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Somali Tied To Islamists
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By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS, March 11 (Reuters) - A Somali businessman
linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a ransom paid
for kidnapped French aid workers was a contractor for the
World Food Program and UNICEF, a U.N. report said.
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* U.N. report says agency retaliated against
whistleblower
* Victim blames
official now running UNDP Haiti programme
* UNDP denies
corruption in Somalia, backs Haiti official
* Security Council
report says much Somali food aid diverted
(Adds details of UN
report on corrupt diversion of aid)
By Mark
Trevelyan
LONDON, March 13, 2010 – The United Nations Ethics Committee
has upheld complaints by a former employee of the U.N.
Development Programme who said he suffered retaliation from
the UNDP for alleging that its Somalia programme was
corrupt.
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By
Malkah Fleisher
Tel
Aviv, Israel, March 13, 2010 (IsraelNN.com) Israel is increasing
its partnership in Africa, united with factions which are
battling fundamentalist Islam.
Following February
talks between Israel and the Kenyan government in
which the African country requested Israeli assistance in
fighting terror, Israel and Kenya may form a joint force to
guard against the entry of terrorists through the northern
Kenyan border with Somalia.
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An
oil-drilling platform under construction at Walvis
Bay, Namibia. Steve Allen / Getty |
By NICK
WADHAMS
Nairobi,
Kenya, March 13, 2010 – According to local lore, Portuguese
travelers as far back as the late 19th century suspected
that oil might lie beneath parts of East Africa after
noticing a thick, greasy sediment wash up on the shores of
Mozambique.
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Abaarso, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The largest wind
turbine in the country arrived on the campus of Abaarso Tech
on Tuesday after being shipped from China. When installed
the wind turbine is expected to provide up to 30 KW of
continuous power, enough for Abaarso Tech’s campus.
Daniel Chehata, the head of the physics department, said the
whole assembly process could take less than a week. Staff is
hopeful that shortly thereafter the windmill will start
producing the majority of energy the secondary boarding
school uses.
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London, UK, March 13, 2010 – His Excellency Dr. Jubarah Bin
Eid Alsuraisry, Minister of Transport of Saudi Arabia
(pictured left), today signed the Code of Conduct on the
Suppression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the
Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (Djibouti Code of
Conduct). The agreement, signed during an official visit to
IMO Headquarters in London, makes the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia the 13th country to do.
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Somalia Food Aid Bypasses
Needy, U.N. Study Says |
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In Madena,
outside Mogadishu, Somalia, soldiers with the
transitional government guarded a district
commissioner's office. |
By Jeffrey
Gettleman and Neil MacFarquhar
United Nation, March 13, 2010 – As much as half the food
aid sent to Somalia is
diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors,
radical Islamist militants and local United
Nations staff
members, according to a new Security Council report.
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US Firm Urges Affordable
Internet Access For East Africa |
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Alisha Ryu
Nairobi, Kenya, March 13, 2010 – A U.S.-based organization
that promotes the use of the Internet is urging leaders in
east Africa to make the Internet accessible and affordable
to all of their citizens.
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Somali Official To
Residents: Flee Battle Zones |
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Mogadishu,
Somalia, March 13, 2010 – Frightened Somalis stacked
household goods on carts pulled by donkeys and fled the
heaviest fighting the capital has seen in almost a year
Friday, after hundreds of heavily armed insurgents moved
into an area this week previously controlled by government
soldiers.
The battles that have killed more than 50 people could
foreshadow a violent spring in Mogadishu, as government
troops prepare to launch a true offensive against Islamist
insurgents who the U.S. says are linked to al-Qaida.
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US Commander Backs Bid For
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Washington, March 13, 2010 – A senior US military officer
voiced support Tuesday for efforts by the Somali government
to take control of the capital Mogadishu, saying it could
help ease the country's chronic instability.
Mogadishu and other parts of central and southern Somalia
under insurgent control have been bracing for a major
offensive by the government and the African Union
peacekeeping mission, known as AMISOM.
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International Women's Day
Absurd Says Supermodel |
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Waris
Dirie from Somalia receives the 'World Socail Award'
from the former president of the Soviet Union and
president of the World Awards Mikhail Gorbavachev
during the Women's World Awards gala in the norther
German city of Hamburg June 9, 2004 file photo
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By Astrid Wendlandt
PARIS, France, March 13, 2010 – Millions of women around the
world are feted on International Women's Day but for Waris
Dirie, the Somali nomad turned supermodel, the idea is
absurd.
"Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an
international women's day," Dirie told Reuters before the
premiere of a film based on her life story, coming out in
France on Wednesday.
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NATO Extends Anti-Piracy
Operation Off Somalia Until End 2012 |
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BRUSSELS, March 13, 2010 – NATO has extended the mandate of
its anti-piracy
mission off the coast of Somalia until
the end of 2012, the alliance's spokesman James Appathurai
has said.
Appathurai
told reporters on Wednesday the decision was based on "the
assessment that this mission is making demonstrable
contribution to increased safety for shipping and reduced
success rates for pirates."
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France Claims Biggest Haul
Of Pirates Off Somalia |
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PARIS, March 13, 2010 – French frigate Nivose has seized 35
pirates in three days off of Somalia, the French military
said on Sunday, claiming "the biggest seizure" so far in the
vital shipping lane.
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Ottawa Blacklists Somali
Militant Group |
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This 2008
file photo shows armed fighters from Somalia's
Al-Shabaab jihadist movement traveling on the back of
pickup trucks outside Mogadishu. AP |
Colin
Freeze
Ottawa, Ca, March 13, 2010 – Ottawa has opened a new front
in its global conflict with Islamic extremism by joining the
attack on al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group
in East Africa that draws young recruits and support from
Canada and around the world.
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UN Report Says Sheikh Sharif’s
Government Sells Visas To Terrorists And Pirates |
Armed fighters from
Somalia's Al-Shabaab
jihadist movement
traveling on the back
of pickup trucks
New York, USA, March 13,
2010 (SL Times) – Sheikh
Sharif appeared first on
the Somali political
scene as the head of the
terrorist Islamic Courts
Union. When Ethiopia
invaded Somalia, he ran
away to Kenya and struck
a deal with the United
States.
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University Of Buroa
Graduation Ceremony |
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Graduation ceremony
for 93 students who graduated from Buroa University, on
March 12, 2010 |
Buroa, Somaliland, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The University of
Buroa held a graduation ceremony for ninety three students who
graduated from that University. According to Tgodheernews.com,
the students included both males and females and their fields of
study included economics, education, veterinary medicine, and
Islamic studies.
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Somaliland
Election Commission Says New Cards Will Be Issued |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The
spokesman of Somaliland's election commission, Mr Muhammad
Ahmed Hersi said that the previous cards will be replaced by
new cards, and that these new cards will be used for the
election. He also said the election will take place in 2010
but he did not give a specific date.
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Somaliland Minister Of State For
Education Says Spread Of Private Universities Could Pose A
Problem |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Minister of State for Education Mr Mohamud Muhammad Garad said
that the rapid increase in the number of private universities
could pose a problem for Somaliland’s educational system when it
comes to the quality of education and the standardization of the
curriculum. The minister gave this warning in a conference at
the University of Hargeysa.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
celebrated the international women’s day on March 8th. The
celebrations which took place in various regions of the country
were sponsored by the ministry of family and community affairs
in conjunction with UN and international organizations.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 13,
2010 (SL Times) – A group of businessmen concluded their visit
to Somaliland and flew back to China on March 7th. The visit
Chinese delegation’s visit was in response to a visit to China
by Somaliland’s Minister of Aviation, Mr. Ali Muhammad Waran
Adde and the Mayor of Hargeysa, Eng. Hussein Ja’ir.
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Sheikh Sharif’s Militia Sell Arms
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New York, USA, March 13, 2010
(SL Times) – The widely known fact that the Islamic insurgents
in Mogadishu get much of their weaponry from the Somali
“government” that is supposed to be their enemy has now been
confirmed by a United Nation Security Council report. Quoting
from the report, the New York Times (March 9, 2010) wrote: “many
of the rebels' weapons come not only from Yemen, but also from
Somalia's weak U.N.-backed transitional government.”
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SOHASCO Gives HIV/AIDS Orientation
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The Somaliland
youth volunteer organization (SOHASCO) took the message about
the dangers of HIV/AIDS to Gacmo-Dheere school. The principal of
to Gacmo-Dheere school, Mr Hassan Jama Abdillahi, first thanked
SOHASCO for bringing the program to the school.
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Sheikh Sharif Took Part In
Diverting Food Aid From Needy Somalis |
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New York, USA, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – A Security Council
report has shown that Sheikh Sharif and other members of his
government had taken part in a huge scheme that diverted food
aid from starving Somalis and defrauded the United Nations.
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Nairobi, Kenya, March 13, 2010 (SL Times) – The UN Secretary
General’s representative to Somalia, Mr Ahmad Ould Abdalla,
defended Sheikh Sharif’s government from charges of
widespread corruption.
Mr Ahmad Ould Abdalla was reacting to a report by the UN
Security Council which showed that Sheikh Sharif’s
government as well as Sheikh Sharif himself have
participated in fraudulent schemes that diverted food aid
from the needy people of Somalia.
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New York, USA, March 13,
2010 (SL Times) – A United Nations Security Council report
accused the Puntland administration of being involved in
piracy. This is not exactly news but a well known fact. It
is not the first time that the United Nations says it
either.
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Pretoria, SA, March 13,
2010 (SL Times) – South African ministers, Ambassadors,
Academics including Professor Louise Molamu, Registrar of
the University of South Africa, Professor Rosemary Moeketsi,
Executive Dean of Human Sciences, Professor Iqbal Jhazbhay,
Author of the Book , and his wife Naseema Docrat,
Distinguished ambassadors and high commissioners in South
Africa, Professor Chris Landsberg of the University of
Johannesburg, Dr Nomfundo Ngwenya of the South African
Institute of International Relations, members from the South
African civil society, journalists, members from the
Somaliland community in S. Africa, Somalilanders from UK &
Canada, and lots of students and other invited guests, have
gathered to witness Prof Iqbal's book launch which was held
in a well organized event at UNISA, Pretoria on the 11th
March 2010.
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Twin Suicide Bombs Kill 43 In
Pakistani City |
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LAHORE, Pakistan, March 13, 2010 — Two suicide bombers killed 43
people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major
attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants
have the power to strike targets despite months of army
offensives and U.S. missile strikes.
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Israel Restricts Entry to Disputed
Jerusalem Holy Place |
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A Palestinian
worshipper, who was prevented from reaching the al-Aqsa
Mosque, prays outside Jerusalem's Old City while Israeli
forces stand guard in the background, 12 Mar 2010 |
Robert Berger
Jerusalem, March 13, 2010 – Israel has imposed a security
clampdown on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank amid
fears of unrest.
Israel sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours, saying police had
intelligence information that Palestinian youths would cause
disturbances after prayers for the Muslim Sabbath on Friday.
This Palestinian was turned away by Israeli troops at the
entrance to Jerusalem from Bethlehem.
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Members of leftist Workers' Party
march to the Sweden Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, 12 Mar 2010, a day
after Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution recognizing the
1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide |
Dorian Jones
Istanbul, March 13, 2010 – The Swedish parliament's passage of a resolution
recognizing the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide is drawing
strong condemnation from Ankara. The vote comes after the U.S. Congress's
Foreign Affairs Committee passed a similar motion earlier this month.
Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Sweden and canceled a summit in Stockholm
after Swedish lawmakers passed the measure Thursday.
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By
Geoff Mulvihill and Wayne Parry
Sanaa, Yemen, March
13, 2010 – Yemeni counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali
origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country,
where he was being held after a mass arrest of al-Qaeda members, authorities
said Thursday.
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Waris Diri fled Africa at 13. Now
she is returning to champion women |
London, March 14, 2010 – SHE
was 13 when she fled her home in the Somali desert and an arranged marriage with
a man five times her age.
Three decades later, after a career as a supermodel and human rights activist,
Waris Dirie is planning to go home to Africa.
“I dream of having my own farm and lodge in Tanzania, near Mount Kilimanjaro,”
she said in an interview with The Sunday Times last week. “I am convinced that
my beautiful continent has more potential than most people imagine.”
Born to a family of nomadic
goat herders, Dirie, 44, has led an extraordinary life: she was “discovered” in
London by a fashion photographer who gave her his card in a burger bar where she
was sweeping up.
The “nomad to supermodel” story is the subject of Desert Flower, a film that
opened last week in Paris.
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Mr C Chabane,
Performance Monitoring and Evaluation as well as
Administration in The Presidency |
March 13, 2010
The speech was read on behalf of the Minister by Ambassador
Welile Nhlapo, Presidential National Security Advisor
Professor Louise Molamu, Registrar of the University of South
Africa
Professor Rosemary Moeketsi, Executive Dean of Human Sciences
Professor Iqbal Jhazbhay, Author of the Book we are launching
today, and his wife Naseema Docrat
Distinguished ambassadors and high commissioners
Professor Chris Landsberg of the University of Johannesburg
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Bronwyn E.
Bruton |
Interviewee: Bronwyn
E. Bruton
Interviewer: Deborah
Jerome, Deputy
Editor, CFR.org
A
bloody war between Somalia's al-Shabaab
militias and the ineffectual, U.S.-supported Transitional
Federal Government that is backed by African Union troops could
escalate amid reports of an imminent TFG offensive. In a new Council
Special Report on Somalia, democracy and governance expert Bronwyn
Bruton argues
that the best way for the United States to fight terrorism and
promote stability in Somalia is a policy of "constructive
disengagement."
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Charles
Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Mar 13, 2010 – The United States should accept
an "Islamist authority" in Somalia as part of a
"constructive disengagement" strategy for the war-torn
country, according to a new report released here by the
influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday.
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Tel Aviv, Israel, March 13, 2010 – Israel is struggling to
keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a
determined effort to expand its influence there, making the
continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel
confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which
wants Israeli help to fight the growing menace of jihadist
terrorism emanating from war-torn Somalia, Kenya's northern
neighbor where jihadists linked to al-Qaida are active.
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Arming
And Supporting Sheikh Sharif Is Pushing Somalia To The Worse |
Two days of fighting in Mogadishu has resulted in the death
of around fifty people and the injuring of over a hundred. Most
of the dead are civilians due to indiscriminate shelling of
civilian areas by African troops and government militias. The
shelling of civilian areas is a routine part of the response of
Sheikh Sharif’s militias and African Union troops to attacks by
Islamic extremists.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XVI |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the fifteenth article of a
series of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the
military coup and its legacy
Somali-Ethiopian War 1977/1978 and Super Power Politics
continued ...
In this first
stage (1969-1975) the military regime domestically focused
on mass mobilization, such as campaigns against tribalism (Qabyalad),
sand-dune stabilization (bacaad celin), tree
planting, setting up community centers and committees in
towns and all places of work. It also nationalized most of
the economy. These actions were presented as progress (horumar).
From an analytical perspective these were methods of social
engineering to popularize the regime’s image. Some of these
campaigns such as growing trees and the sand-dune
stabilization were useful. They created a sense of awareness
of the environment and the attempt to de-tribalisate,
revived the national collective consciousness and was
reminiscent of the 1950/1960s struggle for independence.
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Bashe Abdi Yussuf V Lt. Gen.
Mohamed Ali Samater: United States Supreme Court Hearing
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By Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse
On Wednesday, March 3rd 2010, the preliminary hearing of the
above case finally made to the chambers of the United States
Supreme Court. This is a landmark case as far as the
atrocities of the leadership of the repressive Somali
military regime is concerned. It is also a significant
milestone for those who suffered so long under the tight
grip of military dictators and tin pot despots elsewhere in
the world. It is about time to change the perception that
Human Rights violations in Africa are always consigned to
the dustbin of history. Let justice takes its own course and
let the international community know what happened in
Somalia and who will take the responsibility for the
disaster.
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Corrupted Kenyan Officials,
Cash-Loaded Somalis, Lynch Kenya’s Deputy Speaker |
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By Dalmar Kahin
In Kenya money can buy you anything, including the
presidential seat. And this money is in the hands of not the
Kenyans but the pirate millionaires of Somalia living in
Kenya. With enormous cash at their disposal, they can
parachute Kenyan officials into offices, strip authority
from them, or force them to abandon politics and switch to
farming. After all money talks; and it does lots of wonders
in Kenya. Now, this money is about to lynch Kenya’s Deputy
Speaker, honorable Mr. Farah Ma’alim because not only does
he visit the forbidden land—Somaliland—but he also deviates
from the norm: he promotes a peaceful co-existence among its
citizens, as opposed to ignite an inferno. But is there more
to the witch hunt against Mr. Ma’alim than meets the eye?
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Reshaping House of Elders
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By Abdirahman Ibrahim
Abdillahi
This country hitherto adorns with the late President Egal as
a statesman who built this nation by overcoming many
barriers in which without him would not have been possible.
Among the works carried out by him was elimination of powers
from military clique at a time, pulling the people from
different regions and tribes together, sharing the power
among the tribes, nationalizing all militia regardless of
their tribes or whatever.
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Somalia- In The International
Limelight For All The Wrong Reasons |
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By Liban Obsiye
Somalia is a country that has been at war since the fall of the last government
under General Siad Barre in 1991. It a country that has been crippled by civil
war, bloodshed and general mindless violence for nearly 20 years. The analysts
at the Economist magazines Intelligence Unit, a sister company of the
international award winning magazine, The Economist, identified Somalia as the
worst country in the world.
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2010 Fiscal Year: A Time To Remember The Late CA,
Ali Gulaid |
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By Saeed Mohamed Ahmed
It was a sunny morning; I went to Crown Hotel in the west side of Hargeysa. I
had, in that place, an appointment with Ali Gulaid (may Allah bless him).
It was now fifteen minutes before the appointment time. I sat in one of the huts
in the hotel and asked a waiter walking there in my sight to get a cup of Lipton
tea and a small bottle of water for me.
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Africom's First War: U.S.
Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia |
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Rick Rozoff
Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of
Mogadishu in the past two days in fighting between Shabaab
(al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to
within one mile of the nation's presidential palace, and
troops of the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government.
The fighting has just begun.
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DANGEROUS FRONTIERS:
Campaigning In Somaliland And Oman |
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K’naan
fled from Mogadishu with his mother in 1991, when he
was 14. Photograph: Peter Graham |
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In Part 1 of his book the author describes his life as a young officer
in the Somaliland Scouts in the (then) British Protectorate
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