Arabic News Weekly Edition for Somalia, 2/25/2002
Weekly Edition, Somalia - Week of February 25, 2002
- UN employee held for ransom in Somalia
The UN on Friday announced that it has been trying to ensure the release of one of its employees who was kidnapped in the Somali capital, Makadishu, but no information were mentioned about the kidnappers. Somalia, Local, 3/2/2002 - Some 49 ministers in the government of Salad Hassan
In a step in which he was obliged to submit to tribal pressures to get posts in the formation of the new ministry, the Somali prime minister Hassan Abshar Fareh appointed some 49 ministers of state for various ministries Somalia, Politics, 2/27/2002 - 11 killed, 22 wounded in battles among Somalis
Some 11 persons were killed and other 22 wounded during clashes took place between warrying Somali factions in the capital Makadishu. Somalia, Politics, 2/26/2002 - Swiss relief worker killed in Somalia
Unidentified gunmen have shot to death a Swiss woman working for a relief agency in her house in Somalia. Somalia, Local, 2/25/2002