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Somaliland Authority Plans
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Berbera port |
Berbera, Somaliland, January 22, 2011 – The Somaliland
government is pushing forward with plans to privatize Port
of Berbera.
Recently, the government is looking into privatizing the
port and number of the maritime sector have already
expressed interest in bidding for a stake in port of Berbera.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, January 22, 2011 – Africa Oil says the
government of Somalia's semiautonomous northern region of
Puntland has extended their oil drilling agreement for a
year.
The statement from Monday says the agreement has been
extended until Jan. 17, 2012.
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South
Korean commandos stormed a hijacked ship off
Somalia, killing eight pirates, arresting five and
releasing the crew of 21 to safety. |
Seoul, S. Korea, January 22, 2011 – South Korean special
forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on
Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight
assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South
Korea said.
The military operation in waters between Oman and Africa,
which also captured five pirates and left one crew member
wounded, came a week after the Somali attackers seized the
South Korean freighter and held hostage eight South Koreans,
two Indonesians and 11 citizens from Myanmar.
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Nairobi, Kenya, January 22, 2011 – Reports emanating from
Central Somalia yesterday indicate that a unit of United
States forces descended in an area called Gaan, 18
kilometers north of Haradhere, a former base of the
notorious Somali pirates and a current stronghold of
Al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist movement opposing the
government.
The marines are said to have used a helicopter to reach the
remote location.
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Forces
from the African Union are propping up the Somali
Government and fighting Islamist insurgents who have
seized control in many parts of the country. Photo /
AP |
By Katharine Houreld
Erik Prince, whose Blackwater Worldwide company became
synonymous with private United States security forces in
Iraq and Afghanistan, has quietly taken on a new job,
helping to train troops in lawless Somalia.
Prince is involved in a multimillion-dollar programme
financed by several Arab countries to mobilize about 2000
Somali recruits to fight pirates who are terrorizing the
African coast, according to a person familiar with the
project and an intelligence report seen by AP.
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PHOTO |
AFP A priest at Juba’s cathedral shows signs reading
“Unity” and “Separation” during Sunday mass on
January 16, one day after the historic week-long
independence referendum vote ended. Tallies from two
oustanding states show that close to 99 per cent of
voters chose separation from the north, according to
preliminary results published on the Southern
Sudan Referendum Commission website.
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Juba, Sudan,
January 22, 2011 – Close to 99 per cent of south Sudanese
voters chose secession from the north in the referendum,
according to preliminary results published today with
tallies from two outstanding states.
With 3,197,038 ballots counted, 98.6 per cent had voted to
break away in the January 9-15 referendum and become the
world’s newest nation, partial results posted on the
Southern Sudan Referendum Commission website showed.
Partial results from the last two states that had not yet
published any figures confirmed the trend revealed to AFP by
polling officials on Wednesday.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 22, 2011 – On Wednesday, this
week, hundreds of Mogadishu residents came out on the
streets to participate in a large demonstration against
Al-Shabaab. The demonstrators marched down roads in the
government-controlled districts of the city, chanting anti
Al-Shabaab slogans, carrying placards: “We don’t want the
mad and cruel militants” and “Stop harassing, stop
intimidating people; open access for needy Somalis to get
assistance.”
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Somaliland For The First Time
Participated In The IGAD Partners Forum Meeting In Addis Ababa |
Somaliland's Foreign
Affairs minister, Dr. Mohamed
Abdillahi Omer (photofile)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
January 22, 2011 (SL
Times) – The IGAD
Partners Forum has held
a one day meeting in
Addis Ababa, hosted by
Italy which currently
holds the chair of the
Forum. The meeting,
attended by all IGAD
donors, was co-chaired
by Italy and by Ethiopia
which is the chair of
IGAD.
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Suspected Terrorists
Arrested In Buro |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, January 22, 2011 (SL Times) – Somaliland's police
made a security sweep through Buro in which eleven alleged
terrorists were arrested.
Two of the men who were arrested are originally from Somalia and
had had come two days earlier from Mogadishu to Buro.
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Berbera Court
Sentences Dollar Forgers |
Berbera, Somaliland, January 22, 2011 (SL Times) – A court
in Berbera sentenced two men to two year jail sentences this
week after finding guilty of forging 450 dollars.
The two men are Dayib Muhumud Aydid (25 years old) and
Abdirahman Hasan Ismail (28 years old).
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Somaliland’s Judges Stand For
Their Rights |
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Somaliland Supreme Court (photofile] |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, January 22, 2011 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s judges
usually stick to adjudicating cases and rarely venture into
public discussions of wider issues. This is understandable given
the sensitive nature of their profession.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, January 22, 2011 – Somaliland plans to
step up efforts for international recognition on expectations
that a referendum on independence in Southern Sudan will
aid its campaign for statehood, Foreign Minister Mohamed A Omar
said.
The referendum will have a “positive knock-on effect,” Omar said
by phone today from the capital, Hargeysa. “We will be using the
South Sudan case to take a more aggressive policy to the
African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on
Development.”
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sheik Hassan
On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Somalia Prime Minister, Mohamed
Abdillahi Mohamed (Farmaajo) gave an interview to BBC Somali
Service in which he made a naked aggression to Somaliland. The
interview was full of distortion and lacked substance and
integrity and was a complete misinterpretation of history,
because of the following reasons:
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African Union
Commission
President
Jean Ping |
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The African Union (AU) Observers have
certified South Sudan’s secession vote “free, fair, credible and
a true reflection of the democratically-expressed will of the
South Sudanese voters.” In its preliminary statement on the
conduct of the vote, which could lead to the creation of
Africa’s newest country and pave the way for the independence
for Somaliland, the AU said the referendum was conducted in a
safe and peaceful environment.
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Saracen International Reportedly
Has Blackwaters Founder’s Support |
Blackwater Founder Said to Back
Mercenaries
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Erik
Prince, the founder of Blackwater, lives in the
United Arab Emirates, which have an interest in
curbing piracy (left) and The militant group the
Shabaab has the Somali government cornered in
Mogadishu. |
By MARK
MAZZETTI and ERIC
SCHMITT
Washington DC, January 22,
2011 — Erik Prince, the founder of the international security
giant Blackwater
Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South
African mercenary firm to insert itself into
Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders,
training Somali troops, and battling pirates and
Islamic militants there, according to American and Western
officials.
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IGAD Plans To Lift Livestock
Sector In East Africa |
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NAIROBI, January 22, 2011 -- The Inter-Governmental Authority on
Development (IGAD) is planning to make the Horn of Africa the
livestock hub in Africa.
The six-member regional bloc has resolved to revive the
livestock sector in the region during a meeting of ministers in
charge of livestock held in Nairobi on Tuesday.
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Al-Qaeda leader says in audio tape hostages will die if country
does not pull out troops from Muslim lands.
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Bin Laden
says in the audio message that France it will pay
dearly for its policy in Afghanistan and elsewhere [AFP] |
Doha, Qatar, January 22, 2011 – The leader of al-Qaeda,
Osama bin Laden, has called for the withdrawal of French
troops from Muslim lands in exchange for the release of
hostages, in an audio message.
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By Wayne Madsen
WMR’s Middle East sources are pointing to a looming battle
that will be waged for control of the life-sustaining waters
of the Nile River when southern Sudan, or whatever it’s name
will be, achieves independence from Sudan following the
ongoing independence referendum.
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For most Somalis general Samatar’s case brings raw emotions
to the surface that go to the root cause of why the Somali
state came apart. The reaction to his trial and the Supreme
Court verdict denying him immunity for his actions while in
charge of the formidable Somali army and their role in the
genocide in Somaliland and destruction of towns is quite
telling.
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By Stefan
Simanowitz
Last Saturday evening, the
weeklong referendum on self-determination for southern Sudan ended.
Polling stations closed, ballot boxes were sealed and over
the coming weeks, the vote will be tallied. The result,
which is expected in mid-February, seems certain to split
Africa's largest country and create the world's newest
nation.
Despite violent clashes in
the oil-rich Abyei region last week, which reportedly left
more than 30 dead, the referendum in the rest of the country
has been a resounding success.
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Education’s Use For Good Or Evil |
In our last
editorial, we noted the literary achievements of the Sudanese
novelist al-Tayib Saleh whose writings provide nuanced and
multi-dimensional portraits and analyses of the Sudanese and
Sudanese life.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part LX |
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By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh. Hassan, Hargeysa, Somaliland
This is the sixtieth 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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Art and Literature: The Other Weapon
for Resistance
When the military seized power in 1969, most of the poets,
singers and musicians “suuggaanley” hastily
poured praise on the new regime. They portrayed the new
change of government as positive and in the right direction.
Since the military regime called their coup a revolution "Kacaan".
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Somaliland’s Recognition –
Myths, Truths & Law |
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By Ahmed M.I. Egal
Several major, recent developments have brought the issue of
Somaliland’s recognition as an independent nation to the top
of the agenda in the politics of the Horn of Africa region (HOA).
The first is the successful referendum in southern Sudan the
result of which is widely expected to show a massive
majority in favor of independence.
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Puntland: Somalia’s Pirate
State |
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By Dr.
Yusuf Dirir Ali
Despite international economic crisis, the Puntland Sea Piracy and human
trafficking schemes are on the rise; their shares are being sold in skyrocketing
prices in the unofficial stock market of Garoowe, the capital of Puntland. This
is happening under the watch and stealthy encouragement of the international
community.
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Somaliland: If Eritrea & South
Sudan Could Gain Sovereignty, So Could Somaliland
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By Dalmar Kaahin
“In 1960, I took a country [Somaliland] with a viable economy, a balanced
budged, and 2.5 million pounds in investment to Mogadishu…our [Somaliland’s]
previous existence, history, and everything else has been eliminated…”—Mohammed
H.I. Egal,
Somaliland’s late President.
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Somaliland’s Private Sector
Must Lead The Nation Out Of Poverty |
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By Saleban Abdi Ahmed, London, UK
In this article, I will try to emphasis the importance that private sector play
in developmental, growth and stamping out poverty in Somaliland.
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