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British Scientists Develop
Disorientating Laser Weapon To Defend Ships From Somali
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Anti-piracy weapon: A laser developed by British
scientists works by enshrouding the ship using it in
a green shroud that leaves pirates unable to steer a
direct course or aim their weapons accurately
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London, UK, January 15, 2011 (SL Times) – It's an invention
that will send a shiver down the spines of pirates
everywhere.
A new type of laser weapon effective against moving targets
more than a mile away is being developed by British
scientists.
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South
Sudanese children dressed in their Sunday best, who
returned to the South by barges on the Nile river,
sit amidst their belongings in Juba's port on Jan.
11. About four million Southern Sudanese voters
began casting their ballots Sunday in a weeklong
referendum on independence that is expected to split
Africa's largest nation in two.
Jerome Delay/AP |
New countries borne of partitions and border changes are not
common, but will partial autonomy in Somaliland lead to
secession now that South Sudan provides an example?
By Alex
Thurston, Guest blogger / January 12, 2011
Yesterday the BBC invited readers to a discussion
on Facebook about the potential impact of South Sudanese
secession on political configurations in Africa:
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The following Security Council press
statement was issued today by Council President Ivan Barbali?
( Bosnia and Herzegovina):
Members of the Security Council reiterated their concern at
the continued instability and deteriorating humanitarian
situation in Somalia. They reaffirmed their support for the
Djibouti Agreement as the basis for the resolution of the
conflict in Somalia and reiterated their full support to the
Transitional Federal Government in its efforts to achieve
peace, security and reconciliation.
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New York, January 15, 2011 – Somali pirates have driven up
shipping costs in the Indian Ocean, resulting in world
economic losses estimated at $7 billion to $12 billion a
year, a study by One Earth Future Foundation said on
Thursday.
Armed with AK-47s, pirates in rickety skiffs have carried
out brazen hijackings, seizing massive oil tankers, cargo
vessels and luxury boats.
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Deputies
cordon off the crime scene in East Los Angeles.
Authorities say Deputy Mohamed Ahmed and his
training officer were approaching a gang shot-caller
who was sitting in his car, when the man got out and
began shooting. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times /
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Los Angeles, January 15, 2011 – Mohamed Ahmed was new to the
streets. Nestor Torres was a far more familiar, some say
infamous, presence when their lives collided at a dark East
Los Angeles intersection.
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Jailed:
Somalian Ayan
Abdulle
used false
identities to claim
£250,000 in benefits |
By TOM KELLY IN GOTHENBERG and TAMARA COHEN
London, UK, January 15, 2011 – A woman who lied about being
gang raped in Somalia to claim more than £250,000 in
benefits had moved to Britain after boasting it was the
‘land of easy money’.
Ayan Abdulle was jailed this week after investigators
discovered that the story she used to win asylum – and later
UK citizenship – was a pack of lies.
Now the Daily Mail can reveal the full scale of her fraud
and how easily she was able to milk the benefits system for
years.
Abdulle, who also used the fake name Amina Muse and is from
Somalia, was living in Gothenburg when the authorities
insisted immigrants learn Swedish if they wanted to continue
to claim handouts.
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UNITED NATIONS — Somalia's prime minister told the UN
Security Council on Friday that the new government is
winning its war with Islamist militants but that 2.5 million
people face starvation because of drought.
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Minister Of Finance Says They Have
Doubled The Salaries Of Military And Government Employees |
Somaliland's Finance
minister, Mohamed Hashi
Elmi (photofile)
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
January 15, 2011 (SL
Times) – Somaliland
Minister of Finance,
Eng. Muhammad Hashi
revealed this week that
the government has
raised the salaries of
the military and
government employees so
that their salaries
would be twice of what
it used to be.
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John Garang
Commemorated In Somaliland |
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Abdiwahab
Abdi Nakruma during his laying a wreath in memory of
John Garang at the site where the airplanes that
bombed the city of Hargeysa are in display |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, January 15, 2011 (SL Times) – A commemoration
ceremony for the former leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation
Army (SPLA) was held in Somaliland’s capital Hargeysa.
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Somaliland Will
Recognize Southern Sudan If It Votes For Independence |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 15, 2011 (SL Times) – The
Spokesman of Somaliland's government, Mr Abdillahi Muhammad
Dahir (Cukuse) revealed that Somaliland will accept the
results of the Southern Sudan referendum. The spokesman who
was in Sudan as part of a Somaliland delegation that
observed and reported on the referendum said this in an
interview with the BBC.
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Governor Of Sool Region Pleads For
Drought Emergency Assistance |
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Las Anod,
Somaliland, January 15, 2011 (SL Times) – There are reports of
serious drought in Sool region. The latest report came from the
Governor of Somaliland's Sool region, Mr Abdillahi Jama Diriye.
The Governor drew attention to the severity of the drought which
he said has affected both human beings and animals. He also
strongly pleaded for help, adding that he is optimistic that the
government will respond to their request.
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South
Sudanese voters outside the Giyada polling center in
Nyala (South Darfur) on 9 January 2011 |
JUBA, January 15, 2011 - The question on the minds of many
Somalis and other Muslims living in Southern Sudan is: should
the ongoing referendum result in secession, what will happen to
them?
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Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo |
WITH South Sudan's referendum drawing international
attention to the issue of secession
in Africa, the quest for international
recognition by Somaliland, the northern part of Somalia
which declared independence in 1991, is back in the news.
Since then, Somaliland has established a functioning state
and held several elections—the latest, presidential, saw
Ahmed Mohamed Sillanyo (pictured), once a minister in
Somalia's government, defeat the incumbent.
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Gunter
Bischoss leaving the court after the Somaliland court
jailed for four years for making pornographic films
in this country (photo by Barkhad Mohamed Kariye) |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 15, 2011 - A German man has been
jailed for four years for making pornographic films in the
Somaliland republic.
A
judge said Gunter Bischoss, 72, was guilty of unIslamic behavior
and also fined him $10,000 (£6,300).
"The evidence in this case has been exaggerated and I will
appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court," Mr Bischoss said.
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Somaliland Hooked On Sudan
Referendum |
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Juba, Sudan, January
15, 2011 – Somaliland journalists have descended on Juba to
cover Southern Sudan's historic referendum. There is hardly
anything odd about this, as over 250 media organizations and
hordes of journalists from the world over have been accredited
to the event.
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Welcome A New Sudan |
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NEXT Editorial
On Sunday, the people of South Sudan with its capital in Juba
went to the polls to vote on whether they would like to remain
as one nation with Sudan or form a different country. The idea
of the referendum to settle this knotty issue was agreed on in
2005 as a way of solving the intractable issues that turned
Africa’s largest country into a zone of perpetual conflict.
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Tunis, January 15,
2011 (SL Times) – Tunisia's long-standing president has left the
country amid violent protests and the prime minister has taken
over control of the government.
"Since the president [Zine El Abidine Ben Ali] is temporarily
unable to exercise his duties, it has been decided that the
prime minister will exercise temporarily the [presidential]
duties," Mohammed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, said
on state television.
Ghannouchi is now the interim president. He cited chapter 56 of
the Tunisian constitution as the article by which he was
assuming power.
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Southern Sudan is just the beginning. The world may soon
have 300 independent, sovereign nations ... and that's just
fine.
By Parag Khanna
This year will almost certainly see the birth of a new
country named Southern Sudan. It might also witness the
creation of an independent Palestine, as Palestinian leaders
push for unilateral recognition of their national
sovereignty within their country's 1967 borders. And within
a couple of years, a sovereign Kurdistan might emerge from a
still-brittle Iraq. We could be entering a new period of
mass state birth: Imagine an independent South Ossetia,
Somaliland, and Darfur too. The trend is nothing new, but
it's picking up steam again. The most recent sovereign
entrant was in 2008, when Kosovo emerged from the breakup of
Yugoslavia; nine years earlier, in 1999, it was East Timor
gaining independence from Indonesia.
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By Joshua
Keating
If Southern Sudan successfully secedes, will other African
pseudo-states follow suit? Guest-blogging at the Christian
Science Monitor, Alex Thurston takes
a look at Somaliland:
There is one other region in Africa that appears within
reach of independent nationhood: Somaliland, which has
claimed independence since 1991. Somaliland has its own
government and enjoys a greater degree of stability than
other regions of Somalia. Recently Somaliland successfully
transferred power from one democratically elected leader to
another, reinforcing democratic credentials that outshine
those of many independent African nations.
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By Greg Mills & Terence
McNamee
Synopsis
Although the January
2011 referendum in southern Sudan will inevitably confirm
that the South wishes to secede from the North, stark
challenges face the two new states. If not managed
carefully, renewed north-south and/or intra-south conflict
could break out along Sudan’s myriad faultlines.
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British
Colonialism In Somaliland And The Sudan |
As our readers can
attest, it is not our policy to re-publish editorials. But we
are going to make an exception this time and re-publish an
editorial that appeared in these pages before. Furthermore, we
are going to publish it “as is” because after re-reading it
several times, we did not find any part of it that needed
changing.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part LIX |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan,
Hargeysa, Somaliland
This is the fifty-ninth article of a series of articles that
Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its legacy
Oral Literature, Islam and State
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Political Literature in Post-Colonial State
When Independence was achieved and the post-colonial nation-
state was in place, poets, songwriters and playwrights
started to act as advocates of the nation state, saying it
would bring justice and prosperity. They spoke of a golden
era once the colonialists had left. The she-camel's milk
image was highlighted in poems to conceptualize the benefits
of the nation-state. The state was symbolized by a
she-camel - Somali political independence as
Maandeeq, the well-known name of a she-camel which means
"the one who gratifies the mind. " Aan maalo hasheena
maandeeq". Let us milk our she-camel was the slogan .
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Somaliland: An Alleged Sexual
Deviant Gets His Day In Court |
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By Bashir Goth
A court in Somaliland has found a German man guilty of
making pornographic films of Somali women and has given him
a four- year prison sentence and US$10,000 fine. This news
story may raise some eyebrows or even evoke disdain from
people who would dismiss the case as another botched trial
from another infidel-obsessed Islamic country.
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Somalia: Puntland’s
Anti-Piracy Forces—Smokescreen For Hunting Oil & Minerals
Unlawfully |
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By Dalmar Kahin
Throughout the history of oil and mineral explorations, in many developing
countries wherever there is the potential for oil or minerals, there is
bloodshed, and no society suffers more than the indigenous people of the region
under exploration (or exploitation).
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Unmitigated Challenges Ahead
For Somaliland’s New Government |
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More
professionally engineered articles have been framed differently by different
authors, politicians and intellectuals on the amazingly triumph-worthy
chronological tales of Somaliland, even much more have been inked about the
shining star in a region, gaining infamy as a haven of terrorism, warlordism and
sophisticated modern buccaneers.
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Somaliland: Similarities With
Southern Sudan |
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By Ahmed
Kheyre
The plebiscite in
Southern Sudan has captured the imagination of many Africans and many more
across the globe. After decades of strife, the people of Southern Sudan recently
voted on their future aspirations.
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