AP
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Clashes in Somalia over home demolitions kill 3
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Somali government official says three people have been killed and four injured in clashes Saturday between government soldiers and armed protesters opposing the demolition of their houses near Mogadishu’s main airport.
Abdisalan Dahir Abdulle, Mogadishus deputy mayor, says the government had ordered the demolition of makeshift homes that could be used by militants from al-Shabab. The targeted area was a former air force base and is about 100 yards (meters) from the airport’s fence.
Witnesses on Friday said hundreds of poor Somali families are being forcibly evicted from their homes near the airport.
Human rights groups say the families — who squatted the idle land — have no place to go.
http://breakingnews.gaeatimes.com/2010/03/27/somali-official-clashes-between-government-and-those-protesting-home-demolitions-kills-3-18150/
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The East African (Nairobi)
Somalia: UN Shows Kenya Links to Both Sides
Kevin J Kelley
29 March 2010
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The Monitoring Group points in particular to military training that Kenya conducted last year on behalf of the TFG for some 2,500 youths recruited from inside Somalia and from northeastern Kenya, including the Dadaab refugee camps.
Kenyan officials have acknowledged training TFG police officers, but “initially denied any other type of training,” the Monitoring Group notes.
In the absence of authorisation from the United Nations, such training initiatives are in violation of the arms embargo.
The Monitoring Group further confirms that Kenya’s training of TFG recruits involved numerous “irregularities,” including recruitment of children and Kenyan citizens as well as “false promises of financial remuneration.”
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Garowe Online (Garowe)
Somalia: Somali MPs Hit Hard on Transition Government
7 April 2010
Somali lawmakers have accused the embattled transition government of being the main obstacle for the reopening of the parliament and also doing little to change the situation in the war-torn country.
The lawmakers numbering more than 25 held press conference in Nairobi Kenya and state their displeasure with how the government of President Sharif Sheikh Sheikh Ahmed is dealing with the parliament.
“It is evident that the government wants to mum the parliament because it does not want the house to reopen,” said a statement from the MPs.
“The top leaders of transitional government should either decide to get rid of the parliament and send away the lawmakers or allow the MPs to carry on with their work to hold the government accountable,” it added.
The lawmakers said the government needs to do something about the situation in the country instead of barring the parliament from functioning.
However, confidential sources within the government told Garowe Online that President Ahmed would not allow the reopening of the parliament, scheduled for this week until the speaker, who is currently outside the country, returns.
Ahmed was elected late January last year in neighboring Djibouti after he led his group to join the government in an international backed peace process.
His government has been under pressure from inside squabbling that derails its performance.
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Somalia: Two Die, Five Wounded in a Clash Between Soldiers in Capital
17 April 2010
Bitter clash between the transitional government troops has killed 2 and wounded 5 others including soldiers and students in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.
Residents told Shabelle radio that the violence started in parts of Darkenley district after the troops disputed and lastly caused to exchange fire around Hosh neighborhood in the capital adding that two people including a civilian killed at the spot wounding 4 students and government soldier.
Shabelle had contacted with some of the officials of the TFG to know more about the casualties of the civilians and the fighting, but replied that the clash was between bandits and the troops declining to comment more.
Confrontations between the government soldiers often cause casualties of civilians.
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Garowe Online (Garowe)
Somalia: Clashes in Mogadishu Kill Dozens
14 May 2010
At least 25 people have reportedly been killed and dozens others wounded in fresh violence that rocked Somalia’s capital in the last two days, Radio Garowe reports.
Somali forces getting backings from African Union troops clashed with anti-government fighters in northern districts of Mogadishu.
The people, mostly civilians were killed in mortar exchange at the Bakara Market, an insurgent stronghold in the capital in northern districts of Hodan, Wardhigley and Hawlwadag.
Ali Muse, an ambulance service official, said on Thursday that they have assisted over 60 wounded, adding that he death toll could be much higher.
Medics at Medina Hospital said 45 wounded were admitted in the health centre.
“Five of the 45 wounded civilians that the hospital has received died, the others are recuperating,” said a doctor at Mogadishu’s Medina Hospital.
Somalia’s fragile UN-backed government controls just a few blocks in Mogadishu while rebels, who have vowed to topple the administration, control much of the country’s southern and central regions.
Thousands of civilians have been killed and more than half of Mogadishu’s civilian population displaced since the eruption of insurgency in 2007.
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President’s palace comes under fire
Somalia: Islamist guerillas attacked the presidential compound and captured military bases in Mogadishu on Sunday in battles that left at least 15 people dead and 30 others wounded.
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed had been attending a UN-sponsored conference in Turkey and was not in the palace at the time of the attack.
Somalia’s Defence Minister Yusuf Mohamed Siyad warned that newly trained troops are defecting to rebel groups due to equipment shortages.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/90704
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