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French Launch Offensive On Pirates Ahead Of UN Flotilla |
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France 's President Nicolas Sarkozy during a press conference regarding the Somali pirates in September.
New York , October 24, 2008 – As an international standoff with pirates off the coast of Somalia enters its second month, French forces have begun an offensive ahead of a broader United Nations effort.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 24, 2008, Nairobi 104 children aged 15–18 have been released from eight prisons in Somaliland . This event follows the enactment of the new Juvenile Justice Law for Somaliland in April 2008.
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Rising Food Prices And War - Somalis Cannot Afford To Eat |
Written by Christian Balslev-Olesen=
AFRICA SCIENCE NEWS, 23 Oct. 2008 -- While UN agencies, the World Bank, and the EU warn that the impact of rising food and fuel prices is denting progress in poverty alleviation, health and development, much of their focus has been on the terrible reverses seen in relatively stable developing countries where the shock of increased food and fuel prices can be ‘seen'. Read full text...
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There have been 199 incidents of piracy worldwide this year
BRUSSELS , October 23, 2008 — NATO warships are in place off the Somali coast to tackle rampant piracy in the waters, and are ready to escort UN aid vessels under threat, a spokesman for the alliance's naval command said Friday.
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Envoy Hopes For Somalia Peace Progress At Summit |
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NAIROBI Oct 24, 2008 – Somali politicians attending a summit in Kenya next week have a great chance to push forward a peace process intended to stem 18 years of conflict but which is so far having little impact on the ground, a U.N. envoy said. Read full text...
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New York/Rome, October 25, 2008 - Former US President Bill Clinton urged the international community to stop using the global financial crisis “as an excuse” to avoid dealing with escalating hunger, adding that over the long term, only agricultural self-sufficiency could take a significant bite out of world hunger and stave off future financial woes.
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| Cote d'Ivoire 's commercial capital Abidjan
ABIDJAN , October 24, 2008 – Côte d'Ivoire 's electoral commission on 23 October suspended for two days the long-delayed voter registration operation, throwing into deeper uncertainty the timing of a presidential poll seen as indispensable to restoring stability.
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TORONTO , 24 Oct. 2008--The Board of Directors of Association of Awdal Community of North America (AACNA) has, on its regular meeting on October 19, 2008, made a decision to change the name of the association to “Adal Resources & Development Assistance Association (ARDAA)”. Read full text...
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French Navy Returns Pirates To Somalia |
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Source: CCTV.com | 10-24-2008 13:48
Nine Somali pirates have been captured by the French navy in the Indian Ocean and sent back to Somalia .
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Borama, Somaliland, October 25, 2008 (SL Times) – A voter-registration campaign that was launched in Somaliland 's Awdal region on Friday is reportedly proceeding well.
The voter-registration drive was to be conducted from 6am to 6pm for 5 days at 150 stations that the National Electoral Commission has earmarked for that purpose.
A territorial dispute between Awdal and the neighboring Gabiley district of Hargeysa has led to the withdrawal of registration teams from 4 localities. Read full text...
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Extradition Of UNHCR-Registered Refugee Man To Ethiopia |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, October 25, 2008 (SL Times) – A man who lived in Somaliland as a refugee has been extradited to Ethiopia .
Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, a father of 11 children arrived in Somaliland on 2001 to seek asylum after fleeing his country, Ethiopia . Read full text...
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Message Of The UN Resident Humanitarian Coordinator To Somalis |
As we mark UN Day today, I wish to reflect on the difficulties and challenges in Somalia . The situation in Somalia has worsened over the course of the year; the people of Somalia know and experience this firsthand. Since January, we have witnessed a 77% increase in the number of Somalis who need assistance.
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IGAD to hold summit on Somalia in Nairobi |
Addis Ababa , ( Ethiopia ) October 23, 2008 – The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will hold a summit on Somalia 27-30 October in Nairobi .
The summit will bring together various political parties of Somalia to discuss the political affairs of the country.
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IGAD to hold summit on Somalia in Nairobi |
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The Russian destroyer Neustrashimy enroute to Somalia crosses the Suez Canal waterway at the south gate, about 100 km southeast of Cairo on Tuesday. The destroyer passed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday on its way to tackle piracy in the waters of Somalia , sources at the Suez Canal Authority said.
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Hyderabad, India, October 22, 2008 - Twenty five foreign students, most of them hailing from different East African countries, were arrested for allegedly overstaying here in violation of rules, the police said on Wednesday.
The arrests were made during a raid at a house in the Humayun Nagar neighbourhood here on Tuesday.
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By LUCAS BARASA
Khartoum , October 21, 2008 - Top Sudanese government officials will not attend an Inter-Government Authority on Development meeting slated for Kenya next week in what is seen as an escalation of the controversy on the hijacked Ukrainian ship with weapons.
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Ethiopian Troops To Stay In Somalia
United Nations And America Seek Extension For Ethiopian Troops In Somalia |
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Nairobi , October 23, 2008 - Somalia 's warlord government again gathers in Kenya to legitimise Ethiopian troops in Somalia .
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Korean Survey Team To Leave For Somalia Next Week |
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Seoul, October 24, 2008 - The government of South Korea will dispatch a survey team to Somalia next week to determine whether to send a naval vessel to the African country.
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Ethiopian Journalists Detained, Charged Over Misidentification |
New York, October 23, 2008— An Ethiopian editor is facing criminal charges today because she accidentally misidentified a judge in a high-profile trial, according to local journalists. Two other journalists have been in police custody since Monday because of the same story
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Kenya Falls In Annual Press Freedom Rankings |
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A supporter of Kenya 's opposition leader Raila Odinga taunts a Kenyan policeman during a demonstration in Kisumu , Kenya , 16 Jan 2008
By Derek Kilner
Nairobi, October 23, 2008 – The international organization Reporters without Borders has released its annual index of press freedom around the world. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi , Kenya was among the countries that saw the biggest drop this year, falling 19 places.
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POET: Andrew Motion
Lancaster , UK , October 23, 2008 – THE 30th annual Litfest hits Lancaster this week with a jam-packed four days of poetry, novels and short fiction.
The festival, which starts at the Dukes Theatre on Wednesday, features a range of work, from British novels to international poetry.
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African Parliaments Need Greater Access To Scientific Information |
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David Dickson
Written by David Dickson
October 23, 2008: Fidel Ayogu, a former member of the Nigerian Parliament, vividly remembers the day that money allocated by the government to build a new water supply to his constituency ran out — with only half the work completed. The reason, he says, was simple.
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Hargeysa, October 22, 2008 - Conflict, drought and economic hardships have led to an unprecedented increase in the number of street children in Hargeysa, capital of the independent republic of Somaliland , with government and aid agencies calling for urgent steps to stem the increase.
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Africa's Best Kept Secret |
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Gen. Powell's Courage |
Barring political assassination or some other cataclysmic event, political campaigns have a way of quickly receding from public memory. The only thing the public usually remembers, once an election is over, is a clever phrase or a gaffe.
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Barack Obama For President |
Published by the New York Times on October 23, 2008
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation's future truly hangs in the balance.
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OPINION |
Pakistan 's Forgotten Ghetto Residents |
By Tariq A. Al-Maeena
In our prayers for the poor and oppressed of this world, including those in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, we can be somewhat be forgiven for ignoring the plight of more than a quarter million ghetto dwellers in squalid camps in Bangladesh. These are the Biharis, forgotten remnants of the Indo-Pakistan partition, and there are very few voices that bring their destitute conditions to the fore. Read full text...
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It's Time To Take On The Gangsters Of The Sea |
We run down British naval power at our peril. Without it we would have little food, fuel, or goods - or safety
Libby Purves
October 13, 2008
Dusk is falling in the Gulf of Aden ; the sea is oily flat, and the day's heat still beats upward from the deck. The big freighter's small crew, perhaps Indian and Filipino with a few European officers, are nervous. Jumpy. They have every reason to be.
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Thinking Aloud: Dreamland, Puntland And Fatherland |
By Eid Ali Salaan Ahmed
By Razi Azmi Capitalism will survive and thrive, with a fine-tuning here and an adjustment there, with more regulation or less regulation. Both America and capitalism might say, like Mark Twain, that “rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated”
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By\ Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Piracy, kidnapping and hijacking of ships is the most lucrative profession in "Puntland". The leaders of "Puntland" including Adde Mouse and President of Transitional Government of Somalia (TGS) Abdullah Yousuf take a loin's share from this illegal business.
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stronomy which is among the oldest subjects in human thought and at the same time crucial to discover the secret behind the universe failed for building its frame work with assumptions that basically subject to refutable. Astronomy deals with the universe as wholeness, since the originality is from the heavens, and the universe we mean all existence "To the best of our knowledge it includes uncountable stars and galaxies ”.
Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey p.3
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Paul Goldsmith
ANALYSIS
Nairobi October 12, 2008 - What is it that makes Pirates different from other brigands; why do dacoits of the sea excite the imagination where the land-bound highwayman invokes fear and loathing? To explain, we cite the curious case of the Pirates of Puntland.
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| Terry Lacey
Development Economist
By the time President Obama is elected the United States will be a different country in a different world. There will be no going back and no return to business as usual. What began as the sub-prime housing market crash has become a generalized banking crash, leading to a world financial crisis, and then into a world economic recession. Read full text...
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London , 28 October – 4 November 2008
Official Release
24 October 2008
This is a Somali literature festival which combines a touring book display featuring a big number of new Somali language books; literary discussions on the Somali language and its literature; poetry recitations; readings and book presentations taking place in a number of London boroughs (Southwark, Camden and Ealing).
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Canada 's largest Jewish and Muslim community organizations are joining together in a groundbreaking partnership.
The Jewish-Somali Project will engage the resources of the Jewish community to provide mentorship to young Somali professionals, as the first in a series of what partners in the project hope will be a series of collaborative ventures, under the auspices of the Canadian International Peace Project. Read full text...
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Refugees who arrived on Yemen 's shores hours earlier make their way 35km to the UN High Commission for Refugees reception center at Ahwar. Evelyn Hockstein / The National
Evelyn Hockstein, Correspondent
HISN BIL EID , YEMEN , October 22. 2008 – Still stiff from sitting for more than a day with their knees pulled tightly to their chests, the Somali refugees who have made it to the shores of the Yemeni coast slowly unfold their limbs. Read full text...
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