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Somaliland Offers To
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Dubai, UAE, June 30, 2012 — In a major boost to the
peace process in the Horn of Africa, Somalia and
Somaliland broke the ice at a landmark meeting after
two decades of conflict on Thursday.
The presidents of the two governments were brought
to the table for the first time by the UAE at the
counter piracy conference, and talked as equals in a
bid to bring stability and build trust in the
region.
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Press-release
Ref: MOI/PR/4/2012
Republic of Somaliland and Somalia talks
Between 20 and 21 June, representatives of
the Republic of Somaliland and the TFG held talks in
the United Kingdom following the commitments in the
London and Istanbul communiqués to support dialogue
between the two parties in order to help them
clarify their future relations. The Somaliland
delegation was led by the Foreign Minister, Dr
Mohamed A Omar.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 — Somaliland’s
President Ahmed Mahmoud Sillanyo has issued an
appeal for drought relief aid.
In a statement released from Hargeysa he asked the
international community, UN agencies, international
and local NGOs and the public at large to take
action to save lives from the drought currently
affecting large areas of Somaliland. It was, he
said, harmful to lives and community development. He
said the rains this year had been below normal and
uneven and indeed in some areas including Awdal,
Salal, Saahil and Sanaag rainfall had been
inadequate for three years.
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Allan
Jacob and Ahmed Al Majaida
Dubai, UAE, June 30, 2012 – Much has been talked
about piracy and its perpetrators, but more needs to
be done for Somalia and its people. That was the
message delegates took home from the second counter
piracy conference in Dubai. Robust action against
criminals at sea has paid dividends with three
coalition naval forces and other navies taking the
fight into the pirates’ lair in Somalia.
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Dubai, UAE, June 30, 2012 – A million-dollar grant
from the Government will go to financing Somalia's
navy and army.
The UAE is the first to dedicate funds to Somalia
armament, according to Faris Mohammed Al Mazroui,
assistant to the Foreign Minster for Security and
Military Affairs.
"This initiative started by the UAE is expected to
be developed with other countries. Our objective is
to go for US$5million [Dh18.3m] and there are a lot
of nations who showed interest," he said.
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Nairobi, Kenya,
June 30, 2012 – Three people are admitted to
hospital with serious injuries after confrontation
with a pride of lions that had mauled a cow in
Loitokitok Thursday night.
One of the lions was killed as the Maasai herdsmen
pursued the beasts that had killed a cow at around
7pm in the Elangata Ngima area of Kuku Group Ranch
in Loitokitok.
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 30, 2012 – An upcoming
documentary takes a closer look at qat's cultural,
political and economic significance.
Despite the worldwide popularity of qat, a natural
amphetamine-like stimulant, relatively little is
known about its international trade and economic
role in the Horn of Africa where it grows.
Leaves of the Horn, a new documentary, hopes to
shine light on the drug by exploring its medicinal,
cultural, economic and political effects. Made by
101 Film - a group of Italian journalists,
anthropologists and filmmakers - the film explores
the economic forces that drive the qat trade and the
consequences of that trade across the world.
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Mogadishu, Somalia, June 30, 2012 – The water is
warm and the swell isn’t strong enough to knock over
the adults standing in the surf. But few people are
swimming at Mogadishu’s lido beach. Most mill about
in the shallow water, the women and girls in full
dress, reluctant to take the plunge. Ali Dec
explains why: “Nobody here really knows how to
swim.”
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Nairobi, Kenya, June 30, 2012 — The American
ambassador to Kenya, once a confidant of President
Obama, abruptly announced on Friday — days before
the release of an internal audit — that he was
resigning, citing “differences with Washington.”
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Somaliland President
Ahmed Sillanyo Meets President Sheikh Sharif For The
First Time |
Dubai, UAE,
June 30,
2012 (SL
Times) – In
what was
dubbed as a
historic
meeting,
Somaliland
President
Ahmed
Sillanyo met
with his
counterpart,
the
President of
Somalia,
Sheikh
Sharif Ahmed
in Dubai.
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Abdirahman Soltelco: A Candidate With A Lot Of
Supporters |
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) – The
governing Kulmiye Party has selected Abdirahman
Mohamud Aydid (Soltelco) as its candidate for
Hargeysa’s the local government election.
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Dubai
Statement On Somalia And Somaliland |
1.Following the London and Istanbul communiqués that
the international community would support dialogue
between the Transitional Federal Government of
Somalia (or its replacement) and the government of
Somaliland to clarify their future relations, and
following the meeting held in Chevening House,
London, the President of the Transitional Federal
Government of Somalia and of the president of
Somaliland met on 28 June, in Dubai.
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Police
Commander Announces Breakthrough In Judge Shooting
Case |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) – In
a press conference at his office, Somaliland Police
Chief, Abdillahi Fadal disclosed that they had
arrested the entity that shot Judge Abdirashid
Muhammad Mohamoud Duran.
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Amoud Foundation And
Awdal/Selel Committee For Drought Relief Deliver Aid |
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Borama, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) –
Amound Foundation delivered aid to drought-stricken
people in Lughaya, Garbadadar, Gargaara, Garaaca and
Osoli. When delivering the aid, Amoud Foundation
officials were accompanied by the Awdal and Selel
committee for drought, African Community Relief, as
well as traditional leaders.
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Borama, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) – Jama
Oomaar, one Somaliland's biggest businessmen,
donated 1,000 sacks of rice and flour as well as 250
cartons of oil to people affected by the drought in
Awdal region. The donation was handed to the Awdal
committee for drought relief.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) –
Unlike his colleagues, the minister of Post and
communication, Ali Jama Geelle, does not drive to
and from his work but instead goes there on foot. He
also walks to the market when he needs to do
shopping.
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Baligubadle, Somaliland, June 30, 2012 (SL Times) –
Forty three pastoralists from the clan inhabiting
Balligubadle were released from an Ethiopian jail.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 30, 2012 – The
presidents of Somalia and of Somaliland met in Dubai
yesterday for the second stage of Somaliland-Somalia
talks. After their meeting, Somali President Sheik
Sharif Sheik Ahmed and Somaliland President Ahmed
Mohamed Sillanyo issued a statement which noted that
the meeting had been hosted by the Government of the
United Arab Emirates at the request of the two
sides.
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Egypt's New President
Faces Burden Of Expectation |
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Cairo, Egypt, July 1, 2012 – If Egypt's new
president, Mohamed Mursi, needs any reminder of the
weight of expectations bearing down as he begins
work, he can glance from a window of the
presidential palace.
Citizens seeking jobs, compensation from the state
or clemency for jailed relatives crowded at the
palace gates on Sunday, showing how Mursi's
unprecedented popular mandate has raised hopes for a
more responsive kind of government.
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World Celebrates
International Criminal Court 10th Anniversary |
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Global Coalition Calls on States to Increase
Commitment to Ending Impunity through Unique System
of International Justice
New York / The Hague—This
Sunday, 1 July 2012, the world will celebrate the
10-year anniversary of the entry into force of the
Rome Statute and the establishment of the
International Criminal Court (ICC), the
first permanent international court to prosecute
individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocide.
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By Abukar Sanei
Washington, June 30, 2012 – In late 2006, the
Ethiopian regime in Addis Ababa decided to invade
Somalia under the pretext of “defending its national
security” from the “threats” of Islamist groups led
by what was then known the Islamic Courts Union
(ICU).
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The Somali National League kept their thought
largely to them-selves, at any rate in public, while
the National United Front published their
displeasure in speeches.
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By Sean McLachlan
What's this? A knife? A razor? Actually, it's
Chinese currency dating back to the 5th-3rd century
B.C. It's one of the many rare and unusual pieces on
display in the newly reopened money gallery at the
British Museum in London.
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Howard Swains reports on a
very chewy issue
It is a rainy Sunday
afternoon in Peckham, south-east London, and if
recent sensational reports are to be believed, I am
shortly going to risk my life.
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Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose |
For those who
want to understand why the candidate of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Mohammed Morsi, won, and the candidate from the
old regime, Ahmed Shafiq, lost, the French saying plus ça
change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change,
the more they stay the same) offers a good explanation. In
both substance and style, Ahmed Shafiq, opposed the changes
taking place in Egypt. And while it is understandable, given
the chaos engendered by the revolution, why he opposed the
changes and offered himself as the candidate who wants to
bring back a sense of continuity and order, his style
undercut his message and showed not a candidate who respects
the law and plays by the rules but rather as someone who
represents the former privileged ruling elite that did not
abide by the law, or follow regulations.
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52nd Somaliland
Independence And Somaliland-Somalia Dialogue In
London |
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Abdulazez Al-Motairi
It has been 52 years from the independence of
Somaliland on 26th June 1960. Somaliland people
ended 73 years of British rule in peaceful manner,
unlike many African countries who gained bloodshed
sovereignty. At the start of British rule, the
Somalilanders accepted British into Somaliland with
conditions including that British must leave the
country anytime asked.
Secretary of State for the Colonies (1959-1961) Iain
Macleod announced independence of Somaliland after
extensive meetings with Somaliland politicians
including Statesman H.E. Mohamed H. I. Egal in
London on constitution and independence related
topics. Mr. Macleod underscored that people of
Somaliland demanded the independence, and based on
earlier agreements, Her Majesty, the Queen decided
to fulfill the wish of the people of Somaliland to
unite with Italian Somaliland, which ended UN
Trusteeship on 1st July 1960.
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A Dialogue On The
Subject Of A Previous Dialogue |
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Yusuf Dirir Ali
DESPITE the jubilant mood of the Somaliland
delegation in London and the congratulatory message
from Hon. William Hague, UK foreign and commonwealth
secretary, the Chevening house achievements of the
Somaliland-Somalia dialogue were much below the
expectations of most ordinary Somalilanders.
Subsequent to that dialogue, Somaliland citizens
were waiting to minimally witness the sovereignty of
Somaliland unambiguously put into the agenda of the
forthcoming talks with Somalia. To the dismay of
Somalilanders, the outcome of the dialogue was
limited to few points of concurrence and there was
no mention of specific agenda points for future
discussions. Additionally, the Somalia people
misunderstood Somaliland’s acceptance of the
Somaliland-Somalia dialogue and wrongfully
misinterpreted it as a softening of the Somaliland
government’s stance on its sovereignty issue.
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Why Somaliland
Matters: Missing The Mark – Somaliland Mission |
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By
Mahdi Gabose
After reading Mr. Abukar Arman’s article on
“Sustainable Peace: Why Somaliland Matters”, I can’t
help but notice a number of rather large inaccuracy
and a surprising lack of knowledge on some basic
facts.
It is particularly disappointing when a
representative of the TFG government; someone as
eloquent and supposedly well versed on “Somali
issues” treats such an important subject i.e. the
current relationship and future one between Somalia
and Somaliland with obvious inaccuracies peppered
with casual and quite superficial observations
readily available at coffee shops..
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Re: The Talks Between
Somaliland And Somalia |
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By
Ibrahim Ismail Ahmed
Now that we see the white-in-the-eyes of the
agreement the two presidents reached in Dubai as
well as the previous agreement in London in
Chevening House. Then, the question becomes, as to
how to read and reason with such a “deliberately
cryptic” documents? And, furthermore how to do
one-over of a decent analysis to these two
agreements?
Firstly, in here before we begun lets stipulates
that one needs to be brutally honest. As well as be
frank with reality in which however much one may
wishes it to be others, still, nevertheless it seems
to be transpiring in front of our eyes, like so much
of a seductive strip-tease of one
garment-at-the-time sort of final denouement.
Secondly, in order to do justice of the talks so
far, one also has to take the two communiqués
together so that one will be able to read
back-and-forth between them.
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Sheikh Sharif Is
Confident That UAE Arab Mediators Will Force
Sillanyo To Accept Federalism |
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Please read the following points which meant to
prove that The UAE, or indeed any other Arab country
for that matter, is the least suitable place to hold
talks between the republic of Somaliland and the
failed state of Somalia, because the only outcome
acceptable to the people of Somaliland, and rightly
so, is the kind of two-state-solution, already
applied elsewhere in Africa and led to the birth of
Eritrea; and most recently to South Sudan Republic:
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