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Abdikarim Said Salah
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Abdikarim Said Salah Somaliland professional journalist with over five years experience on journalism both Television and printing press , I work for Horn Cable Tv and geeska Afrika Journal and Berberapress.com for Berbera & Regional reporter in Somaliland country seperated from rest of somalia

I work for Horn Cable TV Berbera Journalist and you can wacth some News Video in Somali Language :

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January 13, 2011 | 4:23 PM Comments  0 comments

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Hi ever Youth in the world
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Hi everbody iam so happy the YEAR OF THE YOUTH but here no youth events in Somalia thanks
my dream is international events for youth Thanks everbody

August 9, 2010 | 2:33 PM Comments  2 comments

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awramale community is non harti nor darood

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1- The security of Tran juba in general and lower juba in particular has been degenerating by the hour ever since, combats of groups contesting over the ruling methods and conquering the vital places in middle juba and lower juba by alshabab and ruling clan are ideologically far apart.


2-generally the security situation of the region was relatively tense they were a number of a road blocks incidents, therefore TFG MPs are in the region with a under blanket administration which the ruling party angrily boycotted to except which later brought differences.

3-Asmara Groups captured same towns in middle juba and lower juba and vowed that they will robotically rule Islamic law and forewarned militias to refrain from any wrongdoing.




On 1fst May 2008 most of religious leaders in the region have unanimously condemned and accused American government and its coalitions of arming TFG in order to eradicate the insurgencies waging a proxy war inside its neighbors one of them who spoke a condition of anonymity; said we are non-violence, modesty, civility, humanity and peaceful co-existence but why Americans preaches democracy but befriends dictators and then declares war to destroy them in addition to that ideologically some of them belief Americans band of soldiers are IAEA and UN.


On 1fst May 2008 one person was killed and another one sustained injuries after the local authority attacked militias in checkpoint the fighting started off slowly, but gradually strengthen as more militias joined both sides exchanged heavy weapons which threatens the region with security aid cuts.


0n 2scd may 2008 the regions economical has taken behind by the poor fluctuation a little of harmonization is required to get the region mainstream of development and bring about an end to their miseries it is a time the country has immense natural wealth including huge deposits of the gold, diamond, the main requirements to change this circumstances is not finance, but right guidance and a wakening among the people who matter.

On 2scd may 2008 torrential rains with a heavy blow wind have demolished 14 houses which brought the death of an elderly great grand mother and small baby they could be seen water flooding everywhere, rains worsened the already horrible situation in the western villages e.g.Koran-0sse, turquto, Biroole, kamjaroon but the most effected areas are boorooy and feersagaaro where by rain fed farms are yearly harvested mr ayadoonle visit in kismayo two week he spent to know deeply this condition after he travel in florence italy to kismayo city, middle and Gedo regions has reached this small villages and recognized but really need an urgent assistance as soon as possible if not the most humanitarian crises will occur.

On 3rd may 2008 one day meeting was held at Barwaaqo hotel in kismayo by Ogaadeen elders to condemn the self declared punt land who have arrested seven people originally from lower juba who have been linked on terrorist network, traditional leaders pointed that ordinary people are constantly arrested to extort ransom, three of the detainees were later ransomed at $800 USD per person and were freed later the rest couldn’t be ransomed due to lack of resources were transferred to ardisababa Ethiopia and still remained in policy custody, presumably they will be accused of trumped charges and that is the system of governance by the western led donors want to impose on the Somali people, as they said.

On 7th may 2008 the local authority have warned armed militias targeting the grass roots properties these armed bandits have started snatching any movable items they can lay their hands on, especially cash of money in any currency mobile phones and personal computers (laptops) which they end up and sold in a black bazaar.

On 08th may 2008 new clashes has been reported in small town Buullo Maamoow 31 KM from Jamamme district one person was killed and another one sustained injuries though many peasants and pastoralist settle in the area, both tribes Jareerweyne and Bimaal,al the most populated and peace-loving community in Jamamme District have been prying one another since last month. However, Bantus are UN armed community, due to that fled to kismayo; meanwhile many of their animals and properties have been looted. The cause of the fighting has been related with vengeance.

On 10th may 2008 the newly appointed administration in Bu, ale District imposed a curfew, hardly one week it is reported that it has been lifted but was again imposed to deal with the rising cases of insecurity in the town over the last few days.

On 12th may 2008 at least 4 people mostly under age children died of watery diarrhea and more than 7 others were seriously ill for the diseases in small town in maguurtada (not moving families) it is a time that there is no local medical NGO’s in the region after MSFH withdraw its international staff and rolled up their tents in the region, late January 2008.

On 14th may 2008 Al-shabab forces took a military campaign to new places at Af-madow District in lower juba, this new movements caused clashes between armed militias and them but their administration has been highly welcomed by the inters people in the region because it is sure that they can restore reliable peace and law and order, more than a decade of domestic violence and lawlessness has already taken a terrible toll in Tran juba regions, there are no quick fixes when the regions needs to be fundamentally reinvented, just as there are no acceptable excuses for allowing the opportunity for peace to pass.

On 14th may 2008 more than 300 of displaced families arrived in kismayo while much more than that reached other villages in the region all those IDPs fled from the conflict in Bulamamow in jammame District, but elders are sorting out the matter.

On 15th may 2008 information sharing with IDPs, last week has seen large numbers of people fleeing from the capital Mogadishu this is because they were escaped the indiscriminate shelling vice –versa they were ordered by the TFG to vacate their residences in several areas specifically Arafat areas in Yaaqshiid district, how ever most of them face harassments on their way, on the other hand where ever refugees settle there is insecurity and Gender Based Violence.

On 16th may 2008 self sponsored intellectuals have gone to Kudhaa Island to resolve tribal clashes occurred last month which claimed many lives and displaced many more others, armed militias accustomed to vanquish the natural strategic islands, where by susceptible minority community live in, originally those islands settled and belong by COWRMALE community the most 90 per populated people in western kismayo but 98 per of this community are nomadic who are busy of rearing animals on the other hand during MAJEERTEEN clan ruling in kismayo Mr. Morgan confisticated by force this islands and resettled his --clan it is clear that HARTI community are from punt land but not lower juba and have no rights to claim our islands as elders said in an interview, but both families are from puntland and Coormale are sub clan gardheere samale but some times there is stupid people misleading awramale community those people can't change awramale community how ever darood claims every environment and his people awramale has one traditional leader hussein hafow other people mislead we will never be tolerate to divede our community or to change their orgine

On 17th may 2008 the head principal of Horn Relief an NGO based Nairobi Mr. Ahmed Bario have been killed since kismayo has been several attacks against prominent personalities and well wishes have been the victim of targeted assignations his death raised an out cry around lower juba along with concerns about the stability of the region. Investigations into the killing have been launched although the motive of the killing remains unknown.

On 18th may 2008 many prominent leaders have attended the memorial service of Ahmed Bario the head of Horn Relief who has been gunned down by unknown gunmen; his death angered and created deep sadness to many Somalis, especially the civil society and human rights organizations. Meanwhile ayadoonle Mohamed a long with Ugas Huseen Hafow criticized the killing of Bario calling his death doubtlessly a loss to all Somalis and warning aid workers of increasing becoming the target of violence in Somalia about the deploring actions such as death threats, abuses, intimidation against aid workers every where in Somalia and innocent people in the anarchy country. It was 14th march 2007 when militias killed Human rights and peace activists as well the chairman of kismayo Isse Abdi Isse attending workshop in Mogadishu.


On 18th may 2008 after the death of al-shabab’s leader Adan Hashi Ayrow on dhusa- mareeb his supporters avowed to cut throat any body seem to be linked with westerners also the United States have repeatedly accused Somalia’s Islamic Movement of harboring terrorists linked to allegedly responsible for the 1998 bombing of the USA embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, never the less alshabab accuses Americans sending small number of especial operations troops to assists the Ethiopian forces that drove the Islamic movement into hiding, the region has been ravaged by violence and anarchy since the war-like war lords over thrown dictatorial regime earlier 1990s.

On 20th may 2008 the unsuccessful invasion of the Ethiopian ally permanently redefined politics and conflicts in Somalia and this sucked the regions into an endless tribal conflicts as well ever lasting religions disputes as well new groups are emerging every day and this has put the situation in Somalia a dilemma, the proxy war intensified as the country turned into a stage for the cold war, it is a time that there is second round of peace talks in JABUTI at DJABUTI which is expected to end up in June 2008 that most of Al-shabab sheikh's are distrustful to the UN endorsed conference.

On 21st may 2008 four people belonging to the Mohamedzuber Ogadeen sub clan were arrested in abesale area near lascanod on suspicion that they are members of the shabab group, the men were released the following day but cross examining and investigation are under way lower juba regional clan elders have condemned widely.

On 23rd 2008 A man was killed during a food distributions exercises in Via afmadow Village in kismayo, it is alleged that a militia men attempted to loot some food, causing a shoot out that lead to the death of the woman and an elderly man was killed after a gunfire exchange between the two militias.

On 23rd may 2008 kismayo local administration and the asmara based group who are competing for the control of transuba regions have stationed militia across each other and new clashes may occur, although the situation is now calm, residents claim that there is still a lot of military activity in the area.

On 25th 2008 Islamic liberation union organized themselves to improve and maintain security of their constituency they have enlisted some 362 hundred tribal militias that patrols the main roads between Jana; abdalle and Af-madow to make the passage secure for the local transport in the region.

On 26th 2008 IDPs in kismayo extremely worried for their children they got stressed about how to pay their bills, commuted to work, made jokes about their hardships however; thousands of people still risked perilous journey to audition, it is too hard to conceive the extent to which Somali society has been shattered by the conflict criminality become endemic, at the same time no electricity, clean water supplies rapidly become spasmodic, hospitals ran out of drugs individual streets began to turn to their own devices for protection.

On 29th may 2008 the worsening humanitarian conditions and shrinking humanitarian space are greatly effecting education activities in most parts of the region ,the drought forced many schools to be closed before the academic year, the worst effected areas are yaqraar, Biroole and Bulahaaji villages and this the weakening economic conditions of the local communities and increased global food prices will significantly reduce parents ability to pay school fees, However there are repeatedly tribal clashes and conflict a among the pastoralist over animal grazing lands around the area which several times claimed many residents in the surrounding.

On 27th may 2008 the Islamic guerrillas who took over the control of towns in lower juba and middle juba regions demand Mr. Barre Adan shire Hirale former lower juba chairman and ex TFG defense minister should leave kismayo Hirale is accused of to have fought over against the ousted Islamic courts during the December 2006, without pre-condition but hirale didn’t response. Meanwhile Somalis transitional government has been unable to rule Tran’s juba regions due to long standing and endless tribal conflicts due to different factors including lack of resources.


0n 31h may 2008 there is a hyper inflation through out in Somalia and especially in trans juba regions this is because poor domestic harvests, lack of commercial imports, disrupted trade from the conflict and the fluctuations of the Somali shillings against dollars have increased cereal prices by 90 percent between January and March 2008. the number of people in need of assistance in the region terribly doubled who now do not have enough food to sustain their house holds either buy food or sell, leaving them vulnerable to a father deterioration.

Prepped and research this monthly information mr ayadoonle in florence city italy

August 2, 2010 | 3:24 PM Comments  1 comments

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ibraahim camuudi iyo jileeca

waa ibrahim camuudi iyo saaxiibkii c/lahi cawil mar ay joogeen magalaada boorama

June 21, 2010 | 3:07 PM Comments  0 comments

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Will Obama's Response on Flotilla hurt his Standing in the Muslim world?

Gaza Flotilla Violence is another controversial dilemma facing Obama after one year on his memorial speech to the Muslim world in Cairo University. Day after day, the US administration' s response to the Israeli military forces' attacks on "Freedom Flotilla" might damage Obama's standing in the Muslim world, at a time where the broader international community has been more forceful in its condemnation of Israel

The US only condemned "those acts" which resulted in the loss of life without specifying who was responsible for the acts. Indeed, does the US administration consider Israel's operation, which occurred on international seas, is a violation of law? Does it believe that the blockade of Gaza by Israeli forces is counterproductive?

On the other side, the question Israeli officials are asking about Gaza crisis is "will we be alone again?" It won't be easy for Obama to answer. Another public rift between the United States and Israel is the last thing the White House needs as it tries to wrest concessions from Netanyahu in Middle East peace talks. But defending Israel in and outside the United Nations will risk a rift with Turkey to the US, not to mention Arab states, at the moment when the administration is hoping to win broad support for a new Security Council resolution on Iran.
This time, the credibility of Obama's administration globally and especially in the Muslim world is at stake. While one cannot underestimate the many crises on the president's plate and the political pressures the administration faces on Israel-Arab relations, the White House statement implicitly endorses a total distortion of the facts on the ground and practically parrots the Israeli Government's narrative. It assures that in the eyes of the rest of the world, especially the Middle East and broader Muslim world, the US (Obama administration) is unilaterally and entirely one-with-Israel.

This raises the broader issue of the Administration' s policy vis-à-vis Gaza. The blockade against Gaza has devastated its infrastructure and people, created a humanitarian and human health disaster that contributed to the emergence of radical Salafi groups that are both anti-Israel and anti-Hamas and Fatah. The head of United Nation's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) mission in Gaza, John Ging, specifically expressed the need for the Flotilla to enter Gaza due to the "medieval siege", mass unemployment, extreme poverty, food insecurity and food price rises caused by shortages left four out of five Gazans dependent on humanitarian aid.

The simple fact is that Israeli commandos violated international law. They entered international, not Israeli, waters, swept down in a raid at 4 am and encountered according to PM Netanyahu outrageous description "unexpected resistance." What did the Israelis expect? And even if some resisted an illegal raid with knives and iron bars did that justify the response of trained and heavily armed professionals firing at point blank range?

Does the Israeli public opinion expect that Israeli government will conduct a full and credible investigation? Do you Mr. Obama believe in that? All what I know is that Obama's speech after few days to Muslims, Arabs, and Americans waiting for him, in Alexandrina Bibliotheca- Egypt on the 16th of June, to discuss what has been done to the better of US-Muslim relations after one year on Obama's speech in Cairo university will be very hard to prepare by your administration Mr. Obama.

Since his inaugural, and especially in Cairo whose anniversary is upon us, Obama succeeded to set out a different vision and reached out to the Muslim world as no American president before him. However, will the "Flotilla incident" make Obama's window of opportunity in the Muslim world closes?

The US is the only country that can take the lead decisively and broker the breaking of the deadlock and the siege of Gaza. The current tragedy and the widespread condemnation of Israel globally and within Israel itself can be seized as an opportunity by the administration to end the siege of Gaza, an action that is ultimately in Israel's long term interest as well as that of the Palestinians

June 6, 2010 | 12:34 AM Comments  0 comments



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waxaan ahay wiil somaaliyeed
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sxbada qiimaha badanoow waan idin soo dhaweynayaa gaar ahaan umada somaliyeed dhalinyaro iyo ku dalroonka ah ee waa weyn

January 24, 2010 | 3:36 AM Comments  1 comments

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Kofi Adnan Man of Peace
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PeaceNobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2001

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness's, Excellencies,
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, in Afghanistan, a girl will be born. Her mother will hold her and feed her, comfort her and care for her – just as any mother would anywhere in the world. In these most basic acts of human nature, humanity knows no divisions. But to be born a girl in today's Afghanistan is to begin life centuries away from the prosperity that one small part of humanity has achieved. It is to live under conditions that many of us in this hall would consider inhuman.

I speak of a girl in Afghanistan, but I might equally well have mentioned a baby boy or girl in Sierra Leone. No one today is unaware of this divide between the world’s rich and poor. No one today can claim ignorance of the cost that this divide imposes on the poor and dispossessed who are no less deserving of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food and education than any of us. The cost, however, is not borne by them alone. Ultimately, it is borne by all of us – North and South, rich and poor, men and women of all races and religions.

Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.

Scientists tell us that the world of nature is so small and interdependent that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest can generate a violent storm on the other side of the earth. This principle is known as the "Butterfly Effect." Today, we realize, perhaps more than ever, that the world of human activity also has its own "Butterfly Effect" – for better or for worse.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further – we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all – in pain as in prosperity – has gripped young and old.

In the early beginnings of the 21st century – a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable -- this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted.

The 20th century was perhaps the deadliest in human history, devastated by innumerable conflicts, untold suffering, and unimaginable crimes. Time after time, a group or a nation inflicted extreme violence on another, often driven by irrational hatred and suspicion, or unbounded arrogance and thirst for power and resources. In response to these cataclysms, the leaders of the world came together at mid-century to unite the nations as never before.

A forum was created – the United Nations – where all nations could join forces to affirm the dignity and worth of every person, and to secure peace and development for all peoples. Here States could unite to strengthen the rule of law, recognize and address the needs of the poor, restrain man’s brutality and greed, conserve the resources and beauty of nature, sustain the equal rights of men and women, and provide for the safety of future generations.

We thus inherit from the 20th century the political, as well as the scientific and technological power, which – if only we have the will to use them – give us the chance to vanquish poverty, ignorance and disease.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. This will require us to look beyond the framework of States, and beneath the surface of nations or communities. We must focus, as never before, on improving the conditions of the individual men and women who give the state or nation its richness and character. We must begin with the young Afghan girl, recognizing that saving that one life is to save humanity itself.

Over the past five years, I have often recalled that the United Nations' Charter begins with the words: "We the peoples." What is not always recognized is that "we the peoples" are made up of individuals whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.

A genocide begins with the killing of one man – not for what he has done, but because of who he is. A campaign of 'ethnic cleansing' begins with one neighbour turning on another. Poverty begins when even one child is denied his or her fundamental right to education. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life, all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.

In this new century, we must start from the understanding that peace belongs not only to states or peoples, but to each and every member of those communities. The sovereignty of States must no longer be used as a shield for gross violations of human rights. Peace must be made real and tangible in the daily existence of every individual in need. Peace must be sought, above all, because it is the condition for every member of the human family to live a life of dignity and security.

The rights of the individual are of no less importance to immigrants and minorities in Europe and the Americas than to women in Afghanistan or children in Africa. They are as fundamental to the poor as to the rich; they are as necessary to the security of the developed world as to that of the developing world.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict, and promoting democracy. Only in a world that is rid of poverty can all men and women make the most of their abilities. Only where individual rights are respected can differences be channelled politically and resolved peacefully. Only in a democratic environment, based on respect for diversity and dialogue, can individual self-expression and self-government be secured, and freedom of association be upheld.

Throughout my term as Secretary-General, I have sought to place human beings at the centre of everything we do – from conflict prevention to development to human rights. Securing real and lasting improvement in the lives of individual men and women is the measure of all we do at the United Nations.

It is in this spirit that I humbly accept the Centennial Nobel Peace Prize. Forty years ago today, the Prize for 1961 was awarded for the first time to a Secretary-General of the United Nations – posthumously, because Dag Hammarskjöld had already given his life for peace in Central Africa. And on the same day, the Prize for 1960 was awarded for the first time to an African – Albert Luthuli, one of the earliest leaders of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. For me, as a young African beginning his career in the United Nations a few months later, those two men set a standard that I have sought to follow throughout my working life.

This award belongs not just to me. I do not stand here alone. On behalf of all my colleagues in every part of the United Nations, in every corner of the globe, who have devoted their lives – and in many instances risked or given their lives in the cause of peace – I thank the Members of the Nobel Committee for this high honour. My own path to service at the United Nations was made possible by the sacrifice and commitment of my family and many friends from all continents – some of whom have passed away – who taught me and guided me. To them, I offer my most profound gratitude.

In a world filled with weapons of war and all too often words of war, the Nobel Committee has become a vital agent for peace. Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

What it does have is the Nobel Prize – a statement of hope and courage with unique resonance and authority. Only by understanding and addressing the needs of individuals for peace, for dignity, and for security can we at the United Nations hope to live up to the honour conferred today, and fulfil the vision of our founders. This is the broad mission of peace that United Nations staff members carry out every day in every part of the world.

A few of them, women and men, are with us in this hall today. Among them, for instance, are a Military Observer from Senegal who is helping to provide basic security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; a Civilian Police Adviser from the United States who is helping to improve the rule of law in Kosovo; a UNICEF Child Protection Officer from Ecuador who is helping to secure the rights of Colombia's most vulnerable citizens; and a World Food Programme Officer from China who is helping to feed the people of North Korea.

Distinguished guests,

The idea that there is one people in possession of the truth, one answer to the world’s ills, or one solution to humanity’s needs, has done untold harm throughout history – especially in the last century. Today, however, even amidst continuing ethnic conflict around the world, there is a growing understanding that human diversity is both the reality that makes dialogue necessary, and the very basis for that dialogue.

We understand, as never before, that each of us is fully worthy of the respect and dignity essential to our common humanity. We recognize that we are the products of many cultures, traditions and memories; that mutual respect allows us to study and learn from other cultures; and that we gain strength by combining the foreign with the familiar.

In every great faith and tradition one can find the values of tolerance and mutual understanding. The Qur’an, for example, tells us that "We created you from a single pair of male and female and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other." Confucius urged his followers: "when the good way prevails in the state, speak boldly and act boldly. When the state has lost the way, act boldly and speak softly." In the Jewish tradition, the injunction to "love thy neighbour as thyself," is considered to be the very essence of the Torah.

This thought is reflected in the Christian Gospel, which also teaches us to love our enemies and pray for those who wish to persecute us. Hindus are taught that "truth is one, the sages give it various names." And in the Buddhist tradition, individuals are urged to act with compassion in every facet of life.

Each of us has the right to take pride in our particular faith or heritage. But the notion that what is ours is necessarily in conflict with what is theirs is both false and dangerous. It has resulted in endless enmity and conflict, leading men to commit the greatest of crimes in the name of a higher power.

It need not be so. People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

This will not be possible, however, without freedom of religion, of expression, of assembly, and basic equality under the law. Indeed, the lesson of the past century has been that where the dignity of the individual has been trampled or threatened – where citizens have not enjoyed the basic right to choose their government, or the right to change it regularly – conflict has too often followed, with innocent civilians paying the price, in lives cut short and communities destroyed.

The obstacles to democracy have little to do with culture or religion, and much more to do with the desire of those in power to maintain their position at any cost. This is neither a new phenomenon nor one confined to any particular part of the world. People of all cultures value their freedom of choice, and feel the need to have a say in decisions affecting their lives.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being. It is the nearest thing we have to a representative institution that can address the interests of all states, and all peoples. Through this universal, indispensable instrument of human progress, States can serve the interests of their citizens by recognizing common interests and pursuing them in unity. No doubt, that is why the Nobel Committee says that it "wishes, in its centenary year, to proclaim that the only negotiable route to global peace and cooperation goes by way of the United Nations".

I believe the Committee also recognized that this era of global challenges leaves no choice but cooperation at the global level. When States undermine the rule of law and violate the rights of their individual citizens, they become a menace not only to their own people, but also to their neighbours, and indeed the world. What we need today is better governance – legitimate, democratic governance that allows each individual to flourish, and each State to thrive.

Your Majesties,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

You will recall that I began my address with a reference to the girl born in Afghanistan today. Even though her mother will do all in her power to protect and sustain her, there is a one-in-four risk that she will not live to see her fifth birthday. Whether she does is just one test of our common humanity – of our belief in our individual responsibility for our fellow men and women. But it is the only test that matters.

Remember this girl and then our larger aims – to fight poverty, prevent conflict, or cure disease – will not seem distant, or impossible. Indeed, those aims will seem very near, and very achievable – as they should. Because beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

Thank you very much.


June 28, 2009 | 4:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
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Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.

Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains of All nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence to find out. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then - plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry - you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off for a second, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked consistently, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages.

Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century." They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy." This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.

The words of one pirate from that lost age - a young British man called William Scott - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas." William Scott would understand those words.

No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, we begin to shriek about "evil." If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.

The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know "what he meant by keeping possession of the sea." The pirate smiled, and responded: "What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?

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Somaliland youth risk death in search of better life
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Related to country: Somalia

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Harir Omar Yusuf, about to finish high school, should be choosing a degree course and deciding on a career direction; instead, he spends most of his time planning a perilous escape from his hometown of Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland in the northwest of Somalia, to Europe.

“As soon as I finish high school I will go there, because I have nothing to stay for in Somaliland,” he said, adding that his parents could not afford university fees and he was not assured of a place even if they could.

Yusuf has many friends who have made the journey - first through Ethiopia, then Sudan and Libya and finally to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea - and are now living as illegal immigrants in Italy and other European nations. He also has many friends languishing in Sudanese or Libyan jails, arrested for entering the country illegally, and knows of many who died making the trip, but he remains determined.

Tens of thousands of Somalis also try to cross the Gulf of Aden into Yemen every year aboard small vessels run by people-traffickers operating from Somali ports; according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), one out of every 20 people attempting the journey in 2007 died.

Yusuf says he would rather risk death than live a life of certain poverty in Somaliland.

Unemployment

“The issue of young people running away is very problematic in Somaliland,” said Omer Ali Abdi, the director of the youth department in the Ministry of Youth and Sports. “Year after year, graduates from secondary schools are increasing and our universities just don’t have the capacity to take in all of them - and even when they graduate from university, there is no guarantee they will get a job.”

According to Ahmed Hashi Abdi, vice-minister in the Ministry of Planning and Coordination, only 10-20 percent of people under 35 are employed.

“Because it is unrecognised internationally, Somaliland has no access to bi-lateral funding, which has caused our economy to suffer, especially after the livestock ban of 1999, which destroyed the main source of income of most of our people,” Abdi said. “For the same reason, international scholarships and higher education exchange programmes are not open to our students.”

An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Saudi Arabia in 1999 resulted in a regional ban on imported livestock from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, and Djibouti; the ban on Somalia remains in place and now includes several other Middle Eastern nations.

After the ban, remittances became the main foreign exchange earner; thousands fled the country during an outbreak of war in 1988, and regularly send money to their families. The Ministry of Planning estimates remittances account for US$500 million - or about 80 percent of Somaliland’s economy.

“When people leave the country legally, we are happy that they are able to send back money, but as much as possible we try to discourage young people from leaving illegally - then it becomes a matter of life and death and we cannot encourage that,” Abdi said.

Despite the risks, many families scrimp and save to send their children on these journeys. Over the past year, Amina Rooble (not her real name) has spent more than $6,500 on transport, communication, paying traffickers and bribing prison officers, all in an effort to get her son Hashim to Italy.

Although his boat sank, Hashim survived and is now seeking asylum in Italy. “Even though my son was rescued, two other members of my family died on that boat,” Rooble said.

Incentive to stay

The government and local NGOs have run campaigns to discourage young people from leaving, but according to Yahye Mohamoud Ahmed, head of the Somaliland National Youth Organisation NGO, unless the government can provide some motivation, young people will continue to escape in droves.

“They have no incentive to stay - no jobs and no businesses, so it is fairly futile to tell them to stay,” he said. “They need to be given the capacity to feed themselves here.”

Ahmed added that many young men were now taking swimming lessons and using hi-tech communication equipment - such as satellite telephones to make SOS calls - to make their trips safer.

“When they hear about their friends and relatives in London or Italy, they get encouraged to go; even when their relatives have no jobs there, they still think they have a better life than here,” he added.

According to Ahmed Abdi, the national development plan includes the creation of two vocational training institutes in every region of Somaliland to boost the number of tertiary institutions and the variety of courses available.

“We also intend to set up micro-finance schemes to enable them to be self-supporting,” he added.

He noted that despite the continued livestock ban, a few countries in the Arab world were starting to buy Somaliland’s meat, and the government hoped the Saudi ban would be lifted, restoring the industry.

Youth policy

The Ministry of Youth and Sports, in partnership with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is drafting a national youth policy - due to be passed by parliament in 2011 - that hopes to address issues of youth emigration, unemployment, education and political participation.

“What we need more than anything is resources from our international partners focused on development rather than strictly emergencies - resources focusing on education and building the economy would encourage young people to stay and build their own nation,” the Ministry of Youth’s Abdi said.

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Piracy has Drawn World Attention
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It is said that the sea has a surface area of about 2 million square miles that is largely the operation area of the pirates. It is not, therefore, easy for a small force without helicopters to control such a vast operational area and defeat the pirates.

It is essential that the world collectively stand up and fight against the actions of piracy that have become a question not to reckon with. I believe that if all the neighboring countries would participate in this war the pirates would find it very difficult to survive in such a hostile and harassing environment.

To some however, the question of piracy can become history if the Somali transitional government was sufficiently empowered to end the insurgency in Somalia.

For Somali peoples having a stablity and infrustrures means that the pirates will have no base on land and will become exposed to the marine forces dealing with them from the sea .

Actually, the world has abandoned Somalia and I think it is high time the world turned its attention back to the abandoned land and help the government there to stabilize.

In fact, one may think that for the Somalis to get involved in acts of piracy was a way of showing the world that they are tired of the suffering they have experienced in the past more than twenty years.

Statistics show that only last year over one hundred vessels were captured and about 815 people held hostage.

This year, so far over twenty five ships were captured and more than three hundred and fifty people held captives of which up to now 16 vessels and two hundred and fifty people remain in captivity.

It is very encouraging for the world to have pronounced itself strongly against piracy and having taken a step towards its total elimination.

It might not be easy to have them all eliminated but I believe that with determination the pirates cannot hang on for a long time.

Mahamed Osman
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

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SOMALIA: TB treatment success against the odds in Somaliland
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HARGEISA, 24 March 2009 (PlusNews) - Despite rampant poverty, high levels of illiteracy and limited international support, the self-declared republic of Somaliland in the northwest of Somalia has become an unlikely TB success story.

"We adopted the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short Course) system for treating TB in 1995, so someone is always present to ensure patients take their medication," said Dr Ismail Adam Abdillahi, coordinator of the national TB programme. "As a result, adherence is very high and treatment success is over 90 percent."

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a global target of 85 percent treatment success by 2015; Somalia, part of WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region, ranks second in the region's 22 countries in terms of treatment success.

"The majority of the population has access to a health facility with TB services that have at least one doctor able to treat TB," Ismail said. "There is no shortage of drugs, which we get from the Global Fund [to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria] through World Vision International."

Education has ensured that almost all patients have a basic knowledge of TB, while the establishment of a wide network of TB centres implementing close supervision and monitoring means TB treatment continues to make progress. The global target for TB case detection is 70 percent by 2015, but Somaliland has already achieved a case detection rate of 68 percent.

"In 2008 we diagnosed 4,153 cases; we believe these were most of the people who contracted the disease," Ismail said. Although the country does not have the technology to detect multidrug-resistant TB, he noted that there were very few cases of "chronic" or recurring TB.

This progress has been made despite the fact that Somaliland, which has not achieved international recognition as a sovereign state, is extremely poor - a decade-old livestock ban by Saudi Arabia and several other meat-importing countries in the Middle East has devastated its main source of income.

Although the country has been relatively peaceful since its formation in 1991, it continues to experience some insecurity, which hampers access and limits staff movement to certain areas.

Sustaining the response in a difficult environment

"We also have a lot of IDPs [internally displaced persons] and refugees in Somaliland from the south; when people are in such emergency situations, personal health is not a priority and people do not seek treatment," Ismail said.
The war before 1991 also destroyed our health infrastructure, and we still need many more health facilities and staff trained to handle TB." The largest urban centre, Hargeisa city, with a population of more than 500,000, still has only one health centre equipped to treat TB.

"Our regulations are not as strong as they could be, and we do get unlicensed practitioners treating patients and private pharmacies selling TB drugs over the counter, which risks patients getting incorrect information and taking drugs the wrong way," said Dr Abdirashid Hashi Abdi, the Global Fund HIV/AIDS coordinator for the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Hargeisa. "There is also no known data for the level of multi- and extensively drug-resistant TB."

Ismail noted that one of the groups still causing his department some concern were the nomads, who roamed the countryside, never settling anywhere long enough for TB education to reach them, and often grazing their herds far from health facilities with TB services.

"Men who chew khat [a mild stimulant widely used in the Horn of Africa] in small, poorly ventilated rooms for hours are also particularly at risk," Ismail said. "This explains the fact that the ratio of men to women infected with TB in Somaliland is two to one."

Somaliland and Somalia combined have an annual TB incidence of about 324 cases per 100,000 people, with more than half aged between 15 and 34. The disease is strongly associated with poverty, and many TB patients also suffer from malnutrition, making treatment more difficult.

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SOMALIA: Religious leaders combat HIV stigma
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HARGEISA, 27 March 2009 (PlusNews) - When three attempts to cure Abdulhakim*, 42, of tuberculosis failed, the father of nine living in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia, took his doctor's advice and tested for HIV - the result came back positive.

His family's reaction was predictable: his brothers stopped grazing their goats and sheep alongside his, and many of his relatives wouldn't touch him. "My wife and children are the only ones who have stood by my side," he told IRIN/PlusNews.

Abdulhakim finds it hard to blame his relatives – after all, until he was diagnosed he held similar misconceptions. "I thought AIDS was a disease for fornicators and immoral people, but I later got more educated."

HIV-positive people in Somalia live with constant stigma, are ostracised and often even thrown out of their homes for fear that they might infect their neighbours.

Islamic religious leaders in Somaliland, some of whom have become involved in HIV prevention efforts, are now stepping in to persuade communities to treat people with HIV more humanely. Islam has an enormous influence on everyday life in Somalia, and religious leaders have the power to sway the population's views on HIV/AIDS.

"As religious leaders we feel it is one of our main duties to be kind and helpful to the less fortunate members of society," said Sheikh Mohamed Haji Mahamoud Hersi, who is part of an organisation of Muslim leaders that travels the country preaching. "Islam is about compassion, and people living with HIV deserve to be treated with kindness. The disease can happen to anyone."
Hersi was one of the first religious leaders to counsel people living with HIV. "I tell them that they have to keep contact with God and to live a normal life," he said. "It really keeps their spirits up; the day religious leaders visit is a very special day for them."

Abdulhakim agreed. "A person needs different types of support - physical, economic, medical and also spiritual; when the Imams talk to us we feel more stable, like things will be okay," he said.

The religious leaders hope to influence communities to become more tolerant of people living with HIV. "They really listen to us, so if the people see that we find no problem talking with their HIV-positive neighbours, then they may also accept them," Hersi said.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UNAIDS have been training religious leaders to teach local communities about behaviour change.

"Religious leaders need training so that they can say the right words, and avoid words that can cause additional problems to people living with HIV," said Gulleid Osman, executive director of Talowadag, a coalition of NGOs that cares for people living with HIV.
Osman said most religious leaders were coming round to the view that they should stand up for the rights of HIV-infected people. "We recently held a meeting with 24 religious leaders, and only one refused to be involved in counselling people living with HIV - he said it [HIV] was something for non-Muslims ... but most of them no longer feel that way."

UNDP is working with the Somaliland AIDS Commission, local NGOs and Muslim scholars to develop a strategy that formally establishes the role of religious leaders in the fight against AIDS, and to harmonise the messages they deliver.

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The Presnt day Somalia
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Since the collapse of the former government, there have been diverse political systems.Somalia today is actually composed of three relatively autonomous regions:

* Somaliland, a former British colony in the northwest of Somalia.The region is independent from the whole country and has its own system of governance and is seeking recognition from the international community as an independent nation just like Eriteria did in 1991 when separated from Ethiopia . Somaliland forms the most stable Zone,
* Puntland, in Somalia’s northeastern section, has also established its own political system, although it considers itself part of a federated Somalia. Puntland’s elected leader serves as part of the Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government.
* Then there's the rest of Somalia, the south and south-central parts of the country. It is in this area where competing clans struggle for control, where kids only dream of attending school, where infrastructure is crumbling from 15 years of war and neglect.


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Nulear Wastes damped in Somalia
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World's chemical industries and nuclear energy plant have already generated millions of tons of hazardous waste Industrialized countries generate over 90% of the world's hazardous wastes (WCED, 1987). The high growth of industries in developed countries was accompanied by an equally high increase in the production of toxic hazardous wastes. But the technological capacity to handle these by-products - wastes, was not developing by the same level. This is the reason why problem of these wastes, particularly nuclear wastes, still remains unsolved. Taking advantage of political instability and high level of corruption in Somalia but lured by the potential financial gains,Somalia have been used as the dumping sites for hazardous toxic waste materials from developed countrie. Bearing the cost of the damage caused by the hazardous waste which are environment threatening wastes and effecting the ground water . Both the exporting and importing counterparts violated international treaties to which most countries in the world are signatories.

To day in Somalia the damped wastes resulted to many problems such new incurable disease, and more importantly the piracy which had a global effect. The relationship between piracy and waste damping is that there is no fish left alive by the radio active wastes , so that local fisher men have to do piracy as an alternative business to survive


The Suez canal is very important for world trade but piracy is in front of the channel, so the world must not forget Somalia any more.



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Ethiopia

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About Somaliland
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In 1991, after the collapse of the central government in Somalia, the main part of the territory asserted its independence as the Republic of Somaliland on May 18, 1991. It regarded itself as the successor state to the briefly independent State of Somaliland, but did not receive any international diplomatic recognition.

The economic and military infrastructure left behind by Somalia has been largely destroyed by war. The people of Somaliland had rebelled against the Siad Barre dictatorship in Mogadishu, which prompted a massive reaction by the government.

Somaliland has stable functioning adminsatrtion, and by now very peacefull and stable.

The late Abderahman Ahmed Ali Tuur was the first president of Somaliland. Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal was appointed his successor in 1993 by the Grand Conference of National Reconciliation in Boorama (Borama), which met for four months and led not only to a gradual improvement in security, but solidified the fledgling state.[6] Egal was re-appointed in 1997, and remained in power until his death on May 3, 2002. The vice president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, was sworn in as president shortly afterwards, and in 2003 Kahin became the first Somaliland president to be elected in a free and fair election.

The 2006 War in Somalia between the Islamic Courts Union and the forces of Ethiopia and Somalia's transitional government has not directly affected Somaliland
Somaliland was also safe from piracy on the horn of Africa



The map of Somaliland (Northen part of Somalia)

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