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About DEEQA Founded in 1978, DEEQA is among the few companies that have operated in Somalia throughout the period of the civil war. We specialize in construction of roads, ports, airstrips, hospitals, irrigation systems and public buildings, as well as water-well drilling. Our work force, which fluctuates with projects, has reached as high as 10,000 people. DEEQA is the oldest and most reliable partner supporting a range of international aid organizations in Somalia. Food transport, including for the WFP, ADRA, ICRC, CARE and UNICEF has been a principal activity of DEEQA for the past twenty years.

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New York Times carried a front-page story on March 9 saying that a report is forthcoming from the UN Somalia Sanctions Committee alleging large-scale diversion of the UN World Food Program (WFP) humanitarian aid effort. An advance copy of the report was leaked to the Times by unknown parties perhaps seeking to build external support for the report prior to its official adoption by the UN Security Council. According to the Times, the Sanctions Committee report contains accusations that DEEQA, as a principal food-delivery contractor in the Somalia WFP, participated in the alleged diversion of aid. If such allegations directed toward DEEQA were ultimately to be published by the UN, we would respond immediately to the Sanctions Committee and to interested media. Were the contents of any report to reflect the characterization of DEEQA's activities as presented in the Times, we would of course respond that they were baseless and possibly fabricated. For now, we wish to inform the several news outlets which have sent inquiries to our company that, for the past three months, we have been in active dialogue with the Sanctions Committee investigators, known as the Somalia Monitoring Group (SMG), as well as with assigned UN legal staff, regarding their interest in DEEQA. Being aware that the relief effort in which we were a significant participant was under scrutiny, and having had firsthand experience with past iterations of the SMG that had, unfortunately, allowed flagrantly false and damaging hearsay to obtain the UN imprimatur in their reports, we voluntarily undertook to engage the investigators to ensure accuracy and fairness with respect to their examination of DEEQA. Our attentiveness to the process was intensified by the fact that leaks of official reports, much like the one to the Times, had been occurring in a manner that appeared to be designed to drive external opinion to accept a negative conclusion of the investigation as foregone. The process of engagement with the SMG was difficult and trying, even with the assistance of the international legal counsel we retained in Washington, DC as an extra measure of caution. Though the SMG's pursuits are not officially intended to be guided by conventional rules of due process, our experience showed the investigation to be, at least insofar as the engagement of our company was concerned, extremely opaque, unpredictable, and far from thorough. Investigators sometimes did not understand basic operations of the WFP. Despite our immediate, voluntary response to the SMG, it took nearly six weeks for us to extract any precise statement of the allegations the investigators had developed about DEEQA from third-party sources. Ironically, we were informed that we were receiving "more formal treatment" because we had brought lawyers into the equation. We learned that most information that the SMG uses is apparently derived from second- and third-hand statements from individuals living in a war-torn, chaotic environment, or at a remove in the cafes or on the streets of Nairobi, rendering it virtually impossible to test for reliability. We were surprised to learn that the SMG's formal protocols and procedures permit -- indeed, embrace -- reliance on such hearsay information. Nonetheless, we persevered and through exhaustive effort were able to comprehensively refute every allegation that the Monitoring Group placed before us. We did so through official documentation, written rebuttals, and oral arguments presented with the assistance of our U.S. attorneys. Now, with the release of the Times story, we fear that our labors may have been in vain. Indeed, the article leaves us deeply worried that this process may have gone seriously awry, perhaps for reasons that neither concern us directly nor are within our ability to fully grasp. We are aware of the WFP's negative reaction to both the reported contents of the SMG investigation and the unauthorized manner in which they were publicized. We have also learned that other officials, both within the UN and among a number of member governments, have expressed doubts about the integrity of this process. In that vein, DEEQA welcomes enthusiastically any independent UN or other third-party investigation of the Somalia WFP and will fully cooperate with the expectation of definitively eliminating any concerns about DEEQA. But for now, we feel compelled to bide our time and to ask interested press to do the same while we clarify the situation with respect to the anticipated Somalia Sanctions Committee report. Signed, Abdulkadir Nur

In an attempt to deal with a growing influx of migrants, authorities in Somalia’s autonomous region of Puntland are adopting new measures to stop people from undertaking the hazardous journey to Yemen, officials said. “The problem of migrants is not going away and the Puntland authorities, particularly in the Bari region [bosasso area], had to come up with a new strategy to deal with this problem,” said Mohamud Jama Muse, director of the Migration Response Centre (MRC) in the regional capital, Bosasso. MRC was created in April 2009, under the office of the Bari governor, to “register and provide counselling and assist” the migrants. Between April and December 2009, it registered 7,223 persons. “This number is smaller than the actual number,” Muse told IRIN on 1 March. “You have to understand, a lot of these people are not very trusting of authorities, so they never bother registering.” According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 78,487 Ethiopians and Somalis crossed into Yemen from Somalia and Djibouti in 2009, of whom 685 died. So far in 2010, 5,032 have crossed and four have died, said Roberta Russo, spokeswoman for UNHCR Somalia. Learning to fish Muse said the government had adopted a two-track approach. Apart from the MRC, security forces had cracked down on smugglers and closed the ports from which they operate. “With the help of IOM [international Organization for Migration] we started a pilot project with a local NGO, Red Sea Fishing Organization [RESFO], in skills training and income generation, for 100 migrants and locals to teach them skills to make a living,” he explained. The group is taught how to fish, process the catch, repair nets and keep books. “We are even teaching some of them to swim,” said Mohamed Said of RESFO. “The aim is to provide an alternative to boarding those boats [to Yemen].” The project aims to integrate the migrants into the community, said Ahmed Muse Mohamed, IOM officer-in-charge in Bosasso. “We want to create opportunities here for them so they don’t have to go on these dangerous journeys,” he added. Too weak to walk “By the time they reach us they have walked over 1,000km and are dehydrated and almost starving,” said Muse, and reports indicated some died on the way to Bosasso. Abdi, not his real name, came from Ethiopia four months ago. He walked 760km to reach Bosasso, with the aim of going to Yemen. He and six others had to avoid being stopped by security forces or attacked by bandits. “It is not a trip I would want to make again,” he said. “It was too difficult and dangerous. By the time I arrived I was so weak I could barely walk.” He has registered with MRC but has not started the training yet. Addis Tolosa, 30, an Ethiopian migrant who has been in Bosasso for a couple of years, went to Yemen but was intercepted by the Yemeni coastguard and returned to Bosasso. He is now being trained by RESFO. “I don’t have the means to go back [to Yemen] so I am now in this training to learn how to earn a living,” said. “As soon we finish the training I will get fishing gear and go to work.” Some locals, however, insisted they would still like to go to Yemen. Mohamed Hassan Shire, 23, from the coastal town of Kismayo, 2,000km south, arrived in Bosasso six months ago. He said he left out of fear he would be forcibly recruited into a militia. “I came here because I was not safe in Kismayo,” he said. “People I knew died trying to get there [Yemen]. I know also that what I am doing is like flipping a coin, but I will try it. I have no other option.” More help needed The former Puntland Bari Governor Muse Ghelle (replaced on 6 March) told IRIN he was determined to help the potential migrants. “With the very little resources we have we are trying but we need help,” he added. He called on the international community to increase its support to Puntland to help it deal with the growing influx of migrants. Puntland would not be able to cope on its own. “We need more meaningful help from the donor community,” he said. Muse of MRC said the migrants needed emergency food upon arrival, temporary shelter, a health centre and a reception centre to receive them. “Most of these people are economic migrants and when they come here they have exhausted what little they had, so it is important to at least have somewhere where they can get some help immediately.” Source: IRIN

The president of Somalia's western-backed transitional federal government Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed revealed that the Somali government will soon reopen its embassy in the UK capital London. Addressing to more than three thousand Somalis in London the president said that Britain's government accepted to help the reopening of the Somali embassy in UK after it has been closed for two decades. The Somali community members vehemently welcomed the president's remarks of the reopening of the Somali embassy in UK and had pledged their commitment to work with the Somali government. The president's announcement of the reopening of the Somali embassy in the UK comes weeks after Somali foreign minister Ali Jama Jengeli said that because of lack of funds Somalia will close more embassies in key western countries including that in France. President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed who has been in London for the past few days presented certificates of honor to the leaders of the Somali community in UK praising them for their role in helping Somalia get out of the long-running civil wars and anarchy. He said that the Somali government is in its final preparations for a big offensive against the Alqaeda-linked Militants to oust them out of Somalia. It is the first time for the Somali president to meet the Somali community in UK since his inauguration as the war-devastated country's president 14 months ago. Somalia has been without a functioning central government since warlord's toppled former military ruler the late General Mohamed Siyad Barre. Wars and famine have engulfed the lives of more than half a million Somalis, most of them civilians since then.

Good you retreated ,, finally ,,

"aabow gaslow kidifaar, aadamo ka weynaanaye, uunkana allihii noqonee, ma ilaah yar baan nahay"

djibsomali should they go to jabuutionline too ??

UCID is getting an increasing ground support. Good to see them working hard.

Muwaadin dhab ah ,,,, looooooooooooooool

Victory coz they attacked they villa ,,

Reminds me of the JNM ,, Stuff and Nonsense .......

down under wax kalaaban moodayay

Originally posted by Sikaawe: Originally posted by Jacaylbaro: [qb] we Somalilanders know that he hails from our arch enemy, a clan that we never forgive each other. Total crap ....... You think Somaliland is based on clan then ???

^ ^

It is 50 years ,, and yet all i see is not Somalinimo but more hatred ......

,,,,,,, Nice one ,,

he is going to protest ,,,

Somali government troops have made its initial advance into the rebel-held areas in the north of Mogadishu in a heavy fighting that left 37 more dead and injured 113, officials, witnesses said. Witnesses said government troops with the help of the African union have crossed into the insurgency-racked district Karan. Soldiers appear to have encountered lighter than expected resistance from the Alshabaab who were reported to have entrenched in the nearby areas and mined the roadways. ‘’ I have seen 18 dead Alshabaab fighters lying on one street and 5 government soldiers’’ Residents Fadumo Osman told Somalilandpress by phone from Karan. Soldiers seized Karan, Behani and the notorious Sana, where Alshabaab have conducted public executions, including beheadings, and have dumped the bodies of those who opposed their rule. The state Minster for the defense Yusuf Mohamed Siad said his troops have powerfully kicked the politically fractured militants. ‘’ Our troops have made tangible developments in the latest fighting’’ Indha Adde said. The military also launched an operation in Jardinka intersection and reportedly killed five millitant fighters. As the military moves into the north after almost hours of heavy fighting, the militants may have decided to conduct a tactical withdrawal of its forces, estimated at between 5,000 to 7,000 fighters. Hospital and ambulance sources said at least 37 people and injured 113 more, although the death toll may rise for the heavy shelling going on. Alshabaab’s control over many key regions across the country has left Somali government isolated from much of the country, causing visible panic. Residents have been queuing at streets and in markets as troops and military hardware stream towards the north. Belligerent factions in Mogadishu have been locked in a tense stand-off for weeks, amid expectations of an imminent offensive by the government and its African Union backers to wrest Somalia back from the insurgency.

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having lunch

U Don't even have to ask about it

KULMIYE