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Strengthening The UK's
Relationship With Somaliland |
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London, UK, February 25, 2012 – Foreign Secretary
William Hague met President Sillanyo of Somaliland
on 22 February, the eve of the London Conference on
Somalia.
The Foreign Secretary and President Sillanyo
reaffirmed the close ties between the UK and
Somaliland. They agreed that Somaliland was making
progress in further embedding democracy and
discussed issues of mutual interest, including
cooperation on trade and to counter piracy. Over the
next three years, the UK will provide up to £105
million in development support to Somaliland to
promote prosperity, tackle poverty and consolidate
progress on stability and democracy.
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Full text of the Communiqué from the London
Conference on Somalia at Lancaster House on 23
February.
1. The London Conference on Somalia took place at
Lancaster House on 23rd February 2012, attended by
fifty-five delegations from Somalia and the
international community.
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Pirates are seen on board the deck of the
Chinese ship in the Gulf of Aden, December
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 25, 2012 –
Somaliland's parliament has passed legislation
recognizing piracy as a crime and allowing for
pirates convicted abroad to be transferred to
Somaliland, officials said on Wednesday.
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Mogadishu, Somalia,
February 25, 2012 – A U.S. military drone strike
that targeted an international militant in southern
Somalia killed four al-Shabaab fighters, officials
said Friday.
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Photo/WILLIAM OERI/NATION Kenyan troops
heading to Amuma border entry point to
flush out al Shabaab militants.
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Nairobi, Kenya, February 25, 2012 – Foreign fighters
in the Al-Shabaab rebel group are fleeing Somalia in
droves.
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Photo: © Flickr.com/F. Omer/cc-by-sa 3.0 |
London, UK, February 25, 2012 – The international
community should help Somalis to restore their
country’s territorial integrity, even though the
local political forces are still far from reaching
full accord.
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The Hague, 22 February 2012 – The 2012 London
Conference comes as a timely opportunity for the
international community to address the question of
peace and security for Somalia. But regional
security can only be attained through inclusive
decision-making in which all those who stand to be
affected by the decisions believe themselves to also
be owners of that process.
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Delegates at the London Conference on
Somalia |
London, UK, February 25, 2012 – Britain has ruled
out taking part in any military airstrikes against
Islamist militants in Somalia.
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London, UK, February 25, 2012 – London conference
seeking solution to 20-year conflict calls for
dissolution of weak transitional regime in Mogadishu
World leaders have pledged more help to combat
terrorism and piracy in Somalia,
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President Of
Somaliland Addresses At The London Conference On
Somalia
"The people of Somaliland chose the path of
independence more than 20 years ago and we cannot
turn back" |
London, UK,
February 25,
2012 (SL
Times) –
President of
Somaliland,
Ahmed
Mohamed
Mohamud
Sillanyo,
called on
the
international
community to
support and
recognize
Somaliland
as an
independent
state, in a
bid to
promote
peace and
stability in
Somalia.
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David
Cameron Praises Somaliland, Welcomes Somaliland
President |
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London, UK, February 25, 2012 (SL Times) – The
subject of Somaliland came up in the question and
answer session in the United Kingdom’s parliament,
on the eve of the London conference on Somalia. The
prime minister praised Somaliland’s achievements and
upheld it as an example to others.
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Somaliland Entity Targets Investors |
By William Maclean
London, UK, February 25, 2012 – The Republic
of Somaliland, which boasts oil and gas potential,
has set up a UK-linked corporation to act as an
entry point for investors concerned the Somali
territory's lack of international recognition would
stop contracts being enforced.
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Seychelles And Somaliland Take Steps Towards
Prisoner Transfers |
London, UK, February 25,
2012 – Seychelles
President James Michel
and President Ahmed
Mohamed Sillanyo of the
Republic of Somaliland
have discussed, in a
meeting in London on
Wednesday, the transfer
of convicted Somali
pirates currently in
prison in Seychelles, to
Somaliland to serve
their sentences.
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Somali Language Day
Celebrated In Hargeysa |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 25, 2012 (SL Times) –
The passing of forty years since the writing of the
Somali language was marked at Admas University. The
occasion was attended by faculty of the Admas
University, members of Pen, poets, intellectuals and
the Minister of Fisheries, Abdillahi Ismail
Geel-Jire.
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London, UK,
February 25, 2012 (SL Times) – Ahead of the last
week’s London Conference on Somalia, British MEP,
Godfrey Bloom, warned the international community to
fail to recognize Somaliland as independent state.
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Buhodle, Somaliland, February 25, 2012 (SL Times) –
Haatuf Newspaper reported it had received
information that the Buhodle militia is planning
attacks against Somaliland troops that are placed in
the upskirts of Buhodle (at Sool joogto).
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, February 25, 2012 (SL Times) –
Several activities were undertaken this week in
remembrance of the youth uprising that took place
thirty years ago (Feb.20, 1982).
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Borama, Somaliland, February 25, 2012 (SL Times) –
Some of the residents of the city of Borama held a
meeting in Rays hotel in
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Somali Rebels 'Get
Hold Of Gaddafi Missiles' |
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By Sam Kiley
Mogadishu, Somalia, February 25, 2012 –
Somalia's hard line Islamist rebels are reported to
have taken delivery of up to 30 surface-to-air
missiles smuggled to them from Libya since the fall
of Muammar Gaddafi.
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Private Firm Flouts UN
Embargo In Somalia |
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Saracen trainees in the semi-autonomous
Puntland region of Somalia. The company s
avowed mission in the area was to assist in
training an anti-piracy task force, however
a report last year said the force may
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By Ivor Powell
Nairobi, Kenya, February 26, 2012 – Eight months
after SA-linked private military company Saracen
International was fingered in a UN Security Council
as the “most egregious threat” to peace and security
in the failed state of Somalia,
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By Nina Totenberg
Alexandria, Va, February 25, 2012 – A seven
year court battle that went all the way to the U.S.
Supreme Court ended in a federal courtroom in
Virginia on Thursday
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By: William Hague
A conference of world leaders has resulted in a
number of good first steps.
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By Rebekah
Curtis
London, UK, February 25, 2012 – Remittances from
Somalia’s diaspora account for about a fifth of
household income in the war-torn country.
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By Rachel Pieh Jones
A SOMALI proverb says that a woman should be either
married or in her grave. And in the Horn of Africa,
the proverb might as well go on to say that, if she
is married, she had better be pregnant, nursing or
postmenopausal.
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By Jonathan Manthorpe
London conference looks toward future, but
security woes mean West will seek a central
government
Somalia has known little peace since the evening
of Jan. 26, 1991, when Siyad Barre abandoned his
bombed and burning presidential palace,
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Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State
A
book by Mary Harper
Published on 9 February 2012 by Zed Press.
Piracy, Islamic fundamentalism, famine and brutal
civil war. This is the image of Somalia we see in
the media on an almost daily basis. Notorious as a
‘failed state’, Somalia has become a byword for
disorder and disaster. This book challenges all
that.
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Somaliland Was Right To Attend The London Conference |
Now that the
conference is over, the question many people are asking
themselves is whether Somaliland won or lost by attending
the conference. Let us start with the part that is easier to
evaluate which is whether Somaliland lost. The reason we
call this the easier part is because there were definite
criteria of failure that we, and others, have mentioned
before the conference. One such criterion would have been
the sight of Somaliland being treated like one of the
several Somali administrations.
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Somalia And The
Outcome Of The London Conference: “Trust Ship” or
transition to Democracy |
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By Adam Muse Jibril
Somalis should understand and admit the facts as they are in
the real life. The fact is that the history of the
past 52 years has been made in the way that we (as
Somalis) had acted. And the current events are only
an outcome of that history. The actual fact of
today’s situation is a direct result of the grave
mistake we had been committing since, and an answer
of the accumulated misdeeds and crimes made by the
different generations of our leaders, plus the
naivety and innocence of the common men and women in
the Somali Society in general.
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The World Must
Recognize Somaliland On Its Historical Borders |
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By Ibrahim Hassan Gagale
The Arab World with the leadership of Saudi Arabia
must show the courage of recognizing Somaliland
Republic on the basis of its own historical,
colonial borders as the diplomatic and international
recognition of every Arab country is based on its
own historical, colonial borders so the West will
follow to recognize Somaliland too.
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Somaliland Had To Be
At The London Somali Conference |
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By
Liban Obsiye.
In a
meeting this week in Bristol with the UK
Parliamentary -Under Secretary of State for
International development, Mr. Stephen O’Brien, it
was made clear by the Minister that Britain’s
interest in Somalia was clear. Britain as a nation
was concerned about terrorism, piracy and the
evident humanitarian crisis. Britain he stated was
not going to get involved in the debate on
Somaliland independence as this was a matter between
the Somali people. Despite many earlier suggestions
of Britain’s ulterior motives (oil, jealousy of
Turkish actions on the ground etc) Mr. O’Brien
argued that the Coalition government of which he is
a member sees security as the key to stability,
trade and development in Somalia. Without it it is
impossible to achieve anything else he passionately
argued.
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Somaliland And
Somalia: Future Allies No Longer Deadly Foes
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By Yusuf Dirir Ali,MD
Despite 30 years of political, economic and military
oppression that climaxed with the genocide in 1988
and all the unrelenting antagonism blistering from
Somalia, the people from Somaliland are not bitter
and are looking forward to collaborate and live side
by side peacefully with Somalia as separate sisterly
countries. Not only that, Somaliland can play a
major role in finding a lasting panacea for
Somalia’s chronic plight.
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Again, Britain’s
Conservative Party And Somaliland’s Statehood |
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
After 52 years, the Conservative Party is again making
history in Somaliland. In 1960 Ex-British Prime
Minister Harold McMillan granted the independence of
Somaliland, along with British Cameroon and Nigeria.
Today Somaliland’s self-determination is litmus test
to Prime Minister Mr. David Cameroon of the ruling
Conservative Party.
“I should like to say, however, that it is Her Majesty’s
Government’s hope that whatever may be the
constitutional future of the Protectorate, the
friendship which has been built up between its
people and those of the United Kingdom for so many
years will continue and indeed flourish.” McMillan’s
speech in South Africa during ‘Wind Of Change’ that
Africa witnessed in last century. Somaliland was
part of such ‘Wind Of Change’ and McMillan’s
political stance on Somaliland was to maintain
supportive to all former protectorate.
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Poor Staff Retention
Driving Away Customers |
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Many businesses are making workers redundant in
response to the global financial crisis. The
argument has been that because of poor sales brought
about by weak consumer spending and confidence, the
high cost of employing and retaining staff is no
longer financially justifiable. While this argument
is credible given the difficult trading conditions
internationally, most ethnic lead businesses in the
UK have always been poor at retaining qualified
staff. Many business leaders that have been
approached for this article have argued that many of
their former employees were unreliable, lazy and
difficult to get along with. They went on to argue
that many of them lacked customer service skills and
had at times been dishonest and as a result were not
employable.
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Solutions To Problems Lie In The Country
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By Alex de Waal
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain has convened
a big international meeting on Somalia.
The tasks: stopping piracy in the Indian Ocean,
uprooting terrorism, relieving a famine and ending a
civil war. The approach: Western ships, U.S. drones,
African soldiers and international money for the
Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu.
This is all very laudable, except for one thing: It
won't work.
The transitional government, established in 2004,
has no credibility, in part because it could not
exist without foreign backing. In fact, many Somalis
don't want a central government.
The international community's insistence on
establishing a government - almost any government -
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