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Kul Hassan Hawadleh Died
But Three Men Jailed Only For Violent Disorder
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London, UK, August 7, 2010 – A young student suffered fatal
knife wounds when he tried to help a friend. One youth is
serving a life sentence for his murder but three others at
the scene are now free men. IAN PROCTOR summarizes the
details of this dreadful crime and the people involved
THREE men cleared of the murder of Hassan Kul Hawadleh
walked free from court last week. The former Harrow College
student, from Colindale, was stabbed in the heart as he
rushed to the aid of a close friend who was being assaulted
at High Weald Service Station, in 2009.
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London, UK, August 7, 2010
– Pirates hijacked the St Vincent and Grenadines flagged MV
Syria Star cargo vessel and its crew of 24 on Thursday, the
European Union naval force said.
The pirates boarded the
almost 19,000 dwt ship as it was sailing west in a
recommended shipping lane through the Gulf of Aden, EU
Navfor said in a statement.
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Hawo
Ibrahim, left, and Sahro Noor share a laugh while
sewing an outfit during Sew Fabulous, an
after-school 4-H club at the Hillview Resource
Center in Lewiston. |
By
Bonnie Washuk
LEWISTON — Sahro Noor, 11,
carefully guided her fabric through a humming sewing machine
Monday. Instructor Kristy Ouellette watched.
“Perfect. I think you've
got it,” Ouellette said as the girl kept her eyes on her
soon-to-be skirt. “Make sure you take out your pins,”
Ouellette coached. “Very good.”
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which is aiding
their Ugandan counterparts after the twin bombings in
Ugandas Capital Kampala on the 11th July, is investigating
Somali oil dealers in East Africa countries, The Uganda Eye
has learnt.
By Dalton Wanyera
Kampala, Uganda, August 7, 2010 - A source within police close to the terrorist investigation, intimated
to this news paper that, the personnel from the federal
bureau of investigations have a special interest in fuel
dealers in the East African jurisdiction.
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LAGOS, August 7, 2010 - Tired of reading accounts of Africa
through the eyes of outsiders, 14 African writers have set
out to document the diversity of their content in a series
of books and blogs partly inspired by the World Cup.
The first World Cup to be held in Africa triggered a wave of
pan-African solidarity as fans from Dakar to Dar es Salaam
threw their support behind African teams, hoping the home
advantage would boost the continent's chances of success.
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NAIROBI, August 7, 2010 — Kenya turned a new page Friday
after approval of a new constitution, but faced a tough task
implementing the extensive reforms aimed at improving
governance and entrench basic rights.
More than two-thirds of voters endorsed the new charter in a
referendum Wednesday to replace the country's 1963
independence constitution blamed for inequality and
political patronage.
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Peter Clottey
An analyst has expressed concern Somali residents in the
United States could be violently targeted by Americans after
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the indictment of 14
people charged with providing support to the hard-line
Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab.
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US Charges 14 With Aiding
Somalia's al-Shabaab |
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Gabe Joselow
Washington, August 7, 2010 – U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder announced charges on Thursday against 14 suspects
accused of supporting the terrorist group al-Shabaab in
Somalia. Holder said the indictments reflect a "disturbing
trend" of terrorist organizations recruiting in the United
States.
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South Africa: Nation to
Keep Peace in Somalia 'If Zuma Orders'
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Johannesburg — The South African National Defense Force
would be prepared to send troops to Somalia if President
Jacob Zuma so ordered.
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Somalia: Obama's Next Big
Headache |
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The
Shabaab, whose fighters are active in Mogadishu,
Somalia, above, now have a new rebel ally.
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Last week's bombings in Uganda are just the beginning. The
Somali jihadists mean business.
By: Greg
Beals
The Obama administration has to get serious about dealing
with Somalia and the Somali Islamist jihadist group Harakat
Al-Shabaab. The July 11 bombings in the Ugandan capital of
Kampala, which killed 76 people, should have sent the
administration a clear warning signal. The messages are both
blunt and subtle, and the administration needs to get those
messages and respond appropriately.
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K'naan Urged To Tone Down
Politics |
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K'naan
was told to tone down the political messages in his
music |
K'naan has revealed he was
urged to tone down the political messages in his music for
the sake of his career.
The Wavin' Flag singer recalled there were people - mainly
Somalis - who told him he should consider abandoning his
socially conscious frame of mind for material that wasn't so
sombre.
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Wife Of Kampala Bomb
Suspect Tells Of His Arrest |
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Kampala, Uganda, August 7, 2010 – More than 20 police
officers wearing hoods ransacked her home in Kawangware at
about 1.30am.
They then handcuffed and blindfolded her husband before
driving off with him.
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Ramadan Health Campaign
Launched |
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London, UK, August 7, 2010
– A “Health in Ramadan” campaign has been launched to help
Muslims who plan to fast during the festival ensure they
stay healthy.
Barts and The London NHS Trust has developed a programme to
ensure that Muslims meeting their religious obligations
during
Ramadan do not jeopardize their health.
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African-Born Entertainers
Express Political Messages |
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Topicality can impede success
By Melanie Sims
When rapper K'naan was
recording songs peppered with tales about warfare, poverty
and despair in his native Somalia, there were people who
told him he should consider abandoning his socially
conscious frame of mind for material that wasn't so somber.
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Ethiopia: “A Changed Situation In
Somaliland Needs Continuity” |
The headquarter of the
Ethiopian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in Addis
Ababa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
August 7, 2010 (SL
Times) – The following
is a statement released
yesterday by The
Ethiopian Foreign
Ministry:
“On Tuesday last week,
President Ahmed Mohamed
‘Sillanyo’ was
inaugurated as
Somaliland’s fourth
president, following his
victory over President
Dahir Riyale in the
smooth and successful
presidential election a
month earlier. The
transfer of power took
place in an orderly and
peaceful manner.
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Minister Of Education
Welcomed By The Educational Community |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland,
August 7, 2010 (SL Times) – The appointment of Zamzam Abdi Adan
as the new minister of education has elicited a positive
reaction from many people in the educational community.
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Muse Bihi Becomes
Chairman Of Kulmiye |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 7, 2010 (SL Times) – In a
ceremony at Mansoor Hotel, President Sillanyo stepped down
from the chairmanship of Kulmiye party and transferred that
responsibility to the 1st Deputy Chairman of the party, Mr
Muse Bihi.
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Minister Of Finance Sacks Heads Of
Customs |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, August 7, 2010 (SL Times) – The recently appointed
Minister of Finance, Eng. Muhammad Hashi sacked the head of
customs in Kalabadyh’s Gabiley Region, Mr Omar Hassan Alin and
the Deputy Head of Customs in Kalabaydh Abdirahman Irro.
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LLOYD GEDYE
Johannesburg, South
Africa, August 7, 2010 – The
days of limited and expensive international bandwidth in South
Africa are over as the EASSy cable became the second submarine
cable to launch on the East coast of Africa.
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Hawo Mohamed
Hassan, a defendant, leaves a hearing in U.S. District
Court in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday. |
By EVAN
PEREZ
ST. PAUL, Minn, August 7, 2010 –
Federal prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges against 14
U.S. residents and citizens, accusing them of providing money,
recruits and other support to the Somali Islamist group
al-Shabaab.
The group, alleged by U.S.
authorities to have ties to al Qaeda terrorists, is one of
several vying for control of Somalia in that country's lengthy
civil war.
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Women Street Sweepers Killed In
Mogadishu |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, August 7, 2010 (SL Times) – Several women
were killed when a remote controlled bomb was detonated as they
were sweeping Mogadishu’s neighborhood of Boondhere.
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Sheikh Sharif’s Parliament Splits |
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Mogadishu, Somalia, August 7, 2010 (SL Times) – Two groups of
Somalia’s parliamentarians met separately this week. One group
was headed by the Speaker of Parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Adan, while the other group which does not have a clear leader
calls itself “parliament fixing group” (Toosinta Barlamaanka).
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Untold Story: Night Meeting That
Saved Moi Presidency |
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Security officers restore order amid widespread looting
in Nairobi city during the 1982 coup attempt.
PHOTO/FILE |
This
is the previously untold story of the small band of Kenya Army
officers and men who faced off and subdued well-armed Air Force
units that briefly took power from President Moi in the early
hours of August 1, 1982. The President was in hiding and the
Chief of General Staff was for some reason unreachable when four
senior officers gathered around a table at the Kenya Army
Headquarters, Nairobi, to steer their country back to civilian
rule.
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Obama, Annan Laud Kenyans Over New
Constitution |
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US President
Barack Obama has lauded Kenyans for voting in a new
Constitution at a referendum held on Wednesday August 5,
2010. Photo/FILE
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Washington, August 7, 2010 – US President Barack Obama has
lauded Kenyans for voting in a new Constitution at a referendum
held on Wednesday.
He
congratulated “the Kenyan people and government on the holding
of a peaceful, transparent and credible constitutional
referendum".
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Rwanda: Pre-Election Attacks On
Politicians And Journalists Condemned |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
Amnesty International condemns attacks on politicians and
journalists in the run up to the presidential election on August
9 and calls on the government to ensure the poll is held in an
atmosphere where Rwandans can freely express their views.
The murder of a journalist and an opposition politician – both
critical of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) - in late
June and mid-July has created a climate of repression likely to
inhibit freedom of expression ahead of the vote, the
organization said.
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By Stanley Reed and Nayla Razzouk
Historically, it has proven extremely difficult for countries in
the Middle East to build nuclear power plants. The idea of
commercial reactors secretly processing weapons-grade nuclear
material has always alarmed Washington, which for decades has
used its clout in the region to keep the Mideast as nuclear-free
as possible.
Today the U.S. is leading the way in imposing sanctions on
Iran’s nuclear program. Israel also remains ready to protect its
interests, as it did when its air force bombed the unfinished
Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981.
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By Doug Hendrie
Somalia is no
more. Since the colonial-made state collapsed under the
weight of clan warfare in 1991, four fledgling entities have
emerged to fill the political void.
Somalia itself
is still a shambles, its capital Mogadishu looking likely to
fall to a hardline Islamic movement. Further north,
unrecognized, lie the world's three newest entities -
semi-autonomous Puntland and Galmudug and the independent
state of Somaliland.
According to
conventional wisdom in the West, Somalia has Balkanized. It
is a failed state, one of many now dotting the world,
recognizable by their collapsed governments, failed
economies and reversion to survival living. The UN has spent
an estimated $US2 billion creating and then propping up a
Transitional Federal Government in Somalia in a bid to
restore order.
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San Francisco, US, August 7, 2010 — President Barack Obama hosted in the
White House a unique summit for youth and civil leaders from
Africa, as part of his administration efforts to reach out
to the continent.
The meeting was in a town
hall-style forum with more than 100 representatives of 45
Sub-Saharan nations, was also part of a series of events
this week helping mark the 10th anniversary of the African
Growth and Opportunity Act, enacted in 2000 with the goal of
boosting African exports to the United States.
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Dr. Marko Attila Hoare
The bile of
the new
champions of colonialism was flowing freely last week after
the International Court
of Justice (ICJ)
ruled that Kosovo’s declaration
of independence did
not violate international
law. The
New York Times‘s Dan
Bilefsky referred
opaquely to ‘legal experts’ and ‘analysts’ who warned that
the ruling could be ‘seized upon by secessionist movements
as a pretext to declare
independence in
territories as diverse as
Northern Cyprus, Somaliland,
Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria and
the Basque region.’
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Dan G. Cox and Maj. Christopher J. Heatherly
Somalia, the world's most
failed nation, once again poses a threat to United States
national interests. In 1992, Somalia commonly associated
with the book and movie "Black Hawk Down" presented little
direct threat to American national interests. In 2010,
things are far more dangerous not only for the United States
but to the world at large.
Somalia, whose coast faces
some of the globe's most active shipping lanes, is now home
to a number of well armed, well equipped and highly capable
pirate organizations. Additionally, two radical Muslim
organizations, the Islamic Courts Union and Al-Shabaab,
control entire regions of the countryside. American citizens
and commercial shipping are at risk.
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Barack
Obama And Somaliland |
In a town hall style meeting with young leaders from across
the African continent, President Barack Obama showed that, at
least conceptually-speaking, he had a very good grasp of the
Somali problem, which he said boils down to choosing between two
paths.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXXVII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the thirty Seventh article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
The Clans not Covered in the Losers and Gainers Analysis
In these articles, not all the Somali clans are covered, not
because these clans are less important than others, but
because the articles focus on clans whose presence and
manipulation were more noticeable in the state/society
relationship, particularly during the military rule.
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Somaliland’s Peaceful Power
Transfer – The Beauty Of Democracy |
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By Abdulazez Al-Motairi
I have been to a polling place in Hargeysa, capital of
Somaliland, to watch people cast their ballots. The line
were much manageable than they were in early elections when
people were queuing for long hours. Somaliland hosted
presidential election on 26th June 2010 and Opposition
leader Mohamed Sillanyo was declared winner weeks later.
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Congratulation Letter From
British Somalilanders Diaspora Organizations To The New
President Of Somaliland And His Cabinet |
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We would like to
congratulate Somaliland’s new president his Excellency Mr Ahmed Mohamoud Mohamed
and the vice president his Excellency Mr Abdirahman Saylici for their victory in
Somaliland's historical Presidential election.
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Open Letter To The President
Of Somaliland |
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By; Mohammed Ibrahim Abdi
Mr. President, with great excitement, I have listened to
your speeches, and as proud citizen of Somaliland and
environmental expert I am more than aware pressing
challenges (i.e. insufficient water, energy, health,
education, jobs, rapid urbanization, desertification,
deforestation…) that our country is facing today. I am sure
your administration is now busy determining the best
solution to address all these pressing issues.
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New Government In Somaliland
Economic Challenges |
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By Aideed Ahmed Jama (Indho-Warranle)
Islam abhors injustice and
exploitation and seeks to forge economic and relationships on the basis of
justice and cooperation.
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The Twisted Logic: Restoration Of Failed State Of
Somalia From Hargeysa |
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By Abdillahi Hussein Daud
Ever since the
news of Somaliland’s latest successful multiparty presidential election came
into prominence, some have proposed a project of restoring the failed state of
Somalia from Hargeysa, Somaliland.
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Somaliland’s Clans: The Shameless Empire Strikes
Back |
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By Soyan Guled
They
came in their thousands on buses, lorries, cars and airplanes. The wealthier
ones even chartered private jets. They had one single purpose in mind: to gain
as many ministers as possible for their clan in the new government of President
Ahmed Silanyo. The weight of the collective pressure these self-appointed clan
representatives exerted on the elderly statesman was so overwhelming he could
not sleep for days on end.
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Somalia: After The Kampala
Bombings, The Endgame In Mogadishu |
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By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein
A closed source, who has proven to be reliable and is on the
ground in Somalia, reports on the current balance of power
in Mogadishu between the revolutionary Islamist movement
Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen (H.S.M.), which holds most of
the city and surrounds its adversaries, and Somalia’s
internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.)
and the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) that
provides for the T.F.G.’s essential protection.
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Saving The World One Box At A
Time |
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By Andy Parks
Alstonville-based photographer Mike Greenslade has recently returned home from
eastern Brazil where he was part of the ShelterBox response team, helping tens
of thousands of people made homeless by severe flooding.
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New Literary Series Views
Africa Through African Eyes |
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By Yinka Ibukun
LAGOS Aug 7, 2010 – Tired of reading accounts of Africa through the eyes of
outsiders, 14 African writers have set out to document the diversity of their
content in a series of books and blogs partly inspired by the soccer World Cup.
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More Troops In Somalia Not A
Solution, Experts Say |
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By
Malkhadir M. Muhumed
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7, 2010 — It's been almost two decades since U.S troops
were forced out of Somalia after the "Black Hawk Down" battle. Troops from
neighboring Ethiopia spent more than two years trying to restore order before
withdrawing last year.
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