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The Somaliland Independent Scholars Group
Hargeysa, Somaliland
I. Introduction
On 17th of July 2009, a group of 12 Somaliland scholars met
at Ambassador Hotel to discuss the implications of the new
developments on the election process, resulting from the
Declaration of NEC Chairman to hold election without the
available Voter Registration results. 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.
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 15, 2009: UNICEF
has on Thursday had to postpone the dispatch of hundreds of
tons of life-saving nutritional supplies meant for the
prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition in over
85,000 Somali children in certain areas in the central and
southern regions of Somalia due to increased hostility
towards aid organizations.
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Addis Ababa, August 15,
2009 — Representatives from Ethiopia are participating in
the first East African Independent Producers Forum opened on
Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss and make
recommendations on the setting up of an East African
Independent Producers Organization.
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Lahore, Pakistan, August 15, 2009 – The victims of Islamic
preaching mission, “Tableeghi Jama’at,” who were gunned down
by six gunmen in Tawfiq Mosque in Galkayo (Somalia),
belonged to southern Punjab.
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Suaad
Haji Mohamud, 31, was on her way back to Toronto
from Kenya on May 21 when she was stopped by a
Kenyan immigration official who told her she did not
look like the four-year-old photo in the passport
she was carrying. |
NAIROBI,
Kenya, August 15, 2009 — A Canadian woman detained in Kenya
over false identity charges will soon be homeward bound.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, August 15, 2009 — Four Christians
working for an NGO that helps orphans in Somalia have been
beheaded by al-Shabaab, according to the human rights
watchdog International Christian Concern.
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A room that was
gutted in the fire. (AN photo Marwan Al-Johani) |
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Muhammad Humaidan
JEDDAH, August 15, 2009 – Two Somali women and two children
under the age of three died and five other members of the
same family were injured when a fire broke out early Monday
at their home in Al-Rawabi district along the old Jeddah-Makkah
road, the Civil Defense announced.
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MINNEAPOLIS, August 15, 2009 — A third man pleaded guilty
Wednesday to terror-related charges stemming from a federal
investigation into Americans traveling to Somalia to fight
with Islamic militants.
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Bruce Cadwallader
Cleveland, Aug 15, 2009 – A 19-year-old man was sent to
prison on Tuesday for his role in the shooting death of a
Somali man in March at the Iftin Restaurant.
Two 17-year-old boys and a 17-year-old girl have been
charged as adults in the case.
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Athens Police Attack Somali
Protesters |
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Athens,
August 15, 2009 – Greek police have reportedly killed a
female Somali protester during their crackdown on the
country's Somali community.
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Libyans Kill 20 Somali
Prisoners |
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BANGHAZI, Libya, August 15, 2009 – Libyan prison guards have
killed 20 Somali prisoners in Banghazi, witnesses told a
Somali broadcaster.
Shabelle Radio reported that witnesses claimed Monday that
50 others were seriously wounded in the incident, in which
Libyan prison guards allegedly fired indiscriminately into
the jail after the Somalis tried to escape.
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Somalia: The Trouble with
Puntland |
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Nairobi/Brussels, August 15, 2009: If its government does not enact meaningful reforms and reach out to all
clans, Puntland may break up violently, adding to the chaos
in Somalia.
Somalia: The Trouble with Puntland,* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group,
warns about the rise in insecurity and political tension
that the semi-autonomous north-eastern region has been
experiencing for three years.
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Somali Insurgents Reject
Government’s Olive Branch |
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Islamist
rebels prepare to fire mortar round during a fresh
battle against government forces in Mogadishu, 03
June 2009 |
Mogadishu, Somalia, August 15, 2009 –
Somalia's hard-line Islamic insurgents have rejected peace
overtures after President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed called
on them to stop the violence and begin peace negotiations.
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Amnesty International Calls
For Accountability And Safeguards On Arms Transfers To
Somalia’s TFG |
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London, August 15, 2009 – Amnesty
International on Tuesday called for urgent safeguards to be
applied to any arms transfers to Somalia, in the wake of a
reported US government decision to double its arms transfers
to Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
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Eastern Africa
Standby Force To Be Ready Next Year |
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Kampala,
Uganda, August 15, 2009 – A standby force in the Eastern
Africa region will be ready for deployment in conflict prone
areas by next year, the Director of Eastern Africa Standby
Brigade Coordination Mechanism has said.
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Somali
Islamists Pull Teeth From "Sinners": Residents |
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Somali government troops
patrol outside the presidential palace in Mogadishu on
Sunday
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Mogadishu, August 15, 2009 – Somali
Islamist group al Shabaab is forcibly removing gold and
silver teeth from residents in southern Somalia because it
says they contravene strict religious law, locals from a
coastal town said on Monday.
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Communiqué
Conference With Former Senior Somali Military And Police
Officers |
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1-5 August 2009, Washington DC, USA
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the
United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) convened
a conference of former senior military and police officers
of the Somali National security forces in Washington DC from
1st to 5th August 2009.
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Clinton And
South African Discuss Somalia |
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By JEFFREY
GETTLEMAN
CAPE TOWN, August 15, 2009 — Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton said Saturday (August 8, 200) that the
United States was ready “to put meat on the bone” in its
relations with South
Africa after discussing regional issues, like the
instability in Sudan and the war in Somalia, with Jacob
Zuma, South Africa’s new president.
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Tribute To Ali
Marshal |
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I was in Addis-Ababa Airport heading to Hargeysa,
Somaliland, when I was told that Ali Gualid has passed away
due to car accident between Berbera and Hargeysa road. Even
though, the death is waiting for all of us and no one can
not escape from it, there is a Somali proverb that says,
“The death is ok with Camel Boy and someone you don’t know”.
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Gen. Galaal Exposes War Criminals Organized By The UN And US |
General Muhammad Nur
Galaal
Washington, August 15,
2009 (SL Times) –
General Muhammad Nur
Galaal, a high ranking
member of the now
defunct Somali military,
revealed to the press
what went on in a
meeting in Washington
that brought together
several top officials of
Somalia’s former
military dictatorship.
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Weapons Supplied To Somalia Government By The US Are Sold In
Mogadishu Markets |
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Arms provided after insurgents began offensive in May
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Mogadishu, Somalia,
August 15, 2009 (SL Times) – Mogadishu’s weapons prices suddenly
saw a marked rise due to an influx of weapons. Some of these
weapons were types that were not available before.
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The Shortest Man In Somaliland Leaves For Norway |
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Mr. Shuayb
Hassan, the shortest man in Somaliland |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 15, 2009 (SL Times) – The
shortest man in Somaliland, Mr. Shuayb Hassan left
Somaliland on his way to Norway.
Haatuf Newspaper interviewed Mr. Shuayb Hassan before he
left Hargeysa. During the interview, Mr. Shuayb Hassan
revealed that the biggest problem for him comes from
children and people who don’t know him.
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Somaliland Parliament Says Suspension Of Voter Registration
Illegal |
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MPs of the
Somaliland Lower House |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 15, 2009 (SL Times) – On Aug.
11, Somaliland parliament passed a four-point motion which
stated:
1) The National Election Commission’s decision which
suspended the voter registration list and ordered that
elections should be held without voter registration is
illegal.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 15, 2009 (SL Times) – Tostan, an
NGO that works on ending women’s genital mutilation in
Somaliland held a conference for the communities of Haraf, Geed-deeble,
Baligubadle, Salaxley, Cadaadley, Dararweyne and Alaybaday.
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Child
being fed a ready-to-eat therapeutic food at a
displacement camp |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 15, 2009 – The United Nations World
Health Organization (WHO)
and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
have launched a second round of Child Health Days in Somaliland
and Somalia in a bid to improve child survival rates in the two
countries.
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An
Interview With Ambassador Marika Fahlen, Sweden’s Special Envoy
For The Horn Of Africa |
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“We Think
That The President Riyale Has Taken An Unwise Decision And We
Hope He Will Reverse His Decision” |
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H. E.
Ambassador Marika Fahlen, Sweden’s Special Envoy for the
Horn of Africa with Ahmed E. Gure of Hiiraan Online |
Question:
On the upcoming election in Somaliland, there is a problem
relating to voter registration which may once again delay the
election. Somaliland is a peaceful place and now that stability
is being threatened by this election. Do you think this election
will proceed as planned?
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Somalia Tells All Visitors To Seek Government Approval |
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 15, 2009 – Somalia's new security
minister warned foreigners Friday not to visit the Horn of
Africa nation without government approval after masked gunmen
massacred seven Pakistani preachers at a mosque.
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Somaliland Government Controlled Media Used To Incite Extremism |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, August 15, 2009 – The opposition in Somaliland has
long been complaining from what has become modus operandi for
the ruling party, the unrestricted use of the government
controlled media to vilify anyone who voices criticism at
government policies.
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Woman Who Tried To Kill Ford
Released From Prison |
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Secret Service agents put handcuffs on
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme after she pointed a gun at
President Ford as he walked from his hotel to the State
Capitol building in Sacramento on Sept. 5, 1975. The
agent holding Fromme at center, wearing dark glasses, is
Larry Bruendorf. |
HOUSTON, August 15, 2009 – Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who tried
to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 and was a follower
of mass murderer Charles Manson, was released from a Texas
prison on Friday after serving her sentence, the Federal Bureau
of Prisons said.
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A Short Guide To Tools For Citizen
Journalists |
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IPhones and Flip cameras are two great ways to start. |
Before you sign up as an amateur reporter,
here are some essentials.
By
Tom
Regan | Columnist for The Christian Science Monitor
Recently, I’ve been working as a consultant on a new media
project that focuses on citizen journalists. While
“professional” journalists may raise an eyebrow at the idea, the
reality of the new 24/7 news world – combined with a decline of
local coverage in many cities and regions because of cutbacks –
is that citizen journalists are no longer just a passing fad.
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Mass camel cull causes
controversy, with export and birth control offered as less cruel
alternatives
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FILE - In this July 18, 1998 file photo, a trainer walks his
camels after racing at the 'Desert 2000' camel race at Boulia in
central Queensland, Australia. Mere months after the Australian
government ordered the shooting of thousands of kangaroos to
help control their population, officials are now considering
sending marksmen into the Outback in helicopters to take aim at
another fast-growing group of pests: camels
Sydney, August 15,
2009 – Thousands of camels in
Australia's remote outback could be killed by marksmen in helicopters under
a government proposal aimed at cutting down the population of the havoc-wreaking
creatures.
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New York, August 15, 2009 – Proposed media laws in Venezuela could be used as a
tool for political intimidation and would seriously curtail press freedom and
potentially criminalize legitimate dissent, an independent United Nations human
rights expert warned on Monday.
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Afghan Hazara men sit in front of a wall of campaign posters in
Bamiyan, located in central Afghanistan on August 13, 2009 |
KABUL, August 15,
2009 – Afghan President Hamid Karzai leads the country's presidential race, but
not by enough to win an outright majority in the August 20. election and avoid a
second round, a new poll released Friday shows.
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Bristol's World Cup Bid Brings Communities
Together . . . On The Football Field |
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Bristol, UK, August
15, 2009 – With the possibility of 2018 World Cup football on the horizon,
Bristol's police showed this weekend how the sport can help bring the city's
diverse communities closer together.
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“The first step is to acknowledge
Somaliland's independence” |
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses
U.S. Embassy employees in Nairobi, Kenya Aug. 6, 2009
(U.S. Department of State photo). |
Seth Andre
Myers
The convergence last week of Secretary Clinton's trip to East
Africa and the arrest in Australia of four men with links to the
Somali al-Shabaab movement on terrorism charges serves to
highlight al-Shabaab's emergence as an extremist threat.
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Waris which
actually means Desert Flower, By the way I have Somali
colleagues who I work with, to my surprise they couldn’t
translate the meaning of her name but thanks to the internet
world I finally found out that Waris means a flower that can
bloom even in the roughest climate.
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Hodan Yusuf-Pankhurst is a freelance journalist
based in the UK. Originally from Somaliland, she has
lived and worked in the Middle East, Africa and
South Asia.
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Xorriyo Airways, which ran flights from Dubai to Berbera
in Somaliland, has collapsed. I found this out the hard way.
I soon became one of more than 600 people stranded in
Somaliland.
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Without Free Movement, East
Africa Will Keep Marking Time |
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Jerry Okungu
IN recent weeks, Nairobi has hosted two crucial meetings
that touched on pertinent issues that deal with wealth
creation. The East African Investment Forum was as important
at the AGOA gathering that followed it in quick succession.
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Out of Africa,
into Wales
City-dwelling Somalis in the UK are being given the chance
to experience traditional rural life in a hill farm in mid
Wales. Sanjida O'Connell reports on how an unlikely
partnership is keeping their cultural heritage alive |
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Sanjida
O'Connell
As soon as the goat is brought in, Zahra Mohamed bends down
and expertly milks it, before turning back to toss another
lahooh, a type of pancake made with yeast, on a hot skillet.
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Clinton's Africa Trip
Highlights Importance US Attaches To The Continent |
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Mrs Clinton urged Kenya to follow through on
critical reforms |
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's long African tour
shows that Africa is a foreign policy priority and confirms
a commitment by the US to tackle crucial issues on the
continent, but can it meet expectations?
Author: Faith Thomas
Hillary Clinton kicked off the 11-day trip in Kenya and US
officials were keen to emphasize that her trip to Africa was
the earliest by a secretary of state to the continent of any
administration.
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What Was Siyad Barre's
Relation To A Fundamentalist Christian Group? |
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What was Siyad Barre’s relation 2 a fundamentalist Christian
group? This is a serious new revelation. it is all exposed
in a new book by Jeff Sharlet "A secretive group known as
The Fellowship”, or “The Family,” is one of the most
powerful Christian fundamentalist movements in the United
States.
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Western
Countries Encourage Piracy By Paying Ransom |
This week has been something of a bonanza for Somali pirates. On
Aug.8, pirates freed the German ship Hansa Stavanger and its 24
crew after holding them hostage for four months. The pirates
were paid $2.7 million ransom. The German government neither
confirmed nor denied that ransom was paid. But while talking to
the press, the captain of the German navy's Brandenburg frigate,
Torsten Ites who miraculously arrived just 12 minutes after the
pirates had gotten their money and left, was most bothered by
the fact that the pirates had taken with them the tooth brushes
of the crew.
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A Crucial Week For Somaliland:
A Time For Action |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sheikh Hassan
Today Somaliland is passing through a critical period since
its existence as a separate state.
First, there is a president and his regime whose priority is
to remain in power, whatever it costs, the president's term
in office was extended several times and now the president
is entertaining the illusion of getting another extension.
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Building Bridges For
Somaliland University Student Outside And Inside The Country |
By:
Farhan Abdi Suleiman (oday)
It is widely acknowledged that one of the fundamental
pillars of sustainable human development is investment in
education of a good quality. On 10th August 2009, SONYO
umbrella organized a meeting between University students
inside and outside the country.
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Why I Fear For Somalia
The wave of radicalization
targeting young Somali children everywhere is threatening
hopes for the country's future stability |
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Nuradin Dirie
Over 20 years, I have watched
Somalia disintegrate politically, crumble economically
and fragment socially. But my hope for Somalia's future was
always entrusted in its younger generation.
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Africa’s Best-Kept Secret
“Somaliland” Is In Need For A Change! |
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By;
Khadar Hanan
Peace is the only priceless jewel invested and deposited in
the hearts and minds of Somaliland people; it is the biggest
jackpot that the nation ever won all at once; it is the
national treasury that the entire people young/old guards
with love and passion every moment in their life.
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Lost Faith In The System |
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Written
by: Ibrahim Saed Hussein
Since declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991,
Somaliland has set up its own Government institutions,
written its own laws and constitution, and held credible
elections. No government in the world has yet recognized
Somaliland’s independence and for 18 years the territory has
been left in legal limbo—a country that does not exist.
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Somalilanders
Around The Globe: Vote For Change |
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By Amina Ahmed Hassan
It seems that we (Somalilanders) are naïve, trusting,
blindly peace loving people and tend to see the world in
terms of black and white, but at some point we have to
realize that too narrow of view point can be self-defeating.
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Where There Is No Donor |
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By Ugbaad Ahmed
From militia disarmament, through reconciliations, building
a national army, government institutions, to holding free
and fair election for presidency, parliamentarian and local
councils, Somaliland did all these in the absence of
external donors. One thing that is attributable to this
success was, unlike many African countries, the protection
of its traditional democratic values and process from the
domination of western liberal democracy.
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Al-Shabaab: “The” Number
One Enemy Of Islam And Somali People |
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By Dalmar Kahin
For almost two decades politically polarized warmongers,
acting like spoiled children who refused to share a sandbox,
held Somalia hostage. But never before have Somalis seen a
terrifying group like Al-Shabaab cult.
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President Riyale And The
Election Commission Are The Reason Of The Election’s Bone Of
Contention |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
The masses of Somaliland, the International community and
the donors are once again on the tenterhooks whether the
Presidential Election for which is scheduled for September
27 would materialize as planned, on the account of the
uncertainty surrounding the take place of the polls.
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Legal Brief On
The Suspension Of The Voter Registration List |
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By Mohamed Farah Hersi
1. Introduction
The right of all adult citizens to participate in the
affairs of their government is one of the keystones of
democracy.[1] Perhaps the most primary form of participation
is voting in free and fair elections.
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Mandela – Poem |
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Mohamed Hashi Dhamac
‘Gaarriye’ |
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By Mohamed Hashi Dhamac ‘Gaarriye’
The poem is under my hand.
The images crowd my head.
Poetry is the way To get this story told.
Poetry has the strength To tell the story well, As long as
the images hold, As long as the poem writes.
The Oppressor comes into court.
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Somali pirates held
the German freighter Hansa Stavanger captive for
over four months. Here the crew is seen near the
pirate stronghold of Harardhere in Somalia. |
Mombasa, Kenya, August 15,
2009 – Somali pirates released the German freighter Hansa
Stavanger last week after a four-month hostage crisis marked
by gunfire, drugs and an unpredictable pirate commander. Now
crew members have described their ordeal in the hands of the
khat-addled pirates.
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Where Camels Once Trod, A
Train Crosses Australia |
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The Ghan
train winds its way through the Australian outback. |
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IVER PETERSON
Sydney, August 15, 2009 – THE Ghan, part cruise train, part
the working train that it started as, 90 years ago, is
Australia’s transcontinental north-south line — a private
railroad now running for 1,900 miles with just four stops
through the vast interior of the country (and 1,900 miles
back) twice each week.
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The
wartorn nation is acting as a dangerous new magnet for
terror |
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Jon
Swain and Michael Gillard
Loading ammunition into the magazine of his AK-47 assault
rifle, the young suicide bomber looked straight into the
camera. “Jihad is real,” he said. “There’s no way you can
understand the sweetness of jihad until you come to jihad.”
His accomplice joined in, his face hidden by a scarf. “How
dare you sit at home and look on the TV and see Muslims
getting killed ... Those who are in Europe and America, get
out of those countries,” he ordered.
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Racism And Media Hysteria — ‘Terror’ Laws Won’t Make Us
Safer |
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Tony
Iltis
On August 4, theatrical pre-dawn raids in Melbourne by more
than 400 Victorian, NSW and federal police and ASIO agents —
including paramilitary units armed with sub-machineguns —
launched Australia’s latest terrorism scare.
“The threat of terrorism is alive and well and this requires
continued vigilance”, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced
later that day.
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Time To Stop
Meddling In Somalia |
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By Natalie
Parke
Recently, U.S. policy in Somalia hit a new low, with the
shipment of 40 tons of arms to a government on the verge of
overthrow, if not nervous collapse. Worse still, last
Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the
president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG),
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and promised to expand U.S. support.
This perpetuates a long history of unsuccessful meddling in
the affairs of Somalia, from Black Hawk Down to air strikes
against al-Qaida suspects to support for the Ethiopian
invasion of Somalia in 2006. Somalia would be better off
without our spasmodic interference.
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Update:
Independent Diplomat Responds |
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Michael Wilkerson
Carne Ross, director of Independent Diplomat, has responded
to my post
on August 5, 2009 about his organization's work for
places like Northern Cyprus and Southern Sudan. The response
is printed here in full:
This article is a discredit to FP. The writer could at a
minimum have checked with Independent Diplomat before
writing the blog. We are available for inquiries, even from
web bloggers. Relaying false facts is in some countries
illegal; it is in all countries irresponsible.
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US Misguided
In Moving To Arm Somalia, Say Analysts |
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By KEVIN
KELLY in New York and GITAU WARIGI in Nairobi
Nairobi/New York, August 15, 2009 – Some analysts are
warning that the Obama administration is taking the wrong
approach in moving to increase US military support for the
nascent Somalia’s government.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Nairobi on August
6, 2009 following a meeting with TFG leader Sheik Sharif
Sheik Ahmed that she and President Obama “want to expand and
extend our support”. Other officials indicate that the US
plans to double the 40 tones of weaponry it has been
supplying to TFG forces via other African states, mainly
Uganda.
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President
Isaias's Encounter With The Financial Times |
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, August 15, 2009 – The Ethiopian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), in its “A Week in the
Horn” report of August 7, 2009, raised issues concerning
Somalia: the US, the EU and Eritrea, President Isaias's
encounter with the Financial Times, Al-Jazeera again
deliberately ignores Ethiopia's Somali Regional State
development, VVIP Satellite Connectivity Launched, “Au
Revoir” for Ambassador Gurjit Singh, Getting the Nile Story
Right and Desalegn Alemu: an obituary and a tribute.
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Somalia: The
Trouble With Puntland – Report
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ICG Africa Policy Briefing N°64
OVERVIEW
The semi-autonomous north-eastern Somali region of Puntland,
once touted as a success of the “building blocks” approach
to reestablishing national stability and widely viewed as
one of the most prosperous parts of Somalia, is experiencing
a three-year rise in insecurity and political tension. At
its roots are poor governance and a collapse of the
intra-clan cohesion and pan-Darood solidarity that led to
its creation in 1998.
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