FOLLOWING news footage of dead peace-keepers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, the world abandoned a peace-keeping mission in Somalia in 1995. The American public opinion turned against participation in the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) and President Bill Clinton ordered a complete withdrawal of US troops in 1994.
Other nations such as Belgium, […]

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Police say a Somali man has drowned while illegally crossing the Limpopo river at the Beitbridge border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Superintendent Maggy Mathebula says police had received information that a group of Somali nationals were illegally crossing to South Africa from Zimbabwe when one of them fell in the river.Mathebula says they are waiting […]

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waa in aan guntiga dhiisha iskaga dhignaa hadaan nahay beesha makadoor samaroon .halganku maanta ayuu bilaamay.
sida la wada ogsoon yahay madaxweyne daahir rayaale kaahin wuxuu noqday ninkii ugu horeeyey ee dimoqraadiyada barra ummadda reer soomaaliland.
hortii ma jirin nin sameeyey doorasho xalaal ah.waana casharkii ugu waynaa ee loo dhigo qabqablayaasha dagaal ee ku habsaday ummadda soomaaliyeed.
waa […]

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Waxa wali ii socda Ergo l Hadana qofna ma oga inuu meel qaldan taaganyahay. Haduu qofku qaladkiisa garan waayo wuxu halis u yahay inuu ku dhaco qalad kale; mid kale iyo mid kaleba oo markaa qaladaadkiisu wuxuu ugu ekaadaa wax caadi ah, waxa la yidhi waxaad barataaba waa baaskaa.
Dhaqanku wuxuu lahaa calaamooyin iyo (red lines), […]

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A landmine blast killed Mogadishu mayor’s spokesman on Saturday in the latest attack by Islamist rebels on government authorities in the anarchic capital, officials said.
“Mohamed Muhuyidin Ali was standing on the sidewalk waiting for his car and then all of a sudden a huge landmine blast occurred,” Abas Mohamed Nur, the spokesman’s […]

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Mogadishu - Islamist militia on Friday took control of a town in south-central Somalia after Ethiopian soldiers withdrew overnight, witnesses said.
The Islamists, who briefly controlled much of south and central Somalia before they were ousted by Ethiopia-backed Somali government troops early this year, have since been waging near daily attacks against the joint forces.
“The Ethiopian […]

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The sudden and apparently unexpected capture of Mogadishu by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces has angered every Somali who has a sense of dignity.
On the other hand, the fall of Mogadishu brought a sense of relaxation only to Somalia warlords (or shall we say: Somali traitors) and they supporters who betrayed their nation.
The […]

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PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) — Members of Maine’s Somali community got together for a rally in Portland Friday. The group held a demonstration against the Ethiopian sponsored genocide in Mogadishu and Ogaden.

It was one year ago Friday that Ethiopian troops illegally invaded Somalia. Those troops are still there. Organizers of the rally they wanted to express […]

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By: Crystal KimThere is nothing humanitarian about imperialismDemocrat and Republican politicians continue to claim that there is “genocide” in the Darfur region of Sudan. They claim that U.S. military intervention in Sudan is a “humanitarian” necessity, not part of an imperialist agenda to secure access to raw materials and markets in the oil-rich region. Is […]

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Iran’s first vice-president has held talks with the Djiboutian president on bilateral ties on the final leg of his African tour.
“Iran and Djibouti can boost ties by taking advantage of available resources,” Parviz Davoudi said in a meeting with President Ismail Omar Guelleh. The Iranian official also called for improving regional and bilateral cooperation […]

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Iran-Djibouti-Davoudi Iran’s First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi said here Friday that Iran is ready to contribute to implementation of different economic projects in Djibouti.Davoudi told Djiboutian Prime Minister Delita Mohammed Delita that Iran is capable of commissioning projects in Africa, in Djibouti in particular, regarding its rich experience in the fields of petrochemical, dam building, housing, […]

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Sophia TesfamariamDecember 28, 2007
At a time when Eritreans around the world are standing firm, reaffirming their unity and support for the people and government of Eritrea, the mercenary minority regime in Ethiopia led by the life long terrorist Meles Zenawi has launched another campaign of vilification and defamation against Eritrea.
In cities across the United States, […]

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“Dhacdadii u dambeysay markii askar beeleedkii shaadh ka S/land sidatey iyo beelihii dhulbalaadhsigii la jabiyey in Hargeysa laga soo direy ciidamo. Kuwaas oo loo qaatey ciidamo dhexdhaxaad ah laakiin si kidis ah ragbadan nooga laayey, Waana godob aan u hayno mamulka S/land gaar ahaan ina Rayaale. Waxaanan balanqaadeynaa cidkasta oo na dulmida in aan wakhtigeeda […]

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The second half of the year 2006 was a time when certain powers, nervous about the new political developments in Somalia aimed at national reconstitution and unity, were gearing up to squash these developments before they had a chance to take root. It is to be recalled that the Government of Eritrea, in the interest […]

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Wali waxan ku qasbanahay inaan madadaaliyo SAHRA-Haldhaa/Shara Suubban/Sahra-Awdal, anigaana isku xil saaraye, cidna iima xil saarin. Shaqsi ahaan dadka intii dan iyo muraad ii lihi way ogsoonyihiin emailka laygala soo xidhiidhi karo oo ah ; hiildan@yahoo.com iyo Forumka an ugu jeclahay ee Saylac Forum, oo ka mid ah saylacnews.com iyo waliba Addresskayga […]

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Mogadishu - One day after Saedo Soleyman’s husband was shot dead by Ethiopian troops in the violent Somali capital Mogadishu, her seven-year-old daughter Sahro was killed by a mortar shell that landed in front of the family’s home. And as if things couldn’t get any worse, Soleyman now lives in a makeshift hut made of […]

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Two women working for the international aid group Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) have been kidnapped in Somalia’s semi-autonomous northern region of Puntland.Officials in the region say the women were seized in the port town of Bossasso Wednesday, by a gang armed with machine guns. The two women have been identified as Spanish and […]

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Somaliland
The leader of Somalia’s breakaway sub-state of Somaliland has said that his administration intends to reach the international border established during colonial times.
Dahir Riyale, president of the breakaway Somaliland republic, told the Voice of America’s Somali program that Somaliland and Somalia combined to form the first Somali Republic.
“Somalia was two countries that combined [in 1960],” […]

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Inta badan waxan u heesaa gabadh la yidhaahdo Sahra-Haldhaa oo ku jirta Forumka Saylac, ahna gabadhii an u sameeyay albumka SOO SOCO INAABTAAY. Sida qaalilbka ah, haddii aan shaaca ka qaado sirta an ka wato SAHRA. Aniga xagayga, Sahra Haldhaa/ Sahra-suuban , waa AWDAL, waana Awdaltayda. Waa Awdal oo an madadaalinayo, marna ku […]

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By OSCAR KIMANUKA oscar_kim2000@yahoo.co.uk
Television screens are awash with images of death and despair in Mogadishu, Somalia. Crowds of Somalis beat, hammer and drag dead Ethiopian troops in a manner that reminds us of the bitter experience of American troops back in October 1993, when a mob dragged the bodies of two United States soldiers […]

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First of five partsFor a rural Tennessee town like Shelbyville, the public square typically displays a cross-section of the entire community.
People are on their way to the county courthouse. Perhaps folks are there to shop or to drop by one of the banks to conduct important business.
Lawyers, farmers, business people and just plain folks dot […]

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SANA’A, Dec. 23 (Saba) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh has received a phone call from Somali President Abdullah Yusuf, who acquainted Saleh with the latest developments in Somalia.
President Saleh renewed Yemen’s supporting attitude to resettle peace, security and stability in Somalia. During the call, President Saleh exchanged congratulations with Somali President on the occasion of […]

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NAIROBI (AFP) — A senior Somali government official accused the United Nations on Sunday of painting an exaggeratedly bleak picture of the situation in his country and spreading the Islamist insurgency’s propaganda.
“We urge UN agencies to conduct a very fair assessment of the real situation on the ground and shun away from unbalanced reports,” senior […]

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THE most puzzling thing about Thabo Mbeki is how someone purported to be an intellectual could be so oblivious to the one historical principle that has proven true over and over again. I used to go around reciting it as a little boy in Ginsberg, having read it in one of Steve Biko’s essays:
“The limits […]

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“How could you take part in this outrage?”The first such call came from a friend on Wednesday, close to midnight, just after I had stopped surfing Russian TV newscasts, all full of proud reports that TIME had named Russian President Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year.
“Is this the Moscow correspondent of the U.S. magazine […]

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