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  10. Posted

    The semiautonomous Somali state of Jubaland agreed Wednesday to ally itself with the national government, in a deal welcomed by Somalia’s internationally backed authorities, who have struggled to extend their reach far beyond the capital, Mogadishu, and are also fighting the Shabab militia. Jubaland, in southern Somalia and bordering Kenya, was one of several breakaway regions of the fractured nation.

     

    The agreement was signed after a week of negotiations in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, between Somalia’s state minister, Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, and the self-appointed leader of Jubaland, Ahmed Madobe. Mr. Madobe will remain in charge of Jubaland for a two-year transitional period, but he did agree to hand over control of the port and airport in the coastal city of Kismayo.

     

     

    New York Times

  12. Posted

    HIBF were looking for some missing books this morning ... one of the security cameras caught a not-so-clear image of someone stealing some books but it is hard to identify if it is Alpha or someone else. I looked at the photos and i recognized his height & hair but to further clear about it we asked some experts to install new computer program that can clarify the photos.

     

    At least 2 people said they lost their receipts after they purchased so many books. One of them said the receipt was stolen while trying to have coffee in front of the book-hall ...

     

    Someone said he saw a person (a male) putting some books on the ground and taking pictures but was not sure where he headed after that.

     

    Police, CID and Intelligence were all informed ............

     

     

    Alpha, you better run .... it is a friendly advise :D

  13. Posted

    Classified;974377 wrote:
    No Kacaan-era official, regardless of his/her clan background will ever be charged with war crimes because they simply have not done any crimes. When a rebel movement, funded by foreign enemy attacks the military barracks and cities of your country, the government of that country has the duty and right to defend itself and civilians against ANY rebels at all costs.

    The same reason that the Syrian regime is using chemical weapons against the civilians ... eh ?? SMH

  17. Posted

    Mudaan doon doonayee

    mirqaan goormaan noqdaa

    Markee lay odhanayaa

     

    markii aan dirir dhabiyo

    jigjiga iyo herer maree

    dhulkii madhabku u badnaa

    maqaam awliyo degee

    mugii baabuur cunaa

    mirqaan lay odhanayaa

     

    hadana maahaan is idhi

    wixii marba aan helee

    masruufkii ku qayilee

    murmee asaartamee

    garaabada aan mishee

    mar hore gabadh aan iqiiin Mudona

    mudona aanaan is arag

    maankaygu xasuusto'ee

    meel aan ku ogaa qabtee

    mutuhiyee raadiyee

    mishiinada guuxayiyo

    madaarka dameerihiyo

    codkeedii moodo'ee

    mirqaan lay odhanyaa

     

     

    .......................................... by Ismaaciil

  21. Posted

    A federal magistrate in Columbus has recommended that a former Somali colonel pay a human-rights activist he tortured in Somalia $15 million in damages.

     

    Human-rights supporters are hailing the judgment as historic.

     

    “It shows the United States will not be a safe haven for those who commit human-rights abuses,” Christina G. Hioureas, an attorney for Abukar Hassan Ahmed, said today.

     

    “It sends a message that those who commit these abuses will be held accountable.”

     

    U.S. District Judge George C. Smith found last year that Abdi Aden Magan, then a Columbus resident, had severely tortured Ahmed in the late 1980s. Magan was the National Security Service investigations chief under the military dictatorship of Mohamed Siad Barre at the time.

     

    Magistrate Mark R. Abel released his decision on damages today. Hioureas said it was unclear whether Magan would pay the judgment.

     

    In his 2010 civil lawsuit, Ahmed said Magan arrested him in 1988 in Somalia and held him handcuffed in a tiny cell for three months. Ahmed said he slept on the floor, urinated in a milk can and was fed two pieces of bread a day.

     

    Magan threatened to kill him and ordered officers to beat him, contort his body with cords, squeeze his genitals and pour a mixture of water, sand and stones into his mouth, according to testimony during an evidentiary hearing in May.

     

    “Magan said he was above the law, that he was the law,” Nushin Sarkarati, one of Ahmed’s attorneys, said at the hearing.

     

    She said the Magan case is the first court judgment holding a Somali National Security Service official liable for human-rights violations.

     

    Sarkarati said Ahmed, who now lives in England, was left with permanent physical injuries that made him unable to father children and with mental injuries that interrupt his sleep and generate flashbacks of his torture.

     

    She had asked Abel to order a substantial penalty as punishment and to deter others.

     

    “If you are black, you need justice,” Ahmed told the court during the May hearing. “If you are white, you need justice. If you are yellow, you need justice. So everybody needs justice. It is universal.

     

    “I don’t seek only my justice, but I seek justice for other people also, because I call them the silent victims of torture – in Somalia or in other countries.”

     

    Magan has moved to Kenya and has not participated in the lawsuit for more than a year. He could not be reached for comment. Ahmed is a legal adviser to the president of Somalia.

     

    Sarkarati is an attorney with the Center for Justice and Accountability, a San Francisco-based human-rights organization. The center, as well as Hioureas of Chadbourne & Parke in New York City and Kenneth R. Cookson of Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter in Columbus, represented Ahmed.

  24. Posted

    Scattered

    on the shoulders

    of the mountain of Laas Geel:

     

    boulders

    of a broken god,

    on her journey to the plains.

     

    Crevices of stone

    decant their

    poetry…

     

    hollowed

    by the elements,

    denuded by her foes,

     

    in hues of

    cows and kudu, she

    is painted by her sons,

     

    with hadhuubs

    of peace she is watered

    by her daughters

     

    till, from the grave

    of dead gods, great

    folk emerge

     

     

    By Chuma Nwokolo