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Asylum Seekers' Benefit Case Threatens Migrants Crackdown
Cathy Newman
Chief Political Correspondent (The Financial Times)
August 1 2003 5:00
David Blunkett was dealt a fresh blow in his battle to stem the tide of asylum seekers yesterday after a High Court ruling that denying migrants benefits could breach their human rights.
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Court Orders 3 Somali Teenagers Remanded
Mathias Ringa
Nairobi, July 31, 2003 (The East African Standard) - A Mombasa court has ordered that a 14-year-old girl and two others be remanded in a police station to assist Anti-Terrorism Police officers with investigations.
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Slug Repellent Attracts Backer
BBC, Thursday, 31 July, 2003 - A research team may have found an
environmentally- friendly solution to every gardener's nightmare, slugs and snails.
They have developed chemical-free pellets which repel the slugs without leaving toxins behind.
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Eleven African Nations Agree to Form Terrorism Task Force
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 30, 2003 (AP) - Eleven African nations have agreed to set up a U.S.-backed regional task force to respond to disasters and terrorist attacks, a senior U.S. military officer said Wednesday.
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UN Urges Early Mediation Between Rival Pastoralists
Addis Ababa, 29 Jul 2003 (IRIN) - Clashes between rival pastoralists competing over scarce resources must be prevented through early mediation efforts, the UN’s Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (EUE) has said.
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Red Terror 'Hard To Forgive'
Fikre Kahsai is still haunted by his memories of Ethiopia's military regime under Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Damian Zane
Addis Ababa, Thursday, 31 July, 2003 (BBC Africa Live) - A military committee, known as the Derg, overthrew Emperor Haile Sellassie in September 1974.
After a power struggle, Mengistu became head of state and began what became know as the Red Terror.
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Veterans Eye CECAFA Post
The East African Standard
July 26, 2003
The Council of East Africa and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) go to the polls in Zanzibar on August 15. The question is, who will replace Somali’s Farah Addo who has retired?
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Radio Program Is A Hit With Somalis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 7/30/2003
Greg Bluestein
Every Saturday afternoon, about 50 people pack the Dunkin' Donuts on Memorial Drive in Clarkston, intently listening to the radio.
From 2 to 4 p.m., the transplanted Somalis in the eatery have their ears tuned to what Dunkin' Donuts clerk Ali Gani calls "a community event" - one of three weekly broadcasts of Sagal Radio Services (SRS), Atlanta's Somali language radio station.
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'The Zanzibar Chest - A Story Of Life, Love And Death In Foreign Hands'
Reviewed by Richard Eder
The New York Times
Friday, August 1, 2003
'Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia," Aidan Hartley quotes from the prophet Isaiah. "Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down."
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Dirty and Not So Pretty Things
Bristish director Stephen Frears uncovers London's underbelly in illegal immigrant movie
Angela Baldassarre
Toronto, Canada, August 3 - August 10,2003 (Tandem News) - British director Stephen Frears has perhaps the most interesting career in movies considering the varied themes of his films. My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons, The Snapper, Mary Reilly, Hi-Lo Country, High Fidelity, Liam and The Grifters (which earned him a best director Oscar nomination in 1990) share few traits other than a love for complex characters.
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Implications For Delaying Parliamentary Elections
The holding of consecutive local and presidential elections has shown the strong commitment of Somaliland's people to democracy. In fact it is this yearning for democracy that was the driving force for both the holding of these elections and their successful outcomes.
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Following Somaliland Presidential Election
Mohamed Cali Mouse, Ottawa, Canada
The historical Somaliland Presidential Election is an impressive and unprecedented event in the world history and a step in the right direction. In light of the political context and constraints, the electoral arrangements, greater domestic participation, and the monitoring process were unique in Africa’s situation today. Every Somalilander has to congratulate himself/herself on this new political era and to be thankful to those who made this historic reality.
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Marwan Al Kabalan: Oil And Security Lie Behind Bush's Expedition To Africa
Gulf News, 01-08-2003
The publicity machine of the White House would have one believe that U.S. President George W. Bush's recent visit to Africa was inspired by a desire for humanitarian initiatives. Bush made a lot of promises during his five-nation swing through the continent. He proposed a $15 billion programme to tackle HIV/AIDS and pledged to help Africa find its way out of poverty. The depth of Bush's commitment to the world's poorest countries is hard to assess, but it is not difficult to understand the true motives which prompted the tour to a region that has long been forgotten.
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Talks on Course Says Kenyan Mediator
Nairobi, August 1, 2003 (IRIN) - Ambassador Bethwel Kiplagat, the chairman of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee and Kenya's special envoy to the Somali peace talks, told a press conference on Friday that the Somali peace talks were on course and a new Somali government should be formed soon.
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We'll Need Peacekeepers, Somali Mediators Say
William Maclean
Nairobi, Aug 1, 2003 (Reuters) - Mediators trying to end anarchy in Somalia said on Thursday they hoped to form a government soon despite increasingly fractious negotiations but added it would need the support of an international peace force.
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Talks 'Will Not Stop' Despite Salad's Walkout
Nairobi, July 30, 2003 (IRIN) - The UN Secretary-General's representative for Somalia, Winston Tubman, has said Somali peace talks will continue despite Wednesday's walkout by the president of the Transitional National Government (TNG), Abdiqassim Salad Hassan.
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Draft Charter Should Be Scrapped, Says Independent Survey
Nairobi, July 30, 2003 (IRIN) - An independent assessment of the draft Somali charter, which is supposed to act as a blueprint for the transitional period, has dismissed the document as a "mongrel" and recommended discarding it completely.
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