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- UN report raises concerns over Eritrea
Eritrea's intelligence agencies are active across Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya and Somalia and pose a significant security risk to the region, the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea warns in a new report. Eritrea was the central force behind a foiled plot to attack an African Union meeting in January, and continues to fund al-Qaida-linked groups, according to the report. The Guardian (London) (7/28), AlertNet/Reuters (7/28)     
- Israelis, Palestinians seek alternative as UN bid approaches
Israeli officials are urging the U.S. to do more to dissuade Palestinian leaders from a United Nations statehood recognition bid, over fears the effort would increase Israel's diplomatic isolation. Both Israeli and Palestinian authorities agree there are currently no other initiatives on the table to jump-start stalled Middle East peace talks. NPR.org (7/28)
 - Militants, lack of funding hinder famine relief
The famine relief effort in parts of Somalia is being hindered by al-Shabab, the Islamist group which is refusing to permit aid workers to reach more than 2 million people in the southern provinces of Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Even without such interference, the United Nations says, efforts to save Somalis from starvation are limited because of an $800 million shortfall in international donations. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (7/29)
- The U.S. must sustain pledge to eradicate polio
 The U.S. government's pledge of $2 billion toward the $9 billion requested through 2012 in a bid to eradicate polio is necessary, especially in light of the distrust sown by the CIA program in Pakistan that offered local children free hepatitis B vaccinations in an effort to gather DNA to determine whether children at a targeted compound were those of Osama Bin Laden. Vaccination efforts like those of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative already have helped reduce infection rates from 350,000 in 1988 to about 1,000 last year. Bloomberg (7/28)
- Libyan rebel leader is gunned down in mysterious attack
Libyan rebel leader Abdel-Fattah Younis, who defected from the government of Moammar Gadhafi to join the uprising, was killed Thursday. The circumstances of his death have not been made public, but it's apparent that Younis had enemies both within the rebellion and among forces loyal to Gadhafi. His death raised concerns among observers that the fledgling rebel army could fracture. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (7/29)
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