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Political expediency and increasing
demand for prized livestock seen as cause for ending
embargo.
Berbera, Somaliland, November 21, 2009 – East African
traders have started shipping live cattle from Somaliland
and Somalia to Saudi Arabia for the first time in a decade
after Saudi King Abdullah lifted a ban on Somali livestock.
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Nicolas Cage clearly
felt he
owed one to the pirate community. Either that,
or he was hoping they'd help him out with a
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Nairobi, November 21, 2009 – Nicolas Cage met with Somalia
prisoners in order to learn about their circumstances and
meet with UN councils.
Nicolas Cage traveled to Kenya to meet with the imprisoned
Somali pirates, reported E!
Online.
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Washington, November 21,
2009 – Wednesday, the same day that Maersk Alabama repelled
a pirate attack, the UN Security Council was again debating
piracy and Somalia. And U.S. Ambassador Rosemary A. DiCarlo
stresed U.S. opposition to paying ransom to pirates.
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Aden Muhumed Hassan, "I Am
Better At Collecting Charcoal Than My Friends Who Have
Hands" |
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Aden
Muhumed Hassan lost his hands in a mine explosion in
1988 |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 21, 2009 –
Aden Muhumed Hassan, 46, a divorced father of one, lost his
hands 11 years ago after he accidentally picked up
unexploded ordnance [UXO] planted during fighting between
the Somali National Movement (SNM) and former President
Siyad Barre's army in Somaliland's liberation struggle
between 1981 and 1991, and during the Ogaden war between
Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s.
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An Ethiopian court has convicted 27 people accused of
conspiring to create public havoc in an attempt to bring
down Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government.
Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa, November 21, 2009 – An Ethiopian court has convicted 27
people accused of conspiring to create public havoc in an
attempt to bring down Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's
government. Some of the defendants could face the death
penalty.
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Statement by Mark Lyall Grant, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland to the United Nations
I would like to thank the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General, Ould Abdullah, for his realistic briefing
and the report by the Secretary-General. The United Kingdom
expresses its appreciation of the contribution of the UN and
its Agencies to this effort, including the SRSG and his
team.
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New York, November 21, 2009—Two Somali correspondents for
international media
outlets were injured in separate shootings, one in the
northeast semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and the other
in the capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists
and news reports.
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Gulf Of Aden, November 21, 2009 – At
08:44 on Thursday (Nov 19, 2009) whilst on patrol in the
Gulf of Aden, the Flagship of NATO’s Standing Maritime Group
One (SNMG1) received a distress call from a cargo vessel,
which reported that it was being pursued by pirates and in
need of immediate assistance.
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Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2009 – The
Somalia Unit of the United States embassy in Nairobi
presented uniforms and sports balls to several youth
football and volleyball teams in the Dadaab refugee camps on
November 16, 2009.
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Somalia To Join Child
Rights Pact: UN |
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Geneva, November 21, 2009 –
Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty
aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as
the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said on Friday.
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Move At UN To Sanction
Eritrea Over Somalia Links |
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United Nations, November 21, 2009 – A
draft U.N. Security Council resolution calls for an arms
embargo against Eritrea and travel bans and asset freezes
for members of its government and military for aiding
Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
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Another Minn. Man Indicted
In Missing Somalis Case |
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Minneapolis, November 21, 2009 – A 24-year-old St. Anthony
man faces terrorism-related charges in the federal
investigation into the departures of young Somali men who
left Minnesota to fight with a terror group in Somalia,
according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
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Piracy Money Distorting
Property Prices In Kenya |
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Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2009 –
Colossal amounts of money received by Somali pirates in the
Indian Ocean are being used to buy houses and land in
Nairobi, thus distorting the property market.
With the dwindling receipts from Kenyans working abroad in
the wake of the global financial crisis, piracy money has
replaced diaspora remittances, according to Stanbic
Investment Management Services.
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Minnesota: Racial Tensions
Calm After Owatonna Student Fight |
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Owatonna, Minn. November 21, 2009 – Calm
has returned to the halls of Owatonna High School, where
earlier this week a fight over racial tensions sent one
student to the hospital.
Tension between white and Somali students had been brewing
for the past two weeks, stemming from a student's
inflammatory paper alleging Somali privilege that was posted
on a school blog.
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Spain Doubles
Aid For UN Food Operation In Horn Of Africa |
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United Nation, November 21, 2009 – The United Nations World
Food Programme (WFP) received a boost on Thursday for its
emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people
in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112
million donation from Spain.
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Saudi Trying
To Stop Eritrean Weapon Smuggling To Yemen |
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Saudi Arabian naval blockade on the
Yemeni coast is aiming to halt Eritrean weapon smuggling
from reaching rebels.
Written by Adam Gonn
Jeddah, November 21, 2009 – Saudi Arabia is trying to stop
weapons reaching Al-Houthi rebels in Northern Yemen by
imposing a naval blockade at both its eastern and western
shores.
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Kidnapped
Britons Say Somali Pirates May Kill Them |
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A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said
in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be
killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not
paid soon.
By DAVID
STRINGER
Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2009 – A British couple being
held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview
broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or
handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon.
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Sheikh Sharif Angers Somaliland,
Puntland And Ahlu Al-Sunnah |
The president of
Somalia, Sheikh Sharif
Mogadishu, Somalia,
November 21, 2009 (SL
Times) – In further
indication of his
immaturity and
unpreparedness to be a
president of any
country, let alone a
country with such severe
problems as Somalia, the
“president” of Somalia,
Sheikh Sharif, managed
to anger Somaliland,
Puntland and Ahlu al-Sunnah
in interviews that he
recently gave to the
press.
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Women Appointed To
UCID's Top Positions |
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Engineer
Fatima Ali Madar, the new Foreign Secretary For UCID
Party
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) –
Somaliland's UCID party appointed Fadumo Ali Madar to be the
party's secretary of foreign affairs. UCID also appointed Zaynab
Muhammad Omar as the chairman of the women's section of UCID
party's London branch. The appointments were announced by the
party in a press release dated on Nov 15, 2009.
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Somaliland
Sentences Terrorist |
Berbera, Somaliland, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) – The
Sahil regional court sentenced Ibrahim Jama Ahmed to 24
years in jail for planning terrorist attacks in Buro’, the
capital of Togdheer region.
According to Afnugaal news, the court displayed evidence
during the proceedings of the material and items that
Ibrahim Jama Ahmed wanted to use in terrorist attacks.
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Telesom Workers Fall From Building |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 21, 2009
(SL Times) – Two employees for the telecommunication company
Telesom fell from a building while dismantling a
telecommunication tower that was on the building.
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Late Minister of Water and
Mineral Resources, Qasim Sheikh Yusuf |
Makah, Saudi Arabia, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland
Minister of Water and Mineral Resources, Mr Qasim Sheikh Yusuf,
passed away in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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Dr. Idris Ibrahim Abdi,
Somaliland's Minister of Livestock |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland livestock
Minister Dr. Idris Ibrahim Abdi sharply criticized Faysal Ali
Warabe and Ahmed Silanyo, the leaders of the two opposition
parties for not giving credit to Somaliland’s government for the
en d of the Saudi livestock ban, and giving that credit to
Sheikh Sharif.
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Ali Sandule Becomes Minister Of
Postal Services |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, November 21, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland President
Dahir Rayale Kahin appointed the Governor of Sool, Mr Ali
Mohamud Ahmed (Ali Sandule) as the new minister of posts and
telecommunications.
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WHO Confirms First Cases Of H1N1
In Somalia |
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An image
of the H1N1 influenza virus |
Nairobi, Kenya, November 21, 2009 – The first cases of pandemic
influenza H1N1 2009 have been confirmed in Somalia, according to
the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
"Two out of 10 samples tested positive for novel H1N1 [pandemic
strain] on 3 November 2009 in KEMRI [Kenya Medical Research
Institute] referral laboratory in Nairobi," Mohamed Mahamud Fuje,
WHO's H1N1 focal point for Somalia, told IRIN.
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Drought Forces Somali Farmers Into
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Helen Vesperini
Berbera, Somaliland, November 21, 2009 — Somali livestock
farmers who have converged massively on the port of Berbera
after losing all their animals said that this year's drought is
the worst in ten years.
"We were in a drought for the past six months. It was very
severe. We lost 50 percent of all our livestock. Then it rained
and the rain brought other problems -- disease, deaths and
flooding," Berbera Governor Ahmed Abdillahi told AFP at the
weekend.
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Human Rights And Law
Children's Rights Still
Violated 20 Years After Convention |
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Photo: AP
Palestinian girls release balloons with messages
attached, during an event organized by UNICEF to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, in the West Bank city of
Ramallah, 20 Nov 2009 |
"One of these problems is children's
physical abuse. In schools, they hit children, in their houses.
And, the other is the sexual abuse."
Lisa Schlein
Geneva, November 21, 2009 – Nations are staging special events
to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, which came into force on November 20, 1989. It is the
most widely ratified international human rights treaty.
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Oprah Moves, And The TV Landscape
Quakes
Her departure
from daytime is nothing short of a tectonic shift. What happens
now? |
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Josh Dickey & Daniel Frankel
Washington, November 21, 2009 – If this were just about a talk
show host and her viewers, there'd be little more to say about
the news beyond "So long, 'Oprah
Winfrey Show' ... roll highlight reel."
But
it's never been just about Oprah and her viewers.
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Belgian prime minister is a low-key politician with a reputation
for conciliation, some are deeply disappointed that European
leaders failed to choose a more forceful and high profile
personality to represent the regional bloc on the world stage.
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"Without respect
for our diversity, we will never build on our unity. I will always bear this
principle in mind," says Mr. Van Rompuy.
Lisa Bryant
Paris, France,
November 21, 2009 – Europeans woke up Friday to news they had their first full
time European Union president - a man most of them had never heard of. Belgian
Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy is a low-key politician with a reputation for
conciliation.
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Saudi imams are
being told to shorten their sermons so as to reduce the spread of swine flu.
Rachelle Kliger
Makah, Saudi
Arabia, November 21, 2009 – Saudi authorities have told the kingdom’s imams to
shorten their Friday mosque-sermons to prevent unnecessary congestion in places
of worship.
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Cairo, Egypt, November 21, 2009 – A top Iranian police
official says that a new police unit has been set up to combat what he calls
"Internet crime". Analysts, however, are interpreting the move as another step
by the government to crack down on the opposition, which uses the Internet
heavily to communicate and spread its message.
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As a
result, President Saleh has attempted to shape outcomes in
Somalia, even to the point where, with Saudi Arabia and Egypt,
they have attempted to reverse the independence of Somaliland,
and force it back into its hapless 30 year union with Italian
Somaliland
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By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, Global Information System
The Republic of Yemen’s Shi’a President, ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Saleh,
67, faces perhaps his most pressing challenges to his continued
rule of Yemen since presiding over the unification in 1990 of
Yemen Arab Republic (YAR: North Yemen) with the People’s
Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY: South Yemen).
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By: Reconciliation Committee on Electoral Processes (RCEP)
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
Mr.
Hassan Megag Samatar, Chairman
Compiled by: Mohamoud Abdi Hamud
Background:
Over the years, Somaliland has made strides in peace and
reconciliation and conflict management among the indigenous
clans and communities and has benefited socially from the peace
dividend in its educational development, health services and
business enhancement in the private sector.
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In it’s “A Week in the Horn” report, Ethiopian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (MoFA) raised issues on the hopeful sign in
Somalia, the joint commission meeting of Ethio-Djibouti,
Eritrea’s greatest fear of the peace, democracy and unity of
Ethiopia and US Policy in Somalia.
A Hopeful Sign In Somalia
The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
of the United Nations for Somalia, Mr. Charles Petrie
visited Mogadishu this week. The UN representative met with
Prime Minister Omar Sharma'arke and other TFG ministers,
pledging to open the UN Office in Mogadishu as soon as
possible.
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The
Minister Of Health Plays With The Health Of The Nation And The
President Does Nothing About It |
There are incidents that capture the essence of an
administration and lay bare to the public what that
administration is all bout: the quality of its top people, its
priorities, and how it operates. One such incident occurred in
Hargeysa Hospital last week. The gist of what happened was that
the Minister of Health, Mr Abdi Haybe Muhammad fired the
Director General of Hargeysa hospital, Dr Yasin Arab Abdi, when
the latter objected to the minister’s appropriation of a vehicle
belonging to the ministry of health.
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The 40th Anniversary Of The
Military Coup That Overthrew The Civilian Government Of
Somali Republic In 1969 |
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Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sheikh Hassan
“Forty years have passed since the military forces took over
power in Somalia in a bloodless coup overthrowing the
post-colonial state founded on western democratic model. I
would like to assess the history and the legacy of this
regime in a series of articles." Dr. Mohamed Rashid writes
in a new serious that will review the history of the Somali
people and draw lessons for the new state of Somaliland so
as to learn from history for the betterment of the nation.
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Hope Fading For Pastoral Peace
Revolution (PPR) |
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By Mohamed A. Awale
“It is rooted in the Cold War prospective that the only
alternative to communism is liberal democracy and that
demise of the first produces the universality of the
second…The Cold War division of humanity is over. The more
fundamental division of humanity in terms of ethnicity,
religion, and civilizations remain and spawn new conflicts.”
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Islam Is Not About
Fundamentalism |
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By Tariq A.
Al-Maeena
Shortly after the Ford Hood shootings in which the lives of
13 US Army personnel were senselessly wasted by a killing
rampage of one of their own, a US radio commentator called
me up for my take as an Arab and a Muslim on the incident.
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The Emergence Of ‘Sky Pirates’
In Desperate Somalia |
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Written by:
Yusuf M. Hassan
Diyaarada way afduuban tahay. The four words, screamed by a
mad man wielding a pistol in mid-air, are etched into my
memory like lyrics in a veteran singer’s mind. This plane is
hijacked.
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Romance Of The
Ransom |
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By
Rafik Muhammad Dhana
To outsiders Somalia is a remote and forsaken land, drenched
in blood, clogged by diseased refugees and doomed to
irreversible destruction and hopelessness.
But one town in my country is a seaside oasis of pleasure,
tranquility and glamorous beaches -- as well as cardboard
boxes crammed full of hard United States dollars.
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K'Naan: The Dusty Foot
Philosopher |
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Knaan
shooting the video Soobax |
By Crystal Okusa
Nairobi, November 21, 2009 – Dressed in black T-shirt,
matching waistcoat, orange scarf and neat shades, K’Naan
oozes confidence that has made him overcome challenges
wherever he goes.
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The pirates are at it again — and with
the same ship. Last April, they took over the Maersk Alabama
off Somalia and held the ship's skipper, Capt. Richard
Phillips, hostage for five days. The U.S. Navy rescued
Phillips after SEAL snipers killed three of the pirates and
took a fourth into custody.
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(Hargeysa, Somaliland) Despite its participation in
the establishment of Somaliland's state template,
the clan system is often neglected or simplified by
scholars when being described in dualistic terms
either as the core of the conflict |
facing Somalia's south, or as a
phenomena too
redundant for inclusion in the discussion concerning
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In The Quicksands Of Somalia |
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By
Bronwyn Bruton
November/December 2009
Summary --
Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia
with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired.
It should renounce political intervention and encourage
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