The two Heads of State of Uganda and Burundi advocated for a one-year extension of all the TFIs guided by clear benchmarks and timelines, subject to agreement by the TFIs. Several other delegations asked for the election of a new leadership before the end of the transition in August 2011. Members of the ICG however note that Somalis must reach an agreement on the transition, and, if there were an extension,... 

Presented at the 19th Meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia Kampala, Uganda June 2 – 3, 2011 His Excellency Gen. Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda; His Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of Burundi; Amb. Augustine Mahiga, Co-Chair of the Meeting; His Excellency Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, President of the TFG of Somalia; Hon. Sharif Hassan, Speaker of Transitional Federal... 

For Immediate Release TFG/AMISOM Reassure Bakara Traders, Urge Extremists to Leave Market Mogadishu, 02 June, 2011 The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, jointly with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), have assured the business community in Mogadishu of their commitment to the protection of lives, livelihoods and property within Bakara Market. In recent weeks, Somali government... 

H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole) Presented at the U.N. Security Council Meeting on Somalia Nairobi, Kenya May 25, 2011 Reinforcing Stability and Advancing Reconciliation to End the Evolving Conflict in Somalia READ HERE  Read More →

PRESS RELEASE 28 May 2011 The President of Puntland State of Somalia, H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole), has praised the U.N. Security Council Meeting on Somalia, held in Nairobi on 25 May 2011. During a Thursday interview with the BBC Somali Service, the Puntland President was clear in emphasizing the value of the meeting and the discussions. “The meeting was a follow-up to the High-Level... 

Friday 27 May 2011 – Police seek witnesses to gunman’s alleyway chase after killing of men aged 18 and 19 – Two teenagers were hunted by a gunman and shot dead as they tried to escape down an alleyway, police have said. The incident took place in the Fishermead area of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, shortly after 10pm on Thursday. A 19-year-old, named locally as Mohamed Abdi Farah,... 

A SPANISH court has sentenced two Somalis to 439 years in jail each for the 2009 hijacking of a Spanish fishing boat in the Indian Ocean and said government-linked bodies paid a ransom to secure the boat and crew’s release. The National Court also said that those convicted were Cabdiweli Cabdullahi and Raageggesey Hassan Aji. The Alakrana tuna boat with 36 crew was seized off Somalia in October... 

By Halima Abdallah (EastAfrican) The European Union, one of the major financiers of Amisom and the Somali Transitional Federal Government, has threatened to cut further support if the current office holders do not relinquish power when their term of office comes to an end in August. This has not gone down well with the East African Community, whose members Uganda and Burundi are providing the boots... 

CBCNews: Osama bin Laden, the driving force behind the Sept. 11 attacks, is dead, ending a decade-long manhunt for the world’s most-wanted terrorist, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.  Read More →

By: Derek Henry Flood | http://www.jamestown.org – April 28, 2011 04:34 PM : Several reports circulated through the international media in early April indicating that a new semi-autonomous state, tentatively named Jubaland (or alternately “Azaniya”), would be created in southwestern Somalia to contain the Somali militant outfit Harakat al-Shabaab. Jubaland is purportedly being created by... 

ASSOCIATED PRESS: March 17, 2011: The northern region of Puntland has suspended a deal with the South African mercenary firm Saracen International to train an antipiracy force, two government officials said Thursday. Saracen International was hired to train 1,050 men in Puntland to battle the pirates that menace Somalia’s coast. The project was linked to Erik Prince, founder of the private security... 

Sheikh Omar Faruuq Haji Abdi Sultan Haji Mohamud was born in 1939 in the village of Qooxley which is situated between the larger Qallaafe and Qabridahhare districts in Ethiopia whose popular name is ‘Armaale’. The village of Armaale was started by his own father, the late Haji Abdi Suldan who had a religious order  that consisted of Tahfidh and a centre where all kinds of Islamic knowledge was... 

March 14, 2011, 8:10 AM   The threat of piracy in the waters off the Somali coast is only growing worse, and the recent deaths of four American hostages signaled a dangerous shift in this lucrative trade. Somalia’s prime minister, a Grand Island resident on leave from his job with New York State, argues the root causes of the piracy problem — and the path to a solution — are found on shore. Mohamed... 

We, the under-signed members of Concerned Somalis in Diaspora, are gravely concerned about the unilateral extension of the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP), on February 3, 2011, in violation of the Transitional Federal Charter, and the fast pace with which the draft constitution is moving to a ratification stage without any adequate input from the Somali public. MORE….  Read More →

Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) Somali National Party (Hanoolaato) Alliance for the Salvation of Somalia, Somali Democratic and Patriotic Movement. We, the aforementioned Somali Political Organizations, view with grave concern recent outrageous attempts to extend the mandate of the “Transitional Federal Institutions” (TFIs) for 2-3 more years. The mandate of these entities is slated... 

Puntland State of Somalia Garowe PRESS RELEASE February 5, 2011 Somalia: Puntland Government Denounces Unilateral Term-Extension of TFG Parliament The Puntland Council of Ministers, in an extra-ordinary meeting on 5 February, 2011, has unequivocally rejected the confusing term-extension of the Parliament of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, which was hastily extended for three-years... 

African Presidents Index: The good, the bad and the ugly… by East African Magazine …. Somalia “is so dangerous that UN officials – and even Somalia’s own politicians – cannot live there. It will take a political leader of historic influence to restore this country to peace and order. The question is; is Sharif Sheikh Ahmed that man?” READ MORE READ MORE  Read More →

By Mohamud Ahmed / Email: maash68@gmail.com – As the year 2011 hastens, the Transitional Federal government of Somalia has its clock ticking towards the proposed end date of the TFG Administration. The TFG tenure will expire in 7 months and the prospect of an extension is very bleak. However, for the Prime Minister, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, the year 2011 bears an over-sized load. Somalia’s... 

Growing Up Somali in Britain The experience of a group of young Somali men and women coming of age in London By Aweys O. Mohamoud Institute of Education, University of London Aweysmohamoud@aol.com First and foremost, I owe a great debt of gratitude to all the young people and their parents who willingly shared the most intimate details of their lives with me for the benefit of this research. They did... 

From the SMCM (Somali Marine and Coastal Monitor): (and with a view on news with an impact on Somalia) JAPAN – ONE OF THE TOP PIRATES IN SOMALIA Japanese corporate kleptomania in bed with anarchic state By Venatrix Fulmen (WTN) Not only does Japan steal precious tuna from Somalia, now they robbed the country’s top-level domain. That piracy is all about business is known since the days... 

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, December 27 — Amid growing doubts about private military contractor Saracen working for the Somali Transitional Federal Government and Puntland, the lawyer for the program, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Pierre Prosper, spoke to a half dozen UN correspondents on December 23, ostensibly on background. In remarks subsequently... 

24th of Dec 2010 – By. Said Swahili. In Somalia a jolly history was encountered the Nation during the past golden years. Moreover, the “half island – country” with number of “Archipelago ” Is known as the shelter of the Hama-tic- race that are supposedly descended from “Ham”- the son of “Noah” the prophet. The Cushitic people had dwelled in the area before been converted... 

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, December 17 — Days after a fight in the Somali Mission to the UN in New York, reported exclusively by Inner City Press, the new Somali Minister of Information, Post and Telecommunications Abdulkareem Jama came to the UN to describe the new government he is a part of. He said that many of the 18 new ministers are from the Somali diaspora. Of former Deputy... 

A two day International conference on Peace Promotion and Prevention of Radicalization has just been concluded in Ottawa, Canada. The conference was hosted by Canadian Friends of Somalia, a multi task   agency based in Ottawa. Organizers of this International Conference brought together all the stake holders including Youth, Diaspora Community members, Government leaders, experts, scholars, law enforcement... 

Yemen in recent years is the pressure to legitimize the island of Socotra, Somalia, and on the way for the deployment of the project and the military on the island of Socotra Somalis. Yemen resulted in Socotra, that providing false information and, is struggling to dominate the island which one of the East Africa country. Failure would be any trail to the island from Yemen to view any aspect of the...