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"President should hold a national consultative meeting on the way forward for his foreign policy" Mr. Bihi

By: Yumoha Pasha

HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The foreign policy of president Silanyo is raw politically and without direction.

This was said by the UCID party's secretary for foreign affairs Mr. Mohamed Harun Bihi during an exclusive and candid interview with the Hornnewspaper in Hargeisa where he also urged the head of state to consult the nation in order to salvage his foreign policy.

Source: Reuters

By Richard Lough

MOGADISHU, June 11 (Reuters) - Training in a bullet-riddled stadium where the remains of a rocket propelled grenade lies discarded on the track's edge counts as progress for Somali Olympic hopeful Mohamed Hassan Mohamed.

A year ago, Mogadishu's Konis stadium was a base for Islamist militants and a work out meant at times running through the streets, dodging gun-fire and mortar shells in one of the world's most dangerous cities.

Telegraph.co.uk

Mogadishu is enjoying its longest period of relative peace since the 1980s, writes Nick Meo in the Somali capital. Is it possible that the country has turned a corner?

The last time a headless body was kicked out of a pick-up truck and dumped in the dirt in front of Fatima Ali's roadside shop, she was so used to it that she didn't bother to find out who it was.

Reuters

A Somali Islamist militant group is offering rewards of chickens and camels for information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, mocking the millions of dollars the United States has offered for leaders of the al Qaeda affiliate.

Fuad Muhammad Khalaf of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia made the offer after Friday prayers, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant organizations.

By: Yusuf M Hasan

ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandsun) – The Vice president is set to meet with Swedish Somalilanders following his departure for the Scandinavian country.

Hon Abdirahman Ismail Sayli accompanied by his delegation left the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa where they have been for a couple of day's en-route to Sweden. The VP's delegation which is includes the Director General in the ministry of public works, Deputy Gabile mayor Ms Kadra Haji Galayd and political advisor to president Silanyo had travelled to Addis Ababa from Djibouti.

By AFP - MOGADISHU

Somalia's al-Qaeda-allied Shebab rebels Saturday mocked a U.S. offer of up to $33 million for tip-offs enabling the arrest of its top leaders, saying they would give 10 camels to anyone who helped locate Barack Obama.

The highest price put up by the U.S .State Department on Thursday was for Shebab chief Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed -- more commonly known as Godane or Abu Zubayr -- with a $7 million bounty for information on where he is hiding.

By Louisa Taylor, The Ottawa Citizen June

OTTAWA — Meet Rashid Hersi — Barrhaven father of five, part-time mail room employee at the Citizen, president of a self-declared independent state in the Horn of Africa.

In between inserting flyers into your daily paper, taking his kids swimming and dropping them at homework club, 43-year-old Hersi has a cabinet to wrangle, a fledgling parliament to consult, a constitution to fine-tune.

NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG, – In January, Uganda's National Drug Authority arrested sales representatives of a company selling a drug that purports to cure HIV; the firm's owners are not licensed to sell medicine and are being sought by the police.

The drug, known as Virol ZAPPER, was being sold in 37ml liquid doses, each costing about US$210; patients were advised to take 10 drops daily. It was being advertised on local radio and TV stations as a miracle cure for HIV.

By Andrew Quinn | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is offering rewards of up to $7 million for information leading to the location of seven key leaders of Somalia's al Shabaab, seeking for the first time to target top echelons of the al Qaeda-linked militant group.

U.S. officials said the rewards, to be announced on the State Department's "Rewards for Justice" website on Thursday, opened a new front in the battle against al Shabaab and signaled Washington's determination to press the fight against terrorism across Africa.

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Amnesty International Livewire

In Libya, undocumented Sub-Saharan Africans have never had it easy.

During Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi's rule, they were at risk of arrest, indefinite detention, torture or other ill-treatment and exploitation.

Far from changing their fate, last year's "17 February Revolution" left Sub-Saharan Africans vulnerable to similar abuses.