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BBC ONE
The 200-bed hospital in Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, is a huge, rambling colonial building. The little equipment it has is from another era. It's the hospital time forgot. This is a place in the grip of grinding poverty, a place where people living on the edge often go over it. And every day adults and children die needlessly because of a lack of the most basic of resources. This documentary will tell real stories of life and death and see how Comic Relief money is helping people come back from the edge of existence.
As Billy says, this is not a "Feel good Nicey Nicey Film."
By donating to Comic Relief, you can help improve people's health in Somaliland: find out how.
Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 |
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International
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Rageh Omaar Wins It For BBC In Baghdad
Ben Barnabas, The Guardian April 14, 2003
It is not just the military who are returning to a hero's welcome - the BBC's Baghdad reporter Rageh Omaar arrived back in Britain yesterday widely regarded as having won the journalistic battle of Baghdad for the broadcaster.
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The Most Hated Professor in America
Chronicle Of Higher Education Wednesday April 16, 2003 At 04:54 PM
If you call Columbia University's main switch-board and ask for Nicholas De Genova, you will not be connected to his office. Instead, you will hear a recording of a statement by the university's president, Lee C. Bollinger, saying he is "appalled" by the anthropology professor's "outrageous comments."
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Embargo Violations In Somalia Investigated
EuropaWorld, 11/4/2003
Recognizing the important need to improve the implementation and monitoring of the arms embargo against Somalia, the United Nations Security Council this week re-established for six months a panel of experts to investigate any violations of the ban.
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Khat Trade May Be Funding Terror
Stephen Mbogo
Nairobi, Kenya (CNSNews.com) - Proceeds from khat, a stimulant drug originating from an African plant whose leaves are chewed, are suspected to be funding terrorist activities in the Horn of Africa, according to a new U.N. report.
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Why Somaliland Is Seeking Recognition
Somaliland is not soliciting recognition from the international community for the sake of acquiring the "prestige" of belonging to the so-called club of internationally recognized nations. Neither is it pursuing the issue of recognition for the sake of becoming eligible for IMF loans or obtaining international aid from rich world governments. International recognition is sought by Somaliland out of tangible necessities.
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Against All Odds Somaliland Stands Strong
I am impressed and as delighted as all Somalilanders are with the success of this historical event of our blessed nation. I could not be happier than this!!! It would not matter to me who wins today. Because the people of Somaliland are the winners.
It is the beginning of a new era, where the real choice of the people, a
president with a real constituency to account to, will lead this nation. It is the victory of the people.
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Lessons From Somalia
Karen Kwiatkowski
Not Mogadishu, of course. We learned those lessons - prepare the folks back home for losses, fund and arm our guys appropriately, talk the talk about staying the course, train and prepare for urban warfare operations, befriend the locals if you can.
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Double Standards In Reporting Casualties
Pascale Combelles Siegel (Asia Times)
The war in Iraq has highlighted how reporting on casualties during an armed conflict is a sensitive issue. In the United States, a norm has developed that immediate family members should not have to learn through the media of their loved one's death in a military operation. Since the war in Vietnam, another norm also has developed: that US blood is rarely shown. Few US wounded or dead appear in digital color on our TV screens.
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Democracy or Autocracy?
Raphael Makonnen
Addis Ababa, April 18, 2003 (Addis Tribune): What constitutes a democratic state? As the United States now attempts to build a democratic system in Iraq; as legislative elections in Nigeria - the "largest democracy in Africa" - are marred by religious and ethnic violence; as Freedom House - a respected international advocacy group - rates Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia as among the most repressive regimes in the world; we must ask ourselves: What is the state of democracy in Ethiopia?
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Somaliland Poll 'Transparent'
Hargeisa, 17/04/2003 (SA) - South Africa's team monitoring Monday's presidential elections in northwest Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland has said the voting process was peaceful, orderly and transparent.
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Somaliland Preliminary Results Due On Friday
Nairobi, April 16, 2003 (IRIN) - The authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are due to announce the preliminary results of Monday's presidential elections on Friday, according to a senior official.
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Call By UCID To Recognize Somaliland
Hargeisa, 16/04/2003 (SA) - An opposition leader in the breakaway republic of Somaliland, Faisal Ali Warabe, on Wednesday urged the international community to recognise his country following a peaceful presidential election.
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Somaliland Awaits Poll Result
BBC - People in the the Republic of Somaliland have voted in their first multi-party presidential election.
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Thousands Vote In Somaliland
HARGEISA, Somaliland, April 15, 2003 (AP) - Thousands of voters cast ballots Monday in the first multiparty presidential election since the Somaliland republic broke away from Somalia in 1991 to escape the violence and chaos that has beset the rest of the nation.
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An Analysis Of Elections In Somaliland
Ashenafi Abedje
Washington, 14 Apr 2003 (VOANews) - A Somali-born analyst says today’s presidential election in the breakaway republic of Somaliland represents yet more proof of stability in the self-declared republic.
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Voters Of Somaliland Go To Polls Full Of Hope
Jean-Jacques Cornish
Hargeisa, April 14, 2003 (Independent Online)- Somaliland has taken a further step down the democratic road with a presidential election that is expected to be closely fought but peaceful.
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Somaliland Holds Election
HARGEISA, Somaliland (Washington Post) - Somalia's breakaway enclave of Somaliland will elect a president today, hoping a democratic vote will win the self-declared republic international recognition.
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In Somaliland Voters Go To The Polls Today
Salad F. Duhul, Special to Arab News
JEDDAH, 14 April 2003 (Arab News) - Approximately a million voters will cast their ballots today in breakaway Somaliland’s first multi-party presidential elections. The three presidential candidates have promised to work for peace and international recognition.
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Somaliland Gears Up For Poll
Vanguard, Nigeria - Monday, April 14, 2003
CAMPAIGNING for the presidency of the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland ends on Saturday, with three candidates promising peace and recognition by the international community. On Monday, more than a million voters will cast their ballots in the country’s first multi-party presidential election.
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Somalilanders Go To The Polls
Hargeisa, 14/04/2003 (SA)- Somalilanders go to the polls on Monday in their first presidential elections since briefly gaining independence from Britain 43 years ago.
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Voting Begins In Somaliland
HARGEISA, Somalia (AFP) - Voting began briskly in presidential elections in breakaway Somaliland's capital on Monday, the first such vote in a decade.
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