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Health Experts From Jordan, Iran And USA Visit
Somaliland, Hundreds of Women and Children provided with free
medical treatment
Hargeisa (SL Times) – A team of 3
physicians, a pharmacist and one health education expert left Hargeisa
on Thursday following a week long visit to Somaliland.
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Human Rights Day Celebrated in Somaliland
Hargeisa (SL Times) – The International
Human Rights Day was celebrated last Wednesday, Dec. 10, throughout
the regions of Somaliland.
In the capital Hargeisa, the occasion was observed with various
celebrations that started Wednesday morning around 9 o’clock with a
procession from the ministry of Interior’s roundabout in the Sha’b
area to the Khayria Square in downtown Hargeisa.
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After Killings, Somaliland Struggles For
Its Image
Afrol News, 27 October - The non-recognized republic of Somaliland has
suffered a major setback by the killing of several foreign aid workers
this month, threatening its image as a peaceful and stable nation
deserving international recognition. Great efforts are made to find
the killers.
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Hargeisa Urban Household Economy Assessment
Geography: The first step in any household
economy assessment is to define the food economy or livelihood zone
within which the assessment is to be conducted. In Hargeisa, the team
explored whether the physical limits of the town include households
that fall into only one food economy zone (the urban zone) or also
include populations that are essentially part of other food economy
zones (e.g. agricultural or pastoral).
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SOMALILAND HUMAN
RIGHTS Defenders CALL FOR ACTION
December 10, 2003
This Declaration of Call for Action from Somaliland civil society
groups and traditional leaders (Aqils of Togdheer) is a consolidated
document that resulted from symposium-workshops held in Burao, Borama,
Berbera and Hargeisa from December 6-9, 2003 in celebration of the
International Human Rights Day.
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Amateur Video Shows Police Beating Toronto
Somali
Police Chief Julian Fantino has launched an
internal police investigation after an amateur videotape surfaced of an
officer punching a man in the face in an Etobicoke parking lot.
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Liberals To Rein In 'Anti-Islamic' MP
AMSTERDAM, 11 December 2003(Expatica News)
— The Dutch Liberal VVD party has moved to stop its outspoken MP Ayaan
Hirsi Ali from waging a solo campaign against Islamic schools in the
Netherlands. The Somali-born politician had to hide out in the US
temporarily in 2002 when her life was threatened due to her criticisms
of Islam.
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Plummeting Coffee
Prices Lead To Khat Upsurge
DEDER, 9 Dec 2003 (IRIN) - In Ahmed Mume’s village they grow some of
the finest coffee in the world. But this year, the 50-year-old will
not be harvesting any beans. The father of eight has ripped up his
crop and is planning to export a drug he is growing for the first
time.
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Somalia Scores
World's Lowest In Girls School Enrollment
Girls education vital in fighting poverty--UNICEF
By Joan Gralla
UNITED NATIONS, 11 Dec 2003 (Reuters) - Some 65 million girls around
the world are unable to go to school, increasing the likelihood they
will die in childbirth or live in dire poverty, the U.N. Children's
Fund said on Thursday.
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Kenyan Muslims Protest
US Aid Camps
Garissa, Kenya, Friday, 12 December 2003 (BBC) – Hundreds of protesters in
northeast Kenya have taken part in a demonstration against a free medical
camp being run by American marines.
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'Terror': Police
Hold Cars, Probe Somali Faction
A JOINT REPORT, The East African
KENYAN SECURITY agents impounded four motor vehicles along Nairobi's
Standard Street at 4.40 pm last Tuesday, a day after the US embassy
issued a controversial alert over a terrorist threat that saw the city
placed under armed guard.
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Al-Qaida Suspect
Identified
Howie Padilla, Pam Louwagie and Greg Gordon, Star Tribune
December 12, 2003
The man suspected of associating with Al-Qaida and arrested in Minneapolis
this week was identified Thursday as Mohammed A. Warsame, a 30-year-old Twin
Cities college student and Canadian citizen of Somali descent.
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Human Rights And The Role
Of The Press
Somaliland’s celebration of the
international human rights day of December 10 was an unusually big
event. It was the first time that the occasion has been observed
simultaneously throughout Somaliland's regions. There was a larger
participation in this year’s preparations for the event, including
such diverse stakeholders as human rights and civil society groups,
government and traditional leaders. Thanks to that spirit of
cooperation among all main groups and individuals, Somalilanders have
come out in great numbers and with vigor to celebrate the
international day of human rights. No doubt that the country-wide
celebrations of the occasion will help promote the cause of human
rights in Somaliland.
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Which Is Somalia's
True Face: Arab Or African?
By Abdulkadir Khalif
NAIROBI, 11 Dec. 2003--The Somali Reconciliation Conference taking
place in Nairobi, Kenya, is in limbo. Success is what most Somalis and
other right-minded people wish it when it restarts this Tuesday. But in
the event it ends in a stalemate, over 800 delegates will be sent
home, back to Somalia or wherever they came from when they were
invited to participate the Igad-sponsored talks.
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