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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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"Dubai model" was the vision of one man
By Andrew Hammond -
Analysis
DUBAI (Reuters)
The "Dubai vision," which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate's sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply the rules of open governance.
The city state's rapid growth revolved around the ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin...
November 30, 2009 - 11:59 |
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A paradox of plenty - hunger in America.
By Bernd Debusmann
Call it a paradox of plenty. In the world’s wealthiest country, home to more obese people than anywhere else on earth, almost 50 million Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008. That’s one in six of the population. Millions went hungry, at least some of the time. Things are...
November 26, 2009 - 14:08 |
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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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Bailed-out Goldman Sachs profit soars to 3.44 bln dlrs
By Veronica Smith
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs on Tuesday posted second-quarter profit of 3.44 billion dollars, beating market expectations and possibly signaling recovery in the battered US financial sector.
Goldman Sachs, which has repaid a 10-billion-dollar US government bailout in full in the...
July 14, 2009 - 14:48 |
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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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Microchip uses nanotechnology to detect cancer
SASKATCHEWAN (CBC) - Canadian researchers have developed a prototype microchip that could one day lead to a portable device that could diagnose cancer in 30 minutes.
The chip uses nanotechnology wires and materials on the scale of a billionth of a metre to detect chemical markers that indicate the presence of...
September 29, 2009 - 11:26 |
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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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November 26, 2009 - 13:50
Nigeria president suffering from heart ailment
By Felix Onuah
ABUJA (Reuters)
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is being treated in Saudi Arabia for acute pericarditis and the vice president has assumed presidential powers in his absence, Yar'Adua's spokesman said on Thursday.
Yar'Adua, 58, went to Saudi Arabia suddenly on Monday for medical checks after complaining of severe chest pains and his office said it was not clear when he would return home.
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart that can restrict normal beating.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has assumed presidential powers in the leading sub-Saharan oil producer and OPEC member nation during Yar'Adua's treatment, presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi told Reuters.
"The vice president is now acting on behalf of the president," he said.
Yar'Adua has travelled to Saudi Arabia in the past for treatment for a chronic kidney problem, raising questions about whether he will be fit enough to stand for a second term in 2011 elections.
"The medical review and tests undertaken at the hospital have confirmed the initial diagnosis that the president is indeed suffering from acute pericarditis," Adeniyi said after speaking with the president's chief physician.
"He is now receiving treatment for the illness and he is responding remarkably well," Adeniyi said, adding he was unsure when Yar'Adua would be able to return to Nigeria.
Pericarditis usually lasts one to three weeks, but is treatable with drugs or, in extreme cases, surgery. About 20 percent of pericarditis patients have a recurrence within months, according to the American Heart Association.
A governor of remote northern Katsina State, Yar'Adua was plucked from obscurity in December 2006 by then President Olusegun Obasanjo to be the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2007. Obasanjo used his influence in the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to ensure Yar'Adua won the ticket.
Despite complaints from the opposition, many Nigerians accepted the flawed poll as the price to be paid for the first handover from one civilian president to another since Africa's most populous country gained independence in 1960.
This week Yar'Adua sent a 4.079 trillion naira 2010 budget proposal to parliament, a 32 percent increase in planned spending on 2009 which, if approved, will push sub-Saharan Africa's second biggest economy to a fiscal deficit of 4.79 percent.
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The lash is coming fast and violent
I do believe that we the Somali society is the most wild, most idiotic, most illiterate, most deformed, most dysfunctional, most hateful, most .., most …
I will here try to justify the first three accusations and leave the rest for the reader.
Why most wild? Because the last time I left the country was in 1980 and that...
December 28, 2009 - 17:17 |
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Is Somaliland’s Democracy Fragile?
Introduction
Since the resolution at the end of September of the crisis related to the much delayed Presidential elections in Somaliland, there have appeared various analyses, by Somalis and non-Somalis alike, of the causes and effects of this crisis and the likely impact it will have on Somaliland’s future. These...
December 25, 2009 - 15:45 |
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The Outrageous Mooryaan: Mr. Togane
Dear Naima Adan,
I read your article entitled, “Response to Portrait of the Canadian As Warya by Mohamud S. Togane” published on wardheernews website.
While I encourage you to write more, giving you constructive criticism and feedback will only transform you into a powerful writer. And it is these invaluable...
December 22, 2009 - 12:02 |
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Response to Portrait of the Canadian As Warya by Mohamud S. Togane
I was immensely surprised to read an article by Mohamud S. Togane about Canada as a binary to the homeland Somalia, in essence demonizing Somalia while applauding Canada. I was particularly shocked to read about his idea of Somalia as the anachronistic and cannibalistic space that people have ran from into this...
December 22, 2009 - 11:55 |
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Portrait of the Canadian as Warya
Somalis yell out, Warya! Meaning, hey you, if they see a stranger whom they believe to be one of their own sort. Then they wait and hope for a recognitive response for that is not only how they sniff each other out but also how they get each other's attention. Warya is so distinctly Somali as "eh" is so distinctly Canadian...
December 22, 2009 - 11:35 |
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Is Peace Possible in Mogadishu?
In any war, where two mortal enemies are battling out for supremacy, there are only two possible scenarios to end it: A military solution, where one side would defeat the other, or a negotiated settlement.
In Mogadishu, the Somali capital, there is such a war with no foreseeable end to it, for an obvious (to me at least)...
December 22, 2009 - 11:24 |
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A Matter of Spiritual Angst: Where Is My Takbir, Dude?
Ramadan and days of Eid are most joyous, revered moments in the Islamic calendar. It is when the faithful reflects and recharges his/her spiritual batteries to counter constant distractions of the material world excess and other personal shortcoming of life in general. It is time of renewal and rejuvenation for the mature...
December 09, 2009 - 23:25 |
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Emergency exit
Dear The Diplomat,
In your December issue (Vol 5, no. 10) you make the following categorical statement:
“In the breakaway republic of Somaliland, Ethiopians became victims of witch hunts by local paramilitaries, who could earn cash for every Ethiopian turned in to the local authorities. Some were put on public...
December 09, 2009 - 23:16 |
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Somalia is in Need of Massive International Intervention
The suffering and misery of war ravaged Somalis, particularly those in Mogadishu and its environs, continues unabated. Over the past nineteen years, the perpetrators of this murderous campaign who slaughtered and decimated a large number of Somali’s population may have come in different shapes and guises, but the end...
December 09, 2009 - 23:10 |
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Congressman Payne, Modern Politician or Neo-Colonial Martinet?
I have just read the Press Release issued by Congressman Donald Payne entitled “Somalia: Abusive Behavior in Puntland” dated 21 November 2009, in which Congressman Payne roundly berates the government of Puntland for their treatment of ONLF prisoners in their custody.
This is the same Congressman Payne who, as Chairman...
November 25, 2009 - 17:47 |
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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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