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Media To Take
More Active Role In Fighting HIV/AIDS
DJIBOUTI, 2 Jun 2004 (IRIN) - The Djiboutian communication and culture
ministry has said it plans to involve journalists more actively in
fighting HIV/AIDS despite a relatively low prevalence of the virus in
the country.
Speaking at a seminar for journalists in the capital, Djibouti,
Minister for Communication and Culture Rifki Abdoulkader Bamakhrama
said the seminar was the first step in his ministry's national
programme to combat HIV/AIDS.
"You have challenged yourselves to evaluate the impact of your
contributions to this battle," he said. "It is a sign of humility and
proof of the greatest awareness of the importance of your role as
journalists, and it is proof of your sense of responsibility in this
collective enterprise and towards your fellow citizens."
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Trader Wants
Aideed To Deposit Sh15m
Nairobi, June 04, 2004 (Daily Nation) – A week after the Government
intervened to have Somali warlord Hussein Aideed released from prison,
a Kenyan businessman wants him to deposit in court Sh15 million as
security.
Yesterday, Mr Job Thiga appeared before acting judge Mary Kasango
under a certificate of urgency, saying his client, Mr Ijaz Ganijee,
feared that Mr Aideed might leave the country before a Sh15 million
debt was settled following a judgment issued five years ago.
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Somaliland's Case
Raised For The First Time In The AU Commission
Addis Ababa, June 5, 2004 (SL Times) – The Case of Somaliland was
raised for the first time at a meeting of the African Union’s
Commission, held last week in Addis Ababa.
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Somaliland
Becomes First In The Region To Create Special Force For Protection Of
UN And NGO Workers
HARGEISA, 3 June 2004 (Awdalnews) — Its image tarnished by several
killings of international humanitarian workers, Somaliland has become
the first country in the region to create a special police unit to
protect the UN staff, NGO workers and all foreigners in the country.
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Government Asked
To Help
Kampala, May 31, 2004 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)
--Somaliland nationals have asked the government of Uganda to provide
their school-going youth with scholarships in various fields of study.
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Al-Khaleej:
Djibouti And Ethiopia To
Mediate Talks Between Rayale And A. Yusuf
Hargeisa, June 5, 2004 (SL Times) – According to the UAE’s influential
daily newspaper, Al-Khaleej, direct talks will be held in the middle
of this month between Somaliland’s President Dahir Rayale Kahin and
Puntland’s Col Abdillahi Yusuf.
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Darood Delegates At
Mbagathi United Behind Abdillahi Yusuf’s Candidacy For President
The Aging Colonel Now Seeks To Win Over
Majority Vote By Wooing Splinter Groups From The Hawiye, Dir And
Rahanweyn
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Is Somaliland
Being Deceived?
The Mbagathi peace process has now entered the 3rd and last phase
during which a government will formed for Somalia. Somaliland is not
taking part in the IGAD sponsored conference which has been dealing
with the problems of Somalia, the former Italian colony. Somalilanders
have been accustomed to hearing that future relations with Somalia
will be negotiated with the government that emerges from the talks
being held in Kenya. But with the Mbagathi conference already in its
final stage, the Somaliland public has become confused by the
conflicting signals emanating from the IGAD mediators, the IPF and the
Kenyan hosts.
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Educational Programme
By: Ahmed Isse Jama (Gade), Regional
Education Inspector
Successful teaching and learning to a
large extent emanate from careful planning and preparation. Before
this can be done, the teacher must be fully aware of what
subject-matter is required to be taught in each subject. For this
information he or she will refer to the syllabus for each subject.
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Who Sheds
Crocodile Tears For Somaliweyn In Its Old Form?
Somaliweyn Must Be Reinvented To Be Of Plausible Value In Today’s
Politics!
By Noah Arre
The fifteenth and probably last Somalia Reconciliation Conference is
in its last days in Mbagathi, Kenya and come July first 2004,
Mogadishu should form a government or else it is doomed forever!
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Rayale Revives
Old Wounds-- A Reply To Mohamud Tani
By A Dahir Farah, UK
My fellow country Folks, Dear Readers,
The recent article by Mahmoud Tani on the web about the facts in
Somalilnd was in my opinion, a piece of artistic fabrication of facts
that are non existent. It is the norms of those who blindly support a
person rather than a nation. It is another attempt to divert attention
from the facts facing a poor leader, who crossed the red line and
caught up in cross fire.
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Here Comes
Another Spin-Doctor!
By Ahmed Ali Ibrahim (Sabeyse), Scarborough, Canada.
MAY 31st, 2004.
Hardly a day passes without coming across a new masterpiece of comedy
plied around Cyberspace as a freshly baked new figment of contemporary
Somali history! Without getting into the fine details of the subject,
here is the most recent installment from the bastion and the breeding
ground of Somali nationalism:
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Coffee Shop
Reporting By Somaliland.Org
Corporal: Ali Ibrahim, Abu Dhabi.
It is regrettable that several present-day Somaliland journalists went
headlong into the profession of journalism without proper training or
educational background. They are assisted by certain websites, which
circulate their malicious coffee shop dispatches. A typical example of
these reporters is Mr. Abdiraazk Dubad who claims to be the agent of
Somaliland.org in Hargeisa.
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Challenging
Another Dictatorship In Somaliland
By: Ibrahim Hassan Gagale
On May 18, 2004, marking the 13th Anniversary of Somaliland
Independence from Somalia, the mothers fell again to their knees
crying and wailing of the illegal arrests of their innocent children
who were scooped on the streets of Hargeisa by the police while
expressing their grievances in peaceful demonstration.
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Minister Edna Aden:
Somaliland Women Are Being Brutalized By Your Government, Will You
Speak Up On Their Behalf?
By: Khadra Ibrahim, London, England
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African Union
Mulls Military Intervention In Somalia
MOGADISHU, June 3 (IslamOnline.net) – The African Union's Peace and
Security Council (PSC) is expected to engage in consultations with a
cohort of Somali generals and senior police officers on how best to
disarm Somali militias in case the pan-continental body decides to
interfere militarily in the troubled country.
A Somalia military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told
IslamOnline.net Thursday, June 3, that the PSC contacted several top
Somali brass, who were never involved in the civil war, to outline a
plan to disarm the warring militias once Kenya-hosted peace talks are
crowned with the formation of a Somali government.
He said a preliminary meeting will be held next week in the Ugandan
capital Kampala to name the generals and policemen who will assist in
this program.
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Consultations
Over Selection Of MPs Continue
NAIROBI, 4 Jun 2004 (IRIN) - Intra-clan consultations expected to
culminate in the selection of members of parliament for war-ravaged
Somalia continued in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Friday, with
sources close to the talks saying delegates to the talks had until 21
June to come up with the list of 275 MPs.
Each of Somalia's four major clans is expected to present a list of 61
MPs to mediators of the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD) by the June deadline, according to one source.
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