They are like the camel’s nose, lifting a corner of the tent. Don’t be fooled, though. It won’t take long until the whole animal is sitting inside, sipping your tea and eating your sweets. In countries around the world — in the Middle East, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Africa even The Philippines — the appearance of U.S. drones in the sky and on the ground is often Washington’s equivalent of the camel’s nose entering a new theater of operations in this country’s forever war against “terror.” Sometimes, however, the drones are more like the camel’s tail, arriving after less visible U.S. military forces have been in an area for a while. AFRICOM, the Pentagon’s Africa Command, is building Air Base 201 in Agadez, a town in the nation of Niger. The $110-million installation, which officially opens later this year, will be able to house both C-17 transport planes and MQ-9 Reaper armed drones. It will soon become the new centerpiece in an undeclared U.S. war in West Africa. Even before the base opens, armed U.S. drones are already flying from Niger’s capital, Niamey, having received permission from the Nigerien government to do so last November. Despite crucial reporting by Nick Turse and others, most people in this country only learned of U.S. military activities in Niger in 2017 — and had no idea that about 800 U.S. military personnel were already stationed in the country — when news broke that four U.S. soldiers had died in an October ambush there. It turns out, however, that they weren’t the only U.S soldiers involved in firefights in Niger. In March 2018, the Pentagon acknowledged that another clash took place the previous December between Green Berets and a previously unknown group identified as ISIS-West Africa. For those keeping score at home on the ever-expanding enemies list in Washington’s war on terror, this is a different group from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, responsible for the October ambush. Across Africa, there have been at least eight other incidents, most of them in Somalia. What are U.S. forces doing in Niger? Ostensibly, they are training Nigerien soldiers to fight the insurgent groups rapidly multiplying in and around their country. Apart from the uranium that accounts for over 70 percent of Niger’s exports, there’s little of economic interest to the United States there. The real appeal is location, location, location. Landlocked Niger sits in the middle of Africa’s Sahel region, bordered by Mali and Burkina Faso on the west, Chad on the east, Algeria and Libya to the north and Benin and Nigeria to the south. In other words, Niger has the misfortune to straddle a part of Africa of increasing strategic interest to the United States. In addition to ISIS-West Africa and ISGS, actual or potential U.S. targets there include Boko Haram, ISIS and Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb in Libya, and Al Mourabitoun, based primarily in Mali. At the moment, for instance, U.S. drone strikes on Libya, which have increased under the Trump administration, are generally launched from a base in Sicily. However, drones at the new air base in Agadez will be able to strike targets in all these countries. Suppose a missile happens to kill some Nigerien civilians by mistake — not exactly uncommon for U.S. drone strikes elsewhere? Not to worry. AFRICOM is covered. A U.S.-Niger Status of Forces Agreement guarantees that there won’t be any repercussions. In fact, according to the agreement, “the parties waive any and all claims … against each other for damage to, loss, or destruction of the other’s property or injury or death to personnel of either party’s armed forces or their civilian personnel.” In other words, the United States will not be held responsible for any “collateral damage” from Niger drone strikes. Another clause in the agreement shields U.S. soldiers and civilian contractors from any charges under Nigerien law. The introduction of armed drones to target insurgent groups is part of AFRICOM’s expansion of the U.S. footprint on a continent of increasing strategic interest to Washington. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European nations engaged in the “scramble for Africa,” a period of intense and destructive competition for colonial possessions on the continent. In the post-colonial 1960s and 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence in African countries as diverse as Egypt and what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Today, despite AFRICOM’s focus on the war on terror, the real jockeying for influence and power on the continent is undoubtedly between this country and the People’s Republic of China. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, “China surpassed the United States as Africa’s largest trade partner in 2009” and has never looked back. “Beijing has steadily diversified its business interests in Africa,” the Council’s 2017 backgrounder continues, noting that from Angola to Kenya, “China has participated in energy, mining, and telecommunications industries and financed the construction of roads, railways, ports, airports, hospitals, schools and stadiums. Investment from a mixture of state and private funds has also set up tobacco, rubber, sugar and sisal plantations … Chinese investment in Africa also fits into Chinese president Xi Jinping’s development framework, ‘One Belt, One Road.’” For example, in a bid to corner the DRC’s cobalt and copper reserves, part of an estimated $24 trillion in mineral wealth there, two Chinese companies have formed Sicomines, a partnership with the Congolese government’s national mining company. The Pulitzer Center reports that Sicomines is expected “to extract 6.8 million tons of copper and 427,000 tons of cobalt over the next 25 years.” Cobalt is essential in the manufacture of today’s electronic devices — from cell phones to drones — and more than half of the world’s supply lies underground in the DRC. Even before breaking ground on Air Base 201 in Niger, the United States already had a major drone base in Africa, in the tiny country of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen. From there, the Pentagon has been directing strikes against targets in Yemen and Somalia. “Djibouti is a very strategic location for us,” AFRICOM commander Gen. Thomas Waldhauser told Congress in March 2018. Camp Lemonnier, as the base is known, occupies almost 500 acres near the Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport. U.S. Central Command, Special Operations Command, European Command and Transportation Command all use the base. At present, however, it appears that U.S. drones stationed in Djibouti and bound for Yemen and Somalia take off from nearby Chabelley Airfield, as Bard College’s Center for the Study of the Drone reports. To the discomfort of the U.S. military, the Chinese have recently established their first base in Africa, also in Djibouti, quite close to Camp Lemonnier. That country is also horning in on potential U.S. sales of drones to other countries. Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab emirates are among U.S. allies known to have purchased advanced Chinese drones. The means justify the end? From the beginning, the CIA’s armed drones have been used primarily to kill specific individuals. The Bush administration launched its global drone assassination program in October 2001 in Afghanistan, expanded it in 2002 to Yemen, and later to other countries. Under Pres. Barack Obama, White House oversight of such assassinations only gained momentum, with an official “kill list” and regular “terror Tuesday” meetings to pick targets. The use of drones expanded 10-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian war zones. Early on, targets were generally people identified as Al-Qaeda leaders or “lieutenants.” In later years, the kill lists grew to include supposed leaders or members of a variety of other terror organizations, and eventually even unidentified people engaged in activities that were to bear the “signature” of terrorist activity. But those CIA drones, destructive as they were, were just the camel’s nose — a way to smuggle in a major change in U.S. policy. We’ve grown so used to murder by drone in the last 17 years that we’ve lost sight of an important fact: such assassinations represented a fundamental and unlawful change in U.S. military strategy. Because unpiloted airplanes eliminate the physical risk to American personnel, the United States has embraced a strategy of global extrajudicial executions: presidential assassinations on foreign soil. It’s a case of the means justifying the end. The drones work so well at so little cost (to us) that it must be all right to kill people with them. Successive administrations have implemented this strategic change with little public discussion. Critiques of the drone program tend to focus — not unreasonably — on the many additional people who are injured or die along with the intended targets, and on civilians who should never have been targets in the first place. But few critics point out that executing foreign nationals without trial in other countries is itself wrong and illegal under U.S. law, as well as that of other countries where some of the attacks have taken place, and of course, international law. How have the Bush, Obama and now Trump administrations justified such killings? The same way they justified the expansion of the War on Terror itself to new battle zones around the world — through Congress’s September 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force. That law permitted the president “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.” Given that many of the organizations the United States is targeting with drones today didn’t even exist when that AUMF was enacted and so could hardly have “authorized” or “aided” in the 9/11 attacks, it offers, at best, the thinnest of coverage indeed for such a worldwide program. Droning on and on George W. Bush launched the CIA’s drone assassination program and that was just the beginning. Even as Obama attempted to reduce the number of U.S. ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, he ramped up the use of drones, famously taking personal responsibility for targeting decisions. By some estimates, he approved 10 times as many drone attacks as Bush. In 2013, the Obama administration introduced new guidelines for drone strikes, supposedly designed to guarantee with “near certainty” the safety of civilians. Administration officials also attempted to transfer most of the operational responsibility for drone attacks from the CIA to the military’s only-slightly-less-secretive Joint Special Operations Command. Although the number of CIA strikes did drop, the Agency remained in a position to rev up its program at any time, as The Washington Post reported in 2016: “U.S. officials emphasized that the CIA has not been ordered to disarm its fleet of drones, and that its aircraft remain deeply involved in counterterrorism surveillance missions in Yemen and Syria even when they are not unleashing munitions.” It’s indicative of how easily drone killings have become standard operating procedure that, in all the coverage of the confirmation hearings for the CIA’s new director, Gina Haspel, there was copious discussion of the Agency’s torture program, but not a public mention of, let alone a serious question about, its drone assassination campaign. It’s possible the Senate Intelligence Committee discussed it in their classified hearing, but the general public has no way of knowing Haspel’s views on the subject. However, it shouldn’t be too hard to guess. It’s clear, for instance, that Trump has no qualms about the CIA’s involvement in drone killings. When he visited the Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the day after his inauguration, “Trump urged the CIA to start arming its drones in Syria. ‘If you can do it in 10 days, get it done,’ he said,” according to the Post. At that same meeting, CIA officials played a tape of a drone strike for him, showing how they’d held off until the target had stepped far enough away from the house that the missile would miss it. His only question: “Why did you wait?” You may recall that, while campaigning, the president told Fox News that the U.S. should actually be targeting certain civilians. “The other thing with the terrorists,” he said, “is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families.” In other words, he seemed eager to make himself a future murderer-in-chief. How, then, has U.S. drone policy fared under Trump? The New York Times has reported major changes to Obama-era policies. Both the CIA’s and the military’s “kill lists” will no longer be limited to key insurgent leaders, but expanded to include “foot-soldier jihadists with no special skills or leadership roles.” The Times points out that this “new approach would appear to remove some obstacles for possible strikes in countries where [Al] Qaeda- or Islamic State-linked militants are operating, from Nigeria to The Philippines.” And no longer will attack decisions only be made at the highest levels of government. The requirement for having a “near certainty” of avoiding civilian casualties — always something of a fiction — officially remains in place for now, but we know how seriously Trump takes such constraints. He’s already overseen the expansion of the drone wars in other ways. In general, that “near certainty” constraint doesn’t apply to officially designated war zones, where the lower standard of merely avoiding unnecessary civilian casualties prevails. In March 2017, Trump approved a Pentagon request to identify large parts of Yemen and Somalia as areas of “active hostility,” allowing leeway for far less carefully targeted strikes in both places. At the time, however, AFRICOM head Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser said he would maintain the “near certainty” standard in Somalia for now — which, as it happens, hasn’t stopped Somali civilians from dying by drone strike. Another change affects the use of drones in Pakistan and potentially elsewhere. Past drone strikes in Pakistan officially targeted people believed to be “high value” Al-Qaeda figures, on the grounds that they represented an “imminent threat” to the United States. However, as a 2011 Justice Department paper explained, imminence is in the eye of the beholder. “With respect to Al-Qaeda leaders who are continually planning attacks, the United States is likely to have only a limited window of opportunity within which to defend Americans.” In other words, once identified as an al-Qaeda leader or the leader of an allied group, you are by definition “continually planning attacks” and always represent an imminent danger, making you a permanent legitimate target. Under Trump, however, U.S. drones are not only going after those Al-Qaeda targets permitted under the 2001 AUMF, but also targeting Afghan Taliban across the border in Pakistan. In other words, these drone strikes are not a continuation of counterterrorism as envisioned under the AUMF, but rather an extension of a revitalized U.S. war in Afghanistan. In general, the law of war allows attacks on a neutral country’s territory only if soldiers chase an enemy across the border in “hot pursuit.” So the use of drones to attack insurgent groups inside Pakistan represents an unacknowledged escalation of the U.S. Afghanistan war. Another corner of the tent lifted by the camel’s nose? Transparency about U.S. wars in general, and airstrikes in particular, has also suffered under Trump. The administration, for instance, announced in March that it had used a drone to kill “Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking official in Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” The New York Times reported. However, the Times continued, “questions about whether the American military, under the Trump administration, is blurring the scope of operations in Africa were raised … when it was revealed that the U.S. had carried out four airstrikes in Libya from September to January that the Africa Command did not disclose at the time.” Similarly, the administration has been less than forthcoming about its activities in Yemen. As the Business Insiderreported in a story updated from the Long War Journal, the United States has attacked Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula there repeatedly, but “of the more than 114 strikes against AQAP in Yemen, CENTCOM has only provided details on four, all of which involved high value targets.” Because Trump has loosened the targeting restrictions for Yemen, it’s likely that the other strikes involved low-level targets, whose identity we won’t know. Just Security, an online roundtable based at New York University, reports the total number of air strikes there in 2017 as 120. It investigated eight of these and “found that U.S. operations were responsible for the deaths of at least 32 civilians — including 16 children and six women — and injured 10 others, including five children.” Yemeni civilians had a suggestion for how the United States could help them avoid becoming collateral damage. Give them “a list of wanted individuals. A list that is clear and available to the public so that they can avoid targeted individuals, protect their children and not allow U.S. targets to have a presence in their areas.” A 2016 executive order requires that the federal director of national intelligence issue an annual report by May 1st on the previous year’s civilian deaths caused by U.S. airstrikes outside designated “active hostility” zones. As yet, the Trump administration has not filed the 2017 report. Bigger and better camels coming soon This March, a jubilant Fox News reported that the Marine Corps is planning to build a fancy new drone, called the MUX, for Marine Air Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft System-Expeditionary. This baby will sport quite a set of bells and whistles, as Fox marveled: “The MUX will terrify enemies of the United States, and with good reason. The aircraft won’t be just big and powerful: it will also be ultra-smart. This could be a heavily armed drone that takes off, flies, avoids obstacles, adapts and lands by itself — all without a human piloting it.” In other words, “the MUX will be a drone that can truly run vital missions all by itself.” Between pulling out of the Iran agreement and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Trump has made it clear that — despite his base’s chants of “Nobel! Nobel!” — he has no interest whatsoever in peace. It looks like the future of the still spreading war on terror under Trump is as clear as MUX.

The UN on Tuesday pledged 2.7 million U.S. dollars to help Somaliland communities affected by cyclone which left at least 25 people dead and displaced thousand others. Peter de Clercq, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia who visited the self-declared semi-autonomous region, said the response to the combination of events- storm, floods, drought- highlighted the need for a response which addresses both the short- and longer-term needs of humanitarian events. De Clercg said in a statement released in Mogadishu that the short-term should focus on the immediate emergency and the longer-term centred on building the resilience of communities like that of the Awhal region. The recent landfall of Cyclone Sagar on the northern Horn of Africa has affected some 160,000 people, killing dozens and causing severe damage to infrastructure and economic loss, especially for those with a traditional pastoral livelihood, according to the UN. It said the cyclone’s impact has compounded an already-difficult humanitarian and development situation in the area due to recent heavy flooding and a years-long drought. De Clercq had been in Somaliland to see its impact first-hand, as well as meet with local partners, including government officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, community elders and people directly affected by the storm. The cyclone comes after a powerful tropical cyclone with winds in excess of 120 km/per hour and an entire year’s worth of rain which landed in Somalia on May 19 left destruction and death in its wake in Somaliland, endangering the lives of thousands of children in the region. Cyclone Sagar tore through the coastal north of the country, destroying homes and livelihoods in its wake. According to Somaliland authorities, at least 25 people have been killed, 27 others are missing and hundreds of homes destroyed following tropical cyclone Sagar that caused heavy rains and flooding in Somaliland. Source: – Xinhua

Muqdisho (Caasimada Online)-Madaxweynaha JFS Maxamed Cabdullaahi Farmaajo ayaa markii ugu horeysay qiray in Somalia ay daashatay cadaalad darro baahsan oo uu sheegay inay cuuryaamisay sinaanta. Madaxweynaha oo ka hadlayey dhibaatooyinka dalka ka jira ayaa sheegay in dadka Soomaliyeed waayihii u dambeeyey ay ka cabanayeen cadaalad darro baahsan, waxa uuna ta ku tilmaamay arrinta keliya ee caqabada ku ah shacabka. Madaxweynuhu waxa uu cadeeyay in cadaaladu ay tahay qeyb kamid ah nolosha qof bani aadam ah, sidaa aawgeed ay muhiim tahay in la helo isbedel dhanka Garsoorka ah. Farmaajo waxa uu yiri ‘’Aasaaska nolosha waa inaan helnaa cadaalad iyo sinaan, dowladu wey ku khasban tahay inay raali galiso shacabkeeda’’ Waxa uu intaa raaciyay ‘’Waxaa xaqiiqo ah in mudooyinkii la soo dhaafay ay dadkeenu ka hadlayeen cadaalad darro dhinac walba ah oo baahsan anagana waxan ku taameynay oo aan ku sameyneynay daraasad meesha uu dhibka ka taagan yahay’’ ‘’Daraasadaas kadib waxaa noo soo baxday in aan sameyno dib u habeyn dhinaca garsoorka ah. waxa ayna ku dhacday sida aan ugu tallo galnay’’ Madaxweyne Farmaajo waxa uu cadeeyay in qorshaha hadda socdaa uu yahay in si dhaqsi ah lagu sameeyo Golaha adeega Garsoorka si cadaalada ay u noqoto garab Saddexaad oo la siman Golaha fulinta iyo sharcidejinta dalka. Sidoo kale, Madaxweynaha waxa uu dhankiisa ka ballanqaday inay ka dhabeyn doonaan riyooyinkooda ku aadan in xal loo helo cabashooyinka dhanka Garsoorka ah. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, haddalka Farmaajo ayaa ku soo beegmaaya xilli wixii ka dambeeyey burburkii dalka Shacabka Soomaaliyeed ay ka cabanayeen cadaalada darro ka jirta dhinaca garsoorka dalka. Caasimada Online Xafiiska Muqdisho Caasimada@live.com

Muqdisho (Caasimada Online)-Waxaa saaka Garoonka Aadan Cadde ee Magaalada Muqdisho kasoo degtay Diyaarad siday 165 dhalinyaro Somaliyed oo ku xirnaa xabsiyada ku yaalla dalka Libya. Maxaabiistaan ayaa waxaa ka muuqday rafaad iyo dhibaatooyin dhanka nololeed, waxa ayna doorbideen inay dib ugu soo laabtaan dalkooda. Dhalinyaradan ayaa sheegay in dhibaatooyin kala duwan ay ku qabsatay gudaha dalka Libya, taasina ay ku khasabtay inay dib ugu soo laabtaan Somalia. Waxa ay sheegeen mar ay u waramayeen warbaahinta gudaha ayey sheegen dhalinyaradan inay aad ugu faraxsan yihiin dib ugu soo laabashada Magaalada Muqdisho iyo guud ahaan dalkoodii hooyo. Amb. Cali Siciid Fiqi, oo ah Safiirka Somaliya ee Yurub ayaa sheegay dhalinyaradan inay yihiin kuwa ku jiray xabsiyo kala duwan oo ku yaalay gudaha dalka Libya. Ambasadoorka waxa uu sheegay inaysan ka daali doonin soo saarida Soomaalida kale ee ku dhibaateysan dunida dacaladeeda. Dhinaca kale, dhalinyaradaan oo qaarkood ay ka muuqdan dhaawacyo ayaa mahadcelin usoo jeediyay Dowlada Somalia oo dhexda u xiratay soo deyntooda.

The UN on Tuesday pledged 2.7 million U.S. dollars to help Somaliland communities affected by cyclone which left at least 25 people dead and displaced thousand others. Source: Hiiraan Online

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities in Somalia’s breakaway northwestern region of Somaliland to stop harassing privately-owned media outlets that are covering its territorial dispute with its eastern neighbour, Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region. Two TV channels have been closed and several journalists have been arrested. Source: Hiiraan Online

They are like the camel’s nose, lifting a corner of the tent. Don’t be fooled, though. It won’t take long until the whole animal is sitting inside, sipping your tea and eating your sweets. In countries around the world — in the Middle East, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Africa even The Philippines — the appearance of U.S. drones in the sky and on the ground is often Washington’s equivalent of the camel’s nose entering a new theater of operations in this country’s forever war against “terror.” Source: Hiiraan Online

Hargeysa (Caasimada Online) – Madaxweynaha Somaliland Md. Muuse Biixi Cabdi ayaa saxaafadda u soo bandhigay saddex qodob oo ay Maraykanka iyo Qaramada Midoobay ku dhexdhexaadiyaan Somaliland iyo Puntland oo uu ka baxay hoggaamiyaha Puntland Cabdiweli Maxamed Gaas, sida uu sheegay. Madaxweyne Biixi oo shalay saxaafadda kula hadlay Hargeysa, wuxuu Mr. Gaas ku eedeeyay inuu ka baxay qodobadii ay Maraykanka iyo Qaramada Midoobay ku dhexdhexaadisay oo uu subixii xigay ogolaanshaha heshiiskaas Somaliland ku soo qaaday dagaal. Madaxweyne Biixi oo ka hadlaya qodobada iyo cidda dhexhexaadisay wuxuu yidhi “Nimankaasi [beesha caalamka] Jeenawari markii hadalku bilaabmay, waxaa yidhaahdeen waxa wanaagsan inaad wada hadashaan Somaliya, waxaanu wada hadalnay ninka la yidhaahdo Farmaajo, Cabdiwali waa soo galay oo la hadal ayaa isagana la yidhi waa ay khusaysaaye, isagana waanu wada hadalnay, tiraba saddex jeer oo ay khadka nagula jireen ka Maraykanka iyo ka kaleba ( safiirka maraykanka iyo Ergayga Qaramada midoobay) ayaanu wada hadalnay saddexda goorba Cabdiwali waxii uu yidhi waa uu ka baxay, kii ugu danbeeyay ayaan idiin sheegayaa waxa uu weerarkii ugu danbeeyay soo qaaday 24-kii Bishan, 23kii sagaalkii habeenimo waxa ila soo hadlay safiirka Maraykanka ee Nayboobi jooga, waxa uu igu yidhi waxaan doonayaa saddexdii qodob ee Michael Keating uu idiin keenay in la fuliyo baritoole oo meeshaas aanu dagaal ka dhicin, waar nabadaba anigaa kaa jecel waanan raacsanahay saddexdaas qodob, maxay yihiin saddexda qodob 1-Xabada hala joojiyo 2-Arimaha aadaminimada ha la ogolaado 3-hala sameeyo qaab ay labada taliye ee ciidanku ku wada hadli karaan si aanay ciidamadu si kadis ah isugu dhicin oo aanay xabadi u bilaabmin. Saddexdaba waanu ogolnahay,safiirku waxa uu igu yidhi saddexdaas ayaan doonayaa inaan goob joog ka ahaado, Cabdiwali ayaa dhanka kale ku jira tilifoonka ogol, saddexdaba hore ayaan u ogolaaday laakiin waxaan kuu sheegayaa safiirow ciidankiisii hadda waxay ii jiraan 500 mt, 7 Km na galabta ayuu ka soo guuray weerarna waa uu u dhan yahay ilaa hadda ayuu soo socdaa oo inuu shantaas boqol ka soo dhawaado ayuu doonayaa aroorta markay cadceedu soo baxdana weerar ayuu igu soo qaadayaa, aroorta haddii weerarkaas la waayo nabad ayuu wadaa haddii uu dhacana waa waxiisii ee maxaan ka dhagaystaa, shantii iyo badhkiibuu isagu soo bilaabay, kii kale ee ka horeeyay sidaas la mid ayay ahayd oo macaa Farmaajo waa uu ku jiray khadka lagu wada hadlaayay. Halkaygaas soo dhaafi maayo xabadna soo ridi maayo laakiin baritoole waxay noo tahay 15-kayagii shalayna laba goobood ayuu iga soo weeraray oo waxa uu degaayay baraha uu bari iga soo weerari doono yaa balanqaad I siinaya anaga oo dabaal daga ku jirna in aanu isoo weerarayn, ma galaayo ayaa laygu yidhi waanad ogaydeen waxii ka dhacay, nin meel u jeeda xadhig ma xidhaayo, waxaanan arkayaa Puntland in aanay dani ugu jirin dagaalka, mid ah siyaasad oo Somaliland waa gobal ka mid ah oo caasi garoobay oo dib ayaan u muquuninayaa ah oo Xamar ka soo baxay oo la soo marinaayo Cabdiwali , markaas ninka wada hawsha ayaanu ka wada hadlaynaa, dhaawacii miyaanu diyaarad u soo dirin oo aanu Xamar u gayn, miyaanu Turkiga u qaadayn ciidankiisa dhaawaca ahaa, maaxaan miskiinkan Cabdiwali ee la isticmaalayo kala hadlayaa, haddii nabad la doonayo nabada nin baa dabada ka wada.” Madaxweyne Biixi waxa uu sheegay inay Hadaftimo rasaas ka rideen gaadiid dagaal oo uu Gaas soo diray si dadka deegaanka loo baqo galiyo “Afar gaadhi oo tigniko ah oo ka yimi Garoowe waxay rasaas ka rideen Hadaaftimo oo ah xarunta suldaan Siciid oo waxii Somaliya buuq ka dhacay aanay xabadi ka dhicin oo lagu yidhi Somaliland ayaad taageeraysaa, markaas ninkii oday ah ee siyaasi ah kii madaxdhaqameed ah, kii wax garad ah ee yidhaahda Somaliland ayaan ahay ama waa loo hanjabayaa ama danbibaad gashee maxkamad ayaa lagu gaynayaa ama waa lagu dilayaa, xanba maaha, idaacadaha ayaa laysula soo fadhiistay, hada waa dadkii deegaanka.” Caasimada Online Xafiiska Hargeysa Caasimada@live.com

New York (Caasimada Online) – Xoghayaha guud ee Qaramada Midoobay, Antonio Guterras, ayaa la filayaa inuu dhawaan beddelo ergayga Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan Soomaaliya danjire Michael Keating. Sida ay sheegeen ilo xog ogaal ah, danjire Keating ayaa la filayaa inuu bisha November ee sannadkan ka tago shaqada Qaramada Midoobay ee uu wakiilka uga yahay Soomaaliya, waxaana u dhammaanay saddex sannadood oo uu ahaa ergayga Qaramada Midoobay. Wararka ayaa sheegay in danjire Keating uu doonayay in Qaramada Midoobay ugu darto wakhti kale shaqada uu hayo, laakiin xoghayaha guud ee Qaramada Midoobay ayaa la sheegay inuu go’aansaday in danjire Keating la bedelo marka uu dhammaysto saddexdiisa sannadood oo ku eeg bisha November ee sannadkan 2018. Dawladda Soomaaliya ayaa horey danjire Keating ku eedaysay inuu xasarad siyaasadeed oo aan jirin ka abuuro Muqdisho, isagoo Mr. Keating caan ku ahaa inuu dhegaysto afkaarta siyaasadeed ee siyaasiyiinta Muqdisho ee mucaaradka ku ah dawladda. Laba goor oo kala duwan ayay dawladda Farmaajo ergaygan ka gudbisay dacwad ka dhan ah oo ay gaadhsiisay magaalada New york ee xarunta Qaramada Midoobay. Warar aan helnay ayaa xaqiijiyay in la filayo in Xoghayaha guud ee Qaramada Midoobay uu ergaygiisa Soomaaliya u magacaabo diblomaasi Ingiriis ah oo Qaramada Midoobay wakiil uga ah dalka Koonfurta Suudaan. Diblomaasigan oo lagu magacaabo danjire Nicholas Haysom ayaa sidoo kale haysta dhalashada dalka Koonfur Afrika, waxaana lagu tilmaamay inuu yahay diblomaasi sumcad ku leh Qaramada Midoobay dhexdeeda. Waa markii saddexaad ee ay diblomaasiyiin Ingiriis ahi iskaga dambeeyaan xilkan Qaramada Midoobay ee Soomaaliya, waxaanay wakhtigooda ugu badan ku qaataan magaalada Muqdisho. Danjire Keating, waxa ka horeeyay Mr. Nicholas Kay oo isna Ingiriis ahaa. Caasimada Online Xafiiska Muqdisho Caasimada@live.com

Nairobi (Caasimada Online) – Wararka ka imaanaya dalka Mozambique ayaa sheegaya in halkaa lagu gowracay ku dhawaad 10 ruux oo kamid ah dadka ku nool tuullooyinka ku yaalla xadka xiga Tanzania. Dadka la goracay ayaa waxa ay isugu jiraan Haween, Carruur, waxaana kamid ahaa dadka la gooracay Caaqilka tuuladaasi. Falkaan ayaa waxa uu ka dhacay Tuullada lagu magacaabo Monjane oo ku taalla Waqooyiga kuna dhow xuduudka Tanzania, iyadoo ay falkaasi geysteen Maleeshiyaad taabacsan al-Shabaab oo ka dilaacay Mozambique, oo isla Al-Shabaab lagu magacaabo. Dadka ay maleeshiyaadkan ka faracmay al-Shabaab gowraceen ayaa aaminsan diinta Kirishtanka waxaana loo gowracay inay la shaqeeyan Dowlad. Caaqilka la gowracay ayaa isna lagu eedeeyay in Dowlada Mozambique uu la wadaagi jiray xaaladaha Tuullada, isagoo warbixino kasiin jiray hadba wixii kusoo kordhay Tuullada. Maleeshiyaadkan ayaa kasoo kala jeeda wadamada Kenya iyo Mozambique, waxaana tababar dhanka ciidanka ah siisay al-Shabaab. Macalimiin isugu jirta al-Shabaabka Somalia iyo Kenya ayaa bixiyay tababarka, waxa ayna warbaahintu sheegeysaa in Kooxdaan ay ka faracantay al-Shabaab. Bishii October 2017 ayaa waxaa halkaas tagay al-Shabaab kasoo jeeda Kenya oo tababar siiyay Muslimiinta Tuulladaas, si ay isaga daafacaan kuwa kale ee heysta diimaha aan muslimka aheyn. Dhinaca kale,, Dowlada Mozambique ayaa arrintaas u xirtay 300 oo muslimiin ah kuwaa oo lala xiriirinaayo inay wax ka ogaayeen gowraca ay geysteen maleeshiyaadkan ka faracmay al-Shabaab. Xigasho: https://www.enca.com/africa/suspected-islamists-behead-10-in-mozambique-village-sources Caasimada Online Xafiiska Nairobi Caasimada@live.com

OTTAWA—Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he has approached the American government with ideas for modernizing a 14-year-old agreement on refugee claimants who attempt to cross the border between Canada and the United States. Source: Hiiraan Online

Hargeysa (Caasimada Online) – Iyadoo inta badan ay Soomaalidu ku wareersan tahay dagaalka ka taagan Deegaanka Tukaraq ee Gobolka Sool, ayaa waxaa arrintaasi ka hadlay Siyaasi Ismaaciil Hurre Buubaa. Buubaa, ayaa sheegay in dagaalka uu yahay mid ay gadaal ka riixayaan Shirkado Shisheeye oo uu sheegay inuu damac uga jiro Shidaalka ku jira Gobolka Sool. Buubaa, oo u waramaayay warbaahinta magaalada Hargeysa ayaa yiri ‘’Dadku waxa ay arkaan keliya dagaalka Tukaraq, sheekadu wey ka weyn tahay dagaalka ee waxaa ololinaaya Shirkado shisheeye oo isku adeegsanaaya Puntland iyo Somaliland’’. Waxa uu Siyaasi Ismaaciil Hurre Buubaa sheegay in Shirkadahaasi ay adeegsanayaan maamulka Puntland oo uu sheegay inay dagaal cad kusoo qaaden ciidamada Somaliland ee ku sugnaa deegaanka Tukaraq, sida uu hadalka u dhigay. Waxa uu Siyaasigu sheegay in ujeedka dagaalka uu yahay keliya qabsashada deegaanka Holhol oo ku yaalla Gobolka Sool, isla markaana uu ka buuxo shidaal, sida uu yiri. Buubaa waxa uu intaa raaciyay hadalkiisa ‘’Waxaa jira shirkado shisheeye badan oo Puntland ku khasbaaya inay qabsadaan deegaanka Tukaraq iyo Holhol si ay uga faa’iideystaan shidaalka ku jira’’ Waxa uu intaa kusii daray ‘’Puntland iyada ayey dhibeysaa haddii ay dooneyso in Somaliland ay uga xagliso Shirkado Shisheeye oo doonaaya inay isku layaan labada ciidan’’ Siyaasi Ismaaciil Hurre Buubaa, waxa uu cadeeyay in Tukaraq iyo guud ahaan Gobolka Sool ay hoostagto Somaliland waxa uuna sheegay inaan deegaankaasi looga hari doonin Puntland. Dhinaca kale, waxa uu saaxiibada caalamka ugu baaqay inay hakiyaan colaada ku daadaneysa dhiiga shacabka ku dhaqan Gobolka Sool. Caasimada Online Xafiiska Hargeysa Caasimada@live.com

COPENHAGEN, May 29 (Reuters) - In urban areas of Denmark officially designated as "ghettos," some residents feel stigmatized and excluded from mainstream society. Source: Hiiraan Online

Dubai: Khalid Abdul Nasir Ahmad began memorising the Quran at the age of five under the guidance of his father, but took a long time to complete the process of memorising the entire holy book of 114 chapters. Source: Hiiraan Online

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE — Ten people were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique, police said on Tuesday, as local sources blamed the attack on Islamists. Source: Hiiraan Online

"I'm everything the Daily Mail probably hates," Magid Magid announced this month. Given that the Daily Mail's hate list is as long as time itself, this may seem hyperbolic – but Magid really does tick just about every past and present Middle England moral-panic box. Source: Hiiraan Online

Libya's rival leaders agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections on December 10 following a meeting in Paris. Source: Hiiraan Online

Libya, where rival authorities in Tripoli and the east are vying for power, fell into chaos after the ouster of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011. Source: Hiiraan Online

Rainfall that’s been twice the seasonal average in parts of eastern Africa has claimed almost 500 lives, forced thousands from their homes and damaged crops, raising the specter of a repeat of last year’s food shortages. Source: Hiiraan Online

NEW YORK -- Mobile-based services, including money transfers and ride-hailing, have spread rapidly around the world and are becoming available in many of the poorest countries. Source: Hiiraan Online

Muqdisho (Caasimada Online) – War goordhow nasoo gaaray ayaa sheegaya in Caawa weerar lagu qaaday ciidamo ka tirsan dowlada oo ku sugnaa nawaaxiga carwo Iidka oo ku dhaw isgoyska Baar-ubax. Weerarkan ayaa lagu qaaday ciidamada Xasilinta oo halkaa kawaday baaritaano, waxaana lasoo sheegayaa in lagu weeraray dhowr Bam gacmeedyo. Weerarka ayaa la sheegay inay geysteen maleeshiyaad dhinacyada kasoo maray ciidamada, kuwaa oo Qaraxyada Bamka kadib rasaas ooda uga qaaday ciidamada. Weerarka oo gaadmo ahaa ayaa waxaa ku dhaawacmay askari. Hay’adaha amaanka Dowlada Somalia ayaan weli ka hadal heerka uu gaarsiisan yahay Khasaaraha ka dhashay weerarka, inkastoo lasoo warinaayo inuu kooban yahay khasaraha. Dhanka kale Maqribkii ka dib ayaa degmada Waaberi waxaa lagu dilay ah qof rayid waxaana goobta ka baxsaday kooxihii dilka geystay. Amniga magaalada oo mas’uuliyaddiisa lagu wareejiyay maamulka gobolka Banaadir ayaa liita, tan iyo markii gobolka Banaadir lagu wareejiyay amniga caasimadda waxaa la dilay dad badan oo rayid ah mana jirto ilaa iyo hadda tallaabo uu qaaday gobolka oo looga hortagayo dilalka qorsheysan ee ka dhacaya magaalada. Caasimada Online Xafiiska Muqdisho Caasimada@live.com

Magaalada Buuhoodle waxaa lagu qabtey kulan ay isugu yimaadeen ku dhawaad 10 Issim oo kasoo jeeda Gobolladda Sool,Sanaag iyo Cayn, waxaana looga hadlay xiisada iyo colaada ka jirta deegaanka Tuka-raq ee Gobolka Sool oo ay isku horfadhiyaan labo ciidan oo kala taabacsan Puntland iyo Somaliland kuwaas oo todobaadyaddii lasoo dhaafey dagaalo culus dhexmareen. Kulanka waxaa fadhiyay inta badan Issimadda beelaha Sool, Sanaag iyo Cayn, halka qeybtood-na telefonka uga qeybgashay iyagoo ku sugan meelo kale oo ka baxsan Buuhoodle,Issimada kulanka ka qeybgalay ayaa ugu baaqay maamulka Somaliland inuu ka baxo Sool,Sanaag iyo Cayn, Iyagoona uga digay inuu kusii adkeysto sii joogitaanka Gobolladdaas. Suldaan Siciid Cismaan Cali iyo Garaad Saleebaan Buraale oo ka mid ahaa Issimaddii ka hadlay shirka ayaa sheegay inuusan jirin wax heshiis ah oo horey iyo hadda ay ula galeen maamulka Somaliland, islamarkaana uu xad gudub iyo duulaan ku yimid dhulkooda. “Waxaa la yaabsanahay waxay naga rabto Somaliland,waxaanu la yaabsanahay waxay nagu sheeganayso,waxaanu la yaabsanahay sababta ay Somaliland ku tiri Annaga ayaad naga mid tihiin oo idin xukunna, haddii aad diidaana waa idin laynaynaa,Qarnigii 21 baa lagu jiraa Adduunka wax sidaas u dhaqma lama arag” ayuu yiri mid ka mid ah Issimadii ka hadlay kulanka lagu qabtey magaalada Buuhoodle. Dhinaca kale waxay sheegeen Issimadda kulankaas isugu yimid bulshada ku nool Gobolladda Sool,Sanaag iyo Cayn inay ka tirsan yihiin maamulka Puntland islamarkaana ay wax ka dhisteen sanadkii 1998-dii. Isku soo wada duuboo hadalka Issimada ayaa kusoo beegmaya xilli xiisad culus oo dagaal ka dhex jirto labada maamul ee dariska Puntland iyo Somaliland kuwaas oo xilli kasta ciidamadooda la filan karo dagaalo ku dhexmara deegaano ka tirsan Gobolka Sool oo ay iminka isku horfadhiyaan. Abshir Dhiirane PUNTLAND POST The post Buuhoodle:-Issimada SSC oo ka hadlay xiisada ka jidha Gobolka Sool. appeared first on Puntland Post.

After days of heavy fighting, Yemeni forces say they have advanced within 20km of the Houthi rebel-held port city of Hodeidah, a vital lifeline where millions of Yemenis get their food and medicine. Local media reported a major retreat by the rebels on Monday, with the Houthi-appointed governor of the city purported to have fled after coalition forces seized several areas along the Red Sea coast. “The Yemeni army backed by the coalition is around 20km outside Hodeidah and military operations are ongoing,” Saudi coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki told reporters late on Monday. insidenewsSaudi Arabia, together with several other Arab nations, launched a military campaign in Yemen in 2015 aimed at rolling back advances made by the Houthis after they overran much of the country in 2014, including the capital, Sanaa. Since then, more than 10,000 people have been killed, most of them civilians. The military coalition has launched more than 16,000 air raids since March 2015, with nearly 1,500 targeting residential areas, more than 200 on school buildings, about 60 against factories and at least 44 targeting mosques. The fighting in Hodeidah – the country’s third-largest city and a main gateway for imports of relief supplies and commercial goods – escalated earlier this year following a flurry of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia. Riyadh sees Hodeidah port as the entry point of weaponry for the Houthis and has accused its regional rival Iran of sending missiles to the rebels, a charge Tehran has denied. “Our goal is to cut the vein that the Houthis are benefiting from,” Maliki said. United offensive The United Nations has warned any operation aimed at seizing Hodeidah would disrupt the entry of aid shipments to Yemen, 70 percent of which flow through the rebel-held port. The threat of mass famine continues to loom over Yemen. “The key question isn’t whether the coalition can take Hodeidah,” tweeted Gerald Feierstein, a former US ambassador to Yemen and a director at the Middle East Institute. “It’s what they intend to do next. Can they use control of the port to ensure humanitarian supplies can get in unimpeded?” The offensive on Hodeidah is being carried out by a disparate collective of forces including the National Resistance, a group of fighters loyal to Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Tihama Resistance, a group of fighters loyal to Yemen’s exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and the Giant Brigades, an elite unit backed by the UAE. The war in Yemen, the region’s poorest country, has led to massive food shortages and the “worst recorded cholera outbreak”, according to the World Health Organization. The UN says 22.2 million people are in need of aid, with at least eight million on the verge of famine. Source: – Al Jazeera

A former Somali refugee who came to Nova Scotia as a child will be in federal court Tuesday, as his lawyers continue to fight his deportation. Abdoul Abdi never received Canadian citizenship while growing up in foster care in Nova Scotia, and was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency after serving five years in prison for multiple offences, including aggravated assault. newsideTuesday’s appearance in Halifax’s federal court could spell an end to the threat of deportation. Abdi’s Halifax-based lawyer Benjamin Perryman said the judicial review could see government ordered to issue a warning letter instead of deportation, or to make a third decision on deportation. “What he’s asking for is effectively a second chance to prove himself,” Perryman said via email in March. In March, Abdi’s sister and other supporters rallied outside Province House, calling on the provincial government to intervene on his behalf. Premier Stephen McNeil has said children in the province’s care are presented with many options, including information about citizenship. Source: – HalifaxToday

Police in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region arrested more than 40 protesters and two journalists at a demonstration in a town whose ownership is disputed by a neighbouring region, a police officer said. Protesters marched through the town of Las Anod on Monday, shouting in support of rejoining the federal government, based in Mogadishu, residents said. “We arrested 47 demonstrators including women and youth who were misled,” said Abdirisak Mohamed Faarah, police commander for Somaliland’s Sool region, said at a news conference in Las Anod on Monday. “There are also two reporters in jail for creating chaos. We are also looking for others and we shall arrest them. “We arrested them because they were destabilising peace and we shall take measures against those who masterminded it.” Last week, fighting between Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region and breakaway Somaliland killed dozens of soldiers. The fighting appeared to be a resumption of more than 10 years of periodic conflict between Puntland and Somaliland over the disputed region of Sool. A week earlier, clashes between the two sides over the ownership of Tukaraq village, taken by Somaliland last month, killed at least 45 people. Forces from Puntland and Somaliland remain stationed on opposite sides of Tukaraq. “We shall continue fighting till we liberate Las Anod town. We urge Somaliland to stop suppressing the residents,” Abdihakim Abdullahi, deputy president of Puntland, told Reuters on Monday. Other Somaliland officials could not be reached for comment. Source: – Reuters