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Killed by
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agropastoralists can no
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Allaybaday, Somaliland, January 09, 2010 – Low agricultural
production, caused by poor rainfall last year in Somaliland,
has put at least half of its three million people at risk of
food insecurity, agricultural officials warn.
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African Union tanks patrol the streets in Mogadishu,
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Addis Ababa, January 09,
2010 – The African Union is urging the United Nations to
boost its support for Somalia's fragile government in view
of the rise of terrorist activity in the Horn of Africa and
the Arabian peninsula. AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping
calls the overall security situation in the Horn of Africa
nation "unstable, volatile and challenging'.
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President Obama |
By Scott A Morgan
While the eyes of most pundits and spies are on the current
Military Action in Yemen. The Situation on the other side of
the Gulf of Aden needs just as must focus as there is
currently towards Yemen.
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Questions Over Global Reach
Of Somalia's Rebels |
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A gunman
from Hizbul Islam stands behind a heavy machine gun
as he heads for Somalia’s southern port of Kismayu
in October 2009. The recent attack on a Danish
cartoonist has raised questions about the growing
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Mogadishu, January 09, 2010 – Renewed fears over the Somali
al Shabaab group’s links with Yemen and an attack on the
home of a Danish cartoonist by an axe-wielding man with
reported ties to the insurgents have turned a spotlight on
the Islamist group.
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Oslo, January 09, 2010 – The Norwegian daily newspaper
Aftenposten Friday reprinted cartoons depicting the Prophet
Mohammed that generated controversy 2005 when they were
first published in a Danish newspaper.
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Two victims, cousins from Somalia, owned the store. The
third, from Oromo, was a customer. Police say they have
"a suspected motive.''
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Anwar
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By ABBY
SIMONS and DAVID
CHANEN
Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minnesota, January 09, 2010 – With
the "cold-blooded" killers of three East African immigrants
still on the loose Thursday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim
Dolan appealed to the public -- and the city's Somali
community -- for help in solving a crime that has shaken a
city and the relatively quiet Seward neighborhood.
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Geneva, January 09, 2010 – The World Food Program says it
does not see any quick solution to the crisis, which forced
the agency to stop its humanitarian operations in southern
Somalia earlier this week. But, WFP says it has no plans to
leave Somalia and the lines of communication remain open
with the armed groups that provoked the suspension.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 9, 2010 – Tens of thousands
more children are going to school in Somaliland, pushing up
the literacy rate from 20 per cent to 45 per cent, in the
last 10 years.
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New York, January 9, 2010— The Committee to Protect
Journalists is concerned about deteriorating press freedom
conditions in Puntland, including detentions, censorship,
harassment, and direct attacks by police officers.
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Swedish Artist Receives
Telephone Threat From Somalia |
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Stockholm, January 9, 2010—
A Swedish artist who angered Muslims in 2007 for his
caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog said Monday he
had received two threatening phone calls from Somalia.
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Ottawa Somalis Fear CSIS
Targeting Youth
Scrutiny began around time of Obama inauguration: community
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By Louisa Taylor
OTTAWA, January 9, 2010 — Members of Ottawa’s Somali
community say their youth were targeted by security
officials in the run-up to the inauguration of Barack Obama,
and the targeting continues more than a year later, causing
deep mistrust in the community.
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Ransom Cash Fuels Boom In
Little Mogadishu |
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By Tristan
McConnell
Eastleigh, Kenya, January 09, 2010 – “That shopping centre,”
said my Somali translator pointing to a garish multi-storey
building clad in tinted glass, “was built with pirate
money.”
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Prosecutors: St. Cloud
Muslim Cartoons Protected |
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Minneapolis, January 08, 2010 — Two county attorneys in the
St. Cloud area say they won't file charges against a man who
investigators say admitted posting anti-Muslim cartoons in
front of a mosque, a Somali-owned store and other spots.
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SOMALIA: No Food, No Water,
No Health – No Aid |
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By Babukar Kashka
Nairobi, January 09, 2010 – War-torn and drought-ravaged
Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis with aid coffers
empty and no funding raised or pledged for food, water,
sanitation, health and other vital needs.
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Many Questions, Few Answers
In Triple Homicide At Minneapolis Market |
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Minneapolis, January 09, 2010 – Somali immigrants. With as
many as 35,000 residents of Somali descent, the Twin Cities
has the largest Somali population in the country.
The second victim was said to be a relative of Warfa's.
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The Right Way To Use
Private Contractors To Fight Pirates |
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By
David Isenberg
Author, Shadow
Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq
January 09, 2010 – Wasn’t it just last year that private
security contractors (PSC) were being viewed as the solution
to the world's piracy problem off Somalia?
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Somalia Travel Warning |
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Washington,
January 09, 2010 – December 31, 2009 The State Department
warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Somalia and
recommends that U.S. citizens avoid all travel to Somalia.
This replaces the Travel Warning dated November 15 2008, to
update information on security concerns.
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Somaliland Forces Say Attack On
Mosque Foiled |
Somaliland Police Forces
(photofile)
* Rockets, mortar
bombs recovered
* Imam had criticized
rebel tactics
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
January 09, 2010 – (SL
Times) – Security forces
in Somaliland said on
Saturday they had foiled
an attack on a mosque in
Hargeysa where the imam
had spoken out against
militant suicide
bombings.
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Ethiopia: Al-Shabaab
Attempts To Internationalize Itself; The Need To Act Now On
Somalia
“The International
Community Needs To Engage, Support And Assist Somaliland To Hold
A Successful Democratic And Peaceful Election”
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
January 09, 2010 – (SL Times) – At the beginning of the week,
there was heavy fighting at Dusa Mareb, in Galgadud region of
central Somalia. The extremist opposition group, Al-Shabaab,
made an attempt to retake the town from which it had been
expelled by Ahlu Sunna wal-Jama'a just over a year ago.
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Somaliland
Ministers Visit Djibouti |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 9, 2010 (SL Times) – A
delegation of Somaliland’s ministers visited Djibouti this
week. The delegation was composed of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Abdillahi Duale, the minister of Interior,
Abdillahi Ismail (Irro), the Minister of Information Ahmed
Haji Dahir, the Minister of Tourism Abdirizaq Waberi Roble,
and the Deputy Minister of Information, Ali Ilmi Geelle.
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Fagadhe’s Body Laid To Rest |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 9, 2010 (SL Times) – The body
of Somaliland’s representative to France, Mohamud Salah Nur (Fagadhe),
was laid to rest in Hargeysa’s Boqol Jire cemetery on Wednesday.
Somaliland President Dahir Rayale Kahin, Vice president Ahmed
Yusuf Yasin, leaders of parliament, officials from the
opposition parties as well as ordinary citizens participated in
the funeral ceremony.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 9, 2010 (SL Times) – Kulmiye
Chairman Ahmed Sillanyo met in Addis Ababa with Ethiopian
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Takede Alemu and the
British Deputy Ambassador to Ethiopia, John Marshal.
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Honorable Farah Maallin, Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan
Parliament |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January
9, 2010 (SL Times) – Kenyan Parliament Deputy Speaker, Farah
Ma’allin secured 10 scholarships for students from Sool region.
Five of the 10 students will be studying medicine at Amoud
University while the other five will be studying veterinary
medicine in Sheikh.
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Another Puntland Parliament Member
Assassinated |
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Bosasso, Somalia, January 9,
2010 (SL Times) – A member of Puntland’s parliament was
assassinated this week in Bosasso. His name is Abdillahi Ali
Kaarad. He is the second member of Puntland’s parliament to be
assassinated within a month’s period.
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Abdillahi Majoor Passes Away |
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Toronto, Canada, January 9, 2010 (SL Times) – Abdillahi Majoor,
a prominent figure in Somalia’s civilian politics passed away in
Toronto, Canada. Abdillahi Majoor had many friends from
Somaliland and was well-liked and respected in Somaliland as
well as Somalia.
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Sheikh Sharif’s Military Commander
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Mogadishu,
Somalia, January 9, 2010 (SL Times) – The Commander of Sheikh
Sharif’s military, Mohamed Gele Kahiye, escaped a bomb attack in
the Hodan neighborhood of Mogadishu. According to the Voice of
America’s Somali Service (Jan.7, 2010) two of his bodyguards
were killed and seven were injured in the roadside bomb attack.
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'Not Guilty' Plea In Detroit Plane
Bomb Case |
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Mr
Abdulmutallab's court appearance lasted less than five
minutes |
Detroit,
January 09, 2010 – A "not guilty" plea has been entered on
behalf of the Nigerian man accused of attempting to detonate a
bomb on a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day.
A Detroit judge took the action after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
declined to enter a plea during his first court appearance.
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Wives Of Kenya’s Top Three Leaders
To Earn Massive Perks |
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By Alphonse Shiundu and Oliver Mathenge
Nairobi, Kenya, January 09, 2010 – The spouses of the country’s
top three leaders are set to earn huge allowances once the
leaders retire from active politics.
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It will take a team of
36 window cleaners three months to wash the new 2,717-foot Burj
Khalifa in Dubai.
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The window cleaners will use the
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By Bonnie Malkin
Sydney, January 9, 2010 – The building, which was initially to be named the Burj
Dubai, stands at 206 storeys tall, reaching half a mile into the sky. While most
visitors will look out from the skyscraper to admire the view of the Arabian
desert below, some will be looking back in.
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British MP George Galloway speaks
to the Islamic Action Front supporters in Jordan, December 29, 2009. |
Cairo, January 09, 2010 –
Egyptian security escorted British lawmaker George Galloway to take a flight out
of the country on Friday and he was barred from returning after violent protests
over an aid convoy he led into Gaza, MENA news agency said.
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Luanda, January 09, 2010 – Gunmen have opened fire with machine guns on a bus
carrying Togo's football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, wounding
several players.
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They start by acting like real
countries, then hope to become them.
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By
Graeme Wood |
January/February 2010
On
my most recent visit to the Republic of Abkhazia, a country that
does not exist, I interviewed the deputy foreign minister, Maxim
Gundjia, about the foreign trade his country doesn't have with
the real countries that surround it on the Black Sea. Near the
end of our chat, he paused, looked down at my leg, and asked why
I was bleeding on his floor. I told him I had slipped a few
hours before and ripped a hole in my shin, down to the bone,
about the size of a one-ruble coin. Blood had soaked through the
gauze, and I needed stitches. "You can go to our hospital, but
you will be shocked by the conditions," Gundjia said. So he
pointed me to the building next door, where in about 20 minutes
I had my leg propped up on a dark wooden desk and was wincing at
the sting of a vigorous alcohol-swabbing by the health minister
himself. I was not accustomed to such personalized government
service.
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A traditional aqal at Borama.
Photo/JOHN FOX |
By John Fox, January 09, 2010
Despite its name, the propeller-driven Dash flies slower than
its companion, the Dornier jet – taking three hours or more from
Nairobi's JKIA to Hargeysa. And for most of the time, you are
flying over the parched yellow-browns of northern Kenya and into
Somaliland.
I was in for a surprise when we reached Hargeysa. The last time
I was there was back in 1999, and my memory was of a smallish
and rather ramshackle town. But it was a very proud town:
capital of what was once the old British colony that had
disentangled itself from the chaos of Somalia to the south and
east (previously, the old Italian colony, but that’s not the
reason for the chaos, you’ll understand).
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US Supreme Court to Rule on Sovereign Immunity
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By Paul
Wolf, World War 4 Report
In March, the Supreme Court is to begin hearing oral
arguments in a case that may breathe new life into the field
of human rights law in the United States, by exposing
foreign government officials to civil liability for war
crimes and other violations of international law—even when
the crimes occurred in their own country, and no US
citizen's rights are involved.
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In 2010 citizens of 22
African countries will
go to the polls. The most important and crucial events on
the African political stage are represented by the Sudan,
Somaliland and Guinea Conackry elections. Find in this post all
the Africa’s electoral challenges in
2010.
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Somaliland’s Foreign Policy Needs To Be Articulated To The Foreign
Media |
Somaliland’s foreign policy has many shortcomings some of
which we have pointed out in our editorials throughout the
years. One of these shortcomings is the obvious lack of
communication with the foreign media which has gotten to the
point that when Somaliland scores important successes no effort
is made to bring those achievements to the attention of the
international media and policy makers around the world.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part VIII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the eighth article of a series
of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military
coup and its legacy
As a result of the famine
caused by the drought 1974/1975 thousands of people were
moved to southern regions and were settled on the banks of
the Juba and Shabelle Shabelle. Siyad Barre took this
decision without considering the economic and social
implications. There were no feasibility studies and the
advice of experts was ignored. On another occasion, Siyad
Barre criticized those who argued for the importance of
feasibility studies before implementation of decisions. The
experts were labeled as reactionaries working for the
imperialists Isticmar who wanted to make obstacles for the
"Revolution".
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A Night To Remember |
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By Farhan Abdi Suleiman (0day)
It was sunset and my memory strong-willed to participate one
of the beautiful nights of presenting books organized by
Hargeysa Readers Club. This club planned for mainstreaming
the youth in Somaliland in the course of reading talent and
exchange of Ideas connected with how to translate and
present the books.
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Somalia And The Cost Of State
Failure
Speech by
Nuradin Dirie at the Centre for African Studies.
University of Copenhagen. |
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Mr Chairman,
It is a great pleasure for me to be here today in the
University of Copenhagen - the largest learning institution
in Denmark. Up until recently, my exclusive knowledge and
what I know about Denmark was limited to my former boss,
Christian Balslev-Olesen, who is sitting with us here today.
But since then, I have learned quite few things about
Denmark.
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YOUTH: The Ambassador Of
Future |
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By Abdikadir D. Askar
Many times, when asked about youth and the true meaning it
has, brains may go void. Impossibility is that we could not
find a common understanding of what it is all about.
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Time For A New Somalia Policy |
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By Dr Afyare Abdi Elmi
In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 21, 2009,
Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, set a broad
agenda for Afghanistan from which Senator Corker interpreted that Mullen was
calling for "nation-building".
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Congratulation To Borama Mayor
Borama Soccer Stadium |
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ARDAA – The Soccer Stadium of Borama - The leaders of tomorrow are being shaped
and molded in the here and now. The lessons we teach the youth of today will be
with them for the rest of their lives, and there is no better place to teach
children about the world than on the field of play. Competition teaches more
than just how to win and lose, it teaches a person how to win with class and at
the same time be gracious in defeat.
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Africa 2010: 10 Stories To Watch |
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Alex Thurston
PhD student at Northwestern
As we head into a new year, here are ten of the most
important stories to watch in Africa.
1. Elections
I debated whether to organize this list by country or by
theme, and ultimately went with the latter. But if I had
organized it by country, I would have begun with Sudan,
where elections in April 2010 represent a critical juncture
for the country and for the 2005 Comprehensive Peace
Agreement.
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Somali Pirates: A Long War Of The Waters
Thanks to greater
vigilance and naval patrols, the seas off Somalia may be a
bit less dangerous than they were. But they are still the
riskiest in the world |
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
TWO years ago Somalia’s weak transitional government agreed
to let foreign navies chase pirates into its territorial
waters. Since then, the sea off Somalia’s coast has seen an
increasing number of warships mainly from rich countries
trying—with partial success—to fend off pirates from the
poorest.
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By JAY BAHADUR
Nairobi, Kenya, January 09, 2010 – LAST Monday, Somali
pirates seized two more prizes in rapid succession: a
British-flagged chemical tanker and a Greek bulk carrier,
bringing the current number of captive ships to 12 and the
number of hostage mariners to at least 278.
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