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Kulmiye Party Splinters
As the calendar for the Somaliland presidential election approached, and as Kulmiye party which lost the last round yearned to go on the top this time, then serious, irreconcilable disagreement emerged, which caused the party to literally break down into pieces. The event that caused the splinter was disagreement about the...
May 14, 2009 - 00:43 |
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We come in peace
By Josh Freed, Citizen Special.
Dear President Obama:
Like most Canadians I rooted for you madly and cried when you were elected President-of-The-World. So far, I think you've been a great leader, reaching out to the whole planet.
But you've forgotten one nation -- Canada.
As of today, you will officially...
June 03, 2009 - 12:11 |
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A global taste for justice
By Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur, Citizen Special
For decades, Washington was the chief champion of human rights as a global norm with universal relevance.
But under the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. became a major delinquent. And this had disastrous demonstration effects on regimes only too willing to...
May 01, 2009 - 22:00 |
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Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling
09 March.2009
By Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine
(CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.
According to the Saudi daily...
March 11, 2009 - 00:19 |
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Proud to be a new Canadian
15 Feb,2009
OTTAWA — The 70 people standing in the Great Hall of the Museum of Civilization couldn’t possibly have been Canadian citizens.
They waved flags.
They spoke glowingly about Ottawa.
And they knew all the words to O Canada.
Canadians? No way, eh.
Yet as they raised their right hands...
February 15, 2009 - 22:28 |
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Afghan foetus 'aborted by razor'
BBC, 07 Jan. 2009--The family of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face prosecution after her foetus was removed without anaesthetic.
The mother and brother of the girl are accused of cutting her open with a razor blade to perform an abortion.
Doctors say the girl is in a critical condition. A man accused of raping...
January 07, 2009 - 13:10 |
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Is greed overcoming fear in the stock market?
By Chuck Mikolajczak - Analysis
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks typically rebound six months before the economy, but investors worry that the current 25 percent rally since the market's March 9 low could be a red herring.
At the same time, lack of investor conviction -- or simple fear -- can be considered a sign of...
April 11, 2009 - 12:17 |
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Collapse of IBM deal could weaken Sun even more
By Jim Finkle - Analysis
BOSTON (Reuters) - Sales at Sun Microsystems Corp (JAVA.O), already under pressure, could take a further hit from the collapse of IBM's (IBM.N) multibillion dollar bid.
The failure of the high-end computer and software company to sell itself might drive customers to its rivals --...
April 11, 2009 - 12:14 |
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Study links morning sickness to brighter kids
CTV.ca News Staff
Moms who spend part of their pregnancies vomiting and nauseated can take heart: Canadian research suggests they might actually have a smarter baby.
Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk Program have discovered that morning sickness appears to be linked to enhanced...
April 27, 2009 - 11:48 |
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HIV mutates at high speed to avoid immune system: study
27 Feb,2009.
PARIS (AFP) - - A worldwide team of scientists said the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was swiftly evolving to avoid the body's immune defences, a phenomenon that adds to the challenge of crafting an AIDS vaccine.
Mutations in HIV enable it to rapidly sidestep genetic variations that offer a...
February 27, 2009 - 01:31 |
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A Growing Heart Problem: Congestive Heart Failure
09 Feb,2009.
By Bernadine Healy M.D.
The good news about coronary artery disease is that fewer people are having--or dying from--heart attacks in the prime of life. And those who have heart attacks are likely to survive and live on into ripe old age. The challenge, however, is that many of these heart attack...
February 10, 2009 - 08:49 |
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Harper praises 'strong and resilient' Canadians
CTV.ca News Staff
Addressing a massive Canada Day crowd, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canadians have faced a challenging year but "are a strong and resilient people."
Harper, speaking to tens of thousands of Canadians gathered on Parliament...
July 01, 2009 - 20:38 |
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Obama seeks to build support for health reform
By David Alexander and Andy Sullivan
ANNANDALE, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to build support to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system as a key Republican questioned whether bipartisan support among lawmakers is possible.
With Congress out of session for a week, Obama urged...
July 01, 2009 - 19:47 |
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Child survives Yemeni plane crash with 153 on board
By Ahmed Ali Amir
MORONI (Reuters) - An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.
A doctor in the Comoros told Reuters a child had been plucked...
June 30, 2009 - 09:49 |
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US confident hours before leaving Iraqi cities
By Patrick Quinn.
Associated Press Writer.
BAGHDAD (AP)-- Hours before the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities, the top American military commander in the Middle East expressed confidence Monday that Iraqi security forces are ready...
June 29, 2009 - 11:58 |
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Fans moonwalk to honor Jackson, wait for tribute
By Angela Charlton and Mari Yamaguchi
Associated Press Writers
PARIS (AP) -- Mourning Michael Jackson fans lauded his talent, moonwalked in his honor, sang his lyrics and awaited word Monday on the possibility of a global memorial to the King of Pop.
In Paris,...
June 29, 2009 - 11:43 |
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Dr. Sacad Sh Cisman Nur Oo Wareysi Dheer Kaga Waramey Shirkii Mareykanka
01 July,2009.
Washington D.C.
Dawladda Somaliland, ayaa sheegay inaanu jirin hadal cadho leh oo uu Xildhibaan Donald Payne, oo ka tirsan aqalka Wakiilada ee dalka Maraykanku, kaga jawaabay go’aankii ay Somaliland kaga baaqatay ka qayb galka shirkii...
July 01, 2009 - 20:53 |
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Amoud Foundation at ISNA Convention July 3-6/09
Awdalnews Network.
Press Release.
Amoud Foundation is participating at the ISNA 46th annual convention in washington, DC July 3-6,2009. Amoud Foundation will have a booth number 917 at the convention.
Staff and volunteers will available at the booth for the duration of the convention, we invite the Somali community...
June 30, 2009 - 10:47 |
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Madbakh Fund Raising For Borama Women’s Hospital : An Exemplary Success.
Awdalnews Network.
Toronto, Canada.
Madbakh has concluded yesterday, June 26,2009, the first of one of its multiple drives of fundraising efforts for the Borama Women’s Hospital, in Toronto, in an unprecedented manner in both scope and expectation. ...
June 30, 2009 - 00:19 |
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Somaliland in plea for food aid
HARGEISA, 29 June 2009 (IRIN)
The authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland have urged the international community to come to its aid to avert severe food shortages and hunger due to a prolonged drought in the region.
Ahmed...
June 29, 2009 - 12:26 |
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Somaliland appeals to international community for urgent emergency livelihood assistance
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Press Release
Urgent Emergency Humanitarian Assistant
The Vice President
To: All International Agancies And Organizations
Since The Year Of 2007. The “Dayr” and “Gu” rains in Somaliland were below normal rainfall (Deyr 07/08, Gu 08, and Deyr 08/09) and this year’s “Gu” was poor.
As a...
June 29, 2009 - 12:17 |
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Pastoralists leave drought-hit villages
HARGEISA, 24 June 2009 (IRIN) -
Thousands of nomadic pastoralists in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have abandoned their drought-affected villages and moved closer to urban centres, officials have said.
"More than 20 percent of the nomads...
June 24, 2009 - 01:15 |
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Ethiopia dismisses Somali Islamist attack threat
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Wednesday dismissed a threat of invasion from Somalia's Islamist rebels who say Ethiopian troops have crossed back into the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January.
Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust an Islamist movement -- in...
July 01, 2009 - 19:42 |
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Somalia's Shebab Militia Hunt Traders Stocking Expired Food
30 June , 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)--The Shebab, Somalia's hardline Islamist group, Monday raided Mogadishu's main market to hunt for traders stocking expired food, warning that offenders would face trial for "un-Islamic behavior."
Dozens of fighters from the armed group - which controls much of the capital as...
June 30, 2009 - 10:34 |
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Somali hardline Islamists threaten Ethiopia
By Mohamed Ahmed
MOGADISHU, June 30 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist rebels threatened on Tuesday to attack Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January.
Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust an Islamist movement...
June 30, 2009 - 10:18 |
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Kenyan forces again accused of torture, rape
By Andrew Cawthorne
NAIROBI,June 29 (Reuters) - Security forces tortured scores of men and raped a dozen women in a sweep against the mainly ethnic Somali population of remote northeast Kenya intended to disarm militias, a rights group said on Monday.
The accusation by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) of...
June 29, 2009 - 10:55 |
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Kenyans blame Somalis for property price hikes
By Abdiaziz Hassan
NAIROBI, June 29 (Reuters) - The bustling Eastleigh suburb in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been the hub of business for Kenyan-Somalis and thousands of refugees escaping civil war in neighbouring Somalia for decades.
In the district east of downtown Nairobi, shops and houses built soon after...
June 29, 2009 - 10:52 |
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Tsvangirai ally to be tried October 13 for terrorism
HARARE (Reuters) - A senior official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party will stand trial in Zimbabwe in October on terrorism charges, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
The case against Roy Bennett has deepened divisions in the fragile unity government formed in February between President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF...
July 01, 2009 - 19:38 |
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IMF approves $176 mln loan for Mozambique
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved a $176 million loan for Mozambique over 12 months to support a deterioration in its balance of payments due to the global economic downturn.
The IMF said in a statement Mozambique will be able to immediately draw $132 million of the loan under...
July 01, 2009 - 19:37 |
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African Union lifts sanctions on Mauritania
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union has dropped sanctions on Mauritania and lifted a suspension from the body because of steps it is taking to restore democracy this month, the Union said in a statement on Wednesday.
The African Union suspended Mauritania after the army overthrew the elected president in August...
July 01, 2009 - 19:34 |
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Nigeria gunmen kill 5 police in botched kidnapping
By Anamesere Igboeroteonwu
ONITSHA,, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen in southeastern Nigeria attacked a convoy of police and expatriate workers in a botched kidnap attempt, killing five officers, police said on Wednesday.
Police exchanged fire early on Tuesday with the gang as they were escorting expatriate workers to...
July 01, 2009 - 19:32 |
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Zimbabwe secures $950 mln credit from China
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has secured $950 million in credit lines from China to help rebuild the country's economy, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe has appealed to the world for a "financial stimulus package" for its devastated economy, saying lack of foreign support put a recovery plan...
June 30, 2009 - 10:25 |
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Iran reformists show fresh defiance against regime
By William J. Kole, Associated Press Writer
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on...
July 01, 2009 - 20:01 |
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Iraqi politicians of all stripes laud U.S. pullout
By Tim Cocks and Khalid al-Ansary
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi politicians from across the ethnic and sectarian divide on Wednesday welcomed the U.S. troop withdrawal from cities as a step toward sovereignty, even though they feared it might trigger more violence.
U.S. combat troops pulled out of Iraq's towns and cities...
July 01, 2009 - 19:53 |
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Pakistani troops clear Taliban stronghold in Swat
By Kamran Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops cleared on Wednesday the last Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley, the army said, and appealed for public support to defeat militants in an Afghan border region.
The military went on the offensive in Swat two months ago after the Taliban seized a district just...
July 01, 2009 - 19:50 |
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Pakistan militant faction scraps pact, vows attacks
By Alamgir Bitani
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani militants in a northwestern region have scrapped a peace deal with the government and vowed to launch attacks, threatening to open a new front against the army already fighting in two areas.
The military says it is nearing the end of an offensive in the Swat...
June 30, 2009 - 10:14 |
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Iran hardliner says election protests must cease
By Fredrik Dahl and Parisa Hafezi
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior hardline Iranian cleric Tuesday demanded an end to protests over the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president after Iran's top legislative body slammed shut the last door for a legal challenge.
As expected, the Guardian Council Monday dismissed...
June 30, 2009 - 10:09 |
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U.S. Congressman Lashes Out at Democratic Republic of Somaliland
As I watch the video of U.S. congressional hearings convened in Washington DC in June 25, 2009 about the current turmoil in Somalia, a hostile voice echoes in the conference room: "If they [Somaliland people] want to be isolated, they can be assured that I will do all I can to isolate them…" an infuriated man states. Then...
July 01, 2009 - 19:21 |
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A Mendacious Pen for Hire: Megalomatis’s Articles on Somalia
Among many other things, the chief characteristic of the 21st century is the internet that opened up the gates of communication and closed the vast distances between continents and communities. The unrestricted nature of its cyber-communication turned local issues into International battlegrounds. This has special...
July 01, 2009 - 19:14 |
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Is it time for the Sharif to bow out in the Interest of Somalia?
The world watches in indifference as Somalia descends yet again into a bottomless pit that is tantamount, from the perspective of an ordinary Somali citizen in Mogadishu today, to the upcoming apocalyptic movie 2012 that predicts the end of the world.
For a mother who lost her husband in the anarchy that has engulfed...
June 24, 2009 - 01:04 |
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Somaliland is here to stay!
I have read Mr zakaria Farah’s article on hiiraanonline.com and I can’t help responding to it.
Before I proceed any further, I would like to say that Zakaria is entitled to express his opinion on how Somalia should be and whether it, according to his words, should be further geographically divided or not. One thing he...
June 24, 2009 - 01:01 |
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Ardaa's Call For "Home".
Reading ARDAA website and browsing through it, I found it very interesting to see many contradictions on ADRDAA as non-profit organization based on North American Organization systems. It reflects many similarities of the organizations in which some of us work. It does not seem an agency for Adal Community. On the contrary...
June 18, 2009 - 00:52 |
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Letter to the Somali Community on the death and funeral of Ayuub Adam in Toronto.
That the death of Ayuub Adam was a tragedy is clearly evident. The foolishness of this kind of loss and taking of lives, was clearly stated by the imams presiding and by the relatives at the funeral. I deeply appreciated the impassioned pleas to forego revenge and to stop the killings.
I came to the funeral as a...
June 17, 2009 - 00:18 |
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Demand of Recognition For Somaliland.
The international community has made several brave efforts to rescue and reconstruct the disintegrated State of Somalia. All these brave efforts had however failed and Somali proper still lies in ruins and is still a theatre for marauding warring militants. All the experts, the political analysis’s and the experienced...
June 03, 2009 - 00:49 |
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If You Can’t Attack the Message: Attack the Messenger
To call me a “Priest” or cast aspersion on my character perhaps alleviates NSUM and Dr. Megalommatis’ throbbing pains form their failure to convey their Somali unity “message” but won’t get them off the hook. Nor will I digress from the main topic: exposing their poorly rehearsed fabricated stories.
In three articles...
June 01, 2009 - 00:39 |
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Finding a cheap flight home: Planning your trip to Hargeisa
Okay, so I’ve dusted off my passport, and took those old suitcases out of storage, and after a long and abnormally harsh Canadian winter, I’m eagerly counting down the days until I bid “Au revori!” to Canada, and “Bonjour!” to the warm summer sun of Somaliland. Yes, this summer like many of my compatriots living in the...
June 01, 2009 - 00:35 |
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A Little Advice for Sheikh Sharif
Mr. President: win or lose your current struggle with your former Islamist colleagues on legitimate principles. Your presidency over Somali national-unity government obligates you and all the members of your government to speak and act on behalf of Somali national interest.
The existence and utility of one clan elders’...
June 01, 2009 - 00:29 |
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Gabay - Bal yar kaadso
Gabay Magaciisa la yidhaa Bal yar kaadso oo ku socda kuwa quraanku ku tilmaamay ( Humasadi lumasadi) ayaan halkan ku soo bandhigaynaa inay akhristayaashu nala wadaagaan nalana dhuuxaan sugaanta muga weyn ee ku ladhan iyo ujeedada weyn ee ka danbaysa gabayga oo ah mid si toosa ugu socota dadka Jahadu ka luntey ee...
August 03, 2008 - 12:40 |
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KIINIYAA IS DAGAASHAY (Geeraar)
Maansadan waxa tiriyeye Maxamed Xirsi Guuleed. Waxay soo baxday 2008-01-31
Waxay ku saabsantahay xaaladda siyaasadeed ee dalka Kenya ee cakirantay iyo saadaasha mustaqbalka ee Soomaalida u fiicnaan lahayd. Wuxu Yidhi:
Kiiniyaa is dagaashay
Doorashay isku maagtay
Kun daday iska laysay
Sidii daad isu jiidhe...
February 02, 2008 - 01:52 |
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