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Scotland Yard To Help Investigate Borama And Sheikh Murders
Hargeisa (SL Times) – Scotland Yard detectives are expected to arrive in
Somaliland in a couple of weeks time in order to help the Somaliland police
investigate last month’s murders in which Italian doctor Annalena Tonelli
and the SOS Sheikh Secondary School headmaster Richard Eyeington and his
wife Enid were killed.
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World Wars Dead Remembered
Hargeisa (SL Times) – A War Remembrance Day in honor of those who died in
World Wars One and Two was held in Hargeisa last Tuesday.
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Edna And M. Hashi Deny Resignation
Hargeisa (SL Times) – Somaliland Foreign Minister, Edna Adan Ismail and
Commerce and Industry Minister, Mohamed Hashi Elmi, have denied that they
intend to resign from President Dahir Rayale’s cabinet.
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Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Given State Funeral
Hargeisa (SL Times) – The first president of post-liberated Somaliland,
Abdirahman Ahmed Ali, was buried on Thursday in Hargeisa. He died in London
in the early hours of last Saturday.
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Italian President Awards Golden Medal To Annalena
Forli’ (SL Times) – On the 4th of November, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president
of the Italian republic conferred a golden medal on Annalena Tonelli for her
"passion and restless commitment in favor of the Somali refugees, affected
by infective diseases, malnutrition, female genital mutilation.
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Somaliland - The
International Rescue Committee
PIAF – South Africa
"For the last two weeks I've been working myself into the environment,
trying to get a feel for the different programs IRC has going in Somaliland:
microcredit, agricultural, health, and educational programs, all aimed at
refugees returning from Ethiopia.
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Sound AU Alarm On Destabilisation Of Somaliland
By Professor Kornegay, Business day, 10 November 2003
SUDANESE Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismael has warned that the nation's
peace process will fail "unless it is viewed within the context of a
comprehensive regional framework".
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How To Shake Djibouti
The U.N. declares that nation- and business-building are related.
From: Inc. Magazine, November 2003 By: Rod Kurtz
Entrepreneurs believe they can change the world. The United Nations, it
seems, is starting to agree.
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Somali Stays After Court Order
Nov 12, 2003 – A Somali asylum seeker taken by police to Auckland airport
has won a temporary reprieve from deportation.
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Now The US Backs Its Old Enemies
America left Somalia in 1993 when it lost 18 men while trying to snatch a
warlord. Now, Aidan Hartley reveals, the US is back, this time siding with
the warlords against al-Qa’eda
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Somalia Considered One Of The World's Most Dangerous Countries
Nairobi, Kenya, November 11,2003 (CNSNews.com) – A report released by a
UK-based business risk consultancy group Monday named Somalia as one of the
most dangerous countries in the world.
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UN Security Council Declaration On Somalia
New York, November 11, 2003 (UNO United Nations) – The Security Council,
pointing out his former decisions relating to the situation in Somalia, in
particular the statement made by his president on March 12, 2003 (S/PRST/2003/2),
and with satisfaction accommodating the report/ratio of the
Secretary-general on October 13, 2003 (S/2003/987), reaffirms his will to
arrive to an overall and durable solution of the situation to Somalia and
his respect for sovereignty, the territorial integrity, political
independence and the unit of the country, in accordance with the goals and
principles stated in the Charter of the United Nations.
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UN Secretary General Report on Somalia
October 13, 2003
I. Introduction
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Cargo Flouts Somali Embargo, Renews Concerns
2003-11-11 / Reuters
A boat unloaded hundreds of military uniforms and tents at a Mogadishu port
on Saturday, witnesses said, in an apparent breach of a U.N. arms embargo at
the center of fresh concern about al-Qaida activity in Somalia.
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Bulgarian Envoy Leads UN Mission To Somalia
SOFIA, Nov.12, 2003 (Bulgarian News Network)— Bulgaria's envoy to the United
Nations Stefan Tafrov is leading a UN mission to Somalia meant to stop
illegal arms supplies to and from the country, the Bulgarian Foreign
Ministry said Wednesday.
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Exhibit Brings Images Of War-Torn Somalia To Iowa Wesleyan College
By Martha Wick, Staff Writer
On July 12, 1993, Dan Eldon was stoned to death by an angry mob in
Mogadishu, Somalia. He along with others had been documenting the bloody
Somalian Civil War and the equally bloody U.S. response to the harrowing
bedlam. A photographer and artist, Eldon, who was born in England, spent his
childhood in Kenya.
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Positive Change
The decision of the British government to help
in the investigation of the recent murders of expatriates in Somaliland and
to train Somaliland’s security forces, is excellent news.
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Somaliland’s Foreign Policy – An Assessment
By: Ahmed M.I. Egal
amiegal@hotmail.com
Since Somaliland’s secession from the Somali Republic in 1991, the
overriding strategic objective of our foreign policy has been the
achievement of international recognition.
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“A Brilliant Work
Coordinated Through Many Continents”
By Rhoda Rageh
A Note On My Teachers Group is about a historical epic that has changed the
lives of the people of Somaliland forever.
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Against the Saudization of Somaliland (IV)
By: Bashir Goth, Bsogoth@yahoo.com
Wahhabi encroachments into Somaliland
This is the brand of distorted Islam that the neo-Muslim clerics want to
enforce on our people. They want to tell us that over the LAST 14 CENTURIES,
our people have been practicing the wrong religion; that since the dawn of
Islam, Somali people had lived in vain, worshipped in vain and died in vain.
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The Measure Of Ismail Faqash
By Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar
The measure of a man is in his morals and not in his wealth, and especially
NOT in his power should he have any. Today we know that Ismail Osman Adan –
Faqash has neither morals, nor wealth and least of all power. For a man with
any of these would not sink so low.
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Ismail Aden Osman Must Go!
By Hassan Mogeh Hirsi, Los Angeles, California USA
Right after the election, when the people of Somaliland elected their first
president ever, I promised myself that I will work with whomever the
Somaliland people choose for their leadership, that I will do to my best to
assist the new administration in any way possible.
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SIRAG’s Successful Meeting With Somaliland Delegates In The UK
12th Nov 2003
Somaliland International Recognition Action Group (SIRAG) [Press Release]
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Statement By A Group Of British Somalilanders
1880 to 1960 Somaliland a British Colony for 80 years.
1914 -18 and 1940-45 Fought bravely for British in two world wars.
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Somali Groups Sign Peace Agreement In Libya
Tripoli, Libya, Nov 14, 2003 (Arabic News) – The Libyan official news agency
said that the chairman of the Somali provisional government Abdul Qassim
Salat Hassan signed on Thursday in Tripoli a reconciliation agreement with
several Somali opposition groups.
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