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Abdiqasim Salad
Hasan Says Somaliland’s Cities Deserved To Be Destroyed, And Vows To
Behead His Enemies
Mogadisho, July 3, 2004 (SL Times) – In a speech to a group of his
supporters commemorating the independence of Italian Somalia (July 1),
the leader of the Arta Faction Mr. Abdiqasim Salad Hasan said that
after Siyad Barre and Mengistu reached an agreement, the SNM
infiltrated northern cities and it was natural that those cities be
destroyed since those cities could not be left for them (ha la garaaco
dabcan ileyn looga tegi maayee).
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Conference on
Peace, Security and Development in the Horn of Africa, “The Somalialnd
Experience”
A Conference on Peace, Security and Development In The Horn of Africa
“the Somaliland Experience” by African Renaissance Center For Social
Science Research, Media And Development “ARECSMED” will be held in
Hargeisa, Somaliland on 1st August to 2nd August 2004.
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Puntland Militia
Still Holding Halo Trust Deminers
Las-Anod, July 3, 2004 (SL Times) – Gunmen belonging to Puntland
warlord Abdillahi Yusuf are still holding as hostages 9 Halo Trust
deminers who were abducted last Tuesday near Anjeed, about 19 km north
of Las-Anod.
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EU To Aid Somalia
Government without looking at impact on Somaliland
Despite the increasingly important role it
is anticipated to play in post-Mbagathi Somalia, the EU has so far
shown no consideration for the repercussions its unconditional
sponsorship of the Mbagathi talks and the new government to emerge
from the process, will have on Somaliland’s peace, stability and
democracy.
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Somali Envoy
Accuses UK Of Excluding Somaliland From Peace Talks
New York, June 28, 2004 (BBC Monitoring) – Somalia's ambassador to the
UN, Ahmad Abdi Hashi, has said that there are some Western countries
which are interested in restricting the Somali peace conference to the
warring factions in southern Somalia, thereby excluding the northern
parts known as Somaliland.
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Repatriation Of
Rejected Asylum Seekers From Djibouti
Meanwhile, the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that most of the 16,000
refugees from the northern region of Somaliland who were living in
Djibouti should be able to return home by the end of 2005, The UNHCR
representative in Djibouti, William Collins Asare, said his agency had
repaired some infrastructure and set up some services in Somaliland to
assist the refugees in resettling.
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Food Distribution
In Ethiopia's Hartisheik Camp
HARTISHEIK CAMP, Ethiopia, July 1 (UNHCR) – It was once the world's
largest refugee camp, hosting a quarter million Somalis in a bustling
pocket of eastern Ethiopia.
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The EU Should
recognize Somaliland and Somalia as two separate countries
Editorial
The EU as the only major external power
player in the Mbagathi talks, should publicly indicate its opposition
to any claims of jurisdiction by any future government in Somalia over
Somaliland. The EU and IGAD countries should also bear in mind that
granting an immediate diplomatic recognition to the government
anticipated to emerge from Mbagathi while withholding the same from
Somaliland, would destroy any possibility for negotiations between the
two countries on the status of their future relations.
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Turning Assets
into Usable Capital
By: John Drysdale
High Level Session at UN Headquarters, New York on June 30th, 2004
Presentation by Cadastral Surveys Limited on Surveying and Mapping for
Rural and Urban Cadastre in Somalia [Somaliland]
“With the indispensable, daily cooperation
of the Somaliland Ministry of Agriculture, in the field and in the
in-house work station, the shared success that the ministry and
Cadastral Surveys have enjoyed with surveying and mapping hitherto
non-existent farm boundaries in the Gabiley and Dilla Districts of
South West Somaliland, during the last three years in particular, has
in great measure been accomplished by the enduring partnership that
happily persists between the United Nations Development Programme for
Somalia, the grateful Somali farming community and the implementers of
this unique endeavor to bring peace to the farmlands, where there was
conflict; to bring absolute security of tenure through freehold title,
and prospective collateral.
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Educational Programme
By: Ahmed Isse Jama (Gade), Regional Education Inspector
Teaching – Practice, In Primary Schools
The lesson plan
A lesson plan is a written account of the preparation for a lesson. It
shows in a summary form how the lesson is supposed to proceed. The
format used should be such that will enable the user to find each step
easily. A lesson plan usually includes the following aspects:
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Celebrating 1st
July In A New Light: A Somalilander’s Perspective
By: Bashir Goth, Abu Dhabi, UAE
“Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes” ~Jean
Jaures
On July 1st 1960, the people Somaliland celebrated a day of destiny.
They gave up their sovereignty which they have won four days earlier
by their own will. They had a mission to fulfill and a vision to
achieve.
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Do You Have To Show
Your Underwear?
I strode out to catch my bus. I have
noticed two Somalis - a boy and a girl – standing at the bus stop. The
boy was wearing his baggy trousers very low as if he was proud to show
off his boxer shorts and the girl was wearing a low-cut jeans and a
shirt that showed a lot of her stomach and a lot of cleavage. The way
these teenagers dressed compounded my anguish.
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Warlords Told off
NAIROBI, June 28, 2004 (The East African Standard) – A presidential
candidate in the forthcoming Somali elections has dismissed the role
warlords are arrogating themselves in the electoral process.
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