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Somaliland’s Territorial Integrity
Puntland’s Abdillahi Yusuf is, and has been for a long time, a source of menace to Somaliland’s national security interests in the eastern border areas inhabited by the Dhulbahante and Warsangali clans who together with the Majerteen of neighboring Somalia, form the Harti sub-clan.
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Let Bush Use Rwanda Example on Museveni
Henry Ochieng
Kampala, July 9, 2003 (The Monitor) - With the exception of a painfully small minority, politicians generally lose their shine with the passing of time. But the man across the border in the tiny central African country of Rwanda has an opportunity of joining in this small minority.
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Mr. Bethwel Kiplagat, Somaliland is Not Coming
After eight months of indulging free food and board with pigs in Mbagathi, near Nairobi, finally on Saturday, July 5, 2003 the Somali warlords' gathering has produced an outcome, surprisingly they have reached an agreement to form a federal government. Wow! Did they really come to their senses or did they just have enough of sharing leftovers with the pigs?
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Reconciliation in Somaliland
Reading articles and presentations by Somali writers in the opinion columns of the local English language press, and on the internet, I cannot but admire them for their mastery over that language.
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A. Yusuf Plotting Deployment of African Peace Troops on Somaliland Soil
Nairobi (SL Times) - Claiming that he also controls the whole of Somaliland's Sanag and Sool regions, Puntland's warlord Abdillahi Yusuf has, in the last two weeks, been urging mediators at the Mbagathi peace talks on Somalia to accept deployment of African Peace Enforcement Troops all over the territories under his authority.
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MRR&R Secret Deal on Asylum Seekers
Hargeisa (SL Times) - The Somaliland Ministry of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement has refused to disclose to the public the terms of its deal earlier this
month with the UK Immigration Service on the returning from Britain of a yet unspecified number of Somalilanders whose asylum applications have been rejected by the British authorities.
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Helping Country to Rebuild Itself
Stephen Lucas
A Cally Road resident has witnessed first hand the determination of the people of Somaliland to rebuild their war-ravaged homeland.
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Somaliland to Newport
Mohammed Ibraham AbdiRahman
I was born in 1923. I lived in Buro near Hergeisa in Somaliland and I was in business, before coming to the UK. My father died in Kenya and my mother in Somaliland.
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A Seafaring Tale
Isman Hassan Ali
Before living in Red Sea House I lived in Loudon Square for about three years. Before that I lived for a long long time in Angelina Street in a seaman's boarding house. There were two or three men to one room, and nine or ten sharing a bathroom. We'd go back and forward to sea.
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Camels and Curran's
Jama Mohammed Ali
I come from Hergeisa. I was twenty years old when I left. I went to Arabia first because I didn't know anyone here at the time, and then I came from Beirut in a ship through Marseille. I looked for work in Arabia, for work on shore, not at sea, but there was no work in Arabia so I came here.
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For Some Somali Women Opposing Genital Mutilation Has a Price
Galkayo, Somalia (UNHCR) - Hawa Aden has been called a witch. She and her women colleagues have been labeled traitors to Somali culture and the Islamic religion, and had Friday sermons preached against them in the local mosque. They've been bombed, had their car destroyed and part of their compound torn down by angry local residents.
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Into Somaliland:
An Obscure Route to an Obscure Country
Sean Rorison
April 22, 2003
IT IS ELEVEN years on, over a decade since the collapse of government. Over five years since all attempts at reconciliation from international organizations failed: Somalia. The country, and people, have been abandoned by the world. Our headlines have moved on to other things, as if perhaps by ignoring the problem would make it go away.
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Letter to the Editor |
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Emirates Proposal Service
I was surprised to read in your paper dated July 5, 2003 that Emirates opens window to Somalia to ensure postal services to Somali citizen which includes Hargeisa the Capital of Somaliland.
We are not aware of such arrangement nor does this concern Somaliland at all. Somalia and Somaliland are two separate countries.
Yours Sincerely,
Abdirahman Mohamed
C/o: Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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International
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NORDEM Report on Somaliland Presidential Election
Hargeisa (SL Times) - The Norwegian Bank for Democracy and Human Rights (NORDEM) has now released its evaluation report of Somaliland’s April 14 presidential election.
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Somaliland's Baby-Delivering Minister
Hargeisa, July 9, 2003 (BBC) - Somaliland's Foreign Minister Edna Adan Ismail loves delivering babies at her hospital in the capital, Hargeisa.
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BBC's Rageh Omaar Signs Book Deal
London, July 7, 2003 (BBC) - BBC news correspondent Rageh Omaar, who broadcast daily from the Iraqi capital Baghdad during the recent war, has signed a book deal.
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Somali 'Chewers' Cheer in Flights
Mogadishu, July 8, 2003 (BBC) - Chewers of the mild stimulant, khat, have been celebrating in the Somali capital after flights from Kenya resumed.
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Somalis Closely Watching Deportation Case
Olympia, WA July 9, 2003 (Oregon Considered) - The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals panel to allow it to resume deportations of illegal immigrants from Somalia. A lower court judge in Seattle halted the expulsions nationwide in a case originally brought on behalf of five local Somalis.
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Commission Grants €4 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Uganda and Somalia
European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO)
Belgium, July 11, 2003
The European Commission has approved two humanitarian aid packages, each worth €2 million, to support vulnerable populations in northern Uganda and Somalia.
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Kenya
Wins Annan's Praise
Maputo, Mozambique, July 12, 2003 (Daily Nation) - United Nations Secretary General Koffi Annan yesterday praised Kenya's democratic transition as a "shining example".
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US Government Announces $20,000 Donation For Refugee Returnee Assistance Project
Addis Ababa, June 2, 2003 (U.S Embassy) - The US Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Horn of Africa announced a donation of $ 20,000 USD in assistance to the Somaliland Culture and Sports Association (SOCSA).
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