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Riots At Hargeysa Football
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – At least
one person has been seriously wounded in riots at a football
stadium in Hargeysa, the capital city of Somaliland late on
Monday.
Eye witness accounts say that a little while after a
football match kicked off, heavily armed police stormed the
stadium and ordered fans and the players out of the stadium,
because the government did not authorize the match.
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The chairman of
Electoral Commission of Ghana, Dr. Kwadwo Afari-gyan |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – The
chairman of Electoral Commission of Ghana, Dr. Kwadwo
Afari-gyan, has arrived in Somaliland on Sunday for a five
day trip.
Dr. Kwadwo was received by Somaliland’s National Electoral
Commission’s chairman, Mr. Isse Hamari in the Somaliland
port town of Berbera.
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London, UK, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – Dahabshiil, the UK’s
leading money transfer provider to the Horn of Africa, has
received the Mayor of Tower Hamlets Award for excellence in the
community.
The award, presented by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Councilor
Ahmed Adam Omer, recognizes Dahabshiil’s dedication and
outstanding contribution to the local, national and
international Somali community over the last 40 years.
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Mount
Kinabalu, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – The Educational Trip
to Sabah (ETS) which was scheduled from 13 - 20 March 2010
successfully concluded its mission. It was organized by the
Student Support Services Department (SSSD), Student
Representative Council (SRC) and International Student
Council (ISC) with the support from PETRONAS Group Corporate
Affairs (GCA), PETRONAS Education Sponsorship Unit (ESU) and
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP).
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TORONTO, April 17, 2010 -- "Do you know who I will kill with
this gun?" a little boy says into the video camera, waving
his toy pistol.
"Who will you kill with this gun?" the cameraman asks.
"The infidels."
The scene appears in a new video by the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab
that shows the Somali militant group indoctrinating
children, some of whom appear to be toddlers.
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Kampala, April 17, 2010 -- A total of 627 Somali and 120
UPDF soldiers were on Tuesday passed out at Bihanga training
school in Ibanda district.
The Somali government forces were trained in basic military
skills, while their UPDF counterparts got trained in medical
and driving skills.
The training of Somali forces in Uganda is supported by the
European Union.
Somali president Sheikh Ahmed Shalif on Tuesday presided
over the passout.
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Yemen, Somali Signed Media
Cooperation Protocol |
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SANA'A, April 17, 2010 --
Yemen and Somali have signed here a media cooperation
protocol.
The protocol was signed by Information Minister Hasan al-Lawzi
and his Somali counterpart Tahir Gelle after the closing
session for the Yemeni-Somali media talks.
According to the protocol, Yemen provides Somali with
documentaries, religious programs, Yemeni TV series, songs
and TV varieties, in addition to training the Somalis in
technical and program training courses organized by the
Media Training Institute.
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No Change On Obama’s Policy
Towards Somalia Says Former Envoy |
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Jendayi
E. Frazer, the former
US
president’s George Bush’s
top
advisor for Africa |
Washington, April 17, 2010 – Former US president’s George
Bush’s top advisor says no different between the approach of
current Obama administration to war-torn Somalia and his
predecessor.
Jendayi E. Frazer, former US Assistant Secretary of State
for African Affairs under the Bush Administration said
President Barack Obama is still applying the same policy of
his predecessor.
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Somali Pirates May Be
Heading To German Court |
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Some of the
crew on board a Korean cargo ship MV Chol San Bong
Chong Nyon Ho in Mombasa, Kenya; ship was earlier
attacked by Somali pirates, 04 April, 2010 Photo: AP
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Lisa Bryant
Paris, France, April 17, 2010 – A group of 10 suspected
Somali pirates are in the Netherlands - and likely heading
to Germany shortly to face trial. Their case is unusual -
many alleged pirates are released. VOA reports on the
international legal quagmire surrounding piracy off the Horn
of Africa.
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IOM Initiates Two-Year
HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme Aimed At Vulnerable Populations
In Somalia |
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Nairobi, Kenya, April 17, 2010 – IOM is launching a new
programme aimed at increasing HIV/AIDS awareness among
vulnerable populations and de-stigmatizing HIV in Somalia.
The programme, which is funded through UNICEF by the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will be
carried out in Somaliland, Puntland and South Central
Somalia in partnership with UNICEF, the three AIDS
commissions in Somalia, and local partners.
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UTP Students Representing
26 Countries Conquer Mount Kinabalu |
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WE MADE
IT...UTP students from 27 nations at the summit of
Mount Kinabalu. Pic: Courtesy of UTP |
Mount Kinabalu, April 17, 2010 -- Thirty six students from
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in Seri Iskandar,
representing 26 foreign countries, conquered Mount Kinabalu
in Sabah, the highest peak in south East Asian region.
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Kenya: More Than 50,000
People At Risk Of Imminent Forced Eviction |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
Kenya’s government should halt the proposed eviction of more
than 50,000 people living alongside the country’s railway
lines until guidelines that conform with international human
rights standards have been adopted, Amnesty International
said today.
On 21 March Kenya Railways published a notice giving
residents 30 days to pull down their structures and leave,
or risk prosecution. Most of those affected are slum
dwellers in parts of Nairobi .
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Dhow Owners Boycott Somalia
Trade To Free Ships |
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DUBAI, April 17, 2010 - Owners of United Arab Emirates-based
trading dhows, facing a wave of pirate attacks, have
boycotted trade with Somalia, using their economic leverage
there to help free their ships.
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Hijacked Cargo Ship Arrives
Off The Coast Of Somalia |
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Gulf of Aden, April 17, 2010 – The St Vincent & Grenadines
flagged cargo ship MV RAK AFRIKANA, has now arrived off the
coast of Somalia in the vicinity of Harardheere.
MV RAK AFRIKANA, previously reported hijacked on the morning
of 11 April approximately 280 nautical miles west of
Seychelles, has a crew of 26 from India, Pakistan and
Tanzania. The RAK AFRIKANA has deadweight of 7,561 tones and
is owned by Rak Afrikana Shipping LTD from Seychelles. EU
NAVFOR continues to monitor the situation.
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French Delegation Visits
Somaliland |
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
April 17, 2010 (SL
Times) – A French
delegation led by the
French Ambassador in
Djibouti Mr Dominique
Decherf arrived in
Hargeysa’s Egal
International Airport
Friday.
Speaking to the press at
Mansoor Hotel, Mr
Dominique Decherf said
the main reason he came
to Somaliland was to
check on the progress of
the preparations for
Somaliland’s
presidential election
and to press
Somaliland’s government,
political parties and
the electoral commission
on the necessity of
holding election for
pushing forward the
democratic process; and
towards this end, the
ambassador will meet
with the three political
parties, the election
commission and will hold
a special meeting with
the president.
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Somaliland Vice
President Returns To The Country |
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Somaliland vice
president, Ahmed Yusuf Yassin returned home on
Friday |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
vice president Ahmed Yusuf Yasin returned to Somaliland on
Friday.
The vice president came back from France where he was for
medical treatment. He was warmly welcomed in Berbera airport by
government ministers, Berbera officials, and ordinary citizens.
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British
Delegation Arrives In Hargeysa |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – A
delegation from the British embassy in the UK led by the
Deputy Ambassador John Marshall arrived in Hargeysa.
The purpose of the visit was to check on the preparation for
the presidential election including the election code of
conduct that was signed this week by Somaliland's three
political parties. The delegation met with Somaliland's
president, the election commission and the political
parties.
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Election Commission Chairman Says
Somaliland Election Will Be Held In June |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Chairman of Somaliland’s Election Commission Eng. Isse Yusuf
Haji Muhammad revealed that they expect Somaliland’s
presidential election to take place in June 2010. The Chairman
gave this information in the context of elaborating on the
election code of conduct that was recently signed by
Somaliland’s political parties. He made these three points:
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Burao, Somaliland, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – Farah Haji Ahmed
Duruje (Ina-Maraykan) a Somaliland intellectual who used to live
abroad and now lives in the country said the time has come when
Somalilanders should focus on developing and using the resources
of their country rather than relying on importing everything
from abroad.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17,
2010 (SL Times) – The former First Deputy Chairman of Somaliland
Parliament Abdilqadir Jirde warned Somaliland’s people against
NGOs who are in Somaliland but who have agendas that can hurt
the country and its people.
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Somaliland Finally Prepares
Presidential Polls |
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Somaliland
President Dahir Riyale
Kahin in his
Hargeysa office |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 17,
2010 (SL Times) – The National Electoral Commission in
Somaliland finally is ready to organize the country's second
presidential elections in June this year, two years late.
According to a brief news release by the government in Hargeysa,
Somaliland's National Electoral Commission has presided over a
meeting with the countries political parties, agreeing on the
last details for holding the twice postponed presidential
elections.
During the meeting, Somalilander political parties signed the
code of conduct for the upcoming presidential election.
Representatives from President Dahir Riyale Kahin's ruling UDUB
party agreed with the main opposition party Kulmiye and other
opposition parties.
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Two Men Beheaded In Mogadishu |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – Two men were
beheaded in Mogadishu within a period of twenty four hours this
week.
The first man who was said to have been mentally ill was
beheaded in Bakara Market.
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Brother Of Puntland’s Former
Deputy Minister Of Interior Assassinated |
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Bosasso, Somalia, April 17, 2010 (SL Times) – One man was killed
while three others were injured in Bosasso on April 13.
The name of the man who was killed was Mahad Artan Ismail. The
killing looks like an assassination.
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Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh arrives
for the second day of the African Union summit
in Ghana, July 2, 2007 |
Djibouti, April 17, 2010 –
Lawmakers in Djibouti on Wednesday approved an amendment to
the constitution that paves the way for the president of the
Horn of Africa nation to run for a third term.
Djibouti's parliament voted unanimously on the
constitutional reforms which remove term limits, cut the
presidential mandate to five years from six, create a senate
and abolish capital punishment.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April
17, 2010 – A new programme is targeting about 800 primary
and junior high school students in Somaliland with HIV/AIDS
messages for the first time.
"The children's ages range from seven to 19. Of course, most
of them are not sexually active now - we targeted them for
several reasons ... every student comes from a family and he
will pass the message to his family. Also, they are the next
generation at high risk of HIV," said Mohamoud Hassan
Abdillahi, executive director of Somaliland Health and
Social Care Organization (SOHASCO).
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April
17, 2010 - A court in Somaliland sentenced three people to
death on Wednesday and ordered the deportation of four
foreigners for four bomb attacks on the security forces,
court sources said.
Five people were killed in the attacks between November and
January, including four police officers killed in a single
attack in January.
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Volcano In Iceland: Brits Add It
To Their Grievances Toward Viking Republic |
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A car drives
near Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier Friday through
the ash from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. The
volcano erupted for the second time in less than a
month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the
air and grounding flights around the world.
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Peter Ford
London, April 17, 2010 –
Could the volcanic ash cloud currently paralyzing Britain's air
traffic and exacting a heavy economic toll on the country be
Iceland's latest strike in a curious and long-running spate of
hostilities between the Viking republic and Her Majesty's
Government?
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Thai Army Planning Operation To
Clear Protesters |
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"Red Shirt"
anti government protesters celebrates after their
leaders escaped from a police raid |
By Thanaporn Promyamyai
Bangkok, April 17, 2010 — Thailand's embattled prime minister
put his army chief in charge of security in the capital Friday
after a bungled raid on a hotel where leaders of the Red Shirt
protest movement were holed up.
Authorities are turning up the heat again on anti-government
demonstrators after a lull in tensions between the two sides,
whose standoff descended into the country's deadliest civil
unrest in two decades last weekend.
The military said it was planning another operation to disperse
the thousands of protesters from Bangkok's commercial district
but the timing had not yet been decided.
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Expectations differed for each
candidate ahead of the first debate |
By David Cowling
London, UK, April 17, 2010 – The first week has shown the telephone random
sample polls with the following ranges between the main parties: Labor 29-33%,
the Conservatives 35-39% and the Lib Dems 16-21%.
Among the internet pollsters who draw their samples from panels of respondents,
the ranges have been: Labor 26-33%, the Conservatives 37-41% and the Lib Dems
17-22%.
The difference between them therefore is a slightly stronger performance by the
Conservatives in the internet polls and a wider range for Labor support in the
same polls.
The distinctive feature of most of them is that they suggest, on a uniform
swing, that we are in hung Parliament territory.
But the 12 April Populus/Times poll found 50% of respondents hoping for a clear
majority government to emerge after 6 May.
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Abdillahi
Farah Muhamed had a rough youth. When he found Allah, he
became very severe in his faith. He prays in his living
room in Pähkinärinne in Vantaa.
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By Tommi Nieminen
The depth of the devotion of 23-year-old Hunde
Assefa is
apparent just looking at him, as he walks with his veiled wife
and four-year-old son on the street. Hunde has a thin beard, he
is dressed in white, and on his head he has a Muslim cap. This
indicates that he is more devout than his average
co-religionists in Finland.
Hunde was born in the late 1980s in Finland, and has lived here
his whole life. But when he is asked about his identity, he does
not emphasise his Finnishness.
“My primary identity is that of a Muslim. In other respects I am
international. My roots are in Ethiopia, I was born in Finland,
and I have attended international schools”, he says.
Hunde could also be called a
second-generation immigrant. The members of his family were
originally Ethiopian Christians. Hunde converted to Islam six
years, so it is no wonder that he is very religious, as converts
often tend to be.
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By: Johann Hari
Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War
on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of
more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian
waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime
villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates
onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties
oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are
labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story
to tell -- and some justice on their side.
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The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751
(1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea,
today, 12 April 2010 listed the following individuals and
entity pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 1844 (2008):
(1) AL-SHABAAB
AKA: AL-SHABAB
AKA: SHABAAB
AKA: THE YOUTH
AKA: MUJAHIDIN AL-SHABAAB MOVEMENT
AKA: MUJAHIDEEN YOUTH MOVEMENT
AKA: MUJAHIDIN YOUTH MOVEMENT
AKA: MYM
AKA: HARAKAT SHABAB AL-MUJAHIDIN
AKA: HIZBUL SHABAAB
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 13, 2010
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) (IEEPA),
and section 301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C.
1631 (NEA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive
Order (the "order") blocking the property of certain persons
contributing to the conflict in Somalia. In that order, I
declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign
policy of the United States posed by that conflict, as
described below.
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US
Sends Right Signal By Inviting Somaliland Delegation To The White
House |
The recent invitation of a Somali delegation to visit the US
and hold talks with the US administration was a positive though
long overdue step. It was positive step for the US because it
helps in correcting the widely held view among Somalis that the
US administration is not interested in contributing towards the
development and reconstruction of either Somaliland or Somalia,
and is only pursuing a narrow and militarized agenda.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXI |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the twenty-one article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
The formation of the Movement
1. Somali National Movement (SNM) continued ...
Two consultative meetings
with other clans not before included in the SNM were held in
Berbera on the 15 – 27th February 1991. The idea
of withdrawal from the Somali Union was discussed but
postponed until a more representative conference was held.
This was held in Burao on 27th April 1991, and
continued for several weeks. On 18th May 1991,
the participants made their historical decision and declared
that Somaliland unilaterally withdrew from the Union. It is
important to mention that it was not only Isaq
participants who were in favor of the withdrawal.
Participants of non-Isaq clans were equally
enthusiastic about the idea, particularly the Gadabuursi
delegation, which brought with them a play reinforcing the
idea of secession.
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It Is Mad, Mad…Mad Granny’s
World—Boycott Her Concerts |
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Dalmar Kaahin
Never before have I felt disgusted with a Somali singer’s
behavior—a singer whom I once admired so much that I rushed
to stage to get her autograph and to inform her that I have
always been a big fan of her songs. But as I have listened
to the lyrics of her new song entitled, “Libdhimaysid Las
Annod…or Las Annod won’t vanish”, the singer that I was once
infatuated with her songs, sounded more like a
North-American Somali thug teenager—a hip hop artist
wannabe—or worse yet: a savage warmonger in Somalia. What
devil has got into her, lately? Wasn’t her recent efforts to
exonerate Somalia’s notorious war criminal bad enough, but
now this: inciting violence and war in Somaliland, instead
of raising funds for hospitals and schools? Kneading my
temples with my knuckles and shaking my head in disbelief,
shock, and dismay, I whispered to myself, “It is mad,
mad…mad granny’s world”.
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Why African Union Blinds The
Recognition Of Somaliland |
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A/rahman H Nur Osman
As we aware of s/land was British protectorate and become
independent country in 26 June, 1960. And also s/land was
the first country took the freedom according to Somalia, and
Djibouti. After that s/land unconsciously and
unconditionally united to Somalia and met obstacles such
like lack of sharing of the branches of the government like
ministries and leaders of the military, and also Somaliland
community were massacred, prosecuted after that Somaliland
sacrificed bitter strangle to separate in Somalia 1991 and
up till now is one of the most peace full country in Africa
and made democracy system, and holds 3 fantastic elections
which very few in African countries. The observers, donors
and community of the world praised to Somaliland, but
unfortunately didn’t get recognition from the world so that,
what is the reason that Somaliland did not get a
recognition.
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Why Drone Attacks In Somalia
Is Ill-Advised |
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By Abdillahi Dool
According to recent media reports, the US administration of
President Barack Obama is considering to use drone attacks
as the least option to help the Transitional Government in
Somalia to defeat the insurgency. However, attacking few
foreign Jihadists is one thing but targeting a factional
leader such as Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys will not help bring
peace but make matters worse.
There is no doubt if drones are used to attack the
insurgency in Somalia many innocent lives could be lost.
Unlike ground operations, drone attacks cannot be too
careful to limit the death of civilians.
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The Causes Of Somaliland’s
Triumphant And Somalia’s Crumple |
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By Fowsi A Ali
Everyone is well versed the alterations that took place in Somalia and
Somaliland for the last decade and it is my intention to take no notice of or
reiterate our illustrious history. What I am attempting to convey in this short
piece is to scrutinize the underlying causes that played and still play a
significant role for the triumphant of Somaliland and the crumple of Somalia.
There are numerous underlying causes for the triumphant of Somaliland and the
crumple of Somalia. However, I shall endeavor to examine one primary cause. The
primary and the crucial difference lie on culture. Somalilanders’ culture
differs tremendously from that of Somalia. In Somaliland, there are certain
unwritten traditional rules and regulations that each and everyone adheres and
respects. Nationally, these unwritten rules are the primary source of peace and
harmony among and between clans in Somaliland.
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The First Ever Same Sex Marriage In Public In
India |
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Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
I was flipping through in
the early morning on Thursday last one of the leading newspapers in the Indian
subcontinent by the name of The Hindu newspaper when I suddenly stumbled upon an
extremely strange and chilling piece of news in the Paper’s dedicated local news
page that read: “same sex marriage in public in Manipur.”
Manipur is one of the
economically and educationally backward States in India in the northeast of the
country, which its population was originally descended from Mongolia. And there
is a mounting political influence by the Chinese authority in the region.
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What Lesson Does One Learn
From The Rwanda Genocide? |
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Makwaia wa Kuhenga |
Makwaia wa Kuhenga
"Today, we observe the sixteenth commemoration of the
genocide in Rwanda. We cherish the memory of more than
800,000 innocent people who lost their lives.
Our thoughts are also with the survivors, whose haunting
testimony woke us to the reality of a tragedy that was all
too preventable.”– UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, April
7, 2010
Every April 7, the international community commemorates one
of the worst incidents in Africa, the Rwanda genocide. For
it was sixteen years ago that close to a million people in
Rwanda were butchered in viciously organized and targeted
murders rare in recent memory.
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The Somali Problem: How
Refugees From Horn Of Africa State Survive In Nairobi |
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In
Eastleigh Estate’s dilapidated streets, movement is
a hop-skip- and jump affair. |
Nairobi, Kenya, April 17, 2010 – Asha Abdul, a single mother
of five, can put up with the rubbish and appalling roads
connecting the modern shopping malls in Eastleigh, a suburb
east of Nairobi’s central business district, as long as she
is not questioned about her status in Kenya.
“Sisi ni Waria (Swahili for ‘we are Somalis’); we don’t like
attracting attention to ourselves by complaining about poor
services,” Abdul said on 7 April as she fried samosas for
sale outside her house in Eastleigh.
She had just paid Sh1,500 ($20), required of every tenant on
her street, to pay some young men to deliver two lorry loads
of stones to cover the dilapidated road outside their homes.
“If we don’t pay these young men to bring the stones, then
the muddy water flows into our homes, especially when there
is heavy rain,” Abdul said. “With the stones in place, then
we can cross the road and go about our business while the
children can get to school.”
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