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The Victory
Monument in Hargeysa, Somaliland’s capital
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL
Times) – The Somaliland Ministry of Water and Mineral
Resources (Ministry) on Tuesday announced that the Country’s
first bid round for hydrocarbon concessions has been
extended by three months. The deadline for final submission
of bids has been pushed to December 15, 2009 and concessions
will be awarded on March 15, 2010.
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U.S. Condemns Murder of Omar Hashi |
U.S. Embassy in Nairobi –
Press Release
Nairobi, June 18, 2009 – The United States
government condemns in the strongest terms the
suicide bomb attack today in Beledweyne which killed
Security Minister Omar Hashi, as well as Ambassador
Abdikarim Farah and possibly others. Minister Hashi
was a strong partner in the process of rebuilding
Somalia, particularly through his tireless his
efforts to reconstruct the TFG’s security forces. We
offer our deepest condolences to his family and his
colleagues.
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The fiery Sheikh Dahir Aweys may be ready
to hash out a peace deal, following weeks of fighting the
moderate government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed. |
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By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science
Monitor
Johannesburg, South Africa, June 18, 2009 – After weeks of
fighting, Somalia's moderate Islamist government and its
militant rivals appear close to starting peace talks.
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Phones - mobile and
terrestrial - have thrived in Somalia |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 – A new system of making
payments by mobile phones has been launched in Somaliland on
Monday.
Telesom's Zad service means that people can send money to
friends and relatives or pay bills just using their phones.
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Written by PR.com Press Release
Dare Salam, June 20, 2009 – Imperial Jets, one of the
world’s leading private jet charter brokers, is securing
private aircraft to extract people from Somaliland and the
troubled region of Puntland. The office of Imperial Jets in
Tanzania has received a considerable amount of calls from
people seeking air travel out of Somalia.
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Late Somali Security
Minister Omar Hashi Aden
Thursday, June 18, 2009
By Abdi Guled
MOGADISHU, June 18 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber targeted
Somalia's security minister in his hotel in the central town
of Baladwayne on Thursday, witnesses said.
A ministry official in Baladwayne said Security Minister
Omar Hashi Aden had survived the strike. However, officials
in the regional administration said Aden may have been hit.
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By Tizita Belachew | VOA
The U.S. Secretary of State's assistant for African affairs
told VOA's Tizita Belachew today "the door is open" to
improvingrelations between the United States and Eritrea.
In his second month on the job, Secretary of State for
Africa Johnnie Carson today discussed issues confronting
several African countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Sudan, Kenya, Somalia and Zimbabwe.
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By Daniel Ooko
NAIROBI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The international community has
condemned the killing of Somalia's National Security
Minister, Omar Hashi Aden, in a suicide car bomb in
Beletweyne, north of the capital Mogadishu on Thursday.
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IGAD: Wayward Means To Sully Eritrea |
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ASMARA, Eritrea June 15, 2009/African Press Organization
(APO)/ — In a move full of irony, and, by misappropriating
the names of the African Union and IGAD, countries hostile
to Eritrea, on issues that have nothing to do with Somalia,
are trying to use the Somali fig-leaf to persuade the UN
Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea. They have
strategized to demand maximum sanctions in the hope that
they can exact at least some measures from the Security
Council.
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Africa Pioneers Mobile Bank Push |
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Mobile phone banking has taken off in a number of African
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Monday, 15 June 2009
Mobile financial services in the developing world could be
worth $5bn by 2012, say analysts.
CGAP - a consortium that works to expand financial services
in developing countries - said the growth in mobile coverage
was helping to fuel growth.
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Somaliland
Gives Suitors Breathing Space |
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Extended: bids in date for
Somaliland concessions |
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By Upstream
staff
Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 – Somaliland is giving suitors an
extra three months to submit bids in its debut licensing
round, with the Ministry of Water & Mineral Resources
pushing the deadline back until December.
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Telesom Launches Zad Mobile Banking Service In Somalia |
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Telsom Company |
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June 16th, 2009
11:20 am
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A new system of making
financial payments using mobile phones has been introduced
in the nothern Somali region of Somaliland. Telesom launches
Zad services which enables subscribers to send money to
friends and relatives or pay bills just using their phones.
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Mogadishu Police Chief Among 22 Killed In Clashes |
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Mogadishu police
chief Col. Ali Said |
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* At least 22 killed, 50 wounded
* PM says middle-ranking al Qaeda
officials in Somalia
* Mogadishu's police chief killed
By Abdi Guled and Ibrahim Mohamed
MOGADISHU, June 17, 2009 (Reuters) -
Heavy fighting between hardline Islamist rebels and
government forces in Somalia's capital on Wednesday killed
at least 22 people, including Mogadishu's police chief.
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Puntland minister says positive feedback from Ethiopia visit |
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BOSSASO, Somalia June 14, 2009 - A Cabinet
minister in Somaila's self-governing State of Puntland
returned home Saturday from Ethiopia with a delegation led
by the Puntland Vice President, Radio Garowe reports.
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The
BBC’s Somali Service Suppresses News Of Mohamed Moge’s
Commemoration |
 
 
The late Mohamed Moge
Liban with his famous
Oud
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
June 20, 2009 (SL Times)
– The BBC Somali Service
still remains biased and
unfair in its coverage
of Somali affairs
despite the continuous
complaints by a
significant number of
listeners. If
calamities, wars and
other disasters ravage
some Somali territories,
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French Embassy Official Praises Somaliland Democracy |
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Thierry Choinier, |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – The first
secretary of the French Embassy in Djibouti, Mr. Thierry
Choinier, paid a three day visit to Somaliland this week.
Speaking to the press at Egal International airport, on his
way out of the country, Mr. Thierry Choinier praised
Somaliland’s democracy and its continuous gaining of
strength.
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National Examinations Scheduled For June 20th |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – The
National Examination Office of Somaliland’s ministry of
education has announced that school examination for the
2008/09 academic year will start today (June 20) throughout
the country.
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President
of Somaliland |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland
president Dahir Rayale Kahin flew to Kuwait this week. This is
the first time that a Somaliland president visits Kuwait.
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Muse Bihi
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – Kulmiye party’s
1st Deputy Chairman, Mr. Muse Bihi Abdi warned Somaliland’s
clerics against engaging in religious disputes among themselves.
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Maryam Mursal Builds School In Hargeysa |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009
(SL Times) – Singer Maryam Mursal Ise laid the foundation for a
school in Dami neighborhood of Hargeysa. Maryam Mursal said this
was a realization of a dream she had since her 2002 visit to
Hargeysa.
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Garaad Saleebaan Daahir AF-Qarshe Passes Away |
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Garad Saluiman Dahir Af.qarshe |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – Garaad
Saleebaan Dahir Af-qarshe, a prominent Somaliland traditional
leader and the former secretary of the National Contracts
Committee passed away in Addis Ababa on Monday where he had gone
to seek medical treatment.
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DRC Donates Tools Of The Trade To Borama Barbers |
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Borama, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – USWO, a national
organization, delivered hair cutting tools to Borama’s barbers.
The tools were donated by DRC organization
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Candlelight Helps The Needy In Erigavo |
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Erigavo, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 (SL Times) – Candlelight
distributed clothes, bedding, food and water collecting utensils
to 500 families in 15 locations in Erigavo and its outskirts.
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Sect. of State Hillary Clinton resting after surgery on broken
elbow |
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Sen. Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON- Secretary of State Clinton is back home resting
in her Washington mansion after two hours of surgery on her
broken right elbow.
A statement released by the State Department says Clinton went
under the knife yesterday morning at George Washington University
Hospital.
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•Khamenei said Iran needs
calm and patience and ruled out any vote rigging.
•Khamenei said it is wrong to resort to street protests to exert
pressure.
•He said all four candidates belonged to Iran's Islamic
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Iran's Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon during Friday prayers
at Tehran University
TEHRAN, June 20, 2009 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei said that the Iranian nation needs calm and patience on
Friday and ruled out any vote rigging in the recent presidential
election.
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UNHCR Press Release
16 June 2009
The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and
persecution worldwide stood at 42 million at the end of last
year amid a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more
prolonged conflicts resulting in protracted displacement.
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Nour Haban, current owner of Bodhari Modern Bakery in Berbera,
By Gwendolyn Thompkins
Berbera, Somaliland, June 20, 2009 – Lovesick. That word best
describes one of Somaliland's most celebrated modern poets. Elmi
Bodheri was a poor baker who is said to be the first Somali man
to die from love.
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Dahabshil Hargeysa,Somaliland
Tristan McConnell
The dusty, potholed streets of Hargeysa in Somaliland are filled
with battered cars and ambling pedestrians. The tangled birds'
nests of wires that cling to every telegraph pole are testament
to a boom in telephony, informal stalls line the roads, selling
imported goods and Ethiopia-grown khat, a plant chewed as a
stimulant - and behind bricks of local currency sit the money
changers.
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Children begging on the
streets of Hargeysa (file photo)
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, June 20, 2009 – For the children living on the
streets of Hargeysa, capital of Somaliland, 16 June – Day of
the African child - is of little significance.
"My family lives in Burao [about 150km east of Hargeysa],"
one child said. "We were so many children. One day I decided
to travel to Hargeysa and never went back home."
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Burgeoning Population Drains Hargeysa Water Supply |
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A water vendor in Hargeysa: City officials have
called for the construction of a third pipeline to
offset increasing water shortages |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June
20, 2009 – Urbanization and rural-urban migration could soon
overwhelm the water supply in Hargeysa, capital of
Somaliland, with city officials calling for the construction
of a third pipeline to offset increasing shortages.
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Stable Somaliland in the shadow of lawless Somalia |
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Hargeysa the
Capital of Somaliland
June 15, 2009
Somaliland, a break-away region of north-western
Somalia, has gone unrecognized by the international
community since it declared independence 18 years ago.
Since then, the Somaliland region has remained more peaceful
and stable than the Somali Republic, which has descended
once again into chaos. While the world’s eyes are fixed
on Somalia, Somaliland — and its 3.5 million people — linger
in the periphery.
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I’ve Learnt To Share Power Like Nelson Mandela, Says Morgan
Tsvangirai |
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Morgan Tsvangirai
Tim Reid
Washington, June 20, 2009 – Morgan Tsvangirai compared
himself to Nelson Mandela as he sought to explain his
decision to share power with Robert Mugabe.
Speaking to The Times on Sunday, before his visit to Europe
this week, the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe — who is facing
growing criticism that he has become an apologist for the
regime — said that he now had a “functioning working
relationship” with President Mugabe, 85 — the man who in
recent years had him jailed, beaten and threatened with
death, and whose 29-year rule has led his country to near
collapse.
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OPINION |
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Politics Has Earned Such A Bad Name For Itself! So Imagine
When Bad People Used |
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By Amin D. Caynashe, USA
Politics - a word detested by most of the common people. To
an ordinary person, politics is a synonym to corruption,
misuse of power, money laundering and other take away.
Politics has earned such a bad name for itself everywhere
that even the most honest political leader is looked upon
with suspicion. Elections come and go.
Majority of the populace does not bother to vote. They know,
once elected a candidate forgets his electorate and runs
after money and power. But these elected leaders can play
havoc or bring peace and prosperity in the society. It
depends on both their decisions and participation of people.
It is true that political decisions and activities affect
all aspects of people's lives. But is it really unfortunate?
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Somaliland Is Here To Stay! |
By Ahmed Yusuf
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have read Mr zakaria Farah’s article on
hiiraanonline.com and
I can’t help responding to it.
Before I proceed any
further, I would like to say that Zakaria is entitled to
express his opinion on how Somalia should be and whether it,
according to his words, should be further geographically
divided or not. One thing he needs to bear in mind, though,
is that the people of Somaliland are also equally entitled
to have their say as to how their future is shaped.
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President Obama Can Empower Africans |
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US
president Barack Hussein Obama |
Tedla
Asfaw
Professor George Ayittey of American University, President
of Free African Foundation on his recent research on African
leaders on Straight Talk Africa on June 17, 2009 he told us
that since independence out of 208 African leaders only
twenty nine can be considered as "good leaders".
Ethiopia's king Haile Selasse, Jomo Kenyata, Anwar Sadat are
among the twenty nine good leaders Professor Ayittey found
out on his research. I haven't read his book but from his
brief remark he came to his conclusion based on what these
leaders did to their people while they were on power..
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New Somali book ‘War and Peace: an anthology of Somali
literature’ |
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Edited by Rashiid Sheekh Cabdillaahi, with English
translation by Martin Orwin.
It is a great pleasure for Ponte Invisibile and Progressio
to announce the new publication “War and Peace: an anthology
of Somali literature”. This unique and rare collection
brings together for the first time classic Somali poems and
stories which deal with matters that are of great concern to
Somali people; conflict and conflict mediation - in other
words WAR AND PEACE.
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Farrah Ismail: 'I came here to kidnap commercial ships from
the waters off Berbera' |
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By Daniel Howden
Berbera, Somaliland, June 16, 2009 – “In our culture we were
nomads and we believed it was our right to take sheep, to
take cattle. That is how we see the ships. They are our
sheep and we will take them.”
The ships that Farrah Ismail speaks of are those plying the
sea lanes off the Horn of Africa. And the culture he refers
to is that of the Somali nomads who have been raiding rival
tribes or clans for centuries.
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Rex Browning |
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Rex Browning, who has died aged 78, was
a diplomat and the least bureaucratic of bureaucrats; hugely
popular with his staff, he displayed an infectious
irreverence that perhaps cost him the permanent
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Rex Alan Browning was born on July 22 1930 and educated at
Bristol Grammar School, from which he won a scholarship to
Merton College, Oxford, to read History – a passion that
remained with him, together with music, until the end of his
life. He entered the Civil Service, first the tax
inspectorate and then, in the dying days of Empire, the
Colonial Office.
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The following is a report on Ethiopia from the ninth annual Trafficking
in Persons Report released by the State
Department. Ethiopia is a source country for men, women, and
children trafficked primarily for the purposes of forced
labor and, to a lesser extent, for commercial sexual
exploitation. Rural Ethiopian children are trafficked for
domestic servitude and, less frequently,
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Members of the Islamist
militant organization al-shabaab bearing arms
By: Andrew Black
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 17
June 18, 2009
In the Hobbesian anarchy that has been the norm in Somalia
since the late 1980s, the proliferation of weapons has been
associated not only with the pursuit of political power but
also with international terrorism and the protection and
furtherance of economic objectives in the region.
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Kenya: Unfinished Business - Moving Forward |
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orir Sing'oei
With Kenya still in the throes of an entrenched crisis,
Korir Sing'Oei considers the broader history behind the
deficiencies of the country's political system.
Arguing that there are clear similarities to be drawn
between events such as the state's response to the 1963
Shifta War and today's military crackdowns at Mt. Elgon,
Sing'Oei stresses that the government continues to have a
single method of conflict resolution,
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Somaliland
Election |
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Tristan McConnell, for the Pulitzer Center
Unlike every other breakaway state in the world Somaliland
is more functional than the territory it wants to decouple
from. The fact that Somalia is the country it wants shot of
makes its case even more compelling because today it is
impossible to find a better example of a failed state.
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Obama Will Back Green Energy In Asian And Indonesia |
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Terry Lacey is a
development economist who writes from Jakarta on
modernization in the Muslim world, investment and trade
relations with the EU and Islamic banking. |
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Dr. Terry
Lacey
Development Economist
In the same week that PLN director of planning Bambang
Praptomo announced no commitment to start nuclear energy
procurement plans before 2018 (Jakarta Post 15.06.09), the
one-day World Renewable Energy Regional Congress in Jakarta
on June 17th concluded with some optimism from Hilmi
Panigoro,
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Somalia: Still Hope For Peace? |
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Shinn says Somali-led
solution still needed |
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By Joe DeCapua
Washington D.C, June 20, 2009 – As the violence in Somalia
escalates, is there any hope for peace? The Transitional
federal Government (TFG) continues to battle militias, the
most powerful of which is al-Shabaab.
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How To Make Friends And Influence People |
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Dr. Terry
Lacey
Development Economist
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to weeks
of US pressure by finally making a keynote policy speech
endorsing a Palestinian state but with so many strings
attached that an Indonesian diplomat publicly asserted the
Palestinian right to resist oppression by armed struggle.
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