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• Istanbul conference seeks to help Somalia

  (AP) -- International forces cannot solve Somalia's security problems in the long term and the fragile country needs its own strong force to do the job, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.Ban spoke spoke at a conference in Istanbul that aims 6/1/12 Read more »

• Arbour: NATO's disturbing reliance on drones

  NATO leaders meeting in Chicago Sunday and Monday unveiled a program to expand the use of unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones -- to confront the security threats of the future and make better use of tighter budgets. Used first for surveillance, and increa   Read more »

• Kenya official: Refugee camp blast kills policeman

  (AP) -- A Kenyan official says a policeman has died after the car he was traveling in was hit by a suspected improvised bomb at the world's largest refugee camp, near the border with Somalia .George Kingi, police chief in Daadab refugee camp, said Tuesda   Read more »

• Americans train Ugandans for Somalia mission

  (AP) -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab .Earlier this year, a small contingent of U.S. Marines   Read more »

• New rage keeps Somali boys off street: video games

  (AP) -- Inside a hot, cramped room in the Somali capital, 10 sweating children sat on wooden desks, not unlike those found in schools. These boys, though, were not in class. They were staring at a small TV and tightly gripping video-game controllers.Vide   Read more »

Around the web

• Lawrence Solomon: Drop effort to keep Somalia together

  The culturally different Somali clans of the north — what was once British Somaliland — were the first to see that a Grand Somalia led to a deadly dead end. In 1991, it seceded to become the independent state of Somaliland, over the objection of Somalia’s 6/1/12 from SomalilandPress Read more »

• Djibouti peacekeepers arrive in central Somalia

  Ethiopians. They stated that Djibouti troops not only spoke a common language with the locals but also that Djibouti does not see Somalia as a threat unlike Ethiopia. Djibouti plans to deploy a total of about 850 troops in the war-torn nation. Somali forces 6/1/12 from SomalilandPress Read more »

• Al Qaida’s al Shabab may be on last legs in Somalia after key military defeats

  the al Shabab defeat last week at Afgooye, which fell to African Union troops from Ugandan and Burundian pushing west from Somalia’s battered capital, Mogadishu. Al Shabab once controlled nearly all of southern and central Somalia, but that territory has dwindled 6/1/12 from Charlotte Observer Read more »

• Human Rights Council condemn Syria; South Sudan Border; Somalia; and more

  The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution this morning on Syria, with 41 votes in favor, 3 against (China, Russia, and Cuba) and 2 abstentions (Ecuador and Uganda). The resolution strongly condemns the use of force against civilians and requests that t 6/1/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »

• Turkish PM Erdoğan urges renewed international mission for Somalia

  adding that although Turkey has already headed an international to establish a “fund for restructuring the security sector in Somalia,” the presence of AMISOM, the African Union security force, is still needed. Turkey has decided to grant $1 million to AMISOM 6/1/12 from Hurriet Daily News Read more »