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Somaliland: ACP-EU
Acknowledges “Realities” |
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The meeting of ACP-EU representatives in the Seychelles has
noted in its final communiqué the need for solutions to the
crisis in Somalia to note the realities in Somaliland
amongst others.
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Somali
government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel in
Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday Aug, 24, 2010.
Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP |
By NICK
WADHAMS
Just a few months ago, the
going story on al-Shabaab, an Islamic insurgent group in
Somalia, was that it could carry out well-coordinated, very
deadly attacks, but posed no existential threat to the
country's central government, weak as it may be.
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 – Kenya's president signed a
new constitution into law on Friday that institutes a
US-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed
as the most significant political event since Kenya's
independence nearly a half century ago.
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By Dave
Aeikens
Citations issued to a Waite Park man who posted anti-Islamic
fliers on St. Cloud utility poles have been dismissed in an
administrative hearing officer’s ruling issued this morning.
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Russian special envoy to Sudan Mikhail Margelov |
Khartoum, Sudan, August 28, 2010 — Russian special envoy for
Sudan, Mikhail Margelov, warned from the failure of a new
state in southern Sudan and expressed fears that a new
Somalia may emerge in the semi-autonomous region.
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New York, August 28, 2010 – The former French minister Jack
Lang is to become the United Nations' special adviser on
piracy, it has emerged.
Mr Lang, 70, a former professor of international law, will
advise on ways of prosecuting pirates captured off Somalia.
He has previously served as France's culture minister,
education minister and special envoy on North Korea.
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Oslo, Norway,
August 28, 2010 – Norway is making sustained efforts towards
long-term, deterrent measures to discourage Somali pirates
and enforce appropriate punishments for their acts in the
Somali region.
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Hotel Suicide Bomber Linked
To Al-Shabaab's Senior Leader |
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Photo: AP
- Somali government forces walk outside the Muna
Hotel which was stormed by a suicide bomber and a
gunman in Mogadishu, Somalia, 24 Aug 2010 |
Alisha Ryu
Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 – One of the suicide bombers
who took part in Tuesday's deadly attack against Somali
lawmakers in a Mogadishu hotel has been identified as a
young man recruited by an al-Shabaab senior leader, who is
believed to be playing a major role in transforming the
extremist group into a proxy for al-Qaida.
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Brit-Somalilander Runner
Farah To Use Delhi CWG To Satisfy His Olympic Hunger
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London, UK, August 28, 2010 – Twenty-seven-year-old Mo
Farah, a Somaliland-born British international track and
field athlete, who holds the British road record for 10,000
meters, the British indoor record in the 3000 meters and the
British track record for 5000 meters, has said that he will
run at the Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi in
October.
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Bashir Surprise Guest In
Kenya |
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By Walter Menya
Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 – Sudan President Omar al-Bashir
who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court
made a surprise attendance at the celebrations to promulgate
Kenya’s new constitution on Friday.
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White House Decries
Al-Shabaab Attack In Somalia |
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Vineyard Haven, Mass. August 28, 2010 — The White House is
decrying the attack by al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia
and pledging to work to counter the group's efforts.
President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John
Brennan, said Tuesday that the attack by the Al-Shabaab
militant group, which killed 32 people at a hotel, "is a
particularly outrageous act during the Islamic month of
Ramadan."
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Joint Statement Condemning
Al-Shabaab’s Attacks Against The People Of Mogadishu |
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 (SL Times) – Norway, the
United States, the African Union Mission in Somalia, the
European Union, the InterGovernmental Authority on
Development, the League of Arab States and the United
Nations Political Office for Somalia, condemn in the
strongest possible terms the ongoing assault against the
people of Mogadishu being carried out by extremists.
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DRC Concludes 30 Projects
In Somalia |
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In a war-torn Somalia and in the midst of arising conflict
in Mogadishu, DRC is handing over 30 projects in Bossaso,
Puntland to the local authorities and the local communities.
The conclusion of a humanitarian effort, which has helped
more than 47.000 people, was marked at a ceremony in Bossaso
city council
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Somalia: Security Council
Stresses Long-Term Solution Needed To Problem Of
Prosecuting, Imprisoning Pirates Operating Off Somalia
Coast, Welcomes Report On Issue |
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New York, August 28, 2010
— Secretary-General
Presents Report with 7 Legal Options; Range from Enhanced UN
Assistance for Ongoing State Efforts, to Establishment of
International Tribunal.
Avowing that more
effective legal prosecution of Somalia coast pirates would
help deter future attacks and strengthen the rule of law,
the Security Council today stressed the importance of
finding a long-term solution to the problem of such
prosecution and imprisonment and voiced its support for the
appointment of a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on
the issue, during a debate that heard from some 30 speakers.
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Ambassador Norman Ling Visits
Somaliland, Holds A Press Conference |
Norman Ling, a British
Ambassador to Ethiopia
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
August 28, 2010 (SL
Times) – A delegation
led by the United
Kingdom’s Ambassador to
Ethiopia, Mr Norman
Ling, visited Somaliland
this week.
In a press conference at
the ministry of health,
Ambassador Ling said the
reason they came to
Somaliland was to find
out the issues the new
government wants to
tackle and how it can be
helped.
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Somcable Awarded
Underwater Cable Contract |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, August 28, 2010 (SL Times) – President Ahmed
Sillanyo awarded the contract for laying an underground cable to
Somcable.
The government made this announcement in a press release.
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Two Of Sheikh
Sharif's Parliamentarians Arrested In Awdal |
Borama, Somaliland, August 28, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Governor of Awdal Region, Mr Muhammad Dahir Abdalle, held a
press conference at his office in which he announced that
two members of Somalia's parliament were arrested when they
snuck back into Somaliland, and that other parliamentarians
are hiding and the police is still looking for them.
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Earth Tremors In Borama |
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Borama,
Somaliland, August 28, 2010 (SL Times) – Earth tremors took
place in Borama and its surroundings this week. The earth
tremors happened in the afternoon at a time when most people
were sleep taking siestas from the afternoon heat.
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Islamist al-Shabaab fighters
conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu, Somalia.
With no functioning government since 1991, militants
with guns have been filling the social-justice void in Somalia with
violence. (Associated Press) |
By Jason Straziuso and Mohamed Olad Hassan
MOGADISHU, Somalia, August 28, 2010 – Men are forced to grow
beards. Women can't leave home without a male relative. Music,
movies and watching sports on TV are banned. Limbs are chopped
off as punishment, and executions by stoning have become a
public spectacle.
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Torn
between violent extremists and a puppet government, Somalia
could look to Somaliland for a lesson in nation building
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A young boy
leads al-Shabaab fighters on military exercise in
Suqaholaha neighborhood in northern Mogadishu, Somalia.
Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP |
By
Ioan Lewis
The escalating war for control
of what is left of Somalia, between the al-Shabaab
extremists and the African Union puppet "transitional federal
government", offers little hope of peaceful resolution.
Al-Shabaab is now deeply entrenched and, with the help of
foreign jihadists, virtually controls all southern Somalia.
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Ethiopian Forces Enter Somalia As
Nation Expects More Militant Attacks |
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Somali officials warn that
Islamist rebels may intensify attacks this weekend
Mogadishu, Somalia, August
28, 2010 -- Ethiopian forces entered Somalia on Friday,
accompanied by forces from Somalia's transitional government, to
challenge militants trying to take control of the nation's
capital, local media sources reported.
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Somali Government Claims To
Contain Islamist Rebels' Offensive |
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By Les Neuhaus
Mogadishu, Somalia, August 28, 2010 -- The Somali government
claimed on Thursday that it has contained an offensive by
Islamic extremist rebels that had been launched in the nation's
capital earlier in the week.
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Kenya Takes Its Place Among
World’s Top Democracies At Emotional Ceremony |
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Kenya's
President Mwai Kibaki lifts up Kenya's new constitution
soon after promulgating it at the Uhuru Park grounds on
August 27, 2010 in Nairobi. PHOTO / AFP
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At the stroke of the pen
and to the echo of a 21-gun salute, the nation shed off a set of
laws inherited from the British and entered a new constitutional
dispensation in which the powers of the presidency will be
reduced
Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 – Kenya took its place at the
high table of nations with progressive constitutions at a
euphoric ceremony in Nairobi laced with historical significance.
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Editorial: The Constitution And
The Mosque |
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President
Obama delivered remarks at a White House dinner
celebrating Ramadan. |
President Obama showed his understanding of the Constitution,
and his respect for the American people, last week when he
defended the right of a Muslim community group to build a mosque
and Islamic center two blocks north of ground zero in Lower
Manhattan.
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After Murder, South Korea Rethinks
Marriage Brokers |
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South
Korean Cha Jae Hyung and his Vietnamese wife, Phan Thi
Ngoc Phwong, married in 2002 and have a 1-year-old boy.
One of the
biggest trends in South Korea is finding a foreign
spouse |
By CHRISTOPHER
SHAY
Seoul, South Korea, August 28, 2010 –
Within three days, a man can meet and marry the Vietnamese bride
of his dreams, one typical marriage agency claims. The
Vietnamese woman will be faithful, submissive, between the ages
of 18 and 25 and a virgin, the agency promises.
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Kate
Leeming's path across Africa.
Maya |
Reid Sexton
Melbourne, Australia, August 28, 2010 – DISPUTED borders,
threats from rebels and searing heat were unable to stop a
Melbourne woman from becoming what is believed to be the first
person to cycle continuously from Africa's most westerly to
easterly points.
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Worshipers gathered at Eastleigh's Masjid Sahabi
mosque, where clerics preach a moderate message.
Imams at other neighborhood mosques, however, have
become increasingly radicalized, praising and
recruiting supporters for Somalia's al-Shabaab
militia. (Sudarsan Raghavan/the Washington Post) |
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Nairobi, Kenya, August 28,
2010 -- Behind the blue gates of his Islamic school in
Nairobi's Eastleigh neighborhood, Ahmed Awil cannot escape
his country's civil war.
Schools and mosques where extremist views are taught are
reshaping this Somali immigrant community that for years has
lived peacefully in the capital of this predominantly
Christian country.
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Report of the Secretary-General on possible options to
further the aim of prosecuting and imprisoning persons
responsible for acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off
the coast of Somalia, including, in particular, options for
creating special domestic chambers possibly with
international components
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Nairobi, Kenya, August 28, 2010 – It all started when a
mother called to inquire about the whereabouts of her
18-year-old son Nuno Ahmed whom she believed was in Nairobi
and had plans of going to Mogadishu. "He left with his three
friends and I have just found out that they are going back
home," she told me when she called from her home in
Minnesota, USA.
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By Amir Demeke
book review
Kigali — For those concerned with Africa's liberation, it
becomes increasingly important to anchor our steps in the
reality of our environment and to benchmark our progress to
the giant leaps forward obtained by our elders.
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President Obama And Somalia |
Usually when trying to figure out the direction of a
country’s policy toward another country or people, analysts look
at issues such as national interests, economic motives,
strategic objectives, issues that can be lumped together as the
objective factor.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XL |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the Fortieth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Islam State and Globalization in the Somali context
Religion and the Constitution of the Social Theory
The central concern of sociological and anthropological
theory is the Hobbisian conceptualization of the theme of
social order.
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Boom And Bust: The Only Somali
Business Cycle |
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By Liban Obsiye
In Britain start up businesses have a very high failure rate
as at least 1 in 3 of them fails in their first three years.
However, despite this grim prospect, many others go on to
succeed, expand and prosper and it is this that inspires
many entrepreneurs in the UK to venture out on their own.
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A Las Anoder To His Garaad In
Chief |
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By Mohamed Sougal
Dear Garaad,
About three years ago, I
took the opportunity of the first anniversary of tour crowning to address some
outstanding issues pertaining to the Sool and Sanaag global situation. And I
have called on your vision and integrity to bring about the changes needed.
http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2007/292/27.shtml
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One Hundred Years Of
Solitude And Sufferance |
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Ali Farah, the Isahakia community
chair expresses a point during a recent meeting in Naivasha. [PHOTOS:
ANTONY GITONGA/STANDARD] |
By Antony Gitonga
You probably haven’t heard about them, although they have
been in our midst for over 100 years.
They are the Isakhakia, named after the Isaq clan in
Somaliland, from whence they came.
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Somalis Pay Price Of US
Stupidity |
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By Gwynne
Dyer
The U.S. decision in 2006
to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia was one of the stupidest moves in a very
stupid decade. This week, some of the chickens spawned by that decision came
home to roost.
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The Pirates Of Puntland: A
Tale Of Somali Pirates, Ethiopia And The U.S.A. |
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By Tom Mountain
Pirates, warlords, Marxist guerilla turned G-20 statesman and the USA… the real
story of the Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa is a tale that needs telling.
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Somaliland: Melbourne Woman To
Come The First Person To Cycle Africa |
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Tea break in a tiny village between
Burao and Oog |
By KATE
Our two days in Hargeysa were extremely busy learning about some of the many
projects Omer’s Taakulo Somaliland Community is undertaking and ensuring the
right security plan is put into place for our journey through Somaliland. It was
hectic.
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