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Somali Migrants in Addis Ababa: Challenges Of Social Integration With Local People

HARGEISA, 9 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – This paper is a partial fulfillment for the requirements to bachelors of degree of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University. It elaborates the living conditions of the Somali migrants in Addis Ababa and the challenges they meet in the process of interacting with the local people.
This [...]

The History Man and Fatwa Girl: How will David Cameron take news that think-tank guru Niall Ferguson has deserted wife Sue Douglas for Somali feminist?

The internationally celebrated historian and TV presenter Niall Ferguson has broken up with his wife of 16 years after a string of adulterous affairs.
The 45-year-old Harvard professor has left former newspaper editor Susan Douglas, with whom he has three children, for his mistress, the Somalian-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ms. Hirsi Ali, 40, is a lawyer [...]

Somalis rescue migrants in Gulf of Aden

BERBERA (Somalilandpress) — Some 126 people have been rescued by Somali fishermen from the Gulf of Aden after human traffickers reportedly forced them into the sea at gunpoint.
The migrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, said they had set off from northern Somalia a week ago.
They said their boat had developed engine trouble and drifted for [...]

Somaliland elections: Observers welcome progress towards setting date for poll

HARGEISA, 8 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – As part of the UK-based team coordinating election observers for the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland, Progressio today welcomes recent progress made to resolve the Somaliland voter registration process – a key sticking point – and calls on all parties to push ahead and [...]

Female religious leaders lead the fight against AIDS.

Monday Feb 08 (SomalilandPress)-Female religious leaders have taken a central role in the fight against AIDS in Somalia. This follows a series of trainings recently conducted by local organizations, with support from UNDP.
In Somaliland, UNDP supported four training events for female religious leaders in Hargeisa, Borama, Berbera and Buroa, in collaboration with the Somaliland [...]

Kenya: 50 People Die of Cancer Everyday

Kenya, (SomalilandPress)-Statistics which was released on Thursday has said about 50 Kenyans die each day various forms of cancers. About 80,000 cases of cancer are diagnosed in Kenya each year, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Chief Executive Officer Dr Jotham Micheni announced.
All the patients can only use the required treatment at KNH which is the [...]

Lessons from Somaliland on self reclamation from mayhem

Any reader may wonder if anything other than piracy, warlords tussle and the sound of bombs can ever come from Somalia.
Such negative perception of Somalia is understandable if one is to refuse the de facto break-up of Somalia into two disparate parts that have had paradoxically different trajectories since 1990. Prof Iqbal Jhazbay’s recent [...]

Book presentation: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

LONDON (Somalilandpress) — Kayd Somali Arts and Culture is pleased to invite you to the presentation of new book; ‘Black Mamba Boy‘ by Nadifa Mohamed. Join us to discuss this new novel with the author on Friday,12 Feb. 2010 at 6:30pm -9:00pm, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG. This event will be [...]

Nigeria rejects sending troops to Somalia

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress)-Nigeria’s minister for foreign affairs has angrily responded to a question asked by his counterparts from Uganda and Ethiopia at the AU summit regarding the deployment of troops in Somalia previously pledged by his country and when that was likely to happen.
The minister said there is no peace to keep in Somalia and that [...]

International Experts Say Somaliland’s Recognition Will Assist In Strengthening Accountability In Regions That Are Now Pirate Infected

Cambridge, 3 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – A group of twenty-five scholars, diplomats, lawyers, military officers, shipping industry officials, and other experts on maritime piracy and Somalia from nine nations who convened at the Harvard Kennedy School in December 2009 have recommended that one of the ways of exerting control over and reducing the [...]

Somalia leader appeals international support, rules out talks with rebels‏.

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress)-The president of the Transitional FederalGovernment of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad, has accused theinternational community of failing to play their role towards Somalia,adding that his country was in dire need of their support. Speaking at the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, AddisAbaba, The president has asked the world for political support, [...]

Somalia leader appeals international support, rules out talks with rebels.

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress)-The president of the Transitional Federal
Government of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad, has accused the
international community of failing to play their role towards Somalia,
adding that his country was in dire need of their support.
Speaking at the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis
Ababa, The president has asked the world for political support, troops
and [...]

The Jihadist Next Door.

ON A WARM, cloudy day in the fall of 1999, the town of Daphne, Ala., stirred to life. The high-school band came pounding down Main Street, past the post office and the library and Christ the King Church. Trumpeters in gold-tasseled coats tipped their horns to the sky, heralding the arrival of teenage demigods. The [...]

Special report: The rise of ‘the African Taliban’.

The plaque on the State House building in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, is an oblique commemoration to an event that never occurred. It was built in 1952 for a visit to the then British protectorate by the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen never came. These days the half-ruined structure is known for another [...]

Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a Deeper Strategic Matrix of Long-term Importance

San’a, 1 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism against the West.
This simplistic and overly narrow view has largely been a reaction to media reporting of the links of alleged (and unsuccessful) Nigerian-born [...]

Somali ‘Pirates’ want to send loot confiscated from rich countries to Haiti

Spokesmen for the so-called “Somali pirates” have expressed willingness to transfer part of their loot captured from transnational boats and send it to Haiti.
Leaders of these groups have declared they have links in various places around the world to help them ensure the delivery of aid without being detected by the armed forces of enemy [...]

VOA Somali-Service: Farhia Absie’s resignation letter due to harassment and discrimination

To: Somali Service, Africa Division, VOA, IBB and BBG top executives
Re: Resignation Letter
Date: Tuesday, January, 27, 2010
My name is Farhia M. Absie. I am a contractor for the Somali Service of Voice of America (VOA). I write this letter with heavy heart knowing that I have no choice but to officially give up on a [...]

A California Reckoning in a Case of Abuses Abroad

SAN FRANCISCO (Somalilandpress) — The three refugees from Somalia came to the Bay Area several years ago to escape the violence of their homeland, to put the terror behind them. But they were shocked to learn in 2002 that a former Somali official they believed responsible for brutality against their family was living freely in [...]

Supporters of Somali Torture Survivors File Amici Curiae Briefs with the Supreme Court in Samantar v. Yousuf

WASHINGTON, DC (Somalilandpress) — CJA announced today that nine amicus curiae briefs were filed with the United States Supreme Court yesterday in support of the respondents in the case of Samantar v. Yousuf, NO. 08-1555. In this case, the Court will decide if former foreign government officials – who, after using their power to order [...]

STATUS OF ABDUCTED VESSELS AND CREWS IN SOMALIA

STATUS OF SEIZED VESSELS AND CREWS IN SOMALIA (ecoterra)
Summary: Today, 01. February 2010, 12h00 UTC, at least 11 foreign vessels plus one barge are kept in Somalia against the will of their owners, while at least 250 seafarers – including an elderly British yachting couple – suffer to be released.
CASES NOT COMPLETELY CLOSED:
MS INDIAN OCEAN [...]

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