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Kenyan Men Reject 'Mutilated' Women
EASTERN UGANDA, 21 June 2004 (BBC)--A new generation of men from
western Kenya, where female genital mutilation is widely practiced,
say they are abandoning their "mutilated" wives and girlfriends for
sexual partners across the border in Ugandan.
They say the practice of genital
mutilation is outdated and those who practice the procedure should
bury the knives that deform women.
The Kenyan men defend their decision to love and marry women from
Uganda, where the practice of female genital mutilation is uncommon.
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Man 'Recklessly'
Gave Women HIV
London, June 21, 2004 (BBC News) – A man "recklessly" infected two
women with HIV while they were unaware he had the virus, a court has
been told.
Inner London Crown Court heard Mohammed Dica, 37, went on to have
unprotected sex with the second woman after the first told him he had
infected her.
Kenyan-born Mr. Dica, from Mitcham, southwest London, denies two
counts of 'biological' grievous bodily harm.
He is accused of infecting the women between 1997-1998 and in 2001 in
the ongoing trial.
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Did Ashcroft
"Behead" An Innocent Man In An Ohio Election-Terror Scam?
By Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis
Columbus, June 21, 2004 (Dissidentvoice) - While the major media
screams about the latest beheading in the Middle East, John Ashcroft's
destruction of a man in the Middle West -- likely for political
purposes -- has gone unnoticed. The ghastly court appearance here in
Columbus, Ohio, of Nuradin Abdi has underscored the high likelihood
that the Bush Administration used variations of torture to break this
impoverished Somali immigrant.
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Traditional Leaders Urge IGAD To Respect
Somaliland’s Borders
Hargeisa, June 26, 2004 (SL Times) – Somaliland’s highest-ranking
traditional leaders have called on IGAD countries to respect and
recognize Somaliland’s colonial boundaries.
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Tip off By A
Foreign Intelligence Said To Have Led To Arrest of Terrorist
Hargeisa, June 26, 2004 (SL Times) – A tip-off by a friendly foreign
intelligence agency is believed to have led Somaliland authorities to
last week’s arrest in Buroa of a man suspected of plotting to carryout
terrorist attacks in Somaliland, reliable sources said.
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Terrorists Talk
To The Press
Group Ring Leader Admits Lending Support To The Brutal Killing Of
Richard And Enid Eyeington
Hargeisa, June 26, 2004 (SL Times) – Five
suspected terrorists awaiting trial in Somaliland for the slaying of
Ms Flora Chepkemol-Cheriyot, a Kenyan woman consultant and for lending
support to the brutal killing of a British couple, Richard and Enid
Eyeington, were met by the press last Tuesday for the first time since
their capture on March 19, 2004.
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Somaliland
Opposition Parties Say Somaliland, Somalia are Separate States
Hargeisa, June 22, 2004 (SL Times) – Somaliland opposition parties
UCID [Justice and Welfare Party] and Kulmiye [Solidarity Party] issued
a statement regarding the Somali peace process that is taking place in
Kenya.
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Will IGAD Listen
To Somaliland?
In an unusual move, Somaliland’s top
traditional leaders got together on Friday to send a message to IGAD
and the international community in which they expressed their serious
concerns over the implications that any attempts to ignore the right
of the Somaliland people and government to exercise sovereignty over
their boundaries will have for stability, not only in this country,
but in the region as a whole.
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The Sovereignty
Of Somaliland And Its Role In The Conflict Resolution Of The Region
Farhiya Ali Ahmed, Johannesburg, South
Africa
Part II [Continued from our previous
issue]
International Perspectives
What are the chances of the
international community giving up hopes for a Somali unity in the near
future, and recognizing Somaliland as a sovereign entity?
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EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMME
By: Ahmed Isse Jama (Gade), Regional Education Inspector
It is not advisable for an in-service
student-teacher in a school to make schemes of work to last a whole
term.
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Rayale: The Right
Choice
Mustafe Kayse Roble, Hargeisa
Dahir Rayale Kahin, whose personality and
leadership qualities were largely unknown to the general public before
the sudden death of the late president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, although
he has served the country’s vice president for number of years, proved
to be the right choice of Somaliland electorates: a capable leader
with no hidden agenda.
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The End Game Of
Somalia’s Unruly War Lords
By Farah Ali Jama, Ottawa, Canada.
Therefore, the ongoing one and a half year
old so-called Somalia Peace Conference at Nairobi, Kenya, the 15th of
its kind and the longest in the history of Mankind, denotes the
beginning of the end of this irrational conference.
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The Real
Madrid Somali Boys: A Story On Football 4 Peace
By Mohamed Mukhtar Ibrahim, London
Football allows people to appreciate
the value of teamwork and healthy competition among the groups and the
individuals.
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Britain's Straw
Hails Kenya Over Sudan Truce
Nairobi, June 25, 2004 (Kenya Times) – The Kenyan government has been
lauded for its role in the successful negotiations in the Sudanese
peace process by the Commonwealth secretariat.
British Secretary of State of Foreign and Commonwealth Affair Jack
Straw, particularly congratulated Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen
Kalonzo Musyoka for his personal contribution to bringing the Sudan
peace negotiations to a successful conclusion.
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Somalia:
Arbitration Committee For Proposed Parliament Formed
Nairobi, 23 June (BBC Monitoring) – Twelve members of the Arbitration
Committee that will resolve any disputes that might arise during the
nomination of the 275 members of Somalia's proposed Transitional
Federal Parliament were on Tuesday [22 June] sworn into office in the
Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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