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Analysis: Missed
Opportunities In Somalia |
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Nairobi, Kenya, October
16, 2010 — Weak leadership and internal divisions have
prevented Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
from exploiting splits among its Islamist insurgent enemies,
say analysts.
Al-Shabaab and Hisbul-Islam
insurgents have, in the past two months, intensified attacks
against government forces and allied African Union (AU)
troops. Clashes in Mogadishu between 1 and 3 October, for
example, left at least 50 people dead and 174 wounded,
according to local human rights organizations.
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MINNEAPOLIS, October 16, 2010 —A Somali-born Canadian
citizen who admitted he attended Al Qaeda training camps in
Afghanistan and lectures by Osama bin Laden is out of U.S.
federal prison and has been deported to Canada.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 37-year-old
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame (pronounced war-SAHM’-ee) was
released from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., Friday
morning. He was immediately turned over to U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement.
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An
American naval speed boat patrols near the sides of
the mother naval warship MV USS Princeton at the
port of Mombasa, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 soon
after the ship docked in Mombasa.
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By KATHARINE HOURELD
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 16, 2010 -- More countries must help
Kenya to prosecute Somali pirates, a top U.N. official said
Tuesday, amid concerns that Kenya could be used as a dumping
ground for the sea bandits who target ships for millions of
dollars in ransoms.
The secretary-general's special adviser on piracy law, Jack
Lang, said Kenya's concerns are understandable and it may
want to renegotiate its agreements to take pirate suspects.
The country currently has some 136 pirates among its 53,000
prison inmates.
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Michael Onyiego
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 16, 2010 -- With investors and the
international community looking to increase ties with
Somaliland, the recent suspension of a London-based
broadcaster has media freedom groups questioning the
breakaway government's commitment to democracy.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, October 16, 2010 — The president of
Somalia named a new prime minister on Thursday, bringing
into the government a first-time politician.
Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed replaces Omar
Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, who had a long-running feud with
President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed. Ahmed resigned last
month.
Mohamed will be asked to name a Cabinet as soon as possible.
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By Jeremy Warren,
Police have now charged five men with manslaughter in
connection with the death of Ahmed Mohamud, the man who
police believe fell to his death from a sixth-floor
apartment balcony in downtown Saskatoon.
Three suspects were arrested in Saskatoon Thursday while
Malcolm Herman, 21, appeared in provincial court, charged
with manslaughter and robbery.
When he was arrested, Herman was already in custody at the
Saskatoon Correctional Centre's remand unit on charges
unrelated to the investigation.
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Press Release:
Miscellaneous Announcements
Cambridge University Press is sending thousands of primary
school books to 12 African countries in partnership with
Book Aid International, to provide school books to some of
the world's most deprived areas.
School libraries in Cameroon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Malawi, Namibia, Somalia (Puntland, Somaliland), Sudan,
Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe will each receive 50-100
copies of each book donated, ensuring that whole classrooms
of school children will be able to learn from them.
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Army Civil Affairs Teams
Attend Issa Chief Wedding |
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By U.S. Army Specialist Sheri Carter
DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia, October 16, 2010 - U.S. Army 418th
Civil Affairs Charlie team (second row from front) sits in
the VIP section at Ugaas Mustafe Maxamed Ibraahim's wedding
celebration September 23, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by
Technical Sergeant Steffan Fritz)
DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia, Oct 14, 2010— A U.S. Army 418th Civil
Affairs Team (Charlie Company) was invited by the tribal
Chief (Ugaas) of Issa, Mustafe Maxamed Ibraahim, to attend
his wedding celebration September 23, 2010.
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Ethiopia Signs Peace Deal
With Ogaden Rebel Faction |
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ADDIS ABABA,
Ethiopia, October 16, 2010 –
Ethiopia signed a peace deal on Tuesday to end 20 years of
war with a rebel faction that has comprised the main threat
to foreign oil and gas firms in the disputed Ogaden region,
both sides said.
Abay Tsehaye, national security adviser to Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi, welcomed the signing of the deal as something
that would strengthen unity in the Horn of Africa country.
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Somali In Minn. Muslims
Condemn 'Extreme Views' Of Local Imam |
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By Laura Yuen
St. Paul, Minn. — Muslims in Minnesota's Somali community
are condemning what they believe to be extreme views
espoused by both a Twin Cities imam and the operator of a
local Somali website.
Upset that the two men publicly derided Islamic spiritual
leaders as "infidels" for attending a recent interfaith
service, followers of Islam and its peaceful tenets have
rallied to speak out.
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Libyan Warning over South
Sudan Secession Criticized |
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Peter Clottey
Juba, Sudan, October 16, 2010 – A former south Sudanese
envoy has rejected Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi suggestions
over the weekend that south Sudan’s secession will be a
disease that will spread throughout Africa.
Ambassador John Andruga Duku told VOA this is yet another
attempt by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to
derail south Sudan’s the scheduled 9th January referendum.
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Dr. Adna Participates In
Conference About Women’s Health In California |
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Long Beach, October 16, 2010 — Dr. Edna Aden Ismail
participated in number of conference about infant morality
and women’s health in California. Before she arrived to Long
Beach, near Los Angeles, Dr. Edna was feature speaker in a
conference about Human Rights and Women’s health in
University of California, Santa Barbra. Dr. Adna has been
praised over her efforts to reduce infant mortality in
Somaliland and establish basis of medical care.
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Homemade African Aircraft
Are Salvagepunk Cool (Even If They're Not 100% Airworthy) |
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In the last couple years, amateur engineers from Africa have
built DIY planes and helicopters out of recycled parts.
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This Much I Know: Mo Farah |
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The athlete, 27, on training with Kenyans, learning English
from scratch, and how marriage has changed him
Emma John
The African running culture
is completely different to
the British one. Out there everyone runs, no matter who.
Here everyone knows about football and we're all talking
about the Premiership, but there they are always talking
about athletics.
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Djibouti: Building Peace Through
Trade and Transshipment |
Djibouti president,
Ismail Omer Guelleh
(bottom-right] and
Dorelah Container
Terminal at Djibouti
Djibouti, October 16,
2010 (SL Times) – When
Djiboutian president
Ismail Omer Guelleh came
to power in 1999 as a
result of multi-party
elections, his country’s
prospects generally
looked bleak. The
government was unable to
pay salaries to its
employees let alone meet
its wider social
obligations.
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US eyes Somaliland as
answer to Mogadishu's woes |
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In this photo
taken Wednesday, Oct ,13. 2010, gymnasts perform at a
trade fair in Hargeysa, Somaliland. Somaliland officials
say the U.S. and the international community have wasted
too much time and money on Mogadishu instead of
supporting a struggling but democratically elected
government in Somaliland. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso) |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, October 16, 2010 — A new six-story office building
will soon house a $1 billion-a-year business. The recently
elected president has appointed smart people and won the
admiration of the international community. Gunfire is nowhere to
be heard.
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Somaliland
President Meets With International Donors |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 16, 2010 (SL Times) – A large
delegation of international donors visited Somaliland this
week.
The delegation held talks with Somaliland President Ahmed
Sillanyo on a host of issues.
The donor’s delegation also toured the 5th Somaliland Trade
fair that has opened this week in Hargeysa, met with civil
society organizations as well as the managements of
Somaliland’s companies such as SOMTEL and Dahabshil.
The Chairman of Dahabshil Money Transfer Company, Mr.
Abdirashid Muhammad Saeed briefed the delegation on the
worldwide services of the company such as money transfer, E
banking, and wireless internet.
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Minister Of Fisheries And Ports
Appeals For Help Against Piracy |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, October 16, 2010 (SL Times) – Somaliland Minister of
Fisheries and Ports Management, Dr. Muhammad Yasin Hassan (Dayr)
appealed to Somaliland’s public, especially the ones who live in
coastal areas to inform the coast guards of any people involved
in suspicious activities such as illegal fishing and piracy in
Somaliland’s waters.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 16, 2010 (SL Times) – Clan elders
from Hargeysa held a dinner celebration to honor the success of
eastern Sanag traditional leaders in releasing Nation Link staff
who were abducted in that region.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 16, 2010 (SL Times) – A Soccer
tournament to honor the memory of Abdillahi Abdi Omar, the
deceased principal of Sheikh Madar Elementary and Middle School,
were held in Hargeysa.
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British Security Worker Kidnapped
In Somalia |
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Islamic
gunmen patrol in Mogadishu, Somalia. A Briton working
for Save the Children has been kidnapped in the country.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Briton working for UK charity Save the Children taken by armed
men in Adado
Xan Rice
Nairobi, Kenya, October
16, 2010 – A British security consultant working for a UK
charity was kidnapped last night by gunmen in a Somali town near
the Ethiopian border.
He had been contracted by
Save the Children to assess whether it was safe for the group to
resume aid operations
in the area. His Somali fixer was also kidnapped, but was
reportedly released today.
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Remaking The Somali State: A
Renewed Building-Block Approach |
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Executive summary
The record of externally
sponsored statebuilding initiatives in Somalia since 1991 is one
of failure. Most of these initiatives have sought to restore a
unitary state, an effort that has been unsuccessful and will not
happen in the immediate future. This report calls for a
different way forward – a return to a "building-block" approach
to statebuilding, guided by a pragmatic outlook that transfers
power to local authorities and civil society. This is not a new
idea, for it has been discussed ever since the end of colonial
rule in Somalia. The two-stage idea is to break up the territory
into smaller pieces – "building-blocks" – that can more
effectively be managed by local authorities; then, when these
become working polities, reunite them under a decentralized,
federal or even confederal structure.
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Investigation Suggests Kenya Has
Ties With Piracy |
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Nairobi, Kenya, October
16, 2010 – The Daily Nation has ran investigations that
suggest that Kenyan law firms, security, aviation and shipping
firms are conducting business with pirates operating in the
Indian Ocean as the former facilitate the ransom discussions and
payment.
Somali pirates are being
paid over USD 80 million as ransom every year, and it is thought
that some of that amount goes through Kenya.
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Before '08 Mumbai Attacks, U.S.
Was Warned Key Figure In Plot Had Terror Ties |
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After a wave of coordinated
terrorist attacks turned parts of Mumbai's financial
district into a combat zone, officials in New Delhi,
India, and Islamabad, Pakistan, grapple with the
political and diplomatic fallout of India's deadliest
terror attack in 15 years.
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LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY |
By Nicholas Kusnetz and
Lisa Schwartz
Washington, October 16,
2010 – Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck
Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated
a tip that an American businessman was training in
Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack.
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The previously undisclosed allegations against
David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot
that killed 166 people, came from his wife after a domestic
dispute that resulted in his arrest in 2005.
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Huge Crowds Greet Ahmadinejad In
Lebanon |
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APIranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the crowds from
the sunroof of his SUV upon his arrival in Lebanon on
Wednesday. Thousands of cheering Lebanese welcomed the
Iranian President, throwing rose petals and sweets at
his motorcade at the start of his visit. |
Beirut, Lebanon, October 16, 2010 – Thousands of cheering
Lebanese welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to
Lebanon on Wednesday, throwing rose petals and sweets at his
motorcade during a visit that underscores the growing power of
Tehran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.
Mr Ahmadinejad renewed on Tehran’s support for Lebanon at the
start of his two-day visit to the country but urged often
factious leaders to work together for a united country.
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Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime aims to expose cult of
personality surrounding the rise of the Führer
Curators at capital's Historical Museum hope display will show
role of German society and illustrate that Hitler was only one
aspect of Nazi system Link
to this video
A
groundbreaking exhibition about Adolf
Hitler opens
in Berlin tomorrow, the first time since the war that a major
museum has explored the relationship between the Führer and the
German nation.
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Former
Somaliland minister
for
Foreign Affairs,
Abdillahi
Mohamed Dualleh |
Ladies
And Gentleman ,
I would like to welcome
the distinguished parliamentary delegation from Germany. In
addition I would like to thank this great institute
(Institute of Peace and Security Studies) for inviting me to
participate this forum .Many thanks to the organizers. And
particularly to Messers Mulugeta Gebrehiwot of IPSS & Markus
Koerner of APSP Respectively.
Somaliland’s Home Grown
Experience: Nation Building Process
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By Richard C. Paddock
When Mohamed
Ali Samantar came to the United States from
war-torn Somalia in 1997, he hoped to live quietly in
retirement in suburban Virginia. But thanks to a
little-known San Francisco human rights group, the former
Somali official instead became the focus of a landmark U.S.
Supreme Court human rights case.
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Simon Kiladze
The XX century left many misunderstandings on the political
map of the Caucasus. Territories of vague origin and legal
status that are claiming independence and are pronouncing
loudly that they are sovereign states and deserve to be
treated with attention became even more odious.
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Guiding light: Karen Clarke with some of the
children at Oaktree
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David Cohen
We give £5,000 to save an after-school club that gives 140
children a place to learn and helps them stay out of trouble
on the streets
Karen Clarke sits like a rock in a storm as dozens of
boisterous children clamour for her attention. She calls for
quiet, helping 13-year-old Moises Guilherme to settle and
focus on his science homework and then turns to the next
eager face.
The children call her “Miss Karen” or “Hoyo”, meaning “mum”
in Somali,
and she is indeed like a strict but loving second mother to
many of the children who attend her Oaktree after-school
club on the South Acton Estate.
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International Donors Must Live Up To Their Promises Or Shoulder The
Consequences |
Somalilanders by and large have welcomed the arrival of the
international donors’ delegation in Hargeysa. This is mostly
because Somalilanders do not see the visit as just another
routine visit by a foreign delegation in which Somaliland is
praised but nothing is done, but view it as further
manifestation of the international community’s decision to
upgrade its engagement with Somaliland to a higher level than it
has been for the last two decades.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part XLVII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan
This is the Forty-seventh 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 Continued ...
The Islamization of knowledge continued ...
In 1975 when the military regime introduced their grand
nationalisation policy, including private and foreign
schools, thirty-seven Christian missionary schools existed
in various parts of the country and they were nationalized.
The regime had three objectives: Firstly, to get sympathy
from the Muslim religious leaders who were critical to the
regime’s embracement of atheist ideology,
(Marxist-Leninist). Secondly, to have overall control of the
country’s educational system and thirdly, to remove the
influence of the Church. Despite the fact that these schools
had existed in the country for a long-time, their influence
on the wider population was very limited. Very few Somalis
were converted to Christianity.
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A Case Of Historical
Revisionism: That Night In Hargeysa |
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By Aw Farah Mohamed
This article uses facts and figures collected from the SNM
and SSDF veterans, and eye-witness accounts from the time of
these events.
This is a brief
response to a series of articles printed by Wardheernews and
signed by Abdulkadir Mohamoud. These two articles were
printed on the 2nd and 6th of October
2010.
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Suspending Universal TV Turns
More Light On Somaliland |
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By Mohammed Abdi Awciise Bahdoon
“a peacefulness
follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown”
It’s a long
overdue decision and we are with our minister to entirely ban The Universal TV
off the air including their tainted and biased programs that had been aired so
long and so often. It’s a TV with concealed agenda, full of hypocrisy and
determination to undermine Somaliland’s political success, its ambitious and
also to amplify the Republic of Somaliland’s enemy programs. In addition,
Universal TV was previously accused that, it broadcasted picture of prophet
Muhammad(scw) and was banned from that regions namely South Somalia.
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Ethio-Somaliland Relations
Post-1991: Challenges And Opportunities – Part Five |
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Author: Nasir M.Ali
Challenges and Obstacles to the Relationships
The extremism and
jihadist ideology which is spreading over the Somali state may challenge and
disturb the relations. Similarly, since Somaliland did not attain an
international recognition, Somaliland is prone to face disenchantment from the
community at the grassroots’ level. This may precipitate the persuasion of the
people particularly the youth to join the hardliners camp, as they live between
hope and despair almost 20 years.
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President Sillanyo’s New
Attorney General Defends The Innocent From A Powerful
Judiciary |
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John
Drysdale
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was a moving spectacle to see. The Attorney General in action in his office
determined to put Somaliland back on its two feet again. He had called two
judges, one by telephone and one in person to his office near Godir, to examine
their judicial conducts. They had both ordered the police to hold two suspects
in custody. Suspects whom, it was alleged by the Judges had committed crimes. No
criminal charges had been written on their charge sheets. The two persons worked
for an NGO in Somaliland. The NGO had been accused by the court in February this
year, but not accused IN court, of silently depriving a complainant of US$10,000
of compensation. The NGO’s legal advisor told the foreign Director of the NGO
the case was illegal. The NGO Director stood his ground and declined to pay.
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Somalis Create Their Global
Commercial Hub In Nairobi’s Eastleigh Estate |
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Remittances from the diaspora have also added to the
fast-paced tempo of Somali businesses in Eastleigh.
These money transfers are facilitated by a unique
system known as Hawala. Photo/STEPHEN MUDIARI
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By ABDI LATIF DAHIR
Immediately you step-off the noisy and brightly colored
public service minibuses, a blast of hot air mixed with dust
flashes across your face and a din replaces the blaring
music you’ve just left behind.
Welcome to
Nairobi’s Eastleigh estate, you are now at the global commercial hub of Somali
entrepreneurship.
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America Looks To Puntland And
Somaliland |
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By Hussein Yusuf
The United States has been involved in Somalia since the early
1980s, first during the Cold War and then in 1992 during the country’s massive
famine by launching the humanitarian mission Operation Restore Hope.
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Call For Fresh Thinking To
Quell Terror Threat In Sahel |
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By IRIN
More joint intelligence-gathering, a crackdown on organised crime and a
coordinated approach to kidnapping demands are needed to tackle Al-Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) growing power, say analysts.
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Canadians Help Teen Tortured
By Insurgents Escape Somalia |
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NAIROBI,
KENYA—Abdul Hassan waits like an expectant father as he tracks the escape.
Ismael is on his way to the airport in Mogadishu.
Ismael has arrived.
Ismael’s plane has departed Somalia.
He
is at the safe house. He will be in Nairobi soon.
Hassan, a Somali-born Canadian, has spent three sleepless nights and days,
waiting for his phone to ring or beep with word that torture victim Ismael
Khalif Abdulle had made it out.
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