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Somaliland Says Shabaab
Ties Claim A Smokescreen |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) – The
government Somaliland said on Monday the neighboring Somali
province of Puntland had linked it with the al Shabaab rebel
group in order to divert attention away from its creation of
a large army.
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Kuwait
City |
Washington, January 8, 2011 — The US government said Friday
it has offered its services to an American held in Kuwait
and who reportedly alleges he was beaten by security agents
inquiring about his trips to Somalia and Yemen.
Gulet Mohamed, a 19-year-old born in Somalia, was detained
at an airport in Kuwait when he traveled there last month to
renew his visa, according to The Washington Post which
quoted his lawyer Gadeir Abbas.
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Southern
Sudanese who recently returned from northern Sudan
receive food rations from the World Food Program in
the southern capital of Juba on Friday, Jan. 7,
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Geneva, Switzerland, January 8, 2011 – The United Nations
refugee agency reports the number of southerners leaving
northern Sudan ahead of Sunday’s independence referendum has
doubled since mid-December. The UNHCR says the returnees are
leaving because they are uncertain about what might happen
to them should independence be declared.
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The
reactor building of Iran’s nuclear power plant at
Bushehr, 1,245km south of Tehran. Photo/FILE
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By KEVIN KELLEY
Nairobi, Kenya, January 8, 2011 – Secret messages published
by WikiLeaks show great concern on the part of US diplomats
with alleged smuggling of uranium from poorly secured mines
and nuclear facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, January 8, 2011 – Men and women have
been banned from shaking hands in a district of Somalia
controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabaab.
Under the ban imposed in the southern town of Jowhar, men
and women who are not related are also barred from walking
together or chatting in public.
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By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA, January 8, 2011 – The U.N. refugee agency voiced
concern on Friday that Greece's proposed 12.5 km-long fence
at its border with Turkey will shut out asylum-seekers
fleeing violence and abuse in their troubled homelands.
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ERCA starts receiving 51 Chinese security inspection
machines worth 30 million dollars
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 8, 2011 – The first 14
security machines out of a total of 51 machines ordered at a
cost of 30 million dollars by the Ethiopian Revenues and
Customs Authority (ERCA) from Nuctech, a Chinese company
specializing in the research and development of security
inspection technology, arrived two weeks ago.
The money for the purchase of the equipment was secured from
the China Export and Import Bank through an agreement
between the bank and the Ministry of Finance and Economic
Development (MoFED), signed in August 2010.
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Voting Is Peaceful in South Sudan Despite Border Clashes
Western diplomats say
Somaliland probably has the strongest case to be recognized as a
nation |
Long lines formed Sunday
at polling places in
Juba, in southern Sudan,
for a referendum on
independence. The
voting, which will
continue through the
week, was reported to be
going smoothly.
By JEFFREY
GETTLEMAN
JUBA, Sudan —
As voters continued
flooding the polls on
Monday for a landmark
referendum on southern Sudan’s
independence, officials
said more than 40 people
had been killed over the
weekend in intense
skirmishes in a
contested area along
Sudan’s north-south
border.
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South Sudan And The Redrawing Of
African Borders
Independent South Sudan Is Expected To Grant Diplomatic
Recognition To Somaliland |
Charles Tannock is
Coordinator for the
European Conservatives
and Reformists on the
Foreign Affairs
Committee of the
European Parliament.
Strasbourg, Germany,
January 8, 2011 –
Outlining Sudan’s
troubled past marked by
violent clashes of the
Arab Muslim North and
the African Christian
South, Charles Tannock
MEP supports South
Sudan’s independence,
which could also
increase international
recognition to
Somaliland.
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To Fight Somali
Piracy, Find A Government To Work With |
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Globe
Editorial
As a step toward restoring order in Somalia, a former
nation-state that disintegrated in 1991, the international
community should explore ways of granting limited recognition to
the part of it known as Somaliland. The world is giving
disproportionate effort to propping up a putative national
government that controls only a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu,
Somalia’s former capital, and which is called transitional;
“artificial” would be more accurate. It would be wiser to build
upon the stability of Somaliland.
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Somaliland’s
First Lady Makes Surprise Visit To SOS Orphanage |
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Somaliland's first lady Amina-Weris visited to the
SOS orphanage in Hargeysa |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s first lady, Amina Sheikh Muhammad Jirde (Amina
Weris) made a previously unannounced visit to the SOS
orphanage in Hargeysa.
This is was the first visit to the orphanage by a Somaliland
first lady, and the children at the orphanage as well as the
administrators of the orphanage were elated when they saw
the first lady in their midst.
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Somaliland Journalists Depart For
Southern Sudan |
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Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) – A group of
Somaliland journalists have left the country for South Sudan’s
capital Jubba to report on the coming January 9th referendum in
which the Southern Sudanese will vote on whether they would
remain part of Sudan or separate from it.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) – The Chairman
of the Upper House’s Committee on Community Affairs, Mr
Abdilqadir Muhammad Hassan (Indho-indho), appealed to Djibouti’s
President Ismail Omar Guelleh to assist Somaliland in its
pursuit of political and economic progress.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s
government announced that it will transfer the military supplies
that were on a Puntland bound airplane to the United Nations.
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An-26.
Photo: RIA Novosti |
Juba, Southern Sudan, January 8, 2011 (SL Times) – Excitement is
building in southern Sudan for the historic independence
referendum that begins Sunday and is expected to split Africa's
largest country in two.
Hundreds of southern Sudanese marched in the regional capital of
Juba Friday, singing, dancing, and chanting slogans calling for
an independent south Sudan.
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UN Envoy Calls For Lifting Of Aid
Restrictions On Somalia |
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Nairobi, Kenya,
January 8, 2011 – The top United Nations envoy for Somalia on
Thursday urged that restrictions on aid delivery, partly owing
to a rejection of Western assistance by Islamic militants, be
lifted so that those who need help amid an impending drought can
receive it.
The Horn of Africa nation is already facing a dire humanitarian
crisis in which 3.2 million people, more than 40 percent of the
population, is in need of aid.
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Al-Shabaab Desertions Increase In
Southern Somalia |
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Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 1
By: Muhyadin Ahmed Roble
Disgruntled al-Shabaab fighters are increasingly deserting the
radical Islamist group after years of fighting for the movement
in southern Somalia. The deserters are mainly from southern
Somalia’s Hawiye clan, while the movement’s current leader,
Shaykh Ahmad Abdi Godane “Abu Zubayr,” hails from the Isaaq clan
in Somaliland, a largely peaceful, de facto independent state in
northern Somalia. Most of the absconders fled from southern
Somalia to neighboring countries while others joined the troops
of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
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On Sunday the people
of Southern Sudan will vote on whether to become an independent
nation. There is every indication they will vote in favor of
cutting their links with Khartoum and become Africa's 54th
state. BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut considers whether this
will increase demands from other African regions for
independence.
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A referendum on secession for South Sudan seems very likely
to happen, and the people seem certain to say yes
Juba, Southern Sudan, January 8, 2011 – ONLY weeks ago,
international observers and local politicians were outdoing
each other with predictions of the horrors to befall South
Sudan around the time of its independence referendum. There
was talk of mass rape, armed incursions from the north, even
a resumption of full-scale civil war. Some reckoned the vote
on January 9th would not take place at all.
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By Stephanie Hanson
New York, January 8, 2011 — More than a month after its
presidential election, Ivory Coast remains in political
crisis. The incumbent president, Laurent Gbagbo,
refuses to leave office, though the official vote count
shows that he lost to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.
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Some fear referendum on southern secession will be
touchstone for separatists across continent
David Smith in Johannesburg
If south Sudan,
why not south Nigeria,
or north Ivory Coast, or multiple Congos? The Sudanese vote
has implications for all of Africa,
signalling that the borders drawn by colonial cartographers
are no longer sacrosanct. Some fear it may spur the
balkanisation of the continent.
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A
Positive Example From Somaliland’s Colonial Past |
During the struggle
for independence, it was common among colonized people to
condemn colonial administrations and to see nothing good about
them. Upon the arrival of independence and the fervor of newly
discovered nationalism by the formerly colonized, the cries of
condemnation of the colonialists grew even louder.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part LVIII |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashiid Sh. Hassan,
Hargeysa, Somaliland
This is the fifty-eighth article of a series of articles
that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its
legacy
Oral Literature, Islam and State
Literature in Pre-independence Period
and its Islamic Dimension Continued ...
Another example: the height of the Somaliland struggle for
independence in 1950-1960 Abdillahi Qarshe, Somalilander
nationalist and great platonic poet, singer and musician,
applied a similar metaphorical imagery when he recited a
song starting with the following lines:
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Gleams Of Hope Among The
Clouds: Prospects For The Horn Of Africa 2011 |
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By Ahmed M.I. Egal
The Horn of Africa region (HOA) has always been
strategically important as a vital conduit of east-west and
north-south trade, and this has been evidenced by the
efforts of global powers to either control the region or
maintain cordial relations with rulers there.
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A Successful 2010 For
Somaliland Democracy |
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On June 26, 2010
Somaliland hold presidential election for second time in history. The
presidential election process was a symbol for the degree of democracy for many
people around the world. Therefore it was an opportunity for Somaliland people
to show the world that the nation is committed to the chosen path of democracy,
peace, reconciliation and market economy.
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Debunking Common Fallacies
about Who Abandoned Somali Unity |
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Dear Mohamed Heebaan,
I read your opinion entitled, “The Somaliland Agenda and its Inherent
Vulnerability”, posted on wardheernews site.
The thing is: there are a couple of fallacies in your argument, which make your
article unworthy reading.
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SSC Terror Boss Stranded In
Dubai |
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By Adam Olad
Saleban Esse Ahmed, the leader of the infamous Al-Shabaab-linked terrorist group
known by its Somali Acronym, SSC, could not believe his luck at being given a
platform by the BBC Somali radio service last week to spew out his hate and talk
to his fellow terrorists back home.
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