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By Muluken
Yewondwossen
Addis Ababa, March 21, 2009 – The resumption of Ethiopian's
flight to Hargeysa, Somaliland has been delayed.
The route to the capital of the semi-autonomous region in
northern Somalia was scheduled to re-open in January 2009,
after it was suspended in November 2008 following the five
suicide bomb attacks on buildings occupied by the government
and international agencies.
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By Mike Levine
Minneapolis, March 19, 2009 – Many of the Somali-American
men who were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist
group overseas have returned to the United States, according
to a source familiar with an FBI investigation into the
matter — but the FBI still has not revealed publicly if it
is pursuing arrests in the case.
"Some of the guys who were missing aren't missing anymore,"
the source said. "Some of them got blown up and some of them
came back, and some of them are still there [in Somalia]."
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President
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has vowed to introduce Sharia law
Mogadishu, March 20, 2009 – One of Somalia's hardline
Islamist leaders and the information minister have both told
Osama Bin Laden not to interfere in Somalia's affairs.
The al-Qaeda leader on Thursday called for Somalia's
president to be toppled.
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Al-Shabab
insurgents control much of the country
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Kenya's government is to collect taxes for Somalia's
government at their common border, to help the embattled
administration raise revenue.
Somalia has not had a functioning national authority since
1991 and Islamist insurgents control much of the south of
the country.
Announcing the deal, Kenya's foreign minister said tax
collection was the cornerstone for a government to work.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2009 — A court in Hargeysa,
the capital of Somaliland, sentenced Mohamed Abdi Guled, the
editor of the Hargeysa-based weekly Yool, to five months in
prison on 17 March on charges of operating an unregistered
newspaper and publishing fabricated information.
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Muna M. Absiyak deported to Somalia
Washington, DC, March 19, 2009 - After living in the U.S.
for 16 years and migrating from a country that was recently
categorized to top the most dangerous countries in the world
- even more dangerous than Iraq and Afghanistan - Muna
Absiya would still have to be deported to Somalia despite
evidences showing apparent prosecutions.
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ATHENS, Greece March 20, 2009 — Pirates have
seized a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden off the
coast of Somalia, Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry said
Friday.
The ministry said the St. Vincent-flagged Titan, with 24
crew members on board, was seized late Thursday night. Three
of the crew members, including the captain, are Greek.
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Ottawa, Canada, March 20, 2009 – A
Canadian woman being held hostage in northern Pakistan says
her captors are planning to behead her at the end of the
month if a $2-million ransom is not paid.
In a video provided to the Globe and Mail and posted on the
newspaper’s website, a pale and haggard-looking Khadija
Abdul Qahaar, 52, begins to cry as she says her “time is
very short and my life is going to end.
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Ethiopia To Double Earnings From Livestock Exports |
A Dinka man poses for a photograph as
he herds his cattle in Abyei, southern Sudan, March
13, 2009 |
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA Mar 20, 2009 (Reuters) -
Ethiopia plans to more than double earnings from livestock
exports to $85 million in 2009 by curbing illegal trade and
opening new marketing centers, a government official said on
Friday.
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Somaliland’s Election Is Facing A Deadlock On The 6th Of April
2009 And The Challenges That Needs To Be Addressed |
Joint Press
Release by SIRAG and
Somaliland Overseas
London, UK, 19th of
March 2009 – SIRAG and
Somaliland Overseas
would like to appeal to
the Opposition Parties,
Parliament and the
Guurti of Somaliland to
resolve the
constitutional crisis
that is approaching
towards Somaliland's
democratization on the
6th of April 2009 which
is the date that
Somaliland’s
presidential term
expires. It is worrying
to say the least that to
date we do not see
anyone coming forward to
resolve this
constitutional crisis.
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Puntland Official Defects To Somaliland |
Las-Anod,
Somaliland, March 21, 2009 (SL Times) – Reports reaching us
from Las Anod indicate that the man in charge of Puntland
administration in Taleeh, Mr Mahamud Jama Sha’ur (Ilwayn),
has cut ties with the Puntland administration and is now in
Las Anod. Upon his arrival in Las Anod,
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Meles Withholds Body Count In Somalia |
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By Eskinder Ferew
Ethiopian PM Males
Washington, March 21, 2009 – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi has refused to say how many troops were killed or wounded
during the nation's two-year campaign in Somalia.
During a question-and-answer period in the Ethiopian parliament
Thursday, an opposition lawmaker asked Mr. Meles to provide
casualty numbers from the Somalia conflict.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 21, 2009 — Dozens of Somaliland
teachers demonstrated on Thursday in front of the Ministry of
Education in Hargeysa, complaining about the lack of payment.
The teachers say they had not been paid any salary for the last
three months.
A spokesperson for the teachers said a small allowance raised
from parents of the students is largely divided between the
ministry and the head-teachers of the schools. He added that the
teachers only receive a token amount of that money.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 21, 2009 – The Somaliland Shilling (SlSh)
has fallen against main foreign currencies including the U.S.
dollar in the last few days amid reports of newly printed money
arriving in the country.
The U.S. dollar rose by 8.57% against the SlSh in recent days.
One U.S. dollar currently buys around 7,000 Somaliland
shillings, up from 6,400 few days ago. Traders say reduced
availability of the U.S. dollar is among the main reasons for
the devaluation.
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Pope condemns African corruption |
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Angola, 20 March 2009 – Pope Benedict XVI has made an emphatic
appeal to Africans to rid the continent of corruption once and
for all.
The 81-year-old was speaking during a televised address in
Angola during a week-long tour of African countries.
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Ugandan tanks
from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM),
patrol the streets of Mogadishu |
UNITED NATIONS, March 21, 2009 (AFP) — The UN Security Council
gave a stamp of approval Friday to Somalia's new unity
government and urged increased international aid to African
Union (AU) peacekeepers trying to contain the violence in the
lawless country.
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Marc
Ravalomanana's portraits have gone from the presidential palace
Friday, 20 March 2009
The African Union has suspended Madagascar after the army
forced out the president and installed the opposition leader
in his place.
Although the handover in Madagascar was not a
straightforward military seizure of power, an AU official
said it had not been constitutional.
Andry Rajoelina on Thursday suspended parliament and held
his first cabinet meeting since taking power.
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Allen Brisson-Smith for The New York
Times
WORRY Idil Abdull, with her autistic son, Abdulahi, said some
children were sent back to Somalia in hopes of easing their
autism.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 16, 2009 — Ayub Abdi is a cute
5-year-old with a smile that might be called shy if not for the
empty look in his eyes. He does not speak. When he was 2, he
could say “Dad,” “Mom,” “give me” and “need water,” but he has
lost all that.
He does scream and spit, and he moans a loud “Unnnnh! Unnnnh!”
when he is unhappy. At night he pounds the walls for hours,
which led to his family’s eviction from their last apartment.
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Camels and sheep are the
country's biggest foreign currency earners
By James Melik
Business reporter, BBC World Service
March 15, 2009
Until Somaliland gets official international recognition it
cannot exploit its rich reserves of natural resources.
Although agriculture is the most successful industry, surveys
show that Somaliland has large offshore and onshore oil and
natural gas reserves.
Several wells have been excavated during recent years but
because of the country's unrecognized status, foreign energy
companies cannot benefit from it.
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Khat's appeal is spreading
beyond the Somali community
By Anna Holligan
BBC World Service
Monday, 16 March 2009
'Khat' is a popular stimulant chewed across east Africa. Now
it is crossing cultural divides and becoming a drug of
choice for an increasing number of young people in the UK.
The khat plant, Catha edulis, has been chewed by east
Africans for hundreds of years and plays a large part in the
social lives of both men and women.
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Thursday, 19
March 2009
Major Seth Kwabla Anthony, served in the British Army's 81st
division of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) as
the first black African to win His Majesty's commission.
And, despite the "colour bar", he rose rapidly to the rank
of major.
Though a legend in his country, Ghana, little mention of
Anthony is to be found in reports of the Second World War
published in Britain. He was teaching at his alma mater,
Achimota School,
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Who Is Responsible The Shortage Of Somali Marriage? |
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By Ahmed Dualeh
Warsame
Overview
Marriage is an
important issue in every society in the world because a
great deal of emphasis has been given in the Holy Qur’an and
the traditions to both marriage and having children and
there is no better structure for marriage than this one
Islam has founded or the tradition of our Prophet Mohamed (PBAH).
Through marriage the procreation of mankind is continued.
Children are the result of marriage and are important
factors in stabilizing the family foundations as well as a
source of real joy to their parents.
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A Wise Little Chimp |
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Abdulghani Sheik Mohamed
The narrator of
the following short story is a little chimp by the name Daar
who, if not from the beginning of his entire life at least
for the last twenty years or so, seem to be so confused
about what makes his people so passionate about tribalism.
Here is his story.
Before I go
further I want to remind you friends that I am a chimp and
we are in an Chimpland. So when ever you come across the
words (man, women, boy, sister, mother) you should always
remember the kind of society the story is about. I know for
sure that you will not mix up with the proper meanings of
those words.
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In Somalia, An Exodus Of The Educated |
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Ahmed Hassan is a Somali community liaison for Minneapolis
police
By Stephanie McCrummen
NAIROBI, March 16, 2009 -- Last month, Omar Hassan said goodbye to Somalia,
a country so violently polarized that his job in the capital
of Mogadishu finally became too controversial. He is a
veterinarian.
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Security Should Be A Priority |
Somaliland’s Police
Commander, Mohammad Saqadi Dubad, revealed this week that his
department is planning to add a mounted police unit and expand
the number of police stations in the capital, as well as start
patrols at night. This is good news and we welcome it.
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The Pitfalls Off 2009 SL Budget |
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By Yassin Abdillahi Ahmed, Hargeysa, Somaliland
Before I look at the budget in detail, I must say a word or
two about the definition of budget. Budget is a financial
plan that articulates the objectives and goals of a
government for a certain period of time usually a year; in
other words, it is the government’s economic strategy for
that period.
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The Misplaced Argument, “Challenges To Somali Unity And
Sovereignty” |
By Dalmar Kaahin
After reading the article entitled, “Challenges to Somali
Unity and Sovereignty” posted on wardheer website, I am
compelled to let the author Ali H. Abdulla know the
weaknesses of his argument and why it doesn’t hold water.
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Somaliland Fury over Finland’s Contempt |
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Imagine living in one the
most peaceful cities in the world, Hargeisa, Somaliland
capital for the past two decades, and finding out one
morning that a cold-blooded convict is not only loose on the
streets of your city, but also no one knows what he looks
like.
To make matters worse, the convict in question didn’t escape
from a maximum security prison, but Finland sent him to your
city without notifying Somaliland authority or warning
Somaliland public.
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Dreams Of Perversion: Is It Preferable Or Not |
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Mohamed Jibriil Elmi
There is a great society in Somalia which exists in this
world more than one century. Although, the society has not
experienced of democratic genealogy in the world which
related with constitutional government, but it has a good
reveal which came from the sky and stated in the Islamic
religion.
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Defining Moment For Pakistan |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
There are defining
moments in the life of every nation. Pakistan can rightly
claim that the March 16, 2009 reinstatement of Ifthikar
Chaudhary as Chief Justice was just such a moment in its
61-year history. In six decades, Pakistanis have been used
more judges buckling under military rulers than to the likes
of Mr. Chaudhary. Exactly two years ago, he set a new tone
by refusing to bow to pressure from the then President and
army Chief, Pervez Musharaf, to quit office. For this single
act of defiance, he was deified.
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Are Every Tribe’s Members Monolithic? |
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Abdi Goud Musa
Connecticut, USA
After Reading Bashir Omer Goth’s, piece
titled,” Good Bye to Awdalnews” on different Somali
websites, I suspected that Bashir may be victim of tribal
arm twisting and manipulation(which I am sure he refused and
was the cause of his departure) that every Somali educated
person experiences especially those whose views are widely
expressed orally or in writing.
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The EU Is Part Of The Problem In Somaliland |
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By Jamal Madar
The European Union gave millions of
Euros in aid to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) in
order to carry out voter registration campaign throughout
Somaliland. However, the first cash installment of that aid
did not only disappear into a bottomless blackhole of
incompetence and corruption but had led to the disastrous
failure of the entire voter registration.
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United Kingdom: Somalia: Clan Rivalry, Military Conflict,
And The Financial And Human Cost Of Piracy |
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17 March 2009
Article by John Knott
This article looks briefly at the tasks faced by Somalia's
new government and at the cost in human and financial terms
of the acts of piracy occurring off the coast of Somalia.
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By THANDUXOLO JIKA
ABDULLAHI Abdi Sheikh’s life was shattered when his younger
brother, the only family member he had in South Africa, was
gunned down by multiple murderer Andile Tunzana during an
armed robbery in Duncan Village.
Mahamud Abdi Mohammed and Mohammed Nasier Omar were killed
by Tunzana when he and three accomplices went on a robbery
and killing spree of Somalis in the area on July 5, 2005.
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There Is No Congo |
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By Jeffrey Herbst, Greg Mills
Page 1 of 2
Posted March 2009
Why the only way to help Congo is to stop pretending it
exists.
WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/Getty Images
Awaiting a fix: A Congolese woman greets U.N. envoy Olusegun
Obasanjo with high expectations, "We expect you to bring a
final solution."
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March 19, 2009: Asylum seekers are a continuing problem
for Ethiopia. Refugees fleeing the war in Somalia have
been increasing. The UN reported that 10,000 have
collected in the border town of Dolo Ado
(Somalia-Ethiopia border). One official described them
as asylum seekers – which puts them in a slightly
different category than a refugee. The implication is
they are fleeing not simply war and its evils, but also
fear violent political retribution.
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Dr. Terry Lacey
Development Economist
With Indonesian general elections due April 9th polls show
the Islamic Parties are headed for their worst election
performance ever.
In 1955 the religious parties won 43.7 percent of the votes,
while nationalist parties got 51.7 percent. In 1999 they hit
36.8 percent, rising to 38.1 percent in 2004.
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