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Four Adolescents Die After
Drinking Contaminated Water In Somaliland |
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Burao, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 (SL Times) – At least four
adolescents died in the republic of Somaliland after drinking
contaminated water at a mosque, officials said on Friday.
Suleiman Du’ale, Somaliland police officer in Burao town, the
regional capital of the Togdher region in Somaliland, said that
a group of five youngsters, who were thirsty after playing
football, had come to a mosque in the town.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 (SL Times) – More than
20 people were injured on Tuesday after a hand grenade was
hurled at public place in the center of Hargeysa, the
capital of Somaliland.
Witnesses confirmed that the suspect who threw the bomb is
mentally-ill . No one knows who gave him the hand grenade.
The injured victims were rushed immediately to a nearby
hospital.
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Children from SOS Somaliland |
Dear Sponsors,
It is a pleasure to send you our warmest greetings and share
information with you this summer from
SOS Children's Village Sheikh.
Current Situation
This year started with abundance of rainfall which gave
relief to all local farmers and nomadic population after the
severe drought last year. The weather conditions in
Somaliland changed from the harsh and prolonged dry spell
giving way to a rainy condition throughout all the regions.
Dry river valleys flooded claiming eight lives. Many
families especially those living in internally displaced
persons (IDP) camps had their shelter destroyed thus
worsening their conditions. Cases of pneumonia increased
with the advent of rains. We are hoping that the rains will
subside soon.
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April
2011 | Industry News
BMI View: Ophir Energy is looking at a potential IPO in
London that would value the company at US$2bn. We think
Ophir would do better to raise capital by farming out stakes
in some of its prospective acreage and wait until the LNG
market improves for an IPO.
London, UK, April 9, 2011
– Africa-focused independent Ophir Energy faces some big
decisions as it looks to capitalise on a string of
exploration successes. The company has hired investment
banks Credit Suisse and JP Morgan to lead a potential
listing in London as early as June 2011 in order to raise
US$500mn, valuing the company at US$2bn, according to April
3 report in Britain's Telegraph newspaper.
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Mr
Samantar served under President Siyad Barre,
pictured, who was overthrown by warlords in 1991 |
Washington, April 9, 2011 – A judge in the US state of
Virginia has ruled that an ex-Somali prime minister can be
questioned under oath over allegations of abuses and war
crimes.
Mahamed Ali Samantar, who was Somalia's defense minister and
prime minister in the 1980s, has denied wrongdoing.
He is accused of commanding his troops to detain, torture,
and kill members of Somalia's Isaaq clan.
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Journalist Wali Hashi in 'Finland village' in
Somaliland.
Image: Yle |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 – Somaliland, a de facto
independent country located within what is internationally
recognized as Somalia, is the subject of much Finnish
influence. Many returnees from Finland have risen to
prominent positions in Somaliland society.
Finland already had a good reputation in the country before
refugees ended up in northern Europe. Journalist Wali Hashi
found surprising evidence of Finnish influence while
travelling in the country recently.
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London, UK, April 9, 2011 – Abdirashid Duale, CEO of
Dahabshiil Group, was invited last week to address
graduating masters students at Aalto University School of
Economics in Helsinki - an internationally renowned
institution for management education currently celebrating
its centenary year.
The two-hour talk took place on Tuesday 29 March as part of
a course titled, Managing Innovation and Change, led by
ProfessorLiisa Valikangas.
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By Staff Writers
Leicester, UK, Apr 09, 2011 – Astrium GEO-Information
Services has completed a geological interpretation study of
the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area
that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot for the
Oil, Gas and Minerals industry.
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Indian-American Geeta Pasi, the new US envoy to
Djibouti
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Washington, April 9, 2011 – US President Barack Obama has
nominated Indian-American Geeta Pasi, a career foreign
service officer, as his envoy to Djibouti.
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Djibouti President Wins Another
Term |
Ismail Omar Guelleh has
won 80% of the votes
cast, according to the
country's electoral
commission
Djibouti, April 9, 2011
– Djibouti's President
Ismael Omar Guelleh, in
power since 1999, was
comfortably re-elected
for a third term at the
head of the tiny but
strategic Horn of Africa
state.
Guelleh, 63, was
credited with 79.26
percent of the vote
against 20.74 for his
only challenger,
independent candidate
and former head of the
constitutional council
Mohamed Warsama Ragueh,
following an opposition
boycott.
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Djibouti: Ismail Omer Guelleh Seen
Winning Third Term |
Ismael Omar Guelleh
succeeded his uncle in
1999
Djibouti, April 9, 2011
(SL Times) – Voters in
the tiny but strategic
Horn of Africa state of
Djibouti went to the
polls Friday for an
election boycotted by
the opposition and
predicted to return
incumbent President
Ismael Omar Guelleh for
a third term.
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South African
Delegation Arrives In Somaliland |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, April 9, 2011 (SL Times) – A South African
delegation visited Somaliland this week.
Somaliland’s Minister of Fisheries, Mr Abdillahi Jama Osman (Geel
Jire) told the Somali language newspaper Haatuf that the purpose
of the delegation’s visit is to check on business opportunities
in the area of fisheries, and to see if the environment is
peaceful enough to invest in the fisheries sector.
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Bus Causes
Traffic Accident In Jigjiga Yar |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 (SL Times) – A very bad
traffic accident took place in Hargeysa’s Jigjiga Yar
neighborhood this week.
Injured in the accident was Ahmed Ali, one of the staff of
the ministry of finance who was on his way to work.
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Blacksmith Talks About His Craft |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 (SL
Times) – Haatuf newspaper carried an interview with Nur Jama
Muse, a blacksmith who gave the newspaper interesting
information about himself and his job.
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House of Common’s Written
answers and statements on 5 April 2011
Question:
Andrew Rosindell (Romford,
Conservative) – To ask the Secretary
of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he
has any plans to visit Somaliland on official business.
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SSC Leader, Saleban
Haglo-tosiye, speaking
to his militia in
Buhodle during his war
against Somaliland
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By Mark Ferenchik
Columbus, Ohio, April 9, 2011 – A Columbus man who says he was
elected the leader of a region of Somalia in 2009 apparently is
the target of a federal terrorism investigation into his
activities in that country.
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By Sahra Abdi
Nairobi, Kenya, April 9, 2011 – Kenya has vowed to bolster
Somalia's fight against al Qaeda-linked insurgents along its
border with the Horn of Africa country, where troops from
both sides are battling the rebels, the Somali prime
minister said.
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Washington, April 9, 2011 – Morgan Freeman and Sandra Bullock
could be starring in the Elmore Leonard adaptation Djibouti, the
author has revealed.
Veteran crime writer Leonard discussed the potential line-up at
the launch of the second TV series of Justified, on which he is
executive producer.
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More Than A Dozen Protesters
Killed By Security Forces In Syria |
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April 8:
Amateur video shows protesters taking to the streets
in Daraa, Syria. |
Damascus, Syria, April 9, 2011 – Syrian security forces
opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across
several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding
hundreds and forcing residents to turn mosques into
makeshift hospitals, witnesses and a human rights group
said.
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Libya Risks Somalia-Like Chaos as
Fighting Drags On, Russia's Ivanov Says |
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By Simone
Baribeau and Henry Meyer
Miami, Virginia, April 9, 2011 –
Libya risks
degenerating into chaos similar to that in Somalia, said
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who didn’t rule
out Libyan leader Muammar
Qaddafi being
able to defeat the rebels fighting his forces.
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Three
prominent Kenyans, allied with the president's
rival, appeared in the court on Thursday
[Reuters] |
Three officials, including deputy prime minister, go on
trial at International Criminal Court over post-poll
violence.
Hague, April 9, 2011 – A group of high-profile Kenyans,
including the deputy prime minister, are appearing before
the International Criminal Court on charges of murder, rape
and persecution in connection to violence that followed the
disputed 2007 election.
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In this
Sunday, March 27, 2011 photo, A member of the
Somaliland coast guard ties up a pirate's boat, at
the headquarters in the port city of Berbera,
Somaliland.
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BULA HAR, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 — Three boat engines lie
disemboweled on the floor, and radios donated by Britain sit
unused in boxes.
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April 8, 2011: If things weren't bad enough off the coast of
Somalia, they just got worse. Until recently, all the pirate
gangs had set up in shop in the north (Puntland and
Somaliland), where there was less chaos, and the pirates
were less likely to be harassed by warlords and Islamic
fanatics.
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Greg Mills, Terence McNamee
In late February 2003, a month before the Iraqi invasion,
the 43rd US president said: "It is presumptuous and
insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world - or
the one-fifth of humanity that is Muslim - is somehow
untouched by the most basic aspirations of life."
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Nimo
Girreh of South
Burlington has been
selected
to represent Vermont
at the
second annual Mom
Congress
on Education on
Sunday in
Washington.
RYAN
MERCER, Free Press |
Written by
Molly Walsh
Washington, April 9, 2011 – Nimo Girreh grew up in
Somaliland with a mother who could not write her own name
and wanted something better for her daughter. That daughter
would eventually graduate from college and make a new life
for herself in Vermont.“She knew the importance of
education,” Girreh said of her mother.
Sunday, Girreh will take a free trip to Washington, D.C.,
for a conference headlined by U.S. Education Secretary Arne
Duncan. She will represent Vermont at the Mom Congress on
Education after being selected by judges at Parenting
magazine.
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Carol Huang
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
April 9, 2011 – Ahmed Mohammed Adan knows that every Somali
pirate who sets out to sea is taking a big gamble.
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Carol Huang
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 9, 2011 – Farah Ismail Idle has
only one regret about being a pirate: getting caught.
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Key
Considerations And Ironies In Libya |
The Libyan conflict
is beginning to recede from the headlines but it is still very
much in the news. With the US’s decision to move to a supporting
role and with the constraints facing the various players in the
conflict, many observers are saying that the situation is
turning into a stalemate. It is still early though to say for
sure where things are headed. With Benghazi out of limits to
Qaddafi, two key considerations will have a huge impact on
deciding the outcome of the conflict:
1. Who is going to control the oil fields in the east-central
part of Libya? This area has about 80% of Libya’s oil, so
whoever controls it will have an ace in his hand.
2. Will Qaddafi maintain his grip on the western part of Libya,
or will the worsening economic situation and the political
pressure lead to revolts against him like the ones in the east,
or result in divisions within the regime and eventual collapse
as his enemies are hoping?
In addition to the above key considerations, there are a number
of ironies about the Libyan situation that are worth mentioning:
A- Qaddafi got scared when he saw what happened to Saddam and
quickly gave up his nuclear program and weapons of mass
destruction in exchange for a pardon from the US. But the fact
that he no longer has a nuclear program probably emboldened
western countries to attack him. In another twist, the lesson of
what happened to Qaddafi has given Iran and North Korea even
more reasons to hold on to their nukes.
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1969 Military Coup In Somalia
Part LXXI |
By Dr. Mohamed-Rashid Sh.
Hassan, Hargeisa, Somaliland
This is the seventy-First article of a series of articles
that Dr. Mohamed-Rashid analyses the military coup and its
legacy
Independence and Union: The Birth of the Somali State
continued...
During his period in office (1964-1967), Prime Minister
Abdirizaq Haji Hussein introduced a code of moral practice
into the workings of government to fight corruption and
nepotism. He sacked those he thought were inefficient and
corrupt civil servants, including director generals and
heads of departments. He issued the famous letters with red
envelopes known as pusta rosa. He demonstrated
that he wanted a clean government led by effective and
educated elite, regardless of what clan they belonged to and
what region they came from while the government of president
Aden Abdulle Osman and his Prime Minister Abdirizaq Haji
Hussein represented the liberal effective side of the
governance.
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U.S. Monitors SSC Militants As
They Step Up Assassinating Somaliland Officials |
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By Dalmar Kaahin
“Currently, the NSUM [SSC] members are busy collecting money
not for rebuilding schools and hospitals but for detonating
explosive against Somaliland politicians, police and army
officers in Sool region. Mark my words! The NSUM [SSC] has
its assassinations contrived.”
I wrote in May 2009.
Four months later, in October 2009, no sooner the
SSC/NSUM militants vowed to attack Somaliland security
forces and dislodge them from Sool province, in eastern
Somaliland, “By any means necessary” (the SSC’s war
slogan) than a wave bomb attacks ripped through Somaliland
cities. But nothing frightened the Somaliland authority more
than the SSC’s unabated Al-Shabaab-style assassinations
against the officials. Although Somaliland recently crushed
the SSC militants militarily, and U.S. began monitoring
their activities, they stepped up their assassinations
against the Somaliland officials—an unprecedented warfare,
nerve-racking
and horrifying, that the militants shrewdly understood the
security forces were neither prepared for, nor equipped to
apprehend its perpetrators.
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The Culuso Papers
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By Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar
The Somali crisis is approaching yet another explosive
downward spiral into the bewildering and catastrophic
bottomless pit of Somali misery. It is difficult to grasp
the seeming senseless and clearly suicidal moves of Somali
political life; for precisely whenever one thinks “it could
never get worse”, it invariably does! In these times of
confusion I found the work of Mohamud Culuso enlightening,
honest, and perceptive and delivered with the eloquence of
poet.
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Peace And Reconciliation
Message To Somali People |
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By Dr. Mohamed Hassan M., Ph.D.
Entomologist
For the regional tranquility to become everlasting, the
Somali native has to understand & teach country-mates as
well, the reply to the following questions:
What is a peace?
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Is something that is
essential for human life, and no-peace means no-life
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Is the one making mankind
people to coexist and survive together
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Is the one blocking all
that can cause human disunity
What are the advantages of peace?
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It allows the mankind to
live in-harmony, loving each other & remain united.
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It allows the people to
develop their life and progress their nation.
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It allows the nation to
have good relationship with other nations and prosper.
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Somaliland: Corporate Taxes,
Dahabshiil & Cement |
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Ahmed Kheyre
Some things never change. Just when a new government is
elected in Somaliland on a platform of reform and fiscal
responsibilities, the curse of "you scratch my back and I
will give you a new license for a cement factory" rears its
ugly head, allegedly.
Recently, the new Somaliland finance minister Mr.Mohamed
Hashi Elmi and his officials have been making forceful
comments regarding the need for Somaliland's wealthiest
companies to start paying their fare share of taxes.
Mr.Hashi and his colleagues have stressed the need to
institute auditing abilities and help strengthen the current
parliamentary acts on the law books.
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