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Commemorating The 20th
Anniversary Of Somaliland Independence 18th May 2011 |
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Press Release By SSE
Somaliland communities in Europe are joining forces to, on 18th May
2011, to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of Somaliland’s independence.
Main objectives for the celebrations are:
To Celebrate and commemorate Somaliland’s 20th Anniversary
since it withdrew from the union with Somalia after 30 years
of oppression, indiscriminate killings and injustice.
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New York, United States, May 14, 2011 –
The UN Security Council on Thursday reiterated its concern
over continuing instability in Somalia and stressed the need
for a comprehensive strategy to establish peace and
stability in the Horn of Africa country through a
consultative process to create broad-based institutions.
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Washington, May 14, 2011 – Somalia would welcome an attack
on its soil by U.S. special forces to target al-Qaida
militants, Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdillahi Mohamed told
the Wall Street
Journal on Wednesday.
Though he said they would prefer training so that Somalis
can carry out a raid themselves, Mohamed said that “in the
absence of that, if there is a target or a threat to
dismantle, I would welcome it."
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U.S.
Senator Barack Obama, right, meets his grandmother
Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house in
Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya, Saturday,
Aug. 26, 2006. Obama received a hero's welcome
Saturday during an emotional family reunion at his
late father's hometown in western Kenya. (Credit:
AP Photo)
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Mogadishu, Somalia, May 14, 2011 – The Somali terror group
Al Shabaab has issued a personal threat against Sarah Obama,
President Obama's step-grandmother, who lives in Kenya, ABC
News reports.
Kenyan officials have provided Mrs. Obama with additional
security Thursday, even though security had already been
increased following the United States' assassination of
Osama bin Laden.
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American
terrorist Omar Hammami warned that the death of
Bin Laden would not halt the attacks on the U.S. |
Jim Kouri
Mogadishu, Somalia, May 14, 2011 – American-born terrorist,
Abu Mansur Al Ameriki, a member of the Somali al-Qaeda
affiliate group Al Shabaab, said at a meeting yesterday in
Mogadishu that the death of Osama Bin Laden will not weaken
Jihad against the United States and Israel, but rather it
has strengthened them.
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Nairobi, Kenya, May 14, 2011 – MPs from North Eastern
Province are unanimous in their support for the creation of
a buffer zone separating their region from its volatile
neighbors.
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By Boniface Ongeri
Mandera, Kenya, May 14, 2011 – Sulub Ahmed regarded an entry
point on the Kenyan-Somalia border as his 'farm' while the
State viewed it as a goldfield.
The more than 800km border stretch buzzes with lucrative
trade involving second hand cars, spare parts, petroleum,
textiles, electronics, foodstuffs, construction materials
and satellite dishes and other imports from the war-torn
Somalia.
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Nairobi, Kenya, May 14, 2011 – With seasonal rains failing
across Somalia, a coalition of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) is urging immediate action to fight
what they are calling one of the "worst droughts in recent
memory."
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Mr.
Adam & Mr. Noor / Photo from Seychelles Tourism
Board |
Seychelles, May 14, 2011 - (Forimmediaterelease.net)
Visiting the head of prisons and police in Puntland,
Somalia, Mr. Ali Noor, has assured the Seychelles Minister
for Foreign Affairs Mr. Jean-Paul Adam that Puntland is
prepared to accept the transfer of all convicted Somali
pirates being held in Seychelles upon the completion of
another United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
funded prison facility in Puntland.
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UK Ambassador In Addis Ababa Says
If The South-Central Somalia Remains In Chaos, Somaliland’s
Argument For Recognition Will Be Strengthened |
Norman Ling, UK
Ambassador to Ethiopia
“It Requires A Whole
Series Of Countries To
Determine That Now Is
The Time To Recognize
Somaliland As An
Independent State”
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May
14, 2011 (SL Times) – In
an interview with
Ethiopian Addis Fortune,
the British Ambassador
to Ethiopia, Norman Ling
said that if the
south-central Somalia
remains in chaos,
Somaliland’s argument
for recognition will be
strengthened.
The UK Ambassador, Norman
Ling, also suggested
that a key option for
Somaliland to gain
international
recognition requires a
whole series of
countries to determine
that now is the time to
recognize Somaliland as
an independent state.
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Somaliland Liberation
War Hero Dhega-Weyne Visits Britain |
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SNM war
veteran Ibrahim Dhega-weyne [seen in the middle,
third from right] among wellcomers as he arrived in
London on Monday, May 9, 2011 |
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Ahmed Suleiman
Bidde Slams The Judiciary |
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A well
known Somaliland artist, Ahmed Suleiman Bidde |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, May 14, 2011 (SL Times) – The well
known artist Ahmed Suleiman Bidde sharply criticized
Somaliland’s judicial system this week.
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Reporter Ahmad
Adan Dheere Detained In Berbera |
Berbera, Somaliland, May 14, 2011 (SL Times) – Haatuf
newspaper’s reporter in Berbera was arrested by police in
Berbera and was held at Jaama Laaye police station in
Berbera. The police said his arrest was ordered by the chief
executive of Berbera.
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Deputy Minister Of Finance Says
Revenues Fell Short |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, May 14, 2011 (SL Times) – Somaliland Deputy Minister
of Finance, Mr Warsame Saeed made a surprise inspection tour of
the various departments of the ministry of finance in Berbera.
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Djibouti, May 14, 2011 (SL Times) – Al Shabaab could launch
terrorist attacks on Somaliland territories after the demise of
their leader Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. Special
Forces in an operation in Pakistan, a Somaliland minister warned
on Sunday.
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Somaliland
flag |
Nairobi, Somaliland, May 14, 2011 – Some provisions of new
legislation governing the activities of NGOs in Somaliland could
undermine international humanitarian activity in Somaliland, say
aid workers and donors.
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London, UK, May 14, 2011 – Canadian
independent Africa Oil has penned a letter of intent with a
mystery drilling outfit in advanced of a planned exploration
well in Somalia.
The company has also set up a new company focused on exploration
in the war-torn Horn of Africa country’s semi-autonomous
Puntland region.
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NATO 'Cannot Reach Me', Gaddafi
Says |
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A Libyan
government spokesman said Col Gaddafi was in very
good health and high spirits |
Tripoli, Libya, May 14, 2011 – Libyan leader Col Muammar
Gaddafi has said he is in a place where Nato bombs "cannot
reach", in an audio message broadcast on state television.
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10 Facts That Prove The Bin Laden
Fable Is A Contrived Hoax |
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Every indication clearly points to last Sunday’s raid being
a manufactured ploy to return Americans to a state of
post-9/11 intellectual castration
Paul Joseph Watson
Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of
Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence
that clearly indicates the whole episode has been
manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a
state of post-9/11 intellectual castration so that they can
be easily manipulated in the run up to the 2012 election. .
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A victim
of the suicide bomb attack was transported to the
hospital in Peshawar on Friday.
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By JANE PERLEZ
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 14, 2011 — Senior police officials
said on Friday that a suicide attack that killed more than
80 cadets from a government paramilitary force was most
likely retaliation for an army offensive in Pakistan’s
tribal areas, and not for the death of Osama bin Laden, as
the Pakistani Taliban claimed.
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When Sada Mire fled war-torn Somalia as a frightened
teenager, the nation was descending into darkness, mired in
the grip of a long civil conflict.
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By Nicholas D.
Kristof
Hargeysa, Somaliland, May 14, 2011 – People usually torture
those whom they fear or despise. But one of the most common
forms of torture in the modern world, incomparably more
widespread than waterboarding or electric shocks, is
inflicted by mothers on daughters they love.
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By Reihan
Salam
Greg Mankiw has just
linked to a video that riffs on a familiar debate
trope: so you don’t like government? Well, how would you
like to live in Somalia! It’s easy to see why one
might find this “argument” frustrating:
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By Nicholas D. Kristof
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, May 7, 2011 – In a few days Americans will
celebrate Mother’s Day with roses, chocolates and fine
dinners, inducing warm and fuzzy feelings all around. But,
in addition, I’ll bet helping mothers less fortunate would
also render any mom giddy.
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In Djibouti, a foreigner's early-morning jogs open up a
world of curious encounters.
By Rachel
Jones
My favorite sheep in Djibouti were
Gilane and Lulla.
I left the house at 5:50 a.m. for a short run before my kids
woke up. I hadn't gone more than 300 yards when I saw a
group of Djiboutian girls jogging toward me.
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Why Did
America’s Two-Track Policy Toward Somalis Turn To No Track Policy? |
After a two-year
internal debate, the Obama administration announced in September
2010 that it had a new two-track policy towards Somalis. As
indicated by its name, the gist of this policy was that the US
would engage both Somalia’s so-called Federal government as well
as other Somali entities such as Somaliland. With the passage of
time, however, there are worrying signs that instead of greater
engagement with Somalis, the policy has brought less engagement,
so much so that the two-track policy looks more like a no track
policy.
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Corporate Social
Responsibility Is Good For Somali Businesses |
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By Liban
Obsiye
The news around town is that Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) has finally reached the Somali business community in
the form of the new $45,000 science lab that has just been
opened at the University of Hargeysa. Nation Link, one of
the oldest and most successful telecommunication companies
in Somalia decided to provide the University with this gift
as part of its community regeneration and capacity building
initiatives. The fact that such initiatives exists itself is
wonderful news and the amount spent on the university,
although pittance in the eyes of critics, is an indication
that some businesses in Somalia are waking up to the
importance of their role in society. However, the fact is
that the majority of Somali businesses do not have a CSR
policy and those that do only engage with it irregularly as
part of their marketing campaigns.
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Awdalians, Walking The Walk Is
What Awdal Needs Badly! |
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By Bashir Goth
Bin Laden is gone. He died
as he wished to die, a martyr to some but to many others an
evil incarnate who chose to live by the gun and surely died
by the gun.
But the nagging question
is will the world be any different? Not so soon. As the
Somalis say: Ayax teg, eelna reeb (gone is the locust, but
it has left behind a lasting breed). Bin Laden has left
behind a proliferating breed of Al Qaeda affiliates in many
parts of the world. Indeed the world may experience nasty
reminders in the near future as his followers try to
demonstrate their ability to avenge their leader’s death.
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Somali Region Has No Interest
In Reunification |
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By Abdirahman Mohamed Dirye
Historically, Somalia was mere collection of hard-nosed;
obstinate ethnicities of different backgrounds; before
European explorers reached the Horn, the people who lived
there very little is known about them and had no records
whatsoever since they were unlettered. Somalia as country or
nation came into being only in the sixties when the
independence is given, beyond that era nothing was recorded.
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Man And Misery Are Twins |
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By: Jama Falaag
Life is not all music. Nor it is a vale of tears alone. Man
and misery are twins. Life is a mosaic blend of pain and
pleasure. The pendulum oscillates between sighs and smiles.
Man's deeds are the seeds. He reaps what he sows. He gets
what he gives. And God is great accountant. But He is
gracious.
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The Change You Can Make |
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By: Mohamed Hamud
It is an undisputable fact that, as we live, there is always
a rivalry between the good and the bad. The funny thing is
that it is destined to be like that. Whichever wins at any
given time is a function of human choice. We can choose to
suppress the bad and promote the good in everything that we
do and vice-versa.
The one question everybody should ask is one’s personal role
in this rivalry. We should know that everyone of us is
endowed with a potential to influence the environment we
live in, be it positive or negative.
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