|
|
   |
|
Washington, DC, July 25, 2009 – Tensions
have been rising in Somaliland in the period leading up to
an election campaign and a 27 September presidential vote.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is condemning
recent media arrests and government banning orders on a
radio and TV outlet.
Read full text...
|
|
|
dhuxul and sayid
horyaal staffs arrested in Hargaisa
New York, July 22,
2009—The Committee to Protect Journalist condemns the
government’s growing crackdown on the independent press in
the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland as September
presidential elections near.
On July 13,
Somaliland police arrested private Radio
Horyaal Director
Mohamed Osman and News Editor Ahmed Suleiman at the station,
accusing them of inciting violence. The two were remanded in
custody on Tuesday after a court hearing in the capital,
Hargeisa, local journalists told CPJ. Osman and Suleiman are
being held at the Criminal Investigation Department awaiting
the next court hearing, Mustafe
Abdi, president of the Somaliland
Journalists Association said.
Read full text...
|
|
 |
|
NAIROBI, July 25, 2009 – A
Kenyan court decided Friday to postpone the case of Suaad
Hagi Mohamud, the Somali-born woman who was accused of
faking her Canadian citizenship because she did not look
like her passport photo, so she and her son in Toronto can
undergo DNA testing.
Read full text...
|
|
|
WPC’s killer was
snatched in Somali desert |
|
 |
|
Published:
23/07/2009
A police killer who was finally brought to justice after a
daring mission to snatch him from his African hideout was
starting a life sentence last night.
Mustaf Jama thought he had escaped the British authorities
when he fled to his native Somalia after the 2005 murder of
Constable Sharon Beshenivsky in a botched travel agent
robbery.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon |
|
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all
countries Thursday to provide urgent military support to
Somalia's embattled transitional government, warning that
its survival is at stake.
Read full text...
|
|
|
 
Sharon
Beshinivsky and Mustaf Jama |
|
London, UK, July 25, 2009 – A POLICE killer with links to
Sheffield who was finally brought to justice after a daring
James Bond-style mission to snatch him from his African
hideout has started a life sentence.
Read full text...
|
|
|
London, UK, July 25, 2009 – President Rayale has been left
isolated as domestic and international condemnation and
pressure mounts on his regime over the continued detention
without trial of two Radio Horyaal reporters and the closure
of local television station, Horn Cable TV (HCTV).
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Undersea cable connects Mombassa to Mumbai and beyond |
|
Friday, July 24, 2009
Telecommunications
company Seacom has finished deploying an underwater fibre-optic
broadband cable linking countries on the east coast of
Africa to the global broadband network.
The 17,000km-long
cable links South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and
Mozambique to Europe and Asia. It has a capacity of 1.28
terrabytes per second and has taken two years to lay at a reported
cost of
$390million.
Read full text...
|
|
Journalism a hazard in Somalia, says union |
|
Friday, July
24, 2009
Journalism is increasing becoming a hazardous profession in
Somalia, with six journalists killed this year while on the
line of duty, a seminar in Nairobi heard Friday.
Several others have been injured or received death threats.
“These journalists have been killed while trying to be
impartial in their coverage of news and other events,” Mr
Omar Osman, the secretary-general of National Union of
Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) told participants at the forum
that included Kenya Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka.
Read full text...
|
|
Statement from the United Nations in Somalia on the looting
of UN compounds in South Central Somalia |
|
(Nairobi, KENYA, July 25, 2009 – Two UN compounds were looted
today in Baidoa and Wajid, Somalia. Al Shabaab men entered
both compounds and took UN equipment and vehicles.
In Baidoa, the looting of all emergency communication
equipment and the lack of security officers makes it
impossible for the UN as a whole to continue its operations.
We deeply regret having to relocate staff and temporarily
suspend our operations in Baidoa. We are expecting
authorities to reconsider these decisions and allow us to
address the critical humanitarian situation in Baidoa and
its region.
Read full text...
|
|
Somali gangster jailed for life for killing policewoman
Sharon Beshenivsky |
|
.jpg)
Mustaf Jama:
jailed for life |
|
July 22,
2009
A gangster who fled to his native Somalia after taking part
in a bungled robbery in Bradford in which Pc Sharon
Beshenivsky was shot dead was jailed for life today.
Read full text...
|
|
Top Diplomat To Handle Kenya Reconciliation |
|
IOLIVER MATHENGE,
Nairobi, July 25, 2009 - A renown diplomat, African peacemaker and a man of eloquence
has got the job to test his skills. Ambassador Bethuel
Kiplagat, a career diplomat and well-known peace negotiator
was yesterday appointed the chairman of the Truth, Justice
and Reconciliation Commission to serve for two years.
Read full text...
|
|
A-Shabab Claims Control Over Somali Capital |
|
Shabab Claims
Control Over Somalia |
|
By Rachelle Kliger
Mogadishu, July 25, 2009 -
The Islamist A-Shabab group in Somalia claims its forces
retook control this week over strategic areas of the Somali
capital Mogadishu.
Read full text...
|
|
Yemen's Marines Forces Foils Somali Pirates' Attack |
|
|
|
An attempted attack by
Somali pirates on a Yemeni tanker was foiled by warships and
helicopters after an overnight pursuit in the red sea,
Saba.net reported.
Read full text...
|
|
EU to take new steps on Somalia |
|
|
|
Thursday, July 23, 2009
EU foreign ministers are likely on Monday (27 July) to back
the appointment of an EU Special Representative (EUSR) for
the Horn of Africa and to support the despatch of a mission
to Somalia to prepare an aid and development package for the
country.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
|
More Evidence On Djibouti’s Misleading Of Foreigners About
Situation In Mogadishu |
An islamic fighter
training in Moqdisho
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
July 25, 2009 (SL Times)
– In our last issue, the
Somaliland Times pointed
out that Djiboutian
officials may have
misled the two French
experts about the
security situation in
Mogadishu which
eventually led to the
kidnapping of the French
experts by terrorists.
There is now evidence
that Djibouti was
involved in the planning
of Congressman’s trip to
Mogadishu in which his
airplane was fired at.
The revelation comes
from Congressman Payne
himself who told
allAfrica.com (July 15,
2009):
Read full text...
|
|
What Would A Further Delay In The Presidential Election Mean To
Somaliland? |
|
THE SOMALILAND INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR’S GROUP
4TH POSITION PAPER
(26 July, 2009;
Hargeisa, Somaliland)
I. Introduction
On 17th
of July 2009, a group of 12 Somaliland scholars met at Haraf
Restaurant to discuss the question: What would a further delay
in the Presidential Election mean to Somaliland? The meeting was
sponsored by the Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI).
It was moderated by its Director, Dr. Mohamed Fadal. The
Somaliland Independent Scholar’s Group (ISG) members are all
long-term participants of Somaliland rebuilding and
democratization process, who are considered to be highly
competent to provide an objective analysis and strategy to
address the issues at hand.
Read full text...
|
|
Mooge Festival Starts In Hargeysa |
|
Moge Vestival
Hadrawi and Gariye
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) – Mooge
Festival started this week in Somaliland’s capital, Hargeysa.
The Festival which includes a book fair, music, dances and
lectures caused much excitement and was the talk of town in
Hargeysa with overflowing audiences. It was attended by a
full court of the major figures of Somali culture, including
Xudaydi, Hadraawi, Hassan Ganey, Cali Banfas, Ahmed
Saleebaan Bidde, Gaarriye, Muse Cali Faruur, Baarleex,
Mohamed Jama Kayd and Maxamed Ahmed Kuluc.
Read full text...
|
|
Upper House Approves Election Law |
|
 |
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s Upper House approved the presidential and city
council election law.
The session was chaired by the Chairman of Somaliland Upper
House Chairman, Mr Suleiman Mahmud Adan. Forty four members
of the Upper House voted for the law and the change that
says the presidential election should be conducted based on
the voter registration that took place.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland
Forum, a Somaliland advocacy organization held a meeting in
Hargeysa’s Mansoor hotel this week. The object of the meeting
was to identify the obstacles that have stood in the way of
Somaliland’s recognition for the last 18 years and to formulate
ways in which to overcome those obstacles.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Las Anod, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) – YESDO, a youth
organization held a seminar on the problems faced by young
females and how to solve those problems. According to
holhol+Afnugaal website, the seminar was attended by both civil
society ortganizations as well as government representatives.
Read full text...
|
|
Hadrawi School Committee Starts Working |
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009
(SL Times) – A 7-member committee that was formed to be in
charge of the construction of a school in Dami neighborhood of
Hargeysa held its first meeting this week. The residents of Dami
are predominantly from the minority communities of Somaliland.
The famous Somali singer, Maryam Mursal Ise paid the money for
starting the school, but the money is not enough.
Read full text...
|
|
20
Year Anniversary Of Jezira Massacre |
|
|
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) – July 17 was the
twentieth anniversary of the Jezira massacre in which 47
innocent individuals were butchered by Siyad Barre’s troops in
Mogadishu. Many of those murdered were doctors, teachers,
students and businessmen, and their only was that they were of
Somaliland origin.
Read full text...
|
|
South Africa Hosts Somaliland Law Committee |
|
Pretoria, South Africa, July 25, 2009 (SL Times) – A Somaliland
law committee visited South Africa in response to an invitation
by their counterparts in South Africa which goes by the acronym
SLRC. The visit lasted three days July 15-8. The purpose of the
visit was to exchange knowledge regarding law in South Africa
and Somaliland.
Read full text...
|
|
New Book On Somaliland Hailed A Major Scholarly Success |
|
Johannesburg, July 25, 2009 – The South African Institute of
International Affairs (Wits University) and the Nelson
Mandela-initiated Institute for Global Dialogue have
co-published a new book entitled Somaliland: an African struggle
for nationhood and international recognition.
Read full text...
|
|
“Any Delay In Holding The Presidential Election Is Not Due To
The Production Of The Voter List” |
|
Interpeace Press Statement |
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 (SL
Times) – Following a series of recent accusations reported in
the Somaliland media, Interpeace is compelled to clarify a
number of points.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Racists May Have Started Fire At Bristol Somali Office |
|
 |
|
Bristol, UK, July 25, 2009 – The offices of a
newspaper serving Bristol's Somali community have been
devastated in what is thought to have been a racially-motivated
arson attack.
The Somali Voice base on Stapleton
Road, Easton, was set alight in the early hours of Wednesday
and the voluntary organisation's two computers, desks, chairs
and paperwork were destroyed.
Thousands of pounds worth of damage was
caused in what investigators believe was a malicious attack on
the bilingual, monthly publication set up to help the Somali
community in Bristol.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Bristol, UK, July 25, 2009 – Young filmmakers
from Bristol schools are preparing to showcase the first Somali
film made in England.
A team of students from The City Academy and Whitehall Primary
School worked with film professionals to script, produce and
direct the horror film Dhag Dheer, a revamp of an old Somali
folk tale.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
FIDH Press release
22 July 2009
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its
member organisation in the Czech Republic, League of Human
Rights (LIGA), welcome the deposit by the Czech government of
the instrument ratifying the Rome Statute with the United
Nations’ Secretary General. Following years of insufficient
attention to the ratification process by the Czech authorities,
the country has now finally fully embraced principles of
international criminal justice.
Read full text...
|
|
Farah Eyes Moorcraft Record In Quest For World Championship
Medal |
|
Target: Britain's Mo Farah |
By
NEIL WILSON
London, UK, July 25, 2009 – Mo Farah will use
a British record set before he was born to measure his progress
in his quest for a medal in next month's World Championships in
Berlin.
Farah recognizes that unless he challenges
the 5,000metres record set by David Moorcroft in 1982, nine
months before Farah's birth in Somalia, he cannot expect to
challenge African domination of the event at world level.
Read full text...
|
|
Obama Regrets 'Stupid' Comments |
|
President Barack Obama pauses as he talks
to the media in the briefing room of the White House in
Washington, Friday, July 24, 2009 |
Washington, July 25, 2009 – US President
Barack Obama has told reporters he should not have described the
arrest of a black Harvard professor as "stupid".
Mr. Obama has faced criticism for wading into
the controversy during a televised news conference on Wednesday.
Professor Gates was apprehended at his own
home after a witness saw him apparently trying to force his way
in.
Read full text...
|
|
Ousted Honduran Leader 'Returns' |
|
Mr Zelaya says he remains the elected
leader of Honduras |
Washington, July 25, 2009 – The ousted
President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has crossed the country's
border with Nicaragua, as he tries to return home.
Mr Zelaya has been in exile for nearly a
month after he was forced from his position by a coup, and has
previously tried to return by plane.
The interim government has said it will
arrest him if he sets foot in Honduras.
Read full text...
|
|
Coming Soon To A Store Near You: Camel Milk Chocolate |
|
BY YUMSUGAR
So you're willing
to eat mushroom-flavored chocolate — but what about chocolate
made from camel milk? Soon, chocolate addicts with
adventurous palates will have the opportunity to try the world's
first camel milk chocolate. Dubai confectioner Al
Nassma, which claims to be the first chocolate made of the
unconventional milk, announced yesterday that it plans to expand
into other Arab markets, Japan, Europe, and the United States.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Professor Ali Mazrui
This study contributes significantly to our understanding not
only of Somaliland, but of the predicament of the Somali people
as a whole.
Today, they are scattered over what used to be British
Somaliland (capital Hargeysa), former Italian Somaliland
(capital Mogadishu), former French Somaliland (now Djibouti),
Ethiopia (the Ogaden), and Kenya.
Read full text...
|
|
Why does America expect 4,000 AU troops to do what 38,000 UN
troops failed to do? |
|
An AU armored vehicle
patrols the streets of Mogadishu. |
|
BY OBED K. KATUREEBE
Sometime in late February 1995, 2,400 Pakistani and Bangladeshi
peacekeepers made the now famous amphibian retreat from the
Somali capital, Mogadishu.
They were the last of 38,000-strong UN peacekeeping force from
21 countries sent in to save Somalia from war and famine in
1992.
Read full text...
|
|
|
by Scott A Morgan
In the area of International Diplomacy Frustration with a
Political Party or Insurgency Movement can lead to unique
opportunities.
Sometimes this could lead to new strategic alliances being
formed between old adversaries.
Read
full text...
|
|
Beshenivsky killer Mustaf Jama captured in Secret Somalia
operation |
|
|
|
A police killer who fled
to a lawless region of one of the world’s most dangerous
countries was captured and returned to Britain after a
top-secret intelligence operation.
Mustaf Jama, who was found guilty yesterday of the murder of
PC Sharon Beshenivsky during a bungled armed robbery in
2005, was the country’s most wanted man when he escaped on a
false passport.
Read
full text...
|
|
Security Council focuses on building peace after conflict |
|
By Sam Kutesa
With a sevenfold increase in the number of peacekeepers
worldwide, and the creation of new institutions such as the
UN’s Peacebuilding Commission, the past decade has seen a
remarkable boom in international conflict prevention and
reduction activity. We have seen some real benefits from
East Timor to Sierra Leone, Burundi and Liberia.
Read
full text...
|
|
|
|
|
What Is
Standing In The Way Of Somaliland Recognition? |
“When discussing the obstacles standing in the way of
Somaliland’s diplomatic recognition, Somalilanders often focus
on external factors. Of these factors, the ones that are cited
the most are: the unsympathetic position of countries such as
Egypt and Italy, the erroneous perception by some African
countries that Somaliland’s recognition would be tantamount to
changing the colonial borders (actually since Somaliland’s
borders with Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia were mapped by
colonial authorities,
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Weeping Parents |
|
By Ibrahim Hersi Jibril
We missed our gorgeous children so dearly. They are innocent
and lovely. They were our eyes and ears. After a long day of
work, they were the only ones that fill our eyes and hearts
with full of happiness, delight and enjoyment. We watch them
eat with their little mouths; sleep peacefully; play with
their little friends; laugh joyfully; and cry so loudly that
it touches your hearth and makes you so sad that you will
try everything in your capacity to make them stop carrying.
You watch them grow every day not only physically but also
mentally, spiritually, intellectually, religiously,
culturally etc.
Read full text...
|
|
One Bullet, One Young Girl: One Dollar - www.HelpAyaan.org |
Dalmar Kaahin
The year is 1988. At the height of the brutal assault by
forces of the former Somali dictator Gen. Mohammad Siyad
Barre against the people of Somaliland, MiG fighters bomb
civilian targets and thousands of bodies of dead and wounded
litter the streets of major cities. Panicked survivors flee
in droves. And, for a two-year old little girl, life will
never be the same. Not even decades after the war ends.
Read full text...
|
|
Has The TUG Become The Somali Story: Ii Shub, Ii Shid, Ii
Sheekee? |
|
By Abdillahi
Dool
Governing a nation is not easy even in the best of times
where there is peace and prosperity. Nonetheless, governing
a broken nation is hellish and anyone who would lead Somalia
under the circumstances deserves a lot of sympathy and
support. However, when the leadership is not up to the job
there is a cause for concern, it becomes a duty to
excoriate.
Once again the Somali people’s hope for peace and a
functioning government is slipping away. For 18 years,
Somalia’s biggest problem has been insecurity and
lawlessness. The primary task of any Somali government
should be to establish peace and security in the country.
However, the Transitional Unity Government (TUG) is failing
and flailing. To understand its failure before one looks at
external factors, one must look first at the TUG itself to
see what went wrong.
Read full text...
|
|
Role And Responsibilities Of Teacher, Student And Parent In
The New Millennium |
|
By Mukhtar
Mohamed Abby
Teacher should aim at a balanced growth of the individual
and should impart both knowledge and wisdom. Teaching
profession should not be reduced to a trade. Teachers should
play a positive role in bringing out the best in children in
the new millennium.
Read full text...
|
|
Crude Oil Sales Partnership |
|
By Engr
dhuudhi.
This letter is based on negotiating a partnership in a crude
oil sales project with the National Petroleum Agency, (ANP-STP).
This project will involve registering your name with the
foreign contractor’s unit of the National Petroleum Agency;
re-assign an already existing crude oil lifting/sales
license to your name and act as representatives of the
National Petroleum Agency in selling of crude oil to the end
buyers.
Read full text...
|
|
Somaliland: Elections “Tola-Ayey Style” |
|
By Mohamed Khawi
Somaliland
succeeded to hold together by the observance of tribal
balance. Huwan entity was a melting pot representing the
Somali nation as a whole and was a symbol of inspiration and
national empowerment. While other Somali territories'
caved-in to imperialistic bullying and misdirection,
Somaliland stayed stead fast on the Somali traditional
course.
The SNL- USP
coalition that spearheaded the independence reflects the
true tribal balance that can work for Somaliland statehood
and brotherhood. Egal-Riyale ticket represents the
continuation of this balance. That is why, despite all odds
Somaliland is still going strong.
The upcoming
presidential election is characterized by kilkenny cat
fighting stigma, namely:
Read full text...
|
| |
|
Woman's Lips Trapped Her In Kenya |
|
Her
nightmare began when airport officer thought mouth didn't
match passport photo |
|
Suaad Hagi Mohamud was done in by her lips. |
|
Nairobi, Kenya, July 25, 2009 -
A Kenyan official
detained the Toronto woman in Nairobi because her lips
didn't match the ones in her passport photograph, according
to documents released by her lawyer on July 22, 2009.
"I find it really
troubling that was the basis of stopping her," said Raoul
Boulakia, Mohamud's Toronto lawyer.
Documents submitted
in a Nairobi court curtly explain why she was detained:
"After a comparison was done, it emerged that although the
passenger and the passport holder had the same facial
features, that passenger's lips were different from that of
the passport holder."
Read full text...
|
|
HALL REFUGE FROM GHOSTLY PAST |
|
AT
WESTER Hall – for rent near Humshaugh – spare a glance for
the stone dovecote in the garden. It is a link to a distant
and illustrious past for this partly 19th century villa. |
|
Up for rent: Wester
Hall – home to London merchants and an African explorer who
was also a war hero. |
|
The dovecote-cum-summerhouse is all that
remains of a walled garden which encircled the original
Wester Hall. Its ambitious builder in 1732 was William Smith
Esq.
This Smith was probably a scion of the dynasty of Smiths who
bought nearby Haughton Castle and estate – including Wester
Hall land – from the Widdringtons a century before.
Robert Walter Smith had deep pockets. He paid £2,500 to
William Widdrington – not far off a cool £4 million based on
average earnings today.
Read full text...
|
|
|
New York, July 23, 2009—In a letter to Prime Minister Meles
Zenawi of Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists
today expressed serious concerns about increasing
restrictions on press freedom in Ethiopia in the wake of the
pending adoption an anti-terror legislation. A copy of the
content of the letter is available below.
Read full text...
|
|
Appeal for release of Radio Horyaal journalists |
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 25, 2009 — On 13 July, two
broadcasters from independent radio, “Radio Horyaal” were
detained by police on orders from the attorney general and
were taken to the Criminal Investigation Department for
questioning – they remain locked up without charges.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Thursday, July 23, 2009 At
11:07AM
In amongst all the rumors of savage slashed budgets in
Education, in the Arts, in areas of the Health Service, amd
most of all in Defense, it is indeed strange to point at one
particular thread of taxpayers money which is seemingly
inviolate from the political guillotine, wielded either by
ZaNuLabour or the soaking wet version of the Tory Party
which is all that is available to former believers! The
section of the British taxpayers money which is sacrosanct
of course is Overseas Development Aid, now administered by
the catchily-titled UKAid agency, staffed by superbly-paid
if not superbly trained civil servants who give our cash
away to deserving poor people.
Read full text...
|
|
Cyclist on World Tour Hits Somalia 'Roadblock' |
|
Cycled across 114 countries
since start of his tour in 1997 |
|
Cyclist tried to
cross the restive country as part of his worldwide tour
(File) |
|
MOGADISHU,
July 25, 2009 -
Police in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland have
deported a Chinese cyclist who tried to cross the restive
country as part of his worldwide cycling tour, officials
said Sunday.
The man, identified as
Lee Yue Zhong, said he had cycled across 114 countries since
beginning his worldwide tour in 1997.
"He told us that he
spent almost two weeks between Hargeysa (in Somaliland) and
Garowe, but we could not let him continue his trip for
security reasons and we deported him to Djibouti " Police
commissioner Abdirahman Haji Abshir
He was detained by police at a checkpoint as he entered the
Puntland capital of Garowe on his bike from the neighboring
breakaway region of Somaliland, said local police
commissioner Abdirahman Haji Abshir.
Read full text...
|
|
EU anti-piracy force to move some planes south |
 |
|
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25,
2009 — The European Union's anti-piracy force will
move some surveillance aircraft further south from the Gulf
of Aden to help counter the spread of Somali pirates into
Indian Ocean waters, the force's operation commander said.
The monsoon period ends in four to six weeks and pirate
attacks are expected to increase sharply.
Read full text...
|
|
Somalia deports Chinese cyclist |
|
Lee Yue Zhong
said he was disappointed not to reach Mogadishu |
|
A Chinese
cyclist has been forced to put the brakes on a 12-year world
tour, after officials in Somalia deported him for not having
the right documents.
Lee Yue Zhong, who says he has visited 114 countries since
setting off on his tour in 1997, arrived in the
semi-autonomous Puntland region last week.
Read
full text...
|
|
|
