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It won’t be as easy as a tiny vowel change. On Sunday the new Republic of Kosova (formerly Kosovo) declared itself independent, the world’s newest country, but several countries are refusing to recognise it - perhaps unsurprisingly, mainly countries that have most to lose from emboldened secessionist movements, such as Russia, Spain and Greece. There are hundreds of secession movements across the world (as many as 30 US states including Vermont, Texas and Alaska have groups wanting to form breakaway republics). "For many it’s a chance to express their culture, language or religion more freely," says Andrew Swan of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation, which was set up to represent indigenous people, minorities and unrecognised or occupied territories. Are there economic advantages? "There can be. The Ogoni, for instance, live in a region in the major oilfield areas of Nigeria. Even though it is one of the richest areas of Nigeria, they remain the poorest people in the country." The UNPO has 69 members, from Abkhazia (seeking independence from Georgia) to Zanzibar (Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands), representing 150 million people. It promotes nonviolent self-determination, which, given that violence is almost always a feature of secession, excludes many potential members. Here in the UK, Scottish and Welsh independence is not inconceivable in the future. The territory of Western Sahara, currently under Moroccan control, has been in talks with the UN. John Donaldson, research associate at the International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University, thinks South Sudan is a region to watch. "In 2011, it will have a referendum on independence," he says. Other states, such as Somaliland, have claimed independence without being recognised by the international community. "Northern Cyprus has also declared itself independent," says Donaldson, "but only Turkey has recognised it as an independent state. Politically, it can be very complicated, and there are no fixed rules on which states should be recognised as independent and which cannot." Emine Saner - The Guardian

The Somaliland minister of Justice, Mudane Ahmed Hasan Ali formally opened a seminar for the various departments of the Somaliland judicial system at the Mansoor Hotel in Hargeisa. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mudane Ahmed Hasan stated that "All those who work together under the Somaliland jurisprudence system are present at this seminar, we have the Judges, parliamentarians, lawyers, registrars, clerks, the Police and Custodial forces, notaries and many other members of the legal society in the country, and it up to them of debate and exchange knowledge pertaining to our justice system" Mudane Ahmed Hasan continued with remarks" the justice committees of Parliament, both in the House of Elders and the Representative, along with the ministry are overseeing the system, but the participants in this seminar are the ones implementing the legal system in the country, and it is essential that their needs and concerns are met" The Minister concluded his remarks by stating "There are areas of concern, in terms of the Justice code and how it should work its way through the judicial process, and it is essential that we should work together, including the National Human Rights commission, to streamline the process in a uniform manner" The annual Justice conference is expected to take place on the 20th of February, 2008 and Mudane Ahmed Hassan stated that the Somaliland government plans to begin a national judicial reform programme with the help of the United States of America. Also speaking at the ceremony were the Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mudane Mohamed Hirsi Farah, and the Deputy Justice minister, Mudane Abdillahi Yusuf Isse. Source Qarannews.

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Me, Yes Somalis are violent in nature that is why we are different from the rest of the world. From the childhood to the last stage we're just a violent. Look inside that country and look at those who live in the abroad ,,, aduunkii oo dhami soomaali buu ka qaylinayaa ,,, Born, This is a cut and paste topic ,, it is not my piece where i can shorten.

"The world would be less safer place without him" me says ............ He was a laf dhuun taagan to America since the cold war.

waan ku salaamay sxb ,,, ma noolayd ?

Waxaa magaalada Dhoobley ee ku taal xadka Kenya ay koox hubaysani ku dileen dad shacab ah oo waqtigaasi fadhiyay goob biibiito ah ama maqaaxi ayna ku dhagaysanayeen rikoodh ayna dad badani si wayn ugu xoon sanaayeen. Kooxdan falkan sida aad ka ah looga naxo ku dhaqaaqday ayaa waxa ay dadkii halkaa taagnaa ku amreen inay damiyaan rikoodhka u baxayay iyadoo dadkii halkaa isugu yimi ay ka dhago adaygeen inay damiyaan rikoodhka una hoogaan samaan awaamiirta kasoo baxaysa kooxdan hubaysan. Kadib diidmadii ay diideen dadkii shacabka ahaa ee ku sugnaa maqaaxidaasi inay damiyaan rikoodhka u baxayay ayaa waxa ay sababtay inay kooxdii hubaysnayd ay rasaas ooda kaga qaadaan dadkii halkaa ku sugnaa iyadoo halkaasi ay ku geeriyoodeen saddex qof halka shan kalena ay ku dhaawacmeen. Hadaba dadkii xalay ku dhintay magaalada Dhoobley ayaa waxaa lagu aasay qubuuraha magaaladaasi iyadoo dhimashada dadkaasi ay dhalisay xiisad colaadeed oo ku aadan dadkaa sida khalad ka ah loogu laayay magaalada ayna kulaayeen koox hubaysan. Hadaba ilaa hadda waxaan cidna loo qaban falkkan lagu laayay dadka shacabka ah iyadoo aysan jirin cid kadba tagtay kooxaha falkan gaysatay oo isaga baxay magaalada kadib markii ay dileen dadka shacabka ah lamana oga ilaa hadda meesha ay u baxeen iyadoo uusana ciidanka Police-ka ee magaaladaasi ka daba tagin kooxahaasi. Afnugaal News Desk info@afnugaal.com

Do Somalians need to quetsion their culture? What went wrong, and caused the huge problems that faced the well standing country, Somalia, who once had strong economic etc.? Should Somalians change their way of thinking and change the way they tackle problems like child upbringing? What about the way somali men treat their wifes like being violence ? Those quetsions and many others is Faah M. Mohamed answering in the following article. Be prepared for a long but very worth article! Somali cultural violence came to world attention in the early 1990s when General Mohamed Siyad Barre’s regime was overthrown and Somalis started slaughtering each other. As I was in the United States while Somalis were doing this butchering, I remember some of my colleagues and co-workers asking me, "Why are you guys killing each other? Don’t you have the same culture and religion, and speak the same language?" As these questions are not easy, I had to scratch my head many times to come up with a believable response. Regrettably, I never found a convincing answer an ordinary American could understand. However, these tough questions forced me to be more curious and I started asking myself, "why have my people all of a sudden become so violent?" This self-debate has encouraged me to look beyond the civil war as I started investigating other possible factors contributing to the violence. The first suspect factor has become the role of Somali culture. Many Western authors of Somali history and anthropologists have reported that Somalis are the only African ethnic group that is very much homogenous as everyone equally shares in the same language, culture, religion and values. They further maintain the wars among Somali clans were struggles over limited resources such as water and pastures. However, these Western historians and social anthropologists never looked into whether any other factors might contribute to the Somali violence. As a matter of fact, these European historical accounts helped lead to the common misconception about the subject, one I myself subscribed to in my teen years. Now that I have matured and traveled around the world, I am more convinced the issue of Somali Cultural Violence (SCV) runs much deeper than fighting over water or limited pastoral resources. One important aspect to consider regarding SCV is the role of the Quranic Schools (Madressa.) As an Islamic duty, every Somali child is enrolled in the Madressa between the ages of 5 and 6 or at least before going to regular school. The Madressa serves as a pre-school in many Somali Communities where traditional Western schools are limited or non-existent while functioning as the only education form in many rural communities where a student becomes a Sheikh (Islamic Educator.) I remember the first day at the age of six when my cousin took me to the Madressa. It was a small rundown building next to an aging Mosque, the only Mosque in the city at the time. The Ma’alin (teacher) of the Madressa was standing at the front of the building with a long stick in his right hand. My cousin and the Ma’alin greeted each other and had a short conversation. I could hear the loud voices of the kids reciting the Quran coming from the inside of the Madressa. At times, their voices sounded like busy bees gathering honey, while at others I would have guessed the kids were undergoing torture. Curious, I leaned forward to peek inside the Madressa to find out what was going on. In spite of the fact the place did not have a light, I was still able to see a bunch of kids sitting in rows and loudly reciting the Quran. After their conversation ended, my cousin and the teacher exchanged goodbye handshakes and my cousin left me right there. The teacher stared at me and told me to go inside the Madressa. When I did so, I could clearly see those kids reading the Quran who were now all starting to stare at me. A tall boy standing between the rows in the middle of the children held a long stick in his right hand, and when I took my first step forward, he started beating the kids, beginning from the right side and moving counterclockwise. The kids were shielding their loohs (a wooden stand used to write the Quranic alphabets) from the stick. I was traumatized to see what was happening to the children. The boy with the stick came up to me and pointed me to an empty spot, saying, "sit down there" with a deep voice. The empty stop was the end corner of a row. He immediately handed me a small looh which had (prewritten) Arab Alphabets on it and said "read…say: Alef, Ba Ta…" Now I recognized him as the Kabir, the most senior and knowledgeable in memorizing the holy Quran. In most cases, to become a Kabir you had to know the entire Quran by heart. The Kabir also relieves the teacher and has full authority to discipline all the children under his command. My heart began to thump painfully with fear as I began to shake. I could not comprehend why the kids were being beaten for no discernible cause. My eyes started rolling sideways and I immediately began thinking of running away. While I entertained this thought, I heard the sound of the stick followed by an excruciating pain in my left shoulder. I felt part of my skin had been ripped off. When the Kabir saw me crying, he came back and commanded me to "stand up and turn around." After I got up, he started whipping me. "Nobody cries here," he told me. It was an absolute shock to me. Why were they beating me up before I had even learned anything? The Kabir once again came around and started hitting kids indiscriminately, shouting "read, read, read the Quran." As he was doing when I first came in, he started his beating from the right corner and moved counterclockwise. As he got closer and closer to me, my heart was thumping so much I felt it would jump out of my chest. When he hit the boy next to me with his long stick, I leaped up and ran away. "Get him, get him!" I could hear the Kabir in the background. I looked back and saw four big boys chasing me, one of them just a few feet away. I tried to outrun them, but they were very experienced and much stronger than me. I had no illusion I could evade capture. After chasing me for a good 15 minutes in the narrow alleys of the city, one of them finally caught me by the neck and they carried me like a bag of rice back to the Madressa. I was screaming and begging for mercy, saying over and over, "Please leave me alone, please let me go." But although they heard my pleas, they didn’t give a damn. The teacher and the Kabir were waiting for me outside. "Karbaasha," the teacher said, meaning "whip him up." The four boys held my legs and arms up forcing me to lie facedown while the teacher started pounding me with his long stick. It was an agonizing pain, which still lingers in my mind. After the teacher tired of beating me, he asked the Kabir to relieve him and continue the beating, then asked him to put me back in the Madressa. No one explained to me what crime I had committed, but I had learned my lesson, and that was end of my crying. From now on I had to swallow my pain. Yet the question of "why" remained in my mind for many years to come. In the end, it has become clear to me such beatings are part of the Somali culture of teaching that continues as long as a child is part of the Madressa program. In Somali society, if kids "misbehave" at the Madressa, not only does the teacher have full authority to physically discipline them, but they can also report to their parents who will eventually whip them as well. In Mogadishu where I spent most of my younger years, parents used to give teachers one simple guideline, "the body is yours and the soul is mine," which means you can discipline the child with no limitation, but don’t beat him/her to death! It is every Somali family’s pride to see their child memorize the entire Quran, but I disappointed mine because I never memorized a quarter of it. The trauma and the humiliation I experienced in my first day of the Madressa also made me dislike most of the Somali teachers. The physical punishment of children does not end at the Madressa, but unfortunately continues from first grade to high school. Before the Somali nation’s disintegration, almost 99.99% of Somali schools were public ones where all teachers were underpaid, badly trained, and never showed any alternative of disciplining students other than corporal punishment. We have to also remember these teachers themselves had also experienced the same cruelty from their former teachers, which is the reason they took out their pain on innocent children. The physical punishment of school children is not even confined to traditional whipping, slapping, kicking or punching, as during General Mohamed Siyad Barre’s regime (1969-1991) it became more sophisticated and much more malicious. After General Barre came to power in October 1969, he adopted the former Soviet Union’s socialism doctrine and mobilized much of the society to be part of the socialist propaganda machine. During this campaign, many citizens including, teachers, doctors, students, civil employees and soldiers were sent to the indoctrination camps such as Halane, Eil Jallle and Hill Weyne. Those who got lucky or had government connections were sent to the Soviet Union or other nations of the former Soviet Block. The trainers of these notorious camps were predominately cadets who came from the former Soviet Block. These cadets had learned many sophisticated techniques of torture and brutality and later taught their subjects (the trainees) how to master the cruelest and most vicious practices. As participants in the group, Somali teachers also learned from these camps a far more sophisticated level of torture and punishment. These punishments included standing barefooted on a concrete slab in over 100º F temperatures. I remember having to stay home after the concrete slab burned both my feet. I could hardly go to the toilet let alone school. You may wonder how the hell these teachers got away with such criminal actions, but I’m telling you my family was very pleased with them for disciplining me for "my bad behavior." Of all the other cruelties, the most popular and widely used punishment technique was the "Mig" as it was an easily manageable method of torture. The subject has to lie down on his/her belly on the ground with legs and hands being tied up behind his/her back. The subject then would resemble the shape of the "Mig" Soviet Fighter Jets Somalia once had. As there was no accountability or consequences for the perpetrators of torture, God knows how many victims had broken bones, nerve damage or even died from these inhumane practices. Yet for many years, the "Mig" style has become the most preferred trademark of torturers. SCV is not restricted only to children, but is commonly used against women, prisoners, domestic laborers, soldiers (particularly those who are in training) and anyone who has no protection from the dominant culture. The irony of SCV is its broad social acceptance including the huge indifference among the educated elite. As is true in many Third World countries, Somalia has never had enforceable domestic abuse laws that would protect the most vulnerable in its society. Instead, resolution of domestic violence issues is left within the clan system. Even though during the Barre’ regime clan influence diminished somewhat in urban areas, it continues up to now as the ultimate leading choice of social order and problem-solving. For example, if a man beats his child and the child consequently suffers severe harm, the clan elders who usually intervene in clan conflicts do not interfere because the issue is considered a domestic dispute, so there is no way the father would even be reprimanded. In other words, because the father is the ultimate authority of his household, there is no prescribed consequences or retribution against him regarding his actions. However, in the case of harm against his wife, the husband may face a considerable penalty, because without an appropriate retribution the woman’s clan, particularly her brothers and cousins may launch a retaliatory action that could cause an all-out war among rival clans. Thus to avert clashes with the woman’s clan, the elders of the man who caused the harm summon their man and often find him guilty, particularly if the wife suffers severe injures. The retribution against wife beaters is customarily a financial one as he is normally obligated to pay what Somalis call "Haal," which in the Somali language means something (in the Western sense) like monetary damages. No criminal provisions exist to prosecute these kinds of crimes. As most Somalis live in the countryside, the compensation can be paid in the form of livestock; based on the extent of the injury, the compensation could be a goat, a cow, a camel or more. In view of the fact the man and his wife continue to live together afterwards, the "Haal" may never become the woman’s own property. Thus we may call it only "a temporary satisfaction" on the woman’s part. Therefore the "Haal" system is a very unjust arrangement to satisfy a woman after her rights and dignity have been maliciously violated. It is also only a slap on the wrist in response to the man’s aggression, which can hardly be calculated or compensated for in units of farm animals. In the late 1980s I immigrated to the United States where for around ten years, I was part of the social work industry. During my tenure with this industry, I worked with many refugees and immigrants including Somali clients. One of most interesting and rewarding positions I held was a Family Counselor. In this particular position, I interacted with very diverse populations including women, children, men and the elderly. Even though it was not one of my job descriptions as such, I often counseled Somali parents on how to discipline their children without employing physical punishment. Prior to their coming to the United States, the only means of discipline these parents knew were the commonly used physical punishments in Somalia. Some of these parents became bewildered when I explained that beating children is against American laws. After learning about these laws, some of the parents felt helpless. Because they had never known any other alternative, they felt their rights to control their children had been taken away. Although I have tried to persuade Somali parents that other means of child discipline methods exist such as grounding, taking away privileges, etc., many of them have become unimpressed with this American version of child discipline. Strangely enough, many parents contend they know better how to discipline their children, and that emulating "the failed American system" is not worthy. Ironically, some of the Somali parents convinced themselves they are morally superior to the American parents "who failed to raise their kids in the right way." Some of these parents further wished to have the opportunity to raise these undisciplined American kids. For the most part, in this particular experience with Somali families, I realize that none of them seem to understand the negative side of physical punishment. I view this conviction of Somali parents as being profoundly dangerous and harmful to future generations. Take the example of a Somali boy subjected to inhumane treatment, or who simply witnesses brutality against someone else. When this boy grows up, what is his outlook on the real world? What kind of man will he be? One day this man will follow Somali tradition by marrying and having his own family. Based on his childhood experience, how will this man treat his wife, children and other people under his authority? Generally speaking, we can safely say there is high probability this man will follow in the footsteps of his father and become another abuser. In some cultures including that of Somalis, one may accept the future emotional and behavioral consequences to a child who is physically abused, but may not comprehend how it will have any future consequences when a child merely witnesses violence against someone else. Yet in fact, there are many undeniable scientific studies available in the developed countries that relate to how seeing violence impacts ordinary people. Some of these materials focus on refugees and immigrants who have been through civil war situations and subjected to violence or witnessed violence against someone. During Barre’s regime, many people were executed for political motivations. A few days before the public execution, particularly if it was a summary execution, the government used to utilize its propaganda via the media and make the event public so that people could be witnesses. Besides public announcements encouraging everyone to attend, many people were also forced to come and witness the work of the firing squad to take with them an important lesson. The most memorable execution that I will never understand was the execution of ten religious men on January 23, 1975. Several young boys and I heard the announcement and thought it would be kind of exciting to see the firing squad. We had never witnessed any death let alone a public execution. Therefore we walked miles to see this interesting event that our government so heavily advertised. We never questioned the government’s intent or the suffering of these innocent men who would die a horrifying and unimaginable death. The victims and their executioners were brought in with a number of police or military trucks. The victims were wearing white clothes with all of them having some kind of black hood over their heads. These men were quickly tied to the firing squad posts while the soldiers formed two rows of lines facing them. The first row started kneeling down pointing their guns toward the victims. An officer who was standing in a corner ordered them to get ready and prepare for firing. As I saw the imminent death before my eyes, my heart started bumping fast and I became numb as all my excitement vanished. Although many people were watching the execution, I didn’t hear even a whisper; it was so quiet you would think nobody was there. "Fire," the officer yelled, and the brash sound of the bullets followed. He continued ordering until he thought everybody had died. We could the see the blood and the bullet holes in the victims. It was a horrific situation for a child to witness. One of the victim’s tied robe got loosened and his head started dangling. The assigned medical doctor checked the guy and said, "he is still alive," so the officer walked up to the victim and shot him in the head. When all the men were pronounced dead and loaded into the mortuary truck, the spectators walked away quietly. It was an appalling situation and I was so disgusted about even being there. This incident taught me that human beings can be vicious animals and that the hideous actions of adults may immensely influence children’s behavior and personality. I thank God for sparing me from becoming a violent felon.The thesis of my argument is not to make a blanket accusation against my culture or my people, but it bothers me when I see many educated Somalis who are indifferent or completely in denial about these stories and many others that have never been told. To feel out how the Somali elites see these issues, one day I initiated a discussion on the subject with two Somali men. After a long heated debate, one of them posed this question: "what is wrong in how we discipline our children? Unlike Americans, you can see how our kids respect their parents. I think you are influenced by the American culture, so you’ve completely changed." He conclude. The other guy jumped in and said, "I heard you say children can be sanctioned without physical punishment, but you are out of touch with the reality. In Somalia, there are no toys, Game Boys, or anything you can take away from the children. Therefore you can’t compare American and European kids whom you can control through material goods with the Somali children. The only option you have with Somali children is to discipline them—and it works."As with all the debates I previously had with other Somali men, this discussion didn’t produce any fruits, or shall we say, we all failed to persuade each other about our opposing ideas. Whatever the circumstance, I sincerely believe many educated Somalis are determined to circumvent the fact the root cause of Somali violence stems from the culturally accepted domestic violence. The important question is why these men are in denial that these abuses exist or ignore the societal consequence these crimes will have on many generations if not restricted or totally prohibited.As a matter of fact, within the Somali society, the most enjoyable social debate is politics. Anything other than politics, particularly regarding sensitive social issues, are considered highly contentious and avoided for serious discussion. Some of these social issues include child and spousal abuse and female circumcision, or as they call it in the west Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). These issues have become social taboo so no one dares to speak about them. In the case of female circumcision, there were a few Somali women who dared to speak about the cruelty of the FGM, but those women often faced a rush of accusations. Consequently, those women were labeled as feminists, pro-Western, anti-Islam, traitors and any bad name you can imagine.The nastiest story about SCV I ever heard was about a man we’ll call Gedi. After getting married as a young man, Mr. Gedi told his young bride that he wanted his first baby to be a boy. Whatever the reason, Mr. Gedi believed his wife had the capability to conceive the gender of baby he wanted. When she became a pregnant with her first baby, it was not Mr. Gedi’s wish, as she gave birth to a baby girl. Mr. Gedi was not happy about the outcome and their relationship became unpleasant. To make things worse, his wife had another two girls consecutively. According to the one telling me the story, Mr. Gedi became so enraged and he started beating up his wife almost every day until she finally had a baby boy! As maintained by the narrator, everybody in the neighborhood knew about the situation, but nobody ever intervened.Now we can see both why Somali men as the dominant power in society either stay quiet or oppose any discussion on the subject. In point of fact, I’m not suggesting all Somali men are inherently violent, but many of them are, and the Somali culture unfortunately condones their iniquitous behavior. Besides the worries I have about the Somali children who continue to be physically abused by their parents, guardians, teachers, or whoever has authority over them, I’m equally concerned about the magnitude of culturally accepted violence within the Somali society. On the other hand, I’m not entirely pessimistic about the future of Somali men and the way they will treat their children, wives, and those under their authority. My optimism is based on a historical perspective, as there was a time before Islam came to the Arabian Desert when Arabs used to bury their daughters alive. At that time, it was a shame to have a girl; therefore it was common understanding among Arab nomads that they could dispose of their daughters this way. I’m sure that although this wicked idea of murdering young girls was widely held in the Arabian Peninsula, people massively reformed when they accepted Islam as their religion and complied with its prohibitions against killing young girls. The moral of this story is that although no father would enjoy murdering his little baby, it is very evident that because of cultural and societal pressures, man can become the worst monster ever created by God, but when enlightened, a man can become the most productive and valuable among all God’s species. Without a doubt, if Arabs could change when God commanded them not to kill their daughters, any human being can change for the better; and the same is true for the Somalis.As a result of the persistent and continued civil war, many Somalis immigrated to Western Europe and North American to seek asylum or were resettled as refugees. This mass immigration had a positive impact on how Somali parents behave; particularly the way Somali men treat their children and wives. Because Somali men were subjected to foreign laws that took away their ability to abuse, although some became delusional and ended up in mental hospitals, many of them became law-abiding citizens of their adopted countries. In addition, as many Somalis travel between their adopted countries and their original homeland, their travel has a positive impact on how the local Somalis treat their children. There is also is a growing realization among new generations that the physical abuses of children, women and the weak are considered barbaric practices so that those who still subscribe to these shameful ideas will soon become the minority.As this new trend of social change continues, I’m very optimistic that many Somali men will also realize the irreversible harm they have caused to their children and those over whom they have real or apparent authority. I’m also confident these men will also one day recognize the psychological impact of the cruelty to children and the weak and will hopefully become a part of the greater movement to eliminate these crimes. Today as Somali people strive toward a greater peace and stability, that peace has to begin in the family, in the Madressa, in the schools, among the leaders, and finally with the entire society. Cultural violence must not be treated only as hostilities between clan warriors, but as where society in general stands on common violent behaviors. Therefore, as Somali men we have a moral obligation to raise our voices, to defend those who cannot defend themselves, and to adopt a holistic nonviolence culture. This is the only way we can prevent future full-scale violence and raise non-violent generations. By Faah M. Mohamed Virginia USA. Email: qurbaawi@gmail.com http://batulo.blogspot.com

Waxaa maanta soo gaadhay xarunta Gobolka Sool ee Laascaanood hay’ada miinada Somaliland uqaabilsan oo fadhigeedu yahay magaalada Hargeisa ee xarunta maamulka Somaliland hay’adan oo utimi Gobolka warbixino ku saabsan khatar badan oo miino taal Gobolka ay ku haso taas oo ay doonayso inta ay joogto inay soo af jarto. Hay’adan ayaa waxaa soo dhaweeyay qaabilayna Gudoomiye kuxigeenka Gobolka Sool Maxamed Faarax Indho Buur oo kusoo wareejiyay wafdidii hay’ada miinada Somaliland dhamaanba magalaada Laascaanood iyo xarumaha ay warbixinta ku hayeen ee ay ka buuxday miino iyo qaybo kale oo ka kamid ah walxaha qarxa. Hadaba Gudoomiye kuxigeenka Somaliland,Siyaasiga ku sugan Gobolka Sool ee Xaabsade iyo masuuliyiin kala duwan ayaa waxa ay tageen xarun ay ka buuxdo walxaha qarxa oo tan iyo intii ay burburtay Dawladii dhexe ee Somalia yaalay halkaasi iyadoo ay ka tageen walxahaasi Gaasaskii ciidanka ahaa ee daganaan jiray Gobolka. Hadaba meeshan oo muddada intaa leg uu ilaalin jiray mid kamid ah saarkiishii hore ee Somalia kana tirsanaan jiray Gaaskii dhanka Galbeed ee magaalada deganaan jiray khibrad gaar ahna ulahaa walxahaasi ayaa waxa uu war bixin naga siiyay sida ay khartarta ugu hayeen shacabka iyo waxa kasoo maray taasoo oo uu ku sheegay inay khatar aan la koobi karin ku hayeen umada taas oo isaga wal wal gaar ah ku haysay ayna maamulkii hadda baneeyay Gobolka in badan u bandhigay waxna aan ka qaban. Wafdidan miinada oo uu hogaaminayay Taliyaha qaybta miinada Police-ka Somaliland uqaabilsan Cumar C/laahi Qaasaali ayaa waxaa sidoo kale Gobolka kusoo dhaweeyay Hay’ada SMAC oo ah hay’ad miinada ku shaqo leh fadhigeeduna yahay Laascaanood uuna madax u yahay Faarax Cabdi Yare. Mar aan wax ka waydiinay Taliye Qaasaali sida uu u arko goobtan ay ka buuxdo waxyaalaha qarxa sida xabada BMka,Hoobiyayaal,anti taanfgiyo iyo waxaala kale oo qarxa kuna taal bartamaha magaalada ayaa waxa uu sheegay in dadka reer Laascaanood ay aad unasiib wanaagsanyihiin marka loo eego waxa dhex yaala iyo sida ay khatarta ulee yihiin ayna si dagdag ah uga gurayaan miinadan maanta ilaa barri iyadoo maalinta barri ah la qarxi deoono laguna qarxin doono duleedka magaalada waxaana uu intaasi ku daray isagoo la hadlaya shacabka reer Laascaanood inuu aad uga xun yahay maamulkii soo maray Gobolka oo aan waxba kaqaban hawalahi ayna dadku hadda ogaadaan cidda wax uqaanaysa iyo kuwa kale.

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Hargeysa (SN)- Wasiirka Dhaqanka iyo dalxiiska Somaliland, Md C/Risaaq Waabari Rooble, ayaa shalay xafiiskiisa ku qaabilay saraakiil ka socday safaarada Faransiiska ee dalka Jabuuti, oo socdaal dalka ku yimid una socda sidii loo horumarin lahaa asaarta qadiimiga ah ee Somaliland. Weftigaasi oo ka kooban sadex xubnood oo uu hogaaminayay Xoghayaha kowaad ee safaarada France ee wadanka Jabuuti,Mr Thiery Choinier, madaxa dhaqanka u qaabilsan saraafaradaasi Mr Dominique iyo Agaasimaha Xarun Dhaqan iyo Carwo Faransiisku ku leeyahay jabuuti, waxana ay masuuliyiinta wasaarada dhaqanka ay ka wada hadleen sidii loo meel marin lahaa heshiis ku wajahan asaarta qadiimiga ah ee dalka oo ay wada galeen dawlada France. By: Somaliland Nation/ Hargeysa

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Clinton Steps Up Attacks on Obama Plagiarism, Financing Accusations Come on Eve of Wisconsin Primary Aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) accused Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) yesterday of plagiarizing portions of a recent speech and continued to question his vows to reform the campaign finance system as Clinton sought to drive home the idea that her Democratic rival's presidential bid is built on style more than substance. This Story Clinton Steps Up Attacks on Obama Interactive: Primaries and Caucuses Tuesday, Feb. 19 at noon ET: Election 2008: Previewing the Wisconsin Primaries The Trail: Use Patrick's Words? 'Yes We Can' Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. ET: Post Politics Hour View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story The two-pronged attack came as Clinton attempts to slow Obama's momentum in today's contests in Wisconsin, which neighbors his home state of Illinois, and in Hawaii, where he was born. The race in Wisconsin, where Clinton dug in over the weekend in an effort to break a string of eight straight primary and caucus defeats, has turned increasingly negative. Just days ago, Clinton aides accused Obama of breaking his pledge to accept public financing in place of private donations during the general election. Obama's aides say he did not make a firm commitment to accept public financing if he won the nomination. Yesterday, key Clinton supporters accused Obama of "lifting" a passage of the rousing speech he delivered to a party gathering in Milwaukee on Saturday night from Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick, a longtime friend and supporter. Side-by-side YouTube videos distributed to reporters by the Clinton campaign show Obama repeating, almost verbatim, lines from a speech Patrick gave two years earlier. "The point we're making overall is that Senator Obama's record as a senator and as a public official is thin," said Howard Wolfson, a senior Clinton adviser. "If you're asking an electorate to judge you on your promises and you break them, and on your rhetoric and you lift it, there are fundamental problems with your campaign." Answering a reporter's question in Niles, Ohio, Obama said he does not think using Patrick's words was "too big a deal." "Well, look, I was on the stump. He had suggested we use these lines. I thought they were good lines," Obama said when asked why he did not credit Patrick. "I'm sure I should have. Didn't this time." Obama returned to Wolfson's assertion while speaking with reporters on his campaign plane: "The notion that using a line from one of my national campaign co-chairs . . . is somehow objectionable, somehow doesn't make sense." Obama's aides also called Clinton's criticism of his public financing plans "curious." They noted that she was the first candidate in the 2008 field to announce plans to reject the public financing system, saying more than a year ago that she would try to use private contributions to finance a general election bid if she were the party's nominee. "We're just not going to be lectured on this," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Obama first raised the notion of accepting public funds in the general election a year ago, when he sought a ruling from the Federal Election Commission that would preserve that option for him. He said then that if the GOP nominee entered the system -- in which the candidate accepts $85 million to fund a general election campaign and agrees to raise no other money -- he would also enter it. Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who is moving ever closer to accumulating the delegates he need for the GOP nomination, reaffirmed last week that he would be willing to accept that deal and urged Obama to "keep his word" on the issue. READ MORE

(Dubai17/02/2008) Madaxweynaha Somaliland mudane Daahir Rayaale Kaahin iyo wefti uu hogaaminayo ayaa xalay 2:30 habeenimo soo gaadhay magaalada Dubai, isaga oo isla markiibana u gudbay caasimadda UAE ee Abu-Dhabi. Madaxweyne Rayaale iyo weftigiisa ayaa la dejiyey Hotelka Intercontinental ee Abu-Dhabi waxana la filayaa in ay caawa is arkaan mas'uulyiin ka tirsan xukuumada imaaraadka. Madaxweyne Rayaale iyo waftigiisa oo hore u soo maray dalka Ethiopia ayaa la filayaa in ay uga sii gudbaan UAE dalalka Qatar iyo Kuweyt. Madaxweyne Rayaale iyo wefti uu hogaaminayo ayaa ka soo duulay garoonka diyaaradaha ee cigaal international airport ee Hargeysa 16/02/08 iyagoo booqasho ku tegaya dalka khaliijka. Weftigan ayaa la sheegayaa inay ku beeganayahiin dalka Qatar maalinta arbacada ah ee 20ka February 2008. Dadka siyaasada odorosa ayaa dareeno kala gedisan ka bixiyey socdaalkan aan hore loo sii shaacin ee uu madaxweyne Rayaale ugu baxay isagoo mudo bil ka yar uun dalka ku sugnaa markii uu ka soo laabtay booqashooyinkiisii uu horaantii sanadkan ku tegay dalalka UK iyo USA. Booqashadan uu ku tegay madaxweynahu gobolka khaliijka waa markii u horeysay ee madaxweyne Somaliland ah uu tago dhulkaas khaliijka, iyadoo la saadaalinayo inuu kulano gaara la yeesho madaxweynayaasha dalalka Qatar, UAE iyo Kuwait. Dhinaca Qatar ayaa la sheegayaa waxyaabaha lagaga wadahalidoonana inay tahay sidii ay Qatar u taageerilahayd qadiyada Somaliland miiskana u soo saarilahayd shirka jaamacada carabta. Dareeno kalana waxa ay muujinayaan iyadoo ay horey Qatar ugu dhawaaqaday badhatamahii sanadkii la soo dhaafay inay dalkeed ku qabanadoonto shir weyne balaadhan oo somalida lagu heshiisiindoono, casuumadan madaxweynaha lagu soo casuumayna tahay, in Somaliland la weedyiiyo siday suurtogal u tahay inay shirkaas ka soo qaybgalaan, dhinaca kalana booqashadan ayaa ku soo beegantay xili ay qaahira ku suganyahiin oo la iskugu keenay kooxaha la baxay kooxda Asmara ee dibu xoreynta Somaliya. Dhinaca dareeno kale oo kuwaas ka soo horjeeda ayaa sheegaya in booqashadani ku timid xidhiidh dowlada maraynkanku la samaysay Qatar oo ay saaxiib dhowyahiin, somalilandna ay kula talisay Jendayi Frazer fariin garaarana u siday madaxweyne Rayaale inuu si dhakhso ah u bilaabo booqasho uu ku tago dalalka khaliijka, Qatar iyo UAE, kana dhexbilaabo ololaha gooni iskutaaga Somaliland dalalka jaamacada carabta sida midowga Afrika oo ay meel fiican ka marayso qadiyada Somaliland. Dareeno kalana waxa ay sheegayaan inay booqashadani tahay tu ay kula kulmayaan shirkado waaweeyn oo maraykan ah oo shidaalka ka soo saara dalalka carabta oo ay horkacayso shirkado la sheegay inuu saamiweyn ku leeyahay Madaxweyne ku xigeenka Maraykanku Dick Cheney. Iyadoo horey loo sheegay inuu Madaxweyne ku xigeenku soo jeediyay in la aqoonsado Somaliland intaan la gaadhin xagaagan soo socda. Weftiga Madaxweynaha waxa ku wehilaya, Wasiirka Arimaha dibada, Cabdilahi Maxamed Ducaale, Wasiirka Howlaha Guud Siciid Sulub Maxamed, Wasiirka Madaxtooyada Nuux Amiin Ismaaciil iyo Xoghaynta Madaxwenaha Dahir Cali Iid. Waxaan doorkan la socon Marwada Madaxweynaha maadma aan madaxda carabtu kaxaysan dumarkooda markay booqoshooyinka u baxayaan sida madaxda reer galbeedka oo kale. Dhinaca kale dalka kosofo oo ka go,ay dhulweynahii la isku odhanjiray Serbia ayaa maanta Axad 17/2/08 saacada geeska afriki markay tahay 5 galbnimo ku dhawaaqaya gooni isutaagii ay mudada dhawr iyo tobanka sano ah sugayeen, dalalka Maraykanka iyo Ingiriiska ayaa iyagu sheegay inay isla markiiba aqoonsandoonan dalkan cusub ee dunida ku soo biiray, iyadoo labadan dal ee uk iyo usa la filayo inay aqoonsiga kosofo ku dhawaaqaan maalintaa isniinta ah ee 18ka February 2008. Iyadoo midowga yurub iyo qaramada midoobayna la filayo inay si dhakhso ah u aqoonsandoonaan xornimada dalka Kosofo. Dhinaca kale dalalka Serbia iyo Ruushka ayaa iyagu ku dhawaaqay inaanay weligood aqoonsandoonin gooni isutaaga Kosofo. Dadweynaha somaliland iyo taageerayashood ayaa indho gaara ku eegaya aqoonsiga Kosofo oo ay somaliland isku maqaam ahaayeen oo dhib ta somaliland oo kale ah ay soo martay sida, xasuuq, ragga oo inta la ururiyo wadarwadar loo laayey, diyaarado lagu bom gareeyo, baabiinta magaalooyinka waayeeyn & baro kicin. SDWO News Desk - Hargeisa iyo Abdirashid A. Hassan Dubai, UAE

HAVANA - An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday. "I will not aspire to nor accept — I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief," read a letter signed by Castro published early Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. The announcement effectively ends the rule of the 81-year-old Castro after almost 50 years, positioning his 76-year-old brother Raul for permanent succession to the presidency. Fidel Castro temporarily ceded his powers to his brother on July 31, 2006, when he announced that he had undergone intestinal surgery. Since then, the elder Castro has not been seen in public, appearing only sporadically in official photographs and videotapes and publishing dense essays about mostly international themes as his younger brother has consolidated his rule. A new National Assembly was elected in January, and will meet for the first time Sunday to pick the governing Council of State, including the presidency that Fidel Castro has held for decades. There had been wide speculation about whether he would continue in that role. "My wishes have always been to discharge my duties to my last breath. That's all I can offer," Castro wrote. But, he continued, "it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer. This I say devoid of all drama." Castro said Cuban officials had wanted him to remain in power after his surgery. "It was an uncomfortable situation for me vis-a-vis an adversary that had done everything possible to get rid of me, and I felt reluctant to comply," he said in a reference to the United States. President Bush was notified of the news about Castro by his national security adviser while traveling in Africa on Tuesday. He was expected to get a fuller briefing on the situation later in the day, said Bush spokesman Gordon Johndroe. Castro's resignation opens the path for Raul's succession to the presidency, and the full autonomy he has lacked in leading a caretaker government. The younger Castro has raised expectations among Cubans for modest economic and other reforms, stating last year that the country requires unspecified "structural changes" and acknowledging that government wages that average about $19 a month do not satisfy basic needs. Castro rose to power on New Year's Day 1959 and reshaped Cuba into a communist state 90 miles from U.S. shores. The fiery guerrilla leader survived assassination attempts, a CIA-backed invasion and a missile crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Ten U.S. administrations tried to topple him, most famously in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. His ironclad rule ensured Cuba remained communist long after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Monarchs excepted, Castro was the world's longest ruling head of state. "The adversary to be defeated is extremely strong," Castro wrote Tuesday, referring to the United States. "However, we have been able to keep it at bay for half a century." Raul Castro had long been his brother's designated successor. The longtime defense minister had been in his brother's rebel movements since 1953 and spent decades as No. 2 in Cuba's power structure. The United States, bent on ensuring neither brother is in power, built a detailed plan in 2005 for American assistance to ensure a democratic transition on the island of 11.2 million people after Fidel Castro's death. But Cuban officials insisted there would be no transition, saying the island's socialist political and economic systems would outlive Castro. Castro's supporters admired his ability to provide a high level of health care and education for citizens while remaining fully independent of the United States. His detractors called him a dictator whose totalitarian government systematically denied individual freedoms and civil liberties such as speech, movement and assembly. The United States was the first country to recognize Castro after his guerrilla movement drove out then-President Fulgencio Batista in 1959. But the two countries soon clashed over Castro's increasingly radical path. Castro seized American property and businesses and invited Soviet aid. On April 16, 1961, Castro declared his revolution to be socialist. A day later, he defeated the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. The United States squeezed Cuba's economy and the CIA plotted to kill Castro. Undaunted, the Cuban president supplied troops and support to revolutionaries in Africa and Latin America. Hostility over Cuba reached its peak on Oct. 22, 1962, when President Kennedy announced there were Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. After a tense week of diplomacy, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev pulled out the weapons. With the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, Castro eventually made peace with many governments that once shunned him. Pope John Paul II visited the island in January 1998. The loss of Soviet aid plunged Cuba into financial crisis, but the economy slowly recovered in the late 1990s with a tourism boom. Castro later reasserted control over the economy, stifling the limited free enterprise tolerated during more difficult times. Fidel Castro Ruz was born in eastern Cuba, where his Spanish immigrant father ran a prosperous plantation. His official birthday is Aug. 13, 1926, although some say he was born a year later. He attended Roman Catholic schools and the University of Havana, where he received law and social science degrees. Castro launched his revolutionary battle as a young man, organizing an unsuccessful July 26, 1953 attack on a military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. Later freed under a pardon, Castro went to Mexico and organized a rebel army that returned to Cuba and rallied support in the Sierra Maestra mountains. His rebels took power when Batista was forced to flee. Entering Havana triumphantly, Castro declared: "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it." AP

MOGADISHU, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Four Somali policemen and three civilians have been killed by the heaviest fighting for weeks between government troops and suspected Islamist-led insurgents in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Tuesday. Residents said battles broke out on Monday evening around the sprawling Bakara Market, which the authorities say is a hotbed of rebel activity. Locals cowered in their homes as both sides exchanged artillery rounds and bursts of machine-gun fire. "I saw four dead men in police uniforms lying in the street," said one witness, Abdi Hassan. Another resident, Faiza Ahmed, said a government truck mounted with heavy weaponry burned nearby as masked gunmen armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades briefly manned a major junction abandoned by government forces. Witnesses said one stray mortar round killed an elderly man when it hit his home in an area next to the market. Dahir Mohamed Mohamud, deputy director of Mogadishu's Madina Hospital, said 11 people wounded in the fighting had been admitted and two of them had died in the emergency room. Violence has worsened in recent weeks in Somalia's coastal capital, where the interim government and its Ethiopian military allies face an insurgency by the remnants of a hardline sharia courts group they chased out of the city just over a year ago. Hundreds of under-equipped African Union peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi have been unable to quell the bloodshed. Government officials were not immediately available to comment on the latest fighting. Early on Tuesday, scores of Somali troops and police patrolled the Bakara area, searching pedestrians and vehicles for weapons. "A huge number of government forces were engaged in search operations inside the market," said market trader Mohamed Osman. "I wanted to open my shop but I couldn't because I was afraid I'd be caught in the middle of gunfire like yesterday." In separate violence in southern Somalia overnight, militiamen loyal to Mogadishu's ousted Islamic Courts group attacked Doble, a small town just across the border from Kenya. Ahmed Nur Dalab, chairman of the area's traditional elders council, said the heavily armed gunmen destroyed video halls and killed the owner of a movie and music rental shop.

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Hargeisa (SL Times): The 20th anniversary of the 20th February school children uprising was observed on Thursday. It was 21 years ago when thousands of high school students went to the streets in protest against the imprisonment of members of the UFFO group by the dictatorial regime of Siyad Barre. UFFO was a self-help group whose members were mainly university graduates. They were arrested by Siyad Barre’s secret police for embarking on a scheme for cleaning Hargeisa’s only public hospital. After they were charged with acts of subversion and belonging to an illegal organization, members of the UFFO group were brought to Hargeisa regional court to stand trial. As thousands of students gathered in front of the court chanting for the release of the group, the security forces fired live bullets into the crowd. 17 student demonstrators were killed and many others were wounded as demonstrations spread to engulf much of the town. Most of the UFFO group members received long-term imprisonment sentences. The last bunch of them were released in early 1989. Early Thursday morning a wreath was placed at a memorial for the students that were engaged in Dagaxtuur "Stone throwing." Later, the occasion was marked by speeches at Al-khayria Plaza. Among the key-note speakers were KULMIYE party’s presidential candidate, Ahmed Sillanyo, UFFO veteran leader Mohamed Mohamud Omer Hashi, SNM veteran Mohamed Kahin and Somaliland Vice-President, Ahmed Yusuf Yassin. Somaliland’s former first lady Kaltum H. Dahir had also made her first public appearance on Thursday since the death of her husband, late president Egal. Kaltum was one of the demonstrating students on that Feb 20th day of 1982.