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Annalena’s Body To Be Buried In Wajeer In A Private Ceremony,
Public Places in Borama And Forli’ Named After Her
Forli’/Hargeisa (SL Times) – Annalena Tonelli’s body was planned earlier
this week to be buried in Wajeer, northeastern Kenya, along a private
funeral service.
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Edna Takes Quest for Recognition To the Air
waves In California
Los Angeles, October 9, 2003 – Somaliland Foreign Minister Edna Adan Ismail
went into the airwaves of California on Sunday in an effort to familiarize
Californians with the people of Somaliland.
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Minister of Commerce and Industry Addresses African American Association
Los Angeles, California - The Somaliland Minister of Commerce and Industry,
who is currently touring the United States in an effort to win investment
for Somaliland has been addressing businessmen and politicians in Los
Angeles for the past four days.
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Mohamed Hashi And Edna Aden Meet With
Somalilanders In California
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, The Somaliland Minister of Commerce and
Industry, Eng. Mohamed Hashi Elmi and the Somaliland Foreign Minister,
Edna Adan Ismail, who are currently touring the United States,
participated in a luncheon sponsored by SOPRI and coordinated by the
California Somaliland Community, at Los Angeles International Airport
(LAX) Hilton Hotel.
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International Crisis Group Report On Somaliland
Democratization And Its Discontents, Part XI
[Continued from our previous issue]
VII. SOOL AND EASTERN SANAAG REGIONS
On the eve of the presidential election, the NEC decided that voting would
not take place in much of Sool and eastern Sanaag regions, and parts of
Buhoodle district (Togdheer region) for security reasons.
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Somaliland Tries To Get
Some Respect
Since breaking away from Somalia 12 years ago, the tiny country has become
one of the region's only true democracies, though few outside know or care
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Gunmen Won't Let Salad Use Airport
MOGADISHU, Somalia, October 9, 2003 (AP)- Gunmen refused to let the
president of Somalia's transitional government depart for Libya on Thursday
from an airfield they control, a witness said.
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US Town Blocks Resettlement Of Somali Refugees
WASHINGTON, October 9, 2003 (AFP) - For the first time in at least three
years the US State Department has been forced to withdraw plans to resettle
refugees in a local community due to intense opposition from residents,
officials said.
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Thousands At Risk Of Malnutrition In Sool
Area
NAIROBI, 10 Oct 2003 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in northern Somalia
are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance due to falling incomes
and rising malnutrition, a food security watchdog has warned.
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Iranian Lawyer Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Rights Activist Is First Muslim Woman to Win
Paris, Oct 10, (FT) – Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist, on
Friday became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel peace prize, in a move
designed to inspire democratic reforms across the Muslim world.
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Specter of Somalia Haunts U.N. Role in Iraq
By William Maclean
MOGADISHU, October 10, 2003 (Reuters) - Charred engine parts overgrown by
cactus are all that remain today of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters downed
by Somali gunmen a decade ago. Looters were quick to turn the aluminum
chassis into household utensils.
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Campaign Launched to Regulate Arms
Trade
LONDON, October 9, 2003 (AP) - For farmers in Uganda, AK-47 assault
rifles are used instead of spears. In Somalia, weapons are so common
that some children are named "Uzi" or "AK." In countries such as Iraq,
there is more than one gun per person.
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Top UN Official Condemns Aid Worker's
Murder
NAIROBI, 8 Oct 2003 (IRIN) - The UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator has
called on Somali faction leaders to ensure safety in the country after
a veteran aid worker was shot dead in the self-declared republic of
Somaliland on Sunday.
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EU Parliament Chief Lauds Slain Aid Worker
EU Business, UK, 08 October 2003
European Parliament chief Pat Cox condemned Wednesday the killing of
an award-winning Italian aid worker by unidentified gunmen in the
self-declared republic of Somaliland.
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Bishop Recalls How Refugee Helper Died
Nairobi, October 9, 2003 (Catholic Information Service for Africa) - The
Bishop of Djibouti Msgr Giorgio Bertin has narrated how veteran refugee
helper Dr Annalena Tonelli was killed.
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UNHCR Mourns Death of Dr. Annalena Tonelli
PRESS RELEASE
Geneva, October 6, 2003 (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) – UN
High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today expressed grief at the
murder Sunday night of Annalena Tonelli, a 60-year-old humanitarian worker
who had dedicated the last 33 years of her life to helping Somalis.
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TB Professionals Conference Pay Tribute
To Annalena Tonelli
Crisis in TB highlights overall shortage of health workers in poorest
countries
Geneva - A growing "workforce crisis" is a serious obstacle to
achieving targets for global tuberculosis control set for 2005 by the
World Health Organization (WHO).
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Rookie School Leader Faces Hard
Challenge
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By Melanie Burney
CHESILHURST, Oct. 06, 2003 (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - Abdi Gass
measures his life by its challenges.
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The Devastating Loss Of
Annalena
A few days after her death, Somalilanders are still in a state of shock and
grief over the killing of Annalena Tonelli, 60, last Sunday evening. The
humanitarian worker who devoted more than 30 years of her life to helping
Somalis in need, was born in Forli’, northern Italy.
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A New Mother Teresa
An Italian doctor is honored for decades of lonely work to combat disease
and prejudice in a forgotten corner of the world.
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The Murder of Dr Annalena
Tonelli: What Questions Should We Ask?
By Rakiya A. Omaar
The assassination of an Italian doctor, Annalena Tonelli, in Borama on 5
October has shocked and saddened people in Somaliland, nowhere more so than
in Borama itself where her dedication to the sick, the poor and the
vulnerable won her the affection and gratitude of its people.
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Condolences
ACARO Youth Organization is a youth association that is engaged in
youth development-related activities in Awdal Region. The Organization
is hereby strongly criticizing the killing of Dr. Anallena Tonneli who
was shot dead last Sunday, as she was inspecting her patients in
Borama TB Centre.
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Homage Ceremony
For Annalena Held In Hargeisa
On oct.9, a ceremony to remember and pay tribute to Annalena Tonelli
was held in Hargeisa.
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Bush Talks About Somalia
And Terrorism
JEDDAH, 10 October 2003 (Arab News) — US President George W. Bush has said
the formation of an effective Somali government will help stabilize the Horn
of African and disband terrorism, media reports said on Tuesday.
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