NEWS FROM November 2008

Somaliland: Voters Registration to Resume Tomorrow

Somaliland’s voters registration is expected to resume tomorrow after a 30-days of delay due to the suicide bombs in Hargeisa last month. At least two times have been postponed the regisration because the authorities wanted to wait the investigation results that was going on.

U.S. appears to be losing its secret war in Somalia

It is a standoff war in which the Pentagon lobs million-dollar cruise missiles into a famine-haunted African wasteland the size of Texas, hoping to kill lone terror suspects who might be dozing in candlelit huts.

Somalia: Islamic clerics council rejects power-sharing deal

MOGADISHU, Somalia Nov 28 (Garowe Online) – A group of Muslim scholars in Somalia have issued a declaration rejecting a new power-sharing agreement signed between the country’s transitional federal government (TFG) and an opposition faction, led by Islamist chief Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Salad, the scholars’ chairman, said the new deal is [...]

Djibouti delegation holds talks with President Rayaale, cabinet ministers

HARGEISA, Somaliland -A delegation from Djibouti has promised to give extra consideration towards recognizing Somaliland as a nation state.
Mr. Hashi Abdilahi, special advisor to President Ismail Omar Guelleh, said: “After the terrorist attacks [in Somaliland] we will think of what they can do about unstable Somalia, which they have spent time and energy on [...]

U.S. Woman Negotiating With Somali Pirates

By MARTHA RADDATZ and RICHARD COOLIDGE
Saturday, November 29, 2008
An American businesswoman with connections to U.S. intelligence and the military has been talking with the Somali pirates who have commandeered the Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star, trying to get the ship released, ABC News has confirmed.
First reported by Military.com, the pirates, who have halted all talks [...]

Balls and all: Australia audaciously bids for sporting bonanza

AUSTRALIA could host the world’s major sporting festivals by 2020, if a cartel of the nation’s powerbrokers succeeds in winning bids to stage world cups in football and rugby union, together with an Olympic Games for Brisbane or Melbourne.
Football and rugby union have held talks on a joint strategy to stage world cups in 2018 [...]

Somalia’s Transitional Government Fears Withdrawal of Ethiopian Troops

Officials in Somalia’s transitional federal government are expressing deep concern about the future of the government after its chief military backer and political ally, Ethiopia, announced its intention to withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of the year. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, the government [...]

A journalist held in Somaliland freed after two weeks

MONTREAL, Nov. 28 /CNW Telbec/ – Reporters Without Borders today notes
the release, on 18 November 2008, of freelance journalist Hadis Mohammed
Hadis, after being held for two weeks at the Criminal Investigation Department
in Hargeisa, capital oof Somaliland.
Hadis Mohammed Hadis has already been arrested on several occasions over
the last two years. He told [...]

Ethiopia to withdraw from Somalia by end of year

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Ethiopia announced Friday that it will withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of the year, leaving this country’s weak and fractured government to face an increasingly powerful Islamic insurgency.
Ethiopia — the region’s military powerhouse — has sent thousands of troops to support Somalia’s U.N.-backed government, which has failed to [...]

NEWS FROM November 2008

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