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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 – The
Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Jama
Mohamed Omar (famously known as Jama-Sweden) has expressed
serious concern over what he described as the unfortunate
state of affairs over the “foreign hands” managing
Somaliland’s upcoming election.
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Chairman of
Kulmiye party, Ahmed Sillanyo
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 – The leader of KULMIYE
party, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Sillanyo, held a meeting with
senior officials, selected members and supporters of his
party to brief them on his recent visit to a number of
several European countries and the upcoming presidential
election.
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Press Release By Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asmara, July 11, 2009 – The Security Council released a
presidential statement on Somalia yesterday, 9 July 2009.
The statement does not merit an elaborate response as the
true facts surrounding the matter are well-known indeed. For
the record, however, the factual and legal dimensions
underpinning the whole episode are underlined bellow..
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Fighters linked
to al-Qaeda in Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebel group are battling
to oust the President, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, himself a former
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Tristan McConnell
Nairobi, July 11, 2009 – Seven people accused of renouncing
Islam and spying for the Government were beheaded in Somalia
yesterday in a move that underlined the growing authority of
the country’s Islamist insurgents.
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Armed Al-Shabaab
fighters patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, 29 Jun
2009 (left) and Africa Union peacekeepers man the entrance
to the presidential palace in the embattled Somalia capital
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By Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa, July 11, 2009 – Somalia's neighbors are
pleading for urgent international help to prevent the
strategic Horn of Africa nation from falling into the hands
of foreigners bent on turning it into a haven for
terrorists. Regional foreign ministers held an emergency
session to rally support for a last ditch effort to defend
the transitional Somali government against a foreign
invasion force.
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Kampala, July 11, 2009 – Ugandan troops in Mogadishu have
been secretly selling guns and ammunition to Somalia’s
struggling Transitional Federal Government on behalf of the
United States government, Daily Monitor can reveal..
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Navi Pillay, the
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GENEVA, July 11, 2009 – The United Nations human rights
chief said on Friday Islamist insurgents in Somalia had
executed civilians and set off bombs in residential areas,
violations which she said may amount to war crimes..
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UNITED NATIONS, July 11, 2009 – The U.N. Security Council
warned Eritrea on Thursday it would consider action against
anyone undermining peace in Somalia, in a threat of possible
sanctions on Asmara for alleged support to rebels.
The warning, in a formal statement, followed an appeal by
African Union leaders last week to the 15-nation council to
impose sanctions on Eritrea, which the AU said was aiding
Islamist insurgents fighting Somali government forces.
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Relief After Woman Stranded In Nairobi Fingerprinted |
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Suaad Hagi Mohamud is
accused of being an imposter |
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Nairobi, July 11, 2009 – A
Toronto woman facing jail in Kenya says she feels relieved
after Canadian officials finally took her fingerprints to
help settle her identity.
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Top UN Official: Without Global Support, Somalia Will Fall
To Opposition |
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UNITED NATIONS, July 11, 2009 – If the international
community allows Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
-- forged in a process of consensus -- to fail, the
poverty-stricken Horn of Africa nation will be taken over by
opposition groups employing tactics of coercion and
intimidation, the top United Nations political official
cautioned here Thursday.
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U.S. Pledges Increased Military Support To Somalia |
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NAIROBI, July
11, 2009 — The United States said on Saturday (July 4, 2009)
it would increase its military assistance to Somalia to help
the transitional government restore sanity and the rule of
law in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.
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Ethiopia: New Anti-Terrorism Proclamation Jeopardizes
Freedom Of Expression - Amnesty International |
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London, July 11, 2009 – Reacting to the news
that the Ethiopian Parliament has passed an Anti-Terror
Proclamation in Ethiopia on July 7, 2009, Amnesty
International warns that the law could restrict freedom of
expression, peaceful assembly and the right to fair trial,
with serious implications in the run up to Ethiopia’s 2010
parliamentary election.
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Pirates 'Smuggling Al-Qaeda Fighters' Into Somalia |
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Somali
Islamists bent on turning their land into an international
haven for Al Qaeda are using pirate gangs to offer foreign
militants safe passage into the country, The Sunday
Telegraph has been told.
By Colin Freeman
Nairobi, July 11, 2009 – The Taliban-style Shabab group,
which has already seized control of much of the lawless
nation, has enlisted the pirates' services to smuggle in
al-Qaeda fighters from across the Middle East, according to
Somali government ministers. They claim that up to 1,000
have arrived in recent months, swelling the ranks of the
Shabab in its bid to topple the fragile US-backed
administration in Mogadishu.
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Somalia Hires UK Accountancy Firm |
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London, July 11, 2009 – Somalia's fragile government has
hired the world's biggest accountancy firm,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, to help ensure international aid is
spent correctly.
The embattled administration has been asked by donors to
demonstrate that funds will be spent properly, and not
embezzled by corrupt officials.
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German Shipping Firms Arming Themselves Against Piracy |
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Hamburg, July 11, 2009 - Pirate attacks
off Somalia have exacted a heavy financial toll from
German shipping companies and some are now arming their
freighters, according to a survey Thursday by
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). German firms have paid huge
ransoms to free ships and a Hamburg-owned vessel, the Hansa
Stavanger, is currently in pirate hands.
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Somali Pirates Board Turkish Ship In Gulf Of Aden |
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NAIROBI, Kenya, July 11, 2009 — Somali
pirates seized a Turkish ship with 23 crew on Wednesday
(July 8, 2009) and are being shadowed by a Turkish warship
in the Gulf of Aden, a shipping official and NATO spokesman
said.
The pirates first surrounded the
Horizon-1 in speed boats and then boarded the ship, which is
carrying sulfate from Saudi Arabia to Jordan, according to
Omer Ozgur of Istanbul-based Horizon Shipping.
With the pirates aboard, the ship is
continuing on its course with Turkey's TCG Gediz frigate
following.
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Rethink On UK Foreign Aid Spending |
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London, July 11, 2009 – Britain is to target foreign aid at
improving security and justice in the world's most "fragile"
states.
International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander is due
to say that up to half of new aid could be pushed into
states ravaged by war, weak governments and poverty-fuelled
civil unrest.
Countries such as Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan will be the
main beneficiaries of the switch, which will be set out in a
White Paper arguing that security and justice are "basic
services".
Funding for those areas will be more than doubled and pumped
into community policing, legal training, dispute resolution,
securing peace agreements and creating jobs, such as
post-conflict rebuilding.
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Sillanyo Slips And Sustains A Slight Hip Injury |
Ahmed Sillanyo, Chairman
of Opposition party
KULMIYE
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
July 11, 2009 (SL Times)
– The Chairman of
KULMIYE opposition
party, Mr Ahmed Sillanyo
slipped and fell in
front of his house
yesterday which resulted
in a minor injury to his
hip. The incident
occurred early in the
morning around 7:30 as
he was leaving his
house. Mr Sillanyo was
immediately rushed to
Hargeysa General
Hospital where he was
examined by doctors who
concluded that he
suffered a slight hip
injury.
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Terrorists Recruiting Somaliland Youth |
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Fighters linked
to al-Qaeda in Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebel group are battling
to oust the President, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, himself a former
Islamist insurgent who joined a peace process last year |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – A group of
about 40 young men were reported to have left several
Somaliland cities and joined radical groups fighting in
southern Somalia. This news became known when the parents of
the young men were contacted by their children from Kismyo,
southern Somalia.
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French Embassy Suspends Cooperation With Somaliland’s Ministry
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – The French
embassy in Djibouti suspended cooperation with Somaliland
ministry of tourism. Somaliland’s ministry of tourism and
the French embassy used to cooperate in the fields of
culture, arts and archeology. As indicated in a letter from
the French embassy to the Minister of Tourism, Mr. Abdirizaq
Waaberi, the French decision was triggered by the ministry
of tourism’s non-fulfillment of an agreement that it had
entered with the French embassy.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – Interpeace, the
organization that possesses the information of the registered
voters and that is also in charge of the election server had a
meeting with Somaliland’s three political parties on July 7th.
The most important point of the meeting was for interperace to
explain to the political parties the way it is going to sift
through the voter list for Somaliland’s presidential election.
Interpeace convinced the political parties to wait until it has
finished its work.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s
Foreign Minister, Abdillahi Muhammad Duale and Somaliland
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Said Mohammed Nur,
went to parliament to answer questions regarding Somaliland
foreign policy. The two highest foreign policy officials were
responding to a request from parliament’s foreign affairs
subcommittee to come to parliament.
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Amoud University Graduates Third Batch Of Doctors |
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Borama, Somaliland, July 11, 2009
(SL Times) – A celebration of the end of Amoud University’s
exams took place at Borama’s Rays hotel.
The occasion was attended by the graduating students, parents,
intellectuals as well as members of Amoud University’s
administration.
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Vice President Shows Up At Restaurant Without Bodyguards |
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Vice-president Ahmed Yusuf Yassin
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland Vice
President Ahmed Yusuf Yasin showed up early morning on July 2nd
at Rayaan Hotel wearing casual sports clothes and without
bodyguards. This came as a pleasant surprise to many of the
restaurant’s customers who flocked to the spot where he was
sitting to greet him.
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Somaliland Minister Of Finance Leads A Delegation To Ethiopia |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – A delegation
led by Somaliland Minister of Finance, Mr. Hussein Ali Duale (Awil)
left on July 6th for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Speaking to the press at Egal International Airport, Somaliland
Minister of Finance, Mr. Hussein Ali Duale said, “We are going
to Ethiopia to discuss with the Ethiopian government their use
of the Port of Berbera, and how they could help us in fixing the
Berbera-Hargeysa road.”
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Erigabo University Conference |
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Erigabo, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – A conference to
celebrate the inauguration of the University of Erigabo was held
on the campus of that university. The conference was attended by
students, parents, intellectuals, religious leaders and
businessmen.
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ARDA Creates 250 Jobs For Farmers |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL
Times) – ARDA, a Borama-based NGO created 250 jobs for peasants
in a period of three months. The jobs involve setting up
mechanisms for collecting rain water and using it to irrigate
the farms of Borama. ARDA has also launched a project to
increase the productivity of farms in Asha Addo and Sogsogley,
located to the west of Borama, where farmers in 50 farms that
were dependent on rain water could not continue their farming
activities due to lack of rains.
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Conference On Youth |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL Times) – A two days
conference on the inauguration of the youth jail of mijo caseeye
took place in Mansoor hotel. Among the salient topics of the
conference were how to take care of the youth while they are in
jail and what laws should apply to them.
The conference was organized by the Office for Development and
Humanitarian Affairs (ODHA), an organization whose chairman is
Fadumo Said.
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Parliament Sacks Election Commission Member |
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Ahmed Muhammad Haji Dahir |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 11, 2009 (SL
Times) – Ahmed Muhammad Haji Dahir was sacked from his position
of membership in the election commission. Parliament was acting
on the recommendation of parliament’s subcommittee on internal
affairs, which in turn was acting on a circular from President
Dahir Rayale Kahin. The subcommittee also recommended that a
committee should be set up to investigate the disputes and
allegations of corruption in the election commission.
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Obama Arrives In Ghana To Red Carpet Welcome |
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US President Barack Obama (L), along with First
Lady Michelle Obama (R) and daughters Sasha (2nd R) and Malia
(2nd L)
ACCRA, Ghana, July 11, 2009 — Barack Obama arrived in Ghana on
Friday on his first trip to sub-Saharan African since taking
office to a red carpet welcome with thousands lining the streets
to catch a glimpse of America's first black president.
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L'AQUILA, Italy, July 11, 2009 – Leaders of
the G8 developed nations have pledged $20bn (£12bn) for efforts
to boost food supplies to the hungry, on the final day of a
summit in Italy.
The investment, which is $5bn more than had been expected, will
fund a three-year initiative to help poor nations develop their
own agriculture.
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Michael Jackson is reported to have been taking a cocktail of
drugs |
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New York,
July 11, 2009 – The Los Angeles police chief has raised the
prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael
Jackson.
Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could mean a
manslaughter charge against a doctor.
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Google V Microsoft: Clash Of The Titans
Google launches a direct assault on Microsoft with the promise
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New York, July 11, 2009 – THE
announcement came as a humble blog post on Google’s
corporate website late on Tuesday July 7th, but it delivers what
is likely to be a dramatic shake-up for the
information-technology (IT) industry. By promising to release,
at some point later this year, an operating system for personal
computers the online giant is launching a direct attack on Microsoft,
the world’s biggest software firm.
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Chinese Authorities Close Most Mosques And Muslim Women Lead
Protests In Restive West China |
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Uighur protesters march through the street in
Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Friday, July 10,
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URUMQI, China, July 11, 2009 — The petite
Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining
that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on
Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship.
When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam
then railed against communist rule in China's far western region
of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least
184 people this week.
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By Musa Hersi
Somalia, in the
Horn of Africa, has always been remote but its inaccessibility
is all the greater today after nearly two decades of warfare and
anarchy. While chaos continues in the south, the northern part
of the former "Somali Democratic Republic" has achieved
remarkable peace and stability in recent years, established its
own borders and declared its independence and statehood as the
Somaliland Republic - a distinct entity from the failed state in
the south.
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Red means go, especially when it’s worn by the Somali-born
catwalk star Ubah Hassan |
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Ralph Lauren Model Ubah
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New York, July 11, 2009 – At the age of five Ubah Hassan fled
war-torn Somalia for Kenya with her father and brother. They
became separated from her mother and sisters, who went to
Ethiopia. After seven years apart they were reunited in Canada,
where they set up home.
At
17 Hassan was talent-spotted by a photographer in Vancouver, and
signed to Click Model Management in New York. Now, at 21, she is
the face of Ralph Lauren’s s/s 09 campaign. She has also walked
the runway for Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta and Betsey
Johnson, and been photographed by Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber
for Italian Vogue.
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Somaliland
Flag
By Abdulazez Al-Motairi
British Rule In Somaliland Is Ended
The Times
Monday, June 27, 1960
Independence Day Celebrations
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 26, 1960
(Reuter): British rule ended here at midnight last night as
fireworks and singing crowds heralded the Independence of
Somaliland. Celebrations continued throughout the night. A
big electric sign on a hillside carried the message: "Long
Live independence."
Celebrations in the capital were repeated
in settlements and outposts throughout the territory.
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And Nobody Will Be Satisfied: Thoughts On The Arguments At
The ICJ Over Kosovo |
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By Florian Bieber
It is likely that Serbia will base its argument on a
conventional understanding of international law, which has
taken a very restrictive approach to self-determination.
Self-determination in the sense of international
independence has only been granted to processes of
decolonization and to cases of state dissolution. The ICJ
has previously ruled on the principle of uti possidetis,
i.e. the ICJ decided in 1986 in a border dispute between
Mali and Burkina Faso that the border at the end of the
colonial rule as definitive.
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Remittances A Lifeline To Somalis |
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Informal family business in Somaliland becomes multi-million
dollar empire. |
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By Tristan
McConnell
 Hargeysa,
Somaliland, July 11, 2009 — What began as a way for exiled
Somalis to send money to relatives at home has become a
company that almost single-handedly keeps the entire
war-torn country afloat.
Somalis line up in Hargeysa, Somaliland, to receive
remittances sent from abroad. The family-run Dahabshiil has
the lion's share of the estimated $1 billion annual
remittance trade going to Somaliland and Somalia. (Narayan
Mahon/Pulitzer Center/GlobalPost)
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The
Lies And Greed Of Sheikh Sharif (a.k.a Sheikh Xariif) |
“Somalia seeks military and political support”. “Somalia seeks
urgent support as it faces rebel ultimatum”. “Somalia president
intensely lobbying East African states for support.” These are
some of the news headlines this week.
As Somalia sinks deeper and deeper into the nether world, Sheikh
Sharif and members of his fictional government are roaming the
world looking for money, arms, troops, you name it. We are
starting from below zero, they say to anyone who would listen.
We need everything, they say.
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Open Letter To The Emir Of The State Of Qatar |
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Omer Hussein Dualeh |
Good morning your highness,
I am a citizen of the country called "Somaliland" and I wish
to communicate with you directly. My open letter to you,
your highness, is a plea I wish to make and request your
Government to engage my country. I have confidence in you
and I know you are a unique to the Arab World. You are
steadfast politician and someone who has charisma and far
sighted.
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A Pirate Inside United States Congress |
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Maxamed
Abdirahman Faroole (Son Puntland Leader) |
By
Abdulazez Al-Motairi
It is very unfortunate that elected US Congress invite the
sponsor of piracy in Somalia. A man that UN General
Secretary Ban Ki-moon accused for sponsoring and harboring
the piracy: Puntland Leader Abdirahman Faroole.
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Fleeing Somali MPs Seek Refuge In Somaliland |
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By Dalmar Kahin
Somali MPs, chased from their houses in Mogadishu, unable to
find a secure den to convene meetings or venture into the
streets, flee in droves. Some escape to Kenya; others, to
North America and Europe. But a small group of MPs who
originally hail from Somaliland, time and time again, when
they sense an imminent danger sprint from Mogadishu to
Hargeysa, Somaliland capital—their sweet home, their safe
heaven. Read about Somali MP’s in Hargeysa:
http://tinyurl.com/kpxzgz
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Somaliland Diplomatic Flop |
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By
Mohamed M. Khawi
The first diplomat of the house keeping administration of
Somaliland H.E Mohamed Ducaale (Dhoolayare) spoke on his
stand of a congressional hearing to be hosted by Rep. Donald
Paine of New Jersey in Washington DC, with three Somali
entity participation: Somaliland, Puntland and the Interim
Govt of Mogadishu. Mr. Ducaale, in his capacity as the
minister of foreign relations declined participation under
the pretext that Somaliland was not in the level with those
entities.
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Letter to Congressman Payne |
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To: Honorable Donald M. Payne, Chairman. 06/29/2009
Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
CC: Noelle LuSane - Staff
Director for the Subcommittee
on Africa and Global Health
CC: Heather Flynn - Professional
Staff for the Subcommittee
on Africa and Global Health
CC: Antonina King - Staff
Associate for the Subcommittee
on Africa and Global Health
Dear Mr. Chairman;
The United States and in particular your subcommittee has
the unprecedented opportunity to transform the political
landscape of the Horn. Mr. Chairman, you have always shown
great interest in the stability of that region and the
impetus to that stability are true democracies.
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President Barack Obama And Global Africa |
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Prof.
Ali A. Mazrui
Barack Obama’s Africa policy may become more active in a
positive sense in the months and years ahead. But on the
evidence so far it does seem credible that the African
continent itself would have been better off if Hillary
Clinton had become President of the United States.
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The AU Has Decided That The Dead And Dying Can Go To Hell! |
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JERRY OKUNGU, An East African perspective |
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From Sirte in Libya and The Hague in The Netherlands, the
news hasn’t been very good for democracy and justice in
Africa this week.
Finally, the continent’s rulers have decided that enough is
enough.
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By Omar Hussein Dualeh,
My few words reflect the writing of Mrs. Elizabeth Ohene
about President Obama’s schedule visit to Ghana. Somaliland
held high the achievement reached by our fellow African
country that we share a lot since our beloved country
[Somaliland] came into being on 26th June, 1960 and
recognized by 34 countries including Ghana and five
permanent members of the United Nations.
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War And Peace Question In Africa |
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By Kayode Oladele
Many African countries had been consumed in war in one form
or the other in the past forty years- from ANC and apartheid
South Africa to the Sudanese Liberation group and the
National Liberation Movement of Eritrea.
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Ghanaian
President John Atta Mills seems keen to cash in on the Obama
effect |
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By David Amanor
Accra, Ghana, July 11, 2009 – As US President Barack Obama
touches down on Ghanaian soil, there is no doubt about the
feeling of pride over the visit - his first to sub-Saharan
Africa as leader.
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Snapshots From The East
Where
life ranges from the opulent to the wretched |
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By Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A recent trip to
the Persian Gulf and East Africa provided me snapshots of
several countries that enriched my vision of the region. I
visited the United Arab Emirates, with time in Dubai and a
stop in Abu Dhabi, Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Kenya
in East Africa.
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In The Line Of Fire
Gamal Nkrumah examines political prospects in Somalia
after Islamists issued the government five days to surrender |
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Hardline Islamist fighters exchange gunfire with
government forces in Mogadishu. |
"All on the apostate government soldiers
who are in the frontline of the battle to surrender to the
Islamists and hand over all their weapons," Sheikh Mokhtar
Abu Zubeir, a leader of Shabab (Youth) or to use its proper
name, the Mujahideen Youth Movement, exhorted the troops of
the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somali
President Sheikh Sherif Sheikh Ahmed.
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Africa Should Leave President Obama Alone |
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By Lord
Aikins Adusei
The whole of Africa and Ghana in particular is in a frenzy
mood because the President of the United States of America
is paying a visit to Africa between the 10-11 July, 2009.
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SOMALIA: Women Go Where Aid Agencies Fear To Tread |
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A group of displaced
people shelter under a tree after fleeing their homes in
Mogadishu: Women's groups are stepping into the aid vacuum
to assist thousands more displaced by fighting in the city -
file photo |
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NAIROBI, July 11, 2009 - Women's groups
in embattled Mogadishu are stepping into the aid vacuum to
assist thousands more displaced by fighting in the capital,
civil society activists said.
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Snuffing Music, Dance And Film: The Taliban’s Cultural
Invasion |
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Local culture in the Swat Valley struggles to survive the
Taliban. |
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Written By Shaheen Buneri
Swat Valley, Pakistan, July 08, 2009 – On a cold night in
January, 2008, a group of militants hammered at the door of
a popular Pashto dancer, Shabana, in Mingora, a city in the
Swat district of Northwestern Pakistan.
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Meeting Somalia’s Shabab: The Next Jihad |
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Fear and
beheadings in the heartland of the militants |
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BUALE AND DUSAMAREB, July 11, 2009 – THE Juba river region,
in Somalia, is hard country. Women are regularly eaten by
crocodiles while fetching dirty water. The sandy farmland is
either in drought or flooded. And the militants known as the
Shabab, who rule the area, exact brutal justice.
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Scientific Evidence: Flight 77 Did Not Strike The Pentagon |
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Given the topography,
the force generated by the transition of Flight 77 from its
downward path to level flight would cause the aircraft to
disintegrate before striking the Pentagon
By Enver Masud
[Watch, read author's rebuttal of The
9/11 Commission Report.]
A simple formula,
familiar to high school students, may debunk the official
account of American Airlines Flight 77 that is alleged to
have struck the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
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