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| Africa Horn |
| U.N.: More Than 70 Killed In Warlords' Battle For Somali Port |
| 2013-07-05 |
| [AnNahar] Battles between rival warlords in Somalia's key southern port city of Kismayo killed at least 71 people last month, U.N. officials said Friday, festivities Mogadishu has accused Kenyan troops of encouraging. "Recent fierce fighting... continues to have a profound impact on civilians and humanitarian aid work in the Lower Juba region," the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) said, adding the festivities also left more than 300 injured in June. "Injuries and deaths outside the hospital are estimated to be much higher but cannot be confirmed," the WHO added, which supports hospitals treating the war-maimed in Kismayo. Clashes have put on hold a vital mass polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination campaign, after the first cases were confirmed six years after Somalia was declared free of the crippling virus. "Kismayo remains a volatile area, with observed increase in fighting among warring factions, and other incidences of violence such as landmines and hand grenade attacks," the WHO added. Several rival factions are battling for control of Kismayo, a strategic and economic hub in the southern Jubaland region. They include former Islamist chief Ahmed Madobe, who in May appointed himself "president" of Jubaland, and Bare Hirale, a former Somali defense minister who also leads a powerful militia. Somalia's government has demanded that Kenyan troops stationed in Kismayo as part of an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force be replaced, accusing them of backing Madobe's Ras Kamboni militia, which opposes Mogadishu's rule. Kenyan troops, which invaded Somalia in 2011, fought alongside Madobe's troops to oust al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab fighters from Kismayo, before joining the 17,700-strong AU force. The AU force is mandated -- and funded by the U.N. and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... -- to support central government. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 One word: Bloodbath. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-05 23:20 |
| #2 As per TOPIX + DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, looks like Iran + Sudan are making bids to control or dominate West Africa region. Also, worries in + about SOUTH AFRICA after Nelson Mandela finally passes on. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-05 22:19 |
| #1 "forget it, Jake. It's |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-07-05 09:40 |