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US urges Somalia to broaden political representation 2 hours ago ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — The United States urged Somalia's new government Wednesday to broaden its political base to secure peace, which has eluded the Horn of Africa nation since Islamist forces were ousted 10 months ago. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the point at talks with Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, appointed last month, during a visit to Addis Ababa aimed at defusing conflicts in the region. "I think everyone understands the difficulty of the job in front of you, but that you are a respected leader, and the importance of broadening the political basis for reconciliation in Somalia," Rice said. Earlier she told reporters that Washington sought to "encourage the broadest possible engagement with forces that are not associated with terrorism but might be part of a political solution for the Somali people." Washington also wants to tackle the humanitarian emergency and push for quicker deployment of African Union peacekeeping forces in Somalia. The international community is divided over the usefulness of sending UN peacekeepers to ensure stability in Somalia, which has been wracked by civil war since 1991. Rice reiterated calls for countries other than Uganda to contribute peacekeeping troops to Somalia and allow Ethiopian occupation forces to leave the country eventually. On Wednesday Rice also joined the interior minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the presidents of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi in urging the rapid strengthening of DRC security forces to drive out rebel and foreign forces. The four countries around Africa's Great Lakes region also appealed for international help in doing so but gave no details about the plans to boost stability. The talks in the Ethiopian capital were being held amid an offensive by the government forces of DRC President Joseph Kabila against allies of a renegade Tutsi general, Laurent Nkunda, in the east of the country. Rice and the African leaders also recommitted to a November 9 deal reached by the DRC with Rwanda in Nairobi which sought to balance the need to drive both the general and Hutu militiamen out of the country. A western military observer who asked not to be named said the problem was that there were not enough government troops to take on both the renegade forces and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR has been implicated in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. In addition to Nkunda's renegade troops and the FDLR militia, members of the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda are operating within the DRC. The region has been wracked by violence since the early 1990s with the civil war that began in Burundi in 1993, the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and the regional war that raged in the DRC between 1998 and 2003. On Sudan, Rice will also discuss efforts to bolster the fragile 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Islamist government of President Omar el-Beshir in Khartoum and the mainly non-Muslim south. But US officials did not expect Beshir to send anyone to talk with southern Sudanese representatives in Addis Ababa. In her talks with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the two are likely to discuss renewed tensions with neighbouring Eritrea, US diplomats said. Ethiopia remains in a tense stand-off with its arch-enemy Eritrea, following the dissolution last week of a commission tasked with brokering an agreement on the neighbours' disputed common border. The Horn of Africa neighbours fought a border war from 1998 to 2000 that left 70,000 people dead. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKnyjxKOdpO8uKoBOHrUSpcXD9kQ

Somalia President's Health Fuels Speculation Over Successor By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 05 December 2007 Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf spent a second day in a hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi amid growing reports that the 72-uear-old leader is gravely ill. With no clear successor, VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in Nairobi reports there is mounting concern of increasing turmoil in Somalia. Abdullahi Yusuf (file photo) President Yusuf was at Nairobi Hospital for a second day Wednesday under heavy security and a cloak of secrecy about why he needed to be hospitalized. Since he was admitted, Mr. Yusuf's aides and other officials in the transitional federal government have said that the president, who received a new liver 11 years ago, came to Nairobi for a routine check-up before traveling to London for a more thorough examination. But Kenyan sources tell VOA that the president is suffering from a serious stomach ailment and is being fed intravenously. Other reports say the Somali leader has bronchitis and needs an oxygen mask to breathe. Mr. Yusuf , who was appointed to the post in 2004 with the backing of neighboring Ethiopia, has been in poor health for years. He was flown to Nairobi a day before he was to hold crucial talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa about Somalia's myriad problems, including an Islamist-led insurgency that has largely kept his secular government from functioning since it took power nearly a year ago. President Yusuf's absence from those talks has fueled speculation that his condition may be much more serious than what Somali officials are acknowledging. If Mr. Yusuf dies in office, Parliament Speaker Sheik Adan Mohamed Nur would be required to take the helm briefly while parliament chooses a new president. But following the recent ouster of Ali Mohamed Gedi as prime minister, Mr. Yusuf has been tightening his grip on power in Somalia and leaving little room for a possible successor. A political analyst at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies, Richard Cornwell, says he believes Mr. Yusuf's death could also spell doom for Somalia's internationally recognized-but-weak transitional federal government, or TFG. "There is likely going to be a real struggle for power, should Abdullahi Yusuf pass from the scene. We are probably going to need to go back and look at the entire transitional arrangement," said Cornwell. "It has proved to be horribly flawed in that the TFG does not have that much legitimacy on the ground and obviously, the status quo is not viable. What this shows is that it is very unwise to depend on a 72-year-old, who has had a liver transplant, to carry the whole political system." Meanwhile, government officials in the crisis-hit Lower Shabelle region have apparently rescinded an order by President Yusuf to restrict access to the region's roads, airport, and seaport. On Tuesday, international aid agencies expressed deep concern about the fate of tens of thousands of people in the region, who could not receive food aid because ships were denied permission to off-load their cargo and road convoys were being stopped. A spokesman for the United Nations' World Food Program in Nairobi, Marcus Prior, tells VOA that regional government officials began allowing food deliveries to resume Wednesday without explanation. VOA

^^Do provide the sources What were the reasons? ps lets not pretend its the first time,,,,

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^^no spamming please,,

In other words, just change the name of late Gen. Barre to that of current Col. Yey; and whilst you are at it, see to it, to change the name of the Somali Government of that time, to that of the current Collaborationist Entity that is the said TFG; and Northern Somalia of that time, to that of Banadir Region of the present-time… Hmm, an interesting thought. NG I have decided to take my Somaliland flag from under my bed and keep it under my pillow instead The fence breathes

Discovery - So helid

Hindsight - dib ka ogaansho Good attempt Puja

,,,but why?

^^waa wax lagu akhriyaye iska daa ninka

Hindsight

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^fallaago. Qualification?

Organisation

^^Iska daa saxib. Baryahan Ghanima waxay qaadata budh iyo faash to Uni. The post graduates lose their sense of humour,,,,

Bronchitis http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7128502.stm

^^Your riding a losing horse saxib.

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL05406207.html

Originally posted by Sharmarkee: quote:Originally posted by Northerner: [QB] Calm down people. Ngonge has a 3 year old future doctor/engineer/prem footballer (must be prem and with LFC) Cannot believe you, means you already took that yarad and gabaati. lol ma sii qadin baa,and after 20 yrs the girl is yours LoL Note the pre-requisits

All of a sudden SL is complicit in the goings on in the south (without much in the way of support). Whatever makes people sleep better i guess.

^^Sat in one at the Dubai Motor Show a few weeks ago aswell McClaren Mercedes, Brabus, Austin Martin, Porches and many more. Sharmaake, when your have been banned not one but twice, had the court bailiffs knock on your door with arrest warrants (due to non payment of fines) on a regular basis then you have acheve something. Got a clean license now.

Originally posted by -: ^^I thought Ethiopia had no control over Somaliland. Where id you hear that and what is your definition of control? The US has no control over the UK