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United Somalia A Must:
Davutoğlu |
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Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2012 – In the
international arena, there are some problems that
you can solve on your own or with a minimal number
of partners. There are some others that you cannot
easily find a solution for, because they have
already become so stiffened by being there for a
long time. More importantly they have become the
problems of our consciences. The plight of Somalia,
which is among the least developed countries,
represents a disgrace for the international
community in the 21st century.
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 2, 2012 -- With the recent loss
of two key transit points, al Qaida’s Somali
affiliate, for the first time in years, is facing
what military analysts say is the likely end of the
group’s once-powerful rule over much of Somalia
The future of al Shabaab, as the al Qaida
affiliate is known, is still difficult to predict,
but military analysts say its hold on Kismayo, the
port city through which its supplies move and from
which it derives much of its financing, is
threatened and that the fall of the other transit
points has cut off key al Shabaab supply routes to
its western and northern fronts.
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The two day Istanbul Conference on Somalia,
“Preparing for Somalia’s Future: Goals for 2015”,
opened on Thursday. The meeting is bringing together
a number of heads of state, prime ministers and
ministers from 54 countries as well as Donors and
International and Somali stakeholders,
representatives of the UN, the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation and the AU, civil society groups
and the private sector.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2, 2012 – It remains
uncertain if a group of failed Somali asylum seekers
in the Netherlands will have to return to Somalia.
That’s the conclusion of a debate yesterday in Dutch
Parliament, which RNW observed, concerning the
dismantled tent camp of asylum seekers in the
northern town of Ter Apel.
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By JACEY FORTIN
A new report from the World Bank reveals a pattern
of aid mismanagement in Somalia. In 2009 and 2010,
about $130 million in funds delivered to the
transitional government seem to have disappeared
into thin air.
According to the Voice of America, the report
accused the government, which is backed by the
United Nations, of vastly under-reporting its
revenues. It suffers from a lack of transparency,
having no established accounting system and no
disclosure of financial statements.
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Somalis flee the Afgoye corridor on the road
leading to Mogadishu. The country has
experienced decades of conflict.
Photograph: Elyas Ahmed/EPA |
Istanbul, Turkey,
June 2, 2012 – The United Nations Secretary-General
warned against the dangers of a power vacuum in
Somalia with the mandate of the "Somalia transition
government" due to end this August. The warning was
made at the end of a two day international
conference on Somalia in Istanbul, Turkey that
included representatives from 54 countries.
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Piracy, hunger and al-Shabaab are just some of the
issues Somalia must deal with as the country
prepares to form its post-transitional government by
August
Clar Ni
Chonghaile
Nairobi, Kenya, June 2,
2012 -- Time is running out for Somalia's
discredited transitional government. It is due to be
replaced by mid-August and, after months of talks,
it seems its members may have accepted that, this
time, the deadline is immutable.
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 2, 2012 – Hasan Madey jumped
from his seat outside his tin-shack restaurant in
Afgoye, southern Somalia, as two explosions
detonated outside the town’s police station a third
of a mile away.
After reassuring phone calls from friends that there
were no casualties, Madey, 26, sat down and surveyed
the deserted roads and shuttered shops. Days after
African Union and Somali soldiers freed the town
from the rule of al-Shabaab, the al- Qaeda-linked
militia, residents and the 460,000 displaced people
in the area still fear reprisal attacks from the
Islamist militants, Madey said.
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Somalis flee the Afgoye corridor on the road
leading to Mogadishu. The country has
experienced decades of conflict.
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By Martin Plaut
Off the pirate-infested waters of Somalia, a new
force is taking shape.
The private company Typhon is preparing to operate
alongside the world's navies, offering protection to
cargo vessels sailing around the Horn of Africa.
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Somaliland Vice
President Visits Djibouti |
Djibouti,
June 02,
2012 (SL
Times) –
Somaliland
Vice
President
Abdirahman
Abdillahi
Ismail
(Zayla'i)
visited
Djibouti
this week.
The vice
president
was
accompanied
by several
ministers
and the
second
deputy
chairman of
Kulmiye.
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Italian Journalists In Somaliland |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) – Two
independent Italian journalists arrived in Hargeysa,
Somaliland, this week.
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Cesare
Sangalli Speaks With Haatuf Reporter Ahmed Ige |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) – This
is a slightly edited version of the views of the
Italian journalist Cesare Sangalli as he related
them to Haatuf reporter Ahmed Ige:
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Deputy
Health Minister Nimo Hussein Qawdhan Holds Press
Conference |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland Deputy Health Minister Nimo Hussein
Qawdhan held a press conference in which she
revealed that some high officials at the ministry
including the Coordinator of the Ministry of Health
for Hargeysa region, Mr Ahmed Abdi Hasan Gole, as
well as the head of the logistics section of the
ministry were suspended from their jobs due to
allegations of corruption which had to do with a
plan to profit from the transfer of government-owned
vehicles to private individuals.
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Somaliland Coast Guard
Arrests Iranian Vessel |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) – The
Commander of Somaliland coast guard, Ahmed Aw Osman,
spoke to Haatuf Newspaper about an Iranian fishing
boat that was apprehended by Somaliland coast guard.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) – Save
the Children launched a new program to help homeless
children. A ceremony to mark the occasion was held
at Mansoor Hotel on May 24.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) – The
head of the agency that ensures quality control of
goods entering Somaliland, Mr Saeed Suleiman Mire,
said people who bring expired goods to the country
use many different tricks.
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Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2012 - The United Nations
should beef up its operation in Somalia, and other
countries who want to help the war-torn state should
actually move in and set up bases there, Turkish
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 2, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland's chief of chiefs became a tribal leader
12 years before Queen Elizabeth II assumed the
throne and he has clear memories of the day she was
crowned.
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Obama Order Sped Up
Wave Of Cyber Attacks Against Iran |
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Washington, June 2, 2012 — From his first months in
office, President Obama secretly ordered
increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer
systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment
facilities, significantly expanding America’s first
sustained use of cyber-weapons, according to
participants in the program.
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Diamond Jubilee Marks
Queen Elizabeth II's Extraordinary 60-Year Reign |
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London,
UK, June 2, 2012 — The patriotic bunting is ready,
the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly
painted, the shops filled with royal souvenirs.
The normal ebb and flow of British life gives way in
the next four days to a series of street parties,
flotillas, outdoor concerts and finally the
appearance of an elderly great-grandmother on her
balcony to wave to her subjects.
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Mat Hardy
Imagine a woman locked into an arranged marriage at
an early age. She’s been living for decades with an
abusive, unemployed, substance-abusing husband. He
beats her and the kids regularly and is pretty much
beyond redemption. Common sense would make you want
to encourage her to get out of the relationship,
move house and start afresh. She could begin a new
life, build new friendships and secure her own
destiny.
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Better to break up this
artificial nation. Last in a
series.
By Lawrence Solomon
To save Somalia from
piracy, terrorism, hunger, corruption, warlordism
and a third decade of anarchy, representatives from
54 countries, along with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki
Moon, met in Turkey on Friday.
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1 June 2012, Istanbul
1. The Second Istanbul Conference on Somalia, under
the theme “Preparing Somalia’s Future: Goals for
2015,” took place on 31st May and 1st June 2012.
Maintaining the multi-dimensional and multi-layered
approach of the first Istanbul Conference in 2010 on
Somalia, it was attended by high level
representatives from 57 countries and 11
international and regional organizations, as well as
by the TFG leadership, the regional administrations,
and representatives from wide-ranging segments of
Somali society, including youth, women, business
community, elders, religious leaders and the
Diaspora.
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David Isenberg
Author, 'Shadow Force:
Private Security Contractors in Iraq'
Part One: A Look at the Use of Maritime Security
Guards or PCASP
The number of companies who have jumped into the
deep blue sea to offer armed guards and other
private security services for commercial shippers
who fear pirate attacks has risen sharply the past
few years. Many new companies have been formed in
this area since 2008 and many existing PSCs have
refocused on maritime security. Land based private
security has vacillated between being called private
military companies (PMCs) or private security
companies (PSCs). All have been faced with media
scrutiny, controversy and varying degrees of helpful
and unhelpful legislation. Although the provision of
lethal force by private services rather than
government services neither new or even unexpected
on land it seems to be more complicated on the ocean
and in international waters.
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Somaliland And The Istanbul Conference |
Many Somalis
including Somalilanders are confused by the Istanbul
conference. The decision by Somaliland government first not
to attend, the conference then to attend it, albeit with a
small ministerial delegation rather than full presidential
attendance, has only added to the sense of confusion. It is
not clear to Somalilanders what has made Somaliland
government change its mind and attend even symbolically.
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Diaspora Political
Parties: Daydreaming In Distant Lands |
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By Liban Obsiye
I am so bored by it now that I feel I must write
about this new phenomenon. It is a phenomenon
constructed in the security of the Western world and
by those who have very little real involvement with
Somalia and its politics. It is built on arrogance,
fantasy and colonial like ambition of civilizing the
Somali people through sudden democracy. This
phenomenon I refer to is the creation of Diaspora
lead political parties who have the desire to return
home to govern their people.
From Ha Noolato (where are they now?), Tayo and Hiil
Qaraan to the others I have not heard of but
probably exist there is this believe among their
Diaspora leaders that they will be the ones to
return peace, stability and security to Somalia.
What is consistent about all of these organizations
is that they are lead from the comfort of the
Western world and they are spearheaded by ambitious
but out of touch individuals. These individuals,
while hiding behind the facade of collective
leadership and responsibility, are the face and
brains of the Party and they surround themselves
with many yes men who are equally as out of touch.
These people have learnt something in their time
living abroad though. One of the key lessons they
have learnt is to say the rights things, at the
right time to the right people without any
assessment of there practical possibilities.
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The Belgium Somaliland
Conference |
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Somalilanders in the Diaspora never had it so good.
The success of the Washington DC conference was
followed by an equally important and inspiring two
day conference on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May
2012; this time the conference was held in Brussels
- the European Union capital was organized by the
Somaliland Diaspora Organization in Belgium and the
Somaliland Societies in Europe (SSE)
Over all the two days conference was successful. On
Friday 25th of May, the first morning session
concentrated on the economy - Abdirashid Duale of
Dahabshiil delivered a presentation about his
company's economic role in the horn of Africa. This
was followed by a presentation by SSE members Jama
Musse Jama, Mohamed Omer Maigag & Salma Sheikh on
the role of Somali language and culture in
preserving Somaliland national identity, the role of
the Somaliland Diaspora in promoting Somaliland and
the role of Somaliland women in Somaliland politics.
A rep from Nomad in the Netherlands also spoke about
Nomad and it's work.
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Somaliland Government
Played Russian Roulette In Business |
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Does
Somaliland have a backup for a project failure in
Egal international airport with the China Holo Group
who won the tender bidding? Who is accountable for
project failure, the china Holo Group or the
Somaliland government? Or does the minister of
Aviation Mohamud Hashi acting as an executive
manager in the airport Hargeysa?
Anyway, according of a number of authors outline
four principal categories of project failure (Lyytinen
and Hirchcheim, 1987), (Yeo, 2002) and (Goulielmos,
2003). Many projects have a number of causes of
failure similarities. The causes of failure can be
grouped into the following categories.
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Somaliland-Ethiopia
Relationship |
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Overpowering Gratitude Vs Vexing Misgivings
By Ahmed I. Hassan - Part
4
Author’s Note:
This is the chapter on Somaliland-Ethiopia
Relationship in a book titled “Somaliland: The
Legacies of Non-Recognition” which is still in
the works. I thought a preview of this chapter would
not be out of place in contributing to endeavors
towards examining and understanding a highly complex
subject—AIH
Part Four
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Somalia: Turkey Is
Dead Wrong |
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By Yusuf Dirir Ali
Having only met with the ignorant and power obsessed
trio-TFG leaders and their opportunistic followers,
the Turks are jumping up and down with joy and
thinking that they have all over again discovered a
new 21st century Americas in the continent of
Africa, which is heaving with riches. The Turks
wrongfully assume that they will be able to settle
in Somalia, dominate Somalis politically and simply
drain Somalia’s natural resources as the European
settlers did in the 15th century Americas. They are
thinking if that worked with the Kurdish people for
so long, why not with the Somalis? They also
ambitiously see Somalia as a gateway to their future
Horn of Africa colonies.
If you think I am wrong, please check what the Turks
did within the last few months in Somalia. They
supplied more disaster relief and did more
infrastructural construction than any country on
earth in that civil war and then famine stricken
Somalia – At first the Somalis though that this was
noble and was no strings- attached kindness from a
sisterly Muslim country that was disgusted with the
Arab, Muslim and Western indifference to the more
than two decade-old blight in Somalia.
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