Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 14, 2007 – Officials in the republic of Somaliland Sunday have warned the possibility of regional war with Somalia if the Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu does not stop interfering Somaliland affairs.
The three main political parties in Somaliland, UDUB, KULMIYE and UCID have held a joint press conference in Hargeisa, the capital of the self-declared republic, condemning what they called ‘the provocation words’ from the government of President Abdillahi Yusuf.
Targeting Oromo Citizens In Somalia Is An Act Of Ethnic Cleansing
Press Release from the International Oromo Youth Association
“Your [Transitional Government of Somalia’s] responsibility is not to kill us but to help us since we are under your refuge.” Mohamud Sheik Hassan, chairman of the Oromo refugees in Somalia.
On December 25, 2006 the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF)-led Ethiopian regime launched a military campaign in neighboring Somalia, alleging that its “sovereignty” was threatened by the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). Having driven out the UIC from Mogadishu, the TPLF forces in collaboration with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, has now shifted its mission towards fulfilling its main agenda of ethnic cleansing.
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Baidoa, Somalia, 18/01/2007 - Somalia's parliament yesterday ousted powerful speaker Sharif Hassan Shaikh Adan, who split with the president and prime minister late last year over his peace overtures to rival Islamists.
"The speaker is out," Somali legislator Ali Basha told Reuters by phone from the parliament in a converted grain warehouse in the provincial town of Baidoa. He said 183 voted against Adan, while eight voted in his favour and one abstained.
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 17, 2007 – U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger told reporters in Nairobi that the $40 million that the U.S. has given Somalia recently for peace and development efforts will not be effective unless Somalia is stable and the government (TFG) reaches out to the people, including the Islamists.
"We are putting a lot of pressure on the TFG for dialogue and outreach," he said. "They need to build unity in their own government, but it is also dialogue with all segments of the population.
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Nairobi, January 17, 2007 – An official of the Union of Islamic Court has been arrested in Garissa as hundreds of fleeing immigrants from Somalia camped at the closed border.
Reports indicated that Sheikh Ahmed Sharif Sheikh, believed to be second in command to Sheikh Hassan Aweys, was captured near Dadaab Refugee Camp.
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 19, 2007 – An African Union (AU) mission to Somalia recommended on Friday that the body send peacekeepers for six months before handing over to the United Nations to tame a nation in chaos for 16 years.
Diplomats see international peacekeepers as the only way to stabilize Somalia once Ethiopian troops -- who helped the interim government oust rival Islamists over the New Year and are now propping up the administration -- return home.
The transitional government is trying to establish its authority in the capital, Mogadishu
Baidoa, Somalia, 17 January 2007 - Somalia's interim government is set to issue new passports in its headquarters in Baidoa for the first time since the civil war erupted in 1991.
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Pretoria, South Africa. 17 January 2007 - South Africa has again stressed that its defence force is over-stretched and is still considering troop contributions to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad told journalists in Pretoria on Wednesday that no decision has been made on possible troop contributions.
The Somali government appears to have reversed a ban on four media outlets it imposed Monday. As Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi, the closures of the outlets received widespread international condemnation.
Nairobi, Kenya, 16 January 2007 - Radio HornAfrik, Shabelle Media Network, Voice of Holy Quran, and the Mogadishu office of al-Jazeera are now up and running following a meeting of media executives and government officials.
Christian Aid has received unconfirmed reports of shocking atrocities being committed by Ethiopian soldiers occupying Somalia this week.
Jan. 18, 2007
Christian Aid has received unconfirmed reports of shocking atrocities being committed by Ethiopian soldiers occupying Somalia this week.
Northern Aid, a Christian Aid partner organization based in Nairobi, has been monitoring the Kenya-Somalia border area, and Ethiopian soldiers have been accused of raping Somali women
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Nairobi, Kenya, 17 Jan, 2007 - Caption: US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger says America is committed to ensuring peace in Somalia.
The United states has maintained that its attack on Somalia was directed at Al Qaeda cells saying the influx of suspected Al Qaeda suspects in the country were worrying.
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From left to right, former warlord Muse Sude Yalahow, President Abdullahi Yusuf, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi and former warlord Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, during their meeting, 12 Jan 2007 |
Mogadishu, Somalia, 17 January 2007 - In early January, Somalia's interim government troops entered the capital, after defeating Islamist fighters in a string of battles and sending their leaders fleeing for their lives.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 17 — Several Somali Islamist fighters and possibly some of their leaders were arrested trying to escape into Kenya, Kenyan authorities said Wednesday, raising the possibility of a sticky asylum issue.
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Mogadishu, Somalila, January 20, 2007 - Gunfire exchanges have taken place in north of the capital on Saturday between Ethiopian troops and unknown gunmen.
Witnesses told Shabelle that number of Ethiopian troops backed by tanks were passing by the main road of north of the capital when they were attacked by the gunmen. The skirmishes lasted half an hour.
Nairobi, Kenya, January 19, 2007 - Uganda's ruling party has approved a plan to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia, officials said today, making the deployment almost certain to go ahead.
President Yoweri Museveni has pledged 1,000 troops to a proposed 8,000-strong peacekeeping force under a UN-approved plan to pacify the chaotic Horn of Africa country.
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Rising Tension In The Eastern Border Between Somaliland And Puntland
Somaliland, Puntland and Somalia Hudun, Somaliland, January 20, 2007 (SL Times) – Somaliland forces stationed in Sool region have been put in a state of high alert when forces loyal to Puntland, led by Puntland Vice-President, Hassan Dahir Af-Qudha arrived on Thursday in Hudun town, situated midway in between the regional capital of Sool (Lasanod) and Sanag (Erigavo) region in Somaliland.
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MPs Hold Inquiry After A Court Decision Allowing Prosecution Of Three Journalists Under The Penal Code
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“There is no legal basis for application of a law superseded by the Country’s new press law” Defense Lawyers in the trial of Haatuf Journalists
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 20, 2007 (SL Times) – The Somaliland’s House of the Representative’s select committee on Judicial affairs on Thursday held a hearing in which the chairman of the Supreme Court, Mohamed Hirsi Omane was questioned with regard to a Hargeysa Regional Court ruling that allowed 3 detained Journalists from the Haatuf Newspaper to be prosecuted under the penal code of Somalia instead of the country’s press law.
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The Paris based Reporters Without Borders
Paris, 18 January 2007
Dear Mr. President,
Justice has played very little role in what has happened with the newspaper Haatuf. Ever since the arrest of Yusuf Abdi Gabobe and Ali Abdi Dini, the entire case has been marked by unfairness, procedural irregularities, personal revenge and the denial of democratic principles. These journalists are being prosecuted by the Somaliland government on charges of “insulting” the president and his aides under the 1962 Somali criminal code, although it was superseded by the 2004 press law.
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By Sahal Abdulle
MOGADISHU, January 19, 2007 – At least two mortars slammed into Somalia's presidential palace on Friday night as explosions and gunfire rocked Mogadishu in the latest outbreak of violence in chaotic Somalia, witnesses and officials said.
"I can confirm two mortars have hit Villa Somalia," a senior government source told Reuters, of the building where President Abdillahi Yusuf stays. "We do not have word yet if there were casualties or not."
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Washington January 19, 2007 -- Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer gave an upbeat assessment of the progress Somalia is making toward forming a national unity government aimed at providing security and stability for the nation, which has been ravaged by clan fighting and warlordism. State Department's Frazer sees "glimmer of hope" after routing of CIC force
(Media-Newswire.com) - Despite the turmoil Somalia has undergone over the past 16 years without a functioning central government, Frazer said January 17 she now sees a "glimmer of hope" and "reasons to be optimistic" for a lasting peace following the defeat of the radical Council of Islamic Courts ( CIC ), the jihadist-influenced movement that came to dominate most of the country.
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Nairobi, January 17, 2007 – Somali officials are holding up to 50 foreign nationals, the Danish Foreign Ministry said today.
Somalia ’s foreign minister, Ismael Mohamoud Hurreh, told Denmark’s ambassador to Kenya that “about 50 foreigners are detained, including several Scandinavians, and at least one of them is a Dane,” said Lars Thuesen, head of the Danish ministry’s consular department.
Danish Ambassador Bo Jensen briefly met Hurreh yesterday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to ask for details about reports that Danes were being held in Somalia.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 20, 2007 (SL Times) – A group of journalists led by the Secretary General of Somaliland's Society for Independent Journalists and Writers visited five youth who were sentenced to six months imprisonment by the regional Hargeysa Security Committee last week for taking part in the Hargeysa demonstration, which happened on Jan. 8, 2007.
The demonstrators had called for the release of Haatuf journalists arrested on Jan.2, 2007, by Hargeysa CID.
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Somalia : What next?
NAIROBI, Jan 18th 2007 – WITH the backing of Ethiopian forces and American intelligence, government forces have quickly recaptured all of central and southern Somalia's towns, including the capital, Mogadishu. Now the important questions are how many of the defeated Islamists have gone to ground, where they are and what their aims are. Some of their harsher commanders are at large but their support seems, for the moment, to have shrunk. The Americans admit that the three top al-Qaeda men they at first thought they had killed in air strikes last week are still alive, but no one seems to know where they are lurking.
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Asmara, January 19, 2007 – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki says that any African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission sent into Somalia is doomed to failure.
In an exclusive interview with the Qatar-based al-Jazeera network, President Afewerki says that Somalia has not seen the last of the Islamic Council of Courts.
Somali government troops - with support from Ethiopian forces - drove the Islamic militants out of the capital, Mogadishu, last month. The Islamics have taken refuge in southern Somalia.
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Mr. Meles said the Ethiopians would withdraw in three phases
Addis Ababa, January 19, 2007 – Ethiopian forces are to start leaving Somalia "in the next few days", Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has told the BBC.
Ethiopia helped Somalia's interim government oust Islamists from the capital but has always said it does not want to stay long.
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The New York based CPJ
New York, January 18, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the ruling by a court in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland on Wednesday to try three jailed journalists under archaic criminal laws in connection with a story critical of the president.
A regional court in the capital, Hargeysa, ruled that editor Ali Abdi Dini, reporter Muhammad-Rashid Farah, and publisher Yusuf Abdi Gabobe of the Somali-language private daily Haatuf, would be tried under Somaliland’s 1962 penal code and not the 2004 press law, local journalists told CPJ. Defense lawyer Muhammad Saeed told CPJ that the case should be brought under the press law, which he said has exclusive governance over press issues and which does not allow prison penalties. The penal code charges could bring more than three years in prison.
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Washington, January 17, 2007 – Pentagon officials have confirmed for the first time that the United States has troops on the ground in Somalia. This amounts to an admission that the Bush administration is a co-belligerent with Ethiopia in its illegal war in the Horn of Africa. It is the first time that Washington has acknowledged having forces in Somalia since it pulled out in 1994 after the infamous “Black Hawk down” incident.
Somalia has become a new front in Bush’s “war on terror.” The willingness of officials to own up to the US having “boots on the ground” is an indication of the bellicose mindset that now dominates in Washington. In comparison to protracted US denials in the 1970s that it had extended the Vietnam War into Laos and Cambodia, the pretence that America was not directly involved in the invasion of Somalia lasted barely a week.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 17, 2007 – The United States said Wednesday that it is disappointed by Somali parliament's vote to oust its speaker and urged Somalia's political process to be inclusive.
"While certainly respectful of the rights of the parliament to go forward with this no-confidence motion, I think we're disappointed to see this kind of action at this time," State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing.
"We think it's important that the transitional federal institutions of government be acting to reach out not only to those that are already participating in the government, but to others more broadly," Casey said.
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| MOGADISHU, January 16, 2007—Volunteer fighters from Canada who traveled to Somalia to participate in what they thought was a holy war were killed during fighting that erupted three weeks ago, Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister said yesterday.
Hussein Aideed said in an interview that Canadian citizens of Somali origin were among the hundreds of Islamist fighters killed on the battlefield since a Dec. 24 offensive by troops loyal to interim President Abdillahi Yusuf Ahmed. |
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UN's Fall in Baidoa, heading toward parliament
UNITED NATIONS, January 17 - In Somalia, the one member of the UN-sponsored Transitional Federal Government who had reached out to the Islamic Courts Union, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, was ousted from the parliament in Baidoa on Wednesday. It was reported that "Francois Fall, special representative of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Somalia, refused to comment directly on the sacking."
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by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 12, 2001
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A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration concluded without supporting evidence, that "Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime suspects". CIA Director George Tenet stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan ``multiple attacks with little or no warning.'' Secretary of State Colin Powell called the attacks "an act of war" and President Bush confirmed in an evening televised address to the Nation that he would "make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them".
Former CIA Director James Woolsey pointed his finger at "state sponsorship," implying the complicity of one or more foreign governments. In the words of former National Security Adviser, Lawrence Eagleburger, "I think we will show when we get attacked like this, we are terrible in our strength and in our retribution."
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January 19, 2007
In what seems to be becoming a signature atrocity of US President George Bush’s “war on terror”, US air strikes hit a Somali wedding ceremony, according to a January 10 BBC Online report. Up to 31 people were killed. The BBC quoted the account of an elder in Banka-Jiira, a grazing area, who told the news service’s Somali branch: “There have been air strikes carried out by American planes in these areas since Sunday. Here in the Banka-Jiira area, which is the largest grazing area in the Juba Valley region, we have been hard hit. There have been several air strikes over nearby Booji grazing area too. The most unfortunate incident was an attack on a big wedding ceremony …
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Washington, 18 January 2007 - Many humanitarian organizations in Somalia are back to full staff, now that the major fighting in Somalia has ended. One of those organizations is the medical aid group, Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF.
“The humanitarian situation in Somalia has always been extremely bad. After 15 years of basically having no central government, there are very, very sparse health facilities throughout the country. The infrastructure in terms of health has fallen apart completely in the country. So, I mean what we’re talking about now is if you want to get health treatment you’re relying on very few ngos that are able to work in the country. And very often people are walking for hundreds of kilometers just to access basic health care,” he says.
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The kidnapping of citizens by Somaliland’s government shows no signs of abating. A few days after sending armed police to attack the premises of Haatuf newspaper and taking Ali Dini (the editor of Haatuf Newspaper) and Yusuf Gabobe (the editor of Somaliland Times) as hostages, Somaliland’s CID jailed Mr. Kayse Ahmed Osman a friend of the journalists who came to visit them in jail. When citizens and youth protested the unlawful incarceration of the journalists, they too were detained, and five under-aged children were quickly sentenced to imprisonment by Hargeysa’s Security Committee. A few days later, Haatuf Newspaper’s correspondent in Borama, Mr. Mohammed Omar Sheikh was arrested. All of these attacks came as a result of a series of articles by Muhammad Rashid that exposed corruption and embezzlement by the president, his wife and ministers.
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In November 2005, the Centre for Human Rights began investigating the possibility of a third destination for the LLM field trip. The reasons for increasing the number of field trip destinations to include Somaliland include the following:
Somaliland is a state in the making; it would be ideal for students on the programme to have a first hand experience of this. |
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By Abdi Galgalo
January 19, 2007
In response to an impassioned plea from Oromo refugees suffering in Somalia, the International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA) appeals to the United States, UNHCR, Somalia’s Transitional Government, and the people and States of the Horn of Africa to help stop the increasing cold-blooded killing, detention and kidnapping of Oromo refugees by the Ethiopian and Somali governments’ militia.
The ongoing Ethiopia-led military operation in Somalia is being widely covered by many international media. Unbeknownst to the world, however, is the fact that Ethiopia’s parliamentary resolution that authorized military intervention in Somalia also contains articles that authorized actions against supporters and members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
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Australian Scientist On A Short Visit To Amoud University
A Hydrologist and researcher Mr. Abdi Hassan Qasim of department of Primary Industries, Tatura centre who is currently on a short visit to Amoud university held a seminar on ways and means to develop research unit at Amoud university and mentioned that the main reasons behind establishing a research unit are to improve the socio economic development of the region and enhancing the quality of Amoud university. In addition to that the business enterprises and communities across the region will benefit from research conducted at Amoud University.
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The Gadabuursi Manifesto
Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar
Prelude
2006 has been a particularly difficult year for Somaliland. The nation barely held together against the onslaught of the religious right only to face a fresh challenge from the petty dictatorships that plaques the African continent. The punches keep coming. The year ended with freedom in chains and with the Editor and the Publisher of Haatuf (the central defenders of the nation) behind bars. But the nation keeps standing, swaying gracefully with each strike. In these dire circumstances the Gadabuursi comes to the aid of the nation and offers guidance to its president.
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By Ibrahim Jibah Ismail, USA
Over the centuries, the media outlet of any society is the cornerstone of its democracy and influences what their government should or should not do. The Press has a responsibility to investigate the facts and figures of any particular government according to the Constitution of that country. In doing so, they encourage a style of politics and kind of politician to facilitate the lawful affairs of the State. It has been reported that the editors of Haatuf have been jailed after they uncovered and reported on widespread corruption by the Executive branch of the Somaliland government. The Somaliland Constitution dictates that a free press is a legal right of Somalilanders.
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Abdulkadir J. Dualeh
The criminal enterprise calling itself the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia has moved its farcical and illegitimate theatrical show from the underground bunkers in Baidoa to a different overground bunker, Villa Somalia, in Mogadishu.
This change in location of the TFG leadership from a bunker in the dusty shacks of Baidoa to the more glamorous and better looking mansion of villa Somalia in Mogadishu may be a good propaganda coup designed to mislead and impress ill-informed world reporters, but the change in location of the TFG bunker from Baidoa to Mogadishu does not fool the Somali public, nor does this change in locale effectually change the political and demographic landscape of the Somali society in any significant fashion.
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By Abdirahman Y Warsame, Ohio
As the ‘last Somali man’ faced his demise, a man decided to tape-record his eyewitness testimony as to the collapse and disappearance of his Somali race on African soil. He asked himself, rhetorically, what happened to his whole race of people; and how they were forced into extinction! The following is his testament:
”Now that I am the only survivor of our race and I can't hurt anyone's feelings anymore, I CAN SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID! LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN! Our demise as a race WAS NOT AN EVENT; it was a PROCESS; A SLOW PROCESS THAT TOOK YEARS.
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By I Mead, Ottawa, Canada
“I am Somaliland, and I am waiting!
Waiting for some one to re-claim me again!
I am lost! I was lost and found, but abandoned thereafter!
I went astray and again fell in the wrong hands!
I was put in the wrong barn! The wrong herdsmen reared me!
They held me, hypnotized me by hollow but magic words like: ‘ keep the peace. Recognition will be disturbed if you rise up against us! Even when there is no policy in this direction! Even when there is no intention of formalizing a policy or worse no knowledge thereof, in that regard!
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By Soleiman Egeh
"Liberty, then is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost; and not until we live in a society where each can exercise his right of sovereignty at all times without clashing with or violating that of others." unknown
"True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all." Mahatma Gandhi
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By Jamal Gabobe, Seattle
The brief comments below by Jamal Gabobe were penned in response to Peter Schraeder’s article “Why the United States Should Recognize Somaliland’s Independence”. Both the article and the comments were posted at the website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (http://forums.csis.org/africa/).
- Thank you Mr Schraeder for your succinct and timely analysis. I agree with you that it is in the United States’ self interest to recognize Somaliland and that waiting for too long will have negative consequences for both Somaliland and the US. It is also important to note that the sense of disappointment with those who pay lip service to democratic principles and have ignored Somaliland’s pleas could have a radicalizing effect.
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The U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia has the potential to push the country to civil war and anarchy.
TROUBLE ON THE streets of Mogadishu on December 29, the day Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, who heads the provisional government, swept into the capital in an armored convoy. |
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Mogadishu, January 17, 2007 – THE Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia was seemingly on the verge of doing the impossible. The Courts, an alliance of Islamic clerics, most of them espousing moderate views, liberated the capital Mogadishu and most of Somalia from the warlords in June 2006. There were hopeful signs that Somalia would once again be a viable nation-state, after more than a decade and a half of civil war. The warlords were either defeated or in total retreat. Mogadishu was no longer a divided city.
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By Ginny Hill
At least 84,000 Somalis are registered as refugees in Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen, January 17, 2007 – Gamma Ali Hassan arrived in Yemen one week ago, after a dangerous sea crossing from the north coast of Somalia.
When she set out from home in the middle of December, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) still controlled the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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January 17, 2007 – During the first two weeks of January, the domestic and external actors with interests in Somalia's political future strove to adjust to the new balance of power created by Ethiopia's successful invasion of the country that drove the previously dominant Islamic Courts Council (I.C.C.) out of the official capital Mogadishu and installed the weak, unpopular, clan-based, warlord-riven and internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) in its place.
On January 13, the Ethiopian forces had driven the last hardcore holdouts of the I.C.C. from their last redoubt in Ras Kamboni at the forested southern tip of Somalia, ending the I.C.C.'s existence as an organized movement and leaving its leaders and supporters to retreat into their sub-clans, attempt to reconcile with the T.F.G., or try to mount an armed insurgency against the T.F.G.
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The New Republic: U.S. Intervention In Somalia Is Illogical, Hypocritical
If anything, Ethiopia's invasion closely resembled Iraq's invasion in August 1990 of Kuwait. But, instead of criticizing the Ethiopians, the United States applauded and aided them.
by John B. Judis.
Jan. 18, 2007 - What exactly are we doing in the Horn of Africa, where we have encouraged the Christian government of Ethiopia to invade Somalia and replace its Islamic government? As far as I can tell, we have violated international law, committed war crimes, helped Al Qaeda recruit new members, and involved ourselves in a guerrilla war that could last decades. It's Iraq writ small. And it can't be blamed on Donald Rumsfeld.
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Story by BETHUEL KIPLAGAT
17January 2007 - THE COMPLEXITY OF THE Somalia conflict has left many in turmoil as they seek to understand its root causes and identify ways to resolve it.
Recently, there have been different and sometimes contradicting reports on the interim Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Islamic Courts Union’s struggle for power.
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FOUR AMERICAN PETROLEUM GIANTS HAD AGREEMENTS WITH THE AFRICAN NATION BEFORE ITS CIVIL WAR BEGAN. THEY COULD REAP BIG REWARDS IF PEACE IS RESTORED
MOGADISHU, Somalia. January 18, 1993
Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of acres of the Somali countryside.
That land, in the opinion of geologists and industry sources, could yield significant amounts of oil and natural gas if the U.S.-led military mission can restore peace to the impoverished East African nation
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By Mahdi Gabose
It hasn’t been easy watching the news lately, Ethiopian tanks in the streets of Mogadishu evoked a zombie like condition where the only defense for the senses is to become numbed to the reality of……Ethiopian tanks in the streets of Mogadishu!
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