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SOVEREIGNTY: President Dahir Rayale Kahin says
Somaliland has "unique advantages" to help fight the rampant
piracy.
Geoff Hill
JOHANNESBURG, December 15, 2008 – A breakaway region
of Somalia with a name that is bound to confuse outsiders -
Somaliland - plans to offer its harbor on the Gulf of Aden as a base
for U.S., British and Indian warships to battle pirates.
In the
process, Somaliland hopes to raise its international profile and
ultimately advance its campaign to become an independent nation that
is recognized worldwide.
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Nazaret.com, 12 Dec. 2008-- "It is
unlikely that Somaliland will come back to Somalia under the old
conditions. It looks like the Somalis [in Somaliland], have tasted
how sweet independence and self-determination are. Time and time
again the leaders of Somaliland proudly declare their achievements:
peace, tranquility, and economic progress. Hargeysa and the port
city of Berbera are booming. Berbera has become an additional outlet
for the export and import of landlocked Ethiopia and are expanding
the port facilities. In addition to the roads that link Jijiga,
Ethiopia with Hargeysa and onwards to Berbera, there is a regular
air link between the two.
"We live in the 21st century where
self-determination and independence of peoples is respected. My
expectation is Somaliland will be accepted—recognized by African,
the USA and by the European countries in the immediate future."
The above remarks were made by Hailu Beshah, a former Ethiopian
Ambassador and a leading expert on security affairs in Africa, in an
interview with EthiopiaBlog.
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Author: Shuun Ishaq
Nairobi, December 15, 2008 –
United States Anti-Terrorism Task Force based in Djibouti may claim
to be aware of Al-Qaeda, but wanted American fugitive embarrassingly
escapes justice under their watchful eyes.
A serial rapist and American paedophile who escaped
punishment after escaping trial to Dubai has finally settled in the
comforts of the city state of Djibouti as a guest of honor by the
dictator president Omar Guelleh.
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BERLIN, December 19, 2008 (AFP) — The German
parliament on Friday approved plans to send troops and a frigate to
join European Union-led anti-pirate operations off the Horn of
Africa.
The measure was approved by 491 votes to 55, with 12
abstentions, with only the opposition far-left Die Linke party
opposing the plan.
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Mogadishu, December 12, 2008 –
More than 80% of Somalia's soldiers and police - about 15,000
members - have deserted, some taking weapons, uniforms and vehicles,
the UN says.
The head of the UN
monitoring group on Somalia, Dumisani Kumalo, said Islamist
insurgents got many of their weapons and ammunition from the
deserters.
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By Howard Lesser
Washington, DC, 09 December
2008 – A new report from Human Rights Watch asks the United States,
the European Union, and other major powers to redefine what it calls
their "flawed" approach to the crisis in Somalia and urges them to
support efforts to bring greater accountability to the offenders.
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Minneapolis case leads to formation of coalition
By Sherri Williams
Minneapolis, December 9, 2008 - Local
Somalis concerned about a possible link between terrorists and
African immigrants in Minneapolis have created a coalition to look
into whether there is such a connection here.
Six Somali men
from Minneapolis left that city early last month, went to Somalia
and have not been heard from since. Community leaders there worry
that the men might have been recruited for terrorism.
A Somali
from Minneapolis is thought to have been involved in a suicide
bombing in northern Somalia in October, the Associated Press
reported. The wire service quoted an unnamed law-enforcement
official, who said the FBI and Justice Department were
investigating.
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Omar Jamal |
By Tom Lyden
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 08, 2008 -- For
weeks, many in the Somali community refused to believe there were
missing young men who had returned to Somalia to fight a war, and
they just couldn’t accept the idea of a local suicide bomber.
Now, the community is no longer denying it, they’re simply blaming
the messenger. That messenger is Omar Jamal, who for years has been
the media’s go-to talking head for all thing Somali.
Jamal was
also the only one willing to talk about the dozen missing Somali men
and Shirwa Ahmed, 27, of Minneapolis, who was buried last week after
becoming a suspecting suicide bomber in Somalia.
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By Shabelle Media Network
St. Paul, December 10,
2008 – Khalifo Shali said she has heard the talk that her
21-year-old son joined the insurgents in his homeland.
While it
is true Abdul Mohamud left St. Paul for Somalia last month, Shali
said he went for medical reasons -- not to become a terrorist.
"My son is sick. He [will go] on a little vacation and maybe visit
his family."
Shali said her son has struggled with bipolar
disorder for years.
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UNITED NATIONS December 17, 2008 (AFP)
— The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a US
resolution authorizing for the first time international operations
against pirates on land in Somalia.
The text, co-sponsored by
Belgium, France, Greece, Liberia and South Korea, is the fourth
approved by the council since June to combat rampant piracy off
Somalia's coast.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 17 Dec. 2008 (Refugees
International)-- United Nations Security Council members must
develop a strategy in ongoing discussions on piracy in Somalia
that addresses the root causes of the problem, Refugees
International (RI) urged today. In particular, supporting an
all-inclusive political process in Somalia would be a first step
towards resolving the lawlessness, impunity and political chaos
that wracks the nation. Refugees International also urged
Council members to approach the authorization of UN peacekeepers
with extreme caution.
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New York, December 19, 2008--The only radio
station in an Islamist-controlled town in southern Somalia was
shuttered by militants in a raid last week, according to the
station's director. About 10 armed Al Shabab militiamen, a
hardline Islamist insurgent group controlling the coastal town
of Kismayo since August, forced the local station of independent
broadcasting network HornAfrik off the air on December 13,
director Ahmed Mohamed Aden told CPJ. The militia handed Aden an
order signed by Sheikh Hassan Yaqub Ali, the information
secretary of the Islamic administration in Kismayo, accusing the
station of airing music and "anti-Islamist" information, he
said.
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U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya
Press
Release
December 15, 2008
Efforts by President Yusuf
to remove Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein undermine the
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and efforts to promote peace
and stability. Divisions within the TFG, as manifested by efforts to
remove the Prime Minister, threaten to undermine Djibouti peace
process. We have confidence in the Prime Minister and urge the TFG
leadership to work cooperatively together for the good of all the
people of Somalia. It is important that the Parliament also support
efforts to achieve unity and peace.
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Government To Fund Voter Registration At New Polling
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December
20, 2008 (SL Times) – Somaliland president Dahir Riyale
Kahin disclosed on Friday that his government was ready to
fund the National Electoral Commission to enable the latter
register eligible voters at newly established polling
stations in eastern Sanag and Sool regions.
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President Riyale being
warmly welcomed at Djibouti Airport by Prime Minister
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Djibouti, December 20, 2008 (SL Times) – A Somaliland
delegation lead by president Dahir Riyale Kahin was accorded
a warm welcome by the government and people of Djibouti on
Friday.
Riyale left Hargeysa yesterday on a tour that is
expected to take him to a number of countries in the Horn of
Africa.
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Chasing Pirates Onto Somali Territory Gets Approval From UN
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By Bill Varner
New York,
Dec. 16, 2008 – Countries can chase pirates onto Somali
territory under a resolution approved today by the United
Nations Security Council.
The Security Council voted
15-0 to adopt a U.S.-drafted text that permits all nations
and regional organizations -- with the consent of Somalia’s
provisional government -- to “take all necessary measures
that are appropriate” to deter piracy.
“This new
resolution would significantly expand the tools available to
navies in the region to take more offensive action, beyond
simply entering Somali waters,” said Philippe de Pontet of
the Eurasia Group, a New York-based political-risk analysis
firm. “It would give UN cover for targeted airstrikes and
pursuit on land, typically considered major breaches of
sovereignty.”
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Baidoa, Somalia, December 20, 2008 – The Somali
parliament has warned that it would remove President
Abdillahi Yusuf should he fail to appear before lawmakers
within 14 days.
The majority of legislators voted on
Friday in favor of appointing Parliament Speaker Sheik Adan
Mohamed Madoobe as the acting president, in case Yusuf
refused to attend an impeachment session, A Press TV
correspondent reported.
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Somalian government forces display machine guns and
ammunitions discovered in Bakara area, June 2007 |
UNITED NATIONS, December 20, 2008 — The 16-year
UN arms embargo against Somalia is constantly being violated
with weapons mainly coming from Yemen and financed from
Eritrea, a United Nations report said Friday.
"Most
serviceable weapons and almost all ammunition currently
available in the country have been delivered since 1992, in
violation of the embargo," the report from a UN monitoring
group said.
This illegal trafficking is fueling the
bloody armed conflict in the Horn of Africa country and
aiding rampant piracy off the Somali coast, the report
added.
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Author: Shuun Isaaq
Nairobi, December 19,
2008 – The tribal enclave of 'Puntland State of Somalia',
home to the current ailing imposed president of Somalia's
warlords government is expected to declare a ban on imports
of Khat from Kenya and Ethiopia.
In a reaction to the
travel ban on A Yusuf, 'Puntland State of Somalia' hopes to
put pressure on Ethiopia and Kenya to respect its tribal
elder than the current isolation which he suffers. The ban
of Khat by Somalis in 'Puntland State of Somalia' is worth
$15 million a month excluding the costs of transportations.
The majority of Khat arrives from Yemen due to its close
proximity to Bandar Qasim, while the rest choose to eat the
Abyssinian Salad or Kenyan Mira transported by planes.
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French State Secretary for Human Rights Rama
Yade (right) visits Somali refugees at Kenya's Dadaab camp.
Dadaab is a 17-year-old camp located in eastern Kenya
near the Somali border.
GENEVA, December 19, 2008 — The United Nations
refugee agency on Friday launched a 92 million dollar appeal
for new shelter that would ease severe overcrowding in camps
where some 250,000 Somalis are seeking refuge.
With over
60,000 Somalis fleeing into Kenya so far in 2008 and
thousands more arriving monthly, the UNHCR said it needed
the funds to build two new camps which would shelter up to
120,000.
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Crude Oil Falls Below $40 on OPEC Skepticism, U.S. Supply
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Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Oil fell below $40 a
barrel for the first time in more than four years as OPEC
failed to convince traders that the glut in crude will
diminish and the U.S. government said supplies climbed for
the 11th time in 12 weeks.
The Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries agreed that the group’s 11 members with
quotas will trim current production by 2.46 million barrels
a day to 24.845 million barrels a day, OPEC president Chakib
Khelil said in Oran, Algeria. OPEC has held four meetings in
as many months in an attempt to stem the slide in prices.
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WASHINGTON, 10 Dec. 2008-- a Brazilian
conservationist who helped pull an endangered primate back
from the brink of extinction and a Somali conservation
activist who works to protect the fragile pastoral
environment in her country are this year’s winners of the
prestigious National Geographic Society/Buffett Award for
Leadership in Conservation. Denise Marçal Rambaldi,
executive director of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association,
receives the award for leadership in Latin American
conservation; Fatima Jama Jibrell, founder of the
humanitarian organization Horn Relief and co-founder of Sun
Fire Cooking, which provides affordable solar cookers to the
Somali people, wins for leadership in African conservation.
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Copenhagen, Saturday, December 06, 2008 –
More and more Somalis with a residence permit in Denmark are
going to back their former homeland to get military training
and religious school at the al-Qaeda related terror group
al-Shabab. This has gotten the Danish intelligence service
to pay more attention to Somalis living in Denmark, reports
Politiken.
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Reporters Without Borders
Press Release
12 December 2008
Reporters Without Borders has written to
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki urging him to not to sign the
Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill 2008 into law.
Otherwise known as the ICT Bill, it was adopted by
parliament on 10 December.
This is the text of the
letter:
HE Mwai Kibaki
President of the Republic
Nairobi - Kenya
Paris, 11 December 2008
Dear Mr. President
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By Chris Floyd
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Not content with destroying the only vestige of stability
that Somalia had known for almost two decades by arming,
backing and participating in a brutal "regime change"
invasion by Ethiopia, the Bush Administration now wants to
turn the ravaged land into an international "free fire
zone," a giant Fallujah where any powerful nation on earth
can launch armed incursions on Somali soil, wreaking the
usual "collateral damage" in the search for pirates -- or
for those arbitrarily designated as pirates.
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As China deploys warships
to battle pirates off the coast of Somalia, the United
States is still sitting on the sidelines, hampered by
questions of jurisdiction and politics.
Nairobi,
December 19, 2008 – One day after the attempted hijacking of
a Chinese cargo ship and two days after the U.N. Security
Council voted to authorize nations to battle the pirates by
land or by sea, Beijing announced Thursday that it will send
naval ships to the Gulf of Aden.
The U.S.
said it supported China's efforts, but it would not join the
fight against the pirates beyond the ships it has already
deployed as part of an international effort that includes
the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France and Denmark.
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Chinese Ship Fights Somalian Pirates With Beer Bottles
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BEIJING, December 19, 2008 –
The crew of a Chinese ship attacked by pirates off Somalia
earlier this week used Molotov cocktails and empty beer
bottles to defend their vessel, local media said on Friday.
The Chinese commercial ship Zhenhua-4, with 30 Chinese
crewmembers on board, came under attack by nine pirates on
Wednesday. The ship was rescued five hours later by
international forces, including two warships and a
helicopter.
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Paul Moorcraft
19 December 2008
LIFE
once more imitates art. Captain Jack Sparrow became a
Hollywood idol after the success of the three Pirates of the
Caribbean films. In real life, piracy has become the curse
of maritime trade, especially around the Horn of Africa.
The cause of the anarchy at sea has been the chaos on land.
Somalia is a failed state. This year has witnessed 100
pirate attacks in the region, the most famous the capture of
the Saudi Aramco mega-tanker, the Sirius Star. The ship’s
displacement is three times that of a US aircraft carrier,
and it was hijacked 450 nautical miles southeast of Mombasa.
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Jeremy Sare
Washington, December 19, 2008 – Unthinkable
as it may seem Somalia looks set to plunge into a wave of
even greater chaos when Ethiopian and African Union troops
withdraw later this month
The international community now
seems resigned to Somalia’s status as the world’s most
failed state yet - almost unimaginably - the country is
perilously close to a wider human catastrophe.
6,500
Ethiopian and African Union troops are due to withdraw from
Somalia at the end of this month. Their legacy will be a
complete power vacuum which risks triggering an even fiercer
civil war between the heavily armed factions riven by
competing visions of extreme Islamic militancy.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, December 19, 2008 — There's
at least one job these days that's recession-proof, if you
can handle shark-infested seas, outrun some of the world's
most powerful navies and keep your cool when your hostages
get antsy.
A pirate's life in Somalia isn't for
everyone. However, nothing comes easily in one of the
poorest and most unstable countries on Earth, and when you
consider the dearth of career options for Somalis on land, a
pirate's life starts to look more than cushy by comparison.
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Source:
United Nations Security Council
Date: 19
Dec 2008
SC/9546
Security
Council
6050th
Meeting (AM)
The
Security Council today authorized the re-establishment of
the group monitoring the arms embargo in Somalia for one
year and added a fifth expert to handle the additional tasks
it assigned to an expanded mandate.
Unanimously
adopting resolution 1853 (2008), submitted by the United
Kingdom under Chapter VII, the Council decided that the
Monitoring Group established pursuant to
resolution 1519 (2003) would continue the tasks outlined
in paragraphs 3(a) to (c) of
resolution 1844 (2008) -– which strengthened the arms
embargo on the violence-plagued nation of Somalia by
specifying sanctions on violators and expanding the mandate
of the Committee that oversees the ban –- and carry out
additionally the tasks outlined in paragraphs 23(a) to (c)
of that resolution.
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Our Trip to
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Africa's
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Fixing
Fragile States: New Paradigm For Development |
Reviewed By Adam Musse Jibril
About the book: This is a new book which holds new thinking,
credible rationale as well as convincing conclusions and realistic
approaches, all of which in an integrated manner negate traditional
theories and stereotypes about solutions and remedies prescribed for
talking sicknesses of the failed and dysfunctional states: bombing
money, sending peace-keepers, and funding unproductive and fruitless
peace projects based on random and haphazard attempts to fixing
failed states. This book explores new alternatives and presents
creative recommendations by glorifying the Somaliland’s home-grown
peace-building and democratic achievements. The author argues that
recognition of Somaliland would set an example elsewhere in the
region where epitome of failed state is total and endemic in
character.
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J.Peter Pham, PhD
December 11, 2008
In
last week’s column, I argued that the situation in the
Horn of Africa was rapidly reaching crisis proportions and
that specifically United States policy towards the onetime
Somali Democratic Republic needed to be reformulated on the
basis of something other than the series of unrealistic
assumptions on which it has hitherto been predicated. As
events since then have underscored the deteriorating
security conditions faced by the international community as
a whole as well as by the Somali and their neighbors, it is
time to concentrate on Somaliland, the one part of that
geopolitically sensitive space where there is still a peace
to be preserved.
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By Victor Thorn
Washington,
December 20, 2008 – Dispatched from a mother ship in the
Gulf of Aden, a dozen pirates toting rocket-propelled
grenades, AK 47s, and grappling hooks leap from speedboats
to seize control of another ship, which they then commandeer
back to the Port of Eyl in Somalia. So far this year,
African pirates have hijacked over 100 vessels, collecting
approximately $150 million in ransom money. The payments are
concealed in waterproof suitcases, then unloaded into the
ocean from specially designated helicopters.
Becoming
more brazen each week, the pirates recently abducted a
Ukranian ship carrying $30 million worth of Soviet-made
tanks, grenade launchers, and ammunition; a Saudi Arabian
supertanker loaded with $100 million of crude oil; a British
luxury cruise liner; a Japanese chemical tanker; a UN relief
boat; while an American naval supply ship was also
unsuccessfully targeted.
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Somalia – The End Game
Re-establishing the
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By Ahmed M.I. Egal
Introduction
The present situation in Somalia appears to mark a new
nadir in the recent history of this sorry country that has
been the very definition of a failed state over the last
eighteen years. The so-called government, the Ethiopian
sponsored Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Abdillahi
Yusuf, established in Embagathi in Kenya in 2004 by the
Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD), has
collapsed for all intents and purposes. Yusuf’s recently
announced dismissal of Hassan Nur Adde, the Hawiye Prime
Minister, has effectively negated any role for Yusuf in the
reconciliation process which is supported by Ethiopia, the
AU, UN, EU and US.
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Serious Political Constraints In Somaliland |
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By Ibrahim Adam Ghalib
Borama, Awdal
Strengthening People’s capacity to determine their own
political choice and to organize themselves to act on these
is the basis of political development in any society and is
the process of transforming societies. Empowerment involves
challenging all forms of oppression that deny the basic
rights. The fundamental purpose of political development is
the participation of all people to exercise their rights
without fear.
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Somalia: A Glance At The Religious Groups |
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Rooble Mohamed
Back to the
70s when the military administration executed religious
leaders when the opposed introducing a new law which say
women and men are same and have the same rights in all
levels of the society. The religious leader’s perspective
was that women and men are not the same in every level. In
order to shut this revolution up, the military
administration executed all of them. This angered the
general public because of the respect they had for the
religious leaders and because of the religious and cultural
background of the people.
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Hussein Sheikh Mohamed Yusuf
The BBC Somali Service was established with the
mandate of providing information to all Somali speaking
communities in Eastern Africa regardless of their
nationality and country of origin. It remained as a major
source of unbiased and authentic information for decades. It
also had the largest listeners compared to other Somali
broadcasting radios. I do remember in the late 1990s as a
secondary school student that among my classmates if one
issue was raised and debated, we used to ask everyone to
forward their evidence but any quote from the BBC was
unanimously accepted as ultimate evidence.
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Possible return of Islamists like Al-Shabab to power in
lawless Somalia can be danger to all Somalis, neighboring
states and international community. Any withdrawal of
current African Union (AU) and Ethiopian Forces will leave
vacuum, and enable Al-Shabab to grip the control over the
country.
President-elect Barrack Obama should support the
current international efforts to stabilize Somalia,
including Djibouti conferences between the Prime Minister of
Transitional Government of Somalia (TGS) Nur Adde and
Alliance for Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) led by ousted
leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Somalia will loop into
violence and catastrophe, if foreign forces withdraw at the
current stage.
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By Muuse Yuusuf
The
gathering of warships from 10 NATO and 7 other countries off
the coast of Somalia reminds me of naval military exercises
that NATO and WARSAW alliances used to conduct in high seas
during the height of cold war as a show off of their
military superiority. Also, the event seems to have all
marks and resemblance of a military showdown between two
superpowers in a world war scenario. This is the feeling of
an objective observer like a friend of mine who, when Somali
pirates hijacked the Ukrainian ship full of a military
hardware, could not resist but to ask me this question: “Has
Somalia become a great superpower?!!” I diplomatically
dodged to answer the question because the answer was too
obvious.
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The Mumbai Attacks Call For A Collective Muslim Outrage |
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By Bashir Goth
As I
watched terrorists attacking Mumbai, India’s business
capital, and playing havoc with the city’s famous
landmarks, on November 26, I immediately remembered
Hargeisa, capital of my country Somaliland, where almost
a month before suicide bombers caused chaos by driving
SUVs laden with explosives to the presidential palace,
UNDP headquarters and the office of the Ethiopian
Political Representative, killing scores of people and
injuring many others. Just like India dubbed November 26
as their 9/11, my people in Somaliland have also dubbed
their tragedy on 29/11 as Somaliland’s 9/11.
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Somalia: Warlords, Pirates and the Politics of Morass |
Armed fighters from the Al-shabab group travel on the
back of pickup trucks outside Mogadishu in Somalia
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By Nick Wadhams
Mogadishu, Monday,
Dec. 15, 2008 – Somalia is a land that has descended so
deeply into misery that "failed state" is now too generous a
description for the country. Yet it was hard not to marvel
at local politicians, appointed by outside forces, wielding
almost no power at all but still able to find ways to make
things worse. Case in point: On Sunday, President Abdillahi
Yusuf announced he had fired the prime minister, and 24
hours later, parliament rebuffed him. The standoff has
further hardened the political paralysis that has denied any
prospect of peace to the country's long-suffering people.
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Written by Mohamoud Abdi Daar
October
4, 2008
In a
conference he has participated “The Future of Democracy in
Zimbabwe- European Assistance under African Leadership” held
at the EU Parliament on December 4th, under the auspices of
the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ),
Mohamoud Abdi Daar, made the following points on the
situation in Somaliland .
After
congratulating the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for
Europe (ALDE) in organizing this
conference in which highly distinguished delegates are
participating, I would like to join other speakers in
expressing support and solidarity with the people of
Zimbabwe in their struggle for human rights and justice.
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Australian
Libertarian Society Blog
Most libertarians
believe that we should have a small government, which is
limited to core activities of law & order, some public
goods, and perhaps a dash of welfare. Minarchists remove the public goods &
welfare from their list.
But a small minority of libertarians go further and want to
privatise law & order. These are the anarchists.
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December 17, 2008 – An American businesswoman
with connections to U.S. intelligence and the military has
become a modern day Lawrence of Arabia. Conducting talks
with the Somali pirates has made Michele Lynn Ballarin
somewhat of an international woman of mystery.
It has
emerged on December 17 that it was, in fact, Michele Lynn
Ballarin who was the third party entity conducting talks
with the pirates who captured several ships off the coast of
Somalia. Amongst them is the Ukrainian vessel Faina, which
is carrying a cargo of tanks.
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