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Somaliland Future
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London, UK, June 23, 2012 – Leaders from Somalia and
Somaliland have held their first formal discussions
on the future of the self-proclaimed Somaliland
republic.
It broke away in 1991 and wants to be a separate
country - but it has not been internationally
recognized.
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JUNE 2012
1. Following the commitments in the London
and Istanbul communiqués that the international
community would support dialogue between the
Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (or its
replacement) and
Somaliland to clarify their future relations,
the two sides met at a technical level on 20‐21 June
at Chevening.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 25, 2012—Hundreds of the US
military troops have been deployed in Somalia for
secret operations in the capital Mogadishu, Press TV
reports.
At least 390 American troops have been training
local soldiers secretly in Somali training bases
over the past two months, Somali military sources
said on Sunday.
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Mobile
money transfer company Dahabshiil Group has denied
reports that it has acquired a majority stake in
Somali telecoms operator Telcom Somalia, according
to a report by the local press. ‘Lately, the Somali
media have been circulating various versions of
Dahabshiil’s takeover of Telcom Somalia and that
their staff have been laid off,’ chief of media
relations and public information at Dahabshiil,
Hassan M. Jamahe, said in a statement,
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Delegates discuss ways to stem piracy impact
on region
Dubai, UAE, June 25, 2012 – Six days ago on the high
seas 13 kilometers east of Masirah, Oman, Somali
pirates attacked a commercial dhow, boarded her and
took a terrified seven-man crew hostage at gunpoint.
On the same day of June 20 only a few hours later,
Somali pirates in a dhow — possibly the same one
that just been hijacked — appeared 35 kilometers
northeast of Masirah Island, Oman, and confronted an
LNG tanker with guns blazing, according to the ICC
International Maritime Bureau piracy reporting
centre.
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Nairobi, Kenya,
June 23, 2012 – Somalia's political leaders have
approved a draft constitution the U.N. says was
almost seven years in the making.
Somalia is undergoing several political transitions
over the next two months, including the adoption of
the constitution by an assembly of elders, the
voting in of a new parliament and the election of a
new president by the lawmakers. Those steps must
take place before Aug. 20.
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London, UK, June 23, 2012 – Somali pirates seizing
Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35
hostage deaths in 2011, a report showed on Friday,
with levels of violence rising.
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By Vitalis Kimutai
Hundreds of foreigners fighting alongside the Al
Shabaab in Somalia have retreated further into towns
bordering Kismayu following the assault by Kenya
Defence Forces (KDF).
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STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE/ContentWorks via COMTEX) --
The U.S. Department of State continues to warn U.S.
citizens of the risks of travel to Somalia and
recommends that you avoid all travel to Somalia.
This replaces the Travel Warning dated August 19,
2011, to update information on security concerns.
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Ethiopia: Somalia And
Somaliland Hold Their First Face-To-Face Talks |
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia,
June 23,
2012 (SL
Times) – The
Following is
an excerpt
from a
weekly
report by
the
Ethiopian
Ministry of
Foreign
Affairs on
Friday June
23, 2012
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Somaliland President Appoints Director Generals |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland President Ahmed Mohammed Mohamoud (Sillanyo)
appointed director generals for several ministries.
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Somaliland Vice President Says He Does Not Know The
Agenda Of Talks Between Somaliland And Somalia |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland vice President, Abdirahman Abdillahi
Ismail (Zayla’i) said he did not know the
agenda of the talks between Somaliland and Somalia.
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Somalia-Somaliland Talks End In London, Agree To
Hold More Talks |
London, UK, June 23, 2012 – The first ever formal
discussions between Somaliland and Somalia concluded
on Thursday near London at the official Foreign
Office’s Chevening House, with the two sides
agreeing to an 8-point plan which included future
talks.
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Prominent
Somalilanders Comment On The Somaliland-Somali Talks |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) –
Somaliland’s former representative in Washington, Dr
Sa’ad Sheikh Osman Nur was critical of Somaliland
government for entering into talks with Somalia
before the Transitional Federal Government’s
acknowledgment of Somaliland’s independence.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) – Two
members of Somaliland parliament, Ahmed Muhammad
Diriye (Nacnac) and Abubakar Abdirahman Good, called
for emergency aid to Awdal and Selel regions.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) – The
Institute for the spreading of Islam (Machadka
Faafinta Islaamka) held a conference for women in
Eel Afweyn, Sanag region.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 23, 2012 (SL Times) –
Mohammed Osman Bulqaas, a parliamentarian from the
governing Kulmiye party, representing eastern sanag,
accused some government ministers whom he said do
not belong to the clans of the established sultanate
of eastern Sanag of interfering in issues pertaining
to the Sultanate of eastern Sanag.
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London, UK, June 23, 2012 – Foreign Secretary
William Hague: "I congratulate the Somali
Transitional Federal Government and Somaliland
representatives on agreeing the Chevening House
Declaration yesterday [June 21, 2012]."
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Islamist Morsy Wins
Egyptian Presidency With 52 Pct |
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Cairo, Egypt, June 24, 2012 – Islamist Mohamed Morsy
of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt's first
democratic president on Sunday by the state election
committee, which said he had defeated former general
Ahmed Shafik with 51.7 percent of last weekend's
run-off vote.
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The Propaganda Behind
Obama's Drone War |
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Washington, June 24, 2012 – The campaign of drone
strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia is one of the
Obama administration's worst-kept secrets.
The propaganda push behind Obama's drone war. And
Somalia - where being a journalist can cost you your
life.
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The following interview was given to visiting
Canadian journalists, scholars and researchers in
Hargeysa by Mr. Liban Ahmed Ashur, the former Chief
of State Protocol and International Cooperation at
the Republic of Somaliland’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Prior to our arrival we contacted him and
asked if he'd be interested in sharing his
perceptions and experiences here in Somaliland. He
was happy to do so and we agreed to keep it to 30-45
minutes.
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Bangalore: Which are the world’s most failed
nations? The Foreign Policy magazine has released
its annual 'Failed States Index' in collaboration
with Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace.
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Prosecution of Traffickers in Puntland Draws
Praise
Failure is no stranger in Somalia. From warlords Ali
Mahdi Mohamed and Mohamed Farrah Aidid to the
Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, a generation of
chaos followed the 1991 ouster of Major General
Mohamed Siyad Barre.
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By Paul Collier
States are at once form and substance, theater and
function. Their most fundamental function is power:
territorial control through a monopoly on organized
violence. And theater, or more politely "ceremony,"
generally tries to make such power more acceptable
to the masses, thereby turning it into authority.
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First Impressions On Somaliland-Somalia Talks |
The much
talked-about talks between Somaliland and Somalia finally
started this week in the UK’s Chevening House. The talks
were almost canceled before they even started when Somalia
added two individuals from Puntland’s government to
Somalia’s delegates to the negotiations. Eventually, those
two individuals were dropped which made it possible for the
talks to commence.
Somalilanders’ opinions on the talks are divided. There are
those, mainly in the opposition parties, who are
fundamentally opposed to contacts with Somalia’s
Transitional Federal Government, unless it first recognizes
Somaliland’s independence. Others, mainly government
supporters, back the talks. While many more others are
undecided due to lack of enough information and are trying
to figure out what is going on.
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A Message To Those Who
Do Not Agree With Me: |
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We are building a country that has many enemies, and
what we need is cohesion and not otherwise.
By: Omer Hussein Dualeh
Good day my fellow
citizens. I would like to highlight the importance
of the word patriot & when your country needs
everything you can offer.
I wonder and noticed,
since the current ruling party came to power and
even during the campaign, before the election, two
websites have engaged unethical propaganda and hate
which we people of Somaliland, have not seen in
recent history of our country.
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Somaliland: Khatuumo
Should Not Forget Its Mandate |
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By: Liban Ahmad
Six months have passed since Khatuumo administration
was declared in Taleeh district. Militias loyal to
the administration have clashed with Somaliland
forces twice at Kalabaydh and Tukaraq. Both clashes
point to a lack of mandate awareness as far as
political leadership of Khatuumo is concerned.
President Ahmed Elmi ( Ahmed Karaash) who is
expected to hand over the rotating presidential
duties to a new president in line with the Khatuumo
charter, has achieved less politically compared to
traditional leadership of Khatuumo , the Garaads ,
now based in Mogadishu.
The latter succeeded in standing up to Puntland
which attempted to appoint Sool traditional leaders
who will select MPs for the proposed new Somali
Parliament which will elect a president in Mogadishu
in August 2012.
The G10, the Diaspora group which organized the 2011
London conference and who still has an influence in
the political decisions of Khatuumo leaders, has put
the accent on co-existence with neighboring on the
basis of the guiding principles in the declaration
of the London conference in 2011. G10 group has
forgotten or ignored to address the reconciliation
for people for whom Khatuumo was formed. The group
insists Taleeh conference was a comprehensive
gathering in which all intra-clan political
differences were addressed.
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Somaliland: President
Sillanyo, The Mastermind of Somaliland’s New
Direction |
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For
Somaliland, today (22 June 2012) has been a very
moving day, because the past is always here. It
never goes away. Somalilanders always believe that
you can select what is best from the past to help
you go forward to the future. For many years we bore
the burden of international isolation, but we have
displayed patience and endurance to a degree not
easily imagined.
Somaliland experienced itself as being received,
welcomed and understood as it is by the TGF and the
international community. The end of the two days of
talks in London on Somaliland and Somalia provided a
framework and an end to the metaphors from both
sides of the talks. Somaliland is reassured that
talks will go on until the two sides reach an
agreement regardless of the time. This means that
talks are phased out to be in a sequential order.
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Somaliland Justice
Falters On The Case Of Boqor Osman Buurmadow |
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By
Bashir Goth
Boqor Osman Aw Mahmoud, Buurmadow, is languishing in
jail for the fourth month in a case that exposed the
faltering and inept system of Somaliland justice.
In four months, the government prosecutor could not
build a plausible case against Boqor Osman and
couldn’t bring credible people other than government
officials and arm-twisted reporters to take the
witness stand.
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Will London Talks
Dismantle Somaliland Stability? |
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By Abdirahman Mohamed Dirye
In 21 years since Abdirahman Tuur created
Somaliland, a nation without recognition under
duress, he made a brick without straw. Somaliland
born out of armed bloody struggle that lasted almost
decade from 1981 to 1991 with the disappearance of
Somalia. Thousands of combatants lost their lives
during the deadly war to liberate Somaliland.
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