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German Experts Studying
Establishment of Budgeting Services for Parliament
 Hargeisa (SL Times) – A team of German experts
are in the country to study the feasibility of establishing a Budgeting
Service office for Somaliland’s Parliament.
According to Dr. Hartmut Schulz who heads the team, the idea is to
strengthen the capacity of the Somaliland parliament to study, analyse and
monitor financial matters including the government budget once it has been
adopted by the legislature.
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BBC Somali Service’s Double Standards
BBC Somali Service’s Double Standards
By Jamal Abdi Gabobe, Seattle Washington
The BBC's Somali service is getting more and more biased against Somaliland. Below are a few examples:
1- Even though Abdiqasims' tenure has expired, the BBC Somali Service is still calling him the President of the Transitional Government (Madaxweynaha Dawladda Ku Meel Ghaadka ah).
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International Crisis Group Report On Somaliland Democratization And Its Discontents,
Part V
Continued from our previous issue]
A. POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS
The 2001 constitution had legalised the formation of political associations, which would be eligible to compete for seats on local councils. But more was at stake than control of municipal governments: the three associations to obtain the highest percentage of the vote could then be registered as political parties and go forward to contest parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Police Station Management Workshop
Hargeisa (SL Times) – A 3 day workshop on police station management was held in Hargeisa on 23-25 August 2003. The workshop sponsored by the UNDP and the German government was attended by sector and station officers from Hargeisa, Berbera and
Borama.
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Humanitarian Disaster At
Loyo-Ado
Loyo-Ado, Somaliland (SL Times) – As the Djiboutian government’s deadline for deporting its illegal residents approached, at least 4000 people converged since Wednesday on Loyo-Ado, a small Somaliland town at the border with Djibouti.
Most of those who arrived are women and children, and almost all of them need urgent relief assistance such as water, food, temporary shelter and transportation to their various destinations.
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"No Paradise In Yemen", Prospective Refugees Told
NAIROBI, 27 Aug 2003 (IRIN) - At least 30 refugees seeking a new life in Yemen are feared to have drowned after being forced to jump into the sea from a boat near the Yemeni coast.
The boat had earlier left the coastal village of Marer, 10 km south of Bosaso, the commercial capital of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, a survivor told IRIN by telephone from Yemen on Wednesday.
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An Open Letter To South Africa Leaders On Somaliland Recognition
An Open Letter To South Africa Leaders On Somaliland Recognition
By Ibrahim Hassan Gagale
(Response to: A Call To The Government Of South Africa
To Abandon The Creation of Apartheid Style Bantustans For Somalia.)
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Somalis' Hearts Call Them Home
Expats flocking back to rebuild northern centre Canadians among those bringing new hope for Hargeisa
FINBARR O'REILLY
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Hargeisa, Northern Somalia, Aug. 24, 2003 (Toronto Star) —During Somalia's vicious civil war, MiG jets took off from Hargeisa's local airport and bombed the city, flattening virtually every building and leaving the streets looking like row upon row of smashed teeth.
The windblown desert city, once the capital of British Somaliland, still doesn't look like much, with its parched river of sand flowing through the middle of town and millions of coloured plastic bags clinging to trees, fences and telephone poles like some artificial national flower.
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Idle People May Undermine Somaliland’s Peace
HARGEISA, Somaliland, (AFP) - Three years ago, Ahmed Jama Ahmed returned from England purposely to trade in foreign currency in his native Somaliland.
But now he fears that widespread idleness may disrupt the fragile peace in the breakaway -- and internationally unrecognized -- republic and plunge it into another round of anarchy and bloodletting that had forced him into exile in Europe three years ago.
"The unemployment rate is more than 90 percent and such a huge number of idle people may undermine peace," Ahmed, a former resident of Manchester, told AFP in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa.
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Horn Of Africa: Global Deal To Help Landlocked Countries
NAIROBI, 28 Aug 2003 (IRIN) - Developing landlocked countries have agreed on a framework for cooperation with their maritime neighbours in a bid to ease massive transit costs, which can gobble up to 50 percent of their export earnings - particularly in Africa.
The agreement was reached on Wednesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty, ahead of a UN-sponsored ministerial meeting of 30 landlocked countries and 33 transit access developing countries. Donor nations and international organizations are also taking part.
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Livestock's Untapped Potential
Analysis, Henry Bwisa
Nairobi, August 27, 2003 (The Nation) – The livestock sector has always had a big potential to drive Africa's economic growth.
It supplies most of the continent with food and power and underpins its agriculture, service and manufacturing sectors. Indeed, this can be described as Africa's "sunrise" sector with a rapidly expanding market and a bright future.
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Somalis Feared
Dead After Forced To Jump Ship
Geneva, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A group of 30
Somali refugees heading for south Yemen by sea was forced at gunpoint
to jump into the water as they neared the coast and several were
feared drowned, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Only 18 of the party managed to reach the shore some 300 km (200
miles) east of Aden, according to the office of the High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR).
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California Somaliland Community Cultural Fair
By Hassan Mogeh Hirsi
African Market Place & Cultural Fair is a three weeks long Los
Angeles annual event. It started 18 years ago by few
Afro-centric vendors to increase the awareness of African cultures,
customs and products among the American people.
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The BBC Somali Service’s Biased Reporting on
Somaliland
Under the stewardship of Yusuf Garad, the BBC Somali service’s reporting
on Somaliland has become so biased it prompted the doyen of Somali studies,
I.M. Lewis, to dub it the “Arta Faction mouth piece.”
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Political Prisoners Are Released: But Why Were
They Arrested in the First Place?
On 7 August, Somaliland’s nine political prisoners were released after two
months in Hargeisa central prison when the government failed to bring a case
against them. The men, most of them former fighters with the Somali National
Movement (SNM), were arrested between 20-25 May, charged with involvement in
subversive activities.
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The Revisionist History Of The Samaters
By Mohamud Tani - Ottawa, Canada
Let me first begin by stating what I know of Mr. Abdirazak Haji Hussein, a
character that is being portrayed by the Samaters as somehow the epitome of
good governance. Certain undeniable facts are true of Mr. Hussein. "Samater's
Love Affairs with Abdirizak (former PM) known as Abdi Abaar" click here (www.radiosomaliland.com/samatrs.htm).
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Reporting The Negative
Please don't get me wrong but the media, in general, should report both the
good and bad news. The BBC Somali service reporter in Hargeisa
does not apply that theory.
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Congratulations to Miss Annalena for the Nansen
Refugee Award
Miss Annalena came to Borama six years ago, and one of the first things she
did was to expand Borama Hospital facilities, by adding five new wards and
other facilities to the existing infrastructure, including a two-story block
dedicated for the administration of the hospital.
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The Feeble Minded Government
By Ahmed Mohamed
We all know the constant violations that Abdullahi Yussuf of Puntland is committing against Somaliland territory. Before, the issue of controversy was in regard to
Lascanod, but over the years it has got worse and now he has not only taken over
Lascanod, but he has also pursued an expansionist agenda and have been successful in occupying most of the Sool region, eastern parts of Sanaag and declared Buhodle capital of a new region called
Cayn.
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Message For The Honorable Edna Adan Ismail
8/16/03
Dear Edna,
I saw the BBC feature on you recently in which you were calling for more
African Women in leadership roles. Bravo! I
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