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UN Says Casualties Rising
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Photo: AP
- A doctor at Mogadishu's Madina hospital treats
Fahma Abdulahi, who was injured in a mortar shell
attack, which killed her sister and injured several
other members in her family, 03 Jun 2010 |
Geneva, June 5, 2010 – The World Health Organization reports
at least 1,400 people have been wounded in fighting in the
Somali capital Mogadishu between March 20 and May 24. WHO
says escalating fighting between government forces and
Islamic militants is taking a heavy toll in casualties and
in the number of displacements.
The World Health Organization says Mogadishu's three main
hospitals are filling up with war wounded. It says about
one-quarter of the 1,400 casualties are children under age
five. It says it is of great concern that so many of the war
wounded are children.
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UDUPI, June 5, 2010 – The two Somalis who were under the
custody of Udupi Coastal Security police will be released
and allowed to fly to Somalia.
Fateh Abdi and Mohammed, from Somalia, were taken into
custody by the Udupi Coastal Security police at Malpe in
August 2009. As they were unable to produce the required
legal documents for crossing into Indian water, a case was
registered and both were produced before Udupi court. The
verdict came on February 10.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. June 5, 2010 – A Virginia man who told
government agents that he helped 270 Somalians illegally enter
the United States via Cuba and admitted contacts with a Somali
terror group has been sentenced to time served in jail.
Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Tracy of Winchester, Va., is
scheduled to be released Friday and will be on probation for
three years. He spent about four months in jail in total.
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Nairobi,
Kenya, June 5, 2010 – Scores of residents of a Somali town
near the Kenyan border are fleeing their homes due to fears
of a clash between fighters loyal to two militia groups.
Bulahawo Town, just two kilometers from the Kenyan border,
is controlled by the anti-government al Shabaab group.
However, residents say the pro-government Ahlu-Suna Waljamaa
militia has been moving fighters into the area from nearby
Dolow Town.
Some of fleeing residents are crossing into Kenya while
others are heading for refugee camps in Ethiopia.
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Burlington, June 5, 2010 – Ali Abdi, a leader in the Somal
Bantu community in Burlington, was sentenced Wednesday to 20
years to life in prison for sexual assault on a nine year
old girl, despite pleas to the judge from two of his
children.
Abdi had taken off during his trial, and was captured out of
state. The jury was not told he ran away. He was convicted.
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Bolton, June 5, 2010 – A TAXI driver accused of sexually
assaulting a teenager in the back of his car broke down in
tears and said he was comforting the girl after he spurned
her advances.
Ali Hassan, aged 34, told Bolton Crown Court yesterday that
the 18-year-old confessed she “liked black men” before
pushing him up against the car door and kissing him.
Hassan, a private hire driver of Bertrand Road, Bolton,
denies touching and kissing the girl while she was in the
back of his taxi.
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Graeme Hamilton
And Stewart Bell
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. and TORONTO, June 5, 2010 –The Somali man
whose flight was diverted to Montreal this week because he
is on the U.S. no-fly list said yesterday the FBI questioned
him about possible links to a Canadian member of an
al-Qaeda-linked militant group and the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service has been tracking his movements.
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Muslims Ask For Spot In
Garden City Cemetery |
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BY SHAJIA AHMAD
GARDEN CITY, June 5, 2010 — Several leaders from the local
Muslim community have made a request to Garden City
officials that a section of Valley View Cemetery be
dedicated to members of their faith.
Leaders from the Burmese, Somali and Ethiopian communities
presented a letter to City Commissioner Nancy Harness last
week during a meeting of the Coalition of Ethnic Minorities
detailing their request to create a burial ground that is
separate from the rest of the cemetery by a fence or other
structure around the designated ground.
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Heavy Fighting In Somali
Capital |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 5, 2010 – Clashes between Somali
government forces and Islamist militants have killed at
least 17 people and wounded about 60 in the capital
Mogadishu.
The fighting appears to be the start of a government
offensive using troops trained in Ethiopia, analysts say.
The government controls only a few parts of the country.
Backed by African Union troops, it is trying to quash al-Shabaab
- an al-Qaeda-inspired group that control much of southern
Somalia.
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Security Forces Free
Hijacked Vessel After Captain's Death |
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 5, 2010 – Security forces from
Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region stormed a hijacked
cargo vessel early yesterday and outgunned the pirates
holding it after they fatally shot the ship's Pakistani
captain, authorities said.
Authorities decided to try and free the Panama-flagged ship
by force after pirates refused pleas to surrender and
instead killed the captain, said Saeed Mohammad Raage, who
is the minister of marine transport and ports in the region.
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WHO: Spike In Cholera Cases
In Somalia |
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GENEVA, June 5, 2010 -- The World
Health Organization says cholera is
spreading fast in Somalia as people flee fighting between
the government and rebels.
WHO spokesman Paul Garwood says 132 people were ill with
cholera last week in one hospital in the capital, Mogadishu.
He says most of the sick are children, and that three people
have died.
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'Dead' Somali Man Regains
Consciousness |
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The
Somali crewmen admitted at Makunudhu health center.
Haveeru MMS 2323 |
MALE, June 5, 2010 – The Somali man thought to be dead on a
boat discovered near Haa Dhaal atoll Makunudhoo Monday has
regained consciousness just before burial.
Island Chief Ibrahim Shareef, who earlier referred to the
other five crewmen as saying that the man had died three
days ago, said he started moving around 10:30 am Tuesday.
“When we took him out for burial, he suddenly started
moving. His leg muscles and several other parts of his body
were wearing off. He was in a compartment filled with
water,” he said.
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Somali Journalists Win
Coveted CNN African Journalism Award |
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Kampala, June 5, 2010 – Star FM’s radio broadcaster Kassim
Mohammed and AFP’s (Agence France-Presse ) Mogadishu’s
correspondent, Mustafa Haji Abdinur were among the 15
recipients of one of the most prestigious awards in the
African media and broadcasting industry; the CNN Multichoice
African Journalism Award. The stiff competition included
more than 2000 entries from 1000 journalists in 40 African
countries.
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Black-Listed Passenger
Driven To U.S., After Plane Rerouted To Canada
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Washington, June 5, 2010 – Two days after Somali’s name on
no-fly list forces flight change, he is mysteriously sent –
by land – to the United States for further questioning
The notion that he might fly over the United States so
distressed U.S. counterterrorism officials that they had his
transatlantic flight reroute to Canada, just to pull him off
the 150-passenger jet.
Forty-eight hours later, he was driven by border guards to
Champlain, N.Y., to enter his adopted home by land. On
Wednesday, U.S. agents will be picking up where Canadian
agents left off, questioning the mystery man.
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UK Ambassador To Ethiopia
Re-Affirms His Government’s Support For Somaliland’s
Democratization Process
“The
UK and the international community as a whole, are closely
watching the June 26 Election”
Ambassador Norman Ling |
Ambassador Norman Ling,
British Ambassador to
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
June 5, 2010the British
ambassador to Ethiopia
Mr. Norman Ling has
re-affirmed his
government’s support for
Somaliland’s
democratization process.
In an interview with the
Somaliland editor, Yusuf
A. Gabobe earlier this
week, Mr. Ling welcomed
the June 26th
presidential elections
while expressing
pleasure at the way
preparation for the
polling have been going
until now.
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Election Campaigns
Start In Somaliland |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s
election campaign started this week after the Election
Commission set the date of June 3, 2010, for the beginning of
campaigning of political parties for the office of presidency.
Political campaigning will go on for three weeks and will end on
June 23rd.
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UCID Party
Donates Livestock To Hospitals And The Needy |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland's
UCID Party donated 70 sheep to the Mental Hospital, the TB
Hospital and organizations that take care of orphans and the
physically handicapped. The livestock were handed to these
organizations and hospitals by the Chairman of UCID, Eng.
Faysal Ali Warabe and other UCID officials. Speaking on the
occasion, Eng. Faysal Ali Warabe said this is not the first
that they give this sort of aid and it will not be the last
time. He also made it clear that they are not providing this
assistance in order to get votes but they are providing it
because of the great need for this assistance.
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Haatuf Interviews Haabsade |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) – Mr Ahmed
Abdi Muhammad Habsade, a prominent politician and former Speaker
of Somaliland Parliament gave a wide-ranging interview to Haatuf,
a Somali language newspaper. Clearly surprised by the news that
a foreign power had put pressure on President Dahir Rayale Kahin
to release some of the terrorists who are serving time in
Somaliland’s jails, Mr Habsade said, “People are very surprised
by this news because the terrorists are the ones who ruined
things and it is difficult to understand how anyone would say
they should be released, and whoever said such a thing needs to
be dealt with very carefully.”
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) – Abdi Jama Noah
is a twelve year old intermediate school student who lives in
the Sha'ab area of Hargeysa. He also has a passion for birds. He
says taking care of birds is his hobby and that he has about 30
pigeons in his collection which includes males, females, and
chicks. Abdi Jama Noah revealed that he has developed a special
whistle, and when the birds hear it, even if they are in the
air, they would fly back to him.
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Bosaso, Somalia, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) – Puntland
administration freed a ship and its crew from pirates who had
been holding them hostage. The Panamanian flagged ship was
hijacked off the coast of the Yemeni province of Hadramaut and
was carrying merchandise to Puntland's port of Bosaso and
Somaliland's port of Berbera.
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Sheikh Sharif’s Defense Minister
Says Someone In The “Presidential” Palace Wants To Kill Him |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 5,
2010 (SL Times) – Sheikh Sharif’s Minister of State for Defense,
Yusuf Indha Adde held a press conference in Mogadishu in which
he said that the attempt to kill him and two other ministers by
a improvised explosive device was ordered and organized from the
presidential palace.
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Somaliland Election Campaigns
Start |
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Somaliland
opposition leader Ahmed Mahamoud Sillanyo |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 (SL Times) –The second
multi-party elections for the presidency of the republic of
Somaliland have kicked off, promising a tight fight between
President Dahir Riyale Kahin and opposition leader Ahmed
Mahamoud Sillanyo.
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US Supreme Court Allows Suit To
Proceed Against Former Somali Minister Of Defense |
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General
Mohamed Ali Samantar |
Cambridge, MA, June 5, 2010 – The US Supreme Court has ruled
that foreign government officials who commit human rights abuses
while in office are not entitled to immunity in US courts under
the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). The Court
unanimously held that FSIA immunity extends only to foreign
states and their agencies, not to individuals.
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Winnipeg Mom Charged With Stabbing
Kids |
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Winnipeg, June 5, 2010 – A Winnipeg woman has been charged
with three counts of attempted murder after her two young
sons — a nine-year-old and a four-month-old — and her sister
were stabbed.
The children were taken to hospital in critical condition
Thursday with wounds to their upper bodies but have since
been upgraded to stable, police said.
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By Barbara
Starr, CNN
Washington, June 5, 2010 – It is believed many of these
fighters have been part of the longstanding pipeline of
fighters that operated in Afghanistan and Iraq and has now
been diverted to Somalia, they said.
The estimate of 200 fighters does not include an unknown
number of ethnic Somalis who are believed to have traveled
to Somalia from Europe, the United States and other African
countries, they said.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June
5, 2010 – The African Union Mission In Somalia (AMIOSM)
announced on Thursday preparations to train 500 Somali
police officers as part of its peace making efforts in the
war-torn country.
The announcement was made during the consultative meeting of
the African Union (AU) troops contributing countries to
AMIOSM and international partners to Somalia, which was held
on Wednesday in Addis Ababa.
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Obama Chooses Military Veteran To
Reset US Intelligence |
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General
Clapper |
Washington DC, June 5, 2010 – President Obama is today set to
nominate a former military spy chief to take on the troubled
role of Director of National Intelligence, aiming to draw a line
under a series of terror near-misses against the US.
But his nominee may face a struggle for the Senate confirmation
he needs to take up the role.
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Israeli Navy Intercepts Aid Ship
Headed For Gaza |
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The 1,200-ton
Gaza-bound ship Rachel Corrie approaches the port of
Ashdod, Israel, 5 Jun 2010 |
Jerusalem, June 5, 2010 – Days after Israel's deadly flotilla
raid, there has been another confrontation between the Israeli
Navy and a humanitarian aid ship off the coast of the
Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip.
The Israeli navy intercepted another ship carrying a group of
pro-Palestinian activists who tried to break the blockade on
Gaza. The crew received a radio warning from the Israeli
military.
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London, UK, June 5, 2010 – The Cumbrian mass murderer was under investigation
over his tax affairs at the time of his shooting rampage last Wednesday, police
confirmed today.
But Derrick Bird left no suicide note or “hit list” before he killed 12 people,
including his twin brother, and then turned the gun on himself, police said.
Detectives have seized large amounts of paperwork from Bird’s house, but as more
details emerged of a troubled life affected by excess drinking and self-harm,
police warned that we “may never fully understand” aspects of Bird’s motives for
the killings.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 5, 2010 – Somaliland Independent
Scholar’s Group (ISG) in Somaliland released this
document regarding the upcoming election in Somaliland in June
26th. ISG is an independent social research and development
institute, which is aiming at fostering culture of democracy and
sustainable development in Somaliland and in the Horn of Africa
Region. Here is the sum of their study.
I.
Introduction
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their 29th of May, 2010 meeting, the ISG members
discussed the preparation for the upcoming Presidential election
to be held on the 26th of June, 2010, and the recent
process of the Voter List Display and Replacement of cards
conducted in all regions and districts of Somaliland. The
meeting was sponsored by the Social Research and Development
Institute (SORADI). It was moderated by its Director, Dr.
Mohamed Fadal. The Somaliland Independent Scholar’s Group (ISG)
members are all long-term participants of Somaliland rebuilding
and democratization process, who are considered to be highly
competent to provide an objective analysis and strategy to
address the issues at hand.
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By Scott Stewart
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 30, an Aeromexico flight
from Paris to Mexico City was forced to land in Montreal
after authorities discovered that a man who was on the U.S.
no-fly list was aboard. The aircraft was denied permission
to enter U.S. airspace, and the aircraft was diverted to
Trudeau International Airport in Montreal. The man, a Somali
named Abdirahman Ali Gaall, was removed from the plane and
arrested by Canadian authorities on an outstanding U.S.
warrant. After a search of all the remaining passengers and
their baggage, the flight was allowed to continue to its
original destination.
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Why are we wasting U.S. resources on this basket-case of a
region?
By Dan
Simpson
When Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh met with Vice
President Joe Biden at the White House May 21, he carried
with him the significance of representing the only
successful partnership the United States has with a nation
in the crucial Horn of Africa.
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June 4, 2010: In Mogadishu, Transitional Government (TG) and
peacekeeper troops have been fighting al Shabaab for the
last two weeks, leaving over a hundred dead and several
hundred wounded. Al Shabaab feels a sense of urgency, as the
TG was receiving more and soldiers trained by Western
specialists, and able to defeat the fanatic Islamic
warriors. Al Shabaab had moved closer and closer to parts of
the city where government officials lived, or roads that
were essential to supply peacekeeper bases. This triggered
the successful government counter-offensive. In the last
month, over 15,000 civilians have fled this fighting. The
government has been warned by the UN and Western nations
supplying money and military trainers, that if the newly
trained troops are not paid regularly, and otherwise well
looked after, they will desert. The military aid program
will go away as well. This appears to have motivated the
rapacious militia and tribal leaders that comprise the TG
leadership.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the twenty-Eighth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Restore Hope UN/US led Mission and General Aidid
In the South, the civil war widened. Hundreds of innocent
people were killed or displaced, causing a huge exodus of
refugees. The UN and the United States intervened in order
to reverse the situation but failed, albeit saving the life
of some of the population.
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“Kulmiye Presidential
Aspirant Can Win” |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
Many Somalilanders hold the idea that Kulmiye Party leader,
Mr. Ahmed Siilanyo failed in his effort to be elected as
President of Somaliland in 2003 Presidential polls in which
the outgoing President of Somaliland, Dahir Riyale Kahin,
had been chosen.
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Challenges Face Somaliland
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By Saleban
Abdi Ahmed
Since Somaliland
declared its independence the executive branch has traditionally been the most
powerful institution of governance.
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Somaliland: US Supreme Court
Decision On War Criminal Samatar |
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Written by Ahmed Kheyre
Justice delayed is better than justice denied. On Tuesday,
June 1st, 2010, the United States Supreme Court handed a
ruling against former Somali Vice-President, Prime Minister,
Defense Minister and Chief of Staff of the Somali Armed
forces, Mohamed Ali Samater.
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The Impoverished
Majority In Most African Countries Are Denied Their
Constitutional Rights. |
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Somaliland tax payers are being ripped off in the billions by incompetent and
deceptive politicians in cahoots with deceptive private contractors.
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Somaliland: Peace And Democracy Is Threatened |
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Religious Fundamentalist Groups and Criminal networks of Pirates threaten Peace
and Democracy in Somaliland.
Below is an article published by the Horn of Africa Development Organization?
Long sought and valued, the existence of democracy and peace within Somaliland
is threatened by Religious fundamentalist groups and criminal networks of
Pirates operating in the geographically southern and central regions of Somalia.
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Violence Against Women:
Female Genital Mutilation In The U.S.: No Compromise |
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What we can learn from the American Academy of
Pediatrics' hasty reversal on "clitoral nicking"
BY LYNN HARRIS
A pregnant woman, an immigrant to the United States from
Somalia, is answering routine hospital inquiries about her
plans for labor and delivery, including this: "If it's a
boy, do you want him circumcised?"
"Yes," the woman replies. "And also if it's a girl."
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The Partitioning of Somalia:
Islamists Strengthened Against Western-Backed Government |
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By Katherine
Zimmerman
KEY POINTS:
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partitioning of southern and central Somalia between al Shabaab and Hizb al
Islam has weakened the opposition to al Shabaab and increased the Islamist
threat to the Transitional Federal Government.
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From Conventional
Peacebuilding Paradigms in Post-Conflict Settings and
Reconstruction to Systemic Multi-Foci Approaches: The Case
of Somaliland |
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SG/SM/12907
AFR/1981
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's opening remarks to the
conference on Somalia, held in Istanbul, Turkey, 22 May:
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Hay Festival 2010: Oxfam Wants
Your Old Books |
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Oxfam is
aiming to raise £1.2m through donated books. One of its shop managers, John
Connolly, explains why you should contribute
London, June 5,
2010 – Oxfam has just launched a massive donation drive asking for 800,000 books
in three weeks. It's a tall order indeed but last year we got a staggering
750,000 books, which was far more than we ever anticipated. 800,000 donated
books converts into £1.2m: that's enough to fund Oxfam's education project in
Niger for a whole year.
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