NAIROBI, Feb 19, 2007 – Fierce inter-clan fighting has killed at least 43 people in Ethiopia's southeastern Ogaden region, inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis.
The violence erupted after a land dispute between rival members of a clan turned awry on Sunday, when the foes clashed for the second time since the quarrel started last week.
"The fighting pitted members of Isaq clan in Darror village and at least 43 people were killed," said Ahmed Abdi Musa, an elder who was part of a mediation team.
Burundi To Send 1,700 Troops To Somalia
Bujumbura, February 19, 2007 – Burundi will send some 1,700 troops to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping mission to stabilize the chaotic Horn of Africa nation, the army said on Sunday, adding that an advance team would leave in days.
Somalia's interim government, whose forces ousted Islamists from Mogadishu and much of the south in December with help from Ethiopian troops, has called for the 8,000-strong AU force to be deployed as soon as possible.
MOGADISHU, Feb 18, 2007 – Four people were killed when their car exploded in Mogadishu on Sunday, witnesses said, but it was not clear what caused the blast in the chaotic city hit by near-daily attacks since a war in December ousted Islamists.
The incident occurred near a soccer stadium in the north of the Somali capital, where hundreds of people have fled their homes to escape the bloodshed.
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 18, 2007 – A wealthy businessman who supported Somalia's Islamic courts said Sunday that he has no ties to terrorism and called on the international community to help the Horn of Africa country create a new government supported by all segments of society.
Abukar Omar Aden, a Somali, told The Associated Press that allegations that he had links to al-Qaida and other international terror organizations were untrue and spread by his enemies.
Press Release
Kampala, Uganda, February 19, 2007 – It is with profound dismay that the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (EHAHRD-Net) has received information about the gruesome murder of a Somali journalist Ali Mohammed Omar (25). The demise of Omar is one among several deplorable incidents involving Somali journalists, making the country one of the most dangerous for media operations within the sub-region.
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Haleema Mohammed, 45, of Galkayo realized that staying in Somalia was no longer an option one unforgettable night in 1991, when she was forced to watch as her brothers were slaughtered in front of her eyes. “Forty people were killed that night in Galkayo,” she said. “Five were my brothers.”
Mohammed, sitting in a tent at the al-Kharaz refugee camp in Yemen’s Lahej Governorate, speaks with calm stoicism, her gaze defiant and unwavering. Her eyes, which she says were black in Somalia, are now blue. They were bleached by Yemen’s merciless desert sun, she says. She recounts the rest of her journey from Somalia to Yemen, in flat, unemotional tones. She and many other women in Galkayo fled the city, fearing for their lives, she said.
London, February 19, 2007--Two months after the Islamic Courts Union regime was flushed out in the country, the transitional federal government is now at the brink of transforming Somalia into a secular state. This action begins today as security officers have started removing the hijab or veil from women's heads on the streets of major cities in the country.
With a heightened violence and explosions against the federal government in Mogadishu, Somali authorities said the ban on hijab is their efforts to beef up security. The hijab, which does not have much tradition in Somalia, is mostly seen as a political expression of support for radical Islamism.
Kampala, 23 February, 2007 - Uganda has signed a memorandum of understanding with the African Union (AU) about the UPDF deployment in Somalia as tanks were seen driven through the streets of Kampala yesterday on their way to Mogadishu.
The memorandum, spelling out the details of the peacekeeping mission AMISOM, was signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday.
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Mogadishu, 24 February , 2007 - A top military official in the transitional federal government Saturday blamed the violence raging in the capital, Mogadishu on foreign states, which he accused of providing the finance used for the attacks.
Saed Dhere, the commander of the first division army indicated that these countries never want Somalia to be stable.
He did not mention any of the accused countries but insisted on that foreign nations give support to the insurgents in Mogadishu. He said the latest attacks on the Ethiopians stationing in former defense ministry building was a good example. A fierce gun battle broke out between Ethiopians and unidentified gunmen exchanging heavy weapons yesterday
Addis Ababa, 24 February, 2007 - According to the New York Times Ethiopia had been a staging point for a U.S. covert operation in Somalia and its airstrip was used for the air raids conducted by American warplanes.
The paper, which said it obtained its information from unnamed US officials, also claimed that the U.S. had deployed "members of a secret American Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, in Ethiopia and Kenya, and [that they had] ventured into Somalia.
"This is simply a total fabrication," Bereket Simon, special adviser to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, told the Associated Press.
BUJUMBURA, Burundi, 17 Febuary 2007 - Burundi has 1,700 troops available to deploy to Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force, but they need more equipment, the defense minister said Saturday.
Lt. Gen. Germain Niyoyankana said an additional 100 officers were also ready to serve as observers and that an advance team would visit Mogadishu on Feb. 23.
London, UK, February 20, 2007 – Somaliland Forum welcomes the revival of the US-funded Voice of America’s Somali-language service back to the airwaves after discontinuing nearly 13 years ago. Many things have changed during that time and Somaliland Forum anticipates all nations in the Horn will be fairly covered including The Republic of Somaliland.
We genuinely hope the VOA’s Washington headquarters will hold its freelance reporters to the highest ethical standards and not allow the exclusive or dominant coverage of just one nation. In the marketplace of ideas the dissemination of information is of the utmost importance especially in the Horn where millions depend on the accurate and fair reporting of the BBC and VOA.
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16 Feb, 2007 - While most people were getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year this week, Chen Tzu-fei, a lecturer at the Tzu Chi College of Technology's Department of Nursing, was packing medical supplies and getting ready to return to Somaliland, a little-known and unrecognized state that declared its independence from war-ravaged Somalia in 1991.
Chen, 38, holds a masters in nursing from Adelaide University in Australia and has worked as a volunteer in the Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps' international aid program for the last five years
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Sana, Feb 21, 2007 – Yemen is in talks with a Dubai-based company to build a 14-km bridge across the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, a Yemeni official said.
A UAE newspaper said the project, estimated to cost $1 billion, could be launched within two months, though it was not immediately clear when it would be completed.
'The company and the government are still in negotiations,' a senior Yemeni government official said.
'This project, if implemented, will be a main gate between Africa and Asia. It is crucial for trade and tourism.'
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WASHINGTON, DC, 21 February 2007--The current unrest in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, including an attack this week on the Somali Presidential Palace, has prompted the Transitional Government (TGF) to restrict three radio stations from reporting on government operations and security issues around the city and its environs. The government imposed the ban Monday on radio stations Shabelle, Banadir, and Voice of America affiliate Horn Afrik, which carries many of our VOA programs. Horn Afrik Program Manager Ahmed Abdi Salam says that Somalia’s National Security Agency contacted station representatives and charged that their broadcasts overstated the gravity of the security situation in Mogadishu.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 24, 2007 (SL Times) – The President of Somaliland Dahir Rayale Kahin in a meeting held last Wednesday in his office with the Somaliland Journalists Association (SOLJA) stated that his government was fully committed to observing the Press Law and he is willing to pardon the Haatuf journalists who are in Mandera prison, if they are found guilty by the court handling their case.
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Leaders of the Somaliland UK communities accompanied by Rt. Hon Alun Michael, MP, and Ms. Kerry McCarthy, MP, outside the official residence of the British Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street in London on Thursday |
London, February 24, 2007 (SL Times) – Seven hundred Somaliland-Welsh community from Cardiff, joined over three thousand UK Somalilanders in a demonstration outside the official residence of the British Minister at Number 10 Downing Street in London on Thursday to show their full support and unwavering backing for the Somaliland Republic to be free and sovereign Country among the UN Nations.
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Somalilanders in Oslo call on the world to recognise Somaliland last Thursday |
This week is the 25th anniversary of the first mass uprising of Somalilanders against the dictator Siyad Barre and his regime in Somalia.
Coinciding with this, Euro-Somalilanders in Oslo, Norway, have staged an important demonstration into pushing the Norwegian Government to recognize the Republic of Somaliland.
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Just why is Somalia so important to the US ? Not only did the US support the recent military incursions into that country, but it spent 92- million in humanitarian assistance to it in 2006.
Second opinion: The oil-rich, unstable Horn of Africa should invite more than self-interested dabbling, says Iqbal Jhazbhay |
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18 February 2007 - US Ambassador Eric Bost, on this page last week, admitted that, in helping Africa, "we are most certainly helping ourselves". He failed, however, to elaborate about what motivates the concerted attention to the Horn of Africa.
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MOGADISHU, February 23, 2007 – Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.
At least three civilians were killed by stray bullets and retaliatory fire as the violence spilled over into the nearby neighborhoods of Bar Ubah and Gupta.
"The government soldiers and Ethiopians fired back using heavy artillery as well as tanks. The fighting continued for close to 20 minutes," said a resident, who declined to give his name for fear of reprisal.
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by David Barouski
23 February, 2007
Today, it is a reflexive cliché to claim the United States (U.S.) is off on another oil-acquisition conquest anytime they invade an Arabic nation. In the case of Somalia, the cliché may never less be true. While undoubtedly, the U.S. and its Ethiopian proxy conquered Somalia and “liberated” it from the clutches of Al-Qaeda primarily for geostrategic reasons (possible launching point to attack Iran, more friendly territory close to Arabic Sudan, more ports under their control, a possible regional base for the AFRICOM command post, potential launching points to protect the Strait of Hormuz [the primary shipping point of Middle Eastern oil], etc), Somalia is awash in unspoken oil and provides a tantalizing business opportunity.
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Kampala, 23rd February, 2007 - Uganda has signed a memorandum of understanding with the African Union (AU) about the UPDF deployment in Somalia as tanks were seen driven through the streets of Kampala yesterday on their way to Mogadishu.
The memorandum, spelling out the details of the peacekeeping mission AMISOM, was signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday.
US Used Ethiopia Bases To Attack Al-Qaeda In Somalia
WASHINGTON, February 23, 2007 – The US military reportedly used bases in Ethiopia to attack leaders of the Al-Qaeda network in Somalia last month, according to unnamed US officials.
US and Ethiopian officials also shared intelligence on the location of the Al-Qaeda members, with US officials even supplying satellite pictures, The New York Times reported.
US military launched air strikes on the Al-Qaeda suspects from an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia. A secret US commando team also entered Somalia after being deployed to bases in Ethiopia and Kenya, the unnamed officials told the newspaper.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 23, 2007 - Uganda's top defense officials have arrived in Somalia ahead of a planned African Union peacekeeping deployment, a day after Islamic extremists threatened suicide attacks against Ugandan and other foreign troops, officials said Friday.
Uganda's Defense Minister Crispus Kiyonga and Chief of Defense Forces Aronda Nyakairima said their forces would help train a national army and provide security to Somalia's transitional government, a Somali government minister said.
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London, UK, February 19, 2007 – Journalists Yusuf Abdi Gabobe and Ali Abdi Dini were arrested at the office of the Haatuf Media Network in Hargeisa on 2 January. They were transferred to Mandera prison, 70km east of the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, on 3 February. Their trial, which was due to start on the same day, has apparently been postponed. A third man, Mohamed Omar Sheikh Ibrahim, who is also employed by the Haatuf Media Network, is still being held incommunicado without charge. His place of detention is now known to be Koodbur police station in Hargeisa.
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by John Bellamy Foster
February 9, 2007
Imperialism is constant for capitalism. But it passes through various phases as the system evolves. At present the world is experiencing a new age of imperialism marked by a U.S. grand strategy of global domination. One indication of how things have changed is that the U.S. military is now truly global in its operations with permanent bases on every continent, including Africa, where a new scramble for control is taking place focused on oil.
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London, 22 February, 2007 - A broad-based national reconciliation conference will open soon in Somalia as a step towards bringing peace and democracy to the troubled Horn of Africa country, the Somali president said Thursday.
In a speech here, Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf said he was willing to include in discussions moderate members of a militant Islamic movement that his forces, with the help of Ethiopian soldiers, pushed out of the Somali capital late last year.
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24 Feb 2007 - The U.S. military in secret used landing strips in eastern Ethiopia to launch air strikes on suspected Muslim activists in Somalia last month, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
Quoting anonymous army officials, the New York Times also claimed that the U.S. diverted spy satellites to provide intelligence to Ethiopian troops as they swept across the country to drive the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC) out of the capital, Mogadishu
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GENEVA February 21, 2007- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria warmly welcomes the announcement by the U.S. government that it will contribute US$ 724 million for 2007.
The renewed commitment is the highest donation ever made by the U.S. to the Global Fund since its inception five years ago. It is also a challenge to others to increase donations because of the provision in American law that requires each $1 from the U.S. to be matched by $2 in contributions from other donors The 2007 amount is an increase of US $179 million or 33 percent over the U.S. contribution for 2006.
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Michigan, Feb 20, 2007 - From a talk entitled “A review of developments in Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and the role of the African Union and the Pan-African Parliament/Aspects of the politics of contemporary Africa in the era of continuing imperialism” delivered at a Detroit Workers World public meeting on Feb. 10 by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire.
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Conference on Somalia in Washington
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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The Jamestown Foundation
The Jamestown Foundation is delighted to introduce Alisha Ryu, a correspondent for the Voice of America who has been monitoring events in Somalia for the past five years.
he Jamestown Foundation is also proud to have Ambassador David Shinn, an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, as a discussant.
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Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (Lecturer -Thames Valley Uni) - "Let all stake holders sit down and talk |
'Leave Somalia to the Somalis' - That appeared to be the general consensus and message on thelips of the over hundred Somalis gathered outside Number 10 Downing Street -London on Friday afternoon.
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February 21, 2007
DUBAI, UAE, 21 February 2007. (revised 23 Feb 2007). Code named by US military planners as TIRANNT, "Theater Iran Near Term" has identified several thousand targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is now in its final planning stages.
According to the Kuwait-based Arab Times, an attack on Iran under TIRANNT could occur any time between late February and the end of April. This assessment, however, does not take into account the disarray of US ground forces in Iraq as well as the untimely withdrawal of several thousand British troops from the Iraq war theater, many of whom were stationed in Southern Iraq on the immediate border with Iran.
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President Rayale’s latest spin on the case of Haatuf journalists who are being held behind bars is that the courts are the ones holding them and he has nothing to do with it. Rayale said this in a conversation with some Somaliland reporters who discussed the case with him. If we are to believe Rayale, then we must believe that this case was started by Haatuf uncovering the courts’ corruption and not Rayale’s corruption; that it was the courts, not Rayale, who sent armed police to attack Haatuf journalists in their work place; that it was the courts that abducted the journalists and held them at the CID headquarters; that it was the courts that ordered the journalists to be transferred to Mandera where they are still being held. Of course, no one in his right mind would believe that.
Although this is the first time that Rayale has tried to distance himself from the case, he is not the first person in his administration to claim he had nothing to do with it. The Minister of Interior, Abdillahi Cirro used to make similar claim. Cirro’s claim was not believable, and Rayale’s is even less so. The fact that both of these men continue to insult people’s intelligence with such transparent lies, shows how difficult it is for former NSS spies to get rid of their old habits.
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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 Ali Aden Awale, London UK
Dear Somalilanders, in order to defend the hardly achieved democracy in our infant state, we must support and applaud our House of Representative for this remarkable decision to renew the term of the current Electoral Commission for 2 more years.
It is a great decision in the right direction, the current Commission have a wealth of knowledge and experience form the past three elections and to replace them with a completely new team is big mistake.
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Somaliland Journalists Urged To Unite Against Rayale Atrocious Acts
By Abdirahman Ahmed Ali, London, UK
Free Media and Freedom of Expression creates a platform for the open society and exploration of ideas and issues of social importance through live events, workshops and online interactions between educated and major thinkers of a nation, which will lead to a greater understanding or out roles in national obligations. This concept is not more applicable in Somaliland, a nation of our dream to have it free and fair, listening the voice of true. Free Media is motto of democratic, modern and developed nations, which we are progressing to join their club.
Freedom of speech is the concept of the inherent human right to voice one's opinion publicly without fear of censorship or punishment by the authorities or powerful side. The right is enshrined in the United Nation Universal Declaration of Human Rights and laws of most nations.
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The Satanic Sentences
By Al-Hajj Abdiqani Ateyeh, London UK
I am somewhat disturbed and saddened by the satanic sentences posted in some of the Somaliland Sites(Awdalnews;Somaliland.org; Saylac.com; etc) under the title of: “President Rayaale: Prophet of Democracy” (By: A. Sigad). I am therefore, hereby officially responding to Mr. Sigad’s Article, in order perhaps to feel less stressed by this whole episode.
I would like to start, if I may, with a short story from a tragic incident that took place when I was probably a young man (teenager): One very hot, sunny and dusty day (between 1980-81), I went to visit a very popular place known as the Avenue 26 in Djibouti, as usual to see friends and to hear some of the latest news and information around the region/world etc. On my arrival, I noticed that there was something very unusual about that particular day as the people kept gathered themselves into groups. I vividly remember the faces of some of them filled with tears and sadness. Within a short while I was greeted by a taller and much older guy than myself who was originally from the Awdal City of Boon. After the handshake greetings, I asked him what happened. And, GUESS what he said….?!
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By Ahmed M. Gedi (sanjab)
In normal circumstances, your MANDATE should have been Independent from the Executive Branch and should have been accountable to the House of Parliament, as the Chief Advisor of the legislative body and thus being able to draw your annual program of the Work without the interference of the Executive Body, which you are expected to audit all their annual activities to be carried out as outlined in the budget, which have to be approved by Parliament. Although the independence of your office is much to be desired and the resources made available to you is insufficient in consideration to the poor maintenance of accounting books by the Ministry of Finance and their deliberate reluctance to account fully all public MONIES and lack of maintaining government accounts properly as required by the rules and procedures applicable, which in my view is sufficient to ensure an EFFECTIVE check on the assessment, collection and proper allocation of revenue.
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By Fatima Ahmed Yussuf Dualeh
I recently received an email about a petition that would be presented to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The purpose of the petition is to urge the Prime Minister to recognize Somaliland as a sovereign state. I was overcome with emotion and excitement after reading about the petition. It made me proud that we as Somalilanders were showing our support to our country by designing this petition. I went onto the website to sign the petition and was astonished when I saw that here were only 350 signatures on the petition. On top of that, I found out that the petition was created in November 2006. The feeling of being proud and excited turned into sadness.
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By Sophia Tesfamariam
February 21, 2007
Paul B. Henze, the ex-CIA man and Meles Zenawi’s advisor and confidante is back to defend his premier client in the Horn-the minority regime in Ethiopia. In defense of Meles Zenawi’s malfeasance and lunacy, he is trying to pass another one of this childish propaganda pieces for an intellectual analysis on the crisis brewing in Somalia today. This latest paper, with its nonsensical comparisons and outright fabrications and distortions of easily verifiable facts, is filled with incoherent long winded non sequitur arguments, further exposing his intellectual dishonesty and degenerating morals.
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Use small problem to solve a large catastrophe
By Farah Barkhad Nour
This is a brief report about an upcoming book, which is written by Farah barkhad Nour who recently graduated from Amoud University in Borama, Somaliland. He earned a bachelor of business administration BBA in the year of 2006. The book will contain well-researched data implemented by the author himself. Although the sensitivity of the questions obliged him to select the sample of the research only from males, he carefully interpreted the outcome of the data.
The calamity of AIDS has grown vastly. It expanded different parts of the world. In every continent and in every country, it killed millions of people. Around the world, it devastated young adults and working ages of countries.
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By Hassan Ismail
With regard to our social and cultural values, Somaliland literature was, is and will be our guiding principle next to our holy religion in terms of tackling our societal stumbling blocks and evaluation of our degree of development through constructive poetic criticism on periodical basis to measure how far we have gone in every aspect of life.
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The New Old "Humanitarian" Warfare in Africa
February 7, 2007
Part Two
Dr. David Hoile has lived in Sudan on and off, and he works for the European Sudanese Public Affairs council, and he is widely seen as a mercenary (writer) producing flak (propaganda) for the Government of Sudan. Dr. Reeves accuses Dr. David Hoile of the Sudan Public Affairs Council of being an unscrupulous mercenary and apologist for the crimes of the GOS, while Dr. Hoile accuses Dr. Reeves of being "the ugly American" and a propagandist for the West who embodies the age-hold white, Western imperialism.
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Sana, Yeman, 13 Feb, 2007 - Saleh Talib Saleh used to dream that he would grow horns on his head. He dismissed them as mere fancy at first, but then, at the ripe old age of 78, a horn did indeed begin to grow on the left side of his head, astonishing his fellow villagers. Saleh, a resident of A’dban district of the Shabwa governorate, claims that the horn started growing over 25 years ago.
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Rageh Omaar finds a country more complex than most in the west have ever realised
By Rageh Omaar
So unusual is it for a western documentary crew to be given permission to film in Tehran for any length of time that I rang my colleagues in London to tell them we had got through the airport without trouble. The production executive, who as you'd expect was well-informed and open-minded, asked what we were going to do first. I replied that we were going straight with all our luggage and equipment to a flat not far from Ayatollah Khomeini's house in the north of the city, to interview an Iranian businesswoman.
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Feb 24,2007
The United States (US) supported and financed the Ethiopian army to rout out the Islamists who had taken control of the country for six months having ousted the warlords who have been in control since the removal of dictator Siad Barre in 1991.
The Somali gunmen ambush Ethiopian troops as insurgents fire rockets at military bases and pirates prowl the turquoise Indian Ocean shipping lanes offshore.
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Report Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
PINR 23 February 2007
During the first three weeks of February, Somalia continued its slide into political fragmentation as violent attacks against occupying Ethiopian forces and militias loyal to the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) persisted on a nearly daily basis, inter-clan fighting continued to break out and the level of crime increased.
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by F. William Engdahl
February 20, 2007
The frank words of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to the assembled participants of the annual Munich Wehrkunde security conference have unleashed a storm of self-righteous protest from Western media and politicians. A visitor from another planet might have the impression that the Russian President had abruptly decided to launch a provocative confrontation policy with the West reminiscent of the 1943-1991 Cold War.
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Addis Ababa, February 24, 2007 - More than 200 coffee farmers from different parts of Ethiopia recently came to Addis Ababa to sign a petition asking Starbucks to honor its commitment to Ethiopian coffee farmers by recognizing the country's ownership of its coffee names.
Tadesse Terro is one of them. "Just because I am a farmer, don't think that I don't understand what is happening in the global market," says Tadesse, who traveled from Yirgacheffe, 395 km south of Addis Ababa, to speak out. "I do listen to the radio and I know how much my coffee retails for overseas. The money I earn for my hard work does not come close," he added.
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By Mohammed Mesbahi and Dr Angela Paine
In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights. All the world’s nations agreed that every human being in the world had the right to adequate food, water, housing, healthcare, education, political participation and employment. Almost sixty years later, a global economic system based on competition and profit has failed to provide these essentials for the majority of the world. 800 million people are still starving to death in a world of plenty and the gap between the rich minority and the poor majority has increased and continues to increase.
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