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The TFG Collapses: A Yusuf To Move To Galkayo, Gedi To Jowhar And The Sharif Opts For Baidoa
Baidoa, Somalia, April 8, 2006 – The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia has collapsed following renewed rifts between its warlord president Abdillahi Yusuf and his premier Ali Mohamed Geedi.
Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 8, 2006 – Mr. Sandy Young a principal of a technology college in northwest London, and Ms Lucy Braggins, a refugee coordinator for a high school at the King-Cross area of London, arrived in Hargeysa last Thursday on a visit to familiarize themselves with life in Somaliland in general and the schooling school education system in particular.
By Iqbal Jhazbhay
If African countries are intent on hearing the guns in the Horn of Africa fall forever silent –it will require level-headedness coupled with clarity in dealing with the subtle challenges that come with peace.
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Baidoa, Somalia, April 8, 2006 – The simmering conflict between the various warlords and factions in Somalia’s nominal government has picked up steam. Things have gotten so rough between the head honchos (the warlord “president” Abdillahi Yusuf, “prime minister” Ali Geedi and the “speaker of parliament” Sharif Hassan) that they had to seek foreign intervention.
NAIROBI, Apr 3, 2006 – Members of Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament, who are currently meeting in the town of Baidoa, have expressed concern over insecurity after armed militia blocked access to a parliamentary session on Saturday.
Nairobi, April 4, 2006 – U.S. sailors from the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill helped mariners stranded on a distressed vessel about 70 miles off Somalia on Thursday, according to a U.S. Navy 5th Fleet statement released Sunday.
BAIDOA, SOMALIA, April 3, 2006 – In a sweltering, bombed-out grain silo here, a group of leaders is plotting the birth of a nation. Or, more accurately, the rebirth of one.
Somali Lawlessness, With Modern-Day Pirates, Spills Into Sea
MOMBASA, Kenya, April 3, 2006-- Under cover of darkness off the coast of Somalia, a gang of pirates turned off the engines to their three small speedboats, linked a ladder to an Indian cargo ship and ordered the crew to surrender, according to victims of the attack.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 7, 2006 -- Militiamen fire machine guns into the sky, while a few meters away, shoppers hardly bat an eyelid as young children jostle for the falling cartridges.
Where Only The Strong And Well-Armed Prosper
Galkayo, Somalia, April 7, 2006 -- An invisible border splits this town in two. It runs east to west through a maze of narrow, rubble-strewn streets pockmarked with bullets and shrapnel.
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