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Cardiff Somalilanders Mark
Country's Independence |
Cardiff's Somali community is one of Wales' oldest
minority ethnic groups |
Cardiff, Wales, July 3, 2010 – Members of Cardiff's Somali
community are marking the 50th anniversary of Somaliland's
independence from the UK.
The Somali Integration Society (SIS) said the event at the
city's Temple of Peace was to mark the move "in the
direction of prosperity and peace".
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Hargeysa, Somaliland. 2 July 2010 - On behalf of the
Managing Director of Ophir Energy plc, Mr Alen Stein,
and the General Manager of Ophir Energy Somaliland, Mr
Colin Ivory, I take this auspicious and memorable
occasion to congratulate Mr Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud on
his election as President of the Republic of
Somaliland in the 26th June 2010
Presidential Election.
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The Somaliland community in Wales is extremely delighted
with the peaceful Somaliland election outcome and wish to
congratulate the new President and Vice-President elect and
acknowledges the contributions of the outgoing President and
Vice-President of Somaliland.
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In carrying out its mandate, the Electoral Monitoring
Committee has closely followed the election campaign,
calling violators of the Code of Conduct to order and
informing the public about illegal activities carried out by
campaigning parties. It has also monitored the election
process, as well in the Capital Hargeysa as in the regions
where its representatives acted efficiently.
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The European Union Heads of Mission congratulate Somaliland
for the peaceful Presidential Elections conducted on 26 June
2010.
We commend the National Electoral Commission (NEC) for the
leadership shown in the preparation and conduct of the
elections. Political parties and their candidates have shown
maturity during the election campaign. We also recognize the
valuable domestic and international support in promoting a
democratic environment.
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Kulmiye
supporters on the campaign trail in Hargeysa:
Kulmiye leader Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, better known
as Sillanyo, was declared Somaliland President on
1 July |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 – Opposition leader Ahmed
Mohamed Mohamoud “Sillanyo” of the Peace, Unity and
Development Party (Kulmiye), has been elected president of
Somaliland, after he won just under 50 percent of votes cast
on 26 June, in the first democratic handover in the Horn of
Africa. He will be inaugurated next month.
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, July 3, 2010 – Ahmed Mahamoud Sillanyo will be
the new President of the breakaway state of Somaliland
following an election defeat of incumbent President Dahir
Riyale Kahin.
Mr Sillanyo leads the Kulmiye opposition party and was
beaten by President Riyale by only a few hundred votes in
Somaliland's last elections in 2003. This time, however Mr
Sillanyo gained 50 percent of the vote, compared to only 33
percent for President Riyale.
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Somaliland’s Vote Met
Standards, Observers Say |
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By William Davison
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 -- Elections in
Somaliland met international standards, said a foreign
observer mission that monitored the vote in the breakaway
region of northwestern Somalia.
The June 26 vote was “a free and fair expression of the
popular will of the Somaliland people,” Steve Kibble, joint
coordinator for the team led by Progressio, a London-based
development agency, told reporters today in the capital,
Hargeysa.
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Ban Urges Unity In Somalia |
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New York, July 3, 2010 – The UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged
Somalis to seek unity in their divided country, which marked
its 50th independence anniversary nearly two decades into a
brutal civil war.
Somalia gained independence from Italy in 1960 and merged
with Somaliland, a British protectorate that proclaimed
independence five days earlier on June 26.
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John Drysdale , Former
British Officer Votes In Somaliland Election |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 -- On Saturday, June
26th, more than a million Somalilanders including a former
British officer queued for hours to cast their historical
vote on the historical day.
People either camped over night or rocked to the polling
sight as early as 3a.m. amid fears of Al Shabaab threats.
Most people wanted to be first on the queue and get out as
quick as possible before al Shabaab militants hid among the
large crowds.
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US Urged To Cut Lifeline To
Somalia’s Struggling TFG |
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Somali
government soldiers run during a drill directed by
European Union and Ugandan soldiers in the western
Ugandan Army base of Bihanga on May 26, 2010. Photo/AFP
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By KEVIN J KELLY
Nairobi, Kenya, July 3, 2010 – Opinion among American
experts on Somalia appears to have turned decisively against
continued US support for the Transitional Federal Government
(TFG).
As an alternative, some analysts are urging the Obama
administration to initiate dialogue with Al-Shabaab, the
Islamist insurgency that controls much of Somalia.
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Somali President Seen On
Front Lines In Fight Against Militants |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, July 3, 2010 – Dressed in camouflage and
hunkering amid his soldiers, Somali President Sheik Sharif
Sheik Ahmed appeared on the front lines Thursday in an
offensive against Islamic militants in his country's
shattered capital of Mogadishu, according to witnesses and
government officials.
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Somalia Government Accused
Of Dishonest Negotiating |
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Nairobi, Kenya, July 3, 2010 – A key military ally of the
U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government in Somalia is
accusing the government of negotiating in bad faith,
describing a recent political agreement between the two
sides as "broken." The statement comes amid an offensive by
al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab militants in the capital.
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Kenya PM Recovery On Track |
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Prime
Minister Raila Odinga (left) shares a light moment
with the German Ambassador to Kenya Margit
Hellwig-Boete (right) when she visited with him at
Nairobi Hospital July 1, 2010. Mr Odinga is
recuperating after undergoing a head operation to
ease pressure outside his brain on Monday. Photo/PMPS
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Nairobi, Kenya, July 3, 2010 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga
continues to recuperate at the Nairobi Hospital even as his
handlers dismissed claims that foreign doctors were involved
in his treatment.
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Sillanyo Wins Presidential
Election |
Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo,
chairman of KULMIYE
Party, waves to his
supporters at a polling
station, as he arrives
to cast his vote for the
presidential elections,
in Hargeysa, Somaliland,
Saturday, June 26, 2010.
Electoral posters line
the streets of
Somaliland as the
republic is holding its
second presidential
election on Saturday, an
exercise in governance
not seen for decades in
the country's anarchic
south, but this
election is peaceful so
far. (AP Photo/Barkhad
Kaariye)
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
July 3, 2010 (SL Times)
– Kulmiye’s candidate,
Mr Ahmad Sillanyo won
Somaliland’s
presidential election.
Mr Sillanyo’s party won
49.59% of the vote,
while the ruling UDUB
party got 33.23% and
UCID party received
17.18%.
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New Somaliland Leader
To Fight For International Recognition |
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The
newly-elected president of Somaliland Ahmed Mohamud
Sillanyo |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times — The newly-elected
president of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamud Sillanyo, vowed Friday to
campaign "vigorously" for international recognition of his
republic in the Horn of Africa.
"During my tenure as president I will vigorously fight for the
recognition of Somaliland. The world must recognize our
democracy," Sillanyo told AFP a day after the announcement of
his election victory.
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Ethiopian
Statement On Somaliland Election |
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Seyoum
Mesfin, Ethiopian minister for Foreign Affairs
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – Ethiopia on
Friday called political parties in Somaliland to accept the
provisional results of the 26 June poll in that country
where the opposition leader was declared as the winner.
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President Dahir Rayale Kahin’s
Memorable Press Conference |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – President
Dahir Rayale Kahin held a press conference at his office on
Thursday in order to disavow an irresponsible and incendiary
press release issued by Jama Yasin Farah (The Secretary General
of UDUB party) and Osman Hindi (UDUB's campaign Manager). In
their press statement, the two UDUB officials had claimed that
there were irregularities in Somaliland’s election, asked the
election commission not to release the election results until
those issues were addressed, and warned that chaos and mayhem
will ensue if their demands were not met.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – The Minister of
Finance, Hussein Ali Duale (Awil) congratulated Somaliland’s
people on the wonderful and peaceful way in which they
participated in the presidential election.
According to Ramaas news, the minister of finance sent a letter
to the election commission congratulating
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Dahar, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – Parliamentarian Bar
Said Farah, a member of Somaliland parliament who represents
Dahar (Eastern Sanag) said that the presidential election took
place in Dahar.
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Sheikh Adan-Siiro Distributes
Money To Needy Families |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3,
2010 (SL Times) – Sheikh Adan Haji Mohamud (Adan-Siiro)
distributed $900 to some of the poorest families in Hargeysa.
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Dr Bulhan To Sheikh Sharif: Thanks
But No Thanks. |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – The President of
Hargeysa University, Dr Hussein Bulhan, said that while he
appreciates President Sheikh Sharif’s warm words of
congratulation to Somaliland, he also thinks that Sheikh Sharif
should focus on uniting Mogadishu instead of preaching to the
people of Somaliland about Somali unity.
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Huge Explosion In Bosaso,
Commander Of Darawish Forces Dies In Puntland |
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Bosaso, Somalia, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – A huge explosion took
place in Bosaso on July 2, 2010.
According to the Voice of America’s Somali Language Service, the
explosion was due to an attempt to assassinate the Governor of
Puntland’s eastern region, Sheikh Abdihafid Ali Yusuf.
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Khat-Plant Kill Cancer Cells |
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Therese Bredholt’s PhD work shows that extracts from the
khat plant may provide better treatment against leukemia.
BY KRISTIAN
JENSEN
An article published in “På Høyden” explains how Therese,
who recently completed her public defense at The Gade
Institute/Department of Medicine, has shown that extracts
from the khat plant may have a positive medicinal effect on
leukemia.
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By
Monty Munford
World
Last week the EU’s Head of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton,
arrived in India
to ask for Delhi’s help in the fight against Somali
piracy. While the visit was ostensibly to bolster ties between
the EU and India – two “key strategic powers” – it was also a
desperate attempt to cajole India’s growing naval power into
protecting important shipping lanes in the Indian ocean.
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Somaliland
elections: Provisional results indicate win for Ahmed
Sillanyo of the Kulmiye party – President Riyale
defeated, the country’s National Electoral Commission
says |
Progressio - Press Release
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 (SL Times) – International
development organization Progressio, the Development Planning
Unit at University College London (UCL) and Somaliland Focus
(UK) have welcomed the announcement of provisional results of
Somaliland’s presidential election, held on 26 June 2010.
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Supermodel Summoned In Taylor
Trial |
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Taylor,
right, has denied all 11 charges related to the wars in
Liberia and Sierra Leone [EPA] |
The
Hague, July 3, 2010 – Naomi Campbell, the British supermodel,
has been ordered appear at the war crimes trial of Charles
Taylor, the former Liberian president, to testify about a
diamond he is alleged to have given her.
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Sudan Opposition Leader Freed |
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Al-Turabi has
criticized the manner in which Sudan's April elections
were conducted [EPA] |
Khartoum, Sudan, July 3, 2010 – A Sudanese opposition leader
arrested after criticizing the country's election earlier this
year has been released from jail in the capital Khartoum.
Hassan al-Turabi was arrested in May in the capital Khartoum, a
month after national elections which returned president Omar al-Bashir
to power.
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By ELLEN BARRY
MOSCOW, Russia, July 3, 2010 — In the lore of Soviet spycraft, few figures
command as much respect as the “illegals,”
steel-jawed agents with the intelligence of a chess grandmaster and the
fortitude of a cosmonaut.
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With the success of Somaliland's Presidential Election over the
weekend, its time the International community recognized the
democracy progress
Below is an article published by the
American Chronicle
Somaliland's election was peaceful, without major incident and
generally met international standards. More then million
Somalilanders turned out to vote in their fourth consecutive
election. The delayed international response to Somaliland's
case of independence did not stop Somalilanders from building
nascent and decent democracy. The international community should
credit democracy progress in Somaliland with diplomatic
recognition because they deserve it.
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Edna Adan
Ismail, founder and director of the Edna Adan
University Hospital |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 – Edna Adan Ismail became
interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father
struggle to treat the sick in the then British protectorate
of Somaliland. She later became the first Somali woman to be
appointed to an international civil service position in 1965
when she joined the UN World Health Organization (WHO) as a
nurse-educator based in Libya.
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BY JAMES TRAUB
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JULY/AUGUST 2010
In the waning days of his presidency, with very little
planning or even forethought, George H.W. Bush sent 28,000
U.S. troops to support a humanitarian mission in a hapless
country of no strategic significance to the United States.
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A long-delayed presidential poll in a
country that does not officially exist
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 – SINCE 1991 Somalia has
routinely been labeled “the world’s most failed state”. Yet
its north-west bit, Somaliland, once a British protectorate
that merged with Italian Somalia to form unified Somalia in
1960, actually feels like a proper country. Although poor
and underdeveloped, it is free of the south’s scourges, such
as piracy, warring militias and Islamist extremism. The
streets of Hargeysa, the dusty and tumbledown capital, hum
with construction work and mobile-phone chatter.
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President Dahir Rayale Kahin Exits With Grace And Dignity
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It is one of the ironies of fate that President Dahir Rayale
Kahin who during his tenure had missed so many opportunities to
express his vision in simple and direct ways that the people
could understand and hold on to, was able to find, in defeat,
the exact words to save his country from political chaos and to
ensure that his legacy is not tarnished.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXXII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the thirty second article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
The Archaeology of Social and Moral Order Continued ...
Somalia turned its back on Socialism and entered a chaotic
period. State institutions based on socialist lines were
going through disorderly disintegration, after the logic of
market forces was allowed to take the lead. But still these
institutions were used as sources for quick wealth for the
President's family.
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The Challenges Ahead For
Somaliland After The President Election |
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By Eidarus Sh Adan
The presidential elections in Somaliland has been a
successful story. The new elected President is Ahmed M
Mohamud Sillanyo from Kulmiye Party. The election was
conducted in a peaceful, free and fair manner. It is a
wonderful that the Somaliland people and its leaders
demonstrated clearly that the democratic path continues. It
is easy to implement an election for the first time.
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My Observations Of
Somaliland’s 2010 Presidential Elections |
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By: Aman H.D. Obsiye
When my father was born he was a colonial subject for the British Empire. On
June 26th, 1960 he became a free citizen. Fifty years later, his
American born son, had the opportunity to return to his birth city and be an
International Election Observer (Progressio) for Somaliland’s 2010
Presidential elections.
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An Open Letter To Somaliland’s
President-Elect: Congratulations But Take Heed |
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By Bashir Goth
Now that you have won the election; let me first
congratulate you, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo, on winning the
long-awaited presidency. It has been indeed a long journey
for you and you have shown the tenacity and the
single-mindedness it takes to be focused on your goal. I
have admired your abilities to rally different sectors of
Somaliland’s people behind you.
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Sudanese Blood Spills Into
Asia |
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By Ritt Goldstein
Far beyond America's Gulf Coast another oil disaster has struck, but the current
damage stems from allegations of possible complicity in "war crimes and crimes
against humanity". The activities in question occurred in Sudan between 1997 and
2003, with an oil consortium led by Sweden's Lundin Petroleum at the center of a
growing storm with implications potentially impacting Asia's oil interests.
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Difficult Times Ahead As British Budget Cuts Will
Harm The Somali People Back Home |
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By Liban Obsiye.
With
a change of government in Britain after the general election, there has been a
shift in economic policy towards the right of the political spectrum. The new
coalition government which is made up of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
(Con-Lib) last week announced their emergency budget.
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From Sool to Salal
– The Somaliland Democracy Prevails Again |
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By\ Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Somaliland’s election was peaceful, without major incident and generally met
international standards. More then million Somalilanders turned out to vote in
their fourth consecutive election.
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Mogadishu Was A Blast |
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Our trip to the world’s most failed state -- by way of
Kandahar.
BY ALEX STRICK
VAN LINSCHOTEN, FELIX KUEHN
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JULY/AUGUST 2010
"We can't let you leave."
The African Union soldiers with whom we'd thrown in our lot
a few hours earlier were shocked to learn we actually
planned to head back into the city of Mogadishu, abandoning
the relative safety of their base on the outskirts of the
Somali capital.
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Elena Kagan And Barack Obama's
Culture Of Lawlessness |
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Earlier this week, I saw the following headline on the crawl
at CNN:
Somaliland election observer killed; ballots being counted
By Teri O'Brien
(AXcess News) Chicago - If Greece's financial crisis is a
look into our country's future, is this case a look into
future elections in the United States?
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Somalia: The Most
Dysfunctional Area On The Planet |
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July 2, 2010: On paper, the Transitional Government (TG) should be able to wipe
out the Islamic radical groups. The TG "army" and their clan militia allies add
up to about 15,000 gunmen (including 5,300 peacekeepers, the only professional
troops in the country).
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School Clubs Help Somaliland
Children Overcome Trauma |
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Somali schoolgirls: An NGO in
Somaliland has introduced social clubs in schools with children from
internally displaced families to help them cope with trauma (file
photo) |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, July 3, 2010 – When Sabah Ismail Ali, a social worker in
Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland, first started working with
children, truancy and aggression were common, especially among children from
families with problems such as extreme poverty and displacement.
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