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General
William E. (Kip) Ward, commander, United States
Africa Command.
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Algiers, November 28, 2009 - The United
States will persevere with its policy of supporting
Somalia's fragile government because restoring security
there will take time, the top U.S. military commander for
Africa said on Wednesday.
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Mariam Hassan |
London, UK, November 28,
2009 – A TALENTED schoolgirl has won the chance to have her
poem published, despite only being able to speak English for
three years when she wrote it.
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Nairobi, November 28, 2009
– Somalia's Western-backed government plans a big increase
in spending next year chiefly funded by foreign donors, with
a large chunk going on battling piracy and hardline rebels,
a minister told Reuters on Friday.
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Somali Captors 'Tortured'
Hostages |
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Nigel
Brennan, left, and Amanda Lindhout (of Sylvan Lake,
Alberta) were kidnapped last year in Somalia.
Photograph by: Archive, Calgary Herald |
Mogadishu, Somalia, November 28, 2009 – A
Canadian and an Australian journalist have said that they
were were tortured while being held by kidnappers in Somalia
for 15 months.
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TEHRAN, November 28, 2009 – A senior
Iranian commander blamed the western coalition forces
deployed in the Gulf of Aden of assistance and complicity
with Somali pirates in the volatile waters.
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MEETING
SEASONAL DEMAND: The first consignment of sheep from
Somaliland for this Haj and Eid Al-Adha season
arrives at Jeddah Islamic Port on Sunday. (AN photo) |
Jeddah,
November 28, 2009 – The first shipment of 246,000 Somali
sheep arrived at Jeddah Islamic Port on Sunday, November 22,
2009, after Saudi authorities granted permission to
businessmen to import live cattle from the east African
country.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
24 November 2009
AI Index: AFR 52/009/2009
Amnesty International today condemned the rising pattern of
unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment,
including stoning to death, amputations and floggings,
carried out in public by Al Shabaab armed groups in areas
under their control.
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The Hague, November 28, 2009 -- The
request on Thursday by the International Criminal Court
(ICC) prosecutor to the court's judges to open a Kenya
investigation is a decisive step toward justice for the
country's 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch
said.
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Mogadishu, November 28, 2009 –
"Nightmarish" is the way the crew of the Al-Meezan cargo
vessel recount their time in captivity at the hands of
Somali pirates.
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Somali Health Sector
Underfunded: WHO |
Somalia
has one of the worst child and maternal health in
the world |
Geneva, November 28, 2009 —
A senior WHO official warned Friday that the health sector
in Somalia was not receiving the funding needed, even though
almost one in four Somali children under five is suffering
from acute malnutrition.
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Museveni To Visit Mogadishu |
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Kampala, November 28, 2009 – A few days ago, Garowe
Online, a Somali publication, revealed that President
Museveni is planning, for the first time, to visit Mogadishu
in early December in an effort to boost the morale of
Uganda’s 2,050 peacekeepers and to hold talks with the
Somali President. Surprisingly, the story doesn’t seem to
have been picked up by any of the local dailies.
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African Union Names New
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Nairobi, November 28, 2009 – The African Union has a new
representative in Somalia. He is Mr Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra
from the West African state of Mali.
Mr Diarra replaces Mr Nicolas Bwakira who has held the post
for two years.
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New Details Emerge In
Somali Terror Probe |
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This
undated family photo made available by his family in
Minneapolis shows Mohamud Said Omar. In custody in
the Netherlands at the request of U.S. authorities,
officials say Omar is being held in connection with
the FBI's investigation into the disappearance of up
to 20 young Somali men who left the Minneapolis
area over the last two years |
Minneapolis, November 28, 2009 ―A
Minnesota man hosted a gathering for several young Somalis
days before they left Minneapolis to fight with a terrorist
group in their war-torn homeland, according to court
documents unsealed Tuesday in a sweeping federal
investigation.
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Ethiopia, Saudi Firm Sign
Gold Extraction Deal |
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Addis Ababa, November 28, 2009 – Ethiopia
signed a deal on Tuesday for a Saudi firm to extract an
estimated 20 tones of recoverable gold found in the Horn of
African country last month, the mines and energy minister
said.
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Afdb Grants $2
Mln To Somalia |
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Nairobi, November 28, 2009 – The African Development Bank (AfDB)
has granted two million U.S. dollars to Somalia to provide
financial and technical assistance to Public Financial
Management after decades of interruption.
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Ethiopia To
Offer 14 Oil/Gas Exploration Permits |
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Addis Ababa, November 28, 2009 – Ethiopia
will offer up to 14 licences for oil and gas exploration
over the next three years despite threats from rebels who
say they will attack oilfields run by foreigners, the
government said on Tuesday.
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Ex-Somali
Fighters Tell Why They Abandoned Jihad |
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Mogadishu, November 28, 2009 – The gunfire outside does not
disturb them as they speak, explaining what led them to
leave behind their lives as Islamist fighters and defect to
the side of Somalia's weak transitional government.
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Ethiopia Invites Somaliland
Parliament Leaders |
The Chairman of
Somaliland parliament,
Abdirahman Muhammad
Abdillahi (Irro) [right]
and his first deputy of
the parliament Abd al-Aziz
Muhammad Samaale
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
November 28, 2009 (SL
Times) – The Ethiopian
government has formally
invited the Chairman of
Somaliland parliament,
Abdirahman Muhammad
Abdillahi (Irro), and
the first vice-chairman
of Somaliland
Parliament, Abd al-Aziz
Muhammad Samaale to
attend the celebrations
of the 105th anniversary
of the establishment of
Ethiopia’s second
capital, Diredawa.
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Somaliland Police
Commander Warns Terrorists |
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Somaliland
police commander, Muhammad Saqadhi Dubad
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Mandhera, Somaliland, November 28, 2009 (SL Times) – Somaliland
police commander, Muhammad Saqadi Dubbad, sent a stern warning
to terrorists that Somaliland security forces are in control of
the security situation and will hit the terrorists with an iron
fist if they try to infiltrate Somaliland.
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Somaliland
Celebrates Eid Al-Adha |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 28, 2009 (SL Times) –
Somaliland celebrated Friday Eid al-Adha or the celebration
of sacrifice, a holy occasion shared by Muslims around the
world.
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Somaliland Election Commission,
Representatives Of Political Parties And Donors Meet
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 28, 2009
(SL Times) – A meeting was held in the Ethiopian capital
Addis Ababa between Somaliland election commission,
representatives of political parties, Interpeace and donors.
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Al-Falah
distributed livestock and food to four locations in
Somaliland’s capital, Hargeysa |
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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Press Trust of
India / New Delhi November 28, 2009 – Steel magnet Lakshmi N
Mittal has paid over $110 million to double his stake in
Africa-focused Ophir Energy Plc to 21.2 per cent even as he
exited the oil and gas business in the Central Asian nation
Kazakhstan.
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Children's Rights In Borama |
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Borama,
Somaliland, November 28, 2009 (SL Times) – A big celebration of
the international children's rights day was celebrated in Borama
on Nov.24th, 2009. Among those who took part in the celebration
were high officials from Awdal region, Borama city, educators,
about 200 school children, including deaf students, and street
children.
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Counterfeit Money Aiding
Terrorists Seized In Mogadishu |
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Somali
authorities showcase fake dollars in Mogadishu 21
November 2009 |
Mogadishu, Somalia, November 28, 2009 — Agents with Somalia’s
customs have seized more than $1-million worth of fake US notes
in Mogadishu’s Adan Adde International airport, authorities told
local reporters on last Saturday, November 21, 2009.
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Consultative Forum For
International Agencies, Government Representatives, Religious
And Traditional Leaders Held In Hargeysa |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 28, 2009 – A consultative meeting
forum hosted by the International Horn University funded by
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and Finish Church Aid (FCA) was
held at Ambassador Hotel in Hargeysa. The forum brought together
some Religious & Traditional leaders, Civil Society and
Government Representatives.
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Muslims Celebrate Eid Al-Adha |
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Pilgrims pelt pillars symbolizing the devil with pebbles
on the third day of the Hajj [AFP] |
Mina, Saudi Arabia, November 28, 2009 –
Millions of Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia have performed the act
of symbolically stoning the devil as Muslims around the world
celebrate Eid al-Adha - the greater of two Muslim festivals.
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Banks, World Leaders Play Down
Dubai Debt Threat |
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Flags for property company EMAAR,
builders of Burj Dubai the world's tallest tower, are
seen in Dubai, November 27, 2009. Credit ratings agency
Moody's on Wednesday downgraded Emaar Properties by
four notches to Ba2, placing it two notches into junk
territory.
Dubai Marina's tower blocks rise
over the Shoreline Apartments on Nakheel's Palm
Jumeirah in Dubai, November 26, 2009. |
Dubai/London, November 28, 2009 – Banks
outside the Gulf played down their exposure to Dubai debt on
Friday after fears of default shook global markets, and European
leaders said the world economy was now strong enough to cope
with the setback.
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The resolution rebukes Iran for secretly
building a uranium enrichment facility near Qom [AFP] |
Vienna, November 28, 2009 – The UN nuclear watchdog's
governing body has voted overwhelmingly to censure Iran for developing a uranium
enrichment site in secret, and has demanded it freeze the project immediately.
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Egyptian protesters burn an
Algerian flag during demonstrations after Egypt were knocked-out [AFP] |
Cairo, Egypt,
November 28, 2009 – Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has accepted an Arab
League request to calm tension between Egypt and Algeria sparked by their
football World Cup play-off matches, Libyan state media has reported.
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Longtime governing party Swapo is
expected to win poll contested by 14 parties. |
Pretoria, S.A., November 28, 2009 – Namibians are set to vote
in an election which is expected to return the longtime ruling party to power.
But Friday's vote may see the party's hold on the southern African desert nation
weakening with the emergence of a new opposition party, the Rally for Democracy
and Progress.
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A woman sells
qat, a leafy stimulant, in plastic bags at a stand in
the Arhiba shantytown in Djibouti City. Qat has been
grown and used as a stimulant for centuries in the
Horn of Africa. |
By Betsy
Hiel
Djibouti City, Djibouti, November 28, 2009 – To understand the
difficulties America faces in combating terrorism, look no
farther than this Horn of Africa nation.
One
of America's many outposts in that war is here, part of the
Pentagon's new African Command. A small, joint operation of all
U.S. military branches, it focuses on helping impoverished
Djiboutians before they fall into the anarchy of neighboring
Somalia.
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Fighting Piracy Off The Gulf of Aden
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A crew member
from the Greek Frigate HS PSARA monitors the ship's
instruments as it patrols the Arabian Sea and the Gulf
of Aden in search for Somali pirates March 8,
2009.(Reuters) |
By
Douglas
Guilfoyle
Professor-
London University
Series of measures have been taken by the international
community to suppress piracy off the Somali coast. It's time to
analyze these anti-piracy measures and see the impact on the
pirates and piracy operations.
Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia are now endemic. In the
early 1990s such attacks were limited and conducted relatively
close to shore and were largely the work of fishermen displaced
by civil war and foreign fishing in Somalia’s waters.
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Little Mogadishu residents talk of a
lack of identity and a life of poverty and racism. And they
disagree over their former neighbors who are accused of
plotting jihad in Somalia.
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Muse
Hassan Gala, left, and Jama Dirir talk at the Alle
Aamin Coffee Shop in Minneapolis' Little Mogadishu.
Residents disagree over their former neighbors
accused of waging jihad back home in Somalia.
(Allen Brisson-Smith / For The Times) |
By Bob Drogin
Reporting from Minneapolis - Barely a block from the
Mississippi River sits a neighborhood Mark Twain could not
have imagined.
Men with henna-streaked beards and women in full-body hijabs
streamed Tuesday past the Maashaa Allah Restaurant, the Alle
Aamin Coffee Shop, the Kaah Express Money Wiring stall, the
storefront Al-Qaaniteen Mosque and other similar structures.
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Somaliland Proven Right About Payne And Puntland Proven Wrong |
Early this year, in the month of June, Congressman Donald
Payne presided over a hearing on Somalia. But it neither looked
like, nor felt like, a hearing, for there were hardly any
congressmen present other than a couple of far-left political
clones of Donald Payne in the democratic party, namely, Sheila
Jackson and Keith Ellison.
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The Military Take Over (1969 Coup D'état)
The Beginning of the New Era |
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Part II
By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sheikh Hassan
In the evening of the same day Siyad Barre called 35
officers both military and police including the heads of the
police forces in a meeting and presented to them four points
to be discussed:
1) To have a name for the council and decide the number of
the council numbers.
2) Election of the chairman of the council.
3) To nominate the new government and decide its composition
4) Other points.
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Congressman Payne, Modern Politician Or Neo-Colonial
Martinet? |
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By Ahmed M.I. Egal
I have just read the Press Release issued by Congressman
Donald Payne entitled “Somalia: Abusive Behavior in
Puntland” dated 21 November 2009, in which Congressman Payne
roundly berates the government of Puntland for their
treatment of ONLF prisoners in their custody.
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The West Let Rayale Off The Hook; Now They Must Keep Him on
a Tight Leash |
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By Jamal
Madar
It is an indisputable fact that president Dahir Rayale Kahin
would not have been in office today had it not been the
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) brokered by western donor
countries between the government and opposition parties.
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The Siren- A Modern Somali Short Story-Part 2 |
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By: Yassin
Ismail
Leila and Khalid were soon married. Leila played the part of
the young bride perfectly. She was radiant that evening and
the sadness conveyed by her dark lovely eyes gave her a
certain elegance that one could not help but admire.
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How The IOG Weathers The Political Storm Of The Neighboring
Somaliland? |
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By Ismail
Guelleh
The President Ismail Omer Guelleh known as IOG have many
similarities with ruling strong man of Somaliland Mr Kahin
who tries to rule his little experiential self declared
Somaliland in absolute anarchy after he exhausted every
avenue to stay in Power with behind the scene of moral and
material support from IOG.
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Can Somali Pirates Be Defeated?
Why
have the world's most advanced navies failed to end piracy
in the seas around Somalia?
The
BBC's Middle East correspondent Paul Wood reports from the
EU anti-piracy taskforce flagship, Evertsen, in the Gulf of
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Bindts say the pirates adapt quickly to his
taskforce's tactics |
Gulf of Aden, November 2009 – The Dutch
frigate Evertsen is a reassuring sight for the civilian
ships dotted around the horizon as she ploughs steadily
through the calm, glittering waters of the Gulf of Aden.
But all the bristling firepower of the EU's anti-piracy task
force has not been enough to remove the threat of piracy
from the seas around Somalia.
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Life Behind Enemy Lines—In Somalia |
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Michael Isikoff
Washington, November 28, 2009 – As Declassified noted
last weekend, a recent FBI affidavit in a big Chicago
terror case offered an unusually revealing glimpse of life
behind “enemy lines” in Waziristan in northwest Pakistan.
ON Monday, the FBI provided an equally eye-opening look at
the scene inside another jihadi stronghold, this one in the
war ravaged nation of Somalia (which U.S. officials
increasingly fear is becoming a haven for Al Qaeda). In the
process, the bureau shed new light on how one Somali
American from Minneapolis ended up losing his life in
Somalia —as a suicide bomber.
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Two months ago in Nairobi Kenya, there
lived a young college lecturer, who was very much bored with
his job. He was a lecturer of one of the biggest commercial
colleges in Nairobi. Even though he worked hard and
efficiently every day, he prayed everyday that he gets
another job, hopefully outside Kenya.
To his colleagues at work, he seemed like he really enjoyed
his work and in fact some even assumed that he would stay
and work in that college for many years to come. He was the
only one who really knew the level of boredom he felt and he
kept this secret perfectly, to himself.
What caused the boredom was the repetitive monotony of his
life. He woke up everyday and did the same things,
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‘Abdul Kareem
Jimale takes a look at the issues that present
themselves to Kenyans and Somalis alike wanting to
go on Hajj! |
By
'Abdul Kareem Muhammed Jimale
Correspondent, Freelance Writer - Somalia
Nairobi,
Kenya, November 28, 2009 – Kenyan Muslims began their
journey to Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in early
November.
“This year (2009), 3000 Kenyan Muslims are expected to
perform Hajj. About 2000 pilgrims left for Hajj this year,
most of them from Nairobi” Sheikh Hussein Sharif Omar Al-Hamid
the vice chairman of Kenya Hajj Commission told
Islamonline.net
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