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Malnourished Children
Recovering Well At Somaliland Stabilization Centre |
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For 22-year-old Kaltuun Husein, daily life in
eastern Somaliland once centered around caring for
her young children and tending the family's
livestock.
But consecutive years of drought changed
everything. "Before we had 80 sheep and five
camels," she says. "Now we only have 10 sheep left."
In Somaliland, owning livestock such as
camels, goats, and sheep provides families with
economic security. A Somali proverb says, "He who
does not own a camel lives under the protection of
others." But drought has decimated the animal
population, especially in eastern Somaliland,
leaving families with very limited sources of food
or ways to earn an income. "The situation now is
very different from before," says Kaltuun. "Most
people have lost their animals and... life is very
difficult."
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By William Maclean
Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2012 – An
influential American fighter for Somalia's al
Shabaab rebels, who has in the past urged
Western-based Muslims to join the group, has
dismayed radical Islamists by saying his life is
under threat from fellow guerrillas due to internal
disputes.
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Tripoli, Libya, March 17, 2012 – Libyan security
forces said on Thursday they had dismantled a human
trafficking network smuggling illegal immigrants
from Bangladesh and Somalia.
Hussein al-Sahli, who headed the investigation, said
five members of the network were arrested at a farm
on the outskirts of the eastern city of Benghazi,
where 52 people were being held captive.
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Christchurch, March 17, 2012 – Christchurch The
family of a Somali man shot by police in
Christchurch is offering its "collective sympathy"
to all those affected by yesterday's terrifying
ordeal.
A 27-year-old man yesterday abducted a truck
driver and stabbed two people in Christchurch before
being shot twice by police.
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Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2012 – Jets bombed a base
run by Islamist al Shabaab rebels north of Somalia's
Kismayu port on Saturday, local residents and
officials said, but it was not clear who carried out
the raid or whether there were casualties.
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Refugee and mother Maymun shows off her
football skills in a Djibouti camp.
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Ali Addeh Refugee
Camp, Djibouti, March 17, 2012 –Maymun Muhyadine
Mohamed loved to run and play football in the
streets of Mogadishu. Her skills won her a medal and
a cap at a local competition.
But Somalia's Al Shabaab militia saw her enjoyment
as an act of defiance. "They said 'women are not
allowed to play sports. You have to stop playing and
put on your hijab [modest Islamic clothing and head
covering],'" Maymun said, recounting her story at
the Ali Addeh Refiugee Camp in Djibouti.
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London, UK, March 17, 2012 – World 5,000m champion
Mo Farah admits he has lost his "air of
invincibility" after his defeat in the 3,000m at the
World Indoor Championships in Turkey.
BBC Sport columnist Steve Cram said Farah's
fourth place was Britain's "biggest concern" in
Olympic year.
And Farah said: "I agree with Steve. You want
to keep that invincibility."
But looking ahead to the Olympics he told BBC
Sport: "I'm definitely where I need to be. I'm
probably a little bit more than what I need to be."
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Mogadishu, Somalia, March 17, 2012 — Islamist
fighters linked to al-Qaida are reported to be
moving into the semi-autonomous region of Puntland
in northeastern Somalia where Western companies
recently struck oil in fields believed to hold more
than 1 billion barrels of crude.
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Ahmed Osoble, 27, sits near a group of
Somali militiamen, who are aligned with
pirates, as they take a break from an
overnight trip into the central town of
Galkayo on Aug. 21, 2010. |
Illegal fishing and toxic waste by international ships
sparked protests that became today's piracy.
Tristan McConnell
Mogadishu, Somalia, March 17, 2012 — “There are twin
piracies, but only one that we all talk about,” said
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Somalia’s prime minister,
speaking to GlobalPost in his home in Mogadishu.
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Parliamentarian Bahsir
Tukale Persuades British Counterpart To Support
Somaliland |
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EEPCO Headquarter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
London, UK,
March 17,
2012 (SL
Times) –
Somaliland
Parliamentarian
Bahsir
Tukale who
is on an
official
visit to the
UK managed
to convince
UK member of
parliament,
Siobhain
McDonagh (Labour),
to support
Somaliland’s
quest for
independence.
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President Ahmed Sillanyo Shuffles The Ministerial
Deck |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland President Ahmed Sillanyo reshuffled his
government this week. The most notable ministerial
changes were that the Minister of Finance, Eng.
Muhammad Hashi Elmi, was replaced with first Deputy
Speaker of Parliament, Abdiaziz Muhammad Samale;
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British
Officers Train Somaliland Forces |
Mandhera, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 (SL Times) –
This week saw the graduation of an elite police unit
called Resistant Reaction Unit (RRU) that underwent
rigorous training in Mandhera police training
school.
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Google
Delegation Visits Telesom Headquarters |
Hargeysa, Somaliland,
March 17, 2012 (SL
Times) – A delegation
from the world renowned
Google Company visited
the headquarters of
Telesom in Hargeysa,
Somaliland.
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EU Representative
Praises Somaliland’s Anti-Piracy |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 (SL Times) – A
European Union delegation led by EU representative,
Georges-Marc Andre, visited Somaliland last week.
Before they departure from Somaliland, the
delegation held a press conference at Ambassador
hotel in which Georges-Marc Andre spoke on the
occasion of Women’s Day about the vital role that
women play in society and how in times of war and
conflict it is women and children who suffer the
most.
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Burao, Somaliland,
March 17, 2012 (SL Times) – Officials from
Somaliland’s ministry of education and the committee
for the advancement of Togdheer region laid the
cornerstone for Burao Technical Institute.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 (SL Times) –
Several tons of food aid that was supposed to be
distributed to the needy was diverted and
appropriated by government and NGOs officials.
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"We are a peaceful and democratic country,"
says Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamed
Silanyo (© 2009 AFP) |
By Peter Martell
Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 – Banknotes in
piles the size of desks lie on a dusty street
guarded by dozing civilians -- money exchange
offices in Somaliland, the northern breakaway state
of war-torn Somalia.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, March 17, 2012 -- The Khalifa
bin Zayed Charity Foundation has built 20 basins in
valleys at south west Hargeysa, and drilled 14 water
wells at north east Hargeysa and nine water wells
and watershed basins at Boru.
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Nigeria, Kenya,
Somalia See More Bombings; Al Qaeda Blamed |
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Nairobi, Kenya — Bomb attacks in Nigeria, Kenya and
Somalia rose in 2011 as al-Qaida-affiliated terror
groups used more sophisticated devices to kill more
people with each explosion, the Pentagon's anti-IED
unit said.
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George Clooney
Released After Sudan Embassy Arrest |
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Washington DC, March 17, 2012 – George Clooney has
been arrested for civil disobedience during a
demonstration outside Sudan's embassy in Washington
DC on Friday.
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Vienna, Austria, March 10, 2012 — The U.N. nuclear
watchdog does not rule out that Iran may be trying
to remove evidence from a military site that
inspectors want to visit as part of an inquiry into
suspected research relevant to atomic bombs, the
agency's chief said on Friday.
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By Mohamed A. Omar
Somaliland is re-engaging with international
diplomacy related to its neighbor, Somalia. Our
country has received widespread praise for its
contribution to the recent London Conference.
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By Frank Gardner
Nato navies operating off the coast of Somalia have
warned of a recent increase in maritime piracy. I
decided to experience first-hand what seafarers go
through.
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When he took office nearly three years ago as U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
Johnnie Carson outlined an ambitious agenda for the
Obama administration.
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By John Fox
This was my first chance to get to Las Geel. I
must have driven past — or been driven, rather —
four of five times in the last couple of years.
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By Collins Mabinda
IN SUMMARY
Every year, thousands of Africans troop to the
West, either for further studies or for better
employment opportunities. Few ever come back to
apply the skills acquired abroad, and now a new
movement wants the global community to address this
‘injustice’.
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Is
There A Plan B For Somalia? |
Transitional
Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) officials are a strange
lot. They love to put on their three or two piece suits and
hurry to conferences in foreign capitals where they can pose
and grin for the cameras. But they are not interested in
doing any real work to improve the situation in the few
places under their control. Their attitude is pretty simple.
They know the international community wants to get rid of
al-Shabaab and they figure that means the international
community has no option but to prop them (i.e the TFG) up.
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Somali Women Between
Hope And Reality |
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By Bashir Goth
Browsing through Somali websites on the
International Women’s Day on March 8, two episodes
attracted my attention; one was heartwarming and
inspiring while the other was disheartening and sad.
Heartwarming was seeing Somali women in Mogadishu
celebrating the International Women’s Day in their
traditional Somali butterfly attire since the
routing of Al Shabaab from the city.
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Sheikh Sharif Of TFG
Short-Circuited Somalia London Communiqué |
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
“Somalia” is been a bottle-neck that is crooked, too
narrow or roughly-finished to the international
community. The lawlessness in “Somalia” is harboring
terrorism, piracy and human trafficking activities
which disturbs the international marine and
security. Somali piracy is destabilizing the crucial
sea route that crosses the “Somalia” coast.
After 14 failed attempts to bring Somalis to
settlement, the government of United Kingdom led by
H.E. Prime Minister David Cameroon, recently,
organized a unique conference in terms of
participants compare to the earlier failed meetings.
The much-heralded conference took place at Lancaster
House on 23rd February 2012, attended by fifty-five
delegations.
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Indebted For Life |
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By Liban
Obsiye
It is easy to ridicule important days such as
International Women’s Day which this year was
Thursday 8th March 2012. However, when most men
reflect on their own lives, they realize that they
owe much to the opposite sex. Rather than write a
long article which considers injustice, Human Rights
and Equality I think special days like these should
be commemorated with a personal story that most (men
and women) can identify with. Academics always
advocate for education to initiate change and while
this is important, there can be no better education
than ones own experiences. By just looking within
ones self most will agree that International Women’s
Day should be celebrated everyday everywhere.
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Somaliland Should Not
Be Viewed As A Renegade Region From Somalia |
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By Mukhtar Mohamed Abby
The modern day Republic of Somaliland, which
declared its Independence on 18 May 1991, is the
third incarnation of the territory established by
the British in the Horn of Africa in 1884.
In June 1960, after more than seven decades as a
British Protectorate, the British Somaliland
Protectorate received its independence from Queen
Elizabeth II. Somaliland hastily united with the
Italian ruled south Somalia just five days after
obtaining its own independence with the aim of
uniting the five Somali inhabited territories namely
British Somaliland, Djibouti – under French colony,
the Somali region of eastern Ethiopia, the Somali
northeast province of Kenya and the Italian ruled
south of Somalia under a single flag.
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Somaliland At The Cost Of Corruption |
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By Jama Falaag
Can poor leadership and bad institutions cause the
collapse of a country? History appears to answer
this provocative question with a heretical yes. The
exemplary instance is the reign of Siyad Barre’s
regime, the era of the robber barons and rising
rapacity. It was a period of rampant corruption,
callousness, covetousness and covert agendas.
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Calling A Spade A
Spade |
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By Ahmed I. Hassan – Part 2
Myths and Facts
Let me start by pointing out to some of the myths that the
Wailers routinely present as facts and then state
the real facts:
A Wailers-Propagated Myth: The Isaac is a
Somalidiid, i.e. rejectionists of Somali
nationhood
The Fact: Wrong.
The Isaac has always been at the forefront in
the quest for a Somali nation that encompassed all
the territories inhabited by the Somalis, the
concept known as Pan-Somalism.
In June 26, 1960, Somaliland became independent from Britain.
Five days later, Somaliland, under a leadership
whose top members were Isaacs, sacrificed
that independence and without conditions or
reservations delivered it to Mogadishu on a silver
platter.
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