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Fourteen MPs signed in
advance a parliamentary motion on Monday calling for a
caretaker president if Somaliland presidential election,
which had been scheduled for 27 September, did not go ahead
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 –
Pressure is mounting on president Dahir Rayale Kahin as a
cross-party group of MPs began to sign a parliamentary
motion calling for the immediate eviction of the president
from office if he fails to hold the presidential election by
27 September.
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WASHINGTON, June 25, 2009 -- The Obama administration has
decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia's embattled
government, U.S. officials say, by providing money for
weapons and helping the military in neighboring Djibouti
train Somali forces.
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Washington June 27, 2009 – The violent and unstable
situation in Somalia was the subject of a U.S. congressional
hearing on Thursday. Testimony by officials from Somalia,
the United Nations and the African Union, and experts came
as the Obama administration confirmed it has decided to
bolster Somalia's embattled Transitional Federal Government
against Islamist forces.
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By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington, June 27, 2009 – The United States has sent a
shipment of weapons and ammunition to the government of
Somalia, according to a U.S. official who said the move
signals the Obama administration's desire to thwart a
takeover of the Horn of Africa nation by Islamist rebels
with alleged ties to al-Qaeda.
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By Abdi Guled and Ibrahim Mohamed
MOGADISHU, June 27, 2009 - The United States said on
Thursday it had sent weapons to Somalia's government to help
thwart Islamist insurgents, who cut hands and feet off
thieves and paraded the severed limbs in the streets of
Mogadishu.
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USA Dep.spokes person
lan Kelly
Washington DC, June 27, 2009 – The State Department said
Thursday the United States is providing urgent military aid
to Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, the TFG, to
help it repel what is termed an "onslaught" by Islamist
rebels. U.S. officials are also renewing their criticism of
alleged Eritrean support for Somali extremists.
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By Alisha Ryu
Nairobi, June 27, 2009 – Last week, a top Somali government
minister was killed in a suicide bombing claimed by al-Shabab
militants opposed to the government. It was the latest of
about a dozen al-Shabab-related suicide attacks that have
rocked Somalia for the past three years.
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By Derek Kilner
Nairobi, June 27, 2009 – In Somalia's capital, the radical
Islamist al-Shabab militia amputated a hand and a foot each
from four young men accused of stealing guns and mobile
phones. The militia has imposed a harsh brand of Islamic law
in areas of Somalia under its control.
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Father Of Gitmo Detainee Pleads For His Release |
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By Del Quentin
Wilber
The father of a
Somali detainee at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, has written
a letter (PDF) to President Obama pleading for his son's
release.
The detainee,
Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, has been held at the facility since
2002 after being turned over by Pakistani authorities who
arrested him for allegedly making illegal money transfers,
according to the detainee's lawyers.
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African Union: Focus on Justice in Somalia, Chad |
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Libya Summit Participants Should
Support International Criminal Court |
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(Johannesburg, June 25, 2009) – The African Union should
urge the United Nations Security Council to set up a
commission of inquiry to document the worst human rights
abuses in Somalia, an essential first step in creating
justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch said in a
letter released today. The letter was sent in advance of the
AU Summit meeting in Sirte, Libya on July 1-3, 2009.
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Somalis
Create World's Largest Refugee Camp |
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By MALKHADIR
M. MUHUMED
DADAAB, Kenya, June 27, 2009 -- The bloody conflict in
Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with
500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this
wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N.
refugee agency said Friday.
Dadaab, just 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Somali
border, is home to more than 280,000 refugees in an area
meant to hold just 90,000.
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Ethiopia's Meles Says Preparing To Step Down - FT |
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Ethiopian Prime
minister, Meles Zenawi |
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LONDON, June 27, 2009 – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi was quoted on Tuesday as saying he was preparing to
step down and that discussions on the issue had already
started within his ruling party.
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Imperial Jets Gives Evacuation Assistance In Somalia
Conflict Areas |
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Written by Private Jet Daily Staff
Imperial Jets, a private jet charter based in New York, is
currently assisting in evacuations of out-of-threat areas in
Somalia from its office in Tanzania.
The company is securing private aircrafts to extract people
from troubled areas of Somaliland and Puntland. The Imperial
Jets office in Tanzania has been receiving a considerable
amount of calls from people seeking travel out of Somalia.
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National Day of Djibouti |
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June 26, 2009, 6:38pm
TODAY is the National Day of Djibouti.
Djibouti is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered
by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and
Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is
formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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Somaliland Declines Invitation By US Congress |
The U.S Hause of
Representatives Commitee
on Foreign Affairs
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
June 27, 2009 (SL Times)
– Somaliland government
declined to attend a
congressional hearing on
Somalia that was
scheduled for June 25th.
Somaliland’s Foreign
Minister, Abdillahi
Duale, was initially
included in the list of
the people who were
supposed to brief the
hearing but his name was
removed from the list
after his government
declined to take part in
the hearing.
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Somaliland President Returns From Kuwait Visit |
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Somaliland
President Rayaale |
Berbera, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland
President Dahir Rayale Kahin returned to Somaliland on June
22 after a 7-day visit to Kuwait. In a press conference held
after his return to Berbera, Somaliland, the president said
his trip to Kuwait was successful and that he asked Kuwaiti
officials to help Somaliland in vital areas such as
education, health, water and roads,
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British Delegation Arrives In Somaliland |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – A
delegation from the British embassy in Addis Ababa arrived
in Hargeysa on June 24th. The delegation said their main
objective in coming to Somaliland is to get a more clear
picture of how preparations for the presidential election
are proceeding.
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Bashe
Gaboboe |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – Eng. Bashe Abdi
Gabobe, one of the leaders of Qaran party sharply criticized
Somaliland’s government and the election commission. Bashe Abdi
Gabobe issued his criticism of the government and the commission
in a press conference that he held in Haraf hotel in Hargeysa.
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Ethiopian Arts
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – World refugee
day took place in Somaliland on June 20th at the Ethiopian
refugee center. The celebration proceedings were opened by
Somaliland Vice Minister of Resettlement, Mr Abdilhamid Garad
who said, “I am happy to be with you on this occasion, this is
not the first time I participate in these festivities, I have
taken part in your celebrations on two previous occasions and I
am hoping it will be as interesting and wonderful as the last
time.”
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Largest Number Of Students Sit For Somaliland Exams |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009
(SL Times) – Eight grade students and level 4 students of high
school sat for exams on June 20th for the 2008/2009 exams.
11,294 students took part in the exam from Somaliland’s
intermediate and high schools.
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Djibouti Opposition Objects To Somaliland Interference |
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Mr Muhammad Daud Shihm
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Djibouti, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – The Chairman of Djibouti’s
opposition party (DPD), Mr Muhammad Daud Shihm strongly objected
to what he called interference by Somaliland government
ministers in Djibouti’s politics.
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KAVYO Raises Awareness Of Clean Environment |
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Kavyo Group |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – Youth
volunteers belonging to KAVYO were busy this week spreading
information about the importance of clean environment. Among the
neighborhoods targeted by the volunteers for conscious-raising
about the environment were State House, Daami, Goljano, Jajabka,
Gobanimo Market and Shiraaqle market.
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Somaliland And Somalia Water Management Officials Meet In Borama |
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Borama, Somaliland, June 27, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland and
Somalia water management officials met in Borama this week. The
meeting was attended by 40 managers of water resources from
Somaliland and Somalia. The purpose of the meeting was how to
efficiently manage and conserve water resources.
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MICHAEL JACKSON 1958-2009 |
Reactions To Michael Jackson's Sudden Death
Vary From Sadness To Anger
The Reaction: Fans and Foes Have Strong Opinions on Icon's Death |
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Family,
friends and fans around the world react to the death of music
icon Michael Jackson.
By Monica Hesse
Los Angeles, June 27, 2009 – In the weeks before his death, we
might have said we didn't know how we felt about Michael
Jackson. He'd become so bizarre, so pale, so foreign and
different from the musical genius some of us once worshipped.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
A senior Al-Qaeda operative said the terrorist organization
would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons to strike the United States
if it had the chance to do so, Reuters reported today (see GSN,
June 10).
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Michael Jackson with his children on a visit to Harrod's
department store in London in 2005. He tried to shelter them
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Michael Jackson with his children on a visit to Harrod's
department store in London in 2005. He tried to shelter them
from the glare of the media - sometimes literally.
Michael Jackson tried to shelter his three kids from the
media maelstrom that surrounded him wherever he roamed -
even making them wear masks in public.
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Al-Qaeda commander threatens US |
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June
22, 2009 Al-Qaeda's third-in-command has told Al Jazeera that
the group would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons against the US if
it gained access to them.
Pakistan has been battling the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies
in the Swat valley and tribal areas in the northwest since April
when fighters took hold of a region just 100km away from the
capital, Islamabad.
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UK
lawmakers elect new speaker of House of Commons |
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By RAPHAEL G. SATTER – 1 day ago
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers elected a new
speaker of the House of Commons on Monday, part of a bid to put
the political storm over their lavish taxpayer-funded expenses
behind them.
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Nour Haban, current owner of Bodhari Modern Bakery in Berbera,
Ted Dagne
26 June 2009
The following is the prepared testimony of Ted Dagne of
Congressional Research Service before the United States House of
Representatives Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health on June
25, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was entitled, "Somalia:
Prospects for a Lasting Peace and Unified Response to Extremism
and Terrorism."
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The East African editorial
Nairobi 22 June 2009— THE DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION in
Somalia, which last week culminated in the murder of the
country's defence minister, Omar Hashi Aden, is a matter of
grave concern across East Africa.
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Published: June 23 2009
Excerpts from an FT interview with Meles Zenawi, prime
minister of Ethiopia.
William Wallis, FT Africa Editor, interviewed Meles Zenawi
at his office in Addis Ababa on Wednesday June 17th.
On
progress in meeting pledges towards a rescue package for
African economies since the G20 summit in London
FT: Africa
seemed to do very well at the G20 meeting. Are you satisfied
that what was agreed to is being delivered?
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Heeeeere's Barack!: On Sidekicks, New Stars, And Tony Blair
In A Plaid Sports Coat... |
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From
right: French president,
Nicholas Sarkozy; US president,
Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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David
Rothkopf
June 24, 2009
Last night, Conan O'Brien offered a
tribute to
Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick to his predecessor Johnny
Carson. McMahon died yesterday and was eulogized in
today's New
York Times as
the "top second banana."
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OPINION |
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World And USA Must Relief Somaliland From Terror Infested
Somalia |
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Recently, Media and Outreach Coordinator for the State
Department’s Bureau of African Affairs Greg Garland held
online question and answer discussion entitled ‘Is there
hope for Somalia?’. The discussion was very much civilized
and transparent. The heat and pressure mounted as minute
passed, but Garland remained very transparent and clear in
answering the questions as per his administration’s policy
towards the region..
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Somalia’s Terrorist Plague Pandemic Poses Imminent Danger To
The Region |
By: Khadar
Hanan
It is a certain phenomenon once something evil generates;
over a time, it goes through black-white evolutions that
radically could change the cultural, social and
psychological compositions of a population over successive
generations. Somalia is a by-word country for inhuman,
barbarous and heinous civil war and during the last two
decades, it had been making its place in the world-news
banner headlines.
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Letters To The Editor |
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Somaliland Times
E-mail: feedback@somalilandtimes.net
Dear Editor,
International media reports about four
Somali men facing double amputations under Sharia law for
stealing phones shows how inconsistent and hypocritical
these religious Pharisees who implement Sharia law really
are.
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Tragic Irony In Somalia |
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John Boonstra
Excuse me if I find some irony in
Ethiopia declining the
Somali government's request to
send troops, when all indicators point to the likelihood
that Ethiopia already
sent some
of its "reconnaissance
missions" over the border
weeks ago. (Not to mention the irony of Somalia
inviting back the very military presence that its citizens
railed against for over two years.)
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Rayale And His Hypocrites Believe That Democracy Is A
Commodity That Is Installed By Force!!! |
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Amiin D.
Caynaanshe, Columbus, Oh USA
I'm concern with Riyale and help to Somaliland's while he
has failed to solve the problem in Somaliland where people
have been suffering 4 centuries.
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Congratulations From Somaliland Democracy Shield To The
Speaker Of The UK Parliament |
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Hon. John Bercow MP
The Speaker
U.K Parliament
Westminster
London.
Honorable Bercow MP,
How delighted I am to see a man I know personally to be
elected to the chair of the mother of all Parliaments. As a
Somalilander, I first met you participating a debate on
Somaliland in Westminster Hall sometimes on Feb. 2004.
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The Killing Machine Al-Shabab |
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By Hussein
Salad
“Beledwyn
allahow Belayada hareer mari
Beled
wyn Allahayow ka dhig meel barwaaqaa
Beled
weyn allahayo ka dhig beerata raaxada”(Hadrawi, Beledwayn)
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Democracy Grows In |
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By
Tristan McConnell
This September in Somaliland, hundreds of thousands of
people are due to take part in an election. At polling
stations guarded by civilian police, they will stand in
orderly lines beneath a scorching sun waiting to vote for a
new leader.
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Somali Journalist: 'I Saw My Boss Shot Dead' |
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Medair’s mobile nutrition clinics help give children
in both Somaliland and Somalia the nourishment they need to
survive
Somali journalist Ahmed-Tajir Omar Hashi was walking in
Mogadishu's Bakara market with his boss, the head of one of
the country's leading broadcasters, Radio Shabelle, recently
when he heard the crack of gunfire.
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26 June 2009
ANALYSIS
This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism
Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what
extent the proposed law on its face conforms to
international human rights standards. The draft law has been
submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers and may
be passed into law before the end of the current legislative
session in July 2009.
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The World’s Most Failed State Is Somalia |
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Written by Adam Gonn
Five Middle East and North African countries rank among the
top ten failed states in the world, according to the Foreign
Policy magazine’s Failed State Index for 2009, with Somalia
ranking top as the most failed state in the world.
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By Kate Heartfield, The
Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, June 20, 2009
If the Canadian government violates your constitutional
rights in the name of security, here's what you do.
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Q&A: Somalia’s state of emergency |
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Al-Shabaab
militiamen in Somalia. Photo: IRIN
Somalia’s president has declared a state
of emergency following weeks of intense fighting between
Islamic militants and pro-government forces. Over the
weekend, the government requested help stabilizing the
nation from troops in neighboring countries.
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Iran And Three Elections |
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Dr. Terry Lacey
Development Economist
Tay Tian Yan writing in the Sien Chew Daily, Malaysia,
accuses Iran of starting a Myanmar style bloody crackdown
against protestors “frustrated with the electoral
malpractices of the Ahmadinejad administration “with
students, workers and women “struggling to break free from
the 30 years of bondage in Iran.” (Jakarta Post 23.06.09).
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Study: Smuggled Migrants From Horn And East Africa Abused |
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Jean-Philippe Chauzy |
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Geneva,
June
27, 2009 –
A new study by the
International Organization for Migration finds an increasing
number of smuggled migrants from the Horn and East Africa to
South Africa are routinely deceived, abused, exploited and
stigmatized from the moment they leave home and arrive in
South Africa. The agency interviewed 800 men for this
investigation.
The men
interviewed for this study are young, with an average age of
21, and desperate. They come mainly from Ethiopia, Somalia
and Kenya and they head for South Africa.
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Pastoralists Leave Drought-Hit Villages |
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A drought-affected family: Those who have moved to urban
areas have received aid from the Danish Refugee Council -
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Hargeysa, June 27,
2009 – Thousands of nomadic pastoralists in Somaliland have
abandoned their drought-affected villages and moved closer
to urban centers, officials have said.
"More than 20
percent of the nomads have moved to the urban centers, [and
are] living with their families in villages near towns,"
Mursal Askar Mire, the mayor of Eil-Afweyn District in Sanag
Region, told IRIN.
The displaced, who
have received aid from the Danish Refugee Council (DRC),
were mainly in the Sool and Sanag regions, which are claimed
by both Somaliland and neighboring Puntland.
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INTERVIEW-Somali Remittances Hit Hard By Financial Crisis-UN |
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* Remittances fall
by 25 percent
* Food price
inflation at 300 percent
By Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI, June 27,
2009 – The global financial crisis is adding to the
suffering of millions in Somalia, a country devastated by
nearly two decades of continuous war, a top U.N. official
said in an interview.
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