|
Bring Terrorists To Book -
US Lawmakers |
|
SOLIDARITY: Ms Lee bows after laying a wreath at
Kyadondo yesterday. Behind her are Congressmen
Inglis (R), Brown and Ambassador Lanier (L).
PHOTO BY JOSEPH KIGGUNDU |
By Benon Herbert Oluka & Mercy Nalugo (email
the author)
Washington DC, August 21, 2010 – Three members of the United
States Congress yesterday called on the government to ensure
that the individuals behind the July 11 double bombings in
Kampala are brought to justice.
The call came two days after 32 suspects were charged at the
Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court in connection with the bomb
blasts that killed at least 79 people and injured scores of
others who were watching the 2010 World Cup final.
Read full text.
|
|
|
Migration Could Triple Populations In Some Wealthy Nations
Some poor nations could see adult populations reduced by
half
By Neli Esipova and Julie
Ray
WASHINGTON, D.C. August 21, 2010 -- Gallup's Potential Net
Migration Index finds Singapore, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia,
Canada, Switzerland, Australia, and Kuwait atop the list of
countries that could see the highest net adult population
growth from international migration. If all adults worldwide
who desire to migrate permanently to other countries
actually moved where they wanted today, each country would
see their adult populations double or even triple.
Read full text.
|
|
|
|
Johannesburg, SA, August 21, 2010 — South Africa is unlikely
to deploy soldiers in support of the African Union Mission
in Somalia (AMISOM), as it did "not believe" in the
political direction being followed to resolve the conflict,
and there was no exit strategy, an analyst said.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
New York, August 21, 2010 — Britain is blocking a move to
place two alleged Somali pirate commanders on a UN sanctions
list, fearing it could hurt the British shipping industry,
said officials.
Britain has asked for a “technical hold” to be placed on a
US proposal to add Abshir Abdillahi and Mohamed Abdi Garaad
to the list of people subject to sanctions under UN Security
Council Resolution 1844, Britain’s Foreign Office said.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
MEMO/10/379
Brussels-
Security of Humanitarian aid workers: A concern at the heart
of the EU's humanitarian action
Security
represents one of the most challenging issues for the
humanitarian community. The conditions in which humanitarian
workers operate have become increasingly dangerous.
Humanitarian emblems and flags which traditionally provided
a shield for humanitarian workers have now unfortunately
often become targets.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Mo
Farah shows off his gold medal after winning the
5,000m at the European Athletics Championships in
Barcelona. Photograph: John Giles/PA |
By Anna Kessel
London, UK, August 21, 2010 – Mo Farah finally broke David
Moorcroft's 28-year-old 5,000m British record last night,
crossing the line in 12min 57.94sec to finish in fifth place
at the Diamond League event in Zurich.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
by Laura Smith
Southend, UK, August 21, 2010 – TWO Somali men were arrested
in a dawn raid as police attempted to smash a drugs gang in
Southend.
Officers stormed the flat in Longbow tower block, in
Sherwood Way, at 7.10am yesterday to arrest the men, aged 20
and 23.
Read
full text...
|
|
UN: Somalia Faces Growing
Needs Amid Increasing Challenges |
|
Nairobi, Kenya, August 21, 2010 – Marking World Humanitarian
Day, the United Nations said Somalia remains one of the
neediest countries in the world, but increasing security,
operational, and funding challenges have hampered the
delivery of critical humanitarian assistance this year in
some parts of the country.
Read
full text...
|
|
Ottawa Man Calls
Deportation Order To Native Somalia A Death Sentence
|
|
By Andrew
Duffy
OTTAWA, August
21, 2010 — An Ottawa man who's to be deported to his native
Somalia — a country he left two decades ago — because of his
criminality says the punishment amounts to a death sentence.
"I will
probably get killed; it's like the wild, wild west over
there," Abadir Ali said during an interview at the
Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, where he's been held for
more than two years by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Read full text...
|
|
Sudan To Renew Efforts To
Bring Peace In Somalia – President |
|
Khartoum, Sudan,
August 21, 2010 – Sudan will reactivate its efforts to
mediate between the different Somali warring parties to
bring peace in the Horn of Africa country, the Somali
President said on Wednesday.
The Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed wrapped up a
three-day visit to Khartoum where he had arrived on Monday
for talks with President Omer Al-Bashir on Sudan’s efforts
to reconcile the Islamist insurgents with the government.
Read
full text...
|
|
Aid Workers Increasingly In
Firing Line |
|
Washington, August 21,
2010 -- Ten medical aid volunteers were killed in one
Afghanistan attack in August. In July, a 78-year-old French
humanitarian worker was executed along the Mali-Mauritanian
border after some three months in captivity.
In Darfur, Sudan, two
kidnapped German relief personnel were held captive for more
than a month before their release in July. Another aid
worker, an American woman, was taken three months ago in
Darfur and is still being held hostage.
Read
full text...
|
|
Africa Oil Gets Kenya Nod
To Buy Exploration Blocks |
|
Nairobi, Kenya, August 21,
2010 0 – Africa Oil and Alberta Oilsands have Kenyan
government go-ahead to buy Platform Resources' interests in
two exploration blocks, 12A and 13T, the two companies said
in a statement.
The blocks are adjacent to Africa Oil's blocks 10BB.
"Existing gravity data on
Blocks 12A and 13T suggests that the proven Lokichar basin
and other prospective sub-basins and known strong leads in
Block 10BB may extend onto these new blocks,"
Read
full text...
|
|
Somali-Americans Urged To
'Be Kind, Careful' |
|
Washington,
August 21, 2010 – Staff members at the Somali Community
Access Network recently released a "Message to the
Somali-American Community: Be Kind and Be Careful."
It states:
"As many of
you are aware, 14 people were indicted in federal court on
terror-related charges, including two Somali-American women
from Minnesota. The allegations against these women indicate
that they manipulated the concern of the Somali community
about the suffering of people in Somalia to send money to
violent groups.
Read
full text...
|
|
Japan Reveals Military Plan
In Djibouti To Fight Somali Pirates |
|
Djibouti,
August 21, 2010 – The Japanese government is to build its
foreign military base in Djibouti. The plan is aimed at
strengthening and sustaining its fight against Somali
pirates, Japanese ambassador to Ethiopia, Kinchi Komano, has
announced.
Read
full text...
|
|
|
|
Al-Shabaab’s Unavoidable Clash
With Somaliland Democracy |
Al-Shabaab militants
Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Press Release
By: Jacob
Zenn
If the suicide bombings
in Kampala during the
World Cup finals were a
sign of al-Shabaab’s
plans to fight outside
of southern Somalia,
then Somaliland’s new
ruling party must
prepare for more
attacks. Al-Shabaab
leader Shaykh Ahmad Abdi
Godane “Abu Zubayr” has
made clear his intention
to expand al-Shabaab’s
jihad to his native
Somaliland.
Read full text...
|
|
Qur'an Recitation
Contest Starts In Somaliland |
|
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 21, 2010 (SL Times) – As is
customary every year during the holy month of Ramadan, a Qur'an
memorization and recitation contest started throughout
Somaliland.
A ceremony marking the beginning of the contest was held at Ali
Matan Mosque and was attended by memorizers of the holy book,
religious leaders and other officials.
Read full text...
|
|
Galmudug
President Visits Somaliland |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 21, 2010 (SL Times) – The
President of Galmudug Region, Mr Muhammad Ahmed Alin,
visited Somaliland for two days.
Mr Muhammad Alin came to Somaliland to attend a seminar
given by one of the UN organizations that are based in
Somaliland. The Galmudug region does not oppose Somaliland's
independence.
Read full text...
|
|
Sanag Development Committee Warns
Against The Bad Situation In Sanag |
|
Ceerigaabo,
Somaliland, August 21, 2010 (SL Times) – The Sanag Development
Committee appealed to the government to do something quickly
about the situation in Sanag Region which lags behind other
regions in terms of development.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Galgala, Somalia, August 21, 2010 (SL Times) – A blast by an
improvised explosive device hit a vehicle that was driven by
Puntland soldiers in the village of Galgala.
According to Horseed Media, the explosion resulted in the death
of one soldier and the injury of two others.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
Junior
students at Abaarso Tech |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, August 21, 2010 – The following is a press
statement from Abaarso Tech University, a boarding school and a
university that hopes to be the ‘intellectual center that
radiates world class education to the Somaliland’ public.
Read full text...
|
|
Somaliland: SSC Commander Reveals
Split In His Group |
|
Las Anod, Somaliland, August 21, 2010 — A REBEL group operating
in Somaliland’s southern region of Buuhoodle is said to have
disintegrated after the group failed to resolve internal rift
among its senior leaders.
The SSC group, abbreviation for the disputed –Sool, Sanaag and
Cayn regions who threatened to launch a violent campaign against
Somaliland several months ago is reportedly have defied their
own leadership.
Read full text...
|
|
An Interview With Dr Mohamed
Abdillahi Omar (Somaliland's New Minister Of Foreign Affairs) |
|
London, UK, August 21, 2010 - On August 4th 2010, Somaliland
Focus chaired a
meeting at Chatham House, at which Dr Mohamed Abdillahi
Omar, Foreign Minister, Somaliland spoke about Somaliland’s
post-presidential election environment. We spoke with Dr Omar
afterward
As
foreign minister in Somaliland’s new cabinet, what do you see as
Somaliland’s main needs from a foreign-minister perspective, and
what are your main priorities?
Read full text...
|
|
Minnesota’s Somalilanders
Celebrate Their Homeland’s Democracy |
|
By
Issa A. Mansaray
Minneapolis, MN, August 21, 2010 – In late July, hundreds of
Somalilanders in Minnesota gathered at the Hilton Hotel in
downtown Minneapolis to celebrate elected President Ahmed
Mohamed “Sillanyo” Mohamoud’s victory in Somaliland.
After President Sillanyo, as he is commonly called, defeated
incumbent Dahir Riyale Kahin in June elections, Somalilanders in
Minnesota said it was time to celebrate and reflect on the
country’s future. Hundreds of people from Somaliland, the
breakaway republic, gathered to listen to a recorded video
message from President Sillanyo and members of his Kulmiye
political party based in Minnesota.
Read full text...
|
|
|
Five Questions About the Lockerbie
Bomber's Release |
|
Abdel Basset
Ali al-Megrahi sits in a wheelchair in his hospital room
in Tripoli on Sept. 9, 2009
Ismail Zetouny / Reuters |
By VIVIENNE
WALT
Tripoli, Libya, August 21, 2010 – One year after the Lockerbie
bomber flew home to Libya from his jail cell in Scotland, there
is still deep suspicion in Washington over why he was freed
after serving just seven years of a 27-year sentence for blowing
up a Pan Am airliner over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people,
most of them American. As U.S. and British politicians, along
with the biggest beneficiary of Britain's detente with Libya —
BP — argue over the motivation behind Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi's
release, Scotland's government insists it freed him last Aug. 20
on compassionate grounds, after doctors concluded that he would
likely die of prostate cancer within three months. One problem:
As Libyans celebrate the anniversary of Al-Megrahi's release
Friday, he is still alive, ensconced in the sprawling yellow
house in suburban Tripoli built for him before his homecoming.
Read full text...
|
|
Iraq: What Will Last 50,000 U.S.
Troops Do? |
|
U.S.
Army soldiers in Baghdad as they begin their journey
home on Aug. 13, 2010
Maya Alleruzzo / AP |
by MARK THOMPSON
Washington, August 21, 2010 – There was a sigh of relief at the
Pentagon Wednesday as the U.S. Army's final combat brigade
crossed from Iraq into Kuwait. Generals and their staffs have
spent nearly a decade juggling soldiers to meet the needs of two
wars, bruising many of the units and stretching the Army nearly
to the breaking point in the process. Military experts agree
that reducing troop strength in Iraq will ease the strain on the
force, although it could allow tensions inside Iraq to flare.
But the campaign's sunk costs — more than 4,400 U.S. troops
dead, 30,000 wounded (and far higher Iraqi casualties), along
with a price tag that amounts to $2,500 for every person in
America — is far higher than anyone expected when Operation
Iraqi Freedom began on March 20, 2003.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
AI Index: PRE01/288/2010
London, UK, August 23, 2010 – Burundian authorities must
investigate allegations that state security officials tortured
12 opposition politicians during the country’s recent elections,
Amnesty International said today.
A Step Backwards details how the individuals were slapped,
kicked and hit, at times with batons, all over their bodies.
Some reported being threatened with death and, in one case, part
of a detainees ear was cut off while being held by Burundi’s
National Intelligence Service (SNR) at their headquarters in
Bujumbura between June 23 and July 5.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Mike Levine
One of the nation's top intelligence officials was stunned
by what he heard in that secret, underground facility.
Jack Tomarchio, the Department of Homeland Security's
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and
Analysis at the time, had flown from Washington to Ohio
earlier that spring day for a briefing on the Buckeye
State's latest efforts against terrorism. Now, as heavy
winds battered the streets above, two Ohio Homeland Security
officials told him how the capitals of Ohio and Minnesota
had become havens for refugees of war-torn Somalia.
"Get out of town!" Tomarchio remembers saying in surprise.
"Why did they go to Minnesota? It's freezing up there. Why
don't they go to Arizona, where it's desert-like?"
Read full text...
|
A seasoned
backpacker shares his tips and suggested itineraries for a
memorable few weeks in southern or east Africa
|
|
Backpacker Laurence Watts takes a microlight flight
over Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and
Zimbabwe. Photograph: Laurence Watts |
Laurence Watts
Take it from someone who
has backpacked the length and breadth ofAfrica:
it's big, slow, exciting and infuriating in equal measure.
Its charm lies in the simplicity of local life, the
cheerfulness of its people and its natural wonders.
Travelling can be a
struggle: bureaucracy and corruption can be problematic, and
forget time-keeping altogether – but all this makes for
roads less travelled than in other continents.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
THE soccer World Cup has helped portray Africa in a better
light, a welcome break from the usual staple of refugees,
conflict and economic stagnation. But Africa could do
better.
By Greg Mills
THE soccer World Cup has
helped portray Africa in a better light, a welcome break
from the usual staple of refugees, conflict and economic
stagnation. But Africa could do better.
There is probably no
country as studied by development consultants as Zambia. A
darling of donors since independence in 1964, countless
World Bank and other reports have been written on every
conceivable topic. Thus it’s not as if Zambians shouldn’t
know what to do when thinking about economic and other
development problems. For nearly half a century they have
debated how to diversify their economy away from mining into
agriculture, tourism and manufacturing, with marginal
effect.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
In this
photo taken on Saturday Aug. 7 2010 and made
available Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 Puntland forces
are heading toward Gal Gala area, where militants
loyal to warlord Mohamed Said Atom are based. The
northeastern tip of Somalia has been a peaceful
haven in an often violent nation, but a powerful
warlord and a series of recent clashes are
threatening to open a new zone of lawlessness. |
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 21, 2010 — The northeastern tip of
Somalia has been a peaceful haven in an often violent
nation, but a powerful warlord and a series of recent
clashes are threatening to open a new zone of lawlessness.
Militants loyal to warlord Mohamed Said Atom have repeatedly
fought against government forces in recent weeks, and Atom
told a local radio station that his men have retreated to
their mountain hideout in Gal Gala to plan guerrilla
attacks. Government forces recently drove through the desert
toward Gal Gala in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns.
Read
full text...
|
|
|
|
Somaliland Should Craft A Policy For The Critical Situation In
Puntland |
We have been reporting for some time now on the steadily
deteriorating situation in Puntland. The almost daily bombings
and assassinations has finally prompted Puntland’s government to
react militarily. The result is the Galgala conflict. But
instead of making the situation better, it has made it worse, so
much worse, that it is beginning to be noticed by the
international media.
Read full text...
|
|
|
|
1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XXXIX |
|
By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the thirty Ninth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
The Leadership, Dictatorship and Personality Cult continued
...
Contacts with World Dictators
One of the first visits Siyad Barre made outside the country
was his trip to North Korea in 1972. He was fascinated by
the power, prestige, and praise that Kim Il Sung enjoyed. He
saw workers, children, and ordinary people, everywhere
singing in praise of Kim Il Sung.
Read full text...
|
|
Professor Abdi Samatar Is Anti
- Somaliland Teethless Warlord |
|
By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
It is not for the first
time that the so called professor Abdi Ismail Samatar has
stated anti - Somaliland remarks on the media in which he
willfully intended to damage the reputation of Somaliland
which it earned from the international community as a
stable, viable and democratic state free from all forms of
violence.
Read full text....
|
|
The South Remained Failed
State |
|
Written by
Mohammed Rashid Abdillahi
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.
Read full text.....
|
|
The Central Theme Of Elmi
Bodheris’ Poems |
|
By Abdi Ahmed Digale (Digale)
Elmi Ismail Liban (Bodheri)
is one of the most influential, prominent and composer
figures in Somali literature. His romantic episode is widely
present in the Somali poetic and lyrical expressions dealing
mainly with the romantic events.
Read full text.....
|
|
Africa Oil War Has Impacted
Communities In Galgala, Balanbal And Places In The Ogaden
|
|
By Mohamud Ahmed
Ethiopian Army killed and injured civilians in Balanbal
district, Central Somalia, an incident believed to have connections to
gas and oil exploration pursued by Melez government in the Ogaden and extended
to the border with Somalia.
Read full text.....
|
|
How Great We Grew Up by Fadumo |
|
My name is Fadumo
and I was born in Hargiesa in 1994.I leave with my family and I have 6 brothers
and 10 sisters. I have wonderful parents who encourage me to do my best and
after Allah they were the reason of my success to finish my classes. I was the
third daughter of my family so I was the third female to go to school.
Read full text........
|
|
|
|
How Did Al-Shabaab Emerge
From The Chaos Of Somalia? |
|
By NIR
ROSEN
The concerns
and agenda of Somalia's al-Shabaab militia are very much
rooted in local politics. However, its rise to prominence is
tied to decisions taken by the U.S. and its regional allies
in pursuit of the Bush Administration's global war on
terrorism.
Read full text......
|
|
Somalia's Al-Shabaab: A Global
Or Local Movement? |
|
By NIR
ROSEN
When Somalia's
al-Shabaab militia claimed responsibility for the July 11 suicide bombings that
killed 76 people watching soccer on TV in Uganda, the media described the event
as an al-Qaeda attack on the World Cup.
Read full text....
|
|
NORWAY: Is Welfare System
Destroying Somali Families? |
|
Kadra Yusuf, Somali-Norwegian
activist |
San Francisco, August 21,
2010 — Somali-Norwegian activist,
Kadra Yusuf thinks that the Norwegian generous welfare system paradoxically may
destroy the Somali families in Norway and lead to misuse of public funds.
Read full text....
|
|
India Launches Ambitious
Development Project Across Africa |
|
Djibouti,
August 21, 2010 – Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Monday
launched the second phase of pan-African e-network project that offers a range
of services in distance learning and Tele-Medicine to African nations.
Read full text....
|
|
|
