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Rayale’s Republic of Clanistan
The policy of divide and rule is the mainstay of colonial administrations and dictatorial rulers. It is only through division along tribal lines that such shaky governments retain power and consolidate their grip on the life of their subjects. Rayale’s recent announcement of new regions and districts in Somaliland is a...
March 27, 2008 - 14:37 |
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Warqad furan oo ku socota Madaxda iyo Shacabka Somaliland
Ka dib markii akhristayaal badani naga oo codsadeen in warqadan oo Afka Ingiriisida ku soo baxday aan Af-Soomaali u turjuno, waxan garanay in aan rabitaanka bulshada awgeed warqadan Af-Soomaali ku nashrino – Webmasters.
- Madaxweyne Daahir Rayaale Kaahin, Madawxeynaha Somaliland
- Guddoomiye Axmad Maxamad Silanyo,...
May 01, 2008 - 14:50 |
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An open letter to Somaliland
An open letter to:
- President Dahir Rayale Kahin, President of Somaliland
- Chairman Ahmed Mohammed Silanyo, Chairman of Kulmiye party
- Chairman Faisal Ali Waraabe, Chairman of UCID party
- Speakers of the houses and Members of the two houses
- Somaliland Election Commission
- People of Somaliland
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April 25, 2008 - 17:08 |
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Dubai to set up Prophet Mohammad Museum
Gulf News=
DUBAI, 12 March 2008--His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered the setting up of The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) Museum, to highlight the life and the noble message of the Prophet.
Shaikh Mohammad entrusted the Dubai...
March 12, 2008 - 12:35 |
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Court clears woman in nude photo case
Gulf News, 07 Nov. 2007=
Dubai: A woman has been cleared of secretly taking pictures of her sister in the shower.
The Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the 27-year-old Emirati woman of taking the pictures of her 23-year-old sister.
The woman's lawyer, Saeed Al Ghailani said: "The 23-year-old sister took...
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Saudi wants divorce after husband lifts her veil
Posted on Awdalnews on 09 Oct. 2007=
DUBAI (AlArabiya.net), 08 Oct. 2007--
A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported.
For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native...
October 09, 2007 - 12:28 |
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Remittances of Arab expats rise to $24.7b
DUBAI , 1 January 2007--— Total remittances of Arab expatriates working in the Gulf region and abroad rose 5.2 per cent to $24.7 billion by the end of 2006 from $23.5 billion in 2005, according to the latest World Bank report.
The report said the UAE, accounting for 16 per cent of the total expatriate remittance from...
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India's e-tutors give UK children homework help
Call centres charge £50 a month for unlimited individual help to pupils thousands of miles away
Amelia Gentleman, New Delhi
Sunday September 17, 2006.
The Observer .
When Kelsey Baird began worrying about the complexity of AS-level biology she got a tutor from India. It is more than...
September 17, 2006 - 00:00 |
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50 ways to beat the reaper: how guys can add years to their lives
By Denny Watkins, Men's Health
MSN.COM, 06 Dec. 2007--We've been told that the only sure things are death and taxes. But just as creative accountants have helped many men triumph over their 1040s, we can help you outrun the reaper. Maybe it's a game you can't ultimately win. But by following these 50 tips, you sure as...
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Scientist earmarks planets most likely to hold alien life
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
20 February 2006
Astronomers have identified a star in our Milky Way galaxy that is the most likely candidate for possessing a companion planet that harbours intelligent extra-terrestrial life.
It is a sun-like star called beta CVn in the constellation Canes Venatici and it appears...
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One in 25 fathers is not biological parent - study
James Meikle, health correspondent
11 August , 2005
The Guardian
One in 25 fathers may not be the biological parent of the child they believe to be theirs, according to a study published today.
Its authors say governments and society have not woken up to how DNA testing and genetic profiling are lifting the lid on a...
August 10, 2005 - 22:59 |
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Rare Somalia talks make slow start, U.N. hopeful
By Omar Hassan
DJIBOUTI, 11 May 2008 (Reuters)--Rare peace talks between Somalia's interim government and opposition exiles have made a slow start in Djibouti, but a senior U.N. official said he was encouraged both sides had turned up.
"I am more than hopeful, the Somalis who I met today are committed to peace and...
May 11, 2008 - 13:22 |
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Somalia peace talks to get underway in Djibouti: UN
NAIROBI , 10 May 2008 (AFP) — Somali government officials and exiled Islamist opposition leaders are to hold face-to-face peace talks in Djibouti, the United Nations special envoy to the country said Friday.
Ahmed Ould Abdallah said the UN-sponsored talks will start on Saturday, sitting seven members of Prime Minister...
May 10, 2008 - 13:36 |
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6 killed in attacks in Somalia
MOGADISHU, 10 May 2008 (Zeenews.com)--Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian soldiers killed six people in two separate attacks in southern Somalia on Saturday, a police officer and a witness said, at the end of a week that has seen some of the worst violence in Somalia in recent months.
In one attack, dozens of Islamic...
May 10, 2008 - 13:32 |
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Djibouti president says in 'tricky' standoff with Eritrea
ADDIS ABABA, 09 May 2008 (AFP)-- Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said his army is in a dangerous border stand-off with neighbouring Eritrea's military, according to a release issued Friday.
"There is a hostile action which poses real problems because it is a blatant violation of our territorial integrity, of our...
May 09, 2008 - 15:16 |
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Somalia takes part in ‘World’s Biggest Lesson’ for equality in education
By Denise Shepherd-Johnson
NAIROBI, Kenya, 8 May 2008 (UNICEF)--More than 7.5 million people from over 100 countries – including Somalia – joined together to simultaneously express their feelings about the importance of education last month, as part of a unique event called the ‘World’s Biggest Lesson’.
During the...
May 09, 2008 - 01:12 |
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Safarka Xaabsade iyo weftigiisa ee Boorama maxaa laga milicsan karaa?
Hashim Goth, ANN =
BORAMA, 11 May 2008-- Siyaasiga Maxamed Cabdi Xaabsade oo hore u ahaan jiray Gudoomiyihii golaha wakiilada Somaliland ee 1993 ilaa 1996kii, wakhtigaa ka dibna ay is diideen M/weynihii Somaliland Maxamed Ibraahim Cigaal, ka dibna ka mid noqday ragii dhidibada u taagay maamul goboleedka Puntland, ayaa...
May 11, 2008 - 05:47 |
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Xaflad loo sameeyay degmada cusub ee Magaalo-Cad
Hashim Goth, ANN =
MAGAALO CAD, 08 May 2008--Xaflad loo sameeyay degmada magaalo-cad oo ka mid ahayd degmooyinkii dhawaan uu magaacabay M/weynaha Somaliland Daahir Riyaale, ayaa shalay lagu qabtay D/hoose ee magaalo-cad, waxaana ka soo qayb galay hurin wasiiro ah, sida W/A/Gudaha, W/Beeraha, W/M/Biyaha, W/X/Golayaasha,...
May 09, 2008 - 14:27 |
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Condolence to Saeed Samater's family
On behalf of the Somaliland community in Calgary, Alberta. I would like to send our deepest sympathy and condolences to the Family of Late Saeed Meygag Samater and especially his wife Amran Abdi Musa and their Children. Ina Lilahi Waa Ina Illahi raajicuun – Ilaahay ha unaxariisto marxuum Saeed Meygag Samater, dhamaan...
May 09, 2008 - 14:22 |
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Awdalnews Network mourns the death of Saeed Meygag Samatar
08 May 2008--The Management of Awdalnews Network joins the Somaliland people in mourning the death of Mr.Saeed Meygaag Samatar. Samater has left his mark in the history of our people by his dedication and tireless work for the promotion of the cause of Somaliland. As the founder of SOPRI, an organization that has given the...
May 08, 2008 - 14:44 |
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Madaxweyne Rayaale oo dhambaal tacsi u diray eheladii Siciid Meygaag Samatar
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HARGAYSA, 08 May 2008--Madaxweynaha Somaliland Mudane Daahir Rayaale Kaahin waxa uu tacsi u dirayaa Qoyskii iyo Qaraabadii uu ka baxay Marxuum Siciid Maygaag Samatar oo ku geeriyooday Dalka Maraykanka
Marxuumku waxa uu qayb weyn ka soo qaatay Ololihii Aqoonsiga Somaliland iyo Mashaariic badan oo uu...
May 08, 2008 - 14:41 |
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Laash Ay saarnaayeen laba nin oo ku soo caaryey Lughaya
Hashim Goth, ANN =
Boorama,07 May 2008--Laash nooca kaluumaysiga ah oo ay saaranaayeen laba nin ayaa ku soo caaryey xeebta magaalada Lughaya, Labada nin oo ah Soomaali waxay u sheegeen ciidanka nabadgelyada ee Lughaya in ay ka soo kicitimeen magaalada Mukule ee xeebta wadanka Yamen, waxay intaas ku dareen in ay ahaayeen...
May 07, 2008 - 15:29 |
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UN Special Representative pleased about Somali reconciliation talks
NAIROBI, 08 May 2008 (UNPOS)--The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has expressed optimism ahead of talks between the Transitional Federal Government and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia due to open in Djibouti on May 10 2008.
Mr Ould-Abdallah said he was happy for Somalia as...
May 08, 2008 - 14:53 |
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Somalia's celebrated woman presenter escapes murder
afrol News, 7 May 2008-- A celebrated woman TV presenter of Puntland's privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN) on 4 May escaped murder attempts on her life.
Bisharo Waeys, the last woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of north-eastern Somalia, came under fire from several...
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Report: Somali civilians 'routinely targeted' for brutality
NAIROBI, Kenya, 06 May 2008 (CNN) -- Soldiers, insurgents and bandits routinely target civilians in Somalia for rape, robbery and murder, according to an Amnesty International report released Tuesday.
The report said civilians are caught in the middle as Ethiopian soldiers and troops of Somalia's Transitional...
May 06, 2008 - 13:48 |
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Thousands in Somalia riot against high food prices
By Alisha Ryu
VOA, 05 May 2008--Thousands of people have violently protested skyrocketing food costs made worse by the devaluation of the local currency in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. From our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports that many Somali traders are refusing to accept local...
May 05, 2008 - 14:13 |
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SOMALIA: Some 3.5 million could need food aid by end of year
NAIROBI, 2 May 2008 (IRIN)--Faced with a worsening humanitarian crisis, 3.5 million people - nearly half of Somalia's population - may need food aid by the end of the year, a food security analysis has warned.
The Somali situation was deteriorating fast due to rapidly rising food prices, an abnormally harsh dry...
May 03, 2008 - 01:39 |
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Djibouti cracks down on illegal immigrants -police
DJIBOUTI, 11 April 2008(Reuters)-- Djibouti has arrested and repatriated nearly 7,000 immigrants this year, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, in a crackdown on illegal migration to the Red Sea state, police said on Friday.
Thousands of people in the impoverished Horn of Africa risk death every year trying to cross the...
April 12, 2008 - 10:48 |
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loveless liaison of Ethiopia and the United States
Global Economist, Apr 3rd 2008|
ADDIS ABABA, From The Economist print edition=America and Ethiopia need each other, but their needs are not equal
THE alliance between the United States and Ethiopia was born of pragmatism. In another time, they might have been enemies. Ethiopians do not like American soldiers tramping...
April 04, 2008 - 00:32 |
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The Ogaden: a forgotten war draining a forgotten people
The Guardian, 24 March 2008=
Simon Tisdall in Jijiga, eastern Ethiopia=
The road from Harar runs for more than 600 miles east towards the border with Somalia, penetrating deep into the desiccated badlands of the Ogaden desert, the dusty heart of Ethiopia's war-torn Somali regional state.
Sparse scrub and thorn...
March 24, 2008 - 15:03 |
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Ethiopia war gets little attention
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NAIROBI, KENYA, 23 March 2008 -- The teenager awoke under a pile of corpses to a pricking sensation on her face. Ants were biting her eyelids and the inside of her mouth.
The pain, however, brought relief to the 17-year-old.
I thought, 'I'm alive,' " Ridwan Hassan Sahid remembers. She felt...
March 24, 2008 - 14:56 |
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Idi Amin's dream mosque opens
Posted on ANN on 21 March 2008=
BBC, 19 March 2008--huge mosque begun more than 30 years ago by the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has opened in the Ugandan capital.
The mosque is named after Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi who helped finance its construction when funds ran low.
As Libya's leader opened the...
March 21, 2008 - 13:15 |
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A first for Saudis: Mozart performed for both genders
By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer=
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, 04 May 2008--It's probably as revolutionary and groundbreaking as Mozart gets these days. A German-based quartet staged Saudi Arabia's first-ever performance of European classical music in a public venue before a mixed gender audience.
The...
May 04, 2008 - 03:12 |
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Stop chewing qat if you want to immigrate to US, Yemenis told
By Nasser Arrabyee, Correspondent, Gulf News =
SANA'A,, 31 March 2008--The US embassy in Sana'a said on Sunday it will not allow Yemenis who are addicted to qat, to enter the United States as immigrants.
The immigrant visa applicants should prove they have stopped using qat three years ago at least, if they...
March 31, 2008 - 12:13 |
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Countries condemn Bhutto killing
By ANDREW O. SELSKY,
Associated Press Writer, 27 Dec. 2007--
From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region. World leaders lauded...
December 27, 2007 - 14:07 |
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Fire at Saudi pipeline kills 28
18 November 2007
BBC WORLD NEWS.
At least 28 people have been killed in a fire at a gas pipeline in Saudi Arabia, according to the state oil and gas company Saudi Aramco.
The blaze broke out on a section 30km (19 miles) from the Hawiya gas plant south of Dhahran and occurred during maintenance work, the company...
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Lab suspends scientist Watson for saying Africans/blacks are genetically interior
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor=
WASHINGTON, 19 Oct. 2007 (Reuters)-- A prominent New York scientific laboratory suspended Nobel Prize-winning DNA authority Dr. James Watson on Thursday night over racially insensitive comments he was quoted as making in an interview earlier in the week.
Watson made an...
October 19, 2007 - 02:54 |
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Eelo American University: Where dreams come true
Will Eello contribute any difference to Somaliland as well as the whole region (Africa), was a question that has been popping up in my mind since its foundation.
Fortunately, I got the answer “yes”.
It is only less than two years since its foundation, and you can not imagine how many students have been enrolled in...
May 11, 2008 - 13:55 |
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Africa must produce or perish
Imagine that it is May 25, 2063, the 100th anniversary of Africa Day, a day for reflecting on Africa’s successes and failures. The newspaper headline announces, “Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africa’s American Territory Dries Up.”
The article continues: “The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by...
May 11, 2008 - 13:16 |
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Tribute to Saeed Meygag Samatar
In August 2005, shortly after the SOPRI Convention in LA, I accompanied a visiting official from Somaliland to the UCLA medical hospital where Saeed Meygag Samatar was recuperating from dehydration. In his hospital room, Saeed was lying in the bed receiving fluid through an IV. Our conversation was Somaliland centered....
May 09, 2008 - 14:50 |
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Glory to Said Meygaag Samatar!
The 7th of May 2008 was another sad day in the life of all Somalilanders because another candle that lit the politics domain in the history of modern Somaliland is put down!
A great leader has fallen, but his ideas and vision will not, as he held to his principles with a courageous and truthful commitment in fighting...
May 09, 2008 - 14:30 |
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Loyal Opposition: Beyond Politics of the Pity Protest.
I loath to disappoint anyone but so far I fail to see the main reason behind all of the latest brouhaha and political crisis concocted by the SL’s opposition party. I’m sure many other people feel the same way and for good reason. Somaliland is barely fledgling democracy and yet unrecognized with limited resource and...
May 08, 2008 - 22:48 |
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It is about time Somaliland issues be addressed
All too often minor problems impede any progress that can be made and all too often minor issues are spent too much time, It is about time you ( The MP , The Two Opposition Parties, The President and the House of Elders) to come together and solve this nation’s issues immediately.
Somaliland will prevail and overcome...
May 08, 2008 - 15:04 |
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A response to Yasin's article on Hussein Ali Duale "Awil"
Sir,
Let me state that I had read Yassin Abdillahi's article on Hussien Ali Duale "Awil", but I am unable to figure out the main argument of the article.
Is Yassin saying that Awil, even though he admits that the minister is good at his job and is doing the best, he can't shouldn't be the minister of finance? Well,...
May 08, 2008 - 15:00 |
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What is the secret to Awil’s long era as a Finance Minister?
There is something in this country that has remained persistently fixed for the last five years. Through the good and the bad times; through high profile scandals and background rumblings, it has remained the same.
Through the last five years there was numerous cabinet appointments and dismissals
This man has...
May 07, 2008 - 15:22 |
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Resilience, resourcefulness and risk taking - A Somali grandmother’s story in America
As Somalis fled their country and scattered into the four corners of the globe from Hamilton, New Zealand, to Hamburg, Germany, looking for a safe place and a better life, they faced the challenges of everyday life in strange lands. Many have faced open discrimination and outright hostility. Each time, they tapped into...
May 04, 2008 - 14:40 |
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The hysteria of the opposition
I call it false pregnancy. The opposition want to
deliver without having a baby in the womb. Bad luck
for them. In Somaliland you can not enter the
Government from the back door. What you need is to be
elected and enter from the front door. No other way is
possible. Running hysterically between Hargeisa and...
May 02, 2008 - 00:37 |
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KIINIYAA IS DAGAASHAY (Geeraar)
Maansadan waxa tiriyeye Maxamed Xirsi Guuleed. Waxay soo baxday 2008-01-31
Waxay ku saabsantahay xaaladda siyaasadeed ee dalka Kenya ee cakirantay iyo saadaasha mustaqbalka ee Soomaalida u fiicnaan lahayd. Wuxu Yidhi:
Kiiniyaa is dagaashay
Doorashay isku maagtay
Kun daday iska laysay
Sidii daad isu jiidhe...
February 02, 2008 - 01:52 |
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Gabay baroordiia ah - geeridii Xasan Sheekh Muumin
Tix baroordiiq ah Geeridii Marxuum Xasan Sh.Muumin
waxa tiriyay Abwaan Maxamed Aw Cismaan Maxabe (Maxamed/Dheere) wuxuu tiriyay 17 Jan.08
waxa la yidhaa "Geerida Xasan Sheekh Hubaal Hulay Nagu soo Banaysay"
Dunidu waa heerimaad
Hayaan baa lagu jiraa
Geeridu waa lama huraan
Ruuxnaba ma hareer maroo
Habeenkii ma...
January 21, 2008 - 12:33 |
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