Image: Residents flee renewed fighting in southern Mogadishu Monday, as Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed urged the international community to help his forces fend off hardline Islamist rebels. The U.N.'s refugee agency said 57,000 people have fled the nation's capital since the upsurge in bloodshed this month. Ismail Taxta/ReutersFrom The Christian Science Monitor:
AMISOM is rehabilitating Radio Mogadishu and publishing articles to 'empower' Somalis and push back against Islamist insurgents.
Nairobi, Kenya - No sooner do officials from the African Union stabilization force arrive in Somalia's battlefield of a capital, Mogadishu, than Islamist insurgents send them a warning.
"AMISOM," reads the text message on their phones, "we're going to kill you."
Fighting in Mogadishu has escalated in the past month, and the undermanned and underfunded African peacekeeping force known as AMISOM is increasingly bearing the brunt of the ugly conflict, which pits extremist Islamist insurgents against a new, more moderate, transitional government.
Analysts say the mission has held up well, given the circumstances. But AMISOM officials say they – and the fragile government they aim to protect – are losing on one important front: the information war.
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My Comment: It will be hard to pass on your message when most of your audience in Somalia does not have electricity, nor are they able to read.
Instead .... this "information war" will mainly target the foreign press and their news agencies.
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