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Eritrea Providing
Military Training For Hundreds Of ONLF Fighters
An Operation for smuggling insurgents into Ethiopia foiled as Somaliland
security forces arrest 34 Eritrea-trained ONLF Combatants and uncover
infiltration route running through Djibouti and Somaliland
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Somaliland Refugee
Wins College Award
At the college's annual awards day,
accountancy student Hibo Habane, 22, of Strongbridge Close, Rayners
Lane, won the award for the best student to have progressed from the
college to a degree course, and Fatana Mohamady, 21, from Stratton
Close, Canons ParkEdgware, was presented with the Tony Holyhead Award
for her progress in English.
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Fighting
Discrimination Against Disability In Somaliland
26 11 2003
The stigma attached to disability in Somaliland means that disabled
children are refused a normal life and even an education. CIIR
communications manager Nick Sireau looks at the work being done to
stop this cruel discrimination.
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Somaliland
Chewers' Street March
Buroa, Nov 30, 2003 (BBC) – Hundreds of protestors have marched
through the streets of a Somaliland town after the price of a mild
narcotic leaf, known as Khat, was doubled.
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UN Secretary
General Report On Somalia, Part IV
[Continued from the previous issue]
October 13, 2003
29. On 11 June, in "Somaliland", the Chairman of the Solidarity Party
(Kulmiye), Ahmad Muhammed Silanyo, accepted Mr. Kahin of the Allied
People's Democratic Party as "President" of "Somaliland", ending the
controversy following the elections on the accuracy of the electoral
figures (see S/2003/636, paras. 21-23).
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Money Transfer
Companies Form Association
NAIROBI, 5 Dec 2003 (IRIN) - Somali money transfer companies launched
the Somali Financial Services Association (SFSA) on Thursday at a
two-day conference in London, attended by representatives of
remittance companies, financial regulators from Britain, continental
Europe and the United States.
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Security Council
Urges Stricter Implementation Of Arms Embargo
NAIROBI, 4 Dec 2003 (IRIN) - The UN Security Council has called for
greater international support towards ensuring stricter implementation
of the arms embargo on Somalia.
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Joint Patrols May
Aid Terrorism War
By Chris Tomlinson
ARTA BEACH, Djibouti, Sun, Nov. 30, 2003 (The Associated Press) – A
new U.S. strategy of sending the Navy's most powerful weapons and
sophisticated surveillance ships on joint operations with Marine
combat units was successful in an anti-smuggling operation in Iraq and
could help in the war against terrorism, military officials told The
Associated Press.
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CIA Training Of
Islamists Haunts Gis In Iraq
Commentary, Peter Dale Scott, Pacific News Service, Nov 26, 2003
Editor's Note: A technique to shoot down
helicopters that CIA operatives taught to mujahideen and Arab
Islamists in Afghanistan in the 1980s is being used in guerrilla
attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Dead Meat? Stories
of asylum seekers stealing donkeys - and swans - to eat have turned
out to be false. So why have the newspapers not apologized, asks Roy
Greenslade
The Guardian, Monday December 1, 2003
Popular newspapers tell lies, ignore rules and refuse to apologize for
their sins. They duck and weave to avoid self-regulatory censures.
They abuse the concept of press freedom day after day.
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Crushing Walnuts,
But Losing The War?
Daily Star, Lebanon - Dec 4, 2003, By Ejaz Haider
President George W. Bush’s visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day last week
may have been a good tactic to halt falling ratings at home.
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State Won't Pay Somali
Talks Bills
By JULIUS BOSIRE
Nairobi, Wednesday, December 3, 2003 (Daily Nation) – The Government was
under no obligation to settle bills incurred in millions of shillings by
Somali delegates discussing peace in the country, assistant minister Foreign
Affairs Mr. Moses Wetang'ula said.
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Minister Warns Somalia Leaders
Nairobi, Tuesday, December 2, 2003 (East African Standard) – The
international community is growing impatient with the pace of the
Somalia peace talks, Foreign Affairs Minister Kalonzo Musyoka warned
yesterday.
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