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  Economy of Somalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air transportation is provided by small air charter firms and craft used by drug smugglers.
Some private airlines, including Air Somalia and Daallo Airlines, serve several domestic locations as well as Djibouti and the United Arab Emirates.
Somalia is linked to the outside world via ship-to-shore communications (INMARSAT) as well as links to overseas satellite operators by private telecommunications operators (including cellular telephone systems) in major towns.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_Somalia   (851 words)

  
 Somalia (08/05)
Somalia is located on the east coast of Africa on and north of the Equator and, with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, is often referred to as the Horn of Africa.
Following the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor in 1975, Somalia invaded Ethiopia in 1977 in a second attempt to regain the Ogaden, and the second attempt initially appeared to be in Somalia’s favor.
Somalia has no national government at present; however, Shariff Hassan Sheikh Adan was elected as Speaker of the Assembly in September 2004, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as Transitional Federal President of Somalia in October 2004, and Ali Mohamed Gedi was approved by the Transitional Federal Assembly as Prime Minister on December 24, 2004.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2863.htm   (5381 words)

  
 Air Ambulance Somalia - Cega Group
But a call on one of Cega's Air Ambulance Somalia helplines is the signal for some of the industry's most practised and efficient damage limitation teams to swing into action.
Whether it's medical assistance, air ambulance evacuation/repatriation or medical screening and associated services, Cega's expertise in managing the downside of risk is second to none.
Being the only Air Ambulance Somalia company to operate its own air ambulance fleet ensures expeditious movement of patients by people who have the skills and full case details.
www.cix.co.uk /~davidpritt/air_ambulance/air_ambulance_somalia   (366 words)

  
 UNDP - Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority for Somalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority for Somalia (CACAS) was formed in 1996 to ensure the safety of air transport operations, in the absence of a recognised central government.
The reduction of air traffic in Somali skies resulting from both the regional war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the international security situation, has led to a dramatic decrease in revenue for CACAS.
Yet the rehabilitation of the air transport infrastructure is crucial for the safe conduct of humanitarian activities and the overall development of Somalia.
www.so.undp.org /programmes/civaviation.htm   (444 words)

  
 Operation Restore Hope
Somalia - The Peace-Enforcement Dilemma T. Frank Crigler Joint Forces Quarterly Autumn 1993 [354 kb PDF] Unfortunately, the results of the experiment so far are not encouraging and suggest a need to examine the lessons of Somalia carefully before peace-enforcement is attempted elsewhere.
Expanded peacekeeping in Somalia began after the failure of UNOSOM I accompanied by the specter of 500,000 Somalis dead from famine by the fall of 1992 and hundreds of thousands more in danger of dying.
Although Somalia was a US Central Command responsibility, USAFE provided air refueling support at Moron Air Base, Spain, and sent contingents of security police, communicators, and postal specialists to Somalia and Kenya.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/restore_hope.htm   (1552 words)

  
 IN SOMALIA WITH THE CIA
In the seconds it takes to air a foreign report on television news, he began to feel that he, too, was standing on the sun-blasted tarmac.
The first American killed in Somalia, in fact, was a CIA operative whose vehicle hit a mine outside Bardera on December 23, 1992.
After Jones's plane touched down in Mogadishu, the cabin door opened to a rush of hot air, the smell of burning garbage and the sight of piles of airplane wreckage along the tarmac, remnants of Somalia's air force.
home.att.net /~kjo/som-cia.htm   (7426 words)

  
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Damal Airline was established to improve the regional communications and to ease the business and commercial travels between Somalia, its neighboring countries and around the world as well.
It substantially contributed the aviation industry of Somalia, since at the time of its launch there was a desperate need to get air transportation services in the country.
The points served in Somalia are: Hargeisa Bossaso, Burao, Berbera, Las-anod, Mogadishu, Galkao Borama, Erigavo,…etc. Damal Airline flies two flights out of Dubai and Sharjah every week to points in Somalia.
www.damalair.co.ae   (425 words)

  
 OPERATION RESTORE HOPE (SOMALIA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Somalia: Civil War and International Intervention by David D. Laitin, pp 146-180.
Somalia: Misread Crises and Missed Opportunities by Kenneth Menkhaus and Louis Ortmayer, pp 211-237.
From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War': The U.S. and UN Intervention in Somalia, pp 172-207.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/rest/resthope.htm   (1636 words)

  
 Somalia (01/05)
Somalia's modern history began in the late l9th century, when various European powers began to trade and establish themselves in the area.
Egal’s reconciliation effort toward Ethiopia is argued to be one of the principal factors that provoked the military officers, led by Maj. Gen.
Somalia has no national government at present; however, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as Transitional Federal President of Somalia in October 2004 and Ali Mohamed Gedi was approved by the Transitional Federal Assembly as Prime Minister on December 24, 2004.
www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/s/47178.htm   (4874 words)

  
 Information Warfare Tutorial
U.S. involvement in Somalia provides excellent proof that information warfare can be successfully executed by small organizations with limited finances against much larger well financed adversaries.
Information Warfare is a means, not an end, in precisely the same manner that air warfare is a means, and not end.
There are strong conceptual parallels between the conceiving of air and information as realms.
www.iwar.org.uk /iwar/resources/carlisle/iw-tutorial/mod8hl.htm   (1308 words)

  
 U.N. Report: al-Qaida Trained in Somalia (phillyBurbs.com)
At least four members of the terror cell remain in Somalia, according to the report prepared by a panel of experts appointed by the United Nations.
U.S. officials cited Somalia as a possible refuge for terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks and placed its largest company, al-Barakaat Group of Companies, and a Somali Islamic group, al-Ittihad al-Islami, on a list of groups believed to have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
The day after the attacks, the terrorists regrouped in Lamu, leaving for Somalia by boat two days later and most of the team stayed in Mogadishu, "living on cash allowances provided by their Sudanese financial controller." There were no details about the Sudanese financier.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/91-11042003-190600.html   (801 words)

  
 Strategic Airlfit Inefficiencies from Desert Shield/Storm to Vigilant Warrior
Although the strategic air flow became a bottleneck in the first several days because of the hastily built TPFDL, this was soon refined so that aircraft arrived at fifteen minute intervals at the height of the deployment.
The deployed air mobility personnel accomplished their mission under living conditions that were worse than those faced by their counterparts in the Gulf and Somalia, even though Haiti was just off the U.S. coast.
At Rota Naval Air Station (NAS), C-5 airflow overtaxed the truck refueling capability, and at Dhahran departures were delayed because 50 percent of civilian contract fuel trucks serviced Saudi civilian airliners before AMC aircraft.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/bossert.html   (7277 words)

  
 rediff.com: Air-India plane fired upon in Somalia
He did not inform air traffic control in Somalia about the missile, but reported the encounter to India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
A fleet of Indian Air Force Cheetah missile helicopters was deployed in Somalia in addition to the 66 (Independent) Infantry Brigade consisting of soldiers from the 1 Bihar, 5 Mahar, 2 JAK Light Infantry regiments, 3 Mechanised Infantry Battalion, a squadron of 7 Cavalry, 8722 Light Battery, 6 Reconnaissance and Observation Flight.
General Mohamed Farah Aideed, one of the warlords who began the civil war in Somalia, was his nation's ambassador to India in the 1980s.
www.rediff.com /news/2001/jul/29ai.htm   (379 words)

  
 Somalia
The Somali Air Force (SAF), initially known as the Somali Aeronautical Corps, operated most of its aircraft from bases near Mogadishu and Hargeysa.
During the late 1980s, however, the SAF managed to deploy some of its fighter aircraft against rebels in northern Somalia.
Somalia: A Country Study by Helen Chapin Metz ed.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/somalia/airforce.htm   (135 words)

  
 Berbera Somalia
The pumps and all were left at the tank farm and the same at the Air field.
Since Berbera was in 21st Air Force's area of control, the parts had to come from the supply depot in Ramstein, Germany via commercial airliner to Saudi Arabia and then to Mogadishu and then up to Berbera, accompanied by 2 maintenance troops.
Well, they made it to Saudi, but Air Somalia was so screwed up, they sat and waited for days to get to Mog, and finally, after a week of waiting around, and getting tired of the (lack of) food at Berbera, the crew finally took off one day and showed up at Diego.
www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/berbera.html   (1170 words)

  
 22 Air Refueling Wing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Redesignated: 22 Bombardment Wing, Heavy, on 15 Mar 1963; 22 Air Refueling Wing, Heavy, on 1 Oct 1982; 22 Air Refueling Wing on 1 Sep 1991.
From 1982, the wing provided strategic air refueling and airlift in support of worldwide USAF and other DOD operations and training exercises.
From the end of 1992 to 1994, the wing flew humanitarian airlift missions to Somalia.
afhra.maxwell.af.mil /wwwroot/rso/wings_groups_pages/0022arw.php   (790 words)

  
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Air Djibouti (Red Sea Airlines), the national flag-carrier of the Republic of Djibouti, operated international scheduled passenger and cargo services to Aden, Addis Ababa, Borama, Burao, Cairo, Hargeisa, Mogadishu, Paris, Sanaa and Sharjah.
The carrier was formed in July 1971 when Air Somalia (founded in 1962 by Air France and Les Messageries Maritimes)took over the previoius Air Djibouti (formed in 1963.
Of the remaining fleet (the Comets, Twin Otters and several of the DC-3s where already sold) at the collapse, the F27s and DC-9s were transferred to Kenya Airways.
www.angelfire.com /falcon/airline/african_airliners.html   (1345 words)

  
 Defender Challenge 1998 Canadian Forces Air Command Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This force was divided as one officer at Air Force Headquarters, one officer at each command headquarters, two NCOs assigned to each RCAF base, and the remaining few distributed thinly to each command headquarters.
Formed in 1975, Air Command brought under one command the responsibilities of Air Transport Command, Air Defence Command, Maritime Air Command, and the Army helicopter and fighter squadrons overseas.
Whether to the cold of the Artic or the arid regions of Somalia, Air Command SAMP personnel stand ready to protect Air Force resources.
afsf.lackland.af.mil /DefChal/1998/dc_1998_facts_rcaf.htm   (525 words)

  
 Bacevich, A.J. “Paying the price of doing ‘God’s work’,” Los Angeles Times (1 April 1994), p. B7.
Baxter notes that "...it is arguable that in Somalia the deaths of 23 Pakistani UN soldiers...
As for Somalia: "We should be proud of the job the Rangers and Delta operators did.
Her review of the Somalia humanitarian intervention is one of several, including El Salvador, Cambodia, former Yugoslavia and Iraq.
popp.gmu.edu /peace/clarke/b.html   (4620 words)

  
 Mike Farrell's Bosnia Journal
Air France to Paris, en route to Nairobi - the first leg of a trip for the UNHCR to look at the situation in Somalia and then Bosnia.
We polled the group and decided that Somalia was what we had come to see, that we couldn't hope to have a complete understanding of the situation without being there and seeing it for ourselves and that we wanted to go ahead as planned.
Suddenly the air, which had been quite cool up high, is very close and hot and Panos asks me to open the door to let in whatever breeze there is as we taxi toward a waiting Land Rover.
www.hrw.org /about/california/mfbosnia.html   (22828 words)

  
 Air Guardsman Gets Bronze Star for Valor in Somalia
Six weeks later, the citation said, Sergeant Quinn again demonstrated courage as part of a team that responded to an attack on a nearby bunker "with no regard for personal safety." The team treated the wounded and helped load them on a helicopter for evacuation.
Lieutenant Quinn, who is a member of the 109th Airlift Wing stationed in Scotia, N.Y., said today that he was focused on the wounded men in his care rather than on the dangerous situation in Somalia.
Lieutenant Quinn described two comrades who were killed in Somalia after jumping from a helicopter to rescue a pilot who had been taken prisoner.
www.somalilandtimes.net /2003/66/6609.shtml   (639 words)

  
 MacIntyre, Douglas J. "TRAP Platoon: An Infantry Platoon Commander's Perspective," Marine Corps Gazette 78 (February ...
Somalia is the story of how the media fed a famine--with tragic results," Forbes Media Critic (Fall 1994), pp.
Somalia: A County Study (Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1992) 4th edition, 282 p.
"Somalia: Between Self-Determination and Chaos," Paper presented at the Fifth International Congress of Somali Studies, Boston, MA (December 1-3, 1993) 29 p.
www.gmu.edu /departments/t-po/peace/clarke/m.html   (5865 words)

  
 Scoop: National Radio Midday Bulletin
SOMALIA: A convoy of 120 trucks trying to reach a famine zone in Somalia has been stranded by a flood.
AIR HIJINKS: The cut-price airline K2000 says reports that it has cancelled its flights are fault.
This was the first time Scoop had gone to air live with video and is a demonstration of what Scoop and B2B buddy www.r2.co.nz is planning for you.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/NM9912/S00031.htm   (906 words)

  
 Welcome banadir.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New projects in Somalia will go "long way" in rebuilding country: UN agency.
Jul 10, 2001 (All Africa) Somalia has officially taken its seat at the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit for the first time in 11 years.
Decision on the Situation in Somalia reached at the 74th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the OAU
www.banadir.com /july01.shtml   (2564 words)

  
 Special Operations.Com
Spinelli started noticing debris and burned tires on the road that he hadn’t seen from the air the previous day, but the route was still clear — until they made a 45-degree turn at Checkpoint Pasta.
Howe didn’t know what he was doing, Jones wrote, and the Delta Force was being misused — capturing Aideed would do little to solve Somalia’s problems as a nation.
Jones walked out the back door of the CIA station and watched tracer rounds fill the air above the firefight — soldiers from this second convoy fired 60,000 rounds just getting back to the airstrip as the battle of Mogadishu raged on into the night.
www.specialoperations.com /Operations/Restore_Hope/CIA.htm   (7387 words)

  
 the CIA in Somalia - AFTER-ACTION REPORT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In Somalia with the CIA, Garrett Jones and John Spinelli found out.
already granted "informal" approval to the TV segment on Somalia.
discussed the Somalia segment with producers from the History Channel but
www.somaliawatch.org /archivejuly/000927601.htm   (7795 words)

  
 AFRICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Byer, Eric F. United Task Force Somalia (UNITAF) and United Nations Operations Somalia (UNOSOM II): A Comparative Analysis of Offensive Air Support.
Dean, Richard M. Eight Years Later...Mogadishu, an Air Force Hero Remembered.
General information about each country including a map.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/africa02/afr3302.htm   (463 words)

  
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Somalia Topic Index Travel Drama World Message forum
All listings are the responsiblity of the posters; keep in mind, anyone can post anything!
Please make sure your message is relevant to Somalia and the selected topic.
www.traveldrama.com /Somalia.html   (113 words)

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