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Operation To Free
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Nairobi, Kenya, October 15, 2011 – The Royal Navy
chief who led a daring rescue to free a hijacked
ship from the clutches of pirates last night told
how they got there “in the nick of time”.
Captain Gerry Northwood’s team sprang into action
after finding an SOS message in a bottle from the
bulk carrier MV Montecristo that had been seized by
Somali thugs.
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Peter Clottey
Asmara, Eritrea, October
15, 2011 – An official says Eritrea’s cabinet has
approved a food aid package to Somalis affected by
drought and famine. Some skeptics have questioned
the timing as well as the size of the approved aid.
But information minister
Ali Abdu says “it not about how much [aid] you give,
it’s about how much love you give with what you
give.”
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UN
official (R) thanked Turkey for its
humanitarian assistance to Somali. |
Istanbul, Turkey, October 20, 2011 – A UN official
on Friday shared his appreciation for Turkey's flood
of humanitarian assistance to Somalia, which has
been struggling with the worst drought the region
has witnessed in 60 years, reported the Anatolia
news agency.
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Sheffield, UK, October 15, 2011 – A LAWYER has
accused a killed Sheffield student’s friends of
fabricating their stories in the wake of his death
amidst tensions between Bengali and Somali youths.
Abdulla Awil Mohammed, aged 18, died in March after
a car drove into him and fellow Somali friends on
Coleridge Road, Darnall.
The Sheffield Hallam University student, from
Burngreave, was hit on the head by a road sign which
was knocked over by the car, and later died from his
head wounds.
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Nairobi, Kenya, October 15, 2011 – The United
Nations has lifted a security advisory in northern
Kenya, paving the way for relief work to resume.
However, UN aid agencies have been advised to be
cautious of the insecurity in south-central Somalia
region of Dobley.
The lifting of the advisory means UN aid groups can
now operate in Liboi near the Kenya-Somalia border.
Consequently, the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM) has started transporting 2,252
refugees from Liboi to Dadaab camps on request from
local authorities effective from October 9.
A UN report from IOM says the population in Dadaab
had increased to 458,636 as of October 6. The camp
was built to host 90,000 people only.
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Minneapolis, MN, October 15, 2011 — Two Minnesota
women accused of funneling money to a terror group
in Somalia talked about collecting money for
al-Shabaab, supporting fighters instead of other
charities and the possibility that FBI was listening
in on their conversations, according to hours of
recorded phone calls played for jurors.
Prosecutors have built the bulk of their case by
playing more than 80 phone calls recorded during a
10-month wiretap on the home and cellphones of Amina
Farah Ali, 35. In those calls, prosecutors allege,
Ali is heard talking to her co-defendant,
64-year-old Hawo Mohamed Hassan, as well as leaders
of al-Shabaab in Somalia. The calls include
recordings of teleconferences in which the women
gave religious lectures and collected donations.
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Save the Children
Torrential rain has hit drought-displaced families
living in squalid camps in Mogadishu, Somalia.
The rains have flooded flimsy shelters of nearly
2,800 people living in the Sigale camp. Two children
were killed by surging waters, another is missing,
and a pregnant mother died in the chaos as families
sought shelter from the downpour.
Thousands of hungry and desperate people arrived in
the Somali capital over recent months, fleeing food
shortages caused by a terrible drought in East
Africa. Many have settled in makeshift camps in
areas vulnerable to flooding.
The arrival of the autumn rains in Mogadishu signals
an alleviation of the drought, but will pose new
threats to families living without adequate shelter
in atrocious conditions.
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Some social-service providers hypothesize
it's because Somali moms are home
teaching their kids. |
Minneapolis, MN, October 15, 2011 — Ask educator
Bill Wilson why Somali students do well in school
and he'll answer with authority: "Their families put
so much value on education."
That's a question I felt compelled to ask after
reading the "One Minneapolis: a vision for our
city's success" report released last week by The
Minneapolis Foundation.
Intending to follow up on the stats, I only touched
on a finding that merits not only a "wow," but also
a "why?"
Here it is: 76 percent of Minneapolis school
children coming from homes where Somali is spoken
test kindergarten-ready, not terribly far behind the
82 percent of English-speaking kids who are
kindergarten ready, and better than some other
groups. The graphs below reflect children’s literacy
readiness as measured in the fall of their
kindergarten year.
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FILE - In this Monday, July 11, 2011 file
photo, Somali parents care for their young
children who are being treated for
malnutrition at a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins
Sans Frontieres) hospital in Dagahaley Camp,
Dadaab, Kenya. Gunmen suspected to have come
across the Somali border attacked and
kidnapped two international aid workers from
Doctors Without Borders on Thursday in
Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp,
and Kenyan police said they were in
pursuit by land and air. (AP Photo/Rebecca
Blackwell, File) |
Nairobi, Kenya, October 15, 2011 —Suspected Somali
gunmen kidnapped two Spanish logistics workers from
Doctors Without Borders in the world's largest
refugee camp Thursday, triggering a police pursuit
by land and air shortly after a spate of similar
attacks on Kenya's coastal resorts.
The gunmen hijacked the workers' vehicle and shot
the driver in the neck, according to Baijo Mohamed,
a youth leader in the Dadaab refuge camp. Regional
police chief Leo Nyongesa said he believes the
attackers came from Somalia because that was the
direction they fled after the attack.
The Dadaab camp lies about 50 miles (80 kilometers)
from the border of Kenya's lawless neighbor.
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Somaliland On China Radio International: 2011-10-10
Phantom States |
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Interview
On Chinese-Somaliland Agreement |
Click
here to
listen to
Radio France
Internationale's
interview
with Jamal
Gabobe about
the
agreement
between
Somaliland
and Chinese
investors.
The
Interview
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Habsade Hails
President Sillanyo’s Las Anod Visit, Warns Puntland
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Ahmed
Abdi Habsade, the Information minister of
Somaliland
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Erigabo,
Somaliland,
October 15,
2011 (SL
Times) –
Somaliland
Minister of
Information,
Ahmed Abdi Habsade
gave a
positive
evaluation
of last
week’s Las
Anod visit
by President
Ahmed
Silanyo.
Speaking in
Erigabo’s
Freedom
Park, Mr
Habsade
stressed the
warm welcome
that
President
Ahmed
Sillanyo
received in
Las Anod and
the fact
that the
president
also visited
the troops
close to the
border with
Puntland.
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Adirizaq Ayale Becomes Head Of The Registration
Committee |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 15, 2011 (SL Times) –
The committee for the registration of political
organizations and licensing of political issued a
press release in which it announced the results of
the election for that body which are as follows:
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Public
Concern Over Government Takeover Of Drysdale’s NGO |
Hargeysa,
Somaliland, October 15, 2011 (SL Times) – There has
been rising public concern about the Somaliland
government’s appropriation of Cadastral Survey, an
NGO that was run by John Drysdale.
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Chinese
Investors Thank Government |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 15, 2011 (SL
Times) – Chinese investors in the hides and
leather factory in Da’ar Budhuq thanked
Somaliland government for removing the chief of
police, Mahad Shaqale, from his post and
replacing him with a new police chief.
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Safiya Hashi Madar
Talks About Her Struggle Against Barre’s
Dictatorship - Part Four. |
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Hargeysa,
Somaliland, October 15, 2011 (SL Times) – This is a
continuation of Safiya Hashi Madar's account of her
struggle against Siyad Barre's military regime which
appeared in the last three issues of the Somaliland
Times (the narrative originally appeared in two
segments in the Somali language newspaper Haatuf).
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This is a continuation of a previous article which
appeared in Somaliland Times, Issue 504, 24th - 30th
Sept 2011.
In part one of this article, I mentioned that it
necessary for President Ahmed Sillanyo's government
to set up an independent committee whose
responsibility will be to come up with ways to
develop our economy and create jobs for the
thousands of people who graduate every year as well
as those who do not get a chance to go to college,
and that this question of unemployment is the
biggest danger facing Somaliland. I also suggested
that emphasis must be put on the country’s human
resources and natural resources such as livestock,
fishers, salt, material for cement, gemstones,
agriculture and water, and so on.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, October 15, 2011 – An attack by
a US unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has killed at
least 78 people and injured 64 others in southern
Somalia, Press TV reports.
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An
American Predator drone (File Photo) |
Mogadishu, Somalia, October 15, 2011 – Two
unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the US military
have crashed in southern Somalia near the border
with Kenya, Press TV reports.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 15, 2011 – IOM
facilitated assisted voluntary return (AVR) for 531
Ethiopian migrants stranded in Hargeysa, Somaliland,
on September 29, 2011 to October 3, 2011, who wished
to go home voluntarily.
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US Benefits From Saudi
Envoy Death: Iran |
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Iran's
Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani |
Tehran, Iran, October 15, 2011 – A senior Iranian
official says the US allegation about Iran's
involvement in the plot to assassinate the Saudi
ambassador to Washington gives rise to serious
questions.
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Not Only In America:
Wall Street Protests Are Coming To London |
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Thousands join online group as demonstrators vow to
'Occupy the Stock Exchange' today
By Kevin Rawlinson
London, UK, October 15, 2011 – Police will take "any
steps necessary" to keep order in the City today as
demonstrators planning to occupy London's financial
district vowed to hold out for as long as they could
in a protest against corporate greed.
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By Barry Malone
Tripoli, Libya, Oct 15, 2011 – Gunbattles between
supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and
forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC)
shook the Libyan capital on Friday, raising fears of
an insurgency against the country's new rulers.
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Salvation for the world’s most utterly failed state
depends more on private enterprise than
international aid
Berbera And Bossaso, October 15, 2011 –
Where there are beasts, there is life, goes a saying
in Somalia. Half of its people depend on livestock
for their survival. This year they will export
record numbers of animals.
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By Sean
McLachlan
When my wife and I went to the Horn
of Africa last year for our Ethiopia
road trip, we were eagerly looking forward to a
culinary journey. We weren't disappointed. Ethiopian
food is one of our favorites and of course they make
it better there than anywhere else!
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Turkey is redoubling its efforts to end the
suffering of the Somali people. The world should
follow.
By Recep Tayyip
Erdogan
Somalia is suffering from the most severe drought
and famine in the last 60 years, which has already
resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of
people and endangers the lives of 750,000 more
Somalis.
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By Sean
McLachlan
Today is World
Post Day, celebrated every October 9 to mark the
anniversary of the foundation of the Universal
Postal Union in 1874. More than 150 countries
celebrate this day honoring something that's so
vital to our lives but is generally taken for
granted.
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By Lt
Col Paddy Ankunda
While state failure in Somalia provides
pirates with an opportunity to operate relatively
freely, the lack of effective security at sea gives
them the opportunity to attack ships at relatively
little risk.
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Somaliland’s Steady Progress |
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important events took place within the last month show
Somaliland’s steady progress. Approaching them in
chronological order, the first one is the foreign minister’s
updating of the Security Council. Why is this an important
step for Somaliland? Because: (a) it gives Somaliland direct
access to the Security Council whereby Somaliland can
provide information and speak for itself without third
parties speaking for it; (b) since this is the second time
Somaliland addresses the Security Council, it seems not to
be a one-time thing but a tradition has been established of
Somaliland addressing the security council on relevant
issues; (c) Addressing the Security Council being a
privilege that is usually extended to recognized states, the
opportunity to address the security council raises
Somaliland’s diplomatic profile.
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Accusing Somaliland
Minister Of Al-Shabaab Links |
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By Ali Adam
This is a response to an article written by Dahir
Alasow in the Sunatimes. The self proclaimed
Journalist of the year has got it wrong again as
usual. In this article, he accused some Somaliland
officials including the interior Minister of having
links with Al-Shabaab which is absurd and total
rubbish.
Mr Alasow, seems to be always obsessed with
insulting Somaliland and its leaders, but today, he
shot himself in the foot by trying to write his
Piggy bank story in English.
Mr Alasow, your article in which you insulted our
Minister of Interior has exposed your ignorance to
the whole world. Your poor English language skills
and awful presentation has shown everyone your true
personality.
Shame on you Alasow, people who aspire to become
journalists thrive to educate themselves and learn
how to write properly. You are not a journalist and
shouldn’t waste your time fighting the wrong wars.
Take my advice and digest this adage “if you can not
beat them join them” Somaliland is a nation that has
in the past, proved many political heavy weights
wrong in their judgments not by default but by their
commitment to rebuild a modern democratic system
based on equality and fairness. Against all odds, we
achieved miracles in all angles.
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No High-Pay Jobs For
Somalis |
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By Saeed Balbal
It has never been anybody else’s duty to look out
for another’s rights if that is not what you are expressly paid
for: heads of states, higher government officials,
government employees, policing/security personnel,
etc. etc. The usual axiom in an opportunistic world
such as this of ours had always remained look
out for yourself or
- in other words - eat
or be eaten alive.
Simpler put, you do not sit back, hold out your
hands – and lol! – they are brimming full with gold
coins. Similarly, one cannot blame another for
taking a job that you never showed an interest in in
any meaningful or discernible manner; or, as is the
case with many an unemployed youth these past years,
keep sipping lukewarm, nauseatingly sugary ‘tea’ in
front of small ramshackle teashops and expect the
forces that are to teleport you to the job of your
dreams without putting in the least effort to get
there by your own devices. Neither would one be ever
rewarded here or in the hereafter for wasting
youthfulness, education, brains, ambition, desire,
time.
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UK: A Red Carpet For
The Pirate- In-Chief |
By Yusuf Dirir Ali, MD
On arrival in Nairobi the capital of Kenya, the
so-called president of Puntland and the alleged
godfather of Somalia’s
sea piracy cartel did not shy away from the TV
cameras, he did not order his henchmen to chase the
TV journalists away and did not use invective
language, but he proudly looked straight at the
cameras like any other statesman and declared that
he was going to London, UK “I
am invited to deliver a key-note speech on piracy in
an international conference in London” He arrogantly
declared. This was a terrible event for the victims
of sea piracy, human trafficking and terrorism.
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Somali Militia
Destroyed Their Land; Now They’re Doing The Same To
Ours |
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By Mutuma Mathiu
Somali pirates are killing Kenya, one tourist at a
time.
Hotels have closed, guests evacuated, bookings
cancelled. Yet tourism is Kenya’s life-blood;
without it we are lost.
These kidnappers are ruthless. They have destroyed
their own homeland, and they would have no problem
destroying ours.
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Current Status Of Forests And Woodlands In
Somaliland: (Threats And Opportunities) Part V |
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Photo on the cover : Berde Ficus spp which
has the biggest DBH in Somaliland according
to Somaliland Ecological Society
(Somaliland) near QABUURTA village, Baki,
Awdal Region |
SES Fact-Finding
Mission to Somaliland
August / September 2010
Mohamoud Omer Sh. Ibrahim BSc (For) MA
[Continues from our last edition]
5 Summary Discussion of Key
Recommendations
Despite
its vital role in the economy of the country and the
livelihood of the people, it is clear that the
successive Somaliland authorities failed to ensure
that the sector receives the kind of priority that
it deserves. Perhaps nothing shows better than this
the current state of the department responsible for
the overall management of forests, rangeland and
wildlife. It is poorly equipped to lead and
coordinate the vital and necessary work it leads;
and give direction to the protection and the
conservation of the remaining natural forests and
woodlands.
It would
appear that the lack of clear and co-ordinated
forestry policy is one of the main challenges
preventing both voluntary and non-voluntary agencies
to carry out initiatives that will reverse the
present threat of environmental degradation facing
the country and its people. There is no capacity to
enforce the existing forest laws and regulation, and
many are adopted from the failed pre 1991 forest law
and fauna There is need to revisit the existing
Forest laws and regulation.
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