[Garowe] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warrior group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.
The U.N. secretary-general's special representative in Somalia, James Swan, told journalists Wednesday that the 900,000 people in those areas represent a "relatively small" share of the more than 7 million in need as the Horn of Africa country faces its worst drought in several decades. Thousands of people have died, including many children.
"It is obviously regrettable" that access remains difficult because of al-Shabaab, Swan said, adding that talks continue with Somali organizations and private sector entities that might be able to reach places controlled or under the influence of the holy warrior group.
Al-Shabaab’s hostility to aid efforts during a famine in Somalia a decade ago was a factor in the deaths of a quarter-million people.
The U.N. weeks ago warned that without substantially more international assistance, a rare formal famine declaration could be made for parts of Somalia by the end of the year.
Swan said the next announcement from an ongoing assessment of drought data should be made in the next three weeks.
Somalia, like other countries with long-running humanitarian crises, saw support from many donors drop this year as the focus swung to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Swan noted a "substantial increase in delivery of assistance" in recent months, but the U.N. says more needs to be done.
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The DC Swamp and LSD's used this as a distraction in 1993 (Clinton issues), and it resulted in US Military deaths.
I lost a good friend, Tim (Griz) during that nut roll.
US taxpayers spent $ Billions, Celebrities and S.I.G's made $$$ Millions playing a Feed/Save Africa tune.
NOTHING CHANGED to prevent this from happening again
While my Christian Heart feels for them.
I am in a country that is $32+% Trillion in debt with an inflation rate nearing 24%.
We have to get our own country in order 1st, so we can properly take care of others. It is not the time to Print more $$$$$ so some DC Swampers can get rich skimming the books.
[Garowe] Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bully boyz have increased attacks mostly targeting innocent civilians across the country, despite an active campaign in several parts of Somalia to completely degrade the group, which controls rural central and southern Somalia.
For the last week, a report published indicates, at least 30 civilians have been killed in separate al-Shabaab attacks within Somalia, leaving 57 others critically maimed. The al-Shabaab bully boyz took responsibility for most of the attacks which left civilians dead.
Last week [18th and 23rd October], al-Shabaab bully boyz targeted various parts mostly in HirShabelle and Jubaland where they killed dozens of people using boom-mobiles and Improvised Explosive Devices [IED], which caused irreparable levels of damage.
One of the attacks was coordinated by the group on October 19th when it unleashed a twin bomb on two key bridges in Hirshabelle’s Hiiraan region resulting in at least 21 deaths. This was one of the worst attacks targeting civilians in recent months within Somalia.
At Jalalaqsi, the bully boyz waged an attack near 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... Transition Mission in Somalia [ATMIS] base manned by Djiboutian soldiers, leaving the mayor and District Commissioner dead. Others who died in the attack include AU peacekeepers and civilians.
In Bulobarde, two cycle of violences loaded with explosives were driven onto the town bridge, when one bad boy jumped off while the other detonated the bombs, dying in the blast. Six others, including four civilians, were killed, and the bridge was partially destroyed.
At Tawakal Hotel in Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , the bully boyz killed three people as Jubaland Security Forces struggled to contain them for several hours. Most of these attacks are believed to be retaliation to the operation being coordinated by the Somali National Army and other partners across Somalia.
Data taken by AOAV in 2022 so far indicate that so far, civilian casualties of explosive weapon use in Somalia stand now at 721 [247 killed, 474 injured]. This is the highest number in recent years, an indication that al-Shabaab still remains a major threat to Somalia's quest for stability.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The United States on Wednesday froze huge Saudi assets in a new escalatory step between the two allies.US media reported Biden administration’s refusal to release assets and bonds belonging to the Saudi government, amounting to $987 billion, and placed the Saudi assets under the protection of the national security and economy of the United States.
The Biden administration’s decision came after Riyadh threatened to sell bonds and assets in the United States if the US Congress approved the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC)’s resolution.
The new crisis is the deepest in the history of the two countries’ relations since before Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... decided to reduce oil production in an unprecedented blow to Washington.
The crisis widened with the widespread circulation of media reports on the Saudi Crown Prince’s mocking of Biden.
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...And when a notional President DeSantis tries to repair the damage, he will be hysterically denounced as 'cozying up to tyrants'.
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The question now is:
If we piss off 1 OPEC major player, do we piss off all of them, Killing 20% of our Oil Imports. What about Liberal Socialist Canada's (51%) and it dislikes of the USA .
BTW:
Saudi Arabia kingdom owns Motiva, America’s largest refinery, and ARAMCO took full control of Port Arthur, Texas, facility in 2017.
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Only found 3 mentions of this significant story all in Arabic media. The story references US media reports. I’m usually pretty good at drilling down to sources. Anyone have recommendations to either official US or Saudi statements on this? Thanks …
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Jerusalem Post report: The American attack on Saudi Arabia isn’t justified Al-Rai, Kuwait, October 14
US President Joe Biden formally launched the campaign against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by announcing last week that he is waiting for Congress to discuss sanctions against Riyadh. This comes against the backdrop of the recent OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production by two million barrels per day, and what was subsequently interpreted by Washington as indirect Saudi support for Moscow in its war against Ukraine. It is important to remember that, as we enter the midterm election season in the US, political flames tend to be fanned by American politicians.
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Republicans launch an investigation into Biden's 'misuse' of emergency oil reserves to lower gas prices after talk of ban on fuel exports after Saudi rejected call to delay OPEC deal
Impeach that degenerate shithead. Get him and his entire sick family the hell out of Washington. Kamala cannot be worse.
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It's like this administration has sworn to alienate America and push its allies and enemies all together in a bloc that works towards de-fanging the USA for good.
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ECB is raising rates
Saudis, Indians, other sovereigns are diversifying out of dollars
Europeans are begging Africans for oil and gas supplies
Saudis are joining the BRICS and will start using their alternative to SWIFT for settling trades
… means that the dollar is about to begin its long march downward. Just like the British pound a century ago
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Repubs launch investigation! = op designed to give their Dem masters cover.
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I honestly believe Biden has only a limited understanding of what is going on. He isn't making the decisions.
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I'm with you deacon, I doubt the fucker knows his name.
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The end of the petrodollar will result in far fewer foreign wars for Americans to fight in. Most of our wars are about upholding the petrodollar.
But don't worry. The CIA will be there with a color revolution. Just you wait. After all, overthrowing governments and killing people is what they are.
But Sterling’s run came to an end and the dollar’s run is coming to an end too.
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The article is bogus.
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Most of our wars are about upholding the petrodollar.
Yup. This one was supposed to crush the ruble. It ended up boosting the rubble and crushing the euro, and it is now setting in motion the dollar’s long slide downward.
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Heh - ended up boosting the ruble. Biden won’t stop till we’re standing in the rubble.
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The site banner says this is from the Yemen News Agency. Jeepers children. When did y'all get so gullible? EC is right. The article is bogus.
[AlAhram] Humanitarian groups including Save the Children and Amnesia Amnesty International urged Italia Wednesday to scrap a controversial EU-sponsored deal with Libya to stop migrant boat crossings to Europe.
Under the 2017 accord, Italia and the EU help fund, train and equip the Libyan coastguard, which then intercepts migrants colonists in the Mediterranean and forcibly returns them to the strife-torn country.
"Europe, defender of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , should under no circumstances make deals with a country... where migrants colonists are tortured, become victims of slavery or of sexual abuse," Claudia Lodesani, head of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Italia, told a presser in Rome.
Campaigners say nearly 100,000 people have been intercepted in this way over five years. Many are believed to have ended up in Libyan detention centres, compared by Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... to concentration camps.
Critics lament a lack of accountability, with no public information on who receives the money in Libya, while rescuers slam a "Wild West" situation with armed militias posing as the Libyan coastguard.
The appeal by 40 organizations including Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty, calls for urgent action by Italia's new far-right government, which was sworn in at the weekend.
If Rome does not scrap the deal by November 2, it will be automatically renewed for another three years.
In her inaugural speech to parliament, new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed Tuesday to take a tough line on boat migrants colonists.
'CAPTURES, PUSHBACKS' Italia has long been on the migration frontline, taking in tens of thousands of people who attempt the world's deadliest crossing yearly.
It had numerous agreements during the 2000s with Libyan leader Moamer Qadaffy on curbing migratory flows.
The partnership was suspended following the collapse of the Libyan government and the European Court of Human Rights' 2012 condemnation of Italia for intercepting and forcibly returning people to Libya.
But wars in Syria, Iraq and Libya sparked a wave of refugees in 2015, with over 150,000 people crossing in boats to Italia, followed by over 180,000 people in 2016.
Thousands more died trying.
In 2017, Italia's centre-left prime minister Paolo Gentiloni signed a new deal with Fayez al-Serraj, head of the UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord, aimed at reducing the flow.
From then onwards, rescue charities including the Alarm Phone hotline used by migrants colonists in distress were "told by Italia to alert the Libyan coastguard instead", Chiara Denaro from Alarm Phone said.
She said it was "not possible to consider the forcible return of people desperate to flee".
The so-called coastguard "fire weapons, they perform dangerous manuevers that risk causing shipwrecks... We can describe the returns as captures, as pushbacks, but not as rescues," she added.
The EU has contributed 58 million euros to date to the accord.
Investigative Italian journalist Duccio Facchini on Monday revealed Italia had spent another 6.65 million euros on 14 new speed boats for the Libyan coastguard just a few months ago.
[Rudaw] The newly-elected Swedish government will retain the same position as its predecessor regarding ongoing negotiations with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... on its application to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... , the country's first deputy parliament speaker told Rudaw on Tuesday.
Sweden and Finland launched their bids to join the US-led military alliance earlier this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, rolling back on their longstanding policies of military neutrality. Their bids were dealt a blow by Turkey, a member of the alliance, who accused the Nordic countries of harboring Kurdish groups designated as bandidosLions of Islam in the country.
"The agreement between Sweden, Finland, and Turkey should be upheld ... in accordance with different international regulations and EU regulations. So far, there are no changes," First Deputy Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) Kenneth Forslund told Rudaw's Hawraz Gulpi, adding that Sweden's new right-wing prime minister has requested to meet Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... on the matter, pending an invitation.
According to a memorandum signed in July between Ankara, Stockholm, and Helsinki, the Nordic countries will address Turkey's requests for the
extradition of suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Fethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... movement. They must also not provide any form of support to northeast Syria's (Rojava) Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military arm — the People's Protection Units (YPG) — which Turkey alleges are the PKK's Syrian proxies.
"The newly elected foreign minister has said that Sweden stands firm on its traditional positions and that the PKK is regarded as a terrorist organization since 1984 in Sweden," Forslund stated.
The PKK is a Kurdish gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara, who has launched successive operations against the group and its proxies domestically and southward in Iraq and Syria.
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom on Tuesday said that the new Swedish government was committed to addressing Turkey's requests, telling AFP that Stockholm supported Ankara and the EU's stance on the PKK and calling the Kurdish gang "terrorist through and through."
"We will be able to fulfill the memorandum and its items. I'm quite sure of that," Billstrom said, referring to the memorandum signed in Madrid in June.
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[Shafaq News] Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi allowed Israeli products into Iraq, a member of the Sadiqoun parliamentary bloc said on Wednesday.
Lawmaker Zeinab al-Mousawi in a statement said that al-Kadhimi's government did not handle the economic crisis in Iraq and offered Jordanian and Egyptian products privileges over the domestic products of the country.
"Al-Kadhimi offered exemptions for 371 products from Jordan; a country that only produces 80 products. Under this title, some wholesalers imported Israeli, Saudi, Ottoman Turkish, and Egyptian products as Jordanian," she said.
"Mediators in Jordan change the packaging of those products and mark them as Made in Jordan in order to be imported to Iraq tax-free," she concluded.
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[Shafaq News] The Kidnapped Yazidi Rescue Office in the Kurdistan Region announced on Wednesday the liberation of six Yazidi girls and boys who were kidnapped by ISIS terrorist organization.
The office said in a statement that the victims are aged between 15 and 24 years.
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[Rudaw] Christians are vanishing from the Nineveh plains, according to church leaders in the province, and Baghdad’s failure to provide services means those who fled the ISIS onslaught of 2014 are unlikely to return.
Successive wars, international sanctions, and the arrival of ISIS have all contributed to the migration of Iraq’s Christians to Jordan, Canada, the US, Europe, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... among other destinations.
Yousif Naamo, a resident of Baqofa village, Tel Kaif district, is the only person in his entire family who has opted to stay in his village. In the past, he used to visit the cemetery of loved ones with his relatives, but now he is alone as most of them have sought shelter in the Kurdistan Region and others migrated abroad.
"The number of villagers including children, men, and women, does not exceed 25. In the past 100 to 150 used to visit our village church, but now, there is no one." Naamo told Rudaw’s Naif Ramadhan on Tuesday while visiting the tombs of loved ones.
Around 80 percent of the predominantly Christian villages of Nineveh are empty. People in remaining populated villages have declined from around 300 families to under 30.
With the future of Iraq’s Christians remaining shrouded in uncertainty, Habib affirmed his belief that Christians will remain in the country that over a million members of their community used to call home before 2003, according to data from Erbil’s Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda in 2021.
Iraq’s Christian community has been devastated in the past two decades. Following the US-led invasion in 2003, sectarian warfare prompted followers of Iraq’s multiple Christian denominations to flee, and attacks by ISIS in 2014 hit minority communities especially hard.
Fewer than 300,000 Christians remain in Iraq today, but not all live in a permanent place they can call home.
Yazidis are going through the very same crisis.
The once-thriving towns of Gir Ozeir, Dwsi, and Girzer are deserted. Very few people are ready to return home due to a lack of very basic life essentials and security, according to Nayef Saedo, acting mayor of Shingal.
Poverty, instability, and unemployment have driven a large number of Yazidis to take illegal and dangerous routes to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in recent months.
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[IsraelTimes] From Netanyahu supporters to those trying to block his return to power, plus a TikTok star and a Telegrass activist, what you need to know about the parties running on November 1.
Hopefully this time someone will win with a huge margin, so that it’ll be a while before they are forced to do it again.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
