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HIV Carrier 'Infected Two Women'
A man took a "reckless gamble" with the lives of two of his lovers by knowingly infecting them with HIV, a court heard today.
Mohammed Dica, 37, preyed on two "vulnerable" women and insisted on having unprotected sex with them after he had been diagnosed with the virus.
Dica, who denies two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm by passing on the virus, even falsely claimed he had had a vasectomy and therefore did not need to use a condom, Inner London Crown Court was told.
Mark Gadsden, prosecuting, told the jury: "This defendant picked upon these vulnerable women, wooed them and then proceeded to have sex with them, knowing all along that he was HIV positive. He had taken this reckless gamble with these complainants' health, and their lives." The court was told that Dica, of Mitcham, Surrey, was diagnosed with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in 1996.
A year later he met his first victim and began a sexual relationship with her by the end of 1997.
The 36-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said her marriage had come to an end when she was first introduced to Dica by her cousin.
The woman came to Britain from Mogadishu in 1994 on a Swedish passport.
Describing her first impression of Dica, who she met in Hounslow, she said: 'He was a very nice chap at the time. 'He was kind, caring. He was very friendly and social.'
She added: "He was there to support me and we became very close.
"He was saying all the right words at the right time. He was there for me every minute, a shoulder to cry on."
When the couple first had sex, the woman asked Dica to use a condom because she was afraid of becoming pregnant, but he refused, claiming he had had a vasectomy.
She added: "He said he was sure I would not get pregnant.
"After we finished, he said: 'I'm so sorry, please forgive me, God forgive me.'"
She said Dica would repeat these words every time after they made love throughout their relationship.
"I think he knew what he was doing. He was deliberately infecting me with the disease that he was carrying," she added.
Six months after the couple first had sex, the woman consulted her GP after developing thrush and severely swollen glands in her neck.
Her GP suspected she had flu. But after she had blood tests, she was "really shocked" to learn she had the Aids virus. After a number of tests, she was eventually diagnosed HIV positive in October 1998.
When she confronted Dica, he said: "I don't have it, I don't have it. I'm not HIV positive. This is a homosexual disease.
"It is a disease of cursed people, people who have been cursed by God."
Dica claimed he had been tested negative at West Middlesex Hospital in west London.
Their relationship came to a bitter end at the beginning of 1999, she said. The woman sobbed: "I'm on medication, and I will be for the rest of my life." The case continues.
By Paul Cheston, Court Correspondent, Evening Standard
Posted on Tuesday 30th September at 20:37:48 Maxaa u Sabab ah Aqoonsi La’aanta Somaliland Haysata
Somaliland oo ah Jamhuuriyad mar labaad dib uga curatay 18kii May 1991kii, dhulkii Mustacmaradii Boqortooyada Ingiriiska maxmiyadda u ahaan jirtay ee xornimadiisa ka qaatay 26kii Juun 1960kii, waxa haatan ka soo wareegay muddo afar iyo toban sannadood ah.
Hase yeeshee, ma jiro dal keluya oo illaa haatan aqoonsaday Somaliland, taasina waxay Somaliland ka dhigtay mid go’doon kaga jirta caalamka intiisa kale oo aan wax xidhiidh ah la lahayn.
Go’doonsanaantani waxay Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland ku noqotay caqabad weyn oo ragaadisay horumarkeedii dhaqan-dhaqaale.
Run ahaantiina, inkasta oo aanay jirin fikrad la isku raacsan yahay oo tilmaamaysa sababaha beesga caalamku muddada 14ka sannadood ah u aqoonsan wayday Somaliland, ayaa haddana dadka u dhuun daloola qaddiyadda Somaliland waxay rumaysan yihiin in sababta ugu weyn aqoonsi la’aanta Somaliland in ay tahay siyaasad xumo iyo karti-darro haysata hoggaamiyeyaasheeda siyaasadeed oo aan marnaba dalka u jeexin hannaan siyaasadeed oo soo jiita indhaha dalalka dunida, isla markaana horseeda macaamil iyo aqoonsi dibmlomaasiyadeed oo Somaliland ka hesho caalamka.
Fikradda noocaas ahna dadka aaminsani waxay doodooda ku sameeyaan qiimayn iyo tacliiq ay ka bixiyeen kartida iyo aqoonta siyaasadeed ee hoggaamiyeyaashii u kala dambeeyey talada dalka.
Ugu horreyn Madaxweynihii koowaad ee Somaliland, Cabdiraxmaan Axmed Cali (Tuur), oo xilka hayey muddo laba sannadood ah ayaa marka laga yimaaddo duruufihii adkaa ee xilligiisii jiray tahli waayey tallaabo keliya oo uu u qaado dhinaca aqoonsi-raadinta dalka. Ugu dambayntiina, si toos ah uga horyimi Qaranimada iyo madaxbannaanida Somaliland.
Sidaa si la mid ah Madaxweynihii geeriyooday Marxuum Maxamed X. Ibraahim Cigaal, oo lagu tuhmayey khibrad dheer iyo aqoon siyaasadeed, kana mid ahaa raggii ugu cad-caddaa siyaasiyiintii lixdankii ayaan isaguna muddadii sagaalka sannadood ahayd ee uu hoggaanka dalka gacanta ku hayey ku guuldarraystay in uu siyaasiyan kasbado waddan keliya oo madaxbannaanida dalkiisa taageera. Inkasta oo aan la dafiri Karin xoogga horumarka uu dhinaca siyaasadda ka gaadhay iyo halganka dawladnimo ee uu unkay.
Sidoo kale, Madaxweynaha hadda talada haya Md. Rayaale, oo markii u horreysay muddo haatan laga joogo sannad iyo dheeraad Marxuum Cigaal kursiga ka dumaalay, muddo lix sannadood ahayd oo uu Madaxweyne-ku-xigeen ahaana ku fadhiyey kursiga labaad ee ugu awoodda badan hoggaanka dalka, ayaa dadka fikraddan aaminsani waxa ay sheegayaan in aan wax rajo ah laga qabin in uu guul ka keeni karo arrinta aqoonsiga ah ee Somaliland harraadka u qabto, taas ay u daliishanayaan aqoonta iyo khibradda waxqabadkiisa iyo kartidiisa siyaasadeed muddadii dheerayd ee uu kaalinta labaad ka jilaayey talada iyo masraxa siyaasadeed ee Somaliland, oo aan laga arag xarakaad iyo firfircooni uu ka geystay wax ka qabashada hawlihii faraha badnaa iyo durufihii qalafsanaa ee muddadaas dalka soo wajahday.
Had iyo jeerna qiilka ugu weyn ee ay daliishadaan ama ay tilmaamaan dadka saluugsan hoggaaminta Madaxweyne Rayaale ee kartidiisa ka webiya, waxay tahay Xeer Madaxweyne (Presidential Degree), Md. Rayaale subax qudha kadib geeridii Cigaal, markii isaga xilka loo dhaariyey, taas oo ahayd warqaddii koowaad ee uu Madaxweynenimo ku saxeexo, loona gudbiyey warbaahinta, dulucda iyo nuxurka ay xambaarsan tahayna ahaa sixid iyo wax-ka-beddel lagu sameeyey magaca Madaxweynaha, oo markii hore Daahir Riyaale Kaahin, balse marka dambe laga dhigay Daahir Rayaale Kaahin.
Sidaa darteed, wareegtadaasi waxay ay dadka dhaliila siyaasadda Rayaale u tahay habeeg ay ku cabbiraan awoodda iyo kartida shaqsinimo ee Madaxweynaha oo ay ka dayriyaan, sidaa daraadeed, waxay sheegaan in aanu marnaba badhaadhe iyo barwaaqo Qaranka Somaliland u horseedi Karin, maadaama uu lix sannadood oo uu Madaxweyne-ku-xigeen ahaa tahli waayey in uu magaciisa oo khaldan saxo.
Balse, dhinaca kalena waxa jira dad badan oo Madaxweynahooda ka qaba fikrad taa hore ka duwan, kuwaas oo ku doodda in Rayaale yahay dhuxul dambas huwan, iyo siyaasi qunyar socod ah oo aan si fudud loo qiimayn Karin kartidiisa, iyo aqoontiisa siyaasadeed, isla markaana la ogaan Karin sida uu u qabsado ama u maareeyo hawlihiisa.
Dadka fikraddaas qabaa waxa ay dooddahooda ku yidhaahdaan; “Waa hubaal in Madaxweyne Rayaale noqon doono ninka isagu soo hooya ictiraafka raggii hore waayeen,” balse looga fadhiyaa.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Tuesday 30th September at 17:49:41 Decade after US Debacle, Mogadishu Warlords Falter
MOGADISHU, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Clad in wraparound skirts and flip-flops, 10 Somali gunmen cradling assault rifles parade for inspection before their evening patrol of a Mogadishu district.
"The criminals are stealing from us and raping our girls!" barks former army captain Mohamud Afrah Weheliye, inspecting the men in the front yard of his home.
"If you see any thief, fire a warning bullet. If he tries to kill you, kill him! But the best result is: Capture him alive."
Weheliye's men are part of a trend towards self-help policing in Mogadishu, the city that buried America's post-Cold War enthusiasm for international peace operations a decade ago.
Neighbourhood patrols by gunmen answerable to local elders and Islamic courts rather than militia bosses have sprung up in the past year in the lawless capital of one million people.
The growth of Do-It-Yourself security puts in question the clout of warlords whose lust for power over the city triumphed 10 years ago on Friday, when the U.S. military was humiliated in a battle recalled in the Hollywood film "Black Hawk Down".
The fire fight on October 3, 1993 destroyed any U.S. appetite for further military involvement in Somalia with the deaths of 18 U.S. special forces supporting a U.N. force called UNOSOM II.
More than 1,000 Somalis and two U.N. soldiers, a Malaysian and Moroccan, also died in the failed U.S. bid to seize warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed. U.S. forces were gone within a year.
Today support for the warlords is weaker. Their predatory behaviour and thinning wallets have earned the disdain of many in Mogadishu, although their military clout is still feared.
But crime is rampant due to the presence of tens of thousands of displaced, hungry youths who see the gun as the only passport to employment. So three years ago Weheliye and other elders decided to create a police force to enable their Hamar Jediid area of south Mogadishu to live in peace.
The force is part of a new self-help trend seen in many walks of life in Mogadishu. The movement is driven by a belief that substantial Western aid will not return anytime soon and Somalis had better roll up their sleeves and help themselves.
U.N. development work in Mogadishu began winding down after the 1993 U.S. debacle and has been meagre for years. Washington now sees Somalia primarily as an ideal location for "terrorists" wishing to operate beyond the gaze of global law enforcement.
Weheliye says warlords tried to disrupt his police during their first two years of operation but gave up because the force was so popular with the area's multi-clan population.
Today, common thieves are put on display in a big metal cage that stands outside Weheliye's house alongside his cattle-pen.
"The political factions cannot affect us because we have enough force to defend ourselves," he said. "We do not respect them. We do not obey them. We do not support them."
Most households pay 1,000 shillings or five U.S. cents a day as a contribution to the 150 gunmen who patrol the neighbourhood of 6,000 homes. Not all homes can afford to pay but when they eventually can, Weheliye said, the force will be expanded.
"Many times the warlords tried to make us collect tax. But the community met and decided not to allow them inside the area," he said. "We have a right to defend our children and women. We will never obey and support any political faction."
The experiment among Hamar Jediid's sand-blown alleyways, corner shops and bungalow homes has been copied in several Mogadishu districts, prompting observers to wonder whether this is the birth of a new sort of local administration in a city devastated by conflict for more than 12 years.
"It is a serious trend, because it has genuine support. But at the same time a return to full-scale factional fighting would do it real damage," said peace activist Abdullahi Shirwa.
Elsewhere in south-central Somalia, communities in the mostly rural areas have an easier job maintaining order because makeshift local administrations tend to be organised on clan lines and clan tradition ensures some respect for authority.
The job is more difficult in Mogadishu's cosmopolitan society where clans are mixed and social tensions, aggravated by the daily influx of internally displaced people, are acute.
Hamar Jediid's force has built a network of popular support.
Khalif Ahmad Diini, who runs the "Little Aden" corner shop in Hamar Jediid, is content to pay $3 a month towards the force.
"Before my suppliers were afraid to deliver -- their vehicles would be robbed before they even got close!" he said, his elbows leaning on a display of soap detergents and Kenyan cigarettes.
"That doesn't happen now. I respect the police force as a civic action, and I will continue to do so until we have a national government again."
"Policeman" Abdi Ali Mohamud, a former driver, says he enjoys the prestige his new job gives him. "My wide and kids respect me for this. It's dangerous work, but there are always three or four of us. And it is compulsory, because we have to protect our people."
By William Maclean
Posted on Tuesday 30th September at 17:48:02 Diplomat Tells Igad to Review Document
A former UN diplomat for Somalia has appealed to the Igad technical committee mediating Somalia's reconciliation, to re-examine the disputed draft federal charter that has divided the main actors in the forum.
The diplomat also wants Igad to address Djibouti's weekend withdrawal from the talks.
Mr Abdullahi Ahmed Adou, who was once Somali ambassador to the UN, yesterday asked the technical committee to address the two issues as a matter of priority.
Djibouti walked out of the 11-month-old talks, citing lack of neutrality on the part of the technical committee.
Its envoy for Somalia, Mr Ismail Goulal, said Igad had failed to act impartially and make the talks all inclusive.
He, however, said Djibouti was ready to return if the anomalies were addressed.
Djibouti is a member of the Frontline States which, alongside Kenya and Ethiopia, comprise the core group involved in the Nairobi mediation.
Its withdrawal dealt another major blow to the forum already assaulted by last month's departure of Dr Abdiqassim Salat Hassan, the president of the Somali transitional national government and his allies.
Dr Hassan and his allies claimed the federalist charter was incurably flawed for depreciating the place of Arabic and Islam in Somali society. They also accused Igad of succumbing to an Ethiopia-inspired scheme to dismember Somalia.
Copyright ©2003, Nation Media Group Ltd.
Posted on Tuesday 30th September at 17:44:54 UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Djibouti has pulled out of the Somali peace talks saying the technical committee, which is meant to steer the conference, is no longer neutral.
The technical committee of the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) grouping - which is mediating the talks - is made up of Somalia's neighbours: Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Ismail Goulal Boudine, Djibouti's ambassador to the Somali peace talks which have been underway in Kenya since October 2002, told IRIN on Monday it was "very clear" that the peace process had "deviated from its original objectives".
The technical committee was biased, he said, accusing the committee itself of "derailing" the peace process.
And the conference itself was no longer an all-inclusive forum and could therefore not decide on crucial issues such as power-sharing and the creation of a broad-based government for the war-ravaged country.
"The process as it is will not yield positive results for Somalis," he told IRIN. "We will not be party to further fighting and bloodshed in Somalia."
"If the situation changes we can come back. At the moment we are awaiting a response from the Kenyan authorities or the international community," he added.
But his Ethiopian counterpart, Ambassador Abdulaziz Ahmed told IRIN he did not understand why Djibouti had withdrawn from the process.
He noted that Djibouti had pulled out on previous occasions and had then returned to the talks.
"We are supposed to work together," he stated. "But it really doesn't matter who pulls out of the technical committee at this stage. We have entered the phase of power-sharing, and the process is in the hands of the Somalis themselves. The technical committee is not so much involved any more and their [Djibouti] withdrawal will not have an impact."
He said accusations of bias should have been addressed by the Somalis themselves. The majority of delegates, he added, had not made any comment.
His comments were echoed by Kenyan officials who stressed that the technical committee was "just a facilitator". All efforts were being deployed, one observer added, to urge Djibouti not to leave and to bring back the Transitional National Government (TNG) president Abdiqassim Salad Hassan and some prominent faction leaders.
They left the talks earlier this month, saying a transitional federal charter - supposed to be the blueprint for the future of Somalia - had been foisted upon them with no prior discussion
Copyright © 2003 UN Integrated Regional Information Networks.
Posted on Monday 29th September at 17:29:43 Djibouti Pulls Out of Somalia Talks
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) Djibouti has withdrawn as one of the mediators in efforts to bring peace in Somalia to protest against what officials said on Sunday was a lack of "all-inclusive" negotiations in the peace talks.
Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya are members of the technical committee of three countries spearheading Somalia's 14th peace conference being held in Nairobi.
But the tiny Red Sea State of Djibouti said in a statement that it was pulling out of the role because the way the talks are proceeding locks out key players and promotes divisions in Somalia.
"It is a sad thing that the technical committee has signally failed to achieve genuine reconciliation between the Somalis," Ismail Goulal, Djibouti's special envoy to the Somalia peace talks said in a statement.
"Djibouti can no longer be part of a process that is aimed at creating the exact opposite of what it was originally meant to achieve," he added.
Somalia disintegrated into anarchy after former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991 as clans pressured by famine and political turmoil launched battles for territory.
The warring parties agreed a transitional constitution on September 15 intended to steer the ruined Horn of Africa country to stability.
But the leader of the defunct Somalia transitional government Abdiqassim Salad Hassan stormed out of the talks angered by the decision by delegates and mediators to pass the constitution without involving him and other factional leaders.
Hassan's Arab-backed Transitional National Government (TNG) was set up in 2000 in Djibouti but it controlled only parts of the capital and tiny pockets elsewhere.
Its mandate expired last month and factions at peace talks held in Kenya have yet to agree a successor administration.
The African Union's special envoy to the Somalia talks Mohammed Ali Faum urged the mediators to aim for a wider participation of all parties in Somalia.
"Things could be better handled. We need to sit back and reflect on inclusivity," he told Reuters.
Kenyan mediators said they had not received any official communication from Djibouti on its withdrawal but added that they are trying to convince Hassan to return to the Nairobi talks.
Copyright 2003 Reuters.
Posted on Sunday 28th September at 14:13:12 Washington Urges Somalis to Advance Peace Process
The United States has urged all Somalia’s clan-based political factions to advance the peace process in a meaningful way, media reports said on Wednesday. Deputy US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli has called in a statement for Somali parties to find a middle course in the peace process. He was apparently referring to the present Somali peace talks in Kenya, but did not mention them.
“The US urges all parties to continue advancing the reconciliation process in a real and meaningful way. US further urges all participants to ensure those critical activities in the process, especially the selection of members of Parliament, be carried out in a transparent manner,” said Ereli, adding that Washington was encouraged that at least some agreement had been reached, noting that they had demonstrated an ability to work through their differences and achieve workable compromises.
Salad F. Duhul, Special to Arab News
Posted on Saturday 27th September at 14:14:47 Somaliland Adopts Universal Address System
TORONTO, Sept. 26 — NAC Geographic Products Inc. has announced that Cadastral Surveys of Somaliland has adopted and implementing the Universal Address System in Somaliland.
The Universal Address System and the Natural Area Coding System have been developed by NAC Geographic Products Inc. to unify addresses, postal codes, area codes, geographic co-ordinates and map grids in the world. The Natural Area Coding System generates standardized and highly efficient codes called Natural Area Codes for all locations and areas in the world that can be used as geographic coordinates, Universal Addresses, Global Postal Codes, Universal Area Codes and Universal Map Grids.
The United Nations Development Program is supporting a land survey (cadastral) that seeks to meet the need for land and collateral, and employs conflict resolution. Cadastral Surveys, an officially registered non-government organization in Somaliland and Britain, is establishing farm boundaries. Universal Addresses at each of the farms' polygon turning points and polygon centre in the District of Gabiley are included on Farmers' ID cards as short strings of Universal Addresses. The Universal Addresses are also marked on the ground by embedded concrete blocks, and repeated in databases.
Farmers now have legal title deeds from Somaliland's Ministry of Agriculture.
Posted on Friday 26th September at 17:46:56 Hargeisa Airport Averts Closure
NAIROBI, 26 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The imminent threat of closure to Hargeisa airport in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has been averted for now after urgently-needed funds were found for vital rehabilitation work, the UN said on Friday.
According to a statement by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the airport will remain operational for another six months, after UNDP and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) provided US $150,000 to proceed with emergency patchwork.
“This is not a long term solution,” ICAO Chief Technical Adviser Joe Brunswig said. “The emergency patchwork will deal with the immediate safety concerns and avert the closure of the airport for now, but the fact of the matter is that the landing strip needs to be completely re-carpeted.”
Hargeisa airport is crucial to the humanitarian, developmental and commercial work that goes on in the region serving approximately 4,000 passengers per month from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and the Middle East.
The airport was built in 1973 to cater for the much smaller sized aircraft of the time. It was closed during the civil war in the early '90s and reopened in 1997.
"Over time, erosion and heavier aircraft than it was built for have broken up the surface of the landing strip," the UNDP statement said.
“UNDP is particularly concerned about the Hargeisa airport,” Country Director El-Balla Hagona added. “This is not just about humanitarian flights, the airport is also a business stimulant. The more facilities that Somalis themselves have, the higher the chances of their own developmental initiatives bearing fruit.”
Posted on Friday 26th September at 17:45:25 Bomb Kills Somali Man at Baghdad Hotel
BAGHDAD, Iraq (September 24, 9:49 p.m. ADT) - A bomb placed near the outside wall of the hotel in Baghdad where the NBC television network has offices killed a guard and slightly injured a network soundman on Thursday, Iraqi police said.
Iraqi police said the bomb was placed about one yard from the wall of the al-Aike Hotel in a hut that housed a generator.
Lt. Col. Salman Kareem said the bomb killed a Somali guard in his sleep. He said damage to the hotel in south-central Baghdad was minimal, mainly broken glass.
NBC correspondent Jim Avila said there were no signs on the building indicating NBC had quarters there.
A dozen NBC staffers were inside the building when the explosion occurred, and a Canadian soundman, David Moodie, was slightly injured by flying glass.
"I was awake," Moodie said. "A chest of drawers in the room fell on me. I sleep in the room immediately above the generator, so I guess I was lucky."
Moodie said he suffered one deep cut from flying glass and would require stitches. He said no other NBC employees were hurt.
The television network has four security guards, two from a British firm and two Iraqis hired for night duty.
guard ; NBC soundman injured
By TAREK AL-ISSAWI, Associated Press
Posted on Thursday 25th September at 16:28:22 Somaliland to Get a GSM Network
Tecore Wireless Systems says that it received an order from Telsom Mobile for a GSM network deployment in Somaliland. This network, operating as Telsom Somaliland and serving the capital Hargeysa and surrounding cities, is the first wireless network connecting Somalia and Somaliland under one network operator, facilitating cross-border commerce as well as regional and international roaming. Tecore, in partnership with AirNet Communications Corporation, previously installed its AirCore Mobile Switching Center (MSC) at Telsom Mobile now providing the wireless service to subscribers in Mogadishu, Somalia. The new turn-key network deployment includes the AirCore MSC with integrated revenue-generating features, such as Roaming, Prepaid, Short Message Service Center (SMSC) and voicemail, as well as AirNet AdaptaCell Broadband Software-Defined Base Stations.
"By meeting the specific cost, coverage and capacity needs in the first phase of Telsom Mobile's deployment, Tecore was able to rapidly deliver a high-capacity MSC to serve more subscribers than any other operator in Mogadishu," said Jay Salkini, Tecore's chairman and CEO. "Telsom Mobile has placed this order with us to expand their system coverage and open up lucrative roaming opportunities."
"We are delighted with the success of the first wireless network deployment from Tecore and AirNet," said M. A. Jama, CEO of Telsom Mobile. "We awarded them the expansion of our system because we knew they could quickly provide an integrated software-based, feature rich solution. With its all-in-one MSC and broadband base stations, Tecore was an obvious choice to dramatically reduce our total cost of ownership and maximize our return-on-investment."
Posted on Thursday 25th September at 16:26:17 Somalia Has Unique Chance to Halt AIDS
NAIROBI (Reuters) - War-torn Somalia has one of the lowest AIDS infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa and has a unique chance to prevent the disease from spreading, unlike its hard-hit neighbors, a UNICEF official said on Wednesday.
Jesper Morc, who represents the U.N. children's agency in Somalia, said Senegal, which has a prevalence rate of less than 2 percent, and Somalia are the only sub-Saharan countries with a low AIDS rate. Somalia's rate is estimated at 0.9-2.0 percent.
"It would be criminal to let this opportunity pass by," he told Reuters, adding that UNICEF hoped to carry out a prevalence study in the Horn of Africa country within four months and would like to see an AIDS prevention program launched there.
"It is...crucial and urgent to put in place a coordinated and strategic early-response program to stop the epidemic from spreading," he said.
The United Nations AIDS agency says 29.4 million of the 42 million people infected with HIV worldwide are in Africa.
Morc said an AIDS infection rate below three percent was considered manageable, 3-5 percent was serious and above five percent was deemed rampant. He said most African countries had AIDS prevalence rates of above five percent.
He said a full-blown AIDS epidemic would be catastrophic to Somalia and seriously hamper any efforts toward nation-building and a return of peace. Somalia's several warring factions are holding shaky peace talks in Nairobi.
Somalia disintegrated into anarchy after former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991, as clans launched battles for territory amid famine and political turmoil.
In a paper he presented at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), Morc said Senegal -- predominantly Muslim like Somalia -- offered a good example of how religious leaders helped spread awareness of how to curb the disease.
"There is no question the religious leaders had a role in helping to keep AIDS at bay," he said.
He said a crucial factor in the success of an anti-AIDS program in Somalia was preventing its spread among young people, voluntary testing and counseling and provision of cheap antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for AIDS victims.
"We could lobby for free ARVs because Somalia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and also because the numbers of those infected are still very low," Morc said, adding sustained funding by donors would be crucial to the effort.
But Morc said the ongoing conflict there and high cross border and internal population movements would pose challenges to efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Posted on Wednesday 24th September at 16:21:12 Edna’s Foreign Ministry: Any Changes or Business as Usual?
On the morning of august 15th, the premise of the ministry of foreign affairs of Somaliland was a busy place indeed. A dozen or so ‘senior diplomats, ministers and parliamentarians’ met in the Ministry, to ostensibly analyze the ‘foreign policy’ of the republic.
Analyzing the foreign policy of a country assumes, however, the existence of such a policy in the first place, which, in turn, begs the question what is the ‘foreign policy’ of Somaliland at its present condition of non-recognition from the international community?
It is obvious that Somaliland’s’ foreign policy currently focuses on securing international recognition. It is equally obvious that this does not require the bringing together of a dozen or so ex-diplomats of the defunct regime of Siad Barre, to point the way ahead.
The confusion following the exercise was epitomized by Edna’s angry rebuke of one of the reporters of Jamhuuriya newspaper, when the reporter asked Edna how her ministry could reconcile the foreign policies of the Somali state, which the diplomats who met in the ministry long espoused, and the current ‘foreign policy’ of Somaliland. Edna retorted to the reporter ‘do not ask me that. If you [the reporter] are looking for an information, I gave you all that I had, otherwise go and write whatever you want to write in your paper’.
This latest exploit by Miss Edna is anything but another of Edna’s emotional travails, which characterized her style of politics, since her nomination for the key post of the foreign ministry.
After her nomination for the foreign portfolio, many people argued, including me, that Edna was misplaced and that, as a British trained nurse, Edna could have done as well with the ministry of health and labour. However, this was not to question Edna’s talents, her strict work ethic, her mastery of several foreign languages and her humanitarian activities.
Since her appointment, Edna rehabilitated and painted the former NSS building of the ministry (She painted it with a white a colour; a colour Edna has it painted also on her private Maternity Hospital in Hargiesa). The ministry also received some personal computers form donors. However, no attempt was made to evaluate the 36 or so employees, including those in the liaison offices abroad. And as there is no much to do in the offices, many of the employees in the ministry come to office only at the end of the month, to collect the meagre salary.
Nor are the employees in the liaison offices abroad appointed in any way on the basis of merit, experience or education. Rather they are appointed on the basis of their tribal affiliations to the president or to the ministries. Recently, for instance, Dahir Riyale appointed, to the amusement of many, a Gadabursi relative as an agricultural attaché to the Somaliland Liaison office in Ethiopia!!
As foreign minister, Edna clearly lacks even a rudimentary understanding of international politics and diplomacy in this twenty first century. In an IRIN interview on July this year, Edna undiplomatically declared that Somaliland is going to be recognized before the year is out. By speaking in this bold manner, Edna unforgivably put her credit on the line.
The high level delegation to Ethiopia led by Riyale in August, which also included Edna, was a diplomatic disaster in terms. While the delegation was still in the Ethiopian capital, the Ethiopian minister of information, in an interview with IRIN, said that ‘Ethiopia’s interests lie in unifying the war ravaged state’. In diplomatic terms, this was a clear humiliation for the delegation and a complete U-turn of Ethiopian foreign policy towards Somaliland, that is, if there was such a separate policy in the first place.
Recently, there were speculations to the effect that South Africa is going to recognize Somaliland. As a student of international relations, I highly doubt that South Africa can even afford to contemplate such a controversial step in African diplomacy. If anything, there is the female sympathy that the South African Foreign Minister (or is it the vice- minister?) has for her female counterpart in Somaliland, and no more. Needless to say female sympathies never led to recognition of states in history.
Any changes? Not much to speak of, I am afraid. It is almost business as usual in the ministry.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Monday 22nd September at 19:25:08 In Ruined Mogadishu, Somalis Rally for Peace
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - More than 3,000 Somalis staged a rare anti-war demonstration on Sunday in Mogadishu, the city that helped bury Washington's post-Cold War enthusiasm for international peace operations a decade ago.
After the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in famine and war and the failure of a string of peace conferences, Somalia is now cited by U.S. officials as an ideal location for "terrorists" wishing to operate outside world scrutiny.
The Mogadishu protest took the form of separate rallies by students and women's groups in the safety of a handful of schoolyards to minimise security risks in a city infested by an estimated 60,000 militiamen.
At one point, several hundred students ventured into shellpocked streets and walked to a central junction in protest at 12 years of militia anarchy in the Horn of Africa state.
It was the largest in a handful of recent anti-war protests in the city that have marked a new activism by civic-minded teachers and doctors appalled by deepening poverty and crime.
"Only someone who doesn't have peace knows its true value," said vegetable vendor Yusuf Ali.
WAITING FOR FOREIGN AID
The country disintegrated into anarchy after former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991 as clans pressured by famine and political turmoil launched battles for territory.
U.S. military involvement in Somalia ended in humiliation on October 3, 1993 when 18 U.S. personnel in a U.N. peace force called UNOSOM were killed in a battle in Mogadishu recalled in a recent Hollywood film called "Black Hawk Down".
Clans and their many rifles, truck-mounted machineguns and rocket launchers still rule the rubble-strewn streets of the capital of an estimatedd one million people.
An Arab-backed transitional government was set up in 2000 to try to restore some stability to Somalia, but it controlled only parts of the capital and tiny pockets elsewhere.
Its mandate expired last month and factions at peace talks held in Kenya have yet to agree a successor administration.
Washington's interest in Somalia appears limited to countering terrorism and diplomats see no sustained effort by any major power at promoting development.
On Sunday students and women, some wearing peace T-shirts donated by Barcelona football club, gathered at several schools around the city and then converged on the central K4 junction. Musicians were due later to stage a peace concert at a stadium.
"We are going to rebuild Somalia with or without the Americans," said Abdulkadir Yahya, co-director of the Center for Research and Dialogue, a think-tank.
By William Maclean
Posted on Sunday 21st September at 19:16:57 Somaliland Ministers Hold Discussions with Donors
ADDIS ABABA, 19 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - Ministers from Somaliland have held unprecedented talks with international donors and the United Nations. Foreign Minister Edna Adan Ismail described the meeting, held on Wednesday, as a breakthrough for the self-declared republic, which is seeking international recognition. “It gives us status and it gives us political importance that we have never been accorded before,” she told IRIN at the end of the talks.
Officials from Ethiopia and Djibouti also attended the day-long talks, which focused primarily on the 600,000 displaced people in Somaliland. Other participants included the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF, the World Bank and embassy officials from the US, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Finland.
The talks, held in Addis Ababa, form part of preparations for a consolidated appeal by the United Nations and NGOs for humanitarian assistance for Somalia.
Somaliland unilaterally declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991 after the fall of former leader Muhammad Siyad Barre. It has remained relatively free from the chaos and war that have ravaged other parts of Somalia, but has failed to gain recognition as an independent country.
One diplomat at the talks - which have been a year in the making - told IRIN: “If state recognition is an incremental process then this is one step in that process.”
Maxwell Gaylard, head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for Somalia, who initiated the discussions, said the trend for donor support was slowly increasing. “It is the first time that we have brought together, or been able to bring together, the authorities of Somaliland directly with the international donor community,” he said.
But he played down claims by the 12-strong Somaliland delegation, which included four ministers, that the talks were a step towards recognition of the self-declared republic. “We are trying to build peace and Somaliland is an oasis of peace and stability, certainly much more than southern Somalia and I think we are coming at it from that angle,” he said.
Posted on Friday 19th September at 14:53:44 Moi Blames Somali Conflict on Neighbours
Regional suspicion of Somalia's expansionist dreams has been cited as a drawback in that country's peace efforts.
Retired President Daniel Moi said that at independence, Somalia was claiming parts of Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia and initiating armed conflicts to try and realise this dream.
Its neighbours feared that a reunited and prosperous nation might resurrect Somalia's territorial claims.
Mr Moi, who was speaking at the American Defence University in Washington, said the bitter disagreements and conflicts in Sudan began soon after independence in 1956.
He warned that unstable countries without organised and functional systems might be fertile grounds for terrorism.
On the East African Community, Mr Moi told his hosts that by November this year, the three member states hoped to sign a customs union to integrate their economies.
"It is the dream of East Africans that after integrating their economies, negotiations will begin for an East African Federation, which will ultimately take in Rwanda and Burundi," he said.
Mr Moi thanked the assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, Mr. Walter Kansteiner and a former US Ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Johnnie Carson for the facilitation of his current visit to the U.S.
The former head of state had earlier held lengthy discussions with Mr. Kansteiner at the state department headquarters.
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Posted on Thursday 18th September at 22:19:55 Koox Dabley ah oo Madiina ku Dilay 3 Qof
Habeen hore ayaa Aargada degmada Madiina waxaa ka dhacay fal ay si aad ah uga xumaadeen dadka deegaanka; kaddib markii koox dabley ah ay soo weerareen guri uu deggenaa nin rayid ah oo ah dadka ka shaqeysta Kalluumaysiga, waxayna markiiba halkaas ku dileen ninkii kalluumaysatada ahaa waxay kaloo halkaas ku dhaawaceen 3-qof oo guriga deggenaa.
Ninka la diley ayaa maalintii waxa uu soo sarriftay xoogaa Doollar ah waana taas midda keentay inay ku soo duulaan guriga Kooxdaas dableyda ah; waxayna halkaas ka qaateen lacag gaaraysa 2-Milyan iyo 500-Kun oo Soomaali ah. Ma ahan markii ugu horreysay oo ay falal noocaan oo kale ah ka dhacaan deegaanka Madiina, waxaana sabab u ah iska hor-imaadyada ama khilaafka u dhexeeya labada hoggaamiye kooxeed ee Muuse Suudi Yalaxow iyo Cumar Maxamuud Maxamed (Finish) oo iyagu inta badan ku soo dabbaali waayey deegaannada ay sheegtaan Nabadda, kuwaasoo maalin walba lagu dhibaateeyo dad rayid ah oo aan waxba galabsan.
Ayaamaha
Posted on Thursday 18th September at 18:07:27 Xubnaha Golaha Baarlamanka oo Shalay Dhaariyey
Maalintii shalay ahayd ayaa waxaa kalfadhi isugu yimid xubnaha Golaha Baarlamanka, waxaana shir Guddoominayay Xildhibaan Cali Xaaji Yuusuf, waxaana shalay kalfadhigaas looga hadlay arrimo la xiriira shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed iyo weliba arrimo la xiriira arrimaha Golaha Shacabka.
Xildhibaannada Golaha Baarlamanka waxaa shalay lagu hor dhaariyey dhowr xubnood oo ka mid noqday G/Baarlamanka, waxaana shalay kalfadhigaas ku sugnaa 118-xubnood.
Cali Xaaji Yuusuf mar uu ka hadlayay shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed ee Kenya waxa uu yiri "Wixii aan fileynay ayaa soo baxay oo aan kala talinnay Dowladda KMG ah", Cali Xaaji Yuusuf wuxuu intaa sii raaciyey "Madaxweynaha iyo xubnihii la socdayba waxay la kulmeen arrin aysan fileyn, waxaana iyagoo goob jog ah lagu soo geba-gebeeyey wejigii 2-aad ee shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed ee lagu kor ansixiyey Dastuurkii Federalka".
Xubnaha Golaha Baarlamanka waxaa u dhexeeyay khilaaf xooggan, waayo qaar ka mid ah waxay horey u soo jeediyeen in aan laga qayb gelin amaba la tegin shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed.
Ayaamaha
Posted on Thursday 18th September at 18:06:17 Appeals Court: Man Cannot Be Deported To Somalia
SAN FRANCISCO - Four men fearful of being deported to their homeland of Somalia can remain in the United States because their country has no functioning government to accept them, a federal appeals court ruled.
Yusuf Ali Ali, Mohamed Aweys, Mohamed Hussein Hundiye, and Gama Kalif Mohamud all were ordered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to be removed from the United States, despite claims by the men that upon return, they would be at "great risk of robbery, enslavement, injury or death."
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed a lower court's decision.
"The U.S. certainly wouldn't approve of some other country flying individuals into our country without us accepting them," said Nicholas Gellert, a Seattle-based lawyer representing the four men.
Somalia has not had an effective central government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Talks among delegates hoping to adopt a transitional charter for the troubled African nation have stalled in recent weeks.
The four men originally were detained at various times in 2000 and 2001, but were released earlier this year under orders that their movements be supervised. They each were being deported for several reasons, including one man who allegedly lied on a visa application. Two men were convicted of petty crimes after they arrived in the country, Gellert said.
The government did not dispute the assertion that the men would face human rights abuses if they were returned to Somalia. Rather, the government argued that the district court erred in using international law to override the congressional intent of the statute governing deportation.
In his dissent, Judge Thomas M. Reavley said he understood the federal law to broadly authorize such removals to foreign countries "without the limitation of acceptance of the alien by the removal country."
The case is Ali v. Ashcroft, 022304.
RON HARRIS
Associated Press
Posted on Thursday 18th September at 17:44:08 Support Peace Pact , Committee Urges Somalis
NAIROBI, 18 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The Somali leaders Committee at peace talks currently underway in Kenya have dismissed a recent statement by the president of the Transitional National Government, (TNG) Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, rejecting the adoption of the interim constitution.
In press statement issued on 18 September, the leaders said that Abdiqassim made the statement "in his personal capacity and do not necessarily represent that of the Somali people since his term of office has officially ended on 12 August, 2003".
Abdiqassim, along with a number of faction leaders, issued a statement on 16 September saying that the peace conference had collapsed and that they were withdrawing from it. "This is the end of this conference," Abdiqassim told IRIN at the time in reference to the adoption by delegates of the Somali National Charter [interim constitution], which will form the basis for the transitional federal government in the next four years.
In Thursday's statement, the leaders said that the conference had now entered its third phase with effect from 16th September, 2003, following the adoption of the charter. It called on the Somali people and the international Community to support "the historic breakthrough which the Conference at Mbagathi [Nairobi suburb] has reached".
The statement concluded that "the few individuals who opposed this historic achievement [should] not to be given the opportunity to derail the talks, which the Somali people fully support".
Leaders whose names appear on the statement include: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, president of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia; Hasan Abshir Farah, former prime minister (TNG); Abdalla Deerow Isaaq, former speaker of the Transitional National Assembly; and Muhammad Omar Habeeb, head of the regional administration in Jowhar, southern Somalia, and Mogadishu-based faction leader Muhammad Qanyare.
The IGAD-sponsored talks began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to Nairobi in February this year. The talks have been dogged by wrangles over issues such as the interim charter, the number of participants in the talks and the selection of future parliamentarians.
Posted on Thursday 18th September at 17:38:59 Agency Halts Operations in Somalia
A church organisation operating in Gedo region of the war-torn Somalia yesterday suspended its humanitarian mission in the area indefinitely following the murder of a Kenyan employee on Monday.
In a press statement, the co-ordinator of Gedo water project, Ferdinard Njue, said they were suspending all humanitarian missions in the area following the recent killing of the aid agency's Kenyan employee, Oyaw Abdiwahid Ukash.
Njue said operations in the entire Gedo region comprising seven districts, will be halted for an unspecified duration until the motive of the selective killing of the Kenyan is established.
He said they were shocked by the brutal killing of the former plumber with the Ministry of Water in Mandera District by suspected militiamen in the tiny border town.
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Posted on Thursday 18th September at 17:38:23 Somalia Hopes for Peace after Decades of War
Somalia stands out in the Horn of Africa as a country that has been prisoner to its history. After many troubled years, which saw the assassination in October 1969 of Mr Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, General Siad Barre took over.
Barre ruled Somalia with unprecedented brutality. He often responded to dissent by executing his opponents.
In 1981 as opposition to his regime began to emerge, Barre ordered the aerial bombardment of Hargeisa, the country’s second capital, and the flattening of Burao city. Both harboured rebel movements and were situated in the north.
In December 1990, Barre’s opponents launched offensive against government positions and drove him out of Somalia. He sought refuge in Kenya but was rejected. Barre died in exile in Nigeria shortly afterwards.
The faction that took over Mogadishu appointed a prominent trader, Mr Ali Mahdi Mohammed interim president. This was done without consulting the other factions that had helped in the struggle against Barre. Observers see that unilateral move as the catalyst for what happened next.
The different factions, which were based on the different warring clans, had been slighted and sidelined and their reaction was to fight to regain what they saw as their rightful positions. This fighting unfolded into a vicious civil war that overwhelmed the Horn of Africa country.
Militias unleashed nationwide terror and there was an orgy of killings and destruction in Mogadishu. In May 1991, the Somali National Movement in the north declared the independence of Somaliland. In the rest of the country, however, vicious power struggles turned the country into a living hell.
It has been more than 12 years since the fall of the Siad Barre regime, and the subsequent division and collapse of what once was known as the United Republic of Somalia. Twelve years in which there has been no central government and Somalia remains a volatile country.
However, not the whole country is a disaster. In the northwest (Somaliland) and the northeast (Puntland) a modicum of law and order and relative peace have been restored despite a lack of international recognition for their efforts.
Somaliland practises constitutional politics with some form of formal economic activity. An increasing number of children is also returning to school.
The Somaliland leadership has so far refused to participate in the peace and reconciliation talks in Nairobi.
The northeast region, or Puntland, though fairly independent of the southern region, continues to reaffirm its commitment to what it refers to as national unity. Mr Abdullahi Yusuf, who leads the faction that controls this region, is participating in the peace talks in Nairobi.
Puntland has set up structures to re-invigorate trade and establish basic social institutions. Nevertheless, jostling for executive and exclusive powers by several faction leaders is threatening the relative stability in the region. Differences between the Puntland leader, Mr Abdullahi Yusuf and his deputy, Mr Abdi Hashi, were reported last month. The two leaders were feuding over a cabinet reshuffle in the semi-autonomous region.
Therefore, apart from the relatively stable northwest and northeast regions, the rest of Somalia remains in the grip of vicious clan battles. Their hatred and mistrust of each other is as abundant as the guns in their possession.
The warlords and merchants control what economic activity there is, especially in the capital Mogadishu like the airports, and levy taxes. They have also erected toll stations in areas under their control.
Since the fall of Barre in 1991, there have been 14 attempts at restoring peace and a central authority in Mogadishu. During 13 of the 14 reconciliation conferences (the 14th round of peace talks is currently under way in Nairobi) it was impossible to reach a consensus because all the self-appointed Somali political leaders were adamant on their claims to the presidency.
In 1999, Djibouti president Ismail Omar Geleh announced at the UN General Assembly that he would convene a gathering of Somali leaders in an effort to rebuild Somalia. As a result, in March 2000, some 5,000 delegates convened in Djibouti.
After weeks of talking, arguing and horse-trading, 245 members of a Transitional National Assembly and an interim president were picked.
Interim president Abdiqassim Salat Hassan and his team had barely arrived in Mogadishu when the whole set-up began to unravel. The warlords immediately began to undermine the transitional government, claiming to have been left out of the government’s selection.
It was also felt that many of Abdiqassim’s appointees to the cabinet were incompetent.
The transitional government controls only a small portion of the capital, the rest of Mogadishu is split between five warlords: Musa Sude of the Abgal sub-clan, Hussein Aideed and Osman Atto both of the Habargidir sub-clan, Mohammed Quanyare of the Murursada sub-clan and Omar Mahmud alias Omar ‘Finish’ an Abgal. All three sub-clans are part of the larger Hawiye clan. (There are five main clans in Somalia.)
The peace and reconciliation conference in Nairobi is expected to pick a president from a crowded field of more than 50 candidates.
The will also elect members of a transitional assembly once the controversial transitional charter is approved.
In July, President Abdiqassim walked out of the peace talks accusing the Kenyan mediator, Mr Bethuel Kiplagat, of allegedly promoting an Ethiopian-backed plan to divide Somalia. Critics have accused the moderators in the Nairobi talks of concentrating more on power sharing than reconciling the various factions.
In the meantime, Somalia is weighed down by the image of a "terrorist haven" and was in fact a prime target of the Bush Administration after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the US.
However, analysts think that although the Somali profess the Islamic faith and parts of the country apply Sharia law, in the end it is clan allegiance which holds sway not religious fundamentalism.
Clan loyalties are so deep-rooted they define all aspects of life in Somalia. A faction leader, Mr Omar Mahmud summed up the problem thus, "whoever became president gave arms to his clan and his clan used the arms to dominate the other clans. Every clan is armed. We are all tired of fighting, and are willing to put all our weapons aside."
Despite growing fatigue by the international community there is hope in the Somali Diaspora that this time round, the international community will be able to save Somalia from itself. However, without an effective and voluntary disarmament of the various militias, a government picked in Nairobi would find it impossible to restore law and order.
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Posted on Wednesday 17th September at 17:42:40 Rayaale oo ka Qaybgalay Aaskii Jirde Xuseen
Hargeysa (Jam)- Waxa shalay lagu aasay magaalada Hargeysa Allah ha u naxariistee Marxuum Jirde Xuseen Ducaale, oo ahaa ganacsade caan ah oo u dhashay Somaliland, oo ku geeriyooday dalka Imaaraadka Carabta Arbacadii toddobaadkan.
Marxuumka oo shalay subax maydkiisa la keenay magaalada Hargeysa, waxa lagu aasay Xabaalaha Boqol-jire ee ku yaalla xaafadda Sheekh Muuse Ducaale ee Koonfur-galbeed ee magaalada Hargeysa.
Waxa aaska marxuumka ka qaybgalay dadweyne kumanyaal qof gaadhaya oo ay ka mid yihiin madaxda Qaranka ee dawladda Somaliland oo uu horkacayey Madaxweyne Daahir Rayaale Kaahin iyo Madaxweyne-ku-xigeenka, Md. Axmed Yuusuf Yaasiin, oo ay weheliyeen xubno Golaha Wasiirada, mudaneyaal ka tirsan labada Gole ee Baarlamaanka Somaliland [Guurtida iyo Wakiillada].
Marxuumka oo maydkiisa ay Imaaraadka Carabta ka soo qaaday diyaarad ay leedahay shirkadda DAMAL AIRLINES, waxa la socday dhawr iyo toban qof oo ka koobnaa qoyskiisa.
Dayuuradda maydka siday waxa ay Madaarka soo caga-dhigatay barqadii, iyada oo ay halkaa ku sugnaayeen dadweyne boqolaal qof ah oo ay ka mid yihiin Maayarka Caasimadda Hargeysa iyo masuuliyiin badan oo ka tirsan dawladda. Iyada oo dadka ka qaybgalay aaska ay ka kala yimaaddeen magaalooyinka Berbera, Burco, Jabuuti iyo Boorama, boqolaal gaadhi ayaa Madaarka ka soo gelbiyey maydka marxuum Jirde Xuseen, oo saarnaa baabuur Ambulance ah oo lagu geeyey goobta lagu aasay ee xabaalaha, iyada oo waddada la sii mariyey maydka ee badhtamaha Hargeysa ay safnaayeen boqolaal qof oo dadweyne ah.
Marxuum Jirde Xuseen, oo taariikh dheer ku lahaa baayacmushtarka Somaliland iyo Soomaaliyaba, kana mid ahaa ganacsatada Soomaaliyeed ee faro-ku-tiriska ahaa ee lagu tilmaamo in heerka ganacsigoodu gaadhay caalami, waxa taariikh nololeedkiisa oo tifaftiran aanu ku soo bandhigi doonaa cadada soo socda ee Jamhuuriya.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Tuesday 16th September at 17:45:40 Kenyan NGO Worker Murdered
A Kenyan working with an NGO operating in Somalia and based in El-waq Kenya was at the weekend killed in cold blood by military in Somalia.
The deceased, 40-year-old Oyaw Abdiwahdi Okash was killed in-front of seven other colleagues while travelling in a Somali registered car to Damasa, a tiny border town in war torn Somalia.
The armed militiamen are said to have targetted the deceased who comes from a rival clan.
The rest of the passengers were let free to proceed with their journey.
Its speculated that the militias killed the deceased on what is believed to be a retaliatory attack.
Area ocpd Charles Naragwi said an inter-border peace and conflict resolution committee was working hard to ease the growing tension so that it does not spill over to the Kenyan side which hosts both communities.
In the meantime, El-waq DO Patrick Meso said the sub-district security committee will host the Somali security delegation to discuss the issue and possible hand-over of the suspected killers to Kenyan authorities.
By Anastacia Makandi/KNA
Posted on Tuesday 16th September at 17:43:56 Peace Talks in Jeopardy Following Announcement of Breakthrough
NAIROBI, 16 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - Delegates at Somali peace talks taking place in Kenya adopted an interim constitution on Monday in what has been termed "a major breakthrough". However, some political groups have come out against the agreement.
According to a statement from the mediators, delegates attending the conference "this [Monday] evening adopted a Transitional Federal Charter", which will pave the way for the formation of a transitional parliament that would last four years. The statement said its members would be selected by Somali traditional leaders and politicians officially invited to the talks in Kenya by an IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) Technical Committee that organised the meeting.
However, the agreement was rejected by the president of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, who, along with a number of faction leaders, had earlier walked out of the talks but returned to Nairobi on 14 September to resume their participation in the discussions.
"This is the end of this conference," Abdiqassim told IRIN. "We arrived here on Sunday in good faith but without being given an opportunity to have our voices heard, we are presented with the so-called adoption of the charter. This is unacceptable and I think whoever is behind this treachery has succeeded in scuttling the peace process. The talks have totally collapsed."
Muhammad Husayn Adow, an ally of faction leader Muse Yalahow, echoed this view. "This was a mistake. With our arrival they [the organizers] had an opportunity to correct past mistakes but instead they compounded them. This was a deliberate action to destroy the talks and I think they have succeeded."
Adow said Abdiqassim and the other leaders who returned with him, including the leader of the Juba Valley Alliance, Col Bare Hiirale, and representatives of Yalahow and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), had now agreed to leave the talks. "We are in agreement to withdraw from these talks and will issue a statement," he said.
On the other hand, Mogadishu-based Muhammad Qanyare Afrah, who was at the venue of the talks, told IRIN that the adoption of the charter was "a victory for the Somali people and was in their best interest". Qanyare said that those opposed to the charter were "looking for personal gain". He advised them to join the process and "put the people's interest before theirs".
A source close to international observers at the talks told IRIN they were not sure what had happened and were trying to ascertain the facts before commenting. A regional analyst familiar with the process told IRIN that Monday's developments were "disturbing and could lead to a dramatic shift in positions, even leading to the withdrawal of support for the process".
The IGAD-sponsored talks began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to Nairobi in February this year. The talks have been dogged by wrangles over issues such as the interim charter, the number of participants in the talks and the selection of future parliamentarians.
Posted on Tuesday 16th September at 17:40:17 Djibouti: Thousands Leave as Deadline Passes
NAIROBI, 16 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - Thousands of illegal immigrants left Djibouti in the past few weeks, ahead of the expiry on Monday of a deadline set by the country's government, a local journalist told IRIN on Tuesday.
In late July, Djibouti's Interior Minister, Abdiqadir Du'ale Wa'ays, had warned illegal immigrants to leave by the end of August or face expulsion. He later extended the deadline to 15 September.
"Roughly 70,000 people, or about 80 percent of immigrants, appear to have left the country", the journalist said. "Others who opted to remain have been taken to the Aour Aousa camp to be registered.
Millicent Mutuli of UNHCR told IRIN that Aour Aousa - set up as a transit centre for 3,000 asylum seeker - now houses 10,000 people.
However, other people were hiding in Djibouti city to avoid expulsion, according to reports. "We have reports of refugees undertaking fake marriages, and others buying fake IDs," the journalist told IRIN. A joint police and military operation comprising 5,000 men on Tuesday netted 100 illegal immigrants in the two districts of Ambouli and Gabode in Djibouti City, he said.
According to the journalist, the crackdown on illegal immigrants - who mainly come from Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen - may have been motivated by external pressure. US, French, Spanish and German military forces are based in Djibouti as part of the global fight against terrorism.
The French news agency, AFP, quoted a Djibouti official as saying that "coalition forces, as part of their anti-terrorist campaign, are closely monitoring Djibouti's air and sea space, but want Djibouti's forces to be able to prevent people crossing the land borders".
Posted on Tuesday 16th September at 17:39:19 Visiting Somalia is a Tough Option
On July 12, 1993, a tragedy struck foreign journalists while on duty in Mogadishu.
Photographer Hosea Maina and soundman Anthony Macharia, both Kenyans working with Reuters, Hansi Krauss, a German photographer with the Associated Press and Dan Eldon, a photographer holding British and American passports and working for Reuters, were murdered when a crowd, angered by the death of more than 70 Somalis in an attack on warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed's command post, set upon them.
The four and Mr Mohamed Shaffi, another Kenyan soundman for Reuters Television, had been invited to witness to the aftermath of the attack. These memories were hard to shake off, as we returned to Somalia recently.
However, even without that grim history, nothing can really ever prepare you for a trip to Mogadishu.
Even the crew, on Dhaalo Airlines, one of the more regular carriers to Somalia, does not offer the usual "sit back and enjoy your flight" niceties.
On July 28, I met the Information minister in the Somali Transitional National Government (TNG), Prof Adbulrahman Ibbi and suggested to him that the Nation could send a crew to Somalia.
Having been a journalist himself, Prof Ibbi, tutored me into what to expect. "Your personal safety must be crucial at all times,’’ he said.
He explained that due to the absence of a strong central authority, law and order were virtually non-existent in the city.
Then he said: "I am going on Wednesday, do you want to come with me?’’
I swallowed hard and said we wanted to go.
Then he got me into the practical details, including working on a budget which could cover hiring a militia for protection while in Mogadishu. Not the sort of item you plan for in ordinary reporting assignments.
The following day the president of the TNG, Mr Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, walked out of the Nairobi Somalia peace talks and returned to Mogadishu on the same Wednesday flight.
With the president and his entourage flying back, some passengers, myself included, found themselves bumped off the flight. This disruption of my travel plans turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It allowed me to study recent UN reports on Somalia.
In all the UN reports, security was top on the priority items in Somalia. They also advise that one needs a contact to function effectively and safely in Somalia - and at least $150 (Sh12,000) for security per day.
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Posted on Monday 15th September at 17:37:13 Somalia's Warring Factions End Boycott of talks
Principal Somali warlords and faction leaders have ended a boycott of the war-torn country's 11-month peace talks in Nairobi.
They include the leader of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Dr Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, whose term of office ended last month and Mr Osman Ali Atto.
They were in Nairobi at the weekend to take part in the last rounds of the IGAD-mediated talks.
Last month, Kenya's special envoy for Somalia, Mr Mohamed Abdi Affey, visited Mogadishu in a bid to convince the TNG and other leaders to return for negotiations.
They had left the talks late July, complaining that IGAD and regional states had conspired to break up Somalia and curtail the state of Islam and Arabic, through a draft charter on federalism signed at Mbagathi early June.
The TNG's precondition for returning to the talks was a reopening of discussion on the federalism charter.
Meanwhile, another major breakthrough has been announced at Mbagathi.
It involves a revision of Article I I of the charter that now establishes a transitional federal government (TFG) and two or more state governments and regional and autonomous administrations.
The revised charter shows that the TFG will have powers over regional and state government and autonomous administrations, and will carry the responsibility of developing them economically.
The laws governing regional and autonomous administration will also have to cohere with the law establishing the central government, according to the revised charter that was signed by all delegates at Mbagathi.
The delegates also agreed to promote reconciliation at the grassroots in Somalia and work together at the plenary to achieve a unanimous adoption of the final charter.
By NATION Correspondent
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Posted on Monday 15th September at 17:32:38 Leaders Return to Peace Talks
NAIROBI, 15 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - Two of four prominent Somali leaders who had walked out of a peace conference currently being held at Mbagathi, on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, have returned to the talks while the others have sent representatives, a member of its organising committee told IRIN on Monday.
The president of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, and the leader of the Juba Valley Alliance, Col Bare Hiirale, returned to Nairobi on Sunday night. Representatives of Mogadishu-based faction leader Muse Sudi Yalahow and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) have also arrived in the Kenyan capital.
The return of the leaders was "very significant and a moral boost for the talks", said James Kiboi, liaison officer of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee, which is steering the talks. "The talks will now go into high gear," he added.
Abdirahman Ibi, TNG information minister, told IRIN on Monday that Yalahow and Usman Ato had been delayed due to "technical difficulties", but were expected to arrive in the next two days.
Ibi said the four leaders, who met last week in Mogadishu, had discussed ways of unifying their position at the talks. They agreed on "a common approach and platform" at Mbagathi, and set up a committee to harmonise negotations and to take "joint decisions".
"We are cautiously optimistic and hopeful that a corner has been turned and the talks will produce results worthy of the Somali people," Ibi said.
The IGAD-sponsored talks began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to Nairobi in February this year. The talks have been dogged by wrangles over issues such as an interim charter [draft constitution], the number of participants in the talks and the selection of future parliamentarians.
Posted on Monday 15th September at 17:28:47 Waxa aanu ku Heshiinay in aanu Casuuno Dadka Hawiye
Gabiley (Jam)- Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga UCID, oo ka mid ah axsaabta siyaasadeed ee Somaliland, Eng. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, ayaa sheegay in saddexda xisbi Qaran ee Somaliland – UCID, KULMIYE, iyo UDUB – ay ku heshiiyeen dhawaan in ay shir dib-u-heshiisiin ah ku casuumaan Hargeysa Beelaha Hawiye, ee Koonfurta Soomaaliya, si taa beddelkeedana looga dhaadhiciyo in ay aqoonsadaan goonni-isu-taagga dawladnimo ee Somaliland.
Eng. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, oo khudbad shalay ka jeediyey xaflad loo sameeyey dhagax-dhigga wershad dawooyinka samaysa oo laga dhisayo magaalada Gabiley, isaga oo faahfaahinaya dib-u-heshiisiinta Beelaha Hawiye ee uu sheegay in ay isku aragti ka yihiin axsaabta Qaranku, waxa uu sheegay in dhammaan shirarkii guuldarraystay ee dib-u-heshiisiinta Soomaaliya, in waxa keliya ee Soomaalida ka qaybgashay isku raacsan yihiin ay tahay cadaawada Somaliland iyo horjoogsiga madaxbannaanida Somaliland. “Sidaa daraadeed,” ayuu yidhi; “Waxaanu isla garanay in loo baahan yahay cid in aan ku yeelano dadka Koonfurta Soomaaliya, si aynu uga dhaadhicino in maslaxaddoodu ku jirto maslaxaddeenna oo ay garowsadaan.”
Eng. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, waxa uu sheegay in axsaabta Somaliland, iyaga oo arrintaa ka duulaya ay ku heshiiyeen in dadka Beesha Hawiye lagu casuumo Hargeysa, oo laga dhaadhiciyo in madaxbannaanida Somaliland aanay waxba u dhimayn arrinta nabadda Soomaaliya.
“Waxaanu ku heshiinay, in dadka Hawiye oo aanu u aragno in ay yihiin furaha nabada Soomaaliya aanu casuuno oo ka raaridno qaddiyaddeenna, oo ka dhaadhicino in Somaliland aanay waxba yeelayn Soomaaliya, wax ay u tarto mooyaane. Waayo, waxa la innaga dhigay in Somaliland tahay tii wax burburinaysay [nabad-raadinta Soomaaliya], isla markaana Somaliland oo soo raacda mooyee aan Soomaaliya nabaddi ka dhici karin,” ayuu yidhi Eng. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, isaga oo intaa raaciyey; “Sababtaa awgeed, ayaanu jecelnahay in aanu nimankaa Hawiye dhakhso u casuuno oo ka dhaadhicino in goonni-isu-taagga Somaliland aanu carqalad ku ahayn nabad ka dhalinta Soomaaliya. Balse, Somaliland oo madaxbannaani ay waxtar iyo faa’iido u leedahay dib-u-heshiisiintooda iyo dawlad ay dhistaan. Fikraddaasina waxaanu u aragnay in ay fure u noqoto in la helo wax heshiis lagu yahay oo ah Somaliland oo madaxbannaan iyo Soomaaliya madaxbannaan oo wax isku ogol oo walaalo ah.”
Hase yeeshee, Wasiirka Ganacsiga iyo Wershadaha Somaliland, Md. Maxamed Xaashi Cilmi, oo isna xafladdaa hadal kooban ka jeediyey ayaa muujiyey in aanu ku raacsanayn fikraddaa uu sheegay Eng. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, in axsaabtu ku heshiisay in Somaliland lagu casuumo Hawiyaha Koonfurta Soomaaliya, oo aan lagu degdegin wadahadal lala yeesho waqtigan.
Eng. Maxamed Xaashi, oo faahfaahinayey aragtidiisaa waxa uu yidhi; “Reer Koonfureedku ma aha dad inoo roon oo ina jecel. Waxaan qabaa ciddii inoo qirta in aynu nahay dal jira oo madaxbannaan oo Somaliland ah, ayaa ka habboon in aynu gogol u fidino oo heshiis la galno. Laakiin, cid aan ku aqoonsanayn oo jiritaankaaga dafirsan in aan ku mudno irbadii daweynaysay, dabadeedna ay innaga [Somaliland] innagu soo garaaco mid sun ah, waxay ila tahay deg-deg baa ku jira arrintaa.”
“Waxaan anigu qabaa horta aynu ka hadalno iyaga inay ina aqoonsan yihiin [madaxbannaanida Somaliland], ilaa ay inoo qiraan nimankaasi in aynu dal jira nahay waxaynu la gelaynaa ma jito, ee waa in aynu diyaargarow ku jirnaa.”
Sidaas oo kale, mowqif la mid ah ka Maxamed Xaashi iska taagay, martiqaadka iyo dib-u-heshiisiin Somaliland loogu sameeyo dhinacyada ay saamaysay dirirta Muqdisho ee Koonfurta Soomaaliya, rumaysan ama aaminsan siyaasi ka tirsan xisbiga KULMIYE, Axmed Yuusuf Ducaale, oo sheegay in aanu jirin heshiis xisbigoodu la galay axsaabta kale in Hargeysa lagu casuumo Beelaha Hawiye iyo dhinacyada ay u dhexeyso dirirta Muqdisho.
“Ma heshiisiinayno, isuna keeni mayno dadka reer Koonfureed ee Soomaaliya, inta ay diidan yihiin jiritaanka Somaliland, ee ay leeyihiin ma jirto ee ha ka soo qaybgasho shirka Imbighati, Kenya. Somaliland waa Somaliland, Soomaaliya-na waa Soomaaliya ee ha gubato,” ayuu yidhi Axmed Yuusuf Ducaale, isaga oo u warramayey saxaafadda shir jaraa’id oo xisbiga KULMIYE ku qabtay xaruntooda magaalada Hargeysa, maalintii Arbacadii toddobaadkii hore.
Dhinaca kalena, Mr. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, waxa uu digniin culus u jeediyey is-maamul-goboleedka Puntland ee Col. Cabdillaahi Yuusuf Axmed qorshihiisa ku soo lugu fidsiga dhulka Somaliland.
“Nin baa la baxay Puntland, oo yidhi waxaan samaysanayaa khariiddad cusub intuu Somaliland ku soo lugo fidsaday.
Haddaba, waxaan leeyahay Cabdillaahi Yuusuf maab [map] aad samaysan kartaa ma jiro, Somaliland-na kuma soo fidi kartid, dadkaagana dagaal qoorta ha u gelin,” ayuu yidhi Mr. Faysal Cali-Waraabe, waxa uu intaas ku daray; “Waxaan uga digayaa Cabdillaahi Yuusuf xuduud lagu xadgudbo waxay horseed u tahay dagaal lagu hoobto. Sidaa daraadeed, ma doonayno in Garoowe noqoto sidii BAADHAME [Magaalada xuduudka ku taallay ee uu ka dhacay dagaalkii dhexmaray Itoobiya iyo Eritaria, sannadkii 1998kii], balse adigu Garoowe ha ka dhigin BAADHAME oo kale.”
Sidoo kale, Madaxweyne-ku-xigeenka Somaliland, Md. Axmed Yuusuf Yaasiin, ayaa khudbadii uu ka jeediyey xafladdii dhagax-dhigga wershadda daawada ee laga dhisayo Gabiley, waxa uu isna ku soo qaaday qorshaha cusub ee dhul-fidsiga Col. Cabdillaahi Yuusuf, ee ku wajahan Somaliland, isaga oo tibaaxay in dagaal lama huraan noqon doono haddii Somaliland lagu kelifo.
“Ma rajaynayno in Cabdillaahi Yuusuf, nagu kelifo in aynu seefteenna galka dib uga soo saarno, laakiin, haddii ay nagu kelifto waa la soo saarayaa,” ayuu yidhi Md. Axmed Yuusuf Yaasiin.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Sunday 14th September at 15:41:03 Heshiis Lagu Gaaray Shirka Soomaalida ee Mbagathi
Bayaan ka soo baxay maamulka shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida ee Mbagathi ayaa waxaa uu sheegayaa in dhammaan hogaamiyeyaasha kooxaha ee ka qeyb galaya shirka ay ku heshiiyeen arrimihii ku xusnaa qodobka kow iyo tobanaad ee axdiga ay ka doodayeen.
Qodobkaas oo ka hadlayay arrimo ay ka mid yihiin, maamul goboleedyada, magaca ay yeelan doonto dowladda Soomaaliyeed ee la dhisayo iyo madaxbanaanida gobolada ayaa kooxuhu galabnimadii Sabtida ku heshiiyeen, in magaca Jamhuuriyada Soomaalya uu noqdo Dowladda Federaalka ee Ku meel gaarka ah, Goboladuna ay u midoobi karaan laba iyo wixii ka badan, iyadoo tilaabadaasina ay u dhacayso si ikhtiyaari ah, iyo In uu jiri doono gobolo u madaxbanaan maamulkooda iyo maamul degmooyinka.
Waxaa kale oo ku xusan bayaaanka in dowladda Federalka ku meel gaarka ah uu waajib ka saaran yahay in ay horumariso maamulada gobolada iyo degmooyinka iyadoo taasi ku xirnaan doonto sharciga iyo qoraalada gudiga sameeynaya Dastuurka Federaaliga ee lagu dhisayo Dowladda Federaaliga ee ku meel gaarka ah.
Bayaanka waxaa kale oo ku xusan in dowlad goboleedyada, gobolada iyo maamulada degmooyinka ay ka koobnaan doonaan dhamaan gobolada dalka Soomaaliya.
Hogaamiyeyaashu waxaa kale oo ay ku heshiiyeen, sida qoraalka ku xusan, in lagu dhaqaaqo dib u heshiisiin iyo is cafin, isla markaana, si wada jir ah oo deg deg ah, looga shaqeeyo sidii axdigaan looga ansaxin lahaa ergooyinka ka qeyb galaya shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida.
Inkasta oo aysan qoraalka ku xusneyn dadka heshiiska wada gaaray, haddana wararku waxay sheegayaan in ay heshiiska wada saxiixeen kooxo ka ka kala socoda garabyada SRRC, G8, Bushada Rayidka ah iyo Xassan Abshir oo sheegay in uu isagu uu matalayay dowladda Ku meel gaarka.
Warar kale oo shirka ku dhow dhowna waxaa ay sheegayaan in kooxahaasi ay ka wada hadlayaan sidii ay heshiis uga wada gaari lahaayeen qodob dhigaya in barlamaanka ay soo xulaan hogaamiye kooxeedyada iyagoo la tashanaya hogaamiye dhaqameedyada. Waxaana la isla dhexmarayaa in Isniinta laga yaabo in axdigaas lagu heshiiyay laga ansixiyo ergooyinka shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida ee Mbagathi.
Arrimaan ayaa waxay ku soo beegmeen, iyadoo la sugayo in uu shirka dib ugu soo noqodo madaxweynaha dowladad KMGka ah, Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xassan oo leftiisa la filayay in uu Axadda yimaado magaalada Nairobi.
Yusuf Hassan - BBCSomali.com
Posted on Sunday 14th September at 15:37:19 Somali Migrants 'Ditched' off Yemen
The United Nations refugee agency says at least 18 people have drowned in the Gulf of Aden after being forced into the sea at gunpoint by people smugglers who had promised to ferry them across to Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
The UNHCR said 55 of the illegal immigrants survived, swimming 10 kilometres (six miles) to the Yemeni shore and another 27 were missing.
It said most of the refugees on the boat were Somalis and Ethiopians, and most of those who drowned were said to be women and children.
The agency said it knew of plenty of other cases of people smugglers forcing their passengers to jump ship at sea so that they could evade Yemeni coastal patrols.
"The 100 refugees were forced by the crew under threat [at gunpoint] to throw themselves into the sea from the boat before arrival at the port of Mukalla" on the Yemeni coast, a UNHCR official said.
Last month, 30 Ethiopian and Somalian refugees trying to enter Yemen were also forced to jump off a boat in the Gulf of Aden, and at least 12 of them drowned, according to the UNHCR.
The refugees had paid the owner of the boat to take them to Yemen to escape difficult economic conditions in Somalia.
Somalia has been wracked by civil war for more than a decade.
Posted on Sunday 14th September at 15:34:29 Breakfast-Time Weddings Thwart Gatecrashers
HARGEISA, Somalia (Reuters) - Wedding parties are being held early in the morning in Somali towns to put off gangs of gatecrashers, residents said on Thursday.
Determined youths break in to steal khat, a mild stimulant plant chewed in several countries in the region, making life hell for event organizers in parts of Somaliland, a breakaway enclave in northern Somalia.
"Parties and ceremonies held in hotels or well-guarded residential houses are no longer safe to be held at night," said local journalist Mohammed Omer.
The most serious disturbances took place at engagement parties, where the bridegroom's parents traditionally bring khat and money as a gift for the bride's family, he said.
Residents said luxury cars carrying party-goers in their finest attire were now a common sight soon after breakfast.
Posted on Friday 12th September at 18:20:26 Xisbiga Kulmiye oo Digniin u Jeediyey Cabdillaahi Yuusuf
Xisbiga mucaaradka ah ee KULMIYE oo sheegay in xukuumaddu baal-martay qodob ka mid ah heshiisyadii ay saddexda xisbi wada gaadheen.
Hargeysa (Jam)- “Waxaanu uga digaynaa maamulka Majeerteeniya in ay faraha kala baxdo farogelinta ay ku hayso qaar ka mid ah gobollada Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland, haddii kale ay masuul ka noqon doonto cawaaqib xumada ka dhalan doonta,” sidaa waxa yidhi Afhayeenka xisbiga KULMIYE, Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, mar uu ka hadlayey shir jaraa’id oo xisbiga KULMIYE ku qabtay xaruntooda magaalada Hargeysa, Arbacadii dorraad.
Hargeysa (Jam)- Xisbiga Mucaaradka ah ee KULMIYE, ayaa xukuumadda Somaliland ku eedeeyey in ay ka baxday qodob ka mid ah heshiisyo ay saddexda xisbi gaadheen, kaas oo sheegayey in si deg-deg ah loo saaro Guddi Qaran oo ka hawlgasha gobolka Sool, Bariga Sanaag iyo degmada Buuhoodle ee gobolka Togdheer ee dalka Somaliland.
Shir jaraa’id oo uu shalay ku qabtay xarunta xisbiga KULMIYE ee magaalada Hargeysa, Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, oo ay weheliyeen Guddoomiye-ku-xigeenka koowaad ee xisbiga, Maxamuud Saalax Nuur (Fagadhe), iyo Axmed Yuusuf Ducaale, iyo weliba xubno kale oo ka mid ah Golaha Dhexe ee xisbiga KULMIYE, waxa ay ku caddeeyeen mowqifka siyaasadeed ee xisbiga KULMIYE, ee ku wajahan siyaaasadda dibadda iyo gudaha Somaliland ee marxaladdan la marayo.
Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, oo u hadlay xisbiga KULMIYE, ayaa shirkaas jaraa’id waxa uu kaga hadlay saddex arrimood oo kala ah; shirka dib-u-heshiisiinta kooxaha Soomaaliya uga socda tuulada Imbaghati ee duleedka magaalada Nairobi, Kenya; dhibaatooyinka dhulka lagu muransan yahay; iyo arrinta gobolka Sool, Bariga Sanaag iyo degmada Buuhoodle. Taas oo uu sheegay in xukuumadda Madaxweyne Rayaale ku tilmaameen in ay keligeed is-mooday heerkii Qaran, maadaama ay isku koobtay taladii lagu wajihi lahaa xal-u-helidda dhibaatooyinka ka jira gobollada Bariga Somaliland, kadib markii ay dhawaan u magacowday Guddi ka kooban Golaha Xukuumadda.
Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin, oo ugu horreyn, ka hadlay shirka dib-u-heshiisiinta kooxaha Soomaaliya ee Kenya, waxa uu sheegay in axsaabta siyaasadda iyo xukuumadda Somaliland ay hore u caddeeyeen mowqifkooda oo ahaa in aanu sinaba u khusayn Somaliland shirkaasi, ilaa haddana aanu jirin wax iska beddelay mowqifkoodii.
Isaga oo iftiiminaya saamaynta uu shirkaasi ku yeelan karo Somaliland, Maxamed Kaahin, waxa uu yidhi; “Marka hore shirka Kenya maanta ka socda oo bilaabmay bishii October 2002, iminkana waxaynu ka warqabnaa in uu yahay kii 15aad ama 14aad, ee lagu magacaabo dib-u-heshiisiinta Soomaalida, kuwaas oo midho dhali-waayey. Xaqiiqda dhabta ah, tani waxay ina tusaysaa in aanu kanna waxba ka duwanayn kuwaas hore, sababta oo ah dadka isugu tegay 95% waa kuwii ka tirsanaa dawladdii keligii-taliyihii Siyaad Barre, oo 21ka sannadood waxay xalili waayeen hadda xalili maayaan. Ta labaad, dhammaan dawladdaha shirka maamulaya midna mid kala aragti ma aha, Soomaalida maamulaysa shirka iyagii isku rayi ma aha, oo waxay dhammaantood muujiyeen in aanu kuwii hore dhaamin, oo waxba ku soo kordhin doonin. Laakiin, waxaad arkaysaa marka shirarka noocaas ahi socdaan dad yidhaahda Somaliland baanu u dhalanay oo shirka taga. Dadkaasi waxay tegi jireen iyaga oo aan Somaliland wakiil ka ahayn, kuwa maanta tagaana waxay la mid noqonayaan ciddii hore, markaa Somaliland arrintaa way ka soo gudubtay.”
4tii bishii July, ee sannadkan ayaa saddexda xisbi Qaran, waxay ku heshiiyeen in wax laga qabto dhawr arrimood oo ay ka mid tahay shirka Nairobi, Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, oo ka hadlaya arrimahaasi halka ay ku dambeeyeen, waxa uu yidhi; “Arrinta shirka Nairobi waxa laga gaadhay lix qodob oo ah mabaadi’dii guud ee arrinta lagaga hadlayey, waxay ahayd mabaadi’da marka laga heshiiyo in xukuumaddu mowqifkeeda siyaasadeed ee ay arrinta ka leedahay keento, kadibna xisbiyada Qaran iyo xukuumaddu siyaasad heer Qaran ah arrinta lagu wajaho.
Sida aynu ka warqabno, waa run oo xukuumaddu mowqif cad bay ka soo saartay, laakiin, waxaad moodaa in maanta halka ay arrintaasi marayso iyo mowqifkii xukuumaddu in aanay is lahayn, ee ahaa ka qaybgeli mayno shirka.”
Waxa uu intaas raaciyey, “Laakiin, Axsaabta siyaasaddu waxay ku heshiiyeen in mowqif siyaasi ah oo cad laga qaato cid kasta oo shirka ku jirta in aynu fikirkeenna siyaasiga ah ka dhaadhicino, markaa arrinta xukuumaddu tafaasiisheedii wixii aynu bulshada caalamka ka dhaadhicin lahayn kuna qancinaynay fikirka aynu ka qabno shirka waxay baaqi ku tahay xukuumadda, waxaana xisbiyada KULMIYE iyo UCID, ka sugayaan Guddoomiyaha UDUB in uu jawaab xadidan ka bixiyo qodobadii axsaabtu ku heshiisay hawlgalkoodii iyo tafaasiishoodii.”
Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, waxa kale oo uu ka dayriyey xaaladda guud ee nabadgelyada dalka, waxana uu tusaale u soo qaatay dhacdadii lagu bililiqaystay dugsiga sare ee Sheekh Bashiir ee magaalada Burco ka dhacday dhawaan, oo uu sheegay in ay ka dhalatay muran dhul.
Isaga oo farta ku fiiqaya sababaha keena muranka dhulka, Maxamed Kaahin, waxa uu sheegay in xukuumaddu ku fashilantay in ay dalka u samayso siyaasad ay ka leedahay qaabka uu Qaranku u maamulayo dhulka. “Waayo,” ayuu yidhi; “marka siyaasiyan nidaam ahaan loo dejiyo ee sharci waafaqsana la sameeyo ayey hawl yaraanaysaa in dhulka aan mushkiladdi ka dhicin.”
Isaga oo tilmaamaya cidda dhulka bixisa waqtigan waxa uu yidhi; “Madaxweynihii dalka ilaa Maayarkii ayaa ka dhammaan la’ balloodh dhul ah oo lagu bixiyo siyaasad.”
Waxana uu duray wareegtadii uu Madaxweyne Rayaale ka soo saaray dhulka dhawaan, oo uu ku tilmaamay mid lagu kaantaroolayo dhulkii la bixiyey wixii ka dambeeyey sannadkii 1991kii, balse aan saamaynayn dhulkii sharci-darrada ay ku bixiyeen Gaani iyo Moorgan iyo madaxdii dawladdii Siyaad Barre.
Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin, waxa kale oo uu si kulul u cambaareeyey jiritaanka Guddiga Nabadgelyada, oo ah ayuu yidhi; “Heer Qaran iyo heer Gobol.” Waxana uu sheegay in ay ku dhisan yihiin nidaam sharci-darro ah oo ka soo horjeeda Distoorka Somaliland. “Waayo,” ayuu yidhi; “Guddigaas Golaha Wakiilladu afar jeer buu diiday in la oggolaado jiritaankooda, ilaa iminkana xukuumaddu way ka dhego-adaygtay in ay Baarlamaanka dhegaysato oo Guddigaas baabi’iso.”
“Sidaa awgeed, waxaan Golaha Wakiillada u soo jeedinaynaa in ay baabi’iyaan sharciyada aan Distoorka waafaqsanayn ee dalka ka shaqeeya,” ayuu raaciyey.
Maxamed Kaahin, waxa kale oo uu ka hadlay dhibaatooyinka ka jira gobollada Bari ee Somaliland, kuwaas oo uu dhaliishooda dusha ka saaray xukuumadda, oo uu sheegay in ay hagratay oo ay ka gaabisay in maamulka Somaliland gaadho gobolladaas.
Ugu dambayn, isaga oo ka hadlaya qodob ka mid ah heshiisyadii ay xisbiyadu gaadheen ee uu sheegay in xukuumaddu ka leexatay, waxa uu yidhi; “Qodobka saddexaad ee odhanaya in Guddi Qaran loo magacaabo arrinta gobollada Bari, way baal-martay xukuumaddu oo heerkii Qaranka waxay u qaadatay in Golaheeda Wasiirada oo keli ah yahay, balse, heerka Qaranka ee la doonayaana waa xukuumadda talada inoo haysa, saddexda xisbi Qaran, aqoonyahannada iyo bulshada shibilka ah ee dalka joogta, dadka kale ee waxgaradka ah ee gobolladaas u dhashay ama gobollada kale, in Guddi laga abuuro oo iyagu bisleeyaan oo baadhaan mashaakilka ay arrintaasi leedahay, dabadeedna xalka loo baahan yahay ay ka talo-bixiso. Cidina uma diidana marka halkaa la gaadho in ay iyadu [xukuumaddu] noqoto cidda hoggaaminaysa.”
Isaga oo jawaab ka bixinayey hadal ka soo yeedhay nin la yidhaahdo Seefta Bannaanka, oo sheegtay Wasiir-ku-xigeen ka tirsan maamulka Cabdillaahi Yuusuf, kaas oo waraysi Idaacadda BBC-da Laanteeda Afka Soomaaligu la yeelatay dhawaan ku sheegay in gobollada Sool, Sanaag Bari iyo degmada Buuhoodle ka tirsan yihiin maamulka Majeerteeniya, waxa uu intaas raaciyey; “Beelaha degga gobolladaas ee shucuubta Somaliland iyo qaddiyaddeeda kala midka ah walaalahooda kale ee reer Somaliland ilaa 1991kii, in maanta la yidhaahdo meeshii kuma jiraan isweydiinteeda waxa leh Goleyaasha Qaranka ee dawladda Somaliland. Hore ayaan u idhi ‘Ciidanka Cabdillaahi Yuusuf Somaliland ayaa soo bakhti afuufta.’ Cabdillaahi Yuusuf waa cunsuri aan wax uu ilaaliyo oo nabadgelyo ahi jirin, oo SSDF ninkeedii iyo aqoonteedii intay halgankii joogeen ku soo dhammeeyey, Somaliland iyo Puntland in uu nabadgelyo xumo ka dhex abuurayo waa khasab oo waa caddaan.”
Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, mar la weydiiyey sababta keentay in maamulka Majeerteeniya sheegtaan dhul ka tirsan Somaliland, dadka degganina ay yihiin reer Somaliland, isaga oo ka jawaabayey su’aashaas waxa uu yidhi; “Ilaa 1991kii, maxaa maamulku u gaadhi waayey gobollada Bari, ma xukuumadda ayaan gaadhsiin, ma dadweynaha gobolladaas deggan baa ina diidan, oo aan Somaliland ahayn, miyaa la qabsaday oo cid kale oo aan Somaliland ahayn baa haysata? su’aalahaas in badan baa laga hadlay, had iyo jeerna marka la doonayo in mushkilad la xalliyo waxa la caddeeyaa mushkiladdu waxay tahay, dabadeedna waxa la raadiyaa xalku waxa uu yahay. Axsaabtu hore ayey u caddeeyeen su’aasha aan leeyahay lama dafiri karo waxa weeye in xukuumaddu ka gaabisay oo ay hagratay in maamulka Somaliland gaadho gobolladaas, ayaa haddana waxa dhacday arrinta lagaga hadlay kulamadii saddexda xisbi siyaasadeed [UDUB, KULMIYE iyo UCID] yeesheen, oo isla oggolaadeen qaabka loo maamulayo gobolladaas oo aha saddexda xisbi Qaran waxay u arkaan in arrimaha Bariga Sanaag, Sool iyo degmada Buuhoodle ay leedahay mudnaanta koowaad ee siyasadeed ee Qaran.
-Wadahadal iyo is-afgarad siyaasadeed ayaa leh mudnaanta in lagu dhammeeyo arrinta Bariga Sanaag, Sool iyo degmada Buuhoodle.
-In si deg-deg ah loo saaro Guddi heer Qaran ah oo ka hawlgasha Bariga Sanaag, Sool iyo Buuhoodle.”
Shirkaa jaraa’id oo ay wadajir su’aalihiisa uga jawaabeen Afhayeenka KULMIYE, Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed, Guddoomiye-ku-xigeenka koowaad ee xisbiga KULMIYE, Maxamuud Saalax Nuur (Fagadhe), iyo Axmed Yuusuf Ducaale, oo ah siyaasi rug-caddaa ah oo ka tirsan hoggaanka sare ee xisbiga KULMIYE.
Md. Axmed Yuusuf Ducaale, ayaa mar la weydiiyey su’aal ahayd sidee ayaad u aragtaan Guddoomiyaha UCID fikirka uu soo jeediyey ee ah in la heshiisiiyo beelaha Koonfurta dalka Soomaaliya ee aynu jaarka nahay, isaga oo si cadho ka muuqato uga jawaabaya su’aashaas waxa uu yidhi; “Beelaha reer Koonfureed [Soomaaliya] heshiisiin mayno, isuna keeni mayno, maadaama ay shalay lahaayeen Somaliland ha ka soo qaybgasho shirka Imbighati [Kenya], wax naga dhexeeyaana ma jiro, Somaliland-na waa Somaliland, Koonfurina [Soomaaliya] sidaa ay u qasantahay ha u qasnaato.”
Md. Maxamuud Saalax Nuur (Fagadhe), oo isaguna ka jawaabayey su’aal ahayd waxa jira warar aan rasmi ahayn oo sheegaya in Salaadiin iyo dad kale oo reer Somaliland ahi oo jooga dalka Imaaraadka Carabta ay doonayaan in ay ka qaybgalaan shirka Imbighati [Kenya]? Waxa uu yidhi; “Xamxamtaasi waa suuq xamxam suuqna in laga jawaabana ma aha, laakiin, waxaanu qabnaa qof Somaliland ah oo xilkas ahi wax in uu ku fikiro oo ay maskaxdiisa gasho ma aha, waa wax laga yax-yaxo ninka Somaliland isaga oo og in uu dawlad iyo Baarlamaan leeyahay, oo axsaab ka wakiil ah bulshoweynta Somaliland jirto, oo aftidii loo qaaday Distoorka Somaliland 97% ay oggolaadeen qaddiyadda iyo goonni-isu-taagga Somaliland. Isaga oo og in doorasho Madaxweyne dhacday, laakiin, waa la arki jiray kuwo in ay malafsadaan u tagi jiray shirarka.”
Maxamed Kaahin, oo ka jawaabayey su’aal ahayd Salaadiinta dhaqdhaqaaqa ka wada Imaaraadka Carabta waxa ka mid ah ayaa la leeyahay qaar taageerayaasha KULMIYE ahaa, arrintaa maxaad ka ogtihiin? Waxa uu yidhi; “Marka hore waxay ila tahay aniga [Maxamed Kaahin] rayigayga horta in ku filan waa ku nidhi oo ma odhanayno war kama hayno, warka Salaadiinta inta aad ka hayso in le’eg annaguna [KULMIYE] maqalkooda waanu ka haynaa, Salaadiinta KULMIYE taageersan ama kuwa xisbiyada kale taageersan midna ma mala-awaalayno iminka hebel iyo hebel baa idiin tegaya, idinka [saxaafadda] laftiina la idiinka baahan yahay sida aad warka ku haysaan, Salaadiinta aad magacooda haysaan ama KULMIYE taageeraal ha u ahaadeen ama xukuumadda taageerayaal ha u ahaadeene, annagu [KULMIYE] laftayadu waxaanu haynaa warar odhanaya xukuumadda lafteeda ayaa wax ka og dadka tegaya shirka, haddana iminka in aan idhaahdo xukuumadda iskaga miis mucaarad baad tahaye waa laga wanaagsan yahay, waxaanay ku fiican tahay wax la taaban karo oo lagu xisaabtami karo in la hayo.”
Maxamed Saalax Nuur (Fagadhe), ayaa isna isaga oo isla su’aashaas ka jawaabayey waxa uu yidhi; “Suldaan annaga [KULMIYE] naga wakiil ah oo magacayaga ku hadli karaa ma jiro. Midda kale ilaa hadda Suldaan yidhi waxaan heshiisiinayaa Hawiye oo Somaliland baan keenayaa ma hayno warkiisa.”
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Friday 12th September at 18:15:34 Somali Enclave Seeks Help to Police Its Coast
NAIROBI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Officials of a breakaway enclave of wartorn Somalia have asked the international community to help safeguard its marine resources from poachers and human traffickers.
"We urge the international community to authorise one of its member nations to protect Somali coastal areas," Awad Ashara, minister of justice and human rights of breakaway Puntland told Reuters. Puntland lies in the north of the fractured country of Somalia and borders another breakaway region, Somaliland.
"We would like the United Nations or the African Union to pass a resolution enabling Somalia's waters to be protected until there is a government in Somalia," he said.
"We are afraid of dumping and the use of fishing nets that have very small holes," Ashara said. "They are damaging the bottom of the sea and destroying the marine species and fertilisation of fish (eggs)."
Ashara said vessels from Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Yemen were the main culprits.
The ships enter Somali waters at great peril. The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) says Somali waters are the world's most dangerous and says a ship would almost certainly be attacked by pirates if it strayed too close to the coast.
Somalia collapsed into chaos in 1991 after the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Peace talks have failed to agree on a successor administration to a transitional national government (TNG) whose three-year mandate expired last month.
Leaders of Puntland, as well as other rival factions have been holding stuttering peace talks in Kenya aimed at ending a decade of anarchy in the country.
Posted on Friday 12th September at 18:13:30 Concern over Food Insecurity in The Sool Plateau
NAIROBI, 12 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The drought-hit Sool Plateau faces increasing food insecurity, having been bypassed by rains that fell in August in other parts of northern Somalia, a food security watchdog says in its latest report.
In its September report, the Food Security Assessment Unit (FSAU) - a joint project of the EC and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation - called for "appropriate responses" from the humanitarian community.
The UN's resident and humanitarian coordinator, Max Gaylard, and acting head of the FSAU, Nick Haan, visited the Sool Plateau, located in Sanaag region, this week to investigate reports of a looming food crisis among pastoralist communities living in the drought-prone area.
"The reports suggests that a humanitarian crisis could be unfolding in the area: the visit of Mr Gaylard and Mr Haan was made to confirm that the issue is serious, and initial discussions suggest that it is" Calum McLean, head of UNOCHA-Somalia, told IRIN.
McLean went on to say that, "it is important that the humanitarian community, local authorities and communities work together to address the causes in order to prevent this crisis occurring in the future, as well as to alleviate the current problem."
A Somali agronomist told IRIN that the problems in the Sool Plateau were complicated by the fact that the area is claimed by both the self-declared republic of Somaliland and the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. The two regions fall geographically within Somaliland, but most of the clans who live there are associated with neighbouring Puntland.
The FSAU report recommends an inter-agency emergency needs assessment to design appropriate responses to the crisis.
Posted on Friday 12th September at 18:12:02 Somali TNG Chief, Salad, Faction Leaders Hold Talks
JEDDAH, 12 September 2003 — The president of Somalia’s Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdi Qassim Salad, and four faction leaders have held talks in Mogadishu to discuss the present Somali peace talks in Kenya. According to press reports on Wednesday, they said the meeting was aimed at salvaging the ongoing Somali talks but did not constitute parallel talks.
The participants in the meeting were: The TNG president, two of Mogadishu’s faction leaders, Muse Sudi Yalahow and Osman Hasan Ato, Barre Hiirale who controls the southern port town of Kismanyo, and Muhammad Habsade of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) in the southeastern town of Baidoa.
All of them have walked out of the peace talks, which is currently being sponsored by the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African body. There were reports that these leaders had been preparing parallel peace talks.
One of the leaders denied that they were organizing parallel talks, saying they wanted to “bring to the fore some of the problems with the Nairobi peace talks, which forced some of us to abandon it.
“What we have begun in Mogadishu is true reconciliation. Leaders who have never spoken to each other are sitting and talking for the first time,” Ato told the UN humanitarian website. It was the first meeting between Salad and Yalahow, who had been among the most implacable opponents of the TNG.
“We want reconciliation among leaders first. Throughout the time of the talks (in Kenya), there has not been any reconciliation. Leaders who came here as enemies remain so to this day. How can such leaders work together in the same government?” said Yalahow, who controls some parts of the capital city and the neighboring region of Middle Shabelle.In a statement issued after their meeting, the participants of Mogadishu meeting called for IGAD to transfer the chairmanship of the talks in Kenya to Somalis. IGAD’s role in the talks should be that of a facilitator and to provide support when needed, they said. “Another issue of importance to the Somali people is the participation in the conference of all those who are currently not there. This includes representatives from the northern regions (the breakaway Somaliland and prominent personalities who have stayed away),” it noted, calling on IGAD to set up a committee of Somali legal and constitutional experts to be advised by international experts.
Salad F. Duhul, Special to Arab News
Posted on Friday 12th September at 18:11:08 Peace Talks Expected to Resume
NAIROBI, 11 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The Somali national reconciliation conference is expected to reconvene this weekend in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after a three-week hiatus, a member of its organizing committee told IRIN.
The talks were adjourned after the reading of a draft charter - an interim constitution - "so that Somali legal experts and a Kenyan constitutional lawyer could harmonise the different views "and come up with a clean document," said James Kiboi of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee which is steering the talks.
The proceedings were also adjourned "due to the absence of a number of prominent leaders", a member of the Somali civil Society group attending the conference told IRIN. Some of the countries underwriting the cost of the talks felt that "the conference will not be broad-based enough without the presence of these people and asked IGAD to give time to bring everyone on board," added the source.
Among those absent from the talks are the president of Somalia's Transitional National Government, Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, prominent Mogadishu-based faction leaders Muse Sudi Yalahow and Usman Hasan Ato, the leader of the Kismayo-based Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) Col Barre Adan Hirale, and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade of the Rahaweyn Resistance Army (RRA).
However, Kiboi, the committee's liaison officer expressed optimism that leaders who had left the conference would rejoin by the end of this week. "We expect all of them to return as early as this Saturday [13 September]," he said.
Kiboi said that once the conference was back in session, it would be expected "to debate and adopt" the charter and move to the third and final phase of the talks, which deals with the thorny issue of power-sharing. This phase will be difficult "but not insurmountable", Kiboi told IRIN. "We have had some difficult times already and we have overcome." There are "tough times in this phase, but I am optimistic any obstacles will be overcome", he added.
The IGAD-sponsored talks began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to Nairobi in February this year. The talks, which are being held in Nairobi's Mbagathi suburb, have been dogged by wrangles over issues such as the interim charter, the number of participants and the selection of future parliamentarians.
Posted on Thursday 11th September at 17:31:51 Dagaallo Weli ka Socda Deegaanka Bu'aalle
Wararka naga soo gaaraya deegaanka Bu'aalle waxay sheegayaan in maalintii labaad uu dagaal ka socdo deegaanka Bu'aalle, kaasoo u dhexeeya laba beelood.
Labadii maalmood ee uu dagaalkan socday ayaa waxaa ku dhintay dhowr qof oo labada dhinac ah, waxaana ku dhaawacmay dhowr kale, wuxuuna dagaalkan ku soo beegmay xilli labada beelood ay u socoto waan-waan ay ku xallinayeen khilaafyo horey u dhex maray oo ay ku dhinteen dad aad u fara badan.
Dagaalkan oo socday muddo laba maalmood ah waxa uu sababay in dad fara badan ay ka qaxaan tuulooyinkii ku dhow-dhowaa Bu'aalle, iyadoo wararkii ugu dambeeyey ay sheegayaan in odayaasha beelaha deegaanku ay dadaal ugu jiraan sidii loo qaboojin lahaa dagaalkaasi, isla markaana ay uga hortagi lahaayeen sidii uusan ugu faafin deegaanno kale.
Ayaamaha
Posted on Wednesday 10th September at 17:38:38 Kooxaha ku Shiraya Muqdisho wax micno leh oo ay soo Kordhinayaan ma Jirto
C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed (Yey) oo ah Madaxweynaha Maamul Goboleedka Putland oo shalay u warramayay weriyeyaasha magaallada Nairobi waxaa wax laga weydiiyey sida uu u arko kulankii shalay ka dhacay magaallada Muqdisho oo ay isugu yimaadeen hoggaamiyeyaasha ka soo horjeeda shirka Kenya, waxa uuna yiri "Shirkii shalay wax macno ah oo uu soo kordhinayo ma jiraan", wuxuuna intaa sii raaciyey "Kooxaha ka maqan shirka waa kuwo markii danahooda ay ka waayeen shirka isaga baxay", wuxuuna sheegay C/llaahi Yuusuf in siyaasiyiinta ku hartay shirka ay ka go'an tahay sidii natiijo wax ku ool ah ay uga soo saari lahaayeen shirka Mbegathi, wuxuuna caalamka ka codsaday in ay sii wadaan taageerada ay u hayaan shacabka Soomaaliyeed.
Waxaa kaloo wax laga weydiiyey sida uu u arko hoggaamiyeyaasha iyaga soo jeediyey in Itoobiya ay faragelin ku hayso shirka dib u heshiisiinta, waxa uuna yiri "Wallaahi ma garan karo meel Itoobiya laga eedeyn karo, waayo Itoobiya waxa ay ka mid tahay dalalka safka hore kaga jira dib u heshiisiinta Somalia sida Kenya iyo Jabuuti".
Ayaamaha
Posted on Wednesday 10th September at 17:37:24 Leaders Discuss Peace Process
NAIROBI, 10 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The president of Somalia's Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, and four prominent faction leaders met on Tuesday in Mogadishu to discuss the Somali peace talks currently underway in Kenya, one of the leaders told IRIN on Wednesday.
The meeting brought together Abdiqassim, the leader of the Juba Valley Alliance, Col Bare Hiirale, Mogadishu-based faction leaders Muse Sudi Yalahow and Usman Hasan Ato, and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA).
It was the first meeting between Abdiqassim and Yalahow, who has been one of the most implacable opponents of the TNG.
Ato told IRIN that the meeting was aimed at "salvaging" the current Somali peace talks being held at Mbagathi, outside Nairobi, under the auspices of the regional Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). He denied that the five leaders were organising parallel talks, saying they wanted "to bring to the fore some of the problems with the Nairobi peace talks, which forced some of us to abandon it".
"What we have begun in Mogadishu is true reconciliation. Leaders who have never spoken to each other are sitting and talking for the first time," Ato said.
The IGAD-sponsored talks began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to Nairobi in February this year. The talks have been dogged by wrangles over the interim charter, the number of participants and the selection of future parliamentarians, among other things.
Habsade told IRIN that a statement issued after Tuesday's meeting called for IGAD to transfer the chairmanship of the Nairobi talks to Somalis, "to make it a Somali-owned conference," in which "IGAD's role should be that of a facilitator and provide support when needed".
According to Habsade, the statement said another issue of importance to the Somali people was "the participation in the conference of all those who are currently not there". This includes representatives from the "northern regions" - a reference to the self-declared republic of Somaliland - and "prominent personalities that have stayed away".
The statement also called on IGAD to set up a committee of Somali legal and constitutional experts to be advised by international experts.
Habsade said there were many problems with the charter (interim constitution) in its current form. "We need Somalis who understand Somali needs to be given the opportunity to correct it," he said.
Yalahow told IRIN, "we want reconciliation among leaders first. Throughout the time of the talks, there has not been any reconciliation. Leaders who came here as enemies remain so to this day. How can such leaders work together in the same government?"
Posted on Wednesday 10th September at 17:30:33 Mogadishu Hit by Skyrocketing Fuel Prices
NAIROBI, 9 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The price of fuel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has more than doubled in just two weeks, sources there told IRIN on Tuesday.
Diesel - the fuel most commonly used by businesses and vehicles - went from 7,000 Somali shillings (30 US cents) per litre two weeks ago to 18,000 Somali shillings (80 US cents) by Monday this week, local journalist Liban Abdi Warsame said.
A cargo of fuel reaching the port of El-Ma'an, north Mogadishu, on Monday, had been expected to alleviate the severe shortage. However, it did not, due to a strike by the Association of Transporters - fuel tanker owners - over "higher fees imposed on them by the port management", said Liban.
There were two main reasons for the shortage, Dahir Ali, a Mogadishu businessman, told IRIN. Firstly, there had been no fuel deliveries in the city for the past month or so. Secondly, those who have fuel have been taking advantage of the scarcity "to get as much for their commodity as they can" before a new shipment arrives. "There is definitely an element of price gouging by some traders," he said.
According to Liban, the shortage and price hikes are affecting "all manner of businesses". There has been less vehicular traffic in Mogadishu and transport costs have tripled. "Bus fares within the city which cost 1,000 Somali shilling are now 3,000 shillings," he said. Transport between Mogadishu and the rest of the country has also been affected.
"Even water costs three times more than it did two weeks ago," he said. The city’s water comes from privately owned boreholes powered by generators that run on diesel.
Local hospitals and schools, which depend on generators for their energy, have also been been affected, Liban added.
A local economist, Mohamed Ali, told IRIN that another reason for the shortages was that traders were unwilling to keep in stock large quantities of any commodity due to the continued depreciation of the Somali shilling against the dollar. One US dollar exchanged at 19,000 Somali shillings on Tuesday, Mohamed said, adding: "The shilling can go up or down against the dollar in a day two or three times."
Posted on Tuesday 9th September at 16:02:43 Somali Jewelry Recovered
Calgary police have recovered more than $500,000 in jewelry swindled from members of the city's Somali community.
But there's little police can do to restore something else the alleged con woman took from her many victims.
"The Somali community is very generous, open and friendly -- she took advantage of that," said Abdi Moses, president of the Somali Canadian Society of Calgary.
"That's the biggest problem now -- the trust she took from the community."
Investigators said the suspect used her knowledge of the Somali culture to tap into victims' inherent generosity.
For now, police are keeping the woman's identity and her alleged sob story from the public to ensure only legitimate victims come forward.
The alleged scam began in December 2002, and involved asking the victims for pieces of jewelry, which the woman pawned for cash and promised to retrieve when she got more money.
Victims began coming forward in February, as time passed and they never got their heirlooms back.
Investigators have identified about 14 victims so far and recovered more than 75 pieces of gold jewelry.
"Some of the victims haven't called us yet -- they may be holding out hope that this lady will come back," said Det. Owen Michaluk.
If you believe you may have been victimized, call Michaluk at 249-7701.
Jason van Rassel
Calgary Herald
© Copyright 2003 Calgary Herald
Posted on Sunday 7th September at 18:01:17 US Denies Djibouti Pressure
The United States has denied being behind moves by the government in Djibouti to expel illegal migrants.
In July, an estimated 100,000 foreigners in the country, some 15% of the population, were told they must leave.
Last Sunday, the expulsion deadline was extended until 15 September.
More than 50,000 have already left, but thousands more have congregated in camps and found themselves stranded on borders waiting for transport, with trains and buses overcrowded.
Many others are afraid to return home, mentioning continuing conflict in Somalia and fears of repression and persecution in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Denials
Warnings by Washington of possible attacks on Western interests in the country are thought to have led the government to clamp down on the foreigners.
The headquarters of the US-led war against terror in the Horn of Africa moved to Djibouti in May with 1,500 United States soldiers stationed there. The country also hosts 2,700 French military personnel, as well as 800 German and 50 Spanish troops.
In a statement, the US embassy in Djibouti said it had "played no role in the formation of the Djiboutian government's current policy".
It added that it was concerned about accusations that migrants had been mistreated during operations to expel them.
The Djibouti authorities have also publicly denied anyone has put pressure on them to carry out the expulsions, though diplomatic sources suggest pressure has been exerted.
Fears
Thousands of illegal immigrants have congregated in a refugee camp some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Djibouti capital along the main road to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Several told AFP news agency of their fears about being forced to return home.
Kibrom Bayru said that as the son of an Ethiopian mother and Eritrean father he fled during the border war between the two countries.
Ahmed Yacin says he was only 10 when Ethiopian police raided his home.
"I was a kid, but I found out later that my father was an activist of the (banned) Oromo Liberation Front," he said.
His Ethiopian mother entrusted him to nomads to lead him to an aunt in Djibouti, where he made a living writing letters in English or Amharic for illiterate compatriots.
Djibouti's capital has been described as a ghost town since people began leaving.
Posted on Friday 5th September at 18:03:43 Somali Coastline Is Much Abused: UN Expert
JEDDAH, 5 September 2003 — Ghanim Alnajjar, the UN expert on human rights in Somalia, has voiced concern that unlawful fishing, toxic-waste discarding and people-smuggling are widespread in Somalia’s territorial waters.
He said that foreign fishing vessels were unlawfully exploiting the fish in the country’s coastline.
“From the information I have, the majority of these ships are European. Human traffickers are using Somalia’s unpoliced waters and Somali boats to carry illegal migrants from Bangladesh and several Arab countries en route to the West.
“The international and local communities need to work together to address the matter urgently,” Alnajjar told reporters on Wednesday, after concluding a 10-day fact-finding mission to Somalia. He described one recent incident in which armed men on board a vessel forced passengers at gunpoint to jump into the sea.
Alnajjar said that he will submit his findings to the UN High Commission for Human Rights later this year, adding that he planned to recommend that a body be created to monitor and protect Somalia’s coastline, just as the international community has in the absence of a government created an agency to control air traffic over the country.
Speaking about the internally displaced people after visiting some northern and southern cities, Alnajjar said that there were some 370,000 such people in Somalia, most of them living in abject poverty and in areas under the control of armed faction leaders.
Salad F. Duhul, Sepcial to Arab News
Posted on Friday 5th September at 18:02:06 Wafdi ka Socda DKMG ah iyo RRA-da oo soo Gaaray Muqdisho
Wafdi ka socda Dowladda KMG ah iyo Jabhadda RRA-da ayaa shalay soo gaaray magaallada Muqdisho.
Wafdiga hore ee Dowladda KMG ah waxaa hoggaaminayay Guddoomiye ku xigeenka Golaha Baarlamanka Maxamed Cabdi Yuusuf, waxayna dhowaan magaallada Nairobi u tageen arrimo ku saabsan shirka dib u heshiisiinta.
Maxamed Cabdi Yuusuf waxa uu waday farriin qoraal ah oo uu ka waday Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya C/qaasim Salaad Xasan oo ku saabsanaa qaabka loo wadi karo shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed, waxaana intii uu joogay dalka Kenya uu kulammo la yeeshay mas'uuliyiinta Dowladda Kenya, isagoo ku soo qaaday farriin jawaab ah oo ku saabsan shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed.
Wafdiga kale waxaa hoggaaminayay Guddoomiye ku xigeenka RRA-da Maxamed Ibrahim Xaabsade oo isagu inta uu joogo Muqdisho kulammo kula yeelan doona kooxaha ay isku mowqifka ka yihiin shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed.
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Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:56:33 Cismaan Caato oo Sheegay inuu ka soo Horjeedo
Muqdisho(Jam)-Cismaan Xasan Cali Caato, oo ka mid ah Hoggaamiye kooxeedyada ugu awooda badan magaalada Muqdisho, ayaa sheegay inuu ka soo horjeedo in dad reer Somaliland ah oo aan oggolaansho ka sidan xukuumadda Somaliland lagu casuumo shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaalida uga socda magaalada Nayroobi ee dalka Kenya iyada oo ujeedadu tahay in lagu kala qaybiyo shacbiga reer Somaliland.
Cismaan Caato oo u waramayay weriyaha Jamhuuriya uga soo warama magaalada Muqdisho Mr. Yaasiin Maxamed, isaga oo daba jooga warar sheegayay in dad u dhashay Somaliland lagu marti qaaday shirkaasi waxa uu sheegay in aanay Siyaasiyiinta Beesha Hawiye badankoodu oggolayn wararkaasi la isla dhex marayay toddobaadyadii u dambeeyay oo sheegayay in madax dhaqameedyo, siyaasiyiin iyo Ganacsato u dhashay Somaliland si gooni gooni ah loogu martiqaaday.
“Haddaanu nahay Beesha Hawiye waxaanu qabnaa in reer Laas-Caanood, Warsengeli iyo Samaroon-ba yihiin reer Somaliland xaq iyo xuquuq-bana ay la wadaagaan Beesha Isaaq” ayuu yidhi Cismaan Caato, waxaanu intaa ku daray in aan Hawiye doonaynin godob kale inay ka galaan dadka reer Somaliland oo ay ka dhex abuuraan dagaal kale oo burburiya nabad gelyadooda.
Cismaan Xasan Cali (Caato), oo u jawaabayay Cabdi Qaasim hadalo uu dhawaan Warbaahinta Caalamka ka sheegayay in aanu shirka ka qayb galayn haddii aan Somaliland ka soo qayb galin shirkaasi, isaga oo ku eedeeyay madaxda shirka in Shirkui yahay mid lagu kala qaybinayo Soomaalida, waxa uu Cismaan sheegay in siyaasiyiinta Hawiye aanay badankoodu Cabdiqaasim ku raacsanayn fikirkiisaas, “Dedaalka Cabdiqaasim isugu hawlayo in lagu kala jejebiyo Somaliland waxa keliya oo lagaga gaashaanman karaa ” ayuu yidhi, “In reer Somaliland aanay aamusin ee ay la hadlaan Siyaasiyiinta Hawiye ee fikirka wanaagsan qaba, balse aanay shuruud ku xidhin wada hadal, ee ay Albaabada wada hadalka furaan si is faham u yimaado oo looga hortago in mar kale colaad labada shacab la kala dhex dhigo”
Isaga oo la hadlayay Cabdiqaasim waxa uu sheegay in aanay habboonayn in uu eedeeyo Qabaa’il iyo dawladdo isaga oo ku andacoonaya inay is hortaageen maamulka wakhtigiisii dhammaaday, kaas oo uu hore Cismaan Caato ugu tilmaamay inuu yahay hoggaamiye kooxeed cusub oo ku soo biiray hoggaamiyayaashii ka horeeyay.
Ugu dambayntii Cismaan Caato waxa uu sheegay in uu qabo in Hawiye samaysto Gole Guurti oo la mid ah Golaha Guurtida Somaliland, inkasta oo uu ka dayriyay sida ay ku hirgeli karto isaga oo ku sababeeyay inay gacan shisheeye oo lagu kala qaybinayaa ku dhex jirto.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:51:57 Rein in Somalia Warlords, Says Candidate
The international community and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) have been urged to take tough measures against Somalia warlords if the ongoing peace initiative to succeed.
Somalia presidential candidate, Al Haj Mohamed Yassin, said the activities of the warlords should be curtailed if any progress is to be made in the peace process .
"As we resume the reconciliation process, there is need for the stakeholders to act tough on the warlords as there will be contentious issues like power-sharing, which will be discussed," he said.
Yassin was speaking during a Press conference in Nairobi yesterday.
He said despite the two previous peace initiatives being marred by a lot of problems, they had made some achievements.
"But there is no way the leaders of the warring factions can be reconciled if they are allowed to operate as they wish and continue amassing wealth and weapons back home," Yassin said.
The 52-year-old businessman called for the active involvement of Somalia's tribal leaders in the peace talks, saying the group was neglected in previous meetings despite being the key to the efforts.
He said the traditional leaders should be the ones to select individuals for the transitional parliament and not faction leaders.
"The warlords are benefiting from the ongoing war and they will not allow the power-sharing initiative," said Yassin.
He said Somalia citizens wanted peace but were being "held at ransom" by the warlords.
By Rodgers Ng'etich
Copyright © 2003 . The Standard Ltd
Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:50:34 Somalia Needs Big Power Involvement
NAIROBI, Sept. 4 — Ruined Somalia needs the big powers to push it towards peace but major nations are repelled by its image as a quagmire in which U.S. forces floundered a decade ago, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
The U.N. Secretary-General's special representative for Somalia said one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security China, Britain, France, the United States and Russia could make a difference in a country which collapsed in chaos in 1991 after the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
What is missing in the Somali mix is a member of the Permanent Five that really pushes for Somalia, said Winston Tubman, Secretary General Kofi Annan's political representative at 11 month-old Somali peace talks in Kenya.
The African Union can be interested, the European Union can help, but what you need is some driving force (by a big power) in my experience, Tubman told Reuters in an interview.
U.S. military involvement in Somalia ended in humiliation in 1993 when 18 U.S. personnel in a U.N. peace force called UNOSOM were killed in a battle in Mogadishu recalled in a recent Hollywood film called ''Black Hawk Down.''
Somalia did attract such interest when UNOSOM was here and the Americans were taking that lead role,Tubman said.
Then of course they had the (1993) setback. That has made the Somali image in America very difficult to sell. No one in the American establishment is rushing to the rescue of Somalia.''
Factions at the Kenya talks have yet to agree a successor administration to a transitional national government (TNG) whose three-year mandate expired last month.
The Arab-backed TNG controlled only parts of the capital. Most of the rest of the nation is in the grip of rival warlords.
Mediators say most of the funding for the talks in Kenya has come from the European Union and its member states.
They say U.S. financial support has been modest and interest was minimal from France and Britain, the Permanent Five nations with most Africa experience and who have intervened to stabilise Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone respectively in recent years.
For most of the past nine years, no expatriate U.N. staff have been based in Mogadishu, the most dangerous part of the country, although officials visit the capital for short periods.
Tubman, a Liberian, said UNOSOM's nation building aspirations had been admirable as was Britain's role in bringing peace to Sierra Leone on the western side of the continent.
That kind of engagement would help Somalia, Tubman said, drawing also on the experience of his native Liberia, where West African bloc ECOWAS sent peacekeepers as U.S. troops stood by offshore.
I am a Liberian and one of the things we feel now is missing in Liberia -- we've got a little dose of it but not enough yet - is that the Americans should play the role in Liberia that the British played in Sierra Leone. Somalia could benefit from that kind of involvement by some major power.''
He added that in the absence of that kind of heavyweight involvement it was up to Somalis to bury past feuds and agree on a new government. That would impress U.N. member states, who would then look more favourably on requests for support including for the provision of peacekeepers, he said.
Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.
Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:45:19 UN Expert Calls for Urgent Attention to IDP Camps
NAIROBI, 4 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - A UN-appointed independent expert on human rights for Somalia has said that appalling conditions in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) should be tackled urgently.
Speaking at the end of an 11-day mission to Somalia, Dr Ghanim Alnajjar called on the international community, local authorities and civil society groups to address the issue, according to a press statement from the UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office for Somalia.
“The camps are in the worst conditions you can imagine,” Dr Alnajjar said. “They have absolutely no basic services such as water, health facilities or schools. They have to pay to use very basic toilets on the land on which they have settled and in addition, are also charged rent.”
There are an estimated 370,000 IDPs throughout Somalia, "most of them living in abject poverty and in areas under the control of armed faction leaders", the press statement noted.
Alnajjar visited IDP camps in Hargeysa, the capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland; Bosaso, in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland; and Kismayo, southern Somalia. He was, however, unable to visit the capital Mogadishu, where most IDPs live, due to insecurity.
In Kismayo, he met officials of the Juba Valley Alliance which controls the area and which is currently engaged in disarming militias. “This is one of the more positive things,” Alnajjar said. "It is a good effort made by the Somalis themselves and from their own budget.”
While in Somaliland he met President Dahir Riyaale Kahin and visited Hargeysa prison which he described as "the worst prison in the area with no sanitary facilities". But he noted that the general trend in Somaliland was more positive than last year.
Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:41:23 Court Orders Harsher Sentences for Somalis
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Jail terms for two Somali men who worked for a business linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network were too light, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The court ordered new sentencing for the men on counts of illegally structuring bank deposits totaling $7.5 million at the Alexandria, Va., branch of the al-Barakat money transfer network.
Abdirahman Sheikh-Ali Isse was sentenced last year to 18 months in prison. Abdillah Abdi, who worked for him, was sentenced to 10 months.
Federal prosecutors had argued that the men should receive sentences of three to five years based on the size of the deposits.
The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris for the resentencing.
In a plea agreement, Isse and Abdi admitted making deposits in increments smaller than $10,000 to avoid federal reporting requirements.
However, they appealed their sentences, arguing they were entitled to a reduction because they did not know al-Barakat was allegedly funneling money to Osama bin Laden's network.
The appeals court rejected that argument, saying the men also had to prove the funds were the proceeds of legal activity and would be used for lawful purposes.
The court agreed with federal prosecutors who claimed that Cacheris erred in basing the sentences only on the 3 percent commissions paid to al-Barakat, rather than the entire amount of the illegally structured deposits.
Abdi's attorney, Christopher Dean Latsios, and the U.S. attorney's office said they could not comment on the ruling because they had not yet seen it. Isse's attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Isse and Abdi's business was one of several al-Barakat branches raided nationwide in November 2001. The Bush administration froze al-Barakat's assets, saying the organization funneled $15 million a year to al-Qaida.
Somalis in the United States relied on al-Barakat to transfer money because their war-ravaged country has no central banking system.
By LARRY O'DELL
The Associated Press
Posted on Thursday 4th September at 17:40:45 UN Agency Struggles to Manage Thousands of Asylum Seekers
2 September – The government in Djibouti has extended by two weeks the deadline for the departure of illegal immigrants from the East African country, where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been struggling to cope with thousands of people who thronged a transit centre in a last bid to apply for asylum and legalize their stay.
Citing security and economic concerns, the government of Djibouti had given illegal immigrants up to 31 August to leave the country. An estimated 10,000 people, instead of the expected 4,000, turned up at a stadium in the Djibouti capital, Djibouti, where they had been asked to gather ahead of their transfer to a transit centre at Aour-Aoussa, some 120 kilometres away.
"By Saturday, the stadium was teeming with illegal immigrants mixed with asylum seekers, the former anxious to find ways of legalizing their stay in Djibouti ahead of the 31 August deadline for their departure from Djibouti," UNHCR spokesman Rupert Coleville said in Geneva today.
The large turnout at the stadium on quickly outstripped the vehicle capacity arranged by UNHCR, forcing the government to provide additional trucks to transport the waiting crowds at the stadium to the transit centre.
"All activities at the transit centre were completely paralysed by the unruly mobs at the centre. Neither registration of genuine asylum seekers nor food distribution could be started over the weekend," Mr. Coleville said.
Government officials have since deployed military personnel to man the perimeter of the transit centre and police to instil order inside the facility.
UNHCR staff, working with Djibouti government officials, yesterday begun to separate the large crowds of people into three distinct groups: asylum seekers with or without attestations, Somalis from areas south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu and others who are likely to include villagers from the local community.
Posted on Wednesday 3rd September at 17:45:56 Migrants and Traffickers Arrested in Puntland
NAIROBI, 3 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have detained a group of migrants who were waiting to be smuggled into Yemen and the Gulf states, Puntland's deputy information minister told IRIN on Wednesday.
Abdishakur Mire Adan said 52 migrants "who were trying to get on boats" to Yemen were arrested in the coastal village of Marer, 10 km south of Bosaso.
The crackdown comes two weeks after at least 30 would-be refugees, who left Puntland, drowned off the coast of Yemen.
Abdishakuur said those arrested included "20 Ethiopian nationals, with the rest from southern Somalia". "The police have also arrested 10 suspected traffickers", in Bosaso, the commercial capital of the region, he added.
A local journalist told IRIN that the traffickers make most of the arrangements, such as collecting the fee and making deals with the boats in Bosaso, and then send the people to Marer to be picked up.
Abdishakur said Puntland would ensure that no-one used its territory as a transit point for human trafficking. "We have stationed police in areas such as Marer, favoured by traffickers, to cut off as many exit points as we can," he noted.
He pointed out, however, that Puntland needed help in controlling problems of this kind.
"We need assistance from the countries which are the potential destinations of the migrants to stop such trafficking," he stressed. "Many international organisations and governments make statements deploring human trafficking but do nothing to help stop it."
"Migrants are desperate people and desperate people do desperate things," he pointed out. "We need not just police action but also to help these people stay home."
The police operation is still continuing, with the police hunting for more traffickers.
"Those arrested will be brought before the courts soon," Abdishakur said. "It will be up to the court to decide what happens to the migrants, but the traffickers will face appropriate legal action."
Posted on Wednesday 3rd September at 17:44:10 Ciidammada oo Intooda Badan ay ka Imaan Doonaan Afrika
Marka la soo gabogabeeyo shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed ayaa la qorsheynayaa in Somalia loo soo diro ciidammo nabad illaalin ah oo hubka ka dhiga koxaha Malleeshiyooyinka ah, waxayna ciidammadaasi intooda badan ay ka imaan doonaan waddada Q/Afrika.
Ciidanka ugu xooggan ayaa waxa uu noqon doonaa ciidammo ka socda Waddanka Koonfur Afrika waxayna tiradoodu gaaraysaa sida la qorsheeyey 3-kun oo askari, waxaa kaloo la filayaa inuu Taliyaha ciidammada guud ee dalka la keenayo uu noqdo Jeneral u dahashay K/Afrika. Dowladda K/Afrika dhawaan ayay Somalia u soo magaco-wday ergey uga wakiil ah arrimaha Somalia; Ergey-gaasina waxa uu dhawaan kulammo kula yeeshay Nairobi siyaasiyiin ka tirsan hoggaa-miyeyaasha Soomaaliyeed, waxa uuna sheegay in dowladda K/Afrika ay aad u danaynayso in Somalia ay nabad ka dhalato.
Waddamo kale oo dari la ah Somalia ayaa iyana aad u danaynaya inay ku soo biiriyaan ciidammada Nabad-ilaalinta ee imaanaya Somalia waxaana waddamadaasi ka mid ah: Itoob-iya, Kenya iyo Jabuuti; iyadoo dhawaan ay dalka yimaa-deen saraakiil ka socota ururka M/ Afrika oo daraasad ku samey-nayay hubka yaalla Somalia.
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Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:55:31 KMG-ka ah oo ka Xumaatay Jawaabtii ay ka Heleen Kenya
Maalintii shalay ahayd ayaa waxaa Hotel Saxaafi lagu soo bandhigay labo qoraal oo ay dowladda kMG-ka ahi u dirtay dowladda Kenya, labada qoraal mid waxaa ku saxiixnaa Madaxweyne C/qaasim Salaad Xasan, midka kalena waxaa ku saxiixnaa labada gole, waxayna labada qoraal ku saabsanaayeen Mowqifka Dowladda KMG-ka ahi ka taagan tahay shirka dib u heshiisiinta Soomaaliyeed iyo qodobbada ay doonayso in wax laga bedelo.
Dowladda KMG-ka ah waxay aad uga xumaatay qaabkii ay dowladda Kenya uga soo jawaabtay labadaas qoraal, gaar ahaan dhinaca Baratakoolka, waxayna sheegtay dowladda KMG-ka ah in dowladda Kenya ay ka dhego furaysatay waxyaabihii ay dowladda KMG-ka ahi doonaysay oo ah qaabka uu u najaxi karo shirka Soomaaliyeed ee ka socda Kenya.
Dowladda Kenya horey waxay u sheegtay in inta badan wax laga bedelay qodobbadii ay dowladda KMG-ka ahi doonaysay, balse dowladda Kenya waxay sheegtay in bedelaadda ergeyga Kenya ee arrimaha Soomaaliya ay u taallo shacabka Soomaaliyeed.
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Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:53:22 Rabshado ka Dhacay Magaalada Burco
Burco (Jam)- Rabshado culus oo Rasaas la isu adeegsaday oo Hal qof ku dhintay laba kalena ku dhaawacmeen, isla markaana waxa dab lagu qabadsiiyay dhismihii Dugsiga Sare ee Sh.Bashiir ee magaalada Burco ayaa shalay kla dhacay magaalada Burco, kadib markii iska-hor-imaad gacanta la isula tagey uu Ciidanka Booliska ee la shaqeeya Dowladda Hoose ee Burco iyo dad ka gadooday hawl-gal la doonayey in lagaga raro goob dhul dan-guud ah oo ay degenaayeen.
Rabshadahaas oo bilaabmay subaxnimadii hore ee shalay ayaa sababay xiisad kulul oo ka abuurantay Burco. Rabshaddaas oo socotay muddoo saacado ah waxa ay xayirtay socodkii gaadiidka ee wadooyinka ku dhaw goobta iska-hor-imaadku ka dhacay.
Taliyaha Qaybta Booliska ee Gobolka Togdheer ayaa Jamhuuriya u sheegay in Ciidanka Boolisku ku hawlan yihiin sidii loo dejin lahaa Xaaladda kacsan ee ka aloosantay Rabashaddaas, iyada oo Sagaal Qof loo xidhay rabashaddaa gacan-ka-hadalka ah.
“ilaa hadda waxanu ku hawlanahay sidii aanu xaaladda u dejin lahayn.” Ayuu yidhi Taliyaha Boolisku.
Taliyuhu wuxuu sheegay in dhinaca ciidanka Boolisku ay ka dhaawacmeen laba askari, dhinaca kalena hal qof oo Rayid ah ayaa ku dhintay.
Waxa uu intaa ku daray in ay daba-gal ugu jiraan wixii dhaliyay Rabshadda.
Gudoomiye-ku-xigeenka Golaha Degaanka Burco, C/risaaq Maxamed Jaamac oo Jamhuuriya u waramay, ayaa isaga oo faahfaahin ka bixinayay sida rabshaddu u dhacday waxa uu yidhi; “ Subaxnimadii hore ayaanu tagnay goobta Rabashaddu ka dhacday, anagoo u soconay in aanu soo eegno, markaas waxa naloo sheegay in aanay diyaar u ahayn dadka deganaa meesha rabshaddu ka dhacday in goobtaas laga raro oo raro goobihii loo diyaariyay. Kadibna waxa nalagu bilaabay rasaas iyo dhagaxan, kadibna dib ayaanu uga soo noqonay ciidankii nala socdayna waxaanu ku amarnay inaanay wax rasaas ah ridin”.
C/rasaaq oo isagu hadda ku-simaha Guddoomiyaha Golaha Deegaanka Burco, ayaa wuxuu intaas ku daray in hadda ay dhammaatay wakhtigii odayaynta ee hadda rabshadahan iyo arrintan lagu xalin doono tallaabo cad oo sharciga waafaqsan, ayuu ku soo koobay hadalkii.
Guddoomiyaha Gobolka Togdheer Cadbi Xuseen Dheere oo arrintan wax ka waydiinay ayaa wuxuu yidhi;
“Arrintan rarida muddo badan ayay socotay, sidii dadkan dhul loogu heli lahaa, ka dibna dhul baa loo iibiyay, loo diyaariyay, wax walba waanu isku afgaranay, guddi ka kooban 23 xubnood oo ay iyagu soo doorteen dadka halkaasi degan ayaanu mar kasta ka wada soconay oo xitaa xalay oo u dambaysay waanu wada joognay, waxaana mar kasta balan noo ahayd in 1/9/03 dadka loo raro dhulka loo diyaariyay, markaa maanta waxa dhacay waxaanan filayn oo waad aragtaan, waxaana ka masuula dhinacooda dadkaa degan mesha”.
Wuxuu intaa ku daray isagoo ka jawaabay sida wax lagu xalinayo hadda, wuxuuna yidhi;
“Horta meesha ay dadku degan yihiin waa dugisgii sare ee Sh. Bashiir, taasoo haya’adii tidhi waanu dhisaynaa, markaa waxay ila tahay hadda in hab dawladeed uun wax lagaga qaban doono”.
Dhinaca kale ilaa galabnimadii ayay socdeen rabshadahani oo ay hor kacayeen dumar iyo dad dhallinyaro ahi, kuwaas oo jidkii laamiga ah ay ku goynayey dhagaxaan iyo oodo gubanaya, waxayna dadkaasi ka soo hor jeedaan in laga raro goobtan, kuna andacoonaya in dhulkan si gaara looga rarayo, isla markaana sheegaya in mar lala raro dadka la midka ah.
Waxa kale oo iyana rabshadahani muujiyeen tayo darida iyo awood la’aanta ciidamada Booliska Burco oo aan saaka haba yaraatee mar keliya la arag.
Waxa isna la gubay lana bililiqaystay wixii yaalay dugsigii sare ee Sh. Bashiir gelinkii dambe ee maanta, waana dugsiga keliya ee sare oo arday dugsi sare ahi wax ku dhigan jirtay, kaas oo ay qaybo badan oo fasalo ahi ay dunsan yihiin hadda.
Dhinaca kale, Xisbiga KULMIYE oo ka tirsan axsaabta siyaasadeed ee Somaliland ayaa isaguna muujiyey sida ay uga xun yihiin rabshada shalay ka dhacday magaalada Burco.
Xisbiga KULMIYE waxa uu ugu baaqay shacbiga reer Burco inay xasiliyaan xaaladda ka dhalatay rabshada shalay dhacday, isla markaana waxa uu ka codsaday xisbigu dadweynaha inay ka hawl galaan si aanay arrintaasi saamayn ugu yeelan nabadgelyo xumo ka dhacda magaalada Burco.
Mudane Maxamed Kaahin Axmed oo ka tirsan Golaha Fulinta ee xisbiga KULMIYE oo xalay noogu yimid xafiiska Jamhuuriya ee xaruntiisu tahay Hargeysa, isagoo ku hadlayey magaca xisbiga KULMIYE, ayaa baaq nabadeed u jeediyay dadweynaha Burco waxa uu yidhi;
“Shaqaaqada ka dhacday Burco aad iyo aad ayuu xisbiga KULMIYE uga xun yahay, ee dhaawaca iyo dhimashada keentay, waxa uu ugu baaqayaa dadweynaha reer Burco arrintaa nabadgelyada ee hab-dhaqankeena ka mid ah in la adkeeyo, gaar ahaan waxaan ugu baaqaynaa dadweynaha reer Burco in arrintaasi rabshadu ka dhacday nabadgelyo lagu soo dabaalo ama lagu dhammeeyo, shacbiga arrintaasi ay saamaysay waxa aanu ka codsanaynaa in gadoodka la joojiyo, isla markaana talada dhulka la dhigo arrintaana nabadgelyo lagu dhammeeyo.
Xukuumaddana waxaanu u soo jeedinaynaa iyadoo ay nidaamka, cunfiga iyo qawaaniinta iyo dastuurka ay ka mid tahay in xukuumaddu sharciga iyo nidaamka ay fulinayso in haddana hannaanka mar walba wax loo fulinayo uu noqdo mid aan abuuri Karin iska hor-imaad nabadgelyo darro dhalin kara oo ay ku maamusho deganaansho iyo hab maamul iyo qaab siyaasadeed, arrintaasi ayaan xukuumadda usoo jeedinaynaa.
Dhallinyarada kun Gobolka Togdheer, gaar ahaan magaalada Burco waxaanu ka codsanaynaa inay si gaar ah xil iskaga saaraan sidii arrinta ay u xasilin lahaayeen nabadgelyana ugu soo dabaali lahaayeen.
Jamhuuriya
Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:51:01 Djibouti to Expel 100,000 Illegal Immigrants
ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 1 — Djibouti plans to expel more than 100,000 illegal immigrants, or 15 percent of the tiny Red Sea state's population, who are considered a threat to security, Djibouti's ambassador to Ethiopia said on Monday.
The government of Djibouti will deport over 100,000 illegal immigrants considered to be a threat to the peace and security of the country,'' ambassador Ibrahim Mohamed Kamil told Reuters in an interview.
Without proper documents, how do we know whether an individual is a terrorist biding his time to cause harm or not?'' he said.
Kamil denied that Djibouti had been under pressure from Western governments, especially the United States which has a military base in the country, to expel the foreigners.
Djibouti is a sovereign country. We do not take directives from anybody,'' he said.
A U.S.-led counter-terrorism operation in the Horn of Africa moved its headquarters to Djibouti, whose population numbers around 640,000 people, in May.
The mission covering Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Yemen, aims to prevent militants operating in a region where large swathes of territory are beyond the control of central governments.
Kamil said the number of people living in streets, slums and along rail lines linking Djibouti with Addis Ababa was growing.
The country has become insecure. There had been muggings and thefts on Djibouti's streets by persons who entered the country illegally,'' he added.
He said that of the total to be expelled, 60,000 are Ethiopians, 30,000 Somalis, 10,000 Yemenis and 1,000 Eritreans. An unidentified number of Senegalese and nationals from other countries would also be expelled.
The former French colony announced late on Sunday it would extend until September 15 a deadline for illegal immigrants to leave Djibouti which had been due to expire on Sunday.
Many trying to return home by road or rail have been stranded, with trains and buses overloaded with people.
More than 600 Ethiopians expelled from Djibouti returned to Ethiopia on Monday, bringing the total number of arrivals to 16,000 since last week, an official from Ethiopia's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) told Reuters.
Some (of the expelled) were carrying small possessions, but the majority were without any belongings and without cash,'' said Betselot Birahnu, a DPPC official, adding that he expects up to 40,000 more Ethiopians to arrive in the next few days.
(Additional reporting by Yasser Boullo in Djibouti)
Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.
Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:49:01 Djibouti Telecom Joins GSMA
LONDON -- The GSM community celebrated another milestone in August as membership of the GSM Association (GSMA) broke through the 200-country barrier.
The Association - the global trade organisation for GSM operators - now numbers some 592 operator members in 203 countries with more than 909 million customers worldwide.
New countries joining the GSM community recently include the Bahamas, Kiribati, Comoros, Guatemala, Djibouti (the 200th country), and Timor Leste (the 201st), Honduras (202) and Guyana (203). 99.7% of the world's population lives in countries that have selected GSM.
Welcoming the news, CEO and Member of the GSMA Board, Rob Conway described GSM as the world's biggest commercial co-operative and a mobile telephony eco-system.
"No one country, and no one company owns GSM," he said. "It is an open standard that is providing service to approaching one billion people globally and employment and opportunity to millions.
"The strength of the GSM eco-system lies in the removal of barriers to market, the economies of scale for manufacturers, the return for investors, the opportunities for application developers, the ability to evolve into 3rd Generation (3GSM) mobile services, and the sheer reach and reliability of the service provided to users.
"It is a phenomenal package, unrivalled by any technology anywhere in the world," he concluded.
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Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:46:50 Freelance Militias Disarmed in Kismayo
NAIROBI, 2 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The Juba Valley Alliance (JVA), which controls the port town of Kismayo, southern Somalia, has launched a security operation aimed at clearing guns from the town's streets.
"The operation has a dual purpose," JVA spokesman Abdirahman Haji Waldirah told IRIN on Tuesday. "To encamp all the JVA militias and then identify and arrest the freelance gunmen who have been the major cause of insecurity in the town."
"We have put all JVA forces in four camps to keep them out of the town. Anyone carrying a gun outside of these camps will be treated as a criminal," he said.
"So far we have removed 1,374 guns from the streets and arrested over 47 suspects on various charges," he added.
The operation which was launched last month "went into top gear in the last week or so", a local humanitarian source told IRIN.
"I hope they sustain it. Kismayo has been experiencing an increase in insecurity in the last few months. Since the start of this operation there has been a marked improvement in the security situation of the town."
Abdilatif Hashi, a Kismayo businessman, told IRIN that the townspeople welcomed the JVA's action, but added that the operation must be sustained.
"They have undertaken similar operations in the past which later fizzled out," he noted. "They must keep up the pressure and not allow the gangs to return."
Waldirah told IRIN there was "no turning back". "This will continue until Kismayo is safe," he stressed.
He added that the Alliance had, for the first time since it captured the town in 1999, started collecting taxes. "If people want security and other services they have to pay for it, and paying taxes is the way," he stressed.
He said the JVA would expand its anti-crime operation to remove militia checkpoints "which litter the Kismayo-Mogadishu road". The 500 km road had become very dangerous of late, with increased banditry and extortion of travellers by militiamen manning the checkpoints, he said.
Posted on Tuesday 2nd September at 17:42:13 Appeals Panel to Review Somali Man's Drug Conviction
PORTLAND (AP) A federal appeals court in Boston this month takes up the case of a Somali refugee whose drug conviction for use of the stimulant khat could spell deportation.
Thirty-one-year-old Abdigani Hussein of Portland was sentenced in February to one year of probation for use of the stimulant. It was Maine's first case involving khat.
Hussein's lawyer, Joseph Groff, argued that khat is used in Africa in much the same way that coffee is used in the United States.
The problem arises because an ingredient in khat is similar to amphetamines, which is included on the list of federally controlled substances.
Hussein faces potential deportation because of the felony conviction. Groff claims there's was not enough evidence for jurors to find that his client knew that he possessed a controlled substance.
Posted on Monday 1st September at 17:53:57 Somaliland: Wasiiradii la Diiday Ansixintooda
Hargeysa (Jam)- Guddiga joogtada ah ee Golaha Wakiilada Somaliland, ayaa sheegay in Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland Mudane Daahir Rayaale Kaahin ay u gudbiyeen qoraal ay guddigu ku caddeeyeen Madaxweynuhu inuu jawaab ka siiyo Golaha Wakiilada sababta ay weli xilka u sii hayaan Shan xubnood oo ka tirsan Golaha Wasiirada oo Golaha Wakiiladu diiday ansixintooda Wasiirnimo dabayaaqadii bishii Jully, markaas oo uu Madaxweynuhu magacaabista xubnaha golaha Xukuumaddiisa cusub soo hor dhigay fadhiga Golaha Wakiilada si ay u ansixiyaan.
Guddoomiyaha Guddiga Joogtada ah ee Golaha Wakiilada Mudane Xuseen Xaaji Cabdi Caamir iyo Xoghayaha Guddigaasi Mudane Kayse Xasan Kaahin, oo Jamhuuriya u waramayey Axaddii dorraad, ayaa ka warbixiyey hawlo ay guddigoodu muddooyinkan ku shuqlanaayeen wax ka qabashada dhawr arrimood oo ay ka mid tahay arrinta Shanta Wasiir ee ansixintooda Golaha Wakiiladu is hor taagay oo weli fadhiya xafiisyada, kuna shaqeeya xilalkii Wasiirnimo, iyada oo ay dhammaatay muddadii sharcigu oggolaa in Madaxweynuhu dib u soo magacaabo xubnahaas, ama uu xubno kale oo cusub u magacaabo xilalka Wasiirnimo ee kuwii la diiday ay weli ku magacaaban yihiin.
Guddoomiyaha Guddiga Joogtada ee Golaha Wakiilada Mudane Xuseen Xaaji Cabdi Caamir, waxa uu sheegay in warqadda ay Madaxweynaha u gudbiyeen uu nuxurkeedu ahaa xalka sharci ahaan uu Madaxweynuhu ka qabo arrinta shanta Wasiir ee kalsoonida ka waayay Golaha Wakiilada, balse weli xilka sii haya, kuwaas oo kala ah:-
1. Wasiirka Waxbarashada, Xasan Xaaji Maxamuud Warsame (Xasan Gadh-weyne).
2. Wasiirka Warfaafinta, Cabdillaahi Maxamed Ducaale
3. Wasiirka Macdanta iyo Biyaha, Qaasim Sheekh Yuusuf
4. Wasiiru Dawlaha Arrimaha Gudaha, Aadan Maxamed Mire (Waqaf)
5. Wasiiru Dawlaha Hawlaha Guud, Aadan Maxamed Diiriye (Aadan Ruush).
“Madaxweynuhu xaq waxa uu u leeyahay inuu dib u soo magacaabo Wasiirada uu hore Golaha Wakiiladu u diiday ansixintooda, ama bedelkooda uu u soo magacaabo qaar kale oo cusub. Is hortaagii hore kama xidhayso Madaxweynaha inuu dib u soo magacaabo xubnihii kalsoonida ka waayay Golaha Wakiilada”, ayuu yidhi Mudane Xuseen Xaaji Cabdi Caamir, isagoo intaa raaciyey; “Nimankan [Wasiirada] goluhu diiday ansixintooda, waa muwaadiniin, waxayna leeyihiin xaqa muwaadin kastaa uu leeyahay, haddii Goluhu mar diiday mar kale ayuu Madaxweynuhu soo celin karaa”.
Mudane Kayse Xasan Kaahin, oo ah Xoghayaha Guddiga Joogtada ee Golaha Wakiilada, ayaa isna yidhi; “Qoraalka aanu u gudbinay Madaxweynaha iyo kulan guddidayadu la yeesheen Madaxweyne ku Xigeenka, waxaanu u bandhignay inay sharci darro tahay Wasiiradii ansixintooda la diiday oo weli ku sii fadhiya kursigii Wasiirnimo iyo fulin la’aanta Madaxweynuhu aanu fulinin in uu soo magacaabo ragga Wasiirada ah ee la diiday ansixintooda beddelkooda, amaba iyaga uu dib u soo magacaabo”.
“Balse, waa sharci daro inay kursiga ku sii fadhiyaan oo ay ku shaqeeyaan xil Wasiirnimo, iyadoo ay dhammaatay muddadii dastuurku oggolaa in Madaxweynuhu soo magacaabo”, ayuu yidhi Kayse Xasan, oo sheegay in Guddigu jawaab ka sugayaan Madaxweynaha qoraalka ay u gudbiyeen.
Guddiga Joogtada ee Golaha Wakiiladu waxa kale oo ay ku hawlan yihiin wakhtigan xog urursiyo iyo u kuur gelid la xidhiidha xaaladaha maamul iyo hawl fulinneed ee qaar ka mid ah hay’adaha maamul iyo kuwa garsoorka ee Dawladda.
Guddigu iyagoo u kuur gelaya dhibaatooyinka iyo cabashooyinka ay sheegeen inay ka soo yeedhayaan hay’adaha qaarkood, ayaa waxa ay hadda ku hawlan yihiin kulamo ay la yeelanayaan Maxkamadda Sare, Taliska Ciidanka Asluubta, Taliyaha Ciidanka Booliska, Duqa Caasimada Hargeysa, Wasiirka Arrimaha Gudaha, Madbacadda Qaranka iyo meelo kale.
Jamhuuriya
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