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The
complicated nature of local politics is blocking
relief efforts in Burao |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009
(SL Times) – Thousands of people displaced by fighting in
Somalia are ending up in the relatively peaceful neighboring
country, Somaliland.
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Abaarso Tech launches class for the 2009 - 2010
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Hargeysa, Somaliland,
November 14, 2009 – This week marked the beginning of the
Abaarso Tech 2009 – 2010 school year. AT is pleased to
announce that all 51 students who received an invitation,
committed to Abaarso Tech's four year secondary program and
many more students expressed their desire to join the
school.
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Erigavo, Somaliland,
November 14, 2009 – Two men believed to be linked to a
recent attempt to hijack a Daallo airliner in the
neighboring Somali port town of Bosaso were arrested by
Somaliland state police in the town of Erigavo.
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Somalia: Peacekeeping
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British House of Commons: Defense
Written answers and statements, 10 November 2009
David Davis (Haltemprice
& Howden, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary
of State for
Defense how many members of the armed forces have been
deployed in mainland Somalia in (a) 2008
and (b) 2009.
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China is
well on the way to investing a trillion dollars in
Africa in less than a decade [AFP]
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Cairo, Egypt,
November 14, 2009 — The Chinese government has pledged to
give African countries billions of dollars in cheap loans at
a two-day Africa-China summit in Egypt.
Addressing hundreds of Chinese and African businessmen at
the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, Wen Jiabao,
China's premier, said he would also cancel debts of African
countries.
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JEDDAH,
November 14, 2009 – The price of sheep meat should fall by
about a fifth after an import ban on Somalia was lifted,
according to the head of the livestock committee at the
Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI). Fahd Al-Sulami
said his committee’s decision would help stabilize the meat
market.
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By Alisha Ryu
Nairobi, November 14, 2009 – An eyewitness account of an
attempted plane hijacking last week in Somalia's northern
semi-autonomous Puntland region suggests would-be hijackers
were members of a pirate gang, whose operations have been
affected by the increased international naval patrols in the
Gulf of Aden.
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Nairobi, November 14, 2009 – Security
forces in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of
Puntland say three people have been arrested in connection
with the fatal shooting of a judge late Wednesday in the
commercial port town of Bosasso. The assassination may be
linked to a Puntland cell of al-Shabaab, a militant group
linked with al-Qaida.
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Nairobi, Kenya, November 14, 2009: Somali
children and women received a high-impact life-saving health
package during the Child health Days Campaign in the Afgoye
Corridor, a 30 kilometer stretch of road west of Mogadishu
and the world’s most densely populated settlement for the
displaced.
At least 46,000 children under-five and 37,000 women of
child-bearing age benefited during the five-day campaign.
Afgoye currently hosts over 524,000 displaced people driven
out of their homes due to the conflict in Mogadishu and the
south, who are enduring harsh living conditions and lacking
even the most basic social services.
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Alleged Somali Terrorist
Financier Is Identified |
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Sources in the Twin
Cities and the Netherlands confirmed the identity of the man
jailed overseas as a former Minneapolis resident, Mohamud
Said Omar, 43.
Amsterdam, November 14, 2009 – A Somali man from Minneapolis
being held in a Dutch jail on suspicion of bankrolling
terrorist activities has been identified by sources in the
Twin Cities Somali community as Mohamud Said Omar, 43.
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France Captures 12
Suspected Somali Pirates |
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Suspected
Somali pirates raise their hands in their skiff
during their arrest by Marines from NATO's
Portuguese frigate Corte-Real in the Gulf of Aden
June 22, 2009. |
PARIS, November 14, 2009 – The French
navy captured 12 suspected pirates off the coasts of Somalia
and the Seychelles on Thursday, an army spokesman said on
Friday, as part of Europe's anti-piracy mission in the area.
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EU Plans To Provide
Training For Somali Units |
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Brussels, November 14, 2009 — The European Union is to
endorse next week a plan to train up to 2,000 security
personnel from Somalia, as the EU broadens engagement in the
crisis hit Horn of Africa country, officials said on Friday.
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US Man Sues FBI Agents Over
Detention In Somalia, Ethiopia |
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Washington, November 14, 2009 — A US
citizen who alleges he was illegally detained and
interrogated in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia has filed a
lawsuit seeking compensation from the FBI agents he says
were responsible for his ordeal.
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The GPS Pirates |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, November 14, 2009 —
SOMALI pirates this week launched their longest- range
hijack attempt yet, firing on a big Hong Kong-flagged oil
tanker 1,852km east of Mogadishu.
The bid failed, but it made clear the seaborne gangs'
ambition to outwit naval forces arrayed against them and to
defeat a more determined defense by their civilian prey.
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Djibouti
Repatriates 40 Somali Asylum Seekers: UN |
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Nairobi, November 14, 2009 – Djibouti has forcibly sent 40
asylum seekers from Somalia back to the Somali capital
Mogadishu, the United Nations refugee agency said on
Wednesday.
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NATO And
Maritime Partners Visit Beijing And Strengthen Global Fight
Against Piracy |
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London, November 14, 2009 – Naval
officers from NATO’s Maritime Command in Northwood, North
West London returned from Beijing this week having attended
an international maritime co-operation counter-piracy
meeting hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Defense. The
meeting, which was also attended by officers from EU Naval
Forces (EUNAVFOR) and the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF)
based in Bahrain, together with military representatives
from Russia, Japan, India and Pakistan was seen as real
progress in the forging of closer co-operation between
navies around the world to protect merchant ships f
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UN Somalia
Office To Relocate To Mogadishu |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, November 14, 2009 — Deputy UN special
envoy to Somalia Charles Petrie yesterday during a
previously unannounced brief visit to the Somali capital
Mogadishu said the UN Somalia office currently based in
Nairobi, Kenya, will be relocated to the Somali capital.
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Suicide Attack Against Meeting
Organized By Finns Thwarted In Somaliland |
Antti Pentikäinen,
executive director of
Finn Church Aid
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
November 14, 2009 –
Security officials in
Somaliland narrowly
thwarted a terror attack
that had been planned
against a peace
conference in the town
of Hargeysa last Sunday.
The gathering of clan
leaders had been
organized by Finn Church
Aid, the foreign aid arm
of the Finnish Lutheran
Church.
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Two Alleged
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) – Two alleged
terrorists who eluded Somaliland’s security forces last week
surrendered to Somaliland’s security this week.
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Pakistani
Delegation Arrives In Somaliland |
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Somaliland
State Minister of Foreign Affairs (right) welcomes a
delegation from Pakistan at Hargeysa International
Airport |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s Foreign Minister, Mr Abdillahi Muhammad Duale,
received in his office a delegation from Pakistan. The
Pakistani delegation was led by Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed, the
General Secretary of Pakistan who is also at the same time
the General Secretary of the ruling party in Pakistan (the
PPP or Pakistan People’s Party). In addition to Sheikh
Mansoor Ahmed, the Pakistani delegation had two other
members.
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Talks Between Puntland And Sheikh
Sharif Fail |
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Nairobi, Kenya, November 14, 2009 (SL
Times) – Talks between Puntland’s President Abdirahman
Faroole and Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif which were
held in Nairobi, Kenya, this week have failed. The failure
of the talks was announced by Puntland’s President
Abdirahman Faroole who blamed Sheikh Sharirf’s government
for the failure of the talks.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) – A court
case against Somaliland’s political parties was kicked back and
forth between the attorney general and the Supreme Court. The
case was filed against the political parties by a Somaliland
citizen, Mr Mohamud Jama Ahmed, and it charges the parties of
having committed crimes for which they should be liable.
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MV-Ander,
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Berbera,
Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) – The port of Berbera
received a 230 meter ship, the longest ship to dock in Berbera.
The ship is called MV-Ander and it carried 18 tons of sugar for
Omaar Company.
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Somaliland To Boost Tourism |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland Minister
of Tourism Abdirizaq Waberi Roble said that Somaliland
government plans to encourage tourism in Somaliland, and towards
this end, it has held discussions with Somaliland businessmen so
that they would invest in tourist spots in the country.
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Somaliland Stability 'At Risk' |
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Despite the
unrest in September, Somaliland has a relatively stable
democracy |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009 (SL Times) – Tensions
over the Somaliland presidential election has given rise to
fears that the republic of Somaliland could become a failed
state like its neighbor Somalia.
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Saudi Livestock Move Boosts
Somaliland Economy |
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The
Hargeysa livestock market is now booming with activity |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2009 – Days after Saudi
Arabia lifted a nine-year ban on livestock imports from Somalia,
the market in Hargeysa, Somaliland, has seen a 10-fold increase
in sales, according to local traders.
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NASA Discovers 'Significant'
Amount Of Water On Moon |
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In this Oct. 9, 2009 image provided by NASA, the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Diviner instrument captured
infrared observations of the LCROSS impact. LRO flew by
the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
Centaur impact site 90 seconds after impact at a
distance of ~80 km. New images show a mile-high (1.6
kilometer-high) plume of lunar debris from the Cabeus
crater shortly after the space agency's Centaur rocket
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Los Angeles, November 14, 2009 – Water on the
moon, once a wild conjecture, appears to have become an
established fact. Jubilant NASA scientists announced Friday that
they had found the tell-tale signs of significant quantities of
water, in the form of ice and vapor, lurking in a shadowed
crater at the moon's south poll.
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9/11 Family Members Welcome,
Criticize Civilian Trials |
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Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed reportedly confessed to being the mastermind
of the 9/11 attacks after being waterboarded. |
New York, November 14, 2009 -- Some family
members of 9/11 victims welcomed the announcement that five
Guantanamo Bay detainees with alleged ties to the attacks will
be tried in a New York civilian court, while others blasted the
decision.
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London, UK, November 14, 2009 – A Microsoft executive was
quoted in an interview as saying "what we've tried to do with Windows 7...is
create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics".
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Saudi Arabia has a new king |
Riyadh, November 14, 2009 – Saudi
Arabia has a new king. He has no political power, is not a member of the House
of Saud, his authority as king is tentative at best and he's not even Saudi.
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Iran is
accused of criticizing Saudi Arabian military action against the Al-Houthi
rebels in an attempt to increase its influence in the region.
San’a, Yemen,
November 14, 2009 – Monday’s comments by Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki criticizing Saudi Arabia’s offensive on Al-Houthi rebels is raising
suspicions among neighboring Arab nations.
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By Alemayehu Behabtu
On 18 May 2009, the self-declared ‘Republic of Somaliland’
marked eighteen years since it proclaimed independence seceding
from the rest of Somalia. Even after nearly two decades of
self-rule, however, the international community remains hesitant
to recognize the breakaway territory as a functioning sovereign
state.
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Studies International Association, |
DOI: 10.1080/10220460903269024
Publication Frequency: 3
issues per year
Published in: South
African Journal of International Affairs,
Volume 16,
Issue 2 August
2009 , pages 271 - 274
Somaliland: An African Struggle for
Nationhood and International Recognition, by Iqbal D Jhazbhay,
Institute for Global Dialogue & South African Institute of
International Affairs, Johannesburg, 2009, 243 pp., $25.00 ISBN
978-1-920216-20-7
This book review takes the form of an extended commentary
highlighting some of the important issues, by the way of
discussing the author's theory, narrative and analysis.
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By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD
Sociologist Peter Berger has instructed that “The first
wisdom of Sociology is that things are not what they seem.”
So it is with the Western media rendition of their piracy
stories from Somalia.
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Somaliland Political Parties Should Be Held Accountable |
Most Somalilanders greeted the end of the recent election
related political crisis with a sigh of relief. This is
understandable since the country seemed to be on the verge of a
political meltdown. But now that the immediate issues behind the
confrontations are resolved, it is time to look back and ponder
what led to that dangerous situation. What makes this even more
urgent is that a new election commission has been established
and has started its work. Of course, the crisis had several
causes but the one issue that took center stage was that of the
voters’ list. The strange thing about this matter is that
although there is general agreement among the three political
parties and the former election commission that indeed some
fraud did take place during the voter registration, none of the
political parties or the former election commission is willing
to explain what exactly was their role in the fraud? Did they
participate in it? And if they did not take part in the fraud,
why didn’t they prevent it?
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Youth In Somaliland: Where Do They Stand? |
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By: Farhan Abdi Suleiman (Oday)
Youth is defined as a transitional phase from childhood to
adulthood innovative by events such as completing schooling
and further education, entering the world of work. Youth is
also defined in terms of the duties a person takes on within
a society; youth is seen as ending when the individual takes
on adult jobs and responsibilities.
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Somalia Needs Honest Government |
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By Abdillahi Dool
The Somali people are once again learning the crucial
lessons of nationhood the hardest way. One such cardinal
lesson is never to leave matters of one’s society to others
alone but to engage. The only way people can protect what
belongs to them, enhance collective wellbeing and further
their common interests is to engage in the affairs of their
nation.
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Sharif’s Cabinet: Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing |
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Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
In last two decades, Somaliland politicians and people did
not participate in the bloody politics in southern Somalia,
where thousands of innocent were killed due to political
disputes. Somaliland is home to thousands of refuges from
the southern regions of Somalia due to unrest. Somaliland
authority calls Somalis to settle their differences in a
peaceful manner and learn from Somaliland.
However, Somaliland is suffering from malicious diplomacy
and the vitriolic tongues of members of the current Somali
cabinet like Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Oomar
and his successor Ali Ahmed Jangali. Both are natives of
Somaliland but believe in the failed theory of united
Somalia. They mislead the world that Somaliland is part of
Somalia, and even President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh
Hassan does the same.
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Open Letter To: The World Funding Organizations |
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Subject: The real pirates in
Puntland and the accusation of anyone who opposes the piracy
and terrorism.
The PUNTLAND piracy, the instability, the support for
terrorism, is the result of world turning blind eye to a
system which is based on one sub clan ruling party of
Puntland forever; and the piracy is based the region where
this sub-clan tribe originated: Nugaal & Mudug and the (past
and present) presidents of Puntland all originated from this
sub clan of Majeerteen (Maxamuud Saleeban): Abdillahi Yusuf,
Ade Muse and now Faroole; which support the lucrative
business of Piracy, knowing the profiteers are them and
their sub clan members, they always stopped or persuaded any
Somali institution or individuals who want to stop this
piracy crime happening within Puntland and its coast line,
and any one they could not stop or persuade they will accuse
them (without any evidence or juridical procedures) of being
a terrorist or ONLF sympathizers and handover to Ethiopia.
They always stopped holding a real vote for the power of
Puntland (one man - one vote).
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Return Of The
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By J. Peter
Pham, Ph.D.
After maintaining a relatively low profile since the end of
the monsoon season two months ago, Somali pirates literally
shot their way back into the headlines this week with a
brazen daylight attack on a crude oil tanker that was their
longest range strike ever. This followed on the heels of the
attempt by another group of pirates to hijack a commercial
passenger airline flight last week as well as troubling
indications that the various pirate gangs are begin to act
with greater cohesion. All these developments possibly
presage an escalation of the threat off the Horn of Africa.
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Somali Refugees In Nepal: Stuck In Waiting Room |
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By Deepak Adhikari
Kathmandu, Nepal, November 14, 2009 – Mahad Abdillahi Hassan
had never heard of Nepal before the day he landed in it.
When the 28-year-old Somali boarded a flight from Dubai to
Kathmandu on May 23, 2007, he was hoping he would finally
reach his dream destination: Sweden. He had, after all,
shelled out $4,000 to a human trafficker who promised to
smuggle him to the Scandinavian country.
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By Andre Le Sage
During her recent tour of Africa, U.S. secretary of state
Hillary Clinton held a press conference with Sheikh Sharif
Sheikh Ahmed, president of Somalia's transitional federal
government (TFG).
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Dahabshiil,
a remittance company, distributed food outside
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By Matthew Saltmarsh
Paris, France, November 14, 2009 — As Somalis struggle to
survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a
network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s
large diaspora has quietly expanded, providing a crucial
safety net.
As in other poor countries, the main
purpose of these companies is to ensure that money from
those working abroad reaches family members left behind.
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