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SOMALILAND DROUGHT: Food
Distribution To Resume In Baki District |
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PRESS RELEASE
Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 – Food distribution
by World Vision has resumed in Baki district, Somaliland,
after suspected cases of loss of food aid resulted in
temporary suspension of the Baki food programme in December
2009. Investigations conducted by World Vision have also led
to termination of five staff members based in Baki district.
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COLUMBUS, February 27, 2010 — The new Somali special envoy
to the United States says his top priority is rekindling the
diplomatic relationship between the two countries nearly two
decades of civil war in the African nation.
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New York, February 27, 2010 – An organization of hackers has
published online copies of documents, which they claim prove
that Latvia supplied arms to Somalia in violation of a UN
Security Council resolution.
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Mount Ayliff, South Africa, February 27, 2010 – Three Somali
nationals are being treated in an isolation unit in the
Eastern Cape after they fell ill with an unidentified
disease, the Eastern Cape health department said on Friday.
Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said a fourth Somali had been
declared dead on arrival at Mount Ayliff hospital.
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Singapore's ship Kota Karim docks at the Aden
Container Terminal in the southern Yemeni port city
of Aden February 9, 2010. Yemen and Dubai's DP World
plan a major expansion of Aden's container port,
betting on growth in the poorest Arab country
despite al Qaeda, instability and Somali pirates,
officials said. Picture taken February 9, 2010. |
Mogadishu, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – A ransom was
delivered to Somali pirates on Friday for the release of the
Singaporean-flagged chemical tanker MV Pramoni hijacked in
the Gulf of Aden on January 1, maritime officials said.
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By Kaleyesus Bekele
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 27, 2010 – The Malaysian oil
and gas giant, Petronas, which is prospecting for oil in the
Ogaden basin in the Somali regional state is moving its
drilling crew from Genalle to Hilala exploration site.
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Region That Feeds From
Somalia Chaos |
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By Boniface Ongeri
Nairobi, Kenya, February 27, 2010 – Many parts of North
Eastern Province rely on war-torn Somalia more than they
rely on Kenya.
From petroleum products, second-hand vehicles and spare
parts, electronics, textiles, satellite dishes, mobile
phones and sugar, the region’s goods are easily sourced from
the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
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Somali Journalists Face
Death Threats, Kidnappings |
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In this
Tuesday, Feb.
23, 2010
picture Somali
journalist Ibrahim Mohamed
Hussein
poses for a
picture
in Nairobi, Kenya. |
Nairobi, Kenya, February 27, 2010 – Islamist insurgents
blindfolded journalist Ibrahim Mohamed Hussein, tied his
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ands behind his back and ordered him to face Mecca. Then a
man put a knife to his throat.
A last-second phone call spared Hussein's life. His family
had paid an $18,000 ransom. After the attack he fled to
Uganda, leaving behind his wife and three children."I'm the
luckiest person in the world. I sometimes feel like I'm in a
dream," Hussein said of last year's escape. "I don't think
there is someone whose throat was put, like mine, to a sharp
knife and survived, especially in Somalia."
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Cynical Greed Of Family Who
Sold UK Rights |
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Mustafa Yassin |
By Polly
Rippon
Sheffield, February 27, 2010 – FOUR 'greedy and cynical'
members of the same family, who were convicted of running a
nationwide scam which allowed immigrants to apply for UK
passports under false pretences, have been sent to jail.
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Somalia Can Handle More
Funds Directly: AU |
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Nairobi, February 27, 2010 – Somalia has made progress
restoring state institutions and accountability and its
administration can now handle more funds directly, the
African Union's deputy head of mission to Somalia said.
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AU Kicks-Starts Training Of
Professional Police Force For Somalia |
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NAIROBI, Kenya, February 27, 2010 – The African Union (AU)
has kicked off training of Somalia's police force to boost
the internal security situation in the country mainly the
capital city of Mogadishu. The training begins with the
training of a highly skilled professional police leadership
of 34 senior police officers.
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Somali Rebel Says
"Targeted" By Another Group |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, February 27, 2010 – The Islamist Al
Shabaab movement in Somalia on Monday said it was the target
of recent series explosions that rocked the insurgent-held
part of the Somali capital Mogadishu and accused an unnamed
group for the attacks.
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EU To Step Up Operation
Against Pirates |
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Marines
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 June 3
2009. |
Mallorca, Spain, February 27, 2010 – European Union defense
ministers agreed on February 24 2010 to expand the
objectives of Operation Atalanta to include control of
Somali ports where pirate ships are based, as well as the
possibility of "neutralizing" the mother ships that allow
the pirates to operate more than 1000km from the coast.
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Somali Mother Can Claim
Thousands In UK Benefits Because Her Children Attend British
Schools, EU Judges Rule |
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Ruling: The
European Court of Justice has said Nimco Hassan Ibrahim
is entitled to benefits in the UK as she is the primary
carer of the child of a migrant worker |
London, UK,
February 27, 2010 – A Somali mother-of-four is entitled to
claim thousands of pounds in benefits because two of her
children are attending UK schools, EU judges ruled today.
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Puntland Pirates Confiscate
Somaliland-Owned Vehicles |
An armed Somali pirate
keeps vigil along the
coastline at Hobyo town,
northeastern Somalia in
2009. Somali pirates in
Puntland seized food aid
trucks and their drivers
to obtain the release of
detained comrades,
officials said, in a
rare land attack by the
sea bandits.
Bossaso, Somalia,
February 27, 2010 (SL
Times) – Bandits from
Puntland confiscated
nine Somaliland-owned
vehicles that were on
their way to Somaliland
after delivering food
aid to the starving
people of central
Somalia.
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Dr Muhammad Rashid
Meets With The Heads Of The European Parliament |
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Dr Muhammad Rashid Sheikh Hassan met Madam Isabel
Durant, the Deputy President of the European
parliament(right) in Brussels. |
Brussels, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – UCID’s Vice
presidential candidate, Dr Muhammad Rashid Sheikh Hassan met
with some of the heads of the European parliament, among them
Madam Isabel Durant (the Deputy President of the European
parliament). The meeting took place in Brussels.
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Chairman Of
Somaliland’s Upper House Warns Against Terrorist Threat |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Chairman of Somaliland’s Upper House, the Honorable Suleiman
Mohamud Adan, warned against terrorists who are trying to
destabilize the country through exploding bombs that have
killed and wounded several people.
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Badhan Gets Ready For Somaliland
Election |
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Badhan, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – The
highest Sultan in Eastern Sanag, Sultan Said Sultan Abdisalan
has confirmed that Eastern Sanag is going to participate in
Somaliland’s coming elections.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Somaliland language newspaper Haatuf published one of the poems
of Muhammad Ibrahim Warsame (Hadrawi). The poem is called
Awaal-tiris and was composed in September 13, 2009.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February
27, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland's national de-mining agency
(NDA) shared with the public a report of its activities for year
2009. The event took place at the office of the demining agency
and was attended by ministers, deputy ministers, members of
parliament and officials from the demining agency.
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Ahmed Muhammad Isse Says Somali
Language In Danger |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February
27, 2010 (SL Times) – One of Somaliland’s intellectuals, Mr.
Ahmed Muhammad Isse (Ina Aw Salawaad) warned that the Somali
language is in danger of being overwhelmed by foreign languages.
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ONLF Kills Four Civilians |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – Militias of
the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked civilians
in the area of Isgoyska which is part of Aware district in the
Somali region of Ethiopia.
Explaining what happened, Sultan Ali Abdillahi Baane told the
Somali language newspaper Ogaal that the civilians were attacked
by the ONLF while they were in the middle of building a water
reservoir.
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Entrepreneurial Goals Common Among
Young in Arab States
Median of 27%
across Arab League countries including Somaliland intend to
start a business in the next year |
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By
Steve Crabtree
WASHINGTON D.C. February 27, 2010 -- In Arab League countries,
there appears to be no shortage of entrepreneurial aspirations
among young people. Across 20 countries and the Somaliland
region of Somalia, a median 27% of young Arabs who were not
already business owners said they intended to start a business
in the next 12 months. Intent to create a business ranged from a
high of 45% in Sudan to a low of 9% in Jordan. The findings are
based on "The
Silatech Index: Voices of Young Arabs,"
a report prepared in partnership between Gallup and Silatech.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – Somali
pirates in Puntland seized food aid trucks and their drivers
to obtain the release of detained comrades, officials said
Friday, in a rare land attack by the sea bandits.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
February 27, 2010 (SL Times) – Two of Somalia’s
parliamentarians and a police officer were jailed in
Ethiopia for entering the country illegally. The two
parliamentarians are Hussein Gagaale and Abdillahi Muhammad
Adan.
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Garowe, Somalia, February
27, 2010 (SL Times) – A hand grenade was lobbed at a station
of Puntland administration’s armed forces in central Garowe.
Puntland administration has not announced if anyone was
killed or injured as a result of the bomb’s explosion.
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White House Social Secretary
Desiree Rogers Steps Down
Rogers
Tells Hometown Newspaper She Will Explore Opportunities in
Corporate World |
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By Karen Travers and Jake Tapper
Washington DC, February 27, 2010 –
White House Social Secretary Desiree
Rogers is
stepping down from her position 14 months into her tenure as the
Obama administration staff member responsible for opening up the
White House and shaping the Obama brand.
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Danish Paper Apologizes For
Printing Muhammad Cartoon |
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Kurt
Westergaard's cartoons
have been
widely reprinted |
Copenhagen, February 27, 2010 – A Danish newspaper has
apologized for any offence caused when it reprinted a cartoon
depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban in
2008.
Politiken said it was apologizing as part of a settlement with
Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.
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Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been
blacklisted by Switzerland |
Geneva, February 27, 2010 – Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has called for a jihad, or
holy war, against Switzerland, as an ongoing diplomatic row between the two
nations heats up.
He criticised a recent Swiss vote against the building of minarets and said
Muslims must boycott the country.
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Timbuktu, Mali, February 27, 2010 – Twenty-six people, mostly women and
children, have been killed in a crush at the famous Djinguereber mosque in
Timbuktu, sources have told the BBC.
The stampede happened during the Mouloud festival to mark the birth of the
Prophet Muhammad, when people walk around the mud mosque in northern Mali.
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Fifa officials said some of the
facilities for the tournament are still being constructed [GETTY] |
Geneva, February 27, 2010 –
South Africa is not ready to host the 2010 World Cup, just over three months
before the tournament kicks off, according to football's international governing
body.
Jerome Valke, Fifa's secretary general, told a news conference on Tuesday that
the main venue in Johannesburg, Soccer City, was yet to be completed, and that
700,000 tickets were still unsold.
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Teresa Krug
(center) is shown with two students from Abaarso Tech in
front of a rock formation, Halaye, with hieroglyphics
that are supposedly dated from 500 B.C. just outside
Somaliland, Africa. Notice the armed guards standing
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By Teresa Krug
Hargeysa, Somaliland, Africa, February 27, 2010 – Teresa Krug, a
2003 Heber Springs High graduate, is an English teacher in
Somaliland in the eastern horn of Africa. She has been there
since October 2009. She was originally supposed to teach English
and journalism to university students, but since January she has
been teaching English at the secondary school of Abaarso Tech
(an advanced high school) to freshmen and local police and
customs officers.
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I. Introduction
Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 27, 2010 – On 16 February, the
ISG members held their regular monthly meeting at the Academy of
Peace and Development (APD) to discuss and assess the overall
progress made on the six-point Agreement. The meeting was
sponsored by the Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI).
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February
27, 2010 – DFID
It has been a busy six months for the DFID Somalia programme,
with our funding increasing to over £23m for 2009/10. Our
engagement with civil society has also increased.
And we provided £9.5 million to deliver humanitarian relief
to the most vulnerable. We continue to seek ways to improve
access to health and education for all Somalis.
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Rapper
Knaan has rewritten his anthem Wavin' Flag to help
raise funds for Haiti relief. |
By Marsha Lederman
New York, February 27, 2010 – It was a warm, wet night in
Manhattan in 2006, and K’naan was taking a walk alone,
trying to shake off some disturbing news. It might have been
something immediate, or perhaps something that had happened
in Somalia, where he’s from; he can’t recall what exactly
had sent him out into the New York streets. But he remembers
how the air felt, that the rain had stopped, that he was in
a T-shirt and that a melody suddenly came into his head,
with the lyrics: “When I get older, I will be stronger,
they’ll call me freedom, just like a waving flag.”
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Somaliland’s Eastern Policy Still Working |
Of all the things that Somaliland’s current government has
done, there is one thing that even their most strident critic
will have to concede that they have gotten right, and that is
Somaliland’s eastern policy. We have said this before
(Somaliland Times, Issue 108 Feb.16-22, 2004), but it is worth
saying again given the current situation in that part of the
country.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XIV |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the fourteenth article of a series
of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military
coup and its legacy
The New Ideology and Islam continued ...
The ideology imposed by the military was an unprecedented
challenge for an Islamic society to change its worldview
overnight, a challenge that even colonizers did not
contemplate.
Marxist intellectuals and propagators of Marxist socialism
in other Islamic societies were faced with the same
challenge from Islamic populations. Syria, Iraq, Libya are
good examples, having realized the deeply rooted challenges
they met from their Islamic populations, they settled with a
“locally originated socialism”.
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The Somali Community Needs To
Learn To Deal With The Reality Of Mental Illness |
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By Obsiye and Salah
Mental health is a very real and difficult issue which many
in society face.
Mental health concerns how those with mental illness think,
feel and consequently behave. According to the National
Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain one in four people in
the UK have a mental health problem at some point in their
lives that affects their daily life, relationships or
physical health.
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Somaliland's Deepest Gratitude
To King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz |
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Again, the people of
Somaliland and Somalia are thanking to his highness the King
of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz for lifting the ban.
By - Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took productive step by allowing the
livestock exports from Somaliland and Somalia. The livestock
exports are economy backbone for both the countries, and 90%
of daily income of Somali families is from livestock
revenue. The Somali people at the horn of Africa cheered the
decision of the kingdom to end the nine years old ban.
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Iran, Israel’s Naval Bases,
Somaliland’s Recognition: Port Berbera—Bargaining Chip |
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By Dalmar Kahin
A Somali warrior poet once said, "Rag hadaad colaad
leedihiin, ciidanse u waydo, waxkastood ku ciil bixi kartaa
kuu cawo aduune...or if you are embroiled in a hostile war
with other men but don't have a counter attack force,
anything that could alleviate your pain serves as luck on
your side."
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Diaspora: Our Country’s
Unprecedented Reconstruction Engine |
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By Saeed Mohamed Ahmed
I always remember my teacher’s word when I hear the often-said remark, which
implies that our national economy’s cornerstone is livestock. Mr. Abdi Ali-my
lecturer at the university, while teaching one of the core courses, Development
Economics used to ask us about the current cornerstone of our economy.
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The Somali Federation: The Dual-State Solution |
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By Aman H.D. Obsiye
Introduction
26 June 1960 what
was known as British Somaliland cease to exist. The first Somali territory freed
its self from the shackles of colonialism. 1 July 1960, what was known as
Italian Somaliland became free and merged with former British Somaliland to form
an independent Somali nation-state.
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Somalia: How Colonial
Powers Drove A Country Into Chaos |
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Interview Of Mohamed Hassan
By Gregoire Lalieu & Michel Collon
Somalia had every reason to succeed: an advantageous
geographical situation, oil, ores and only one religion and
one language for the whole territory; a rare phenomenon in
Africa. Somalia could have been a great power in the region.
But the reality is completely different: famine, wars,
lootings, piracy, bomb attacks.
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Somalia's Civil War: Jihadists
On The March
The strongest
Islamist militia is now formally linked to al-Qaeda |
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Nairobi, Kenya, February 27, 2010 – THE war in Somalia
between the Islamist militias known as the Shabaab and the
Western-backed supposedly “transitional” government headed
by Sharif Ahmed, himself an Islamist who promotes sharia
law, is getting even bloodier. The UN says that ferocious
fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, has caused at least
8,000 residents to flee this month, to add to the 1.5m
Somalis already displaced, out of a population that once
exceeded 8m.
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