On 30 November the vessel docked at the port of El Ma'an, north of Mogadishu.

Arms and weapons are usually transported along the main road from Boosaaso in the north, through Gaalkacyo to Mogadishu.

Following the second battle for control of Baidoa, Habsade again received logistical support from his allies in Mogadishu.

The vessel left the port on 2 December and fished the coastal waters between Mogadishu and Kismaayo.

In 1954, the Italian government established post secondary institutions of law, economics and social studies in Mogadishu, the territory's capital.

In 2006, the capture of Somalia s capital, Mogadishu, by the Islamic Courts raised the specter of a jihadist state.

According to the most recent United Nations figures, 400,000 people, or roughly one third of Mogadishu s population, have fled the city.

The carcasses are transported from Beletweyne to Mogadishu via Jowhar, where tax is paid at the entry point of the Jowhar local administration.

But al Shabaab retains control of the majority of Somalia and remains capable of striking Mogadishu, the capital, as well as Nairobi.

Mogadishu has been divided into areas of control operated by individuals on a daily basis, but to the ultimate benefit of the group.

Jowhar receives vehicle traffic from Mogadishu and other important eastern locations and from inland locations to the north and west.

Its aim was to enhance the capabilities of the police force and to strengthen security so that the President can move to Mogadishu, the capital, to perform his official duties.

Civilians are killed daily in Mogadishu, there are roadside bombs and mortar attacks, and politicians and journalists are targeted.

The Council condemns in the strongest terms the assassination attempt on 6 November 2005 against Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi in Mogadishu.

Clinton, meanwhile, shamefully abandoned Somalia after the deaths of American soldiers in Mogadishu and did nothing in the face of Rwanda s genocide.

Gedo region's population exploded in the last twenty years reaching almost one million in the early 1990s after the civil war erupted in Mogadishu.

Regarding Somalia, the AU mission to Mogadishu endeavoured to prepare a safe environment for the anticipated peacebuilding mission of IGAD.

Biography Born in Beledweyne, Farrah is a son of Mohamed Farrah Aidid and is sometimes known as Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Hussein Aidid or Aidid Junior.

Officially, the major functioning ports in Somalia for deep sea and major vessels are Berbera, Boosaaso and Kismaayo. The port at Mogadishu is still closed.

Indeed, the last thing the government in Mogadishu wants is another semi autonomous region challenging its authority or another country annexing southern Somalia for its own purposes.

Both the leadership of the opposition in Mogadishu and Habsade, the member of the opposition in charge of Baidoa, purchased arms from BAM in apparent anticipation of the fight for Baidoa.

It has established military training camps in the greater Mogadishu area, including at Laanta Buuro and Hiilweyne, and has sent arms obtained at BAM to these camps.

Ports in Somalia where charcoal is known to be exported are Kismaayo (the largest quantity), El Ma'an, located 30 kilometres north of Mogadishu, and El Adde, the local seaport of Mogadishu.

The Bakaraaha Arms Market in Mogadishu has continued throughout the current mandate period to play a major role as an intermediary for channelling arms to members of the opposition and others in violation of the arms embargo.

Mogadishu University has established partnerships with several other academic institutions, including the University of Aalborg in Denmark, three universities in Egypt, seven universities in Sudan, the University of Djibouti, and two universities in Yemen.

Opposition elements in Mogadishu and their allies in central and southern Somalia have been the primary recipients of arms from BAM, while incidental purchases have been made by TFG members (see annex I for transaction details).

2. Its aim was to enhance the capabilities of the police force and to strengthen security so that the President can move to Mogadishu, the capital, to perform his official duties. This cannot happen unless the armed bands are disarmed in favour of the legitimate Government

The United States and the European Union which are bankrolling the African Union s intervention in Somalia to support the Mogadishu based government have attempted to paper over the disagreement with Kenya over the Jubaland Initiative, despite its potential to fuel further conflict.

Only a dramatic move by external powers can still save Gaza from becoming a second Mogadishu and both Palestinians and Israelis from a total war that would only breed more rage and desperation.

The Monitoring Group has further learned that an opposition leader and TFG dissident from Mogadishu travelled to that State during the middle of the mandate period to make arrangements with authorities there to obtain arms shipments.

When local elders and delegates wanted to assemble in Mogadishu for a reconciliation conference, security conditions forced them to postpone the conference for several months (though when they did meet, in big numbers and for a long time, they achieved no breakthrough).

The product is graded poorer quality product is sent to Mogadishu and neighbouring countries for local consumption, while the higher quality product is put into trucks and transported to airstrips or the Marka seaport for further transport to the international market.

A plane with the UN envoy for human rights was denied landing rights in Baidoa (seat of the Somali parliament) not long ago, and pilots sometimes refuse to fly foreigners to Mogadishu, because it is too dangerous.

During the current mandate, the Monitoring Group investigated violations of the arms embargo in terms of shipments of arms into Somalia that went directly to the intended recipients and shipments of arms that went into and through the Bakaaraha arms market, especially the Irtogte market located in Mogadishu.

For the schoolchild in Port au Prince, the new mother in Mogadishu, or the farmer in Ocotepeque, these losses have a real impact overcrowded classrooms, non existent health clinics, and inadequate water resources.

This combination of insecurity and natural disasters has displaced huge numbers of people and caused suffering on a scale painful to behold. According to the most recent United Nations figures, 400,000 people, or roughly one third of Mogadishu s population, have fled the city.

MOGADISHU One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother s home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia s Bay region.

The Monitoring Group also received credible information that the same State provided another member of the opposition, Sheik Yusuf Indohaadde, with arms by transporting them to two locations in Middle Shabelle by aircraft to Baledogle Airport, near Mogadishu, and by ship to the port of Marka.

There are no regularly scheduled shipping services to Somalia, but individual ships from anywhere in the region, or the world, carry cargo to or from any of the more significant Somali seaports Kismaayo, El Ma'an, Marka, El Adde (Mogadishu), Berbera and Bossaso.

The Monitoring Group noted above that Sheik Indohaadde and other opposition leaders from Mogadishu had provided arms to Habsade, opposition leader in charge of Baidoa, for potential use against TFG forces in the fight for control of that city on 30 May 2005.

In addition, the Bakaaraha arms market inside Somalia, particularly in Mogadishu, and the arms market in the neighbouring Gulf State continue to play central roles as sources of arms that fuel violent clashes and remain an obstacle to peace and stability in Somalia.

Moreover, Kenya s desire to carve out a buffer state conflicts with the Somali government s goal of uniting the country. Indeed, the last thing the government in Mogadishu wants is another semi autonomous region challenging its authority or another country annexing southern Somalia for its own purposes.