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Abaarso, Somaliland, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s first post-graduate business diploma, which was
launched on January 7, has been met with tremendous acclaim.
The one-year program in Applied Management offers coursework
ranging from accounting, finance and management to
organizational behavior and business English.
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Washington, D.C. January
30, 2010 – CJA announced on Thursday that nine amicus curiae
briefs were filed with the United States Supreme Court on
Wednesday in support of the respondents in the case of
Samatar v. Yousuf, NO. 08-1555. In this case, the Court will
decide if former foreign government officials – who, after
using their power to order torture, rapes, and killings of
innocent civilians – can choose to live in the United States
while refusing to submit to its laws and refusing to accept
responsibility for their actions.
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Washington DC, January 30,
2010 – The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
met at United Nations Headquarters in New York on January
28, 2010, and agreed upon the following statement.
The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS)
held its fifth meeting in New York on 28 January 2010, under
the Chairmanship of Norway.
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Bomb Kills 4 Policemen In
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* Follows Jan. 12 assault on police station
* Rebels want to destabilize northern Somalia
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 30, 2010 – A bomb hidden near
a mosque killed four policemen in Somaliland on Monday in
the latest attack on security forces in the region, police
sources said.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 30, 2010 – African Foreign
Ministers gathered for the African Union summit continued
their deliberations on Friday in Ethiopian capital, Addis
Ababa where they embarked on discussions to endorse the
proposed AU budget and electing member states for the AU
peace and security council, APA learnt here.
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Geneva, Jan. 30, 2010 - The UN Independent Expert on the
situation of human rights in Somalia, Dr. Shamsul Bari, issued a
strong warning on the security, human rights and humanitarian
situation in the country, including Somaliland and Puntland. Dr.
Bari described as "extremely serious" the situation in South and
Central Somalia, where civilians continue to bear the brunt of
the fighting between forces of the Transitional Federal
Government forces (TFG) and Islamist armed groups.
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The Boeing
737 (similar to this one pictured in Nairobi) was en
route from Dakar to Addis Ababa via Bamako |
NDJAMENA, January 30, 2010 — An Ethiopian Airlines passenger
jet which made an emergency landing in Chad due to a radar
problem took off again Friday, but 120 of its 150 passengers
refused to board, airport authorities said.
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Suspension comes following reports that more than
$1-million is missing from the country's primary
schooling program
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By Alan Boswell
Nairobi, Kenya, January 30, 2010 – The United States is
suspending education funds to Kenya following reports that
more than $1 million is missing from the country's primary
schooling program. Britain late last year also pulled its
financial support pending resolution of the scandal.
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civilian is brought to Medina hospital in Mogadishu,
Somalia, after being injured during fighting, 29 Jan
2010 |
Mogadishu, Somalia, January 30, 2010 – Heavy fighting in
Somalia's capital between insurgents and African Union
peacekeepers has killed at least 15 people and wounded more
than 20 others.
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Call For Broad-Based
Strategy Against Piracy On Somalia's Coast |
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from the Spanish frigate, Blas de Lezo, talk to
suspected pirates in their skiff in the Gulf of Aden
in this Nato handout photo made available on June
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New York, January 30, 2010 – A top United Nations official
has called a comprehensive, cohesive and broad-based
strategy to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, saying
that the continued spread of the scourge points to the
limits of a solely sea-based approach.
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Djibouti To Boost AU Peace
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Djibouti, January 30, 2010 – Authorities in Djibouti have
planned to send 450 soldiers to Somalia possibly next month
to boost the African Union (AU) peace mission that is
protecting the fragile Western-backed government.
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AU Force To Stay In Somalia
For Another Year |
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African Union (AU) peacekeeping tank is parked
outside the Somalia presidential palace in the
capital Mogadishu, January 29, 2010.
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UNITED
NATIONS, January 30, 2010 — The UN Security Council voted
unanimously Thursday to authorize the African Union
peacekeeping force in Somalia to stay for another year and
urged it to boost its strength to 8,000 troops.
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EU Welcomes China's Support
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commander
* Hijackers use stock exchanges to raise funds for piracy
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30, 2010 – China's participation in an
international naval operation to protect ships from pirates
off the coast of Somalia should help improve maritime
security in the Horn of Africa, an EU naval commander said
on Thursday.
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President Jacob Zuma
Extends Condolences Following Ethiopian Airline Plane Crash
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Pretoria, January 30, 2010 – President Jacob Zuma, on Monday
25 January 2010, extended condolences to the Government and
the families of the Ethiopian, Lebanese and other nationals
whose relatives were aboard the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines
passenger plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in
the early hours on Monday, 25 January 2010.
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UN Addresses War, Piracy In
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New York, January 30, 2010 —The security council adopted a
resolution today supporting the extension of the African
Union peacekeeping operation in Somalia (AMASOM) for another
year. US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice stated
that the resolution underscored the importance of support
for the transitional federal government and expressed
concern about the country’s deteriorating humanitarian
situation.
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U.S. Army Supports
Burundi's Efforts in Somalia |
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By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa
BUJUMBURA, Burundi, Jan 30, 2010 — In mid-January 2010, U.S.
Army Colonel Steve Smith led a team to work with Burundian
officers on ways to enhance Burundi's leadership capacity as
their military prepares to deploy its next rotation of
peacekeepers to Mogadishu.
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USA Takes In 6,000 Somali
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Kampala,
January 30, 2010 — THE American government is to resettle
5,800 refugees from Nakivale refugee camp in Isingiro
district to the United States, Prosy Katura, the UN refugee
agency (UNHCR) protection officer, has revealed.
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International Experts Say
Somaliland’s Recognition Will Assist In Strengthening
Accountability In Regions That Are Now Pirate Infected |
Cambridge, MA, January
30, 2010 (SL Times) – A
group of twenty-five
scholars, diplomats,
lawyers, military
officers, shipping
industry officials, and
other experts on
maritime piracy and
Somalia from nine
nations who convened at
the Harvard Kennedy
School in December 2009
have recommended that
one of the ways of
exerting control over
and reducing the threat
from pirates is to
recognize Somaliland.
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Deputy Planning
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Hargeysa, Somaliland,
January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – The Deputy Minister of Planning,
Mr. Ahmed Hashi Abdi sent a letter to the Somali language
newspaper Haatuf in which he corrected their newspaper’s account
of why the UN’s International Labor Organization’s office in
Somaliland was closed. Mr. Ahmed Hashi made the following
points:
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United Arab
Emirates Company Does Study On Somaliland Consumers |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – A study
that measures the level of satisfaction of consumers of the
telecommunication company Telesom was unveiled on Jan 25th
at Imperial hotel. The study took two months and was done by
Professor Muhammad Yusuf Hassan (Iqra) and al-Ayn University
which is located in the United Arab Emirates.
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Factory Opened In Borama |
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Borama, Somaliland, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – A factory
called “Aloe East African Factory)” was inaugurated Thursday.
The factory will produce human hygiene items as well as home
supplies. The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of
Industry, Mr. Ahmed Ali Ubahle, the Minister of Planning, Mr.
Ali Ibrahim Muhammad (Ali Sanyare), the Minister of Information,
Ahmed Haji Dahir, Awdal region government officials, Sultans,
businessmen, and a representative of Amoud Foundation.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – The Vice
Chairman of the Somaliland Journalist’s Association (SOLJA), Mr.
Harir Farah Duale, passed away on Wednesday of a heart attack.
Mr. Harir Farah Duale had just gotten out of a mosque and was on
his way home when he suddenly had a heart attack and died
immediately.
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Las Anod, Somaliland, January
30, 2010 (SL Times) – Twenty one students graduated from Nugaal
University this week. This is the first batch of students to
graduate from Nugaal University, and they studied fields such as
business administration and accounting. The graduation ceremony
took place at Hamdi hotel in Las Anod and was attended by
community elders, intellectuals, Somaliland government officials
and many ordinary citizens.
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Hizb Al-Islam And Al-Shabaab
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Baladweyn, Somalia, January 30,
2010 (SL Times) – An alliance between Hizb al-Islam and
al-Shabaab took over Baladweyn, a town that is 206 miles north
of Mogadishu, after wresting control of the town from the
militia of Ahlu al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama’ah.
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Al-Shabaab Kill Civilians At
Hospital |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – In yet another
gross violation of Islamic teachings, al-Shabaab militias in
Mogadishu attacked a hospital killing several Somali civilian
patients who were standing in line to receive medical care.
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Analysis: Explosions Raise Fears
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, January 30, 2010 (SL Times) – The latest bomb
explosion in Somaliland raises concerns over the lack of
government presence in the Las-anod area, says an analyst. Among
those injured in the blast, which killed one person and injured
five on 28 January, was the governor of Sool region, Askar Farah
Hussein, who was admitted to a hospital in the town of Las-Anod.
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Haiti Must Learn To Live With
Earthquakes: Experts |
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The Haitian
national flag is at half mast in front of Haitian
Presidential Palace, in the center of Port-au-Prince |
By Jordi Zamora
PORT-AU-PRINCE, January 30, 2010 — It will be difficult to
convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their
quake-ravaged country with structures able to withstand another
powerful earthquake, experts said Friday.
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Gates Foundation Pledges $10
Billion For Vaccine Research
“More than
250 million children have been immunized. And...five million
deaths have been prevented with that kind of support. Those are
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The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation's announcement at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland |
By Joe DeCapua
Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2010 — The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation Friday pledged $10 billion dollars over the
next 10 years to research and develop new vaccines. The
announcement came at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
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Mr. Blair has been accused of
misleading Parliament to take the UK into war and some critics have even
called for him to be indicted for war crimes. On
Friday, January 29, hundreds demonstrate outside the Queen Elizabeth II
Conference Centre as Tony Blair gives evidence.
Slide Show |
Philippe Naughton
London, UK, January 30, 2010 – Tony Blair opened himself up to a charge of
misleading Parliament today when he told the Iraq inquiry that by any objective
analysis the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons
programme had not increased after 9/11.
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US President said
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President Barack Obama delivering
the State of the Union address, 27 Jan 2010 |
Washington, January 30, 2010 –
U.S. President Barack Obama is urging Americans to overcome a deficit of trust
in government and work together to solve a damaged economy and other problems.
The economy was high on the president's list of priorities in his annual State
of the Union address Wednesday night.
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Alexandra Frean, US Business
Correspondent |
Washington, January 30, 2010 – The United States economy grew at 5.7 per cent in
the fourth quarter of 2009, the fastest rise in six years and far ahead of
analysts’ expectations of 4.8 per cent.
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Somalis in
the port area of the capital, Mogadishu, January 29,
2010 ,
Times
photographer Jack Hill in Somalia's capital -
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January 30, 2010
On Monday afternoon a seven-year old boy called Mohamed was hit
when an 82mm mortar shell exploded outside a health clinic in
Mogadishu where his mother works as a cleaner.
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Left, Omar
Hammami as a freshman in high school. Right, in a
Shabaab propaganda video released in March 2009 |
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
ON A WARM, cloudy day in the fall of 1999, the town of Daphne,
Ala., stirred to life. The high-school band came pounding down
Main Street, past the post office and the library and Christ the
King Church. Trumpeters in gold-tasseled coats tipped their
horns to the sky, heralding the arrival of teenage demigods.
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An
emigrant from Kenya tells Helen Harvey about deeds of
derring- do in foreign climes.
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Taranaki Daily News, January 30, 2010
Richard Foale, 43, flies people around in his helicopter.
His passengers are tourists and the terrain they fly over is
the mountains and pastures of Taranaki.
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Dr. Terry Lacey
While Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa leads a
delegation to the London talks on Afghanistan, Indonesian
Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu has just signed an
agreement to increase Indonesian trade with Somalia.
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Sillanyo’s Visit To The US Is A Success |
Now that the visit of the Chairman of Kulmiye Party, Mr.
Ahmed Sillanyo, to the US has ended, a preliminary assessment of
that visit is in order. It is our opinion that Mr. Sillanyo’s
visit marks a success for Somaliland’s democracy. Why? Because
in a functioning democracy political parties compete for the
citizens’ votes, and in order to get that vote they have to work
hard and show that they deserve it. Mr. Sillanyo did work hard
to advance Somaliland’s cause during his US visit and provided
tangible evidence that when it comes to the national interests,
Somalilanders, regardless of whether they are in government or
in the opposition, are united, and that in itself is a credit to
Somaliland’s democratic system.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the tenth article of a series
of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military
coup and its legacy
The Regime’s Foreign Policy (Core Countries) continued ...
The United States of America
The relationship between the military regime and the United
States was very low since the regime came into power. One of
the first political actions taken by the military was to
expel the American Peace Corps. Like other communist
countries, the regime constantly watched any Somali who
entered the American embassy in the capital and any one who
had some relationship with the Americans was seen as anti -
revolutionary “kacaan diid”. The card of United States as
the imperialist was played to the maximum. All the problems
of Somalia were blamed on the West, particularly on the
United States. US foreign policy on Somalia was mainly
linked to the county’s strategy of containment of Russian
and Chinese influence in the Horn of Africa. Since the
beginning of the cold war, the Horn of Africa was one of the
most strategically contested areas in Africa.
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Somaliland Political Strategy
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By: Khadar Hanan
Doha, Qatar
It’s quite obvious that every success lies behind a leader
and every leader is subject to make mistakes; only those who
do not work or lead makes no mistakes. Mistakes made should
not always be taken as the denominator of all your future
undertakings but rather, they must be learnt from them and
should not be repeated again in the longer run. Mistakes are
flying all around us and could strike at every now and then
between every living creature, event the closest organs like
the tongue and teeth.
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KULMIYE To The Rescue |
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Dr. Mohamud M.Nur (Dr.
Abaayo)
Somaliland is a country with a decent people. The goals of
this small country are the same as those of any country in
the world, to achieve economic development, peace, justice,
stability etc. She does not exist in a vacuum, but is a part
of the international community that she must live with. Even
the most powerful countries need the rest of the world, the
trade between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R continued throughout
the cold war. It is imperative that Somaliland maintains
good relations with as many countries and other
international partners as possible, and avoid making
enemies, especially powerful ones.
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Maalim’s Hargeysa Visit Was
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By Mohamed Nur ‘Indaboor’
A recent harangue by Mr. Osman Hassan that was published in
the Nation (January 13), on the recent visit to the Republic
of Somaliland by the deputy Speaker of the National
Assembly, Mr. Farah Maalim, is indicative of the sermonizing
masquerading as debate on the Somali question.
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Justice Is Not Grievance |
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By: Mohamed
Jibriil Elmi
We will be continual struggling to intervene of justice for the
rest our life!!!
The population in
this world is estimated approximately over six billion and we know, they live
injustice on this earth, because if they had equality; they would have a same
standard of living and life style. Nevertheless, that is good, but every one in
this match which is going on this space, knows how the supporters are excited
about the game, although there are few people who don’t know whom they are in
the match race and the competition.
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“One Man Eats, Another Says Grace!” – Eritrean
Highland-Lowland Splits |
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Abdullah A. Ado
– Email:
abdullahadoa@gmail.com
Introduction:
To begin with let
me ‘get to the nitty-gritty’ and thank EMDG and
EPDP Board members and those individuals who genuinely requested me to make
correction on a name I mentioned in my earlier article by goofing-up EMDG for
EPDP. Indeed I have exchanged contacts on this matter both with EMDG and EPDP
Board members.
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Radicalizing Muslim Youth
Unwise |
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By Billow Kerrow
January 30, 2010
The varied reactions and interpretations of the recent
demonstration by Muslims for Human Rights Forum has revealed
our weakness as a nation.
It seems justice, freedom and human rights are merely
skin-deep and may be whimsically sacrificed, not just by the
government, but by all, including the media, civic activists
and the public.
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Director Asks, "What Are We
Doing Here?" |
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Tim Klein
presented his famous documentary in Maginnes Hall
Thursday Jan. 21 about his journey to Africa in an
attempt to find out why Africans are subjected to
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By Aly Callahan
January 30, 2010
Tim Klein, one of the directors of the world-famous
documentary "What Are We Doing Here?" presented his film
about the effects of foreign food aid in Africa Thursday
Jan. 21 in Maginnes Hall.
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