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Enough Project Releases Policy Statement on Bush Administration’s ‘Transition Land Mines’ in Somalia

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress issued the following statement today regarding the growing crisis in Somalia:
As the Bush administration prepares to leave office, it is taking three ill-considered actions that threaten to exacerbate the already catastrophic situation in Somalia and tie the hands of the incoming Obama Administration. (more…)

  Outside Powers Exacerbate Crisis Through Failed Policies

(Nairobi) - All parties  in the escalating conflict in Somalia  have regularly committed war crimes and other serious abuses during the past year that have contributed to the country’s humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch urged the United States, the European Union, and other major international actors to rethink their flawed approaches to the crisis and support efforts to ensure accountability. (more…)

 By Ambassador Sharif Salah Mohamed: September 20, 2008

1. Politics of Deception
 
From the creation of the Alliancerent a car bulgaria for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, in September 2007, the two top officials of the ARS were having intermittently contacts, with diplomats, particularly, from USA, Great Britain, France and the UN. Overt and covered meetings were held almost in all capitals of the region, between ARS leaders and diplomats these countries. The HQ of the Alliance in Asmara, seat of both Central and Executive Committees, was briefed on a number of these contacts, as dialoguing with International Community is permitted by the Constitution and political program of ARS.

United Nations Political Office for

1.       The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) held a second round of meetings of the High Level Committee and the Joint Security Committee in Djibouti from 17 to 21 September 2008. The international community, including the United Nations, diplomats from regional organizations (African Union, European Union, League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Conference) and individual countries, as well as representatives of Somali civil society, attended. 

2.       The two Committees continued their discussions on practical means of implementing the Djibouti Agreement. (more…)