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Blatter expects
action on Addo
Zurich, September 14, 2004 (BBC Sport) – Fifa president Sepp Blatter
expects Caf to comply with the ten-year ban placed on disgraced Farah
Addo by expelling him from their referees commission.
Addo, a former Caf vice-president and president of the Somali Football
Federation, received the sanction for diverting funds given to his
home nation under Fifa's financial assistance programme.
The Somali's ban precludes him from participating in any
football-related activity within a national association, confederation
or Fifa.
"After the African Football Confederation received our decision, they
told us that only their executive committee can remove a member of a
committee," Blatter told BBC Sport.
"As a result, they will deal with this matter on the first and second
of October, when they meet in Cairo."
Caf communications director Suleimanu Habuba told BBC Sport that the
meeting has now been scheduled for the 23rd and 24th of October.
Blatter said Africa's football governing body has no choice but to
comply with the Fifa directive on Addo.
"They have no alternative. The decision is in execution because no
appeal was filed against it.
"As you know, he was also deprived of his right as president of his
national Olympic committee at the Olympic games."
In a previous interview with BBC Sport, Addo claimed that his
criticism of Blatter's election to the Fifa presidency in 1998 and
2002 was responsible for his ban.
But Blatter, who subsequently sued Addo for libel in a Swiss court,
denied misusing his presidential powers to hound the Somalian out of
the football fraternity.
"I have nothing to do with the ban.
"The disciplinary committee, following a report from our auditors
KPMG, took the decision according to the facts.
"He was invited to come to Fifa and defend himself but he didn't.
"I had a court case with him a couple of years ago but that is over
now," he said.
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South Africa
Recognizes Sahrawi Republic
Pretoria, SA, September 18, 2004 (SL Times) – South Africa recognized
the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on Tuesday, a decade after former
President Nelson Mandela had promised to do so.
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BBC Training
Managers Accused Of Dividing Somaliland Journalists
Hargeisa, September 18, 2004 (SL Times) – The Somaliland Society for
independent Journalists and Writers (SSJW) accused the BBC managers of
the training program for Somali journalists of trying to sow division
among Somaliland journalists.
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The Humane
Treatment And The Miracles Of Medicine In Israel
BY OMAR HAJI MOHAMOUD, Somaliland Representative in Ethiopia
TEL AVIV--The ordeal that parents go through when their children get
sick or die is difficult to overcome. There is not much choice to the
final destiny of mankind, but the pain caused by the suffering of a
loved one is beyond comparison.
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Somaliland: Time
for Recognition
A Thesis By Monica Sanchez Bermudez
For the northerners, this proclamation of
independence reflected the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the
people and was fully justified in light of all the history of neglect
and the human rights abuses that the north had suffered at the hands
of Mogadishu.
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Ethiopia And
Djibouti Seek Bidders For Railway
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Djibouti are exploring
ways to privatize their joint railway company to modernize the
1,000-km (620 mile) line linking the two neighbors, the company's
manager said on Monday.
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Somaliland
Women's Political Agenda
Somaliland's nation building process was
marked with series of peace conferences that established peace and
defined the path towards transition from a clan-based system into a
multi-party system. The process of transition did not change the role
of women in public life as women remain marginalized from the
country's leadership structure in various levels of government
bureaucracy for example, the number of women in the Cabinet are not
adequate.
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Somali MP Dies In
Nairobi
NAIROBI, September 15, 2004 (KBC) -- A member of parliament Farah
Hassan Muhammad (Farahsiyad), who is one of the MPs in the recently
formed Somali parliament died in Nairobi Tuesday night.
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The EU Stepping
Stone Path To Hell: Mogadishu Via Tripoli To Rome
Mogadishu, September 16, 2004 (Agencies) – The people smuggling
business is booming for those who run it but it is dangerous and at
times tragic for the migrants themselves.
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Fourth Annual Global E-Government Study:
Taiwan, Singapore Lead U.S., Canada In Online Government
A new study of global e-government
undertaken by researchers at Brown University shows that 21 percent of
government agencies around the world are offering online services, up
from 16 percent in 2003, 12 percent in 2002, and 8 percent in 2001.
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Britain Examines
Fresh Ways To Return Rejected Asylum Applicants To Somalia
Tony Blair will today announce a fresh
objective of each month removing more failed asylum seekers than the
number of arrivals, as part of an attempt to restore credibility to
immigration policy.
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Scars Of
Terrorism
Although Somalia has yet to become the
terrorist breeding ground some experts feared, its lawlessness makes
it an ideal transit point for Islamic radicals bound for Kenya and
other African nations. Those responsible for the 2002 Mombasa attack
are said to have smuggled weapons through Somalia.
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South Africa’s
Courageous Decision
Editorial
By officially extending diplomatic recognition to the Sahrawi Arab
Democratic Republic, the government of South Africa has taken a
courageous step that will certainly push forward the struggle of the
Sahrawi people for emancipation from Moroccan occupation and
oppression.
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Hassan
Said: A Disseminator of The Truth Or A Purveyor of Fabrications?
By Ahmed Farah Garad
Hassan Said, the “luminary” journalist of Somaliland, has been
arrested at the mid-night hour. The sky has fallen overnight on
Somaliland’s constitutional freedoms! President Rayale and his
“cohorts” are the culprits.
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How Can We Make
Somaliland Stay?
Mohamed Abdillahi Dualeh (Ilkacase),
Hargeisa
Somaliland is, to borrow a phrase from Nigerian culture, a spirit
child (see for instance, Ben Okri’s recent novel, the Famished Road
and Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart).
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What Somaliland
Can Learn From Ireland
By: Xirsi Jamac
In March of 2002, the Republic of Ireland became the first country in
the world to introduce a plastic bag tax, or “PlasTax”.
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Somaliland Needs
A Central Bank
By: Dr. Mohamed O Nur-Shacabi, Sr. Business Development Consultant
The next step of Somaliland Monetary System needs is to set up a
Central Bank by asking the European Countries and United Arab Emirates
to find a way to utilize a banking system that could meet the
regulation and circulation need for an expanding supply of money yet
at the same time control it so as to avoid the crises to which it was
prone and the unsettled money transfers of the recent existing Hawala
or money transfer companies.
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The BBC’s
Training Program Is A Joke
Mohamed Abdi Mohamed, BBA, Amoud University, Borama
It was interesting to read in the Somaliland Times issue of September
4, 2004 that the Somaliland Society for Independent Journalists and
Writers (SSJW) was about to sue the BBC for hundreds of thousands of
dollars in compensatory damages in connection with alleged abuse of
funds belonging to a training program run by the BBC.
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Siad Barre's
Connection With Racist South Africa
Aniis Abdillahi Essa, Washington DC, USA
Siyad Barre made an unfamiliar and strange move in 1984. He caught the
world by surprise when he turned to South Africa for help. His
political and diplomatic isolation coupled with his opportunistic and
unpredictable character forced him to turn to racist South Africa for
help.
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Kismayo: The
Latest Fighting
In Buulo Xaji, Nearby Hoosingow City
NAIROBI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Rival militias have for weeks been
preparing to fight for Somalia's main southern trading centre, Kismayo
port. The latest fighting broke out this week at Buulo Xaji, about 100
km (60 miles) south of the port and in the nearby Hoosingow City of
lower Jubba region.
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Somalian
Parliament To Return Home After 2 Years Of Peace Talks
Nairobi, 17 Sep 2004 (VOA) – The Somali peace process that began in
Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia's new
parliament, which is sitting in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is on the
verge of selecting a president, and is expected to return to Somalia
within a few weeks. But questions remain about whether or not
factional leaders within the new government will be willing or able to
bring peace to Somalia.
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