(SomaliNet) The second commander of the police forces for Banadir province Abdukadir Bebe revealed on Friday that the police had taken control of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Bebe, former warlord aide, stated that the police forces in Mogadishu neighborhoods began establishing the security. They will patrol through the city and will prevent against the peace killers,
The deputy commander indicated that the people are needed to work with the police forces who are ready to act quickly to restore the law and order in the capital. All the police stations in the capital will be in operational taking all criminal cases and anyone who is offended must go to the nearest police station, said Bebe.
The government police forces are seen today in most of the streets of the capital replacing the military forces who were accused of robbery. On Friday, Mogadishu mayor Mohamed Omar Habeb Mohamed Dhere said his authority will take tough measures to ease the level of the insecurity in the city as most of the districts are under curfew at nights.
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(SomaliNet) Armed Somali gunmen hijacked an Indian dhow near the main port of Mogadishu late Thursday in the latest attack in a surge of piracy off the Somali coast this year, Kenya 's maritime official confirmed on Friday.
Andrew Mwangura, coordinator of the Seafarers Assistance Program (SAP), said the pirates seized the Al Aqeeq merchant sailing vessel but the identity of the crew onboard and their nationalities have not been established. "Indian dhow was hijacked by pirates just outside Mogadishuport on Thursday. The vessel appears to be a dhow, its size is still not known at this time," Mwangura told Xinhua by telephone early Friday. "The number of the crew members onboard and their nationalities are not yet know. Its movement is not yet clear. We also have no information about whether the dhow was arriving or leaving the port," he said.
Hijackings and piracy have surged since last month as armed groups take advantage of a lack of law and order in the country, which has been without an effective central government since 1991. The attacks have halted food aid deliveries to Somalia by sea, after an attempt by pirates to seize a ship chartered by the UN food relief agency. On Sunday, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) said their program to feed one million Somalis is under threat.
It might be a little easier to feed the starving masses if you were to, you know, kill the pirates and sink their ships. Eventually they'd get the message and become farmers or auto mechanics.
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Hijackings and piracy have surged since last month as armed groups take advantage of a lack of law and order in the country
If you look at it as 'insurgency at sea', it becomes a little easier to understand. The Islamic Courts, aside from detaining one crew, didn't do anything of significance.
The attacks have halted food aid deliveries to Somalia by sea
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Nah, cut the pirates in largish chunks, that way you can catch more sharks and not worry about such little things as surviving Pirates or wounded and recovering "Bait".
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MOGADISHU/Nairobi - Some 90,000 people have returned to the bullet-scarred Somali capital Mogadishu, after nearly a month-long lull in heavy fighting, the United Nations said on Friday. All reports of movement during the month of May have been of returns to Mogadishu. Information received indicates that approximately 90,000 people displaced by the recent conflict have so far gone back to the capital, the UNs humanitarian wing, OCHA, said in a statement. The OCHA statement also said an increase in piracy off Somali shores was hindering food distribution efforts to the displaced, as a ship chartered by the UN World Food Program had been hijacked.
Most of the displaced settled in makeshift camps on the outskirts of the city, facing the spread of disease and a lack of adequate shelter.
The past month saw fewer clashes between government troops and militants.
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Move from the new shithole back to the old shithole.
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"Ah, it's good to be back home again! Put on some tea, Mum. Wha? Where's the stove? Damned Islamic Courts really lowered property values, too. What's this? Hey they left a Koran. Mum, get the billy off the cart and we'll boil up some water with this tinder I found."
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Ah, but if you don't know it's a shithole ...
They know it's a shithole, but it's also "Home"
You know,"There's no shithole like home".
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ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani military on Friday rejected as distorted allegations that its peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo traded weapons for gold with militias they were supposed to disarm.
"Lies! All lies!"
This is irresponsible reporting, Army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said of the claims by BBC television that United Nations peacekeepers, including Pakistani troops stationed in eastern Congo in 2005, were tied up in the illegal activities.
Pakistan would wait for the findings of a UN investigation that was launched last year, Arshad said, noting that a statement on the matter issued Wednesday by the office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made no mention of Pakistan. Pakistan is one of the best countries, has the best troops, Arshad said of his countrys long involvement with UN peacekeeping missions.
"We're right up there with the Samoans!"
In past years, UN peacekeepers in Congo have been accused of buying sexual favours from refugees in exchange for food rations at camps under their supervision. Dozens of peacekeepers have been removed from their duties and sent home supposedly to face punishment by their governments.
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UN peacekeepers in Congo have been accused of buying sexual favours from refugees in exchange for food rations at camps under their supervision.
With AIDS running (what 80% or so?) it seems entirely self correcting.
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's feuding president and prime minister agreed early Sunday to hold an early parliamentary election on Sept. 30, defusing a crisis that threatened to escalate into violence when the president sent troops streaming toward the capital.
"We found a decision, which is a compromise," President Viktor Yushchenko said after emerging from eight hours of tense talks. "Now we can say that the political crisis in Ukraine is over."
Analysts said Yushchenko's move was an attempt to pressure Yanukovych to agree on an early date for new parliamentary elections, rather than a sign he was preparing for violent confrontation. In the hours-long talks, Yushchenko had sought new elections as early as possible, demanding them held first in May, then in June. Yanukovych wanted them no earlier than the fall.
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A 19-year-old man has contracted bird flu in China, the country's Ministry of Health said Saturday.
The man, identified only by his surname Cheng, is a soldier in the Chinese military and is being treated at an undisclosed military hospital in China, reported Xinhua, China's official news agency.
Chinese health officials did not list his condition or disclose where Cheng was stationed in China or indicate how he may have come in contact with the virus.
Cheng developed bird flu symptoms of fever, cough and pneumonia on May 9 and was hospitalized on May 14, Xinhua reported. Tests confirmed he was infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1.
Chinese health officials were highly concerned by Cheng's case and ordered the army to monitor all who have come in contact with him, Xinhua said. No one else has shown any symptoms, the news agency said.
China has reported 25 human cases of bird flu since 2003 and 15 of those people have died, Xinhua said. Nothing quite galvanizes military commanders like a soldier catching a deadly disease.
KATHMANDU - Maoist activists stoned a car carrying the US envoy in southeast Nepal on Friday but the diplomat was not hurt, police and officials said. Members of the Young Communist League (YCL), the Maoists youth wing, hurled stones at the car outside the U.N. refugee agency office in the town of Damak, police officer Narayan Chimouriya told Reuters by telephone. Damak is about 300 km (200 miles) southeast of Kathmandu.
The stones hit the vehicle and caused some scratches to the car but the ambassador is safe, Chimouriya said.
A US embassy spokeswoman said Ambassador James F. Moriarty, on a tour of UN-supported camps housing tens of thousands of refugees from nearby Bhutan, was unhurt. Moriarty has been critical of the Maoists, who signed a peace deal with the government in November and joined an interim administration last month. No arrests had yet been made and there was no immediate comment from the YCL.
Don't make us mad, you wouldn't like us when we're mad ...
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on further note, Mao was a bastard child who destroyed his own following. China I blame, you get the obnoxious duty to say NO. Or not.
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In recent months, members of the hitherto unknown Young Communist League (YCL) have emerged as a crucial front organisation for the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist). While the CPN-Maoist, which has joined the Interim Government, prepares for the elections to the Constituent Assembly, its YCL affiliate engages in abduction, extortion, looting and a range of intimidatory crimes. Indeed, the YCL is now perceived as a dreaded gang with the capacity to assault any one on the street, abduct people from their homes and issue threats to people while demanding money from them.
YCL was formed by the CPN-Maoist at some point (there is no definite information on the year of its creation) during the peoples war as an affiliate to provide support and energy to the revolution. As the partys youth wing, its role was to "organise youth, be involved in events, conduct political awareness, and take part in development work as volunteers." Once the CPN-Maoist was proscribed, the YCL was also forced to go underground. After the April 2006 Jana Andolan (Peoples Movement) and the subsequent over-ground role of the insurgents, the CPN-Maoist decided to revive the YCL.
Ganeshman Pun, chairman of the YCL, reveals that the League was reactivated in November 2006. According to him, the YCL "is a fusion of the Partys military and political character, and it is composed of PLA members who have an interest in politics."
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So, how far is Nepal from Bangladesh? They could lend a couple of RABs to take care of the commies.
People addicted to alcohol and young adults who are heavy drinkers, but not considered alcoholics, have something in common: they possess poor decision-making skills, according to psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The findings are based on research examining binge drinking and heavy alcohol use among college students...
YANGON - Myanmars military junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for yet another year on Friday, ignoring international pleas for her release, a government source said. Home Ministry officials went to her residence and read it out to her, the source said of the order issued two days before her detention was set to expire.
The decision to keep Suu Kyi, 61, confined in her lakeside home in Yangon had been widely expected despite appeals from the White House, United Nations and fellow Nobel winners to the generals ruling the former Burma. She has now been in detention for more than 11 of the last 17 years and United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, called her confinement cruel and unacceptable.
Debbie Stothard, a member of the activist Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma, said in neighbouring Thailand: The regime is obviously more afraid of Aung San Suu Kyis popularity than international opinion.
If they had released Suu Kyi, it would have been an hasty end for the regime. There is increasing resentment over its mismanagement of the economy, she said, refering to small public protests in Yangon this year against worsening living conditions.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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(SomaliNet) Armed Somali gunmen hijacked an Indian dhow near the main port of Mogadishu late Thursday in the latest attack in a surge of piracy off the Somali coast this year, Kenya 's maritime official confirmed on Friday. 
MOGADISHU/Nairobi - Some 90,000 people have returned to the bullet-scarred Somali capital Mogadishu, after nearly a month-long lull in heavy fighting, the United Nations said on Friday. All reports of movement during the month of May have been of returns to Mogadishu. Information received indicates that approximately 90,000 people displaced by the recent conflict have so far gone back to the capital, the UNs humanitarian wing, OCHA, said in a statement. The OCHA statement also said an increase in piracy off Somali shores was hindering food distribution efforts to the displaced, as a ship chartered by the UN World Food Program had been hijacked.
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani military on Friday rejected as distorted allegations that its peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo traded weapons for gold with militias they were supposed to disarm.
People addicted to alcohol and young adults who are heavy drinkers, but not considered alcoholics, have something in common: they possess poor decision-making skills, according to psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The findings are based on research examining binge drinking and heavy alcohol use among college students...
YANGON - Myanmars military junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for yet another year on Friday, ignoring international pleas for her release, a government source said. Home Ministry officials went to her residence and read it out to her, the source said of the order issued two days before her detention was set to expire.
