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SANAA, November 14, 2008 Countries bordering the Red Sea will meet in Egypt next week for talks on the rampant piracy in the region, Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Kurbi said on Thursday.
""Countries bordering the Red Sea have been invited to meet on November 20 in Cairo to discuss the security of the Red Sea,"" Kurbi said, adding that the meeting was called by both Egypt and Yemen .
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By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, Associated Press Writers
In a Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Somali militia of Al-Shabab are MOGADISHU , Somalia , Nov 14, 2008 With an assault rifle slung over his shoulder and a glass of sweet tea in his hand, 15-year-old Farah Ismail was all smiles Friday at an outdoor cafe in Mogadishu , one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Read full text...
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File Photo: Great Ethiopian Run 2007, more than 30,000 runners are expected to take part in Toyota Great Ethiopian Run 2008 on Sunday Nov 23, 2008 in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia. NAIROBI , Kenya , November 14, 2008 The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia has warned American citizens against taking part in the Great Ethiopian Run because of the threat of terrorism. Friday's message says embassy staff and their families should not to take part in the 6.2-mile race set for Nov. 23. The message followed an unspecified terror warning from the Ethiopian government about the race featuring tens of thousands of runners from Ethiopia and around the world. The race is led by distance great Haile Gebrselassie.
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Security Alert Great Ethiopian Run
The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia is issuing this warden message to inform American citizens that in light of the Government of Ethiopia's warning of an unspecified terrorist threat concern in Ethiopia, as detailed in a Warden Message dated November 6, the Embassy has ordered all Embassy American staff and their family members not to take part in the Great Ethiopian Run, scheduled for November 23 in Addis Ababa. Private American citizens are likewise advised to avoid the event. This precautionary measure is in keeping with the Embassy's advice that Americans avoid public gatherings and public places. Read full text... |
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| Paris , France , November 13, 2008 - Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to explain the detention of freelance journalist Hadis Mohammed Hadis for the past ten days in Hargeysa, the capital of the northern breakaway region of Somaliland . Hadis was arrested while filming at Hargeysa airport on 3 November, five days after 25 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the city.
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Addis Ababa , November 11, 2008 Ethiopia 's Foreign Ministry has denied recent reports suggesting its top diplomat to Somaliland was killed in a blast in Hargeysa.
Citing unnamed sources, a Press TV correspondent in Somalia reported on October 29 that 23 people, including the Ethiopian ambassador to Somaliland , had died in a series of blasts in the city.
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MOGADISHU, Nov. 11, 2008 -- At least four Somalis were killed in clashes between radical Shebab fighters and a local militia which took up arms to protest a ban on khat, a widely consumed narcotic leaf, witnesses said on Tuesday. Read full text...
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Al-Shabab gunmen during exercises at their military training camp outside Mogadishu , 04 Nov 2008
By Peter Heinlein
Addis Ababa, November 14, 2008 The feuding leaders of Somalia's transitional government are deadlocked in a dispute over cabinet appointments as Islamist rebel forces advance to within striking distance of the capital, Mogadishu. Read full text...
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Yemen 's Foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi
SANA'A, Nov. 10 2008 (Saba) Yemen has expressed concern over the military presence in the Red Sea, which as Foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi says is a threat to the Arab national security and as an attempt to adopt an Israeli project to internationalize the sea waters.
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BOSSASO, Somalia Nov 10, 2008 Authorities in Somalia 's Puntland regional government released a religious native who was detained hours after the October 29 suicide bombings that targeted intelligence headquarters in the port city of Bossaso , 1500km north of the national capital Mogadishu .
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Monday, 10 November 2008
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Somalia : Politics and Government
William Hague (Shadow Foreign Secretary, Foreign Affairs; Richmond ( Yorks ), Conservative) | Hansard source
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2007, Official Report, column 502W, on Somalia, what technical and advisory assistance has been provided to the government in Somalia by the UK since that date; and what assessment has been made of the impact of that assistance.
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Nairobi , November 10, 2008 The United States Government notes with concern the violence which has recently taken place in Mogadishu even after the October 26 ceasefire agreement signed by both the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS).
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Monday, November 10, 2008
WASHINGTON (MSNBC) - President-elect Obama and President Bush met in the Oval Office Monday, a visit that lasted just about an hour and came during a historic shifting of power to a new administration.
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Frankenthal , Germany , November 10, 2008 - The mysterious murder in Germany this year of three used car dealers from Georgia was an act of religious hatred, one of the two accused claimed Monday at the start of their trial. Testifying in Arabic, the Iraqi-born defendant, 40, declared his innocence and accused the other defendant, a 26-year-old Somali, of murdering the trio as an expression of "a special form of fundamentalism."
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Somalilanders Alarmed That The Increasingly Pro-Al-Shabaab Tone Of The BBC's Somali Broadcast Might Influence Some Younger People To Become Terrorists |
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 15, 2008 (SL Times) There are growing fears in Somaliland that the increasingly pro-Al-Shabaab news broadcasts by the BBC's Somali Service would lead to the spread and acceptance of terrorism among the younger generation.
Somalilanders have particularly been alarmed by the news that in the period following the October 29 terrorist attacks in Hargeysa, over 70 youngsters of their own had crossed into Somalia to join Al-Shabaab. Read full text...
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Addis Ababa , November 13, 2008 Britain has circulated a draft resolution that would impose new U.N. sanctions on anyone contributing to violence and instability in Somalia , U.N. Security Council diplomats told Reuters yesterday.
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The Fate Of The Voter Registration Shrouded In Mystery |
Hargeysa, Somaliland , November 15, 2008 (SL Times) The National Electoral Commission is not sure yet when the voter registration programme will resume. The voter registration was suspended for a period of 10 days following the 3 terrorist attacks that hit targets in Somaliland 's capital city Hargeysa on October 29. The halting of the exercise was prompted by the evacuation of the international consultants who were assisting the NEC in the implementation of the registration following the terrorist attacks.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 15, 2008 (SL Times) - There is no grudge held towards Somalian refugees who fled to Somaliland in the wake of the war that broke out in Somalia in 1990s or in more recent years.
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(Report on telephone interview with Admiral Giovanni Gumiero, commander of NATO naval operation against piracy, by Massimo A. Alberizzi: " Italy Leading the Hunt for Pirates: 'Ready To Use Force'": place and date not given.)
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo - Finally, the pirates who operate off Somalia will not have an easy life. The battleships tasked by NATO with making the waters of the Horn of Africa secure - battleships that are under the command of Italian Admiral Giovanni Gumiero - are ready to use force, including using cannons, to defend cargo ships at risk of being assaulted. Last year, the pirates seized around 100 cargo ships, and obtained ransoms worth several million dollars.
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Britain is leaving once-stable Somaliland to the mercy of al-Shabaab Islamist militants
Thursday, November 13
The co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks in Somaliland's capital Hargeysa two weeks ago shattered more than a decade of stability. Yet the despite the continuing threat hanging over this former British protectorate, the British government will not act to properly protect the fledgling democracy. Read full text...
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By Dereje Berhanu
ADDIS ABABA , Ethiopia - Police have announced the arrest of 15 people on suspicion of terrorist offences.
According to police the suspects were cover member of legal political parties, the Oromo Federalist Party and Oromo National Congress Party, and also members of Muslim extremist groups, going under the name of Cawareje. Read full text...
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Obama Meets With Economic Experts For Advice |
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President-elect Obama points down the table during a meeting with his economic advisory team in Chicago , Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. From left are, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
CHICAGO, November 7, 2008 President-elect Obama met with economic experts Friday to discuss ways to stabilize the teetering U.S. economy that is expected to dominate his transition to power and early days in office.
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Security Council
6011th & 6012th Meetings (AM & PM)
SECURITY COUNCIL, MEETING CONCURRENTLY WITH GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
ELECTS FIVE JUDGES TO INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf ( Somalia ), elected to the International Court of Justice for a term of nine years in office, beginning on 6 February 2009.
The Security Council, meeting independently but concurrently with the General Assembly, today elected five judges to the International Court of Justice for nine-year terms, beginning on 6 February 2009. Read full text...
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Liverpool , November 07, 2008 - A MEMBER of a gang accused of killing a Somali teenager issued death threats to a witness moments after the murder, a court was told.
Ahmed Mohamoud Ahmed, 16, who saw the attack on his cousin Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim, 17, told Liverpool crown court the warning came in a mobile phone call as he sat in a police van.
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From Dana Bash
Washington , November 7, 2008 (CNN) -- As former aides to Sen. John McCain circulated charges about Sarah Palin, a spokeswoman for the Alaska governor fired back, calling the allegations "sickening."
Sources close to John McCain say Sarah Palin was denied a chance to speak at McCain's concession address. Since the GOP defeat Tuesday night, former McCain campaign aides have been the sources of a string of stories about Palin.
One source involved in preparing her for interviews and the vice presidential debate told CNN "she had not paid attention to a single policy debate that's gone on in this country for 10 years."
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NAIROBI , November 06, 2008 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's 86-year-old grandmother, Sarah Obama, said she will attend her grandson's presidential inauguration ceremony in Washington early next year.
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President-elect Barack Obama leaves a parent-teacher conference Friday at the University of Chicago Lab School.
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
CHICAGO, November 8, 2008 In his first news conference as president-elect, Barack Obama pledged Friday to quickly seek an economic stimulus plan and made it clear he'd like to see Congress act on it even before he takes office.
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Obama: Getting A Family Dog Isn't Easy |
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AP President-elect Obama and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm laugh when Obama was asked what kind of dog
CHICAGO , November 7, 2008 President-elect Obama promised his daughters a puppy after the election, but finding one is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Read full text...
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By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch, Nov 11, 2008
Recent terror attacks in the self-styled independent Somaliland could be designed to destabilize the secessionist region, dragging it into Somalia 's brutal quagmire, Simon Roughneen writes for ISN Security Watch. Read full text...
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Hussein Malla/Associated Press
Mourners shouted anti-American slogans on Oct. 27 in Syria at the funeral of someone killed in a cross-border United States raid.
The New York Times
A 2004 order permits attacks on terrorists outside war zones.
By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON , November 9, 2008 The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria , Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.
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| 14/11/2008
Hargeysa, Somaliland, November 14, 2008 After six months of operations, our field report shows the new SOS Social and Medical Centre Hargeysa is already making a significant impact on the local community.
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| By Alex Perry Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
Women and children wait to be fed by the World Food Programme in Mogadishu . Getting help to hungry and homeless Somalis have become progressively harder as the violence has risen, claiming the lives of many U.N. staffers and aid workers.
Jehad Nga
For Somalia , it was just another long weekend of mayhem. Shortly after midnight on Friday, Nov. 7, pirates seized a Danish cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden; on Saturday night an aid worker was shot and killed as he walked home from evening prayers in a village 270 miles (435 km) from Mogadishu;
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November 11th, 2008 | EthioPolitics.com |
By Genet Mersha
The 2008 election in the United States marks the beginnings of a brave new world. While America remains divided on the question of race, as confirmed by the polls, the majority of the people have taken courageous decision in voting for Barack Obama.
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MOGADISHU , Somalia , November 12, 2008 Somalian rebels have seized a key port town as they consolidate recent gains in their two-year-old insurgency against the western-backed government in Mogadishu .
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| Our Trip to Somaliland |
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Africa's Best Kept Secret |
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Somaliland's Security Needs A Paradigm Shift |
For many years until the terrorist attacks on Somaliland two weeks ago, Somaliland's security services worked under the assumption that the most likely scenario for terrorist attacks would come in the form of attacks on: government officials, government offices;
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Press release from the Swedish People's Liberals 08-10-30
As a friend of Somali's democracy, I am deeply shocked by the terrorist attacks which hit the country. More than 20 people were killed in coordinated suicide attacks and a Swedish working for the UN in the capital Hargeysa were injured.
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Oct 31, 2008 at 03:50 PM
The London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) was voted "Think Tank of the Year 2008" at Prospect magazine's 8th annual award ceremony held at King's College in London on 6 October 2008.
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OPINION |
Republic of Somaliland AU And IGAD Need To Engage With Preventive Diplomacy |
By\ Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Somaliland has made notable progress in building peace, security and constitutional democracy within its de facto borders. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and internally displaced people have returned home, tens of thousands of landmines have been removed and destroyed, and clan militias have been integrated into unified police and military forces.
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Stranglehold Of Tribalism On Somali Society - The Case Of Somaliland |
By Mohamed F Yabarag
As political campaigns for Somaliland 's upcoming presidential election in the next spring are in full swing, so is tribalism. Clans are jockeying for places and favors.
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Indonesia No Recession In World's Top Rank Economy |
Dr. Terry Lacey
Development Economist
Following the election of President Obama there is likely to be a slow recovery in confidence in the United States financial and banking system. A recession is unavoidable in the US and EU, but with only a downturn in developing countries.
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Tamrat Nega
November 10, 2008
A new Ethiopian initiative on Somalia , obviously sinister in the eyes of many Somali nationals, is getting unanimous backing from IGAD as violence intensifies in Mogadishu and Baidoa, the respective seats of the Transitional Federal Government and the Parliament.
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Although Somaliland is not recognized as an independent state, in reality, it functions as one.
Gitau Muthuma
ANALYSIS
Despite the recent attack on the president's palace and the UNDP headquarters in the capital, Hargeisa - suspected to have been carried out by Islamic militants - the breakaway Republic of Somaliland remains largely unaffected by the chaos that persists in southern Somalia . Situated in northwestern Somalia in the Horn of Africa, it was part of Somalia until 1991. Read full text...
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To the victims of the recent terrorist attack in Sland;
First and foremost I would like to extend a hand of sympathy to the victims of the recent terrorists' attacks in Somaliland . My heart goes to all the families involved. Its saddening considering our long standing record as a peaceful nation for over a decade in democracy and peaceful governance. These attacks have fuelled a serious paranoia in the lives of many people and that is where we are now. Read full text...
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MOGADISHU , November 13, 2008 (AFP) Somalia 's Islamist and pro-government forces were on collision course again Thursday, as police vowed to send troops to wrest back control of several towns from fast-advancing Shebab fighters.
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Thursday, 13 November 2008
The British navy killed two Somali pirates after the attempted hijacking of a Danish cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, the defense ministry in London said on Wednesday.
The men were killed when a Royal Navy crew returned fire as they intercepted a boat about 60 miles south of Yemen on Tuesday.
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President Abdillahi Yusuf and his PM Nur Adde
Mogadishu , Somalia , November 13, 2008 (APA) - President Abdillahi Yusuf and Premier Nur Adde Hassan Hussein of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia arrived on Thursday afternoon in Addis Ababa for consultation with Ethiopian officials, including Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Somali Islamist insurgents captured Merka port on Wednesday, given them their closest foothold to the capital and raising the stakes in a two-year insurgency.
Below are some questions and answers on the intractable Somali conflict:
WHO'S INVOLVED?
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Ewen MacAskill
Washington , November 15, 2008 THE Indonesian Government's execution of the Bali bombers was a "dramatic step that underscores Jakarta 's commitment" to the fight against terrorism, the head of the CIA has told journalists in a rare meeting.
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MOSCOW , November 14 2008 (RIA Novosti) - With pirate attacks on the rise off the coast of Somalia , Russia 's Neustrashimy (Fearless) frigate is currently escorting trade ships in the area, the Russian Navy said on Friday.
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HR.BLR.com
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A chicken processor based in Minnesota has agreed to provide a paid break during the second half of each shift to accommodate the religious beliefs of Muslim employees who wish to pray during the course of the work day.
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By Mark Thompson / Washington Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
Mullen speaks to Marines in Iraq . He needs to help his new boss shift forces to Afghanistan .
Mike Kemp / Getty
Next to a non-denominational prayer room up in the Pentagon's attic, the ways and means of Barack Obama's foreign policy are quietly taking shape.
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Contrary to appearances, Mogadishu port has re-opened for business
By Najum Mushtaq
NAIROBI , Nov 14 (IPS) - A doctor in Mogadishu gives medicine to a man complaining of an upset stomach. This medicine won't work,'' groans the patient, I got sick after eating expired food; only an expired medicine will cure it.''
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CHICAGO , Nov. 14, 2008 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
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Government and Donors Should Urgently Address Refugee Crisis
Nairobi, November 13, 2008) The Kenyan government, foreign donors, and United Nations agencies should rapidly increase their response to the worsening Somali refugee crisis in Kenya, Human Rights Watch said today.
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More than 87 journalists who died in the line of duty from November 2007 up until November 17, 2008, from 35 countries, from Argentina to Venezuela, will be honored in Stockholm, Sweden, by PROFOCA (Professional Foreign Correspondents Association) during the STOCKHOLM JOURNALIST MEMORIAL 2008, the only ecumenical service in the world dedicated to the memory of those who were killed while performing their profession.
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