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Somaliland Appears To Be
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 27, 2010 — Recent geological
surveys indicate that Somaliland has abundant deposits of
gemstones, from emerald to aquamarine, ruby and sapphire as
well as vast amounts of garnet, quartz and opal as well as
lesser-known minerals such as tantalite and vesuvianite.
In addition to pegmatite, which are the host rocks of
emerald and other kinds of beryl such as aquamarine,
Somaliland has metamorphic rocks that hold nodules of ruby
and sapphire.
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By Venatrix Fulmen (ECOP-marine)
Nairobi, Kenya, March 27, 2010 – The rump-crew of three Sri
Lankans and two Pakistani nationals which was held with the
vessel MV LEILA inside the Berbera harbor entangled in a
legal tussle involving burned cargo on her sister ship MV
MARIAM STAR has finally been freed today on Monday and could
board a plane to Nairobi, where they will arrive this
evening.
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Berbera. Somaliland, March 27, 2010 – A court in Somaliland on
Wednesday sentenced eight pirates to 15 years in jail each, an
official said.
The suspects were arrested by the Somaliland coastguards late
January after their broken-down speedboat drifted to the shore.
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, March 27, 2010 - The president of Somaliland
Dahir Riyale Kahin briefly reshuffled his Cabinet while
disbanding Health committee at Hargeysa main hospital.
In a statement issued to the press by the president’s
spokesman Saeed Adani Moge, Riyale made changes in some
ministries where the holders including ministers and their
permanent secretaries were moved to other portfolios.
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Fathiya
Ahmed Omar and her six year old son, Munir live in
the streets of Genoa in Italy after Norway
authorities deported from Bergen, Norway.
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OSLO, Norway, March 27, 2010 — Fathiya Ahmed Omar and her
six year old son, Munir, were forcefully deported from
Bergen, Norway, and sent back to the city of Genoa in Italy
where she was found to have been a fingered printed and
processed as an asylum seeker before entering Norway.
Ms. Omar left Mogadishu, Somalia, carrying her son Munir and
walking all the way to Kenya. From Kenya she went to Sudan,
and eventually ended up in Libya. On her way to Libya she
was held captive by the Libyan human smugglers who raped her
for twenty days.
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Vessel
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* Djibouti Port says not affected by Dubai World debt woes
* Aims to become main port in African economic bloc COMESA
By Martina Fuchs
Djibouti, March 27, 2010 - DP World-run (DPW.DI: Quote)
Djibouti Port hopes to become a leading regional shipping
hub, unaffected by Dubai World's [DBWLD.UL] debt problems,
the port's chairman said.
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Israeli Cargo Captured By
Somali Pirates Aboard Turkish Ship |
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Gulf of Aden, March 27,
2010 – A Turkish-owned ship named "Frigia" and carrying
cargo of the Israel Chemicals company has been captured by
Somali pirates.
The ship had left Ashdod port and was en route to Thailand
Tuesday when it was attacked in the Indian Ocean. No
Israelis were aboard - 19 Turks and 2 Ukrainians were
manning the ship, which was flying a Maltese flag.
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Ethiopia Cracks Down On
Biggest Ethnic Group: Party |
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By Barry Malone
Addis Ababa, March 27, 2010 - Ethiopia's most populous
ethnic group is being targeted in a government crackdown
ahead of the country's first national election since a
disputed 2005 poll, an opposition party said on Friday.
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High-Risk Truckers Still
Unaware Of HIV |
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Condoms
are not part pf the government's prevention policy |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, March 27, 2010 - The truck drivers who criss-cross
Somalia are considered at high risk of HIV, but incomplete
prevention messages mean they are ill-equipped to protect
themselves against the virus.
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Djibouti Sees Boom In
Banking Sector: C.Bank Chief |
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By Martina Fuchs
Djibouti, March 27, 2010 - Djibouti's banking sector is
thriving with two more foreign banks likely to start
operations within a year and the number of people with
accounts set to almost double by 2011, its central bank
governor said.
The financial sector in the tiny Horn of Africa nation is
attracting new business as a stable country surrounded by
trouble spots.
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INTERVIEW-Somali Pirates
Widening Attack Area - U.S. Admiral |
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* Somali pirates reaching as far as Mozambique, India
* No strong connection between Al Shabaab and pirates
By Jonathan Saul
LONDON, March 27, 2010 – Somali pirates are seizing ships as
far as the Mozambique Channel and off the coast of India,
extending their range further than they have until now, a
senior U.S. admiral said on Thursday. With hijacking
offering a lucrative alternative for many in impoverished
Somalia, which is battling an Islamist insurgency, Somali
pirates have stepped up attacks in recent months, making
tens of millions of dollars in ransoms from seizing ships in
the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.
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League Of Arab States:
Address Human Rights Abuses And Impunity In Armed Conflicts |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI Index: IOR 65/001/2010
26 March 2010
On the eve of the League of Arab States (LAS) summit, to be
held on 27 March in Sirte, Libya, Amnesty International
calls on the member states of the LAS to ensure that they
make respect for human rights and international humanitarian
law a cornerstone of their deliberations while addressing
the conflicts afflicting the region.
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Somalia Funds Dry Up After
Aid Diversion Report: UN |
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Geneva, March 27, 2010 – A U.N. report that found aid for
Somalia had been diverted to militants has caused funds to
dry up even though the allegations are unsubstantiated, the
top U.N. humanitarian official for Somalia said.
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U.S. Warns Ships Off Yemen
Of Possible Al Qaeda Attack |
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Dubai, March
27, 2010 – The U.S. government has warned ships sailing off
Yemen's coast of the risk of al Qaeda attacks similar to a
suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in 2000 that killed 17
U.S. sailors.
The U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence said on its website that
ships in the Red Sea, the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait between
Yemen and Djibouti, and the Gulf of Aden along Yemen's coast
were at the greatest risk.
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Somaliland Delegation Meets With
US Officials In The White House |
Somaliland delegation to
Washington held meetings
with US and UK
Embassies in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Washington DC, March 27,
2010 (SL Times) – A
Somaliland delegation
representing
Somaliland’s government,
Parliament and Upper
House arrived in
Washington this week via
Addis Ababa.
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 and the
Minister of Planning Ali
Ibrahim Muhammad.
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Russian Delegation
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 27, 2010 (SL Times) – A Russian
delegation arrived in Berbera, Somaliland, this week. The
Russian delegation included businessmen and Russian television.
The Russian delegation met with the management of Berbera Port,
and its overall manager, Eng. Ali Omar (Hor-Hor). The Russian
delegation also met with Somaliland President Dahir Rayale
Kahin. Moreover, according to Qarannews.com, “the Russian group
were the guest at a formal luncheon in their honor hosted by
members of the Somaliland community educated and trained in
Russia, several of whom are fluent Russian speakers.”
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Sheikh Sharif
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Abukar Arman |
Washington DC, March 27, 2010 (SL Times) – Recently, Sheikh
Sharif appointed Somali activist Abukar Arman, a man with a
long record as a sympathizer of Hamas and the Union of
Islamic Courts.
The US considers Palestinian Hamas and the Somali Union of
Islamic Courts (or at least its armed wing al-Shabaab) as
terrorist organizations. Abukar Arman praised Hamas’s win in
the election as “a Victory for Democracy and Peace”. He also
called the Union of Islamic Courts "the best thing that
happened to Somalia in the past 16 years."
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Somaliland Parties Hold Talks With
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Djibouti, March 27, 2010 (SL Times) – A delegation
representing Somaliland’s three parties met with US diplomats in
Djibouti.
The Somaliland delegation was comprised of UCID’s Chairman
Faysal Ali Warabe, Kulmiye’s first Vice chairman Musa Bihi Abdi,
the Secretary General of UDUB Jama Yasin Farah, and the head of
UDUB’s political committee Omar Jama Farah. High in the agenda
of the meeting were Somaliland’s coming presidential election
and security in the country as well as the Horn of Africa
region.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 27, 2010 (SL Times) – This week
marks the inauguration of Somaliland Studies, or to be more
accurate, the resurrection of Somaliland Studies as a
discipline. The word resurrection is a more accurate description
because Somaliland used to exist as an autonomous and
full-fledged field of study but once the country lost its
independence as a result of the union, Somaliland studies was
appropriated by Somalia studies.
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Buroa, Somaliland, March 27,
2010 (SL Times) – The Somali language newspaper Haatuf published
this week an article by its correspondent in Buroa, Mr Ahmed
Adan Yusuf.
In this article, Ahmed Adan Yusuf called the current
disagreements between Buroa’s light companies as a blessing in
disguise for the consumer
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Dr Gaboose Talks About Siyad
Barre’s Treachery And Miscalculations |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 27,
2010 (SL Times) – Listeners of the BBC’s Somali service got a
chance this week to hear Dr Muhammad Abdi Gaboose speak about
the late Somali dictator Muhammad Siyad Barre’s treachery and
political miscalculations. The BBC program on Somali history was
broadcast several years ago, and is being re-broadcast these
days.
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Ahl Al-Sunnah Faction Rejects
Treaty With Sheikh Sharif |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, March 27, 2010 (SL Times) – A faction in Ahl
al-Sunnah wa-al-Jama’ah rejected the treaty that was signed in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by Sheikh Sharif’s government and Ahl al-Sunnah
wa-al-Jama’ah. In an interview with the BBC Somali Service
(March 16, 2010) a representative of Ahl al-Sunnah said they do
not accept the agreement. He said that their leaders signed the
agreement under duress and that one of their leaders was even
put temporarily under arrest in his hotel in order to force him
to sign the agreement.
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Paris Legal Complaint Targets
Djibouti President |
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Paris, France, March 27, 2010 – A Djibouti businessman and
opposition figure filed a civil complaint in Paris against
President Ismael Omar Guelleh for crimes including murder and
extortion, he and his lawyer said Tuesday.
Abdourahman Boreh, who has headed infrastructure and public
works companies in Djibouti, accused the president and his wife
Odette Haid of murder, kidnapping, torture, acts of barbarism
and extortion.
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Nairobi, Kenya, March 29, 2010 — Somaliland Finance
minister, Mr. Hussein Ali Duale has met with the Kenyan
Prime Minister, Mr. Raila Odinga at the Prime Minister’s
office in Nairobi on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister and the minister discussed areas of
mutual interest between the two countries.
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By Joe Avancena
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 27, 2010 – Mohamed T. Gino has
been residing and working in the Kingdom for the past 24
years. He calls himself a Somalilander and dreams of
returning to Somaliland, the country of his birth, someday.
“It is a personal struggle to be away from home, but I am
happy and thankful to this country, Saudi Arabia, and its
leaders for extending the benevolent arms to us
Somalilanders to stay and work in this place we now call our
home,” Gino said.
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Peter Clottey
Paris, France, March 27, 2010 – An independent presidential
candidate says Djibouti could be plunged into chaos if
President Ismail Omar Guelleh changes the constitution that
extends his mandate which is due to expire ahead of the
April 2011 general election.
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Obama In Afghanistan On Surprise
Trip |
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President
Barack Obama reviews the honor guard with Afghan
President Hamid Karzai, left, at the presidential palace
in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 28, 2010 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan, March 28, 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama is in
Afghanistan on an unannounced visit that is expected to last
several hours.
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Health Reform In America: Signed,
Sealed, Delivered |
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Barack Obama
has transformed health reform from near death to fact.
So how will Obamacare change America’s health system? |
Washington, DC, March 27, 2010 – THE Barack Obama who addressed
Americans at near midnight on March 21st had every right to
gloat. After a year in which his proposals for health reform
were savaged by Republicans and leftists alike, and declared
dead half a dozen times by everyone, he has somehow managed to
get them over the finishing line.
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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy listen to national anthems before a
meeting at the presidential palace in Kigali, February 25, 2010. |
KIGALI, March 27, 2010 – Rwanda plans to repay France a 3-million-euro debt in
the next three years, its finance minister said on Friday, marking the
resumption of economic cooperation between the two countries after four years.
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First Vice President and Chairman
of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir speaks
during the 4th anniversary celebration of the signing of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, ending more than two decades of civil war
in the southern town of Malakal January 9, 2009. |
By Andrew Quinn
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2010 – The United States hopes next month's presidential
election in Sudan will set the stage for a "civil divorce, not a civil war" over
moves by the oil-rich south to secede, the Obama administration's special envoy
said on Thursday.
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RIYADH, March 27, 2010 – Saudi
Arabia said on Wednesday it had arrested 113 al Qaeda militants including
suicide bombers who had been planning attacks on energy facilities in the
world's top oil exporter.
The interior ministry said its sweep, among the biggest in several years, netted
58 suspected Saudi militants and 52 from Yemen, which jumped to the forefront of
Western security concerns after a failed attack on a U.S.-bound jet in December.
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Donald M.
Payne |
Hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa
3:30 pm in Room 2172
Wednesday March 24, 2010
Washington, DC,
26 March 2010
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Good afternoon and welcome to this critically important hearing entitled
"An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa".
As
the title suggests, the purpose of this hearing is to discuss
the Administration's policy on the continent of Africa - to gain
an understanding of both the overall policy towards the region
and the United States' position on key and pressing issues of
the day.
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Rageh Omaar |
By Wana Kalala
Doha, Qatar, March 27, 2010 – BEFORE joining the Witness team at
the launch of Al Jazeera English, Somali-born reporter Rageh
Omaar worked for the BBC for over 12 years. An international
correspondent covering stories from all over the world, he
reported on the Kosovo War, and the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict.
He was named BBC's Developing World Correspondent and then in
2001, as the BBC's Africa Correspondent.
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J.
Peter Pham, Ph.D |
March 27, 2010
Amid rumors that the otherwise moribund "Transitional
Federal Government" (TFG) of Somalia might just bestir
itself enough to attempt to break out of the tiny enclave in
Mogadishu which Islamists insurgents have kept it and its
supporters from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
boxed, there is reason to be concerned that in this
geopolitically critical corner of the world the United
States and other governments have substituted wishful
thinking for realistic assessment and muddled platitudes for
policy objectives, thereby magnifying the potential damage
when, as I
warned earlier this year, this improvised approach falls
apart.
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A United Nations agency under
attack
Nairobi, Kenya, March 27, 2010 – THE World Food Programme (WFP),
created by the United Nations in 1962 to save lives, has
since grown into the behemoth of the aid business, envied
and disliked in almost equal measure by many of its smaller
peers. It says it feeds 90m people a year in 73 countries.
Yet some query whether it always fulfils the high ideals of
its humanitarian mandate.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XVIII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid
Sh. Hassan
This is the Eighteenth article of a
series of articles that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the
military coup and its legacy
The Formation of Opposition Political Organizations
Introduction
In the 1980s throughout Africa political opposition parties
and organizations emerged as forces for political change.
African countries in the 1970s and 1980s were mainly
controlled by one party, which dominated the entire
political system. Popular pressure from the masses in search
of democratization and participation was one of the factors
that gave rise to the growth of opposition on the continent.
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Who Do You Want To Dispense
Justice – Committees Or Courts Of Law? |
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By Ibrahim Hashi Jama
SOMALILANDLAW.COM EDITORIAL
On 13 March 2010, the House of Representatives’ Judiciary,
Justice and Human Rights Committee submitted to the House a
report[i]
about Somaliland prisons which brought to the attention of
the public again the number of persons currently imprisoned
on the orders of the Somaliland security committees. The
report stated:
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Somaliland: America’s
Underestimated Friend |
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By Bashir Goth
Think about Somalia and all that jumps to mind is the image
of a lawless country where extremist forces have turned it
into killing fields, where people are butchered, maimed and
their dignities and human rights are trampled on in the name
of a mangled Islam, where piracy is a lucrative business
that brings brides and undreamed of wealth and luxuries to
hapless maritime scarecrows. It is a place where the
President of the internationally-backed Transitional Federal
Government (TFG) hides in a foxhole called Villa Somalia
with the protection of African Forces but gets red-carpet
treatment in western countries. A place where corruption is
so rife that government officials as well as clan militias
and unscrupulous local contractors get hefty bribes in order
to allow world donated food supplies to reach the displaced
and the needy sheltered in make-shift camps.
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Djibouti: A Warrior Who Never
Get Tired Fighting For His People |
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Written By: Mohamed
Awaleh
Many Djiboutians would agree that Mr. Aden Robleh Awaleh was
and still is one of the greatest warriors in Djiboutian
history; in spite of what anybody would think about him.
Ever since the Republic of Djibouti became independent, Mr.
Awaleh has been definitely the most genuine resistant
opposition leader – alive and well (still inside the
Country). Thanks to his inspirational leader and national
hero for all time, Mr. Mohamoud Harbi (May Allah Almighty
bestow him into the Heaven of Fardousa)
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Love Memories Remain Alive:
Have You Ever Chosen Hatred Over Love? |
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By Farah Barkhad Nour
Men and women make different relationships of love in their courtship years and
throughout their live time. This is done because of unconscious desire to
exercise all the dimensions of love. Affection, jealousy, and hatred are the
prominent feelings that humans yearn during romantic relationships. Like the
ordinary people, I did not encounter all the dimensions of love in one
relationship with only one girl.
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To Be A Muslim In India Today |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
“In many ways, I feel reduced to a second class citizen in my own country, only
because of my Muslim identity, I fear we are losing every day the India we
love.”
These words, with small variations, echoed in many diverse voices from far
corners of the country. In a national meet on the status of Muslims in India
today, organized by Anhad in Delhi (Anhad is Muslim organization that exist in
Delhi); this national meet took place at the end of last year, with many
individuals and representative of the organization gathered from several parts
of India.
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We Don't Care About Mercy,
We Just Want The Money: Exclusive Interview With Yacht
Couple's Pirate Captors |
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Rachel
Chandler and her husband are as far from salvation
as ever |
By David
Jones and Nick
Wadhams
London, UK, March 27, 2010 – The text said British hostage
Rachel Chandler had been shot. But here, in a chilling
interview, her pirate captors reveal she and her husband are
still alive... but as far from salvation as ever.
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Sea Transportation: Armed And
Dangerous |
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March 26, 2010: For the
first time, private security guards killed a Somali pirate
during an attempt to capture a merchant ship off the Somali
coast. The Arab owned ship Almezaan was carrying cargo to
Mogadishu when a speedboat, with four armed men, tried to
board. The Almezaan's guards had fired warning shots, and
the pirate boat turned away. But then the pirates came back
shooting, and the security guards, standing on a much more
stable firing platform, returned fire, hitting the pirate
boat several times. There were no injuries on the Almezaan.
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