EDUCATION FOR ALL BY 2015: WILL WE MAKE IT? A mid-term assessment of where the world stands on its commitment to provide basic education for all children, youth and adults by 2015.

The EFA Global Monitoring Report is mandated to offer a global review of progress towards achieving the EFA goals.
Yet the picture will look different from a regional perspective, and within each region, according to national perspectives. Even within a single country there may be disparities between one location and another, or one group and another.

Government troops shelled a crowded market in the Somali capital on Saturday after suspected insurgents launched mortars at the presidential palace, where Ethiopia’s foreign affairs minister met with the Somali president.

Civilians Shelled As Ethiopian Foreign Minister Visits      30 Mar 2008

Government troops shelled a crowded market in the Somali capital on Saturday after suspected insurgents launched mortars at the presidential palace, where Ethiopia’s foreign affairs minister met with the Somali president.
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Somali Islamist leader meets former warlord as the premier flies Nairobi 29 Mar 2008

Somali Islamist leader meets former warlord as the premier flies Nairobi      29 Mar 2008

The chairman of Asmara based Somali reliberation organization Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has met with Mohamed Qanyare Afrah one ofSomali’s ousted warlords in Nairobi the capital of Kenya on Saturday-officials said.The meeting between the two former opponents has happened at [...]

ERITREA, U.S. Department of State updates Travel Warning

ERITREA
March 26, 2008
This Travel Warning updates information on Eritrea’s current security situation and reiterates the Department of State’s advice that U.S. citizens defer non-essential travel to Eritrea due to restrictions on travel outside the capital city of Asmara and heightened tensions along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. 

Somalia’s Government Teeters on Collapse ,March 29, 2008, New York Times, By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain last week.