Arabic News Weekly Edition for Somalia, 2/4/2002
Weekly Edition, Somalia - Week of February 4, 2002
- U.S. official says Somalis must want peace for help to be lasting
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner told Congress February 6 that the U.S. government is prepared to do all it can to help Somalia with "its long-term governance challenges." But for U.S. programs to be sustainable, he said, the Somalis themselves must take ownership of them. Somalia-USA, Politics, 2/9/2002 - Aid Situation in Somalia
"Aid strategies work best when they promote a feeling of ownership and investment among local communities," says Robert MacPherson, the emergency group assistance director for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc., better known as CARE, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that operates worldwide. Somalia, Local, 2/9/2002 - A bomb thrown at the house of the Somali prime minister
Eye-witnesses stressed on Saturday that four persons were wounded, two of them are in critical health conditions when an unidentified attacker threw a bomb at the house of the provisional Somali prime minister Hassan Absheer Farah. Somalia, Politics, 2/4/2002