President Yusuf was welcomed in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, by regional leader Gen. Adde Muse and various government officials and traditional elders. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf/GOHe spoke briefly with reporters at the governor's house in Garowe, saying that his two-day rip to Puntland is related to "exchanging ideas" with local rulers.Somalia's leader called on pirates to who seized a Yemeni vessel yesterday to release the ship and its seven crewmen immediately, saying that such "unnecessary" pirate attacks threaten the region's economy. 
The vessel was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, an area that has seen a spike in piracy since 2007. The pirates are demanding a US$2 million ransom payment, according to Reuters.President Yusuf's trip to Puntland com
es on a day Prime 
Minister Nur Adde signed a power-sharing agreement with an opposition faction. READ: 'Unity Government' to el
ect new President, SpeakerPuntland, located in northeastern Somalia, is slated to elect a new leader in January 2009.
Thousand of Puntland state of somalia Delegates an Residence Welcome the President of TFG..
Somalia arrests 5 for kidnapping Western journalists
Shot producer 'doubted by bosses'
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali security forces have arrested five men for the kidnapping this week of two European journalists who are being held in the hills east of Bosasso, the local governor said on Sunday.
Gunmen seized the British reporter and Spanish photographer on Wednesday in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Bosasso is the main port in semi-autonomous Puntland region. more..
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4AT2FD20081130?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
Shot producer 'doubted by bosses'
A BBC producer who was killed in Somalia felt she had to go to prove her commitment, her sister told an inquest. Kate Peyton, 39, of Beyton, Suffolk, was shot in Mogadishu in February 2005.
Inquest into Somalia shooting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStnYhbqtDM
We recommend that the BBC to look.. inside itself Yusuf Garad doesn't want The True Story To Be Told. hawiye Killed or kidnapping for ransom every -Independent Journal .. Beware the BBC Somali Service http://yusufgarad.blogspot.com/2007/02/beware-bbc-somali-service.html
BBC Som
ali Service is concerned, which has shown more than tacit support for the so-called “Alliance of the Islamic Courts”or al-shabaab . The BBC, Somali Services, is headed by one Yusuf Garad who uses the Institution as a tool for his Cayr sub(habargidir) \usc (caydiid)\alshabaab\ hawiye-lineage and who, by all indications, currently and rightly sees the new uprising as practically an opportunity for the Cayr (hawiye) domination of Somali politics—an effort which had once failed under Abdiqasim’s presidency of the former Transitional Federal Government.
terrorists using western media.. BBC interviews the FBI most-wanted man in SOMALIA terrorist Hasan Turki
ali Service is concerned, which has shown more than tacit support for the so-called “Alliance of the Islamic Courts”or al-shabaab . The BBC, Somali Services, is headed by one Yusuf Garad who uses the Institution as a tool for his Cayr sub(habargidir) \usc (caydiid)\alshabaab\ hawiye-lineage and who, by all indications, currently and rightly sees the new uprising as practically an opportunity for the Cayr (hawiye) domination of Somali politics—an effort which had once failed under Abdiqasim’s presidency of the former Transitional Federal Government.terrorists using western media.. BBC interviews the FBI most-wanted man in SOMALIA terrorist Hasan Turki
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Update on the Amanda Lindhout kidnap in Somalia
Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan are safe and still being held in Somalia according to Reporters Without Borders. The two journalists were kidnapped in August along with their Somali fixers. A ransom deadline, for an alleged $2.5 million, passed a month ago.
“What we can confirm is they are fine, in the same place and in the hands of the same group.” [said Leonard Vincent, Africa desk chief of Paris-based Reporters without Borders] link
We continue to update the situation on the kidnap in this post as and when we receive any news.date on the Amanda Lindhout kidnap in Somalia
Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan are safe and still being held in Somalia according to Reporters Without Borders. The two journalists were kidnapped in August along with their Somali fixers. A ransom deadline, for an alleged $2.5 million, passed a month ago.
“What we can confirm is they are fine, in the same place and in the hands of the same group.” [said Leonard Vincent, Africa desk chief of Paris-based Reporters without Borders] link
We continue to update the situation on the kidnap in this post as and when we receive any news.date on the Amanda Lindhout kidnap in Somalia
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