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Prime Minister Says
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New York, March 20, 2010—Ethiopia is preparing to jam the
Amharic-language broadcasts of the U.S. government-funded
Voice of America (VOA), Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared
Thursday in a press briefing with international media
correspondents based in the capital, Addis Ababa.
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Washington DC, March 20, 2010 – The Bush administration’s
top Africa policymaker sees little new about President
Barack Obama’s approach to Somalia.
“There’s not much variation in policy at all, despite our
being attacked on Somalia during the campaign,” says Jendayi
Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs
during President George W. Bush’s second term.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 20, 2010 – The steep decline in
anti-personnel landmine use in the past decade by governments is
being mirrored by a similar trend among armed non-state actors (NSAs).
According to the 2009 Landmine Monitor, a civil society network
monitoring compliance with the decade-old Mine Ban Treaty (MBT),
at least 59 NSAs in 13 countries have committed themselves to
halt the use of anti-personnel land mines. A total of 156 states
- or more than three quarters of the world's nations - are
signatories to the MBT.
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Ethiopian
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (right) said he is
willing to meet Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki
despite more than 10 years of bitter words and a
bloody border war |
Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, March 20, 2010 – Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi said he is willing to meet Eritrean President
Isaias Afwerki despite more than 10 years of bitter words
and a bloody border war. Eritrea last month accused Ethiopia
of blocking its participation in African Union (AU) summits
in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa -- seat of the 53-nation
body.
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By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
Washington, March 20, 2010 – A recent statement issued by
the Obama administration indicates that it is planning to
carry out aerial bombardments in the Horn of Africa nation
of Somalia. The announcement comes amid intense fighting in
the capital of Mogadishu between the two Islamic resistance
movements, Al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, and the U.S.-backed
Transitional Federal Government that is ruling the country.
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Moe
Abdillahi Mohamed, who spent six months with Somali
militant group Al-Shabaab is concerned about
radicalism among young Somali-Canadians - Tyler
Anderson/National Post |
Toronto, March 20, 2010 – Mohamed Abdillahi Mohamed works as
a security guard at an apartment complex in Toronto's Little
Mogadishu neighborhood. It can be a slow job, sitting at the
gatehouse, but nobody could call him inexperienced.
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NATO Provides Airlift
Support to African Union Mission in Somalia
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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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Decision On $200 Billion
Yemen-Djibouti Development ‘Due By April’ |
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Dubai-based developer says it is ‘confident’ that approval
will be given for the creation of two new cities and a
28.5km bridge spanning the Red Sea.
By Ben Flanagan
Dubai,
March 20, 2010 –
An ambitious plan to build a 28.5km bridge between Yemen and
Djibouti could be approved by the end of April, according to
the Dubai-based developer Al Noor Holding Investment.
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Inside Al Shabaab: How The
Somalia Militant Group Rules Through Fear |
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As the Somalia government fends off militant group Al
Shabaab, the Al Qaeda-linked insurgency shows its power
through intimidation of a whistle-blower.
By Scott
Baldauf
Nairobi,
Kenya, March 20, 2010 -
On Oct. 27, 2008, Ali Abdillahi Egal saw the Al Qaeda-linked militant
group Al
Shabaab stone
to death a 13-year-old girl, Aisha Duhulow, under the charge
of adultery. The act was not only brutal, but also, in his
view, un-Islamic.
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Cdn-Somali Parents Hide
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TORONTO, March 20, 2010 – Some Somali-Canadian parents are
hiding their children's passports following reports a
student was recruited by a terrorist group and killed
fighting for the cause in east Africa, community leaders
said Thursday.
Suspicions that Al-Shabaab has been radicalizing and
recruiting Canadian youth over a two-year period has parents
fearing the worst, they say.
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Somali Wins $70,000 Compo
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Sydney, Australia, March 20, 2010 – A 22-YEAR-OLD Somali man
has received more than $70,000 in compensation over his
claim that he was the victim of a police assault and
malicious prosecution.
The Age has learnt that the payment to Ahmed Dini was part
of an out-of-court settlement that the police force agreed
to last month after a civil case for assault against two
officers and the state was taken to the County Court.
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S. Africa: Killer Jailed
For Shooting Shop Owner |
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Motherwell, March 20, 2010 – THE Port Elizabeth High Court
sentenced a Motherwell man to an effective 22 years’
imprisonment yesterday for murdering a Somali shop owner
three years ago.
Dumisani Makuleni, 20, of Gotyiba Street, pleaded guilty to
murder, attempted robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm
and possession of ammunition.
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Somali Rebels Join Forces
In Cyberspace: U.N. Report |
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By Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI, March 20, 2010 – Armed rebel groups in Somalia are
using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they
achieve better results through the Web than they do on the
ground, a United Nations report said.
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Family Grieves For Son
Linked To Terror Group |
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A frame grab
from the website of the group Al-Shabaab, posted to
YouTube, purports to show Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim of
Toronto, date and location unknown, who has
reportedly been killed in Somalia. |
Toronto university student, who vanished last year, died in
Somalia fighting for group tied to Al Qaeda
Raveena Aulakh
Toronto, March 20, 2010 –
The family of a Toronto student linked to an Al Qaeda group
in Somalia is in mourning after learning online that their son
had been killed.
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Somaliland Delegation Leaves For
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Somaliland delegation to
Washington held meetings
with US and UK
Embassies in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
March 20, 2010 (SL
Times) – A Somaliland
delegation left for the
United States on an
official invitation. The
delegation included the
second deputy Chairman
of the Upper House Said
Jama Ali, the second
deputy Speaker of
Somaliland parliament
Bashe Muhammad Farah,
the Foreign Minister
Abdillahi Duale, the
Minister of Interior
Abdillahi Ismail Ali (Irro),
the Minister of Minerals
and Water Osman Sheikh
Muhammad Abdi an the
Minister of Planning Ali
Ibrahim Muhammad.
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Somaliland Foreign
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
foreign minister Abdillahi Duale described the anticipated
opening of a Yemeni trade office in Somaliland as a positive
step that will strengthen existing relations between Yemen and
Somaliland.
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Eng. Bashe Abdi
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Eng. Bashe Abdi
Gabobe |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – The
manager of Kulmiye party’s campaign for the western regions,
Eng. Bashe Abdi Gabobe defended his party from criticism by
the spokesman of the ruling UDUB party, Ali Muhammad Yusuf (Mujahid
Ali Guray). Eng. Bashe Abdi Gabobe said Ali Guray’s recent
criticism of Kulmiye party and its Chairman Ahmed Sillanyo
are out of line.
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ILO Seminar For Somaliland And
Puntland Entrepreneurs |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – The
International Labor Organization (ILO) launched a seminar for
training 25 individuals from Somaliland and Puntland. The
seminar was carried out by UNICEF and the ILO and was financed
by Japan. The purpose of the program is to train potential
entrepreneurs in how to start and manage a new business and once
they finish the training, the trainees themselves will transfer
their knowledge to 160 young people and train them in how to
start and manage a new business.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – Somali singer
Safi Duale Ali passed away this week in Hargeysa. Safi Duale Ali
was a well known and popular singer. She was born in Las Idle,
Sahil Region, and was not only a singer but was also an actress.
Mr. Abdikarin Farah Jir, a famous Somali music maker of Waberi
group said that Safi Duale had left 4 children that she had
given birth to. Abduakadir Muse Lugey who was one of Waberi
group said that she had first joined Hoga Dalka group in 1968
which later merged with the national Somali Singers of Waberi.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, March 20,
2010 (SL Times) – African troops in Mogadishu continued to bomb
civilian areas of Karaan, Yaaqshid and Wardhigley, this week,
which resulted in more civilian deaths.
Most of the artillery bombardment of civilian areas was coming
from the Presidential compound.
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Member Of Sheikh Sharif’s
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Mogadishu, Somalia, March 20,
2010 (SL Times) – Saeed Hassan Shire, a member of Sheikh
Sharif’s bloated parliament resigned.
The parliamentarian announced his resignation from Bosaso and said
the reason he resigned is because Sheikh Sharif’s government had
failed to carry out its duties.
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World Water Day Message By
Ministry Of Water And Mineral Resources |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – Following is
Somaliland Ministry of Water and Mineral Resources’ message for
World Water Day, to be observed on 22 March:
On September 1992 the general assembly of UNITED NATIONS agreed
to recognize 22nd March to be the World Water Day to highlight
the importance of water for human being they also agreed to
select each year special theme carrying massages concerning the
conservation, protection wise management of the valuable and
vulnerable resources of the world,
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NEC Completes Staffing Of Regional
Offices |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – The Somaliland
National Elections Commission (NEC) has confirmed in a recent
press release that the staffing of all its regional offices
ahead of the forthcoming presidential elections in Somaliland
have been completed.
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Erigavo, Somaliland, March 20, 2010 (SL Times) – The Russian
navy operating off Somalia has turned over seven suspected
pirates to the breakaway state of Somaliland, where they
will stand trial, officials said Sunday.
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By Samson Haileyesus
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 20, 2010 – A high-level
Somaliland delegation headed by Abdillahi Duale,
Somaliland’s foreign minister is to visit to Washington US,
SSI has learnt. The visit comes in response to an invitation
extended by President Obama’s administration.
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Nairobi, Kenya, March 20,
2010 — An international fleet of warships is attacking and
destroying Somali pirate vessels closer to the shores of
East Africa and the new strategy, combined with more
aggressive confrontations further out to sea, has dealt the
brigands a setback, officials and experts said Thursday.
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Russia-U.S. Tensions Remain During
Clinton Visit With Putin |
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By Mary
Beth Sheridan
MOSCOW, March
20, 2010 -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin greeted
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday with a
volley of complaints about trade, while another top Russian
official voiced caution about the Obama administration's
campaign for tough sanctions on Iran.
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Clinton Calls Israel’s Moves To
Ease Tension ‘Useful’ |
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Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Tony Blair, the
international envoy to the Mideast; and Sergei V. Lavrov,
the Russian foreign minister, in Moscow on Friday. |
MOSCOW, March 20, 2010 — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton said Friday that proposals offered by the Israeli
government to settle a diplomatic dispute with the United States
were “useful and productive,” though it was not clear how close
Israel had come to meeting American demands.
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Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi |
Aisha Umar Agaie & Nasidi A. Yahaya
Abuja, Nigeria, March 20, 2010 – The Nigerian Federal Government on Thursday
recalled its ambassador, Alhaji Isah Mohammed, from the Libyan Peoples Arab
Socialist Jamharriyah "for consultations" following Libyan leader Muammar
Qaddafi's call on Tuesday for the splitting of Nigeria into two, along religious
lines.
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By ALISSA J. RUBIN
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20, 2010 — The former top United Nations official in
Afghanistan said that recent arrests of high-ranking Taliban figures by Pakistan
had severed important secret communications between the Taliban and the West
meant to foster peace negotiations.
Kai Eide, the former special representative in Afghanistan for the United
Nations secretary general, told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday
that, for the past year, the United Nations had been quietly involved in early
discussions with the Taliban in Dubai.
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Maha Ahmed And Linda Nordling
Cairo, March 20, 2010 — African science ministers are hoping to extend a
high-speed fibre optic network - currently linking Egypt to the northern
hemisphere - to other countries in Africa.
The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD) connects
national laboratories and institutes across Canada, China, Korea, the
Netherlands, Russia and the United States, enabling scientific collaboration in
areas ranging from weather forecasting to high-energy physics.
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Ahmed Arwo |
By Ahmed Arwo
For the second year running, US State Department strongly
berated Somaliland government on human rights violations. It is
lamentable rather than improving the malaise highlighted in the
similar report in 2008, Riyale administration took the opposite
path. It was incumbent on President Riyale to remedy the ills
depicted in the report and lead the country back to the rule of
law. He took the other extreme, adding salt to worsening
contusion.
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Edna Adan
Ismail had wanted to build a hospital since she was 11
years old. Today, her facility in Hargeysa saves women's
lives every day—and has reduced the maternal mortality
rate by one-fourth. |
By Lynn Sherr
As an 11-year-old growing up in Somaliland, then a British
protectorate, Edna Adan Ismail had a powerful dream. “I wanted
to build a hospital,” she recalls. “One that my father would
like.” Edna’s dad was a widely beloved but overworked doctor in
a poorly equipped government hospital with little medicine, and
she lent a hand when she could. “My playground was the
hospital,” she says, “and my father was my hero. I’d cut up
sheets for bandages, wash the forceps. I wished I knew more to
be able to help him out.”
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Somali-Canadian musician K'naan performs after the
medal ceremonies at the Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympics. |
By Raju
Mudhar
Vancouver, March 20, 2010 – Canada loves him — he’s won a
Juno, he’s been nominated for the Polaris Prize, the
nation’s critics have praised both of his albums.
But as the buzz around the release of his charity single
proved Friday, Toronto rapper K’naan is about to be heard
around the world.
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At a summit in Dubai, scholars and clerics are gathering to
destroy the Somalian rebels' religious credibility
By
Riazat Butt
Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of
late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai,
along with an international cast of scholars and clerics, to
refute the ideologies of groups that "abuse the name of
sharia by imposing their own literal, ill-informed
interpretations onto others". Organized by the Global
Centre for Renewal and Guidance (GCRG)
the summit will clarify the orthodox position on jihad and
takfir – judging a Muslim to be outside the fold – and
analyze the religious motivation of group of violent
Islamists in Somalia, known as al-Shabaab. The meeting
will result in a fatwa condemning them.
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Gordon
Brown’s Latest Moves Endangers Both Somali And British Interests |
It is commonly assumed that as an ally of the United States
with longer experience in international affairs than the United
States, Britain often helps the United States by availing it of
that long experience. But based on what we now know of the
conduct of Tony Blair’s government in the run up to the Iraq
war, it is clear that the British government did not play this
role.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XVII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the seventeenth 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 ...
Internationally, the country's image improved remarkably
particularly on the Africa continent and in the Arab world.
The image of Somalia as a progressive African country was
generally accepted. The internal propaganda activities for
social change and progress had a positive impact in the
country's foreign affairs. We can mention two significant
events. Firstly, the OAU conference in Mogadishu in 1974 in
which most of the African leaders participated, even Haille
Selassie, the Ethiopian emperor and the natural enemy of
Somalis attended. He regarded Somali nationalism and the
Somali nation state non-existent, a conspiracy constructs of
the British and Italians to weaken the Ethiopian Empire.
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An Open Letter To The Arab
League |
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By Ahmed M.I. Egal
I write this letter as a Somaliland citizen that values the
ancient, cultural, religious, kinship, commercial and
geographic ties that bind the peoples of Somaliland and
Arabia. However, I must, in all honesty, clarify that I
speak for no one except myself, although I believe that many
Somalilanders do share the perspective outlined in this
missive.
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Corruption In Somaliland Is At
Its Height |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
Introduction:
The aim of this essay is to zero in on the root causes of
corruption in Somaliland and how it has become widespread,
and what measures need to be taken to remedy such a social
evil.
Corruption is one of the social evils found in all the
societies of the world. In some societies, it is more
rampant than some others. Unfortunately, Somaliland is
regarded as one of the countries in which corruption has
become very much widespread during recent years the Riyale
administration has come into office. Corruption is one of
the factors that contributed to the degradation of
Somaliland politics.
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Life Dropouts |
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By: Mohamed Jibriil Elmi
Till doomsday, the life is the most important part of the
human. That is why the reason, human devote effort how to
survive on this array of events and problematic in the world
if there is hard life or easy.
However, there are sociological aspects about human which
includes; social behavior and perspectives. Darkhum, social
analyst found the most lost of the human lives caused by the
great excessive of social attachment and as well as less
excessive of social attachment. He also added a further
explanation that he mentioned the most suicide of
individualist occurs in the protestant ritualistic greater
three times than catholic society for their isolation in the
community, while Japanese are more extrovert than other
societies in the world and as well as more rate suicide than
others.
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Somaliland's Recognition, Arab
League, Somali Regime—Toothless Chihuahua |
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Dalmar Kahin
You would often encounter on the streets a
spindly Chihuahua hissing and huffing to intimidate a German Sheppard with
oversized paws or a vicious Pit Bull. Also, you may wonder why on earth a tiny
Chihuahua would provoke dogs that are twice or three times of its size. The
problem is: Chihuahuas think they are big dogs trapped in small dogs' bodies.
But when push comes to shove, Chihuahuas’ form of defense includes escape and
camouflage.
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Farah Ma’llin Is A Brother Deeply Touched By The
Somali Dilemma |
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Ali Aden Awale
It is a heroic and courageous step from a talented politician of Somali origin
to rise above the tribal lines that divided the Somali nation. Hon. Farah
Mo’allin the Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan parliament deserves standing ovation
in his bid to find a credible solution to the elusive task of finding peaceful
solution to the Somali problem.
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Africa: U.S. Policy In
Somalia |
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Johnnie Carson
Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of African Affairs
Ertharin Cousin, Ambassador to the UN Mission in
Rome
Washington, DC
March 12, 2010
MR. DUGUID:
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the State
Department. We are here for a special briefing by Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson and
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, who is our ambassador to the
World Food Program in Rome, who joins us from Rome. They
will speak to you today about U.S. policy on Somalia.
Ambassador.
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Fleeing To Djibouti: The Life
Of Somali Refugees |
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Jim Selman
A recognized leader and authority in the field of
organizational transformation and culture change.
The New
York Times reported
on March 5th that the U.S. is helping the Somali government
prepare to take
back Mogadishu. As part of a counterterrorism
strategy, this American support may make the country,
steeped in anarchy for 20 years, less hospitable for Al
Quaeda and Al Shabaab and its allies.
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