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Written by Scidev
Kampala , Uganda , September 18, 2008 Representatives of parliaments from 13 countries across Africa will attend a workshop in Kampala , Uganda next week to develop the skills needed to inform Parliamentarians about the scientific aspects of the issues they face in making policy decisions.
The workshop has been organized by the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), and SciDev.Net (the Science and Development Network).
By Alisha Ryu
Nairobi, September 17, 2008 Somaliland, which has been seeking recognition from the international community for its independent status from the rest of Somalia, is said to be increasing security ties with France and other western nations. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has the story from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi .
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Kenya 's Leading Role In Surge Of Somalia Pirates |
Coastal communities between Bander Qasim and Eyl look out for ships to hijack on a daily basis.
Nairobi , September 17, 2008 Staggering number of ships seized in Southern Somalia coastal lines must step up new efforts to significantly suppress shipping information misuse .
Congratulations must be sent to the French officers responsible for the latest attack to counter against pirates in Somalia 's break-away tribal enclave of " Puntland State of Somalia ".
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Nairobi , September 18, 2008 Maritime officials say pirates have seized two more ships as they were navigating through the waters near Somalia The chief of the International Maritime Bureau in Kuala Lumpur Noel Choong said pirates hijacked a Greek carrier, the "Centauri," south of Mogadishu Thursday. The ship was headed to Kenya with a crew of 25.
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ON BOARD HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC , September 19, 2008 The commanding officer of HMCS Ville de Quebec had to escort a United Nations ship delivering aid to the war-torn country and after Somali pirates seized two vessels earlier this week, he knew it was a risky mission.
As he watched the food aid containers offload at Somalia 's Mogadishu port Thursday, Commander Chris Dickinson breathed a sigh of relief.
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MOGADISHU , September 19, 2008 (AFP) Nine Somali civilians were killed Friday when insurgents fire mortar shells on Mogadishu airport, drawing retaliatory fire from African peacekeepers, witnesses told AFP.
The incident broke out minutes after a plane delivering goods for the African Union (AU) force stationed at the airport landed, in defiance of a three-day-old insurgent "ban" on using the facility. Read full text..
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US Concerned Over Restrictive Aid Bill, Food Situation In Ethiopia |
| ADDIS ABABA , September 18, 2008 (AFP) The United States expressed concern on Thursday over an Ethiopian bill that could restrict the activities of foreign aid groups and sounded alarm bells over the food situation in the country. Read full text..
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PARIS, September 18, 2008 (AFP) French commandos freed a couple seized by pirates off Somalia in the second such mission this year, leading President Nicolas Sarkozy to call Tuesday for an international crackdown on sea raiders. Read full text...
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The dramatic increase in Somalia 's pirate activity is said to have been fuelled by the huge ransom money being paid, coupled with the ineptness of western naval forces present in the region and the continued protection provided to the pirates by Adde Muse and Abdillahi Yusuf
Hargeysa, Somaliland, September 20, 2008 (SL Times) The growing escalation in pirate attacks against ships threatens to shut down the Gulf of Eden , an international water way which lies between Yemen , Somaliland and Somalia .
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Pirates Threaten Starving Somalis' Last Lifeline |
ON BOARD THE VILLE DU QUEBEC , September 16, 2008 Aid agencies fear an end to navy escorts could cut off vital food aid to Somalia , because the rampant piracy in the region has made the military protection essential.
Ninety percent of food aid is delivered to the Horn of Africa country by ship, the last lifeline for starving millions since insurgents armed with surface-to-air missiles make air and road deliveries too dangerous. Read full text.
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Somali Business Concerned Over Mogadishu Airport Blockade |
MOGADISHU , September 19, 2008 Somalia 's business community on Thursday expressed concern over the closure of Mogadishu airport by a radical Islamist group, arguing the move was tantamount to self-inflicted sanctions.
Somalia 's Al-Shebab movement earlier this week warned that all flights should cease as of September 16, arguing that the airport was an instrument of Ethiopia 's military occupation of Somalia .
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The footage, broadcast by Al Jazeera shows Amanda Lindhout, of Sylvan Lake, Alta., was released on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.
They were kidnapped on Aug. 23, along with a Somali journalist and two guards, near Mogadishu .
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will head a panel that will consider how the international community can support African Union peacekeeping operations, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Top Republican Says Palin Unready |
| Senator Chuck Hagel could be influential with independent voters18 September 2008 Senior Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has voiced doubts about Sarah Palin's qualifications for the vice-presidency.
John McCain's running mate "doesn't have any foreign policy credentials", Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald. Read full text...
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Milk off shelves as China 's safety scandal grows |
By GILLIAN WONG 1 hour ago
SHIJIAZHUANG , China (AP) China 's food safety crisis widened Friday after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies prompting stores, including Starbucks, to yank milk from their shelves.
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Charges Dropped Against Soldier In Somali Death |
| Clayton Matchee is assisted by family members as he arrives for a military hearing at Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon, Tuesday, July 23, 2002. (Jason Allen / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
CTV.ca News Staff
Mon. Sep. 15 2008
Charges against a former Canadian soldier accused of torturing and murdering a Somali teen while on a peacekeeping mission in 1993 have been withdrawn, military officials said Monday.
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CPJ To Honor Five International Journalists |
New York , September 16, 2008 The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor courageous journalists from Iraq , Afghanistan , Uganda , and Cuba with its 2008 International Press Freedom Awards at a ceremony in November.
Bilal Hussein of Iraq, Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad of Afghanistan, Andrew Mwenda of Uganda, and Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez of Cuba have all risked imprisonment, harassment, and, above all, their lives to report the news and stand up for press freedom in their countries. Read full text...
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Islamists Threaten To Shut Down Mogadishu Airport |
MOGADISHU , Sept 14, 2008 Somali Islamists have threatened to stop planes using Mogadishu 's main airport as part of an escalating insurgency rocking the Horn of Africa nation.
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Why Kenyan Women Crave Stones |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008
By Anne Mawathe
BBC News, Nairobi
Nancy Akoth is four months pregnant and like many women in her state has strange cravings.
Some women eat coal, gherkins or soap but Mrs Akoth craves soft stones, known in Kenya , where she lives, as "odowa".
"I just have this urge to eat these stones. I do very crazy things, I would even wake up at night and go looking for them," she told the BBC.
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Mccain And The Zigzag Express In this crisis, the GOP candidate has swerved all over the road. |
Sep 19, 2008
John McCain 's whole campaign is based on the idea that Barack Obama is risky, untested and can't be trusted to protect the nation in a crisis. But this week it was McCain who seemed unpresidential, as his Zigzag Express swerved back and forth across the median strip.
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Somalia 's Struggle For Self-Determination |
Thursday, September 18, 2008
By: Eugene Puryear
Islamic Courts threaten Washington 's regional hegemony
Somalia , a geopolitically strategic location in the Horn of Africa on the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean , has been the target of imperialist domination since the 1880s.
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Life In Somalia 's Pirate Town |
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Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have been surging
A Canadian navy ship escorted a recent delivery of food aid to Somalia
By Mary Harper - BBC Africa analyst
Eyl, September 18, 2008 Whenever word comes out that pirates have taken yet another ship in the Somali region of Puntland, extraordinary things start to happen.
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Africa's Best Kept Secret |
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Early this month it was reported that troops on an unidentified warship killed and captured Somali pirates who were menacing the waters of the Gulf of Aden . Some reports claimed that the warship was American. Many Somalis lauded the action of the commanders of the warship and saw it as a positive step in putting an end to piracy in the region.
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By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
As I promised to my readers, this analysis will enlighten the real situation inside Somalia and Somaliland, the fall and rise in the horn of Africa in addition to foreign hands in Somali Affairs. Read full text...
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By Ahmed Raghe
The warlord phenomena started with the demise of the Somali state 18 years ago when a modern state with modern army, police force and judiciary system collapsed on the eve of 1991 new year; leading to the ousting of long time dictator. The vacuum left by the previous government created the first few warlords by year 1991. These were top brass army officers who led the tribal militias that toppled the Siyad Barre regime and therefore claimed to wear his mantle.
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Three Little Mice With A Heavenly Cheesecake |
By: Ahmed Bashe Cabdi
ahmed2ash@hotmail.com
Note: This is a short free verse poem on the Somaliland presidential elections expected to take place in the year 2009.
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Are Women In Somaliland For The Kitchen And Household Chores Only? |
By Ibrahim Adam Ghalib
Borama Awdal
The women in this country are not aware that the female voting population is more than 50% and they can challenge the male dominated political life that allowed the marginalization and socio-economic exploitation of women until today.
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Shelterbox Offers Hope When Disaster Strikes |
Sep 17, 2008
By day, Dave Hallett is a mild-mannered director of information systems at Queen's University in Ontario .
But when disaster strikes, Hallett slips into his role as a frontline worker for Shelterbox, an international organization that provides aid to victims of the world's worst catastrophes. Hallett visited Lethbridge Tuesday night to speak about his experiences working with the organization.
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Luísa Dias Diogo, Greg Mills and Ulla Toernaes
WHAT can a mother of six do when her husband's sporadic contributions to the household run dry?
Thirty-five-year-old Amina created a job an extraordinary achievement for a previously unemployed woman living in Djougou in northwest Benin .
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By Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
A woman dies every minute in pregnancy or childbirth somewhere in the world mainly in the 75 poorest countries where access to trained professionals and cheap but effective medicines is scarce.
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Sep 14, 2008 The faults are almost endless and have crippled the regional government, which now exists only as an institution in name.
The situation in Somalia 's northeastern State of Puntland has been worsening dramatically ever since incumbent President Mohamud "Adde" Muse came to power in January 2005.
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RIYADH , Saudi Arabia , September 14, 2008: A senior Saudi official said Sunday that owners of satellite TV networks that show "immoral" content should be brought to trial and sentenced to death if other penalties don't deter them from airing such broadcasts.
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Somalis Under Attack With No Place To Hide |
| CONCERNED: East London undertaker Nazeer Obary, seen here at the Muslim section of the East Cemetery opposite Buffalo Park , says this year he has buried eight Somali nationals who were murdered in the city. Picture: NIGEL LOUW
2008/09/15
AN EAST London Muslim undertaker can attest to the fact that the city has not been kind to Somali nationals who have left their country to seek refuge in South Africa .
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Djibouti : Building Brand Bin Laden |
| Will the tiny nation of Djibouti one day be the Dubai of Africa , host to the largest suspension bridge in the world? Sheikh Tarek bin Laden, along with an alliance of international investors and some $200 billion in capital, hopes so.
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Somalia : A Leadership In Despair |
By Abukar Albadri
Journalist - Somalia
Wounded Somali government soldiers captured by Somali insurgents lie in the back of a van in Mogadishu . (Reuters'photo)
The Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has experienced since its inception ceaseless military and political blows.
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