31 August, 2008
TACSI MARXUUM FAYSAL XAAJI JAAMAC GEEDI
Annigoo ka wakiil ah Jaaliyadda Soomaliland ee Wales, waxaan tacsi u
dirayaa xaasaska, tafiirta, walaal iyo waalid, ehel, xigto iyo xigaal
iyo dhammaan Shacabiweynha Soomaliland, xukuumad, xisbiyo, Golayaasha
Sharci-dejinta iyo gaar ahaan hawlwadeenada Maxkamadda Sare, ee uu ka
geeriyooday Marxuum Faysal Xaaji Jaamac Geedi, Guddoomiyihii hore ee
Maxkamadda Sare. ILAAHAY naxariistii jano ha siiyee, Waxuu marxuumku
ku geeriyooday Hargeysa 21/08/08
dirayaa xaasaska, tafiirta, walaal iyo waalid, ehel, xigto iyo xigaal
iyo dhammaan Shacabiweynha Soomaliland, xukuumad, xisbiyo, Golayaasha
Sharci-dejinta iyo gaar ahaan hawlwadeenada Maxkamadda Sare, ee uu ka
geeriyooday Marxuum Faysal Xaaji Jaamac Geedi, Guddoomiyihii hore ee
Maxkamadda Sare. ILAAHAY naxariistii jano ha siiyee, Waxuu marxuumku
ku geeriyooday Hargeysa 21/08/08
Marxuum Faysal waxuu muddo dheer Soomaliya iyo Somalilandba ka soo
qabtay hawlo la xidhiidha maxkamadaha, ha ahaato Garyaqaanimo, Xeer
Ilaalin, iyo Xaakim ahaanba. Waxaana ugu dambeysay Guddoomiyonimada
Maxkamadda Sare ee Somaliland, oo uu xanuun dartii uga fadhiisatay.
Waxaan marxuumka, ILAAHAY uga baryayaa dambi dhaaf iyo inuu ka yeelo
kuwa dhaxla janatul fardows. Waxaanan leeyahay dhammaan shacbiga
Soomaliland gaar ahaan ehel iyo asxaabta marxuumka samir iyo iimaan.
INNAA LILAA WA INAA ILEYHI RAAJACUUN.
Axmed Carwo
Guddoomiye
Jaaliyadda Soomaliland ee Wales.
Cardiff
U.K
30 August, 2008
via Somaliland Patriots News Somalia and Somaliland News on 8/30/08
Madaxda Baanka Jumhuuriyadda Somaliland waxa ay soo xawileen, Markii ugu horeeysay lacag dhan US $ 10.000 doolar. Taas oo ahaayd labadii bilood ee u horeysay. Waxaana si caadi ah hadana loogu soo dirayay bil walba. Laakiin maxaa dhacay? Been abuur iyo xafiis wakiil JSL oo aan jirin Dalka Norwey.! By: M Abdi FaranShirweynahii Golaha Dhexe ee Kulmiye,
Qore Cabdiasiis Ahmed Mousa
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Shirweynahii Golaha Dhexe ee Kulmiye,
22 Bisha August ayaan u tagay Burco inaan War ka soo diro Shirweynaha Xisbiga Dimuqiraadiga ah ee Kulmiye Shirkiisa Golaha Dhexe ayaa bilaabmayey 23 ilaa 25 August 2008 ,
Waxaa aan tagay xarunta Dhexe ee kulmiye ee Hargeysa 21 August si aan u helo Marti-galinta Shirweynaha ee Qaybta Media-aha.waxa la ii sheegay in burco la geeyay agabkii lagu Samaynayey Cards-ka ka qayb-galayaasha shirka waxaan go'aansaday inaan goobtaasi tago si 22 august maalin ka hor xilliga loogu talo-galay Shirweynaha Xisbiga Kulmiye waxaan tagay Burco isla Maalintaa 22 August waxaan Ergooyinka Shirka mid walba uu iskii iskaga bixinayey kharashka hudheelka marka laga reebo qadada oo laga cunayey Goobta uu ku yaalo Hudheel-ka shirka lagu qabanayo oo la yidhaa City Plus kaas oo ku yaala Bariga magaaladda Burco..runtiina magaalada ama faras-magaalaha u jira 5 km ,
Maalintii koowaad Ee Shirka august 23 waxa furmi kari waayey shirka sababo lagu macneeyay ka maqnaashaha xubno ka tirsan Hogaanka sare ee xisbiga , hase ahaatee waxaan ogaanay in uu jiray Khilaaf xagga Qabanqaabada Shirka oo ka dhexeysay Hogaanka Sare ee Xisbiga iyo Tabasho Meelo badan ah oo Ay wadeen Gudoomiye ku xigeenka Xisbiga iyo Xoghayaha guud Guud ee Xisbigu ,
Markii la dhameeyay arrinkaas ee ay habeenkii soo galeen Xubnaha Hogaanka Sare ahaa ee Maqnaa Ayaa Habeenimadkii la galay Olole Balaadhan oo ku aadan loolanka Musharaxa Kursiga Madaxweyne Ku xigeen ee Xisbiga .Hogaamiyaha Xisbiga Ahmed Mohamed Siilaanyo oo u sharaxan Jagada madaxweyne iyo Ku xigeenkiisa Ninka uu u Calaamadiyay ayaa Diiradda Saaray hubinta ergooyinka ay haysteen ee hargeysa kala yimid, waxaana si gaar gaara ula kulmeen xubnahaasi ,Oday Siilaanyo waxa uu qol ka mida qololka Hotelka City plus ku qaabilayey kuwa uu ka baqayo in ay u codeyaan cid aanu la jeclayn mansab-ka Musharaxa Madaxweyne ku xigeen ee Xisbiga,.
Ergooyinka xaqa u leh codaynta ayaa iska mustafaysnaa ama il dhaqaale ka muuqatay , Kooxda kale ee wadatay Madaxweyne Kux xigeenkii hore Abdirahman aw Cali farax ayaa iyana kulmo joogta ah ku lahaa Hudheel Cigaal oo ku yaala Galbeedka Magaaladda ama afaafka hore ee burco laga soo galo waxa ka socoday halkaasi hubinta iyo ololaha xubnaha maqan soo jiidashadooda,
Sidoo kale Xubnaha taageera Ahmed Xaaji cali Cadami oo u badnaa Harti iyo xubno isaaqa oo reer sanaaga Ayaa iyana Hotel barwaaqo oo ku yaala Badhtanka magaaladda ku lahaa kulamo goosgoosa, waxa habeenkaa qolowlba isku qancisay in ay farsamooyin badan samayn doonan kolka uu bari si toosa u furmo shirweynahu,
waxa Diiradda Habeenkaa dhinacayada iska soo horjeedaa saareen Dastuurka xisbiga iyo xeer hoosaadka golaha dhexe, qolo walba waxa ay u aragtay in habka ay ku badan karaan ama ay farsamo ahaan u guulaysan karaan in ay tahay noocan
1-kooxda siilaanyo iyo abdiraxman Saylici taageersani waxa ay u arkeen in Xeer hoosaadka golaha dhexe gaar ahaan qodobka simply mojirty ay dan u tahay sidaana ay kaga guulaysan karaan kooxaha wata labada musharax ee kale cabdirahman aw cali farax iyo ahmed xaaji cali cadami ayna gacanta ku hayaan in ka bada 140 Xubnood oo golaha dhexe ka kooban marka la eego tirada rasmi u fadhida goobta oo ahayd 223 sida shir-gudoonku ii sheegen
2-kooxda ka soo horjeeda gaar ahaan cabdirahman aw cali musharaxa madaxweyne ku xigeen ayaa iyana diiradda ku haya habka ay ku guulaysan karaan in uu yahay absultly majority sidaa awgeed in wareega labaad ay heli karaan codod ay kaga guulaystaan saylici oo uu cadami ugu shubi karo codadka uu helo cabdirahman sidaana uu ku soo bixi karo Cabdirahman Aw cali,kooxdaasi waxa ay u arkeen in ay haystaa 108 xubnood inta kalana ay ka heli karaan ahmed xaaji cali cadami sidaana ay ku hanan karaan,
si kastaba ha ahaatee Furitaankii shirweynaha golaha dhexe ee Kulmiye 24 August waxa la buuxiyay hoolkii waxa ergooyinka shirka fadhiyay ka muuqatay colaad siyaasiya afka ayaa la iskugu hanjabayey..waxa gudida Qabanqaabada Shirweynaha Golaha Dhexe oo ay ugu cadcadaayeen Xuseen ahmed Caydiid , Maxamed Muuse abees,abdikariin Xinif ay Xaadiriyeen Xubnaha Ergooyinka Shirka jooga waxaana la hubiyay tirada Fadhida Shirka..waxa si caadiya loo doortay Shir-gudoonka Golaha Dhexe ee Gulmiye kaas oo lagu soo saaray short list sida uu kaga dhawaajiya goobta Gudoomiye ku xigeenka koowaad ee kulmiye Muse biixi cabdi ..waxaana goobta la soo taagay sadex nin oo kala ahaa gudoomiye,Jamac shabeel 2-gudoomiye ku xigeen Maxamed Jamac warfaa (wadka) 3-xoghaye Cabdirizaq Ciyaale ,, golaha dhexe way u codeyeen ragaasi in ay shirka gudoomiyaan marka laga Reebo Ragg dhowra oo ka soo horjeestay system-ka wax loo xulay, ragaas xubnaha shirgudoonka sida loo xulay udiidanaa waxa ugu cad cadaa Xildhibaan Cali yusuf oo u arkayey qalad sifada loo xulay ragga shirgudoonka loo xulay,
Doorashadda Shir-gudoonka shirka ka dib waxa uu gudoomiyaha shirweynaha golaha dhexe ee kulmiye Jamac shabeel ku dhawaaqay in xeer hoosaadka golaha dhexe la eegi doono sidoo kale la ansixin doono xubnaha bedalka ku soo galay Golaha Dhexe ee aan la ansixin iyo dastuurka xisbiga qodobada lagu darayo ee la soo jeediyaya,
Ugu horeyn waxa uu ku dhawaaqay gudoomiyaha shirku in laga doodo qodob ay 30 xubnood in ka badani soo jeediyeen oo ahaa in absultly mojertiy ama simply mojirty mid wax lagu doorto dood dheer iyo buuq waxa adkaatay in shirweynahu sii socodo waxa shir-gudoonku ku tiraabay waxaan ka baqaynaa qarax in uu ka dhaco shirka sidaa awgeed waan joojinay shirka waa inoo bari, 25 August 2008 ..waxa cidhiidhi gashaya Jadwalka Shirweynaha loo dajiyay oo sadex cisho ahaa waxaan waxba la qaban 2 cisho 25 august waa maalintii ugu danbeysay Shirweynaha waxa shirgudoonku la tashi ugu tagay celcelinta jadwalka gudida Qabanqaabada..waxa la iskugu soo ururiyay maalin kaliya ,,, waxa loo dareeray qado in yar ka dib waxa lagu balamay goobaha lagu kala qaato wararka iyo ololaha musharaxiinta ee Magaalada burco,
Gudoomiyaha Xisbiga ahna Musharax Madaxweyne ee Xisbiga Kulmiye Ahmed Maxamed siilaanyo iyo ninka Madaxweyne ku xigeenka u calaamadiyey Xiligaasi Cabdirahman Saylici waxa ay guda Galeen in ay xaqiijiyaan Himaladooda waxayna galeen Olole dhul iyo cir ah waxa hotel city plus isku badaly goob la is waydaarto ..farsamooyin badan oo ay wadeen kooxda Siilaanyo iyo salici waxa ay go'aamiyeen in aan mar kale dib loo dhigin shirweynaha oo arrinku u dhamaado sida jidwalku yahay ,
24 August habeenimadkeedii waxa bilaabmay Olole aan arko taariikhda somaliland kii ugu cuslaa warar laga soo tabiyay Kooxda Siilaanyo iyo saylici oo dhinaca kale ku doodayeen ayaa Sheegay in siilaanyo ku xila furay xubnaha golaha dhexe ee Xisbiga qaarkii inaanu Musharaxa madaxweyne u noqon doonij doonin xisbiga haddii la doorto nin aanu doonayna sidaasina ay tahay (waan ku dooranay Madaxweyne ee laakiin cunaha ayaanu ku haynaa)
Wararka Ergooyinku is Dhaafsanayaan ayaa ku macneeyay in uu sababo badan siilaanyo u arkay in uu u qalmo Musharaxnimadda Saylici waa kow
1-Cabdirahman Salici oo ka Dhashay Gudabuuursi gaar ahaan Beelaha Maxamed Case oo 7 xildhibaan ugu jiraan Baarlamanka keenayna xldhibaano taageersan xubno wasiiro ahaan jiray oo iska casilay taageersana saylic ay jirto ,sidoo kale saylici uu u muujiyay Siilaanyo Taageero la yaaba kolkii uu ka keenay beelaha maxamed Case Salaadiintooda iyo Odayaal badan oo talada Beelaha Maxamed Case ka go'do, Siilaanyo waxa uu la sii dhacay Sida firfircoon ee Cabdirahman Saylici uga Dhex Muuqdo Boorama ,Waxa xasuus Mudan ayuu yidhi xubin ka tirsan Golaha Dhexe ee kulmiye sida uu saylici badhtanka Boorama uu casuumadda ugu sameyay ragii xidhidhnaa ee Qaran iyo hadalada qadhaadh ee uu ku duray Madaxweyne Rayaale oo ka soo jeeda Boorama .Cabdirahman Saylici waxa uu warbaahinta madaxbanaan isku muujiya sida uu u hayo taageero balaadhan taas oo siilaanyo tustay in uu yahay nin afgaaban oo dadaal badan oo xisbigiisa u keeni kara Cododka Beelaha Maxamed Case iyo waliba isagoo la sheegay in uu xisbiga ugu tabaruci doono taageero dhaqaale marka ay doorashada madaxtooyada la gaadho, halka uu u arko nimanka kale ee ka soo horjeeda sidan,
2- Cabdirahman Aw Cali farax waxa uu u arkaa kow, in aanu Taageero ka heli doonin Beeshiisa Jibriil yoonis Gudabuursi oo uu ka Dhashay Madaxweyne Rayaale iyo Haweenaydiisu Sidaa awgeed iyagoo madaxweyne Haysta aanay u hanqal-taagi doonin jago ka hosaysa, waxa uu u arkayey in Cabdirahman uu nasto sababo uu ku sifeyay sida la isla Dhex maryey ergooyinka shirweynaha in uu yahay Raggii snm halganka ka soo qayb-qaatay ninka kaliya ee Gaadhay heer Madaxweyne ku xigeen ama heerkii ugu sareyay ee madhaheeda goostay oo aanu siilaanyo laftigiisu gaadhin,isagoo u arkayey in uu mar siiyay chance loogu doorto madaxweyne ku xigeen kiina uu siin waayey labadooda calafku sidaa awgeed uu go'aansaday in uu ka daydayo bulshada Awdal Nin kale oo cod uga keeni kara sidaana uu ku go'aasaday in uu Saylici yahay ka jagadan buuxin kara,
3-Ahmed Xaaji cali Cadim waxa la soo wariyaya in uu siilaanyo u arkay in laba Nin oo reer bariya yahiin sidaa Awgeed aan loo baahnayn xiligan oo balance laga dhigo jagooyinka oo galbeed la geeyo musharax madaxweyne ku xigeen,sababahaasna Aanu ku taageeri karin musharaxnimada Cadami ,
si kastaba ha ahaatee Musharaxa Madaxweyne ee Kulmiye Ahmed Maxamed Maxamuud Siilaanyo oo 70 Sano ku dhawaad ahi waxa uu Ciyaaray farsamooyin badan intii lagu Jiray Shirweynaha Golaha Dhexe.kuwaas oo uu ku qanciyay Taageerayaashiisa,,,,
la Soco Sida ay u Dhacday Doorashaddii iyo wadahadalasii bilaabay Saacado ka dib ama maalimo ka dib ????
Waxa qorey cabdicasiis Ahmed Mousa oo Faaqida Arrimaha Siyaasada Goobjoogna ka ahaa Shirweynaha abdiaziz ahmed mousa
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Marwada Koowaad Huda Barkhad Aadan, oo Deeq Gudoonsiisay Xarunta Agoomaha Hargeysa
Hargeysa, (Harowo) - Marwada Koowaad ee Somaliland Marwo Hudda Barkhad Aadan ayaa gudoonsiisay dirays ardayda ku jirta xarunta agoomaha magaalada Hargeysa ee wax ku barta dugsiyada iyo jaamacadaha dalka oo gabdho iyo wiilalba ay gaadhsiisay.
Marwo Huda Barkhad, ayaa sheegtay in ujeedada ay dirayskan u siisay caruurta xarunta agoomaha ku jirta ay tahay sidii caruurtaa looga ilaalin lahaa inay cuqdad ka qaadan caruurta ay wax wada bartaan ee Waalidkoodu nool yahay ee dirayska loo soo iibiyay, xili dugsiyeedkiina soo dhaw yahay.
Xafladaas oo si wayn loo soo agaasimay waxaa ka soo qayb galay masuuliyiin kala duwan, Ururka Haweenka ee NOW, Madax ka Socotay Hay,adda ANPAK iyo marti sharaf tiro badan iyo caruurta ku jirta xaruntaas hadal ay ka jeedisay Marwo Huda Barkhad Aadan gudoonsiinta dirayskaas ka hor ayaa waxa ka mid ahaa:
"Dhamaan marti sharafta iyo masuuliyiinta kala duwan ee nagala soo qayb galay xafladan aad iyo aad baan ugu mahadnaqayaa sida ficaan ee aad noo aqbasheen ee aad noogu timaadeen, mida kale waxaan idiin sheegayaa waxa weeyaan caruurtan yar yari cida ay sugayaan waa inaga iyo Illaahay waxa loo baahan yahay qof kastoo Islaam ahii kolay sadaqad buu la baxaa waxa aan u sheegaynaa inay goobahan oo kale ku bixiyaan oo ay caruurtaa tabaalaysan ee ubadkeeni ah wax ku taraan."
Marwadu waxay dhanbaal codsi ah halkaas uga dirtay Ganacsatada dalka oo ay ka codsatay in fadliga bilashada bisha barakaysan ee Ramadaan oo fooda inagu soo haysa ay gargaar iyo gacan aadaminimo u fidiyaan xarunta agoomaha oo si naxariis leh u caawiyaan waxna ugu taraan "Bishii barakaysnayd ee Ramadaana way soo galaysaa markaa waxaanu baayac mushtarka Somaliland u sheegaynaa inay caruurtaasi wax ku taraan qaar badan oo ay noqdaan qaar si wayn iskaga xil saara oo wax ku tara, mar kale waxaanu u sheegaynaa inay wixii ay sadaqad bixinayaan ay Ubadkoodaa u keenaan.
Intaa ka dib waxa ay Marwadu Agaasimaha ku wareejisay deeqdii dirayska ahayd oo ay sheegtay inay ugu tala galeen in caruurta agoomaha ah ama kuwa aan waalidkoodu waxba haysan ee xarunta agoomaha ku jira gaar ahaan kuwa dhigta dugsiyada iyo jaamacaduhu ugu xidhaan dirays ahaan oo aanay cuqdad ka qaadin caruurta kale ee waalidkoodu nool yahay ee ay wada dhigtaan waxbarashada, waxaanay gudoonsiisay dharkaas ay ugu deeqday ardayda dugsiyada dhigta ee xaruntaas ku jira oo wiilal iyo gabdhaba laga simay.
Marwo Huda Barkhad Aadan waxay u mahad naqday maamulaha xarunta agoomaha ee Hargeysa Maxamed Ismaaciil oo si Hagar la'aan ah wakhtigiisa ugu huray daryeelka iyo xanaanaynta caruurta tabaalaysan ee ku jirta xaruntaasi, isaga oo caruurta ku dhiiri galiyay inay bartaan astaamaha qaranimada Somaliland oo heesta calanku ay kow ka tahay waxaanay kula dardaarantay inuu halkaa ka sii wado.
Agaasimaha Xarunta Agoomaha Hargeysa
Marwo Huda Barkhad waxa kale oo ay u mahad naqday gudoomiyaha rayislayaasha Hargeysa iyo ururkooda oo iska xil saaray si iskood ah inay lacag la'aan timaha ugu xiiraan caruurta ku jirta xaruntaas ee tabaalaysan.
Marwada ka hor waxa halkaa ka hadlay Agaasimaha guud ee Xarunta Agoomaha Maxamed Ismaaciil waxaanu si wayn ugu mahad naqay Marwada Koowaad ee Somaliland Marwo Huda Barkhad Aadan oo uu sheegay inay si wayn iskaga xil saarto xaruntooda aadna uga war hayso dhinacyo badan ka caawiso, sidoo kale waxa iyaduna ka hadashay agaasimaha Hay'adda ANPAK.
Geesta kale caruurta wax ku jirta xarunta agoomaha ee magaalada Hargeysa ayaa iyagu halkaa ku soo bandhigay heeso kala duwan oo ka hadlaya qaranimada Somaliland kuwaas oo ay ka kow tahay heesta calanka iyagoo ku labisan dhar laga sameeyay harqad midabka calanka u eg.
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RAMADAN AFOOT IN SAUDI ARABIA
Arrangements afoot in Riyadh for Ramadan
RIYADH/JEDDAH: While Riyadh streets are being illuminated to give a festive atmosphere to welcome the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, extensive arrangements are being made in all the mosques to accommodate the additional number of worshippers throughout the month.
Sequel to a directive issued by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, mosques this year will be open for worshippers 24 hours a day.
According to the circular, imams of all the mosques in the Kingdom have been instructed to keep the places of worship tidy and to ensure adequate and uninterrupted supplies of power and water during the holy month to meet the requirements of the increased number of Muslims who go for Taraweeh, which follows the regular Isha prayers.
Midnight prayers (Qiyamul Lail) will be conducted from 1 a.m. from the 20th of Ramadan till the end of the holy month. Private establishments that have been contracted for mosque maintenance works have been asked to be on duty at nights during the holy month to guarantee continuous water and power supply in all the worshipping places.
Improvised partitions for ladies are being built in mosques that do not have separate prayer halls for women. Some of the mosques are busy replacing their old carpets with new ones and others are being color-washed to give them a fresh look during the holy month.
Yesterday, the Friday noon prayers focused on the significance of the holy month. Welcoming the advent of the holy month, imams appealed to the people to strictly adhere to the teachings of the Qur'an and the traditions of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) during this period.
Speaking to Arab News after the Friday prayers yesterday, Abdul Aziz, imam at a mosque in Riyadh's Sarafiya District said: "We expect larger congregations at Taraweeh prayers this year." He added that the holy month not only affords a good opportunity to Muslims to greet one another but also helps us perform good deeds that will be richly rewarded by the Almighty Allah.
Meanwhile, Deputy Labor Minister Abdul Wahid Al-Humaidi has said that public and private-sector employees are to have their hours reduced for Ramadan to six hours per day — and that any extra hours worked must be voluntary on the part of the employee and that employers must pay overtime for these voluntary extra hours worked.
Abdullah Marie ibn Mahfouz, member of the board of directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry said most employers shave off the work shifts by changing starting times from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. He also said employers are allowed to break up the six hours into two shifts, and make workers stay late in the evening if needed.
— Mohammed Rasooldeen in Riyadh and Galal Fakkar in Jeddah contributed to this report.
Arab News
via Hiiraan Online on 29/08/08
"Has your daughter graduated?" asked one of two Somali middle-aged female passengers as we queued for the bus.
via الجزيرة نت on 29/08/08
أعلن معارضو انقلاب السادس من أغسطس / آب الجاري في موريتانيا أنه "أسيء فهمهم" حيال العقوبات الدولية مؤكدين أنهم لم يتخذوا موقفا منها بعد، وذلك في ظل دعوات دولية لفرض عقوبات على قادة الانقلاب وبعض مناصريهم لفرض عودة الشرعية.
Yemen, UNHCR discuss Somali refugeesYemen, UNHCR discuss Somali refugees’ conditions’ conditions
ADEN , Aug. 27 (Saba)- United Nations High Commission for Refugees and Yemeni Government have had a meeting in the coastal city of Aden over the situation of thousands of Somali refugees in the country, facing undesirable circumstances almost two decades, Yemen official news agency reported
Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Refugees Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Mothana briefed on Wednesday representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Sana'a Claire Bourgois on the conditions of Somali refugees in Kharaz camp of Lahj governorate.
During their visit to Lahj, they got acquainted to the services and facilities provided by Yemen to Somali refugees and the current activities implemented in collaboration with UNCHR and international organization to develop the capacities of refugees and improve their living conditions.
29 August, 2008
via Reuters Africa on 28/08/08
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's opposition-led parliament finally passed the national budget after a two month wait, signalling an end to an impasse that has stalled the southern African nation's development agenda.
Obama: We are better than these last eight years
Obama: We are better than these last eight years - CNN.com
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke to the
Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Here is the text of that
speech:
Barack Obama greets the crowd at the Democratic National Convention.
Barack Obama: To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to
all my fellow citizens of this great nation.
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination
for presidency of the United States.
Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who
accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled
the farthest -- a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to
my daughters and yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Bill
Clinton, who made last night the case for change as only he can make
it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the
next vice president of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am
grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of
our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the
conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.
To the love of my life, our next first lady, Michelle Obama, and to
Malia and Sasha -- I love you so much, and I'm so proud of you.
Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story -- of the
brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from
Kansas who weren't well off or well-known, but shared a belief that in
America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.
It is that promise that has always set this country apart -- that
through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual
dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that
the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.
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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for 232 years, at each moment
when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women -- students
and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the
courage to keep it alive.
We meet at one of those defining moments -- a moment when our nation
is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has
been threatened once more.
Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder
for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching
your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to
drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's
beyond your reach.
These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure
to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and
the failed policies of George W. Bush.
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better
country than this.
This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the
brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster
after a lifetime of hard work.
We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up
the equipment he's worked on for 20 years and watch it shipped off to
China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure
when he went home to tell his family the news.
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep
on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands
while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
Tonight, I say to the people of America, to Democrats and Republicans
and independents across this great land -- enough! This moment -- this
election -- is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American
promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that
brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this
country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too
much to let the next four years look just like the last eight. On
November 4, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."
Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has
worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for
that we owe him our gratitude and our respect. And next week, we'll
also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as
evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.
But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush 90
percent of the time. Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgment, but
really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George
Bush has been right more than 90 percent of the time? I don't know
about you, but I'm not ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.
The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in
your lives -- on health care and education and the economy -- Sen.
McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has
made "great progress" under this president. He said that the
fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief
advisers -- the man who wrote his economic plan -- was talking about
the anxieties that Americans are feeling, he said that we were just
suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I
quote, "a nation of whiners."
A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud autoworkers at a Michigan
plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every
day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people
who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military
families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved
ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are
not whiners. They work hard and they give back and they keep going
without complaint. These are the Americans I know.
Now, I don't believe that Sen. McCain doesn't care what's going on in
the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know. Why else would
he define middle-class as someone making under $5 million a year? How
else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big
corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more
than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan
that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that
would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that
would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?
It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain
doesn't get it.
For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited
Republican philosophy -- give more and more to those with the most and
hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington,
they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is that
you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. You're on your own. No
health care? The market will fix it. You're on your own. Born into
poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps -- even if you don't
have boots. You are on your own.
Well it's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to
change America. And that's why I'm running for president of the United
States.
You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what
constitutes progress in this country.
We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the
mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of
each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college
diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were
created when Bill Clinton was president -- when the average American
family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of go down $2,000 like it
has under George Bush.
We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of
billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether
someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or
whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look
after a sick kid without losing her job -- an economy that honors the
dignity of work.
The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we
are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country
great -- a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.
Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq
and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl
Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful
nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.
In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before
working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister
and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once
turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best
schools in the country with the help of student loans and
scholarships.
When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut
down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago
I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant
closed.
And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her
own business or making her way in the world, I think about my
grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to
middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions
because she was a woman. She's the one who taught me about hard work.
She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself
so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into
me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching
tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.
Now, I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that
celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs
are the stories that shaped my life. And it is on behalf of them that
I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as president
of the United States.
What is that American promise?
It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own
lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each
other with dignity and respect.
It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation
and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their
responsibilities to create American jobs, to look out for American
workers, and play by the rules of the road.
Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems,
but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves --
protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep
our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads
and science and technology.
Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us,
not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the
most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to
work.
That's the promise of America -- the idea that we are responsible for
ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the
fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's
keeper.
That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right
now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am
president.
Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote
it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.
You know, unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to
corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to
companies that create good jobs right here in America.
I'll eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the
start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
I will, listen now, cut taxes -- cut taxes -- for 95 percent of all
working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we
should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.
And for the sake of our economy, our security and the future of our
planet, I will set a clear goal as president: In 10 years, we will
finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East. We will do
this.
Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last 30
years, and by the way John McCain's been there for 26 of them. And in
that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars,
no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And
today, we import triple the amount of oil that we had as the day that
Sen. McCain took office.
Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling
is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close.
As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean
coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll
help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of
the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for
the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest $150
billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of
energy -- wind power and solar power and the next generation of
biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million
new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced.
America, now is not the time for small plans.
Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every
child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to
compete in the global economy. You know, Michelle and I are only here
tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not
settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. I'll
invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new
teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And
in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability.
And we will keep our promise to every young American -- if you commit
to serving your community or our country, we will make sure you can
afford a college education.
Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible
health care for every single American. If you have health care, my
plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the
same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as
someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she
lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop
discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.
Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family
leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping
their job and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.
Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions
are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social
Security for future generations.
And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal
day's work, because I want my daughters to have the exact same
opportunities as your sons.
Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out
how I'll pay for every dime -- by closing corporate loopholes and tax
havens that don't help America grow. But I will also go through the
federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work
and making the ones we do need work better and cost less -- because we
cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy.
And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise
will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of
responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called
our "intellectual and moral strength." Yes, government must lead on
energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes
and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to
success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we
must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that
government can't turn off the television and make a child do her
homework; that fathers must take more responsibility to provide love
and guidance to their children.
Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility -- that's the
essence of America's promise.
And just as we keepour promise to the next generation here at home, so
must we keep America's promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a
debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the
next commander in chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.
For while Sen. McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after
9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract
us from the real threats that we face. When John McCain said we could
just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and
more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually
attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin
Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. You know,
John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of
Hell -- but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.
And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq
has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush
administration, even after we learned that Iraq has $79 billion in
surplus while we are wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone
in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.
That's not the judgment we need. That won't keep America safe. We need
a president who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping
at the ideas of the past.
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in 80 countries by
occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by
talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when
you've strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow
George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice
-- but that is not the change that America needs.
We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't
tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that
Democrats won't keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has
squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -- Democrats and
Republicans -- have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.
As commander in chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation,
but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission
and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle
and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.
I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against
al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military
to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct
diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and
curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the
threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation;
poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. And I will restore
our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope
for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of
peace, and who yearn for a better future.
These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look
forward to debating them with John McCain.
But what I will not do is suggest that the senator takes his positions
for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to
change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without
challenging each other's character and each other's patriotism.
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same
partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I
love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and
women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans
and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and
some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a
Red America or a Blue America -- they have served the United States of
America.
So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.
America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require
tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast
off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For part of what has
been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages
or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of
common purpose. That's what we have to restore.
We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the
number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun
ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than they are for
those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we
can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the
hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage,
but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters
deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live
lives free of discrimination. You know, passions may fly on
immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is
separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American
wages by hiring illegal workers. But this, too, is part of America's
promise -- the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength
and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.
I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They
claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and
more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes
and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected.
Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics
to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint
your opponent as someone people should run from.
You make a big election about small things.
And you know what -- it's worked before. Because it feeds into the
cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn't work,
all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and
again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already
know.
I get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this
office. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my
career in the halls of Washington.
But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is
stirring. What the naysayers don't understand is that this election
has never been about me. It's about you. It's about you.
For 18 long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to
the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the
greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the
same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what
history teaches us -- that at defining moments like this one, the
change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to
Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it --
because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new
politics for a new time.
America, this is one of those moments.
I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming.
Because I've seen it. Because I've lived it. Because I've seen it in
Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more
families from welfare to work. I've seen it in Washington, where we
worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists
more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep
nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorist.
And I've seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for
the first time, and the young at heart, those who got involved again
after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd
pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I've seen it in the workers who
would rather cut their hours back a day even though they can't afford
it than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who
re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a
stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.
You know, this country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but
that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on
Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our
culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world
coming to our shores.
Instead, it is that American spirit -- that American promise -- that
pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us
together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on
what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.
That promise is our greatest inheritance. It's a promise I make to my
daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to
yours -- a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and
pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines,
and women to reach for the ballot.
And it is that promise that 45 years ago today, brought Americans from
every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington,
before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia
speak of his dream.
The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They
could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to
succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.
But what the people heard instead -- people of every creed and color,
from every walk of life -- is that in America, our destiny is
inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.
"We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. "And as we walk, we must
make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn
back."
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not
with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.
Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save.
Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend.
America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in
this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let
us keep that promise -- that American promise -- and in the words of
Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.
Barack Obama hits McCain, sets tone for campaign with historic speech
Barack Obama hits McCain, sets tone for campaign with historic speech
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF, MICHAEL SAUL and DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, August 28th 2008, 9:22 PM
Pensinger/Getty
Barack Obama delivered his historic speech to more than 80,000 loyal Democrats in Denver.
DENVER - Barack Obama claimed his spot in history as the first African-American standard bearer of a major party Thursday night, rallying Democrats with his sharpest-ever assault on Republican leadership.
"Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgement, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush was right more than 90% of the time?" he said of the Republican nominee-to-be.
"I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a 10% chance on change," Obama said in his prime-time speech.
Before a raucous, flag-waving crowd in Denver's 75,000-seat Invesco Field, Obama crafted a message that was both more personal and more pointed as he kicked off his fall campaign.
With Republicans suggesting his improbable run has been long on hype and short on specifics, the Illinois senator used the opportunity of a massive audience - both in the stands and on television - to forcefully lay out the choice ahead.
"Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it," he said.
"Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
Forty-five years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, an electrified throng was on hand to be part of history - to see and hear the man who could be the first black President, and to be part of the largest crowd to witness a convention acceptance speech.
"Obviously it's a very proud moment for me to see this happen," said City Councilman Bill Perkins (D-Harlem), an early Obama supporter. "If I wasn't so macho, I'd probably break down and cry a little bit."
Before his big moment, the Illinois senator found time to shoot some hoops at a local basketball court.
Adding a touch of celebrity to the convention's final night, the singer will.i.am led the diverse crowd - young and old, black and white - in a rousing version of "Yes We Can," a campaign theme the singer transformed into a song.
Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson kicked the celebration off with a thunderous version of the national anthem.
The stakes Thursday night could not be much higher for the 47-year-old Obama, who - despite a campaign marked by huge crowds, record fund-raising and scores of new voters - remains essentially tied in most polls with McCain.
The GOP has cast Obama as too young, too inexperienced and too liberal to lead the country, especially at a time of war and international unrest.
Obama forcefully contrasted the Democrats' handling of foreign affairs over time to the Republican's stewardship of the last eight years.
"We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country," Obama said. "The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans - Democrats and Republicans - have built, and we are to restore that legacy."
An American story
The son of a black Kenyan father and a white mom from Kansas, reared in Hawaii and educated in the Ivy League, Obama's biography is unquestionably unique among anyone who has ever run for the White House.
It's a humble story, Obama suggested, that could only be written in America and had left him with a deep appreciation of the nation's enduring values.
"It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well," he said.
Obama accepted his party's nod on a day that few might have imagined back in 1963, when King dreamed of a nation where his children "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Obama - whom many see as the realization of that dream - made note of King's speech and another historic marker that he says shows the government's lingering indifference to blacks: today's third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The disaster struck many of New Orleans' black residents particularly hard and has become symbolic, many believe, of Republican indifference toward minorities.
The speech marks the capstone of a week when Team Obama ceded much of the spotlight to his one-time primary rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Critics have mockingly called it "the Clinton convention." But Obama insiders said Thursday they had long viewed the convention as their last best chance to unify the Democratic Party - a mission they now consider accomplished.
Josh Earnest. "And I think everybody would agree that our party is 100% unified behind Barack Obama as the nominee."
Well, maybe not everybody.
At a morning breakfast of the DNC's women's caucus, several protesters carrying "Hillary: Smart Choice" signs were quietly ushered from the room.
But most in the room were like former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin, who sported a button that read, "Hillary supports Obama, and so do I."
"The choice is no longer between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton," said Kunin. "The choice is between John McCain and Barack Obama."
Somalia bleeds to death with no mercy in sight.
The Norwegian Council for Africa
Somalia: From statehood to city states (Editorial)
Mogadishu (Somalia) - As Somalia continues to bleed from the merciless carnage of Ethiopian forces backing the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and the equally brutal forces of the opposition, the world is slowly and strategically moving away from maintaining Somalia's current status quo.
Somalia: From statehood to city states (Editorial)
Mogadishu (Somalia) - As Somalia continues to bleed from the merciless carnage of Ethiopian forces backing the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and the equally brutal forces of the opposition, the world is slowly and strategically moving away from maintaining Somalia's current status quo.
By Hiiraan Online (Somalia) 08.28.2008
While the UN sponsored talks in Djibouti linger, some political analysts are considering alternative solutions to the endless and pitiful quagmire. They are insidiously hypothesizing dividing up Somalia into smaller primordial enclaves. As the ineptness of clan inspired leadership leads to more internal disputes and warring factions, and as many reconciliation conferences fail for lack of principled leadership due in part to the shifting political actors and clan interests, the international community has been searching for a new strategy to finally resolve the prolonged Somali conflict. Of course there are no shortages of ideas in the international community and the one school of thought that has been gaining traction lately is the so called "Building Block's Approach". The architects of this ominous model appear to have taken lessons from the Berlin conference of 1884 when African countries were partitioned by European powers without regard to ethnic boundaries, grazing lands, languages and cultural affiliations. This neo-colonial strategy if implemented would vindicate the xenophobic claims made in the Berlin conference and will eventually take Somalia back to prehistoric ethnic enclaves. The gist of the argument in the Building Blocks Approach is that a Somali state with a unitary central government can not be reconstituted and sustained through a top down approach as is currently pursued by the UN and the international community and must be replaced with a bottom-up approach focusing solely on grassroots community development. Developing social and governance structures at the grassroots level, they argue, will in the end help the reconstitution of the Somali state. Furthermore the protagonists of the model began an all out offensive to sell their untested idea in the corridors of power where the international community convenes and in the international media. They argue that the international community must give up imposing on the Somali people an untenable national government, parliament and charter. These institutions, they believe, disregard critical local and regional clan structures and therefore lack necessary grassroots support. The bottom up approach, the argument goes, will strengthen local governance mechanisms, maintain communal law and order, and establish strong regional leadership that in the long run will muster the necessary energy to reconstitute the Somali State! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to untangle the imprecise logic of the proponents of this model in that, if thirty percent of the Somali people today (those twenty years of age and younger) do not know the value and importance of a Somali state and could care the least about its reconstitution today, why would they want a Somali state decades later when they become the majority and their numbers reach eighty percent or more! The building block's approach as is currently proposed will in effect pick the baton from where the Berlin conference left it off and will callously divide Somalia into several Bantustans lacking sovereignty and territorial integrity necessary to establish a full fledged state. At a time when the global community is coming much closer and Europe is coming together as a single entity with one currency, why propose a small nation such as Somalia to be subdivided into smaller entities ostensibly modeled after the oil rich United Arab Emirates. The Emirates, they seem to forget, were never a unitary state in the first place and the natural wealth from the oil fields continues to be the glue that keeps their country together. What worked for oil rich UAE will not work for poor and multiethnic Somalia! I is no secret that the plight of the Somali people is worsening on a daily basis and the current conditions prevailing there are unacceptable and insufficient for human survival. It is also a fact that current Somali leadership both in government and opposition do not show the will nor the capacity to envision a peaceful unitary Somali state. The response to these realities, however, is not to hastily break up Somalia into pieces. |
via Reuters Africa on 26/08/08
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania's military rulers have refused to set a timetable for elections or guarantee they will not stand themselves, complicating their efforts to form a government, the main parliamentary party said on Tuesday.
via Reuters Africa on 28/08/08
GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organisation commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.
Senegal dismissed Anti free press Minister
Thu 28 Aug 2008, 15:09 GMT
By Diadie Ba
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade dismissed his party's powerful propaganda chief from the government on Thursday after newspapers accused the minister of orchestrating attacks on independent media, the government said.
A series of attacks on journalists have helped tarnish the West African country's reputation for stable democracy, which has made it a favourite with Western donors.
Wade issued a decree dismissing Farba Senghor as minister for crafts and air transport, government spokesman Abdul Aziz Sow told Reuters.
It was unclear whether Senghor's post as Director of Propaganda in Wade's ruling Democratic Party (PDS) would be affected.
Unidentified men raided the offices of two privately-owned newspapers in Senegal's capital Dakar after dark on August 17, sprayed mace at employees and destroyed reporting and printing equipment.
The newspapers accused Senghor of ordering the attacks, which he has denied.
"Senghor's name was brought up in the course of an investigation. This will allow him to defend himself in court," said Sow, who is minister of information.
Both newspapers, "L'As" and "24 Heures Chrono", had been critical of government ministers including Senghor in a bitter dispute between Wade's administration and privately controlled media since police beat up two reporters in June.
Many privately owned newspapers and radio stations joined a campaign to have the police officers put on trial.
The dispute became increasingly acrimonious when newspapers printed details of Senghor's private life and he responded by asking government and party colleagues to cut off their advertising contracts.
28 August, 2008
Somaliland:War-Murtiyeed Kasoo Baxay Shir weynihii Beelaha Ciidagale
1. Iyadoo beesha Ciida-Gale ka mid ahayd beelihii ugu horeeyey ee Soomaaliyeed ee samaystay hogaan dhaqameed,waxaa xaqiiqo biyo kama dhibcaan ah in is-bedelka baaxada tirida dadka, horimarka, fikirka, iyo hab-dawladeedka cusubi keeneen hab-nololeed kii hore ka gedisan, oo lagama maar maan ka dhigaya abuurista hab wada-tashi oo la jaan qaadi kara hab-dhaqan dhaqaaleedka manta taagan oo mararka qaarkood curin kara dano gaar ahaaned iyo kuwo guud ahaaneed oo is weydaaranaaya.
2. Waxaa 24-25 bishii August 2008 Hotel Ambassador ka dhacay shirkii beelaha Ciidagale oo ay ka soo qayb galeen 213 qof oo isugu jira hogaamiye Dhaqameed, Ganacasato, Aqoonyahano ,Culimaa'u diin ,Qurbe joog iyo xubnaha Goleyaasha qaranka iyo xisbiyada qaranka oo kala ahaa. 150 ergo rasmi ah oo ka kala yimi tobonka ardaa ee beesha iyo 63 goob joogeyaal ah.
3. Hadaba, iyada oo aan hoos loo dhigayn meeqaanka iyo mudnaanta hab-dhaqankii soo jireenka ahaa,wuxuu shirweynuhu isku raacay xeer 10 qodob iyo 60 farqadood ka kooban ujeedadiisuna tahay abuurista iyo hagida Gole Guud. si loo suuro galiyo talo wadaag wax ku ool u ah oo danta guud ee beesha,beelaha la ologa ah,dalalka beeshu rasmi ahaan u degto ,iyo guud ahaan samo ku-wada noolashaha dadyowga aduunka.
4. Hadaba,shirku markuu si mug leh u falanqeeyey xalaadaha guud ee dalka ee dhinacyada nabadgalayada ,deris wanaaga ,samo kuwada noolanshaha beelaha,is tix-galinta iyo horimarinta , waxaa shir gudoonka loo igmaday soo gudbinta.
War-murtiyeedkan soo koobaya nuxurka shirka Go'aamada heshiiskuna waa:-
1. Hirgalinta qadiyada Somaliland iyo adkeynta nabadgalyada
2. Xoojinta horumarinta
3. Kobcinta Dimoqraadiyada dalka, Dawlad wanaga,iyo u diyaar garawga diiwan galinta iyo Doorashooyinka
4. Dhawrista iyo ku-dhaqanka Dastuurka iyo Xeerarka dalka u yaala
5. Ka hortaga iyo xalinta khilaafaadka
Go'aamada Beesha u gaarka ah
6. abuurista Gole Guud oo wada tashi ah si loo helo talooyin la lafa-guray oo wanagsan iyo talo-wadaag ku jihaysan horumarinta dhinacayada kala duwan ee nolosha: ka hortaga iyo xalinta khilaafadka, iyo u feejignaanta somo-kuwada noolanshaha oodwadaagta ah iyo guud ahaan aduunka.
7. Xubnah Golaha Guud waxay noqonayaan xubno isu-dheeli-tirin dhinacayda marka loo eego qaybaha bulshada,Aqoonta iyo Ardayada beesha.
8. Qodob kasta oo xeerkan ku jiraa ama lugu soo daro oo ka hor imaanaya shareecada Islamka iyo xeerka dalku waa waxba kama jiraan.
Xubnaha shir-gudoonka
1. Mudane Cabdillahi Siciid Ismaaciil (Gudoomiye)
2. Engneer Ibrahim Aadan Cabdillahi (G.xigeenka 1aad)
3. Mudane Kayse Haybe Maxamed (G.xigeenka 2aad)
4. Mudane Axmed Maxamed Diiriye (xog-haye 1aad)
5. Mudane Axmed Maxamud Xayd (xog-haye 2aad)
ALLAA MAHAD LEH
Ethiopia(Woyanne) signals shift as Somalian war drags on
Ethiopia(Woyanne) would be prepared to withdraw its troops from Somalia even if the interim government they were sent in to install 20 months ago were still not stable or functioning, the country's prime minister has said.
Meles Zenawi told the Financial Times that Ethiopia was "not joined at the hip" with the Somali government as frustration in Addis Ababa grows over its perennial in-fighting and the financial cost of the occupation.
His comments mark a policy shift because Ethiopia had previously indicated it would stay in Somalia until the transitional federal government (TFG) was firmly established and in control.
If Ethiopia deserts it while Somalia remains lawless and violent, it could send the world's most intractable failed state deeper into a crisis that aid agencies say has already left millions of people on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
But while analysts in Addis Ababa say Ethiopia is closer to pulling out today than ever before, Mr Meles remains caught in a dilemma between wanting Somali leaders to take responsibility for stabilising their country, and needing to guarantee Ethiopia's own security if they fail to do so.
Ethiopia invaded Somalia - which has not had a properly functioning central government since 1991 - with thousands of troops in the final week of 2006 to oust a group of Islamists that had taken control of the capital, Mogadishu, and which Addis Ababa believed represented a threat to its security.
But after reinstalling the interim government of President Abdullahi Yusuf in a matter of weeks, Ethiopia's troops got bogged down as the regime struggled to establish a firm grip on power, intra-government quarrels escalated, and an insurgency led by Islamists and rival clans took hold.
Mr Meles said Ethiopia would do everything it could to help the interim government, whose power is limited to a few parts of Mogadishu, to become stronger and more effective. But he added "that is not necessarily a precondition for our withdrawal" and stressed that Ethiopia's commitment was not open-ended.
"Our obligation towards peace in Somalia is only one aspect. There are also requirements of our own, including financial requirements," he said. "The operation has been extremely expensive so we will have to balance the domestic pressures on the one hand and pressures in Somalia on the other and try to come up with a balanced solution."
Ethiopia's desire to curtail its military engagement in Somalia is driven to a large extent by its cost, which has been felt more acutely this year as the country is hit by a combination of soaring inflation and failed harvests caused by drought, which the United Nations says has left some 10m people in need of food aid.
Addis Ababa refuses to say how many troops it has in Somalia, but independent analysts estimate there are 4,000-6,000, deployed mainly to protect senior Somali officials, government buildings and critical infrastructure.
The Ethiopian government maintains that al-Shabaab, an Islamist insurgent group said by the US to be linked to al-Qaeda, has been critically weakened. But the pattern of violence suggests otherwise. Attacks on Ethiopian troops and the Somali security forces they are training have spiked in the past month and last Friday, Islamists took control of the southern port town of Kismayo. Civilians continue to be caught in the cross-fire: more than 50 died last week as a result of indiscriminate shelling" by Ethiopian and government troops after a roadside bomb attack on their convoy, according to a UN situation report. In total, 8,000 Somalis have been killed and 1m forced from their homes by fighting since the beginning of last year. Due to conflict, failed rains and inflation, the UN says that up to 3.5m Somalis - or nearly half the population - could need food aid later this year.
Asked where Ethiopia's original plan to stay in Somalia for a short time had gone wrong, Mr Meles pointed the finger at the west. It has offered lukewarm political and financial support for an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, which has mustered barely one quarter of its envisaged 8,000 troops.
"We didn't anticipate the international community would be happy riding the Ethiopian horse and flogging it at the same time for so long," he said. "We had hoped and expected . . . that the international community would recognise that this was a unique opportunity for the stabilisation of Somalia and capitalise on it."
One western diplomat in Addis Ababa said Ethiopia never expected to find itself in a guerrilla war and probably overestimated its ability to "work the clan dynamics", the web of kin-based rivalries that divides Somali society.
Last week Ethiopia sequestered the president and Nur Hassan Hussein, the prime minister, in Addis Ababa for talks to make them address their differences. On Tuesday the two men signed a pledge to work together anew.
"Ethiopia remains apprehensive because the TFG is not viable, it's not functional and it's not helping them, and the insurgency is gaining a new edge," said Medhane Tadesse of the Center for Policy Research and Dialogue, a think-tank in Addis Ababa.
For a full transcript of this interview go to www.ft.com/zenawi
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