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Somalia: From Finest To
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By Mohamed Haji Ingiriis (email
the author)
The contemporary Somalia attests to be a classical case of
failed state, distinguished from that of medieval Somalia
cited in thePeriplus of the Erythraean Sea and
numerous books written in the middle ages as a prosperous
country connecting Africa to Arab World and as far as
Southeast Asia.
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By John Oyuke
Mombasa, Kenya, September 18, 2010 – Operations at the port
of Mombasa are set to improve with the expected opening of a
new dry port being constructed by logistics company SDV
Transami.
The French company, a subsidiary of Bollore Africa Logistics
plans to open the Sh700 million Mombasa Container Terminal
next month, in a move it said would ease congestion at the
port and save traders costs associated with delays.
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WIDH-WIDH, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 – Almost all of
the
hundreds of households displaced after clashes between
the Somaliland army and the pro-Somali union, Sool, Sanaag
and Cayn (SSC) group in Sool’s Widh-widh district have
returned home as calm returns, say officials.
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Statement by the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On Saturday last week a group of over two hundred heavily
armed men landed from two dhows along the largely
uninhabited Somaliland coast south of Zeila, between Zeila
and Lughaya. They were met by three large trucks made up to
look as though they were transporting salt, and taken
directly towards the border with Ethiopia, some 120 kms
away. They successfully passed through at least one check
point en route towards the border, but were spotted close to
the small town of Abdulqadir not far from the border.
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Somaliland army reportedly drove out Ethiopia ONLF
rebels |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, September
18, 2010 – Somaliland’s deputy minister for foreign affairs
and international cooperation said its national army has
driven from Somaliland territory Ethiopia’s Ogaden National
Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels who, he said, were trained in
neighboring Eritrea.
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Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2010 – The UN's Deputy High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, returned
to Nairobi on Wednesday after spending three days visiting
to Somaliland and parts of Somalia, including Puntland.
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Interim Authorities, World
Community Must Play Their Part For Somali Peace – Ban |
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New York, September 18, 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
is calling on war-torn Somalia’s transitional authorities to
end internal squabbles that are hampering key tasks, and
urging the international community to provide the military
and financial aid needed to counter extremist forces.
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Ethiopia 'Kills 123' ONLF
Rebels And Surrounds 90 More |
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Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, September 18, 2010 – Ethiopian forces have killed
123 rebels in the eastern region of the country, an official
has told the BBC.
The rebels are reportedly from the ONLF, fighting in
Ethiopia's Somali region.
They have been fighting Ethiopian control of the area since
the 1970s.
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UK Statement In Security
Council Debate On Somalia |
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Statement by Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of the United Kingdom Mission to the United
Nations, at Security Council Debate on Somalia, 16 September
2010
Mr President,
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Metro Engineer Appointed To
Cabinet Post In Somaliland In Eastern Africa |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 – Hussein Farah, an
engineer who’s been managing facilities contracts here at
Metro, has been appointed to the cabinet of the newly
elected president of Somaliland.
The Republic of Somaliland, where Hussein was born in 1957,
is the size of Greece, bordering Somalia and Ethiopia with a
coastline that stretches some 456 miles along the Red Sea.
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Network Of Spies Threatens
Somalia |
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By Sudarsan
Raghavan
Mogadishu, Somalia, September 18, 2010 – During the day,
Mohamed Mahmoud counts the African Union peacekeepers in his
neighborhood and notes their locations. At night, he gives
the information to his handlers in the radical al-Shabaab
militia, undermining the U.S.-backed government the
peacekeepers support.
"We are everywhere," he said.
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Hospital Open To Body Parts
Probe |
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Paul
Kilel at the City Mortuary waiting for the post
mortem of his brother, whose body was found without
eyes and an ear on September 15, 2010. The Kenyatta
National Hospital has invited investigators to probe
the extent of theft of body parts at their
mortuary. JENNIFER MUIRURI |
By JOY WANJA and MIKE MWANIKI
Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2010 – The Kenyatta National
Hospital has invited investigators to probe the extent of
theft of body parts at their mortuary.
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Redknee Supports Bintel
Group's Growth Strategy In Africa |
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Redknee Delivers Multimillion Dollar System To New Bintel
Group Property
TORONTO, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Redknee (TSX:RKN.to
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News),
a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging
software and solutions for communications service providers,
today announced it has secured a multimillion dollar
contract with Azur Congo Brazzaville, a subsidiary of group
operator Bintel Ltd, to deploy Redknee's Turnkey Converged
Billing (TCB) solution, as it prepares to launch its mobile
operations in the market.
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Electric Short Causes Explosion At
Livestock Minister’s Home |
Dr. Ahmed Hashi Oday,
Somaliland's Livestock
minister
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
September 18, 2010 (SL
Times) – A default in an
electric appliance which
heats water has caused a
minor explosion at the
home of Somaliland’s
minister for Livestock,
Ahmed Hashi Oday, in
Hargeysa.
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President Receives UN
Delegation |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland President
Ahmed Silanyo met on Sept.14 with a UN delegation led by Mme
Kyung-Wha Kang (the UN Assistant Secretary General who is also
the Vice President of the UN Human Rights Commission).
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Governor Of Sanag
Region Meets With Regional Officials |
Ceerigaabo, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Governor of Sanag region, Mr Ali Abdi Hurre met with many
government officials in Sanag region.
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President Signs Small Arms Law |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland
President, Ahmed Sillanyo signed law number 72/092010 which
regulates small arms. The new law is related to law number
39/2010 which was already passed by parliament.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – A scheduled
meeting of Somalia’s parliament failed to take place this week.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – At least 2
persons were wounded after the police shot live ammunition in
air to disperse crowds of demonstrators in Borama city in Awdal
Region.
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Somaliland: Private Schools Earn
Highest Marks In National Examinations |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 (SL Times) – The
ministry of Education announced the examination results of the
intermediate and secondary schools for the year of 2009/2010.
Most of the top 10 students are from private schools.
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Al-Shabaab A Threat To East
African Countries |
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New York, September 18, 2010 – The worsening security situation
in Somalia poses a direct threat to Kenya, Foreign minister
Moses Wetang'ula has told the United Nations Security Council.
The al-Shabaab insurgents, who in the past threatened to attack
Nairobi, have nearly toppled Somalia's Transitional Federal
Government, Mr Wetang'ula said in a speech to the UN body
Thursday.
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Somali Refugees Not Welcome In
Some Countries - UNHCR |
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Internally
displaced children stand outside at a makeshift a camp
outside the Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Some African
governments are turning away Somali refugees fleeing
the war-torn country REUTERS
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By
Cosmus Butunyi
Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2010 – As the war rages in
Somalia, civilians fleeing the clashes are no longer welcome in
some of the countries where they seek refuge.
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Blackberry Maker In A Spot Over
Secure Data |
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By Esmond Shahonya
Mumbai, India, September 18, 2010 – India has joined a number of
nations raising concerns over the BlackBerry smart phone.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to ban BlackBerry
e-mail messaging and web browsing to gain control over the
users’ transmitted data.
Other countries which are reported to have floated a similar
demand are Kuwait, Lebanon, and Algeria.
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Africa: Early HIV Treatment May Be
Cheaper Than Thought |
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Antiretrovirals. |
Manzini, September 18, 2010 — Research by South Africa's
University of the Witwatersrand and Boston University in the US,
has found that starting HIV-positive people on antiretrovirals (ARVs)
earlier, and at a higher CD4 count (a measure of immune system
strength), may be cheaper than previously thought.
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Richard Cockett
The forthcoming referendum on independence in south Sudan could
lead to the break-up of Africa’s biggest country. But if Sudan
has failed as a unitary state its end carries dangers, says
Richard Cockett.
Sudan, Africa’s largest country by land-mass, is about to
disappear. Or rather, to put it less dramatically, in all
likelihood the country will soon cease to exist in its present
form. In a referendum due in
January 2011, the 8 million or so citizens of south Sudan are
expected to vote for secession from the north, and to found
their own state. The rump of the country,
including the western region of Darfur, will remain as Sudan.
The southern Sudanese have yet to decided the name of their
territory; but whatever they choose, it seems as if Africa will
get its first new country since Eritrea won independence
from Ethiopia in the early 1990s.
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Somalilander girls at the busy beach of Berbera, the
country's main port city |
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
September 18, 2010 – Somaliland, with marvelous beaches,
breathtaking diving opportunities, scenic mountains and rich
culture, is the definitive frontier of tourism. Not because
it is unsafe, but because there is absolutely no tourism
infrastructure and you'll feel like you are the first
visitor.
Don't confuse quiet,
democratic and well organized Somaliland with chaotic and
violent (southern) Somalia. On most maps, it is the same, as
Somaliland is not an internationally recognized country. But
Somaliland, de facto independent since 1991, has managed to
build the most robust democracy of the entire region and
takes great pride in it.
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Dr Sada
Mire with some of the ancient art finds at Dhambalin,
Somaliland. Mire headed the University College
London team that discovered more than 100 rock
art sites. Photograph: UCL
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UK scientists unearth 5,000-year-old rock art, including
drawing of a mounted hunter, in Somaliland
By
Dalya Alberge
Hargeysa, Somaliland, September 18, 2010 – Striking
prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been
discovered in eastern Africa by a UK-based team of
scientists.
A team headed by Dr Sada Mire – an archaeologist at the
institute of
archaeology at University College London (UCL) – made
the finds at almost 100 sites in Somaliland on the Gulf of
Aden.
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JUDAH GRUNSTEIN
I mentioned in my
first post back from vacation that
the U.S. should be focusing its foreign policy attention on
Africa in the "post-Iraq" era. The reasons why remained
inchoate and intuitive, until Nikolas Gvosdev, in his
WPR column today, helped me bring them into focus when
he wrote:
Beyond Latin America, the [U.S. should] explore ways to bind
Western and Southern Africa closer to the United States. . .
. Washington should pay more attention to surrounding the
United States with a "ring of friends" to its south, rather
than thinking of our security as guaranteed by the oceans to
our east and west.
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A
journalist films an insurgent in Somalia. (Mohammed
Ibrahim) |
By
Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Consultant
In August, Shabelle
Media Network, one of Somalia's leading independent
broadcasters, did something incredibly brave--they rebroadcast news
and music that the BBC's Somali-language
service beams to the war-torn Horn of African nation in defiance
of a ban imposed by hard-line militant Islamist rebel
groups Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. For Somali journalists,
who risk death by crossfire and assassination, and
censorship from both insurgents and the weak U.S.-backed
transitional government, it was a courageous pushback
against forces hostile to independent media.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XLIII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the Forty-third article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Islam and The Emergence of the Nation-State
During the period in 1950-1960, national political parties
with secular political ideas structured along the lines of
Western political ideology emerged in Somaliland and
Somalia.
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Somaliland: A Candle In
The Wind |
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By Mohamed Khawi
The cheering crowds were
non-violent. The euphoric bump and ceremony is silent.
Kulmiye emerged prevalent, and mujahid
Axmad Maxamad Sillanyo is crowned triumphant upon
defeating his competing Udub tyrant.
Where do we go from here?
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How To Bring Institutions Back
To The Right Track In Somaliland |
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By: Prof, Abdikarim Ahmed
Hersi
After the historic power hand over of the previous government and the subsequent
cabinet nomination by the newly elected president his Excellency Mr Ahmed
Mahamed Mahamoud (Sillanyo).
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Ethio-Somaliland Relations
Post-1991: Challenges and Opportunities |
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Author: Nasir M. Ali
Dedication
I would like to acknowledge those who have helped me at every step along the way
from the tentative conception of the paper to its completion. To the friends
whose suggestions were invaluable and without their generous advice and
assistance the paper could not reach the standard.
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Who Made The Deal With Devil? |
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Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Sabeyse
The fiasco surrounding the 300 men regiment of ONLF terrorists making their way
through the western seaboard of Somaliland without any hindrance is indicative
of serious lapses in the nation's security.
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We Should Let The Fractious
Region Go Its Own Way |
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By Dan
Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
With the
exception of countries the United States has wrecked through wars -- Vietnam,
Iraq and Afghanistan -- the area where we have done the most damage in recent
years probably is the Horn of Africa.
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Book review - Ending Aid
Dependence |
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Amir Demeke
As former Tanzanian
President, Benjamin W. Mkapa, stated in his forward,
At a time when the competition for oil, fuels, land and commodities is heating
up between the older industrial countries of the North and the emerging
industrial countries of the South such as Brazil, China, India and South Africa,
‘aid’ from the North could be a means of tying down the aid recipient countries
– especially in Africa, which appears to be the principal target for aid – to
the colonial apron strings of the older empire.
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American Muslims Ask, Will We
Ever Belong? |
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For
nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, many American Muslims made concerted
efforts to build relationships with non-Muslims, to make it clear they abhor
terrorism, to educate people about Islam and to participate in interfaith
service projects.
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The Future Of U.S. Naval Power |
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ROBERT FARLEY
In June of this year, the United States Navy published the 2010 Naval Operations
Concept(.pdf) (NOC), designed as the operational fulfillment of the Cooperative
Maritime Strategy(.pdf) (CS-21) released in 2007. The 112-page NOC is an
elaboration of the concepts set forth in the 20-page Cooperative Strategy, with
detailed discussion of how the missions laid forth in the earlier document can
be accomplished with the forces available to the United States Navy.
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Ethiopian Report: A Week In
The Horn (17.09.2010) |
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The
Security Council hears the Secretary-General’s latest report
Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon’s latest report on Somalia was presented to the
Security Council on Thursday this week.
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