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Somalia executes two army officers
2011-08-25
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Two sentenced soldiers were executed at the sand dunes next to General Kahiye Police Academy in Mogadishu yesterday.

It is seventh time the army court carried out capital punishment since its establishment last year.

After a firing squad eliminated the two men who were accused of killing other soldiers in Mogadishu, the Chief Judge of the Army Court, Colonel Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungaab held a presser in his office.

Col Mungaab stressed that the army court is part and parcel of the drive to restore security in Somalia.

The colonel vowed that the court is going to deal with the armed personnel with the habit of inflicting harm on the people and others in the defense service.

"We are going to implement the emergency directives recently promulgated by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed," said Col Mungaab.

President Ahmed recently declared a three months emergency directive in order to restore order especially in areas vacated by Al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader...
and in the internally displaced peoples.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
Soddy Arabia has donated 50 million dollars to help save children in famine-hit Somalia, the World Food Programme said in a statement received by AFP on Monday.

"The United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
World Food Programme welcomes a generous contribution of US $50 million from the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia... that will be used to feed more than half a million Somalia children suffering from malnutrition," it said.
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