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After Beating
Sanag 2-1, Togdheer Is Somaliland’s New Soccer Champion
Hargeisa (SL Times) – Togdheer soccer team won the Somaliland regions’
cup after beating Sanag 2-1 in the tournament’s final match on
Thursday.
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SOPRI Sponsors Somaliland Ministerial Tour Of
The US
Somaliland Policy & Reconstruction Institute (SOPRI) in Collaboration with
the Somaliland Communities in the USA will sponsor a Somaliland Ministerial
Tour as well as a series of policy deliberation and consultation forum in
three major US regions “The West Coast, The Mid-West and The East Coast”.
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International Crisis Group Report On Somaliland
Democratization And Its Discontents, Part X
[Continued from the previous issue]
F. THE SUPREME COURT
The responsibility for passing final judgement on the election fell to the
highest organ of Somaliland’s judiciary: the Supreme Court. Both Kulmiye and
UDUB presented their grievances in writing to the court, which then sought
clarification from the NEC.
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Quest For
Legitimacy, Atlantans lobby for recognition of native lands
By CAMERON McWHIRTER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Oct 1, 2003
Every Friday evening, taxicabs, limos and other cars crowd the
parking lot of the Madina, a modest restaurant in a strip mall in
unincorporated DeKalb County that has become the de facto cultural
center for Somalis in metro Atlanta.
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World Ignores
Somaliland's Campaign For Independence
By RAYMOND THIBODEAUX
HARGEYSA, Somalia, Oct 1, 2003 (Atlanta Journal Constitution) -- The rusting
hulls of battle tanks and personnel carriers litter a cactus patch on a hill
overlooking Hargeysa, Somalia's second city.
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Somalia's New
Power-Brokers Survive Amid Chaos
By William Maclean
MOGADISHU, 02 Oct 2003 (Reuters) - In Mogadishu, motorists drive on the
right, left or centre: It's up to them. Bereft of police, victims pursue
community justice against rapists and murderers.
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Arms, Miraa Trade Keep
Somalia Aflame
Nairobi, October 1, 2003 (The Nation) – United Nations sanctions busters,
miraa-traders, property grabbers - these are the people who fuel the Somali
conflict. And they have undermined the traditional role of Somali elders as
arbitrators and peace negotiators.
As Somalia becomes deeply impoverished, the Somali conflict typically
centers on the control of property or income-generating infrastructure.
Harbors, airports, markets, bridges, road junctions - anything that can be
"taxed" usually is.
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Terror Fall-Out From US
Somali Failure
By Caspar Leighton, BBC Analysis programme, October 3, 2003
Ten years ago, on 3 October 1993, Somalia hit the headlines when 18 United
States soldiers died in a bungled attempt to capture a warlord in the
capital, Mogadishu.
The incident was turned into the Hollywood film Black Hawk Down.
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Putting the American in
‘American Muslim’
By MUQTEDAR KHAN
WASHINGTON, September 7, 2003 (New York Times) — Muslims in America.
American Muslims. The difference between these two labels may seem a matter
of semantics, but making the transition from the first to the second
represents a profound, if somewhat silent, revolution that many of us in the
Muslim community have been undergoing in the two years since Sept. 11.
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Immigrants Find
Persistence Pays Off With Jobs, Businesses
By Lisa Chmelecki
LEWISTON, 29-Sep-2003 (Sun Journal) – The night before her first day of
work, Abayi Munye got out of bed about 10 times to look out the window.
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Incentives For Sports
Promotion
When the contests between the country’s regional squads for soccer,
basketball and other athletics finally got underway in Hargeisa two weeks
ago, Somalilanders followed the games with keen interest. Irrespective of
their sex or age group, most people reacted to the games with enthusiasm and
excitement.
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Request for a change of
direction on the Somalia Situation
Open Letter
From: The Council for a New Beginning
Gentlemen:
We thank you for a well-valued effort and sincerity in dealing with the
difficult task you have undertaken.
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Demand Of Recognition
For Somaliland
By Aniis Abdillahi Essa
The international community has made several brave efforts to rescue and
reconstruct the disintegrated State of Somalia. All these brave efforts had
however failed and Somali proper still lies in ruins and is still a theatre
for marauding warring militants.
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Somaliland's
Interests Best Served By Promoting Peace In Mogadishu
By Yassin M. Ismail, London
I cannot believe how an entire national legislative assembly like that
of Somaliland House of Elders, could be so hasty and uncreative in
responding to the statement of the local Sultans, in which they
adverted their willingness to accept the desperate pleas of the Somali
Imam asking them to spearhead a new mediation process to reconcile the
warring Somali factions of the south. In principle, peace-making is an
act of religious obligation.
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