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09 May 2006 Military News

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  • U.S. To Send $10 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Palestinians Washington File 09 May 2006 -- The international community is concerned deeply about the reported shortages of medicine and health care equipment in the Palestinian Territories and will work to address the problem, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, but she places the blame for the Palestinians’ deteriorating situation squarely on the shoulders of the Hamas-led government.
  • SUDAN: Egeland urges Darfur combatants to build on peace pact IRIN 09 May 2006 -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland on Tuesday urged the Sudanese government and insurgents in the country's strife-torn Darfur to take advantage of the peace deal signed last week between Khartoum and a rebel group to bring the conflict in the region to an end.
  • No time to lose in setting up UN force for Sudan’s Darfur region – Annan UN News Centre 09 May 2006 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the world community to follow up on last week’s peace accord between the Sudanese Government and the main rebel group in Darfur by establishing a muscular UN peacekeeping force and providing immediate aid to prevent hundreds of thousands more people dying.
  • U.S. Lawmaker Praises Bush's Timely Reaction to Darfur Crisis Washington File 09 May 2006 -- Representative Chris Smith (Republican of New Jersey), who in the past has voiced disappointment with the slow reaction of international donors to the Darfur crisis, praised President Bush for showing "strong leadership" after the president outlined immediate steps to bring relief to the more than 2 million people suffering because of events in western Sudan.
  • DRC-UGANDA: Call for regional effort to tackle LRA IRIN 09 May 2006 -- Uganda is pushing for "regional cooperation" in its efforts to hunt down and apprehend the leadership and remaining fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, who are believed to be hiding in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
  • DRC: 18 army brigades to provide security during polls IRIN 09 May 2006 -- Eighteen fully integrated army brigades whose mission will be to provide security during Congo's general elections later this year will be fully trained by 5 July, the spokesman of the army chief of staff, Jean-Willy Mutombo, has said.
  • NIGERIA-SUDAN: AU calls for UN troop support in Darfur IRIN 09 May 2006 -- The force commander of the African Union Mission in Darfur (AMIS) has urged a quick and significant deployment of United Nations troops in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur to help implement a peace deal struck in the Nigerian capital late last week.
  • SOMALIA: More deaths in third day of Mogadishu fighting IRIN 09 May 2006 -- The death toll continued to rise in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as fighting between rival militias entered its third day, local sources said.
  • UN: U.S. Presses For Peacekeeper Deployment To Darfur REF/RL 09 May 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to address the UN Security Council later today, where she is expected to urge the rapid deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to Darfur.
  • Sri Lanka Peace Envoy Makes Little Progress VOA 09 May 2006 -- The latest diplomatic effort to break an impasse in Sri Lanka's fragile peace process has made no headway.
  • US Support of Factions Fuels Resentment in Somalia VOA 09 May 2006 -- In recent months, Mogadishu, Somalia has become a deadly battleground between militias loyal to Islamic courts and a newly formed anti-terror coalition that is believed to have the support of the United States
  • Hamas, Fatah Clash Again in Gaza VOA 09 May 2006 -- At least nine Palestinians have been wounded in a second day of clashes in the Gaza Strip between gunmen of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups.

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  • Analysis: Georgia To Assess Repercussions Of Quitting CIS REF/RL 09 May 2006 -- For years, Georgian legislators and oppositionists alike have suggested periodically -- generally when relations with Russia take a downturn -- that Georgia might quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).