A History of the New Year

A History of the New Year

The celebration of the new year on January 1st is a relatively new phenomenon. The earliest recording of a new year celebration is believed to have been in Mesopotamia, c. 2000 B.C. and was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox, in mid-March. A variety of other dates tied to the seasons were also used by various ancient cultures. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year with the fall equinox, and the Greeks celebrated it on the winter solstice.

Early Roman Calendar: March 1st Rings in the New Year

The early Roman calendar designated March 1 as the new year. The calendar had just ten months, beginning with March. That the new year once began with the month of March is still reflected in some of the names of the months. September through December, our ninth through twelfth months, were originally positioned as the seventh through tenth months (septem is Latin for "seven," octo is "eight," novem is "nine," and decem is "ten."

January Joins the Calendar

The first time the new year was celebrated on January 1st was in Rome in 153 B.C. (In fact, the month of January did not even exist until around 700 B.C., when the second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February.) The new year was moved from March to January because that was the beginning of the civil year, the month that the two newly elected Roman consuls—the highest officials in the Roman republic—began their one-year tenure. But this new year date was not always strictly and widely observed, and the new year was still sometimes celebrated on March 1.

Julian Calendar: January 1st Officially Instituted as the New Year

In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced a new, solar-based calendar that was a vast improvement on the ancient Roman calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly inaccurate over the years. The Julian calendar decreed that the new year would occur with January 1, and within the Roman world, January 1 became the consistently observed start of the new year.

Middle Ages: January 1st Abolished

In medieval Europe, however, the celebrations accompanying the new year were considered pagan and unchristian like, and in 567 the Council of Tours abolished January 1 as the beginning of the year. At various times and in various places throughout medieval Christian Europe, the new year was celebrated on Dec. 25, the birth of Jesus; March 1; March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation; and Easter.

Gregorian Calendar: January 1st Restored

In 1582, the Gregorian calendar reform restored January 1 as new year's day. Although most Catholic countries adopted the Gregorian calendar almost immediately, it was only gradually adopted among Protestant countries. The British, for example, did not adopt the reformed calendar until 1752. Until then, the British Empire —and their American colonies— still celebrated the new year in March.

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WARSAXAAFADEEDKII XISBIGA KULMIYE EE MAANTA 31.12.2009

 

Warsaxaafadeedkii Kulmiye ku soo gebogabeeyey sannadka cusub ku ciida, waana kan halkan idiinku minguurisan. xarbi WARSAXAAFADEED Date: 31/12/2009 RAADKII SANADKII TAGAY EE 2009 IYO ARAGTIDA XISBIGA KULMIYE EE SANADKA SOO SOCDA EE 2010 Sanad waliba waxa lagu xasuustaa guulihiisa iyo dhibaatooyinkiisa. Sanadkii 2009, guulihiisa waxa ka mid ahaa: Guulihii sanadka 2009.  Ø  Nabadgelyo guud oo dalka ka jirtay, iyadoo geeska Africa dagaalo badani ka socdaan. Ø  Dhoofkii xoolaha wakhtigii Xajka oo ahayd fursad wacan, walow aan si rasmi ah loo furin. Ø  Arday badan oo ka qalin jebisay Jaamacadaha kala duwan ee dalka JSL, in kasta oo aanay badankoodu shaqo helin. Ø  Budhcad badeed Ciidanka ilaalada Xeebaha Somaliland ka soo qabteen badda. Ø  Wufuud kala duwan oo dalka soo booqatay. Ø  Ganacsiga xorta ah oo talaabooyin horumar ah qaaday.  Dhibaartooyinkii 2009-ka waxa ka mid ahaa:  Ø   Dagaalada koonfurta Soomaaliya ka socda oo saamayn xun ku yeeshay hab-sami-u-socodka hawlaha dhaqaale iyo horumarineed ee Somaliland. Reer Somaliland waxa aad uga warwarsan yihiin in dagaalada koonfurta firirkoodu soo gaadho, waa cabsi joogta ah oo hantaaqaysa maamul wanaagii, horumarkii dhaqaale iyo kalsoonidii Bulshadu wax badan ku qabsan lahayd. Ø  Shirqoolkii cadowga Somaliland soo maleegay ee lagu dilay Taliyihii qaybta bariga ee Magaalada laascaanood. Ø  Waa sanadkii ugu dhimashada badnaa dhalinyarada tahriibta ee Somaliland. Waa nasiib darro in aynaan wali u helin xal ay dhalinyaradu kaga negaato is-miidaaminta. Ø  Doorashadii Madaxtooyada, tii Guurtida, iyo tii Deegaanka oo dhammaantood muddo dhaafay. Arrintaas oo keentay khilaaf siyaasadeed oo dalka gil-gilay. Waxa iska horyimid Xisbiyada Mucaaridka ah iyo Xukuumada, dhinaca kalena waxa isk horyimid Golayaasha sharci-dejinta iyo Xukuumada. Ø  Mudaharaadyo lagu diidan yahay muddo dhaafka oo dalka ka dhacay. Xukuumada oo mudaharaadyada ku dishay, ku dhaawacday, kuna xidh-xidhay muwaadiniin badan. Ø  Rasaastii Ciidanka boolisku ku fureen Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga KULMIYE Md. Axmed Maxamed Siilaanyo, oo aan xukuumadu wax talaabo ah ka qaadin. Ø  Sanadkii 2009 Xisbiga KULMIYE, Waxa soo maray shilal naxdin leh oo keenay dhimasho iyo dhaawac. Ø   Waa sanadkii ugu horeeyey ee Somaliland taladeeda ku filnaan wayday ee dibeda laga soo fara-geliyey. Ø  Sanadkii 2009, in kastoo hantidii ma-guurtada ahayd ee Qaranka Xukuumadu xaraashtay, inkasta oo dhaqaale xoog leh ka soo galay dhoofkii xoolaha, in kasta oo cashuuro Wasaaradu ku kordhisay sifo sharciga baalmarsan, hadana, dhaqaalaha dalku muu samayn horumar, mushaharooyinkii lama kordhin, mashaariic horumarin ah lama samayn, shaqo la'aantii lama yarayn, dhalinyarada garoomo ay ku cayaaraan looma kordhin, kuwii horena lama dayactirin, adeegii caafimaad horumar lagama samayn, biyo yaraantii lagama hawl-gelin, xataa biriishkii Hargeysa ee qabyada ahaa waxba laguma kordhin oo waa halkisii.  Rajada uu Xisbiga KULMIYE qabo sanadka soo socda ee 2010-ka.  Xisbiga KULMIYE isaga oo dareensan dhibaatooyinka guud ahaan ka jira caalamka oo ay ka mid yihiin dib-u-dhac dhaqaale, cimilada oo is-bedeshay, nabadgalyo xumo ku baahaysa caalamka iyo colaadaha ka aloosan geeska Africa.  Iyada oo ay jiraan waliba duruufaha adag ee Somaliland u gaarka ah, hadana sidaa ay tahay Xisbiga KULMIYE wuxuu sadaalinayaa is-bedel khayr leh oo ku yimaada dalka 2010-ka.  Kulmiye wuxuu naawilayaa in sanadka 2010-ka ay Somaliland ka samayso horumar dhinacyada nabadgalyada, Siyaasada iyo  dhaqaalaha.  KULMIYE wuxuu aaminsan yahay in ay Somaliland horumar samayn karto haddii aynu helno talo hufan daacad ah oo dalka lagu hogaamiyo, waxa hubaal ah in dhaqaalaha dalku haddii laga xakameeyo musuqa, si wanaagsana loo qorsheeyo in shaqaalaha iyo ciidamada  mushahar ku filan la siin karo, iyo in da'yarta shaqooyin loo abuuri karo.   Waxa hubaal ah, in dadka reer Somaliland ay ku jiraan dad karti, aqoon iyo hibo u leh curinta qorshe  dhaqaale iyo hufnaanta maamulka, tusaale waxa inoogu filan shirkadaha gaarka ah ee Somaliland oo sameeyey dhaqaale iyo maamul ku dayasho leh.  Xisbiga KULMIYE wuxuu u arkaa haddii la helo talo laga wada qayb-galo oo la abuuro is-aamin bulsho (Social thrust) in la gaadhi karo horumar.  Sida ku cad daraasadaha UN-ka Shacbiga Somaliland 54% waa Dhalinyaro, da'doodu tahay ilaa 20 jir, 5% ayaa ka weyn 65 jir, dhinaca kale 51% waa Haween, 70% waa reer miyi. Xisbiga KULMIYE, wuxuu u arkaa in talada dalka marka la qorshaynayo lagu saleeyo qaybaha kala duwan ee bulshada iyo baahiyahooda kala duwan.   Xisbiga KULMIYE, wuxuu u han weyn yahay in sanadkan 2010 bilaha u horeeya ay inoo qabsoonto doorasho xor ah, xalaal ah oo nabadgalyo inoogu dhacda. Kulmiye wuxuu galayaa tartan, isaga oo soo bandhigayaa barnaamij dhamaystiran, dhinac nabadgelyo, horumar iyo ictiraaf raadin ah. Xisbiga KULMIYE wuxuu daris wanaag iyo xidhiidh dhaw la yeelanayaa dalalka jaarka ah oo ay ugu horeeyaan Djibouti iyo Ethiopia oo aynu labadaba la leenahay xuduud dhulka ah. Xisbiga KULMIYE, wuxuu ogyahay in shacbiga Djibouti yihiin kuwii ka qaybqaatay halgankii dalka lagu xoraynaayey ee SNM ee naf iyo maalba u huray, iyadoo Ethiopia-yana ahayd hoygii halgankii SNM  Xisbiga KULMIYE barnaamijkiisa waxa udub dhexaad u ah talo wadaag. Xisbiga KULMIYE wuxuu wada-shaqayn dhaw la yeelanayaa hay'adaha Qaranka, qaybaha bulshada ee kala ah, Culimada, Madax-dhaqameedka, Ganacsatada, Ururada xirfadlayda ah (Professional associations), Warbaahinta, suugaan yahanka, Haweenka, dhalinyarada iyo Xisbiyada siyaasiga ah.  Xisbiga KULMIYE, waxa u sharaxan doorashada soo socota hoggaamiye rug-cadaaya, hayin ah, hal-gamaa ah, oo ka saari kara marxalada dalku ku jiro. Madaxda Xisbiga KULMIYE, waxay umada hor imanayaan iyaga wata  taariikhdoodii halgan, waaya-aragnimadooda, aqoontooda iyo kartidooda oo ay Umaddu si fiican u taqaan. Madaxda KULMIYE maaha mid ku cusub Shacbiga Somaliland. Waxay la soo qaysadeen shacbiga Somaliland waayihii adkaa.  Xisbiga KULMIYE, wuxuu ku kalsoon yahay isaga oo ay is-kaashanayaan muwaadiniinta Somaliland ee horumarka jecel inay ku guulasan doonaan doorashooyinka soo socda. Taas oo keeni doonta is-bedelka dalku u baahan yahay ee aynu kaga bixi karno musuqa, tahriibka, iyo shaqo la'aanta.            Allaa Mahad leh   Md. Muse Biixi Cabdi Guddoomiye ku-xigeenka 1aad ee Xisbiga KULMIYE Ahna K/s Guddoomiyaha KULMIYE

School enrolment up in Somaliland

 School enrolment up in Somaliland

HARGEISA, 31 December 2009 (IRIN) - School enrolment has risen sharply in Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland since 1991, raising the literacy rate from 20 percent to 45 percent, education officials have said.

 "School enrolment [in primary and secondary schools] has increased dramatically. In 1991, we had only 1,019 students enrolled in schools but by the year 2009 some 45,223 students were in school," Abdi Abdillahi Mohamed, the director of planning in Somaliland's ministry of education, told IRIN.

 Somaliland declared unilateral independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991.

 Ali Abdi Odowa, director-general in the education ministry, attributed the increase to rising awareness and the construction of many primary schools.

 "Hundreds of schools have been built both in urban and rural areas and adult education has also started," he said.

 Somaliland, he said, plans to ensure that at least 75 percent of the population is able to read and write by 2015.

 According to Mohamed, 225,853 students attended primary school and 21,331 attended secondary school in 2008/2009, while 26,156 were in adult education.

 Some 6,820 students are currently enrolled in technical colleges and vocational schools.

 "We have also added two social science subjects in high school - business and agriculture - which we hope will encourage high school leavers to be self-employed," Mohammed said.

 Pastoralists complain

 However, the ministry had received complaints from displaced persons and pastoralists about school fees and the lack of access by their children to schools.

 "Somaliland's constitution stipulates that all elementary and secondary education is free; there are no fees paid by students but of course there is what we call contributions paid by parents to support voluntary teachers and teachers' salaries," he said.

 In remote areas, the ministry has established a pilot project where teachers follow pastoralists and teach in mobile schools.

 "This project is in Togdheer region... Teachers and the school follow the pastoralists wherever they go, and we pay such teachers more than the others," Mohamed said.

 "We have also started school feeding centres: Pastoralists' children are fed in boarding schools in villages when their families are on the move in search of pasture."

  

Bombs Kill 8 Americans, 5 Canadians in Afghanistan

Bombs Kill 8 Americans, 5 Canadians in Afghanistan

VOA News30 December 2009

 

U.S. officials say a bomber detonated his explosive vest inside the Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost province. The military said no U.S. or NATO troops were killed or wounded in the blast, but few other details about the incident were released.

U.S. media reports quote unnamed officials who said the eight Americans killed were working for the CIA.

Khost borders Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, where Taliban militants and their allies launch cross-border attacks. 

In a separate attack, the Canadian defense ministry says four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed Wednesday when their convoy hit a roadside bomb while on patrol just outside the southern city of Kandahar.  

The journalist was identified as 34-year-old Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang.  A Canadian civilian official was wounded in the blast.

The Canadian newspaper says Lang is the first Canadian journalist to die in the Afghan war since Canada joined the international mission in 2002.  

In other news, a spokesman for international troops in Afghanistan says NATO so far has no direct evidence to back up Afghan government claims that foreign troops killed 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. 

Colonel Wayne Shanks told reporters Wednesday that NATO has requested an immediate joint investigation into the incident.

Afghan government investigators earlier concluded that foreign troops killed civilians - including school children - during Sunday's operation in the Narang district of Kunar province. 

NATO released a statement Wednesday saying its forces were targeting insurgents when troops came under fire. The alliance says nine people were killed when NATO forces returned fire.

Hundreds of university students took to the streets in Kabul and in the eastern city of Jalalabad Wednesday to protest the killings.  

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

Five Canadians killed in Afghan bomb attack: military

Five Canadians killed in Afghan bomb attack: military

(AFP) – 

MONTREAL — Five Canadians -- four soldiers and a journalist -- were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan by a bomb that exploded as their armored vehicle passed by, a Canadian general announced Wednesday.

General Daniel Menard, the head of Canadian forces in Afghanistan, announced the deaths on Canadian television without naming the victims.

Public television station CBC identified the journalist killed as Michelle Lang, a reporter with the Calgary Herald, who was on her first trip to Afghanistan and was the first Canadian reporter to die in the country's conflict.

"Yesterday Canada lost five citizens," Menard said. "Four soldiers and one journalist were killed as a result of an improvised explosive device attack on their armored vehicle during a community patrol in Kandahar City."

Menard said a Canadian civilian official was also injured in attack.

The soldiers were patrolling "to gather information on the pattern of life and maintain security in the area," he said.

"The journalist was travelling with them to tell the story of what Canada's soldiers are doing in Afghanistan," he said.

"On behalf of all the soldiers, airmen, sailors and special operators of Joint Task Force Afghanistan I offer our sincere condolences to the families and friends of our fallen," he said.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper also offered his condolences to the families of the Canadian soldiers who he said had "paid the ultimate price while courageously serving their country."

"Their sacrifice will not be forgotten," he said.

"Also fallen is a brave reporter, Michelle Lang, who lost her life reporting on the invaluable work being done by Canadian soldiers, aid workers and diplomats in Afghanistan," he added.

"While not regularly the subject of news, those journalists who risk their lives reporting alongside the men and women of the Canadian Forces in one of the most dangerous regions in the world should not be forgotten."

The deaths, which raised to 138 the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, came just hours before a suicide attack that killed eight US civilians at a military base in eastern Afghanistan.

Canada has some 2,800 troops deployed in the Kandahar region, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. They are supposed to return home in 2011.

Afghan suicide bomber attacks CIA base

Times Online

The US military base in Afghanistan that was targeted in a suicide attack on Wednesday was being used by the CIA, according to US media.

Most of the eight Americans killed in the attack on the base in the eastern Afghan province of Khost were CIA agents, the Washington Post reports.

If true, the attack is the single deadliest attack on US intelligence personnel in the eight years since US-led invasion of Afghanistan began.

The agency has acknowledged the deaths of four CIA officers in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion, according to the Post.

Meanwhile, in a separate attack four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday.

It remains unclear how the Khost bomber was able to evade security at Forward Operating Base Chapman, which the Post said serves as an operations and surveillance centre for the CIA near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

He made it into a room being used as a fitness centre, where he detonated his explosive belt. The blast also wounded eight people several of them seriously, the Post reported. At least one Afghan civilian was also killed.

At least one Afghan civilian was also killed.

"It is the nightmare we've been anticipating since we went into Afghanistan and Iraq," John E. McLaughlin, a former CIA deputy director told The Post.

"Our people are often out on the front line, without adequate force protection, and they put their lives quite literally in jeopardy," he said.

U.S. military officials and diplomats confirmed Wednesday's attack and the eight civilian deaths. "We mourn the loss of life in this attack," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

Guddoomiyihii Abaabulka iyo Wacyigelinta UDUB ee Gobolka Awdal oo Xisbigaasi ka Goostay

Guddoomiyihii Abaabulka iyo Wacyigelinta UDUB ee Gobolka Awdal oo Xisbigaasi ka Goostay Hargeysa (Jam)- Guddoomiyihii Abaabulka iyo Wacyigelinta Gobolka Awdal ee xisbiga UDUB Mr. Cabdiqaadir Aadan Yuusuf, ayaa sheegay inuu iskaga baxay xisbigii uu xilka ka hayey, kuna biiray KULMIYE. Cabdiqaadir Aadan Yuusuf oo shalay warbaahinta kula hadlay shir jaraa'id oo ay ka qaybgaleen qaar ka mid ah masuuliyiinta sarsare ee xisbiga KULMIYE, waxa uu sheegay inuu qaatay go'aanka uu kaga baxay UDUB, kadib markii uu arkay in siyaasadii xisbigaasi burbur ku yimi, isla markaana taladii xisbigaasi ay maroorsadeen koox haween ahi. "Waxaan go'aansaday in xisbigii UDUB iskaga baxo, kadib markii ay ii caddaatay in xisbigaasi burbur ku soo fool leeyahay, taladiisiina gacanta u gashay koox haween ah oo ay marwadu hoggaaminayso, waxa ii caddaatay kadib markii hoggaankii aannu dooranay ku fashilmay xukunkii iyo masuuliyaddii qaranka ee ummaddu u dhiibatay, qaabkii dawladduna uu noqday mid wixii la odhan jiray 'Jiif oo Jaq ah,' ee dadku ku dhacmeen ah. Sidaa daraadeed waxay nagu noqotay nusqaan inuu ka sii mid ahaano xisbigaasi, waxaanay noqotay in aannu gebi ahaanba xisbiga ka baxno," ayuu yidhi Cabdiqaadir Aadan Yuusuf. Mr. Cabdiqaadir waxa uu xukuumadda ku eedeeyey inay iyadu ka dambaysay dilkii foosha xumaa ee bishii toddobaad jidka u dhexeeya Dila iyo Gabiley lagu laalayey afarta nin ee rayidka ahaa, isla markaana aanay daacad ka ahayn inay soo qabato dadkii falkaasi gaystay. "Falkii lagu dilay afarta muwaadin ee reer Awdal ee aqooyahanka iyo ganacsatada lahaa, gacanta ka dambaysay waxay noqotay mid xukuumaddu wax ku leedahay, waayo waxa lagu fuliyey dirayskii dawladda, gaadiidkii dawladda iyo hubkii dawladda, kuwii fuliyeyna waxay dammaanad ka haystaan dawladda oo iyadaa ilaalisa, mana soo qabanayso," ayuu yidhi Guddoomiyihii Abaabulka iyo Wacyigelinta Gobolka Awdal ee xisbiga UDUB. Masuuliyiin sarsare oo ka tirsan xisbiga KULMIYE oo shirkaas jaraa'id ka qaybgalay, kana mid yihiin Murrashaxa Madaxweyne-ku-xigeen Md. Cabdiraxmaan Saylici, Guddoomiyaha Ololaha Doorashooyinka ee gobollada galbeedka Md. Baashe Cabdi Gaboobe iyo Muj. Axmed Muxumed Madar oo halkaasi hadalo kookooban ka jeediyey, ayaa soo dhaweeyey masuulkaas sheegay inuu UDUB ka baxay, waxaanay tibaaxeen in arrintani ka mid tahay sida dadku uga quusteen xisbiga talada haya ee UDUB Xisbiga KULMIYE oo Magacaabay Xil Cusub Hargeysa (Jam)- Xisbiga mucaaradka ah ee KULMIYE, ayaa Mr. Cismaan Yuusuf Cismaan u magacaabay xil cusub oo uu soo kordhiyey, kaas oo ah Xoghayaha Xidhiidhka Golayaasha. Warsaxaafadeed ka soo baxay xisbiga oo uu ku saxeexan yahay Guddoomiye Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo), ayaa lagu sheegay in Mr. Cismaan Yuusuf Cismaan oo ah nin dhallinyaro ah in loo magacaabay Xoghayaha xidhiidhka golayaasha. Warsaxaafadeedkaas oo dhammaystiranina waxa uu u qornaa sedan: "Markaan eegay talada hoggaanka xisbiga KULMIYE iyo baahida ah in la buuxiyo jagada Xoghayaha ee xidhiidhinta Golayaasha, waxaan u magacaabay xilkaas Md. Cusmaan Yuusuf Cusmaan. Waxaan ka rajaynayaa inaad xilkaas ka soo dhalaali doonto, hoggaanka xisbigana waxaan ka codsanayaa inay gacan ku siiyaan."

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Arrinta xubnaha guddida Diiwaangelinta hadalkeedu weli wuu socdaa

"Arrinta xubnaha guddida Diiwaangelinta hadalkeedu weli wuu socdaa. Sababtoo ah…" Dr. Maxamed-Rashiid Sh. Xasan

Warkamaanta, 29 December,  - Saddexda Xisbi Siyaasi iyo xubnihii hore iyaga uga wakiilka ahaa Guddidii Diiwaangelinta ee la shaqayn jirtay Komishankii hore, ayaa la filayaa inay maanta kulan isugu yimaadaan, ka dib markii uu wada-hadal la xidhiidha xubnahan Axsaabta ku metelayay guddidaasi uu dhex maray Komishanka iyo Axsaabta.

 Murashaxa Madaxweyne-xigeenka Xisbiga Mucaaradka ah ee UCID Dr. Maxamed-Rashiid Sh. Xasan oo Wargeyska Ogaal Khadka Telefoonka kula xidhiidhay, ayaa sheegay in kulan ay maanta isugu imanayaan saddexda Xisbi Qaran iyo Xubnihii Axsaabta ku metelayay Guddidii Diiwaangelintu. Waxaanu sheegay in Axsaabta iyo Komishanka cusubi isla soo qaadeen oo ay ka wada-hadleen xubnahan, taasina ay keentay in ay kulankan maanta la qaataan xubnihii ku metelayay Guddidii farsamo ee Diiwaangelinta. "Waa laysla soo qaaday oo weli hadalkeedii wuu socdaa, sababtoo ah habka ay iyagu doonayaan inay hadda wax ku wadaan iyo habka ay qoladii hore ula shaqaynayeen (Guddida diiwaangelintu), ayaa waxa loo baahan yahay in laysla garto doorkooda cusubi wuxuu doqon doono, taas ayaan ogahay, laakiin waxay eryeen iyo waxay Warqad noo soo direen toona kama war hayo." Ayuu yidhi Dr. Maxamed oo u waramay Wargeyska Ogaal, isla markaana daba socday War uu baahiyay mid ka mid ah Wargeysyada dalku, kaas oo nuxurkiisu ahaa in Komishanka cusubi ay kala direen xubnaha Guddida farsamo ee Diiwaangelinta. Dr. Maxamed-Rashiid wuxuu sheegay in Komishanka cusub iyo Axsaabta Siyaasaddu ay ka wada-hadlayaan Xubnahan guddida farsamo ee Diiwaangelinta iyo hab-shaqayntooda Komishankan cusub. "Dabcan Komishankani way ka duwan yihiin Komishankii hore oo waa Komishan cusub, markaa waxay doonayaan inay wax walba ka fiirsadaan oo ay ogaadaan iyo in ay wax walba Lacagta u hayaan. Aniga oo aan odhanayn sifihii ay markii hore (Guddida Diiwaangelintu) kula joogeen qoladii hore (Komishankii hore) waa qalad, laakiin dooddaasi iyo wada-hadalladaasi way socdaan. Waxaana laga ballansan yahay in saddexda Xisbi wada-tashi ka yeeshaan." Ayuu yidhi.

Mar aanu Murashaxa Madaxweyne-xigeenka UCID waydiinay waxyaabaha ay Komishanka cusub isla soo qaadeen ee ku aaddan guddidan farsamo, ayaa wuxuu ku jawaabay oo uu yidhi, "Waxay nala soo qaadeen oo Komishankani doonayaan in dib loo eego habkii ay qoladii hore (Komishankii hore) kula shaqaynayeen oo ay dib u eegaan Mushaharooyinkii iyo Lacagihii kale oo la nadiifiyo, isla markaana ay eegaan nidaamka ay ku wada shaqaynayaan, iyaga oo la xidhiidhinaysa waxyaabihii lagu heshiiyay, waayo Komishankani waxay ku shaqaynaysaa waa lixdii qodob ee lagu heshiiyay." Waxaanu sheegay in Axsaabta siyaasaddu ay maanta u ballansan yihiin kulan la xidhiidha arrintaas. "Waxaas oo dhan in laysla garto weeye, laakiin ma jirto wax gaadhsiisan guud ahaan qoladaasi inay meesha ka baxaan. Balse, waa laga wada-hadlayaa oo berito (maanta) ayaabay saddexda Xisbi ka wada hadlayaan oo ay la shirayaan xubnihii Axsaabta ka wakiil ahaa ee ku jiray guddidaas (Guddidii Diiwaangelinta)." Ayuu yidhi Dr. Maxamed.

Mar aanu sii waydiinay Murashaxa Madaxweyne-xigeenka UCID waxyaabaha ay rasmiyan iyaga gaar ugala hadlayaan xubnihii Xisbiyada ku meteleyay guddidaas, waxa uu ku jawaabay oo uu yidhi, "Berito (maanta) waxa la doonayaa in arrintan laga hadlo oo sida ugu habboon ay layskula eego qoladaasi ka wakiilka ahaa Axsaabtu. Aakhirkana waxaanu doonaynaa in aanu Komishanka u sahalno had iyo jeer waxay doonayaan in ay qabtaan oo aanu u fududayno, waana ballantii aanu kala qaadanay. Sababtoo ah, iyaguba ballankii aanu kala qaadanay siday ahayd ayay u wadaan ee ugu quruxda badnayn. Arrintana waa in Axsaabta madaxdeeda iyo raggii nooga Wakiilka ahaa ay ka wada hadlaan, dabadeedna aanay imanin meesha wax laysku hayo iyo wax laysku khilaafsan yahay. Waayo, anagu waxaanu doonaynaa in aanu ka digtoonaano wax carqalad ah oo meesha yimaadda."

Gebogebadii mar aanu Maxamed-Rashiid waydiinay tallaabada ay qaadayaan Xisbi ahaan haddiiba Komishanku dalbado in la bedelo xubnahan, waxa uu ku jawaabay oo uu yidhi, "Inkasta oo aananu taa islaba gaadhin, haddii ay soo dhigaan amaba ay waxyaabahaa soo dhigaan waanu isla eegi doona (Xisbi ahaan)."

Source: Ogaal Newspaper

SOMALIA: Puntland authorities crack down on people smugglers

SOMALIA: Puntland authorities crack down on people smugglers

NAIROBI, 29 December 2009 (IRIN) - The authorities in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland are moving to halt the smuggling of people - mainly Somalis and Ethiopians - into Yemen and the Gulf States, senior Puntland officials told IRIN.

 "We have begun to force would-be migrants back to their homes for their own safety. I would rather have them back in their homelands than dying at sea," said Muse Ghelle Yusuf, governor of Puntland's Bari region.

 He said thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis are currently in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Puntland, intending to cross into Yemen.

 "Our estimate is that as of today [29 December 2009] there are 4,000-5,000 migrants in and around Bosasso," Yusuf said, noting that 1,000-1,700 have been arriving in the area daily.

 Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheyr, in charge of ending people-smuggling from Puntland, told IRIN they had so far repatriated around 1,000 people of "Ethiopian origin back to their country".

 "Somalis are detained and sometimes sentenced to jail terms to discourage them," he said.

 He said security units were arresting would-be migrants along the shore as they tried to board boats, adding that some of embarkation points used by smugglers had been taken over. "If they stay in Bosasso we don't bother them."

 In response to these measures, smugglers were moving further up the coast, he said.

 "In the past, you could board a boat 5-10km from Bosasso; now they are going up to 50km away," said a local journalist who requested anonymity.

 Desperate to get out

 Zakaria Abshir, a 23-year-old from Bardhere in Gedo region, southwestern Somalia, is among those trying to reach Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Abshir told IRIN: "I tried once before and made it to Saudi but was repatriated within a week by the government there."

 Abshir said he was aware how dangerous and difficult the journey was but he had "no option".

 "I have no peace in my home and nothing to do. I know I may die trying this but I can also die of hunger or be shot by someone if I stay at home. I will only die once."

 He said the Puntland authorities were making it "very hard for us [migrants] to leave".

 "This new policy of forcibly repatriating Ethiopians may discourage some but others will still come in," said the above-mentioned local journalist.  "These are desperate people; some of them have made the journey before but they still do it".

 He added that because of the crackdown, smugglers were reportedly charging migrants US$200 for the trip to Yemen.

 According to the UN Refugee Agency, 74,000 people crossed the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa to Yemen in 2009 - up 50 percent on 2008.

 Whilst the number of Somali migrants remained steady in 2008 and 2009, the number of Ethiopians rose sharply to 42,000 in 2009, it said.

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UN-BACKED CONTAINER-PROFILING PROJECT LEADS TO SEIZURE OF DRUGS, COUNTERFEIT GOODS

UN-BACKED CONTAINER-PROFILING PROJECT LEADS TO SEIZURE OF DRUGS, COUNTERFEIT GOODS

Latin American port authorities are seizing more drug consignments and counterfeit goods along container routes thanks to a United Nations-backed initiative that is showing growing success after its inception six years ago.

Under the Container Control Programme – a joint project of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (<"http://www.unodc.org/">UNODC) and the independent, inter-governmental World Customs Organization – a newly established and trained Panamanian inter-agency profiling unit in the Pacific port of Balboa made their first seizures of containers carrying illicit goods.

"In only three weeks, the unit, which started operations in November, seized four containers from China, destined for Chile and Venezuela," UNODC said in a <"http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2009/December/ecuador-container-control-programme-leads-to-drug-seizures.html">news release on the programme, which assists port authorities in establishing profiling systems and in using modern control techniques to detect illegal goods in containers without causing disruptions in the commerce of legal goods.

"Inter-agency officials decided to inspect the respective containers because the declared goods were not consistent with the activity of the exporters. Large consignments of counterfeit T-shirts, fake branded shoes and towels were seized."

Earlier, container monitoring officials in Guayaquil, Ecuador, seized 25 kilograms of cocaine worth $1.7million in Belgium at the retail level from a container filled with bananas. Tracking details showed that the container was on its way back to Guayaquil because it had been rejected in the port of Antwerp, Belgium.

Further investigations showed that several other containers had been similarly rejected there and three additional ones were found with a total of 75 kilograms of cocaine, worth over $5 million, hidden in the refrigeration section of the containers.

In September, three containers from the small town of El Carmen in Ecuador were seized with various amounts of cocaine. As a result, the Ecuadorian shipping line ordered inspections of all containers originating from El Carmen, which is allegedly harbouring Colombian drug traffickers.

The programme was launched in 2003 to improve container security. While most containers carry legal goods, some are used to smuggle drugs, weapons and even people. Exchange of information by officials in participating ports have led to seizures in Antwerp and Hamburg, Germany, where cocaine busts have taken place.

It is expected these seizures will increase thanks to the innovative ContainerComm intelligence system, developed by the World Customs Organization, which facilitates communication between ports and provides vital information for risk assessments and container profiling.

Countries currently participating in the programme include Ecuador, Ghana, Pakistan, Panama, Senegal and Turkmenistan.

BURUNDI: UN HELPS DISTRIBUTE FREE IDENTITY CARDS FOR NEXT MAY’S POLLS

BURUNDI: UN HELPS DISTRIBUTE FREE IDENTITY CARDS FOR NEXT MAY'S POLLS
New York, Dec 29 2009  9:10AM
One million Burundians old enough to vote next May will receive a free <"http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2009/december/la-carte-didentit-pour-un-million-de-burundais-supplmentaires.en">national identity card, thanks to a campaign supported by the United Nations Development Programme (<"http://www.undp.org/">UNDP) and other agencies.

Previously, administrative costs and delays made it almost impossible for poor people to obtain the card needed to vote, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Executive Representative Youssef Mahmoud recently warned that a lack of funding was challenging the "significant advances" made in the small Central African country after decades of ethnic and factional war.

The campaign is especially targeting women living in the countryside and groups that are underprivileged or isolated. It will take only one day to create and deliver the cards, and UNDP has provided assistance to card issuance centres in 129 municipalities, which now have the necessary equipment.

The year 2010 will be a watershed for Burundi as it will be the first time that an election cycle has come to a conclusion without disruptions.

In his most recent report to the Security Council, Mr. Ban noted that while Burundi had witnessed significant progress in recent months, it needed help both to ensure successful elections and tackle challenges such as human rights abuses, corruption and weak institutions.

He said he remained concerned about reports of restrictions to the freedom of assembly and expression of opposition parties imposed by local authorities, and of militant activities of youth groups allegedly associated with certain political parties that were generating fear and suspicion.

Mr. Mahmoud said Council President Pierre Nkurunziza and the Interior Ministry last month urged political leaders to put an end to "these potentially destabilizing practices. While these statements seem to be heeded, the situation bears continuous scrutiny by the Minister of the Interior, all political parties and civil society organizations," he added.

At the time he said the UN Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB) and UNDP were looking, as a matter of urgency, into practical ways to help potential voters who could not afford the administrative costs of acquiring a national identity card.

Culture clash tears Somali family apart

Culture clash tears Somali family apart

Six children taken by Social Services Buffalo News By Jay Tokasz NEWS STAFF REPORTER Malaika Sabtow, 28, holds photos of her six children, taken from her by Social Services. Somalian immigrant Malaika Sabtow raised five children in African refugee camps, surviving for 14 years without electricity, amid persistent drought and regular outbreaks of malaria and tuberculosis. But none of those 14 years, she said, was as bad as the past five months in Buffalo. That's how long it has been since the Erie County Department of Social Services took all of her children —she now has six, including a nursing 2-month-old daughter — and placed them in a foster home for reasons Sabtow doesn't understand. Sabtow, 28, wishes she were back in Africa. "At least I had the kids there," she said through a translator, Imam Yahye Omar. "Here everything is good, but if they are taking the kids from you, Africa is better." Supporters of Sabtow claim the county was overzealous in taking away her children and are concerned she and her husband, Madhey A. Khamis, are being treated unfairly because they are new to the country and don't speak English. Social Services Commissioner Carol Dankert said she could not comment on why the children were removed or whether they would be returned. "We do want kids to be with their families whenever possible," she said. The case is tied up in Erie County Family Court, where Sabtow is being represented by Buffalo attorney Oscar Smukler. "I think the kids have suffered immeasurably," said Smukler. "We're making a concerted effort to get the children back to their parents." Khamis received a letter in September from a county caseworker explaining that a report of suspected child abuse or maltreatment had been "indicated" — meaning credible evidence had been found to support "the determination that you maltreated or abused the child(ren) named in the report." Child Protective Services became involved following a July 30 incident in the rented family home on Chenango Street, in which Khamis allegedly beat his 8-year-old son, Abdi Abdi, with a belt and tied the boy's hands and legs with rope after he misbehaved at school, according to friends of the family. Corporal punishment is acceptable in Somalia, according to friends, who said Khamis didn't intend to hurt his son. "They already understand that what the man did is a no-no here," said Osman Dualeh Abdullah, a longtime Buffalo resident who is from Somalia. Abdullah and others, including Omar, imam of the Islamic Cultural Association of Western New York, which runs a mosque on Connecticut Street, have tried to intervene on behalf of the family. "Child Protective Services, they don't know the culture. They need to be educated," said Omar. "There is a lot of abuse going on in America, but not with these people. Kids are the most valuable thing they have in the world." Dawoud S. Adeyola, vice president of the Connecticut Street mosque, wrote a letter to Dankert saying the family has been subjected to "brutal punishment" by the department and urging the placement of the children either with their mother or with a family that understands their language and culture. Muslim community leaders can assist with having the children returned to their mother and keeping the father away, if Child Protective Services still has concerns about him, said Abdullah. At the very least, the kids should be placed in homes more sensitive to their cultural needs, friends of the family said. The parents have told friends and others that the children appeared ill in their few supervised visits with them. The baby girl, Shamia, who is now 6 months old, has rashes on her body and constantly cries during the visits, according to Sabtow. Shamia was being breast-fed at the time she was taken from Sabtow. Shamia and her brother, Hassan, 5, were recently hospitalized in Women & Children's Hospital — and their parents were told by county staff not to visit. "We're afraid of the psychological damage to the children. Every time they go see them, the kids are crying, sick or suffering," said Abdullah. The children have been split among three foster homes — none of which is a Muslim family, said Omar, the imam. One of the boys, Mustaffa, 12, was pulled out of an Islamic boarding school and placed in School 19, even though his parents paid $3,600 in advance for the boy to attend the private school. According to Omar, Mustaffa told his mother that the people he was living with would not allow him to practice Islam. A daughter, Fatuma, 11, also has not been allowed to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf, Omar said. And none of the children was able to participate in Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, he said. Child Protective Services works closely with the area's four refugee resettlement agencies to make sure staff members understand cultural differences, said Dankert. "Certainly there are different beliefs held by different cultures, and we have to work to navigate those," she said. But the aim of the department is child welfare, and "if there [are] grounds for removing the children we always have to have our work scrutinized by the courts," she said. jtokasz@buffnews.com

Prince Alwaleed gets progress report on Eritrean charity work

Prince Alwaleed gets progress report on Eritrean charity work

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, receives at his office Eritrean Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammed Omar Mahmoud. (AN photo)   Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), has received a progress report on his charity project in Eritrea. Eritrea's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Omar Mahmoud, met with Prince Alwaleed at his office in Riyadh to present the progress report from Eritrean Labor and Human Welfare Minister Askalu Menkerios. Alwaleed had contributed US$150,000 for the rehabilitation of children with physical disabilities in the north African country. Earlier this year, Alwaleed visited Eritrea upon the invitation of President Isaias Afwerki. Afewerki hosted a luncheon in honor of the prince and accorded him the Presidential Coat of Arms of Eritrea, which is a first class decoration. During the meeting in Riyadh, Alwaleed and the ambassador discussed general issues related to their respective countries and the prince's philanthropic contribution to Africa. Ambassador Mohammed commended the prince for his efforts in playing a vital role in economic and social development, referring to his investments in the local, regional and international arena. The ambassador also cited Alwaleed's generous contributions to people in need all over the world. The meeting was also attended by Dr. Nahla Alanbar, personal executive assistant to Alwaleed.

MUJ MAXAMED KAAHIN OO XUKUUMADA RAYAALE KU EEDEEYEY IN AANAY DAACAD KA AHAYN IN DOORASHADA MADAXTOOYADU QABSOONTO

MUJ MAXAMED KAAHIN OO XUKUUMADA RAYAALE KU EEDEEYEY IN AANAY DAACAD KA AHAYN IN DOORASHADA MADAXTOOYADU QABSOONTO

Muj: Maxamed Kaahin Oo Xukuumadda Rayaale Ku Eedeeyey In Aanay Daacad Ka Ahayn In Doorashada Madaxtooyadu Qabsoonto

"Hadaanu Doodi Weyno Xisbigii Hanti- Wadaaga Iyo Udub Oo Kale Ayaanu Noqonaynaa"

Afhayeenka Xisbiga Kulmiye Muj. Maxamed Kaahin

Hargeysa, December 29, 2009  – Afhayeenka xisbiga Kulmiye Muj. Maxamed Kaahin Axmed ayaa xukuumadda Madaxweyne Rayaale iyo xisbiga UDUB ku eedeeyey in aanay diyaar u ahayn in tartanka doorashada Madaxtooyada ay ka qayb galaan, tilmaamayna in wax ka bedelkii xeer hoosaadka golaha guurtida ee khilaafku ka dhashay ay ka dambaysay, kaas oo intaa ku daray in maamulka Madaxweyne Rayaale ku guuldaraystay Bedalaada lacagta Somalia ee ka socota gobolada Togdheer, Sool iyo Sanaag.

Waxa kale oo uu Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin maamulka Madaxweyne Rayaale dusha ka saaray in sabateeda ay lahayd dib u dhicii badnaa ee ku yimid doorashooyinkii golayaasha deegaanka iyo madaxtooyada.

Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin oo muddo saddex todobaad ah ku sugnaa magaalo madaxda gobolka Togdheer ee Burco oo wargeyska Haatuf uu xalay khadka telefoonka uu waraysi kula yeeshay isaga oo jooga magaaladaasi oo aanu wax kaga weydiinay, xaaladda guud ee dalka iyo duruufaha ku xeeran diyaar garowga doorashooyinka, dib u dhiga doorashooyinka golayaasha deegaanka iyo khilaafaadka xisbiga Kulmiye hogaankiisa laga sheegayo.

Waraysigaasina waxa uu u dhacay sidan:-

S: Muddadii aad ku sugnayd magaalada Burco, Maxaad ku aragtay Waayaha iyo Marxaladda ka taagan gobolkaasi Togdheer?

J: Runtii Burco ayaan ku sugnaa in muddo ahba, wakhtigan xaadirka ahna aan joogaa, marka aad Burco joogto waxa aad dareemaysaa Astaamaha qaranka ee maqan oo ay kow ka tahay Caasimadii labaad ee dalka oo ay ka socoto lacag aan ahayn tii qaranka ee dawladdii Siyaad Barre, miisaaniyadihii ugu dambeeyey ee golaha wakiiladu Ansixiyeen 2007 ilaa 2008-dii, kharashaadkii lagu bedalayey lacagtaasi waa lagu daray, dawladdaase dib u isticmaashay, marka la eego lixdii gobol ee dalka hore uga jiray saddex gobol baanay ka socon lacagta Qaranka Somaliland, Waana Togdheer, Sool iyo Sanaag.

Dawladda Somaliland ayaana ku fashilantay Astaanka qaran ee maqan, dhibaatada ugu weyn ee Burco ka taaganina oo ah dhaawac qaran, waa lacagtaa nidaamkii Somalia ee ka socota oo ay xukuumaddani tahli kari weyday inay dalkii ay xukumaysay ay lacag kale ka socoto,.

S: Xisbigiina Kulmiye waxa ay maalmahan saxaafadda qaarkood ay qorayeen in hogaankiina Kulmiye uu khilaaf weyni ka dhex taagan yahay, arimahasi maxaad ka leedahay?

J: Horta anagu hadaanu nahay Kulmiye waxa aanu nahay mid aad uga duwan xisbigaasi UDUB, xisbiga aanay guddihiisa dimuqraadiyad iyo wada tashi aanu ka dhex jirina, hadduu xukunka dalka qabtana, maamulkiisa dimuqraadiyadi kama jiri karto, khilaaf siyaasi ah oo xisbigayaga isku jiid jiitaana ma jiro, waxa qudha ee jira, waxa weeyi xaalaadka siyaasiga ah iyo qiimaynta hawlaha xisbigu fulinayo, marka laga hadlayo, Doodbaa xisbiga dhex marta, haddaanay doodi na dhex marina, deexisbigii hanti-wadaaga kacaanka somaliyeed ee Siyaad Barre ee qofka qudhii u talin jiray iyo ka UDUB oo kale ayaanu noqonaynaa, wax ka sokeeya doodahaas qiimaynta ah oo jiraa ma jiro, balse waxa jira qiimaynta doodahaasi uun.

S: Waxa jiray dhawaan in xilal cusub oo xisbiga Kulmiye uu magacaabay oo saxaafadda loo gudbiyey, haddana xisbigu ka soo daba saaray qoraalo lagu hakinayo oo xisbiga guddihiisu iska arkayo, Arimahaasi miyaanay Dhabar jab ku ahayn Sumcadda Maamulka xisbigiina Kulmiye oo aanay wax u dhimayn?

J: Wax ku noqon maysee waa wada tashiga sii balaadhintiisa iyo meel marintiisa, in la is qanciyo oo la doodaana waa dimuqraadiyadda waajibkeeda.

S: Sideed u aragtaa go'aanadii ay guddida nabadgelyada gobolka Togdheer ay ka soo saareen xayiraadka gaadiidka soo galaya 10:00 habeenimo wixii ka dambeeya inay mamnuuc tahay?

J: Nabadgelyada xoojinteeda ayay yidhaahdeen ujeedadayadu way ku saabsan tahay, Nabadgelyada xoojinteeduna ma xuma.

S: Waxa jira in doorashada qabsoomideedii aanay Komishanka doorashooyinku ilaa hadda aanay cayimin, Komishankuna ay safaradoodii tababarka ku guda jiraan arimahaasi sideed u aragtaa?

J: Horta waad la socotaa oo doorashadii Madaxtooyadu waxa ay hayd inay qabsoonto badhtamihii April 2008, maantana waxa aynu maraynaa dabayaaqadii bishii December, 2009, Todoba jeer oo hore ayaa la mudeeyey, asbaabihii ay dib ugu dhacdayna waxa Kow ka ah xukuumadda Daahir Rayaale, lacagtii kaga soo hagaagtay kharashka doorashadana waa kuwii bixin waayey, waa kuwii natiijadii diiwaangelinta cod-bixiyeyaashana sharci darada ku laalay oo muddo kordhin dhawr ahna loo sameeyey, waa tii khilaafkii siyaasiga ahaa ee doorashadana laga heshiieyey, Komishan doorashooyin oo cusbuna la magacaabay. Dawladdihii qaadhaan bixiyeyaashuna waa kuwii hereba tababarka u siin jiray Komishankii horeba, balse waa kuwaa xoghayahoodii guud  ay imika wada leeyihiin diiwaangelintii suuro gali mayso, xeerkii yaraa ee dhaqdhaqaajinta guurtiduna, kuwaa uun buuu dabada ku hayey, waxa weeyi in aanay doorasho diyaar u hayn, waa la arkay, xiligii ay go'aanka saddexda xisbi soo wada saareena waxa ay ahayd dabayaaqadii sanadkii hore, dabadeedna waxa la filayey oo aad iyo aad loo sugayey doorashadii madaxtooyadu inay wakhtigeedii ku qabsoonto April 2008, dabadeedna markii xaaladda la qiimeeyey waxa weeyi haddii doorashada madaxtooyada dib loo dhigo oo ta deegaanka oo aan loo diyaar garoobina Armay qabsoomi weydaa, markaa waxa weeyi qodobadii lixda ahaa ee lagu heshiiyey, waxay ahaayeen mabaadiidii asaasiga ahaa ee koobayey hawlaha doorashada, markaa inta ay ina soo gaadhsiiyeena wixii Technical ah iyaga ayaa qabanaya, wixii wada tashi ah ee khubaro ahaan la inaga cilmi roonyahayna, sida Tirakoobka Servarka hagaajintiisa, Arimaha doorashada iyo qalabkeeda la soo daabacayo, qaadhaan-bixiyeyaasha 75% in ay iyagu bixiyaan, waa hawlo farsamo oo nidaamkii ay inoo keeneen ee Axsaabtu ay isla waafaqday waxa aanu u aragnaa inay macquul tahay. Wixii kale qolyaha farsamada ayaa hawshoodii qabanaya.

S: Ururka UDHIS waxa uu sheegay in heshiiskii hogaamiyeyaasha saddexda xisbi ay wada gaadheen in doorashada golayaasha deegaanka laga soo horaysiiyo ta madaxtooyada ay tilamaameena, distoor jabin iyo khiyaamo qaran oo sida sharcigu dhigayo in doorashada deegaanku ay soo horayso, arinkaa sidaad u aragtaa?

J: horta waxa weeyi waa dhab oo arimaha doorashadu way kala horeeyaan, ta golayaasha deegaanku wakhtigeedii wuu ku qabsoomi waayey, tii madaxtooyaduna waa ta qabsoomi weyday, dabadeedna waxa la yidhi ta aasaasiga ahi waxa weeyi ta madaxweynaha oo waa madaxweynihii, waxa weeyi qiimayntas iyaasiga ahi, meesha ay ku dhacaysaa, waa ta madaxtooyadu, ha idin dhaafto dabadeedna tii golayaasha deegaanka aad gashaan, markaa ma qabo anigu doorashadii baa qabsoomi weyday, doorashada qabsoomideedu waxa qaban kari waayey hay'addihii ku shaqada lahaa ama komishan ha noqotee, dabadeedna sifihii aynu ku soo hor marinay tii madax tooyada ayaa bulsho weynta caalamnka teebaynu taageero dhaqaale kaga doonaynay ama taageero ummaddeed ee aynu ku quudaraynaynay inay doorashadu wax inoogu tarto xagga la dhaqanka bulshada caalamka iyo ictiraafkeena, labada ta aanu isnidhi aad baa loo qiimaynayaa, caalamkuna ay danaynayaan waxa ay ahayd ta madaxtooyada laakiin waa qodob oo waxa weeyaan wuu habsaamay sifuhuu ku habsaamayna waa sifahaasi aan soo sheegnay.

Wargeyska Haatuf

Horn of Africa Countries Very Much in the News in 2009

Horn of Africa Countries Very Much in the News in 2009

Joe DeCapua28 December 2009

Countries in the Horn of Africa were very much in the news in 2009.  For example, the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Somalia, an arms embargo against Eritrea and a recent court case in Ethiopia resulting in death sentences for five people.

    
David Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, is following developments in the Horn.  Shinn is an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.  
    
Somalia
    
"Many of us thought that 2009 would be a decisive year for Somalia politically.  That something would happen that would pretty much determine its future for the next year or two.  And that really didn't happen.  It was sort of anti-climatic," he says.
    
Neither the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), nor its major opponent, the al-Shabaab militia, has total control of the country.  
    
Shinn says internal divisions within al-Shabaab became clear in 2009, "very much disputing among itself and…far from being in a position to take control of all of Somalia.  However, he says the TFG remains very fragile.
    
"So, in effect, 2009 has just been pushed [into] 2010," he says.
    
The former ambassador says time could now be on the side of the TFG.  In early 2009, al Shabaab appeared to have the advantage.
    
"If the TFG can train up loyal security forces on a timely basis, so that they can confront al-Shabaab with trained Somali forces, not foreign forces, then I think it will have a chance of establishing itself in greater parts of the country," he says.
    
Al Qaida
    
Shinn believes al Qaida does have influence in Somalia, but it's unclear just how much.
    
"It's very hard to know how many members of Shabaab actually pay attention to al Qaida and how many are doing essentially their own thing. But there are enough foreigners, foreign jihadis, working on behalf of al Shabaab, that almost certainly are linked  to al Qaida, that to suggest it has no influence I think is simply wrong," he says.
    
He says even several hundred "committed jihadis" can have a major impact.  
    
However, he adds, "There are some who are suggesting that there is now a growing schism between the foreign jihadis with al Shabaab and the Somalis, who constitute the far larger component of al Shabaab." 
    
The situation, he says, will be closely watched by the Obama administration.
    
Eritrea
    
The United Nations recently imposed an arms embargo and targeted sanctions against Eritrea for its alleged support of militant groups in Somalia.
    
Shinn says he would like to see the United Nations, African Union or the United States release more information on Eritrea's involvement, "so that it would be clearer to the general public as to what exactly Eritrea's doing." 
    
He says such information on Eritrea has been released in previous years. But he says no detailed update has been given since December of 2008.
    
"I don't doubt Eritrea is providing support to groups in Somalia, but it's important to know more about exactly what that support is," he says.
    
The sanctions also stem from Eritrea keeping troops near Djibouti's border.
    
"This is certainly an embarrassment to Eritrea," he says.  "The bigger question is what will the real impact of it be other than the embarrassment? In this part of the world, it's so easy to move arms in and out of a country that it may not have much practical impact."
    
Ethiopia
    
In December, an Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death and more than 30 to life in prison for allegedly plotting to assassinate government officials.
    
Shinn says he has not followed the trial closely enough to render an opinion on the sentences, adding he would not "second guess" the prosecution or the defense in the case.     
    
"I would point out of the five persons sentenced to death, four of these are in absentia.  There is only one who is still in the country.  But far more important than that is there is an appeals process.  And the lawyers for the defense say they will pursue the appeals and there may still be a different outcome to this than the one we see today," he says.
    
The George Washington University professor says, however, the situation is still "troubling."
    
"It comes in an environment and a court process that historically has had political prisoners, and it raises real questions as to whether this is another one of those kinds of cases or not.  But I withhold judgment on this specific case," he says.  

VOA

Former Minister Says He And Somaliland’s Government Habitually Lied To The Public

Former Minister Says He And Somaliland's Government Habitually Lied To The Public

London, UK, December 26, 2009 (SL Times) – The former minister of industry, Muhammad Suleiman Weyne said to a gathering of Somalilanders in Bristol, UK, that when they laid a cornerstone for a new cement factory in Berbera they were play acting, and that they were deliberately misleading the public and had no intention of building such a factory. He described it as all part of the lies that they were telling the public for the last twenty years.

When someone says they lied before, it always raises the question well, if he lied before, is he lying now too, or is he telling the truth. But from circumstantial evidence, there is good reason to believe that Muhammad Suleiman Weyne was indeed lying when he was a minister, as many people suspected, and is telling the truth now, which is a damning indictment of President Dahir Rayale and his government.

To make the situation worse, Muhammad Suleiman Weyne's did not make his confessions because his conscience bothered him or anything like that but in order to ingratiate himself with UCID party. Obviously, it is in UCID's interest to distance itself from such a self-confessed and unrepentant liar. This episode confirms the corruption and deep cynicism that pervades the highest levels of Somaliland's government and provides good reason for why Somalilanders are correct in not accepting at face-value the claims and pronouncements of President Dahir Rayale Kahin and his ministers.

Somaliland Times

TACSI: MARXUUM MAXAMUUD SAALAX NUUR

Anigoo ku hadlaaya magaca Somaliland Democracy Shield waxaan tacsi u dirayaa xaaska, ehelka, qaraabada, xigaalka, iyo asxaabta uu marxuumku ka tegay meel kasta oo ay joogaanba . Sidoo kale waxaan tacsi u dirayaa Shacbiweynaha Soomaliland, gaar ahaan Gobalada Sool iyo Sanaag ee uu ka soo jeeday.

Alle ha u naxariistee MARXUUM MAXAMUUD SAALAX NUUR (FAGADHE), Safiirka Somaliland ee Frans waxuu ku dhintay magaalada Paris 27/12/2009 isagoo muddo isbitaal ku jiray.

MARXUUM MAXAMUUD SAALAX NUUR, waxuu ahaa aqoonyahan muddo dheer ka soo shaqeeyey safaradihii Soomaliya, waxuu ahaa Wasiirks arrimaha debedda ee Soomaliland dawladdii Cigaal. Waxuu Muddo dheer ahaa Guddoomiye xigeenka 1aad ee KULMIYE, isagoo hawshaas ka fadhiisatay kal hore dabadeedna loo magacaabay Safiirka Soomaliland ee Frans.

Waxaan Illaahay uga baryayaa inuu u naxariisto oo uu janatal fardows ku abaal mariyo, innagana dhammaan inaga siiyo samir iyo Iimaan.

Axmed Carwo

President

Somaliland Democracy Shield

Cardiff UK

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