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Somalia: A Delicate Matter |
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Kapchits Georgy
Moscow, Russia, December 25, 2010 – A Somaliland
court of Somalia’s breakaway republic has charged
six Russian pilots with violating Somaliland’s air
space and smuggling military equipment around U.N.
sanctions. The case seems quite a mystery.
On December 10, Russia’s plane landed at the Egal
International Airport, claiming an emergency landing
due to a fuel shortage. However, Somaliland’s
Minister of Civil Aviations says the landing was
planned and the plane was carrying equipment to the
neighboring Puntland.
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Parts
of Somaliland are facing water shortage (file photo) |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 25, 2010 – Residents in parts
of Somaliland are facing severe water shortages after poor
October to December Deyr rains.
"In the eastern regions of Somaliland, such as Sool, Sanag
and Togdheer, the people are already facing livelihood
difficulties, as well as water shortages, because all the
barkads [water pans] have run out of water," said Mohamed
Muse Awale, director of Somaliland's National Disaster
Committee.
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Nairobi, Kenya, December 25, 2010 – The legal adviser to
Somalia's government says the private training of an
anti-piracy force in the capital Mogadishu is being hindered
because the country that wants to finance it doesn't want to
be named.
Pierre Prosper, a former U.S. ambassador for war crimes who
was retained by the transitional government as an adviser on
security, transparency and anti-corruption issues, said in
telephone press conference Friday that he has made clear to
the donor that it's important to remove the mystery because
it has become the focal point of the project.
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Dakar (Senegal) The Commissioner for Peace and Security of
the African Union (AU), Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra, and the
ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Ethiopia,
Mr. GU Xiaojie, on Friday signed an agreement on the
provision of aid to the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
According to a press release issued here Friday by the AU,
the grant, amounting to 30 million RMB yuan (over 4 million
dollars), will be used to supply equipment and materials for
AMISOM.
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Tokyo- The Foreign Ministry of Japan issued the following
statements on the Japan-Djibouti Summit and Foreign
Ministers' meetings:
Japan-Djibouti Summit Meeting
On December 20 (Mon.), for about 70 minutes from 6:30 p.m.,
Prime Minister Naoto Kan had a meeting at the Prime
Minister's Office with H. E. Mr. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh,
President of the Republic of Djibouti, who is on a working
visit to Japan. The overview of the meeting is as follows:
1.Prime Minister Kan noted that Djibouti, in light of its
location at the key junction of the sea route connecting
Europe and Asia, is strategically an extremely important
partner for Japan, which is largely dependent on trade. In
addition, he thanked Djibouti for its cooperation with
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), which are stationed and
active in Djibouti to counter piracy off the coast of
Somalia.
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New York, December 25, 2010 – The Security Council today
called for a 50 per cent increase to 12,000 troops in the
United Nations-backed African Union (AU) peacekeeping force
in Somalia, which has been trying to bring stability to a
country torn apart by 20 years of factional fighting.
In a unanimous resolution authorizing deployment of the AU
mission in Somalia (AMISOM) until 30 September 2011, the
15-member body called on Member States and international
organizations to contribute funds and equipment “generously
and promptly” to enable the force to fulfil a mandate that
ranges from restoring peace to helping the Transitional
Federal Government (TFG) develop national security and
police forces.
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Forced Returns to War Zone Violate UN Guidelines
New York, December 25, 2010 –
The government of Saudi Arabia should immediately stop
deporting Somalis to war-torn Mogadishu, Human Rights Watch
said today.
Saudi authorities returned at least 150 Somali
nationals, many of them children, from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on December 17, 2010, press
reports said. Saudi Arabia had deported an estimated 2,000
Somalis to Mogadishu in June and July, according to the
United Nations refugee agency.
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Ethiopia Seeking More Port Options |
A Russian plane carrying
a military equipments to
Puntland (seen in the
above picture) landed on
Hargeysa Airport
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
December 25, 2010 –
Ethiopia handles 90 per
cent of its
import-export trade via
the port of Djibouti.
Nevertheless, the nation
has also been looking
for other options too
including the port of
Berbera.
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Beijng To Roll Out
The Red Carpet |
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The
president of Djibouti, Gelleh (right) receives
Ahmed Sillanyo (left) at the Djibouti's Airport
during first official visit to Djibouti by the new
president of Somaliland on November this year
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CNOOC is trying to win oil concessions directly from Somaliland
after initially negotiating with Somalia’s central government,
which has no say in the breakaway region.
Beijing, Chine, December 25, 2010 – Somaliland president Ahmed
Mohamed Sillanyo is
due to fly to China early in the new year in the wake of a visit
to Somaliland last April by a Chinese delegation that
included two officials from the China
National Offshore Oil Corp.
(CNOOC).
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Minister Of
Communication, Abdirizaq Muhammad Ibrahim, Says They
Received New Equipment |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 25, 2010 (SL Times) – The
Minister of Posts and Communication, Abdirizaq Muhammad
Ibrahim, said that his ministry has acquired new equipment
that will connect the companies that engage in business
throughout the country.
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Athletes Protest Closure Of
Basketball Field |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 25, 2010 (SL Times) – A committee
concerned about the closure of Tima Adde basketball field
submitted to Haatuf Newspaper a letter detailing their distress
about what happened to the field.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 25, 2010 (SL Times) – In an
article which appeared in the Somali language newspaper Haatuf,
Miyir Ali Hussein argued that NATION-LINK is the most popular
telecommunication company in Somaliland. The author gave this
brief history of NATION-LINK:
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Steve Kibble
from Progressio (right) receives the award on behalf of
Guleid Abdi, the Director of Talo-wadag
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London, UK, December 25, 2010 – An NGO in Somaliland working
with people who have been abandoned by their families because of
HIV and AIDS, has won a prestigious human rights award.
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Cape Town
journalists Chris Everson (left) and Anton van der Merwe
(centre) return home tomorrow after being detained in a
Somaliland jail for 10 days suspected of being
mercenaries. In this photograph, taken some years ago,
they are with fellow journalist Ken Geraghty (right) of
Alien TV at the Ngorogoro crater in Tanzania.
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Johannesburg, South Africa, December 25, 2010 – The two South
African media workers detained in Somaliland after authorities
found military equipment on their plane have been released, the
Department of International Relations and Cooperation
spokesperson Clayson Monyela said on Tuesday.
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Somaliland: Edna Hospital Praised
For Excellent Work |
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Edna Hospital is a
dazzling maternity hospital in Somaliland, an area with
one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the
world. Edna Adan Ismail, right, a Somali nurse-midwife,
founded the hospital with her life’s savings and
supports it with her U.N. pension. A $50 gift pays for a
woman to get four prenatal visits, a routine delivery,
and one postnatal visit. Or $150 pays for a C-section
for a woman in obstructed labor. Just $200 pays a
nurse’s salary for a month.
Credit: Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times |
A
New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, has highlighted the
actions of some small but very active humanitarian organizations
working all around the world, in the belief that the upcoming
Christmas would be an opportunity for everyone to support
charities which rarely catch the attention of mass-media.
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Will South Sudan Be Ban Ki-Moon's
Finest Hour? |
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By
Richard Gowan
For Ban Ki-moon, the past few weeks have arguably been the most
dramatic he has encountered since becoming United Nations
secretary-general nearly four years ago. In Côte d'Ivoire, U.N.
peacekeepers are guarding the internationally recognized winner
of this month's presidential election while the country slides
toward chaos. Meanwhile, in
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In war-torn Somalia, tourists can experience living with
tribesmen and nomads in Somaliland.
By Florian Flade
Planning a Christmas holiday trip? You have already been to
Egypt? India is not exotic enough? Safari in Botswana is not a
real adventure?
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 25, 2010 – As a result of the
fact that Somaliland isn’t recognized internationally, the
nation’s currency isn’t accepted anywhere and has no
exchange rate.
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By Julius Barigaba
Nairobi, Kenya, December 25, 2010 – It has now emerged that
the activities of Saracen International — the private
security company currently training militia in the
semi-autonomous Puntland state of Somalia, as reported in
this paper last week — have not been sanctioned by the
African Union.
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Steve Chapman
In the Coke Zero commercial, an impatient young man says,
"It's 2010. Weren't we supposed to have time machines by
now?" Human rights supporters have equal cause to ask,
"Weren't we all supposed to have democracy by now?"
In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet empire, Francis
Fukuyama wrote that "for a very large part of the world,
there is now no ideology with pretensions to universality
that is in a position to challenge liberal democracy, and no
universal principle of legitimacy other than the sovereignty
of the people." A host of despots, however, has managed just
fine without a universal principle.
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What
Southern Sudan’s Referendum Means For Somaliland |
In a three part
article in the Somali language newspaper Haatuf, one of
Somaliland’s prominent personalities, Mr Abdirahman Adami,
addressed the question of whether the impending referendum in
southern Sudan will hasten Somaliland’s recognition by the
international community (Aftida Koonfurta Sudan Ma Soo Dhaweyn
Doontaa Aqoonsiga S/land).
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part LVI |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid Sh. Hassan, Hargeysa, Somaliland
This is the fifty-sixth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Oral Literature, Islam and State Continued ...
Literature in Pre - independence Period
and its Islamic Dimension
The pre-colonial period in Somali society was characterized
by conflicts and disputes, often arising from water wells,
running away with women, rape and land disputes.
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Somalia: From Finest To Failed
State (PART III) |
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By Mohamed Haji (Ingiriis)
Email:
Ingiriis@yahoo.com
Upon acquiring power, Mohamed Siyad Barre soon established a
fearful draconian court called National Security Court
headed by Mohamud Gelle Yusuf, a heartless navy general who
had never read law at school – he now lives in Switzerland
as a refugee.
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Somaliland: Somali-American On
Terror Watch List Slips Back To U.S |
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By Dalmar
Kahin
The United States remains righteously concerned about Somali-American boys
travelling to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab.
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Somaliland, Puntland And The
Issue Of Sool & Sanaag |
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By Ahmed M. Mustafe
Whilst war
continues to be perpetual in south-Somalia, to the north Somaliland and Puntland
have been the most peaceful and progressive parts of the former Somali Republic.
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Somaliland, A Miracle In The Horn |
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By
Adnan Abdi
They say Somaliland went to the sky
They wonder how it jumped so high
A level that made the world surprised
Making state like this history recorded
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