The Woyanne regime has begun to rearm Mogadishu faction leaders the Rebels had disarmed in an attempt to carve up the city again.

As sources in Woyanne government told the regime is supplying a lot of arms to some faction leaders, former members of the satanic alliance [Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counterterrorism] that Somali Rebels out of Mogadishu in 2006. More on Somalia: Woyanne rearms former Mogadishu warlords -Sources

OURS is a sad tale. We are caught in the middle of powerful conflicting interests. It is hope against hope. Some powers are dangling our hope for national recognition like a sinker and bait into the sea but nothing happening!”

THE above words, spoken coolly and softly yet tinged with bitter disappointment sums up the frustrations of most citizens of Somaliland — a country which has been standing out alone in the world — quite a viable state yet internationally unrecognised.

If there is one thing that President Bush can achieve in the dying days of his presidency, it should involve Africa. Everything else seems to be complex and too messed up to even think of fixing in the time available. Regarding the Arab-Israeli issue, it is obvious that Bush cannot undo in six months a problem that is sixty years old. He must have encountered the insurmountable walls of the Middle East peace during his two-term presidency. His trusted State Secretary’s frequent visits and proverbial skills couldn’t put the Middle East’s Humpty Dumpty together again.

By Colum Lynch and Nora Boustany
Washington Post Staff Writers, Friday, July 11, 2008= The chief prosecutor of the Internationals Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the nation’s Darfur region during the past five years, according to U.N. officials and diplomats. More on Sudan leader to be charged with Genocide