The panel, made up of mosque preachers and teachers of the Koran, Arabic language and Islamic studies held talks with Somali warlords to "complete a mission of reconciliation between parties and restore stability," said JANA, monitored in Tunis. The report of talks coincided with the start on Tuesday in Morocco of a summit by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference which will discuss the issue of Somalia. Somalia by the end of March because of the failure of rival factions to agree on peace and a new government. I agree with @Anonymous 7:03 - people say both PENN and UPENN. Both are co-directors of the Somalia Task Force. Both sides accused the other of shooting first. It would mark the first time since its formation that the organization abandoned a mission before achieving its objectives. There are those who argue that Somalia should just be left completely alone, but this is simply not going to happen and is not fair to the many honest and victimized Somalis who deserve help in their efforts to rebuild their lives. UN special envoy to Somalia James Gbeho says the OAU should make "last ditch efforts" to pressure the UN into extending its mandate in Somalia beyond 31st March.
Now as the last contingents of UN troops start their withdrawal, it is Aydeed who has to weigh his options carefully: run the risk of breaking up his often fragile domestic support base by trying to form a government or, as the best armed and prepared leader in the country, return to the battlefield and bludgeon his way to power. I haven’t been in awhile, but it seems to me they still carried candy "cigarettes" the last time I was there. Adam, "it will help to at least have access to being a legal entity, if they want, then they can access credit." This is an example of one lynch-pin of the programme: `linkage'. This philosophy, however well-intentioned, bankrolled the militias and helped fuel the very conflicts that triggered Somalia's recent famine. Aid organizations have slowly come to understand that one of the main assets over which Somalia militias and bandits fight is international assistance.
Somalia has vast untapped mineral resources like oil, uranium and gas. THREAT OF RENEWED SOMALIA VIOLENCE (DT 20 Dec 94, by Scott Peterson) United Nations troops are accelerating their withdrawal from Somalia, as news that American forces will take part in the final evacuation, setting foot again on Somali soil, has increased fears of violence. The UN army in Somalia now stands at 12,000 Third World troops, mostly from Pakistan and India. Speaking earlier at the opening of a three-day meeting of Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in Africa, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Masari, called for a broad-based legislation which would be inclusive of not only money laundering but against siphoning of public funds from Africa to the developed economies of the world. The Global Antibiotic Research and Development (GARD) is a partnership between the World Health Organization and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). In September, she traveled to the Flux Society conference for developmental cognitive neuroscience with Romeo and other LEAD Lab members, where Simmons won best poster out of more than 130 pre.sentations.