United States Africa CommandPublic Affairs Office2 May 2012
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Good morning. Please see today's news review for May 2, 2012. This e-mail is bestviewed in HTML.Of interest in today's report:-U.S. steps up training for African force in Somalia-Top U.S. Security Official Says 'Rigorous Standards' Used for Drone Strikes-Somalia MPs killed in al-Shabaab suicide attack-UN and Partners Issue 'Unambiguous' Warning Against Peace Process Spoilers-Dutch Anti-Piracy Policy to Set Foot On Somali Soil-Exercise Africa Endeavor final planning conference kicks off in GhanaU.S. Africa Command Public AffairsPlease send questions or comments to:publicaffairs@usafricom.mil DSN (314) 421-2687 or commercial +49-(0)711-729-2687
05/01/2012
Reuters
SINGO, Uganda - At a training camp in Uganda, a dozen soldiers crouch, weapons raised as they maketheir way down a dirt road between shipping containers set up to look like buildings in the Somali capital.
05/01/2012
New York Times
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday offered its first extensive explanation of howAmerican officials decide when to use drones to kill suspected terrorists -- a tactic that the government often
treats as a classified secret even though it is ...
05/01/2012
AFP
Seven people, including two MPs, have been killed in a suicide attack in central Somalia, authorities in thetown of Dusa Mareb have said.
05/01/2012
AllAfrica.com
The United Nations and its partners in Somalia today warned individual groups against jeopardizing aroadmap for ending the transition in the east African country, adding that sanctions and restrictions could be
Netherlands
In line with European decisions, the Netherlands will intensify its anti-piracy policy off the Somali coast. TheEU hopes to get a grip on the problem by tackling pirate munity on the shoreline itself. Started in 2008, theoperation is to extend until at l...
05/01/2012
Reuters
A gunman detonated a grenade in a Nairobi church on Sunday, killing one worshipper and wounding 16 in
the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya since it sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants blamedfor cross-border raids.
05/01/2012
Ethiopian NewsAgency (ENA)
ADDIS ABABA -- The African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Dr. Jean Ping strongly condemnedthe terrorist attack perpetrated in Nairobi, Kenya and in Kano, Nigeria, on April 29, 2012, which resulted inthe death of several worshippers, while injuring m...
05/01/2012
KSL Television
SALT LAKE CITY -- U.S. Army involvement in the campaign to track down rebel leader Joseph Kony ofUganda has thrown light on a little-known mission of U.S. troops in many countries across Africa. In theKony operation, they're advising local forces engaged...
05/01/2012
Leadership
United States President, Mr. Barrack Obama has pledged that his administration would help the Nigeriangovernment stabilise its democratic process.
05/01/2012
AssociatedPress
BAMAKO, Mali--After fierce fighting in Mali's capital Tuesday, troops loyal to the junta overran the maincamp of the soldiers who tried to oust them in a countercoup.
05/01/2012
Reuters
KINSHASA - At least five people have been killed in clashes between Democratic Republic of Congo's armyand soldiers loyal to a renegade general wanted by the International Criminal court for war crimes, U.N. andmilitary sources said on Monday.
05/01/2012
WashingtonPost
A Republican conference call on Thursday, titled "President Obama's Failed Foreign Policy," got me to
thinking: How can voters hear an honest debate on national security and foreign policy issues in thepresidential campaign when candidates or their suppor...
05/01/2012
Business Ghana
ACCRA - Military communication experts from Africa, Europe and other Western countries are attending aone week-long planning conference to co-ordinate activities to improve security capabilities of Africanpartners on standard military communications prac...
05/01/2012
UN News centre
-Libya: UN mission voices concern over detainee deaths resulting from torture-UN official concerned over plight of South Sudanese stranded at river port
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By Jocelyn EdwardsSINGO, Uganda (Reuters) - At a training camp in Uganda, a dozen soldiers crouch, weaponsraised as they make their way down a dirt road between shipping containers set up to look likebuildings in the Somali capital.Standing by, observing the Ugandan troops at work, is a U.S. marine, Major Mark Haley."Here is where we are going to teach urban warfare, how to fight building to building," Haleysaid as the Ugandans moved between containers scrawled with graffiti reading "City of Death"and "Hell Zone".The model of the Somali capital, or "Little Mogadishu" as it is known, was built by Americanmilitary trainers to prepare the Ugandan soldiers to take part in the African Union missionpropping up the Western-backed government in Mogadishu.After al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels pulled out of the capital last year, the United Stateshas stepped up efforts to train Ugandan soldiers who will be part of the push by AMISOM totake more territory outside the capital.The United States and other Western powers have been backing efforts to crush al Shabaabas they worry Somalia has become a safe haven for Islamist militants seeking to wreak havocin the region and further afield.Washington helps to fund the AMISOM force, provides assistance to the transitional institutionsin Somalia and has carried out air strikes within the Horn of Africa nation to kill high-profile alQaeda and al Shabaab suspects.However, the United States is reluctant to put boots on the ground ever since its humiliatingretreat from Somalia following the October 1993 "Blackhawk Down" debacle in which 18 U.S.servicemen and well over a thousand Somalis died.Helped by AMISOM, the transitional government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed nowcontrols most of Mogadishu for the first time since dictator Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991.But Ahmed's government has little control over the rest of the country, where al Shabaab, clan-based militias and warlords control chunks of territory. Ethiopian and Kenyan troops are alsobattling al Shabaab inside Somalia.BEYOND MOGADISHUU.S. officials say they are hopeful the equipment and training they provide will help AMISOMpush al Shabaab, which formally merged with al Qaeda this year, out of Somalia."Because of these successes we see new targets that we need to help (the Ugandan forces)with, specifically mobility and counter-mobility as they move along these routes outside ofMogadishu," said Major Albert Conley, deputy chief of the office of security cooperation for theU.S. military in Uganda.Uganda supplies the majority of the AMISOM troops in Somalia, which the United Nationsagreed in February to increase from 12,000 to 17,731 peacekeepers.AMISOM has sent a small contingent of troops to Baidoa, the former seat of Somalia's
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