In repressive Ethiopia, new 'Blue Party' struggles to offer a choice

With 1,000 Ethiopian laborers being sent home daily from Saudi Arabia, the opposition party is channeling popular outrage.

Ethiopian workers walk with their luggage as they wait with their countrymen to be repatriated in Manfouha, southern Riyadh, November 11, 2013. Last week the new 'Blue Party' tried to organize a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Addis Ababa, feeding off widespread public outcry over the treatment of Ethiopian migrants and laborers in the Saudi kingdom....Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters - In Pictures Africa's Hot Spots

By William Davison, Correspondent

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a definite success story in expert opinion about post-cold war Africa. The civil strife that wreaked havoc and made headlines in the 1980s has disappeared. Investments in roads, health, education, and water have improved the daily life of millions.

Yet Ethiopia’s ruling coalition seems intent on maintaining a tight grip on power until its project to transform Africa's second-most populous nation into a middle-income country is complete.

That authoritarian control makes any opposition difficult – though of late a group called the Blue Party, made up of young Ethiopians who describe themselves as progressive, have attempted to move, if not shake, the nation’s politics in ways not seen here for a decade or more.

Last week the Blue Party tried to organize a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Addis Ababa, feeding off widespread public outcry over the treatment of Ethiopian migrants and laborers in the Saudi kingdom. Some 1,000 Ethiopians a day are being deported back home and migrant clashes with police in Riyadh are hitting social media here.

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Still, instead of allowing Ethiopians to demonstrate their anger, the government forcefully broke up the protest, upsetting even those normally supportive of the government.

What remains unclear is how much repression the rising educated middle class in cities is willing to ignore in the Horn of Africa regime.

Ethiopia enacted a liberal constitution in 1994 that promised a free press, autonomy for some 80 ethnic groups, and multi-party politics. Yet dissenting journalists have still been jailed, minority groups complain of oppression, and elections are uncompetitive.

In the last vote in 2010, out of 547 seats in parliament, the opposition won one.

Ethiopia has been governed by the multi-ethnic Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front since 1991, when rebel groups overthrew a military regime.

In 2005, the opposition, led by a group called the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, won 173 seats in the first competitive election. But months later some 200 people were killed by police when the opposition protested the outcome was rigged. Opposition leaders were jailed en masse.

But now there is some resurgence of opposition against the ruling (EPRDF) coalition.

The Blue Party held the first large demonstration by a political party since 2005 in July, when several thousand supporters marched in downtown Addis Ababa. They demanded the release of jailed politicians and journalists, as well as action against corruption, unemployment and inflation.

Another more established opposition group peeking its head out of the bunker is the Unity for Democracy and Justice. UDJ held a moderately successful demonstration in the capital as part of a “Million Voices for Freedom” campaign. They demanded the release of "political prisoners" and the repeal of the anti-terrorism law used to convict them.

With new voices now emerging the government is taking a two-track approach: Last month Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that multi-party democracy is constitutionally protected and that his administration wants a "constructive, progressive, opposition."

Yet he issued a warning: If opposition parties mix with banned groups, they will be prosecuted. "Anyone who plays with the fire, then that fire will burn them," Mr. Hailemariam said.

And there is evidence little has actually changed: Both the Blue Party and UDJ complain of harassment, with offices raided, members arrested and police arbitrarily preventing activities such as distributing leaflets.

Still, Blue Party leader Yilkal Getnet, in his thirties, believes his party will win a majority of the vote in 2015. He is counting on young people that want more freedom and want to move past the divisive ethnic politics of the past and embrace national unity. Mr. Yilkal also thinks another bleary and non-competitive election will lead to increased frustration and instability.

Merera Gudina is a leading member of the Oromo Federalist Congress. The Oromo are Ethiopia's most populous ethnic group and frequently allege that they have remained excluded from power under EPRDF rule.

Mr. Merera has raised funds in the US but thinks the Blue Party optimism is misplaced. He digs out a cardboard box from beneath his desk at Addis Ababa University, where he is a political scientist, and shows an uncounted ballot from 2010 elections. He says that thousands of votes for the opposition were discarded by the ruling party cadres.

But Merera allows that if the ruling coalition does a fair election they may suffer a shock greater than 2005.

 "If they open up they are going to lose easily in less than one month of campaigning," he says.

There are latent frustrations brewing in the current dynamic in Ethiopia, analysts feel, where construction profits are accruing to a corrupt elite tied to the ruling party -- while the cost of living for the masses rises.

"Even if they open a small window they know there's going to be a repeat of 2005," one senior analyst who could not be named, argues.

Merera says Ethiopia's political stagnation is also due to divided challengers that can't agree on a "common agenda," a analysis detailed in book “Ethiopia: From Autocracy to Revolutionary Democracy, 1960s to 2011.”

In Ethiopia, parties only emerged after the downfall of absolute monarch Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and they have primarily been vehicles either for rivalry between traditional ethnic elites, or among different Marxist revolutionaries. "Sectarianism, conspiracy and political intrigues have become the hallmark of the Ethiopian political parties and their leaders," leading to public disillusion, Merera writes.

Ethnicity is a key fault-line among the nascent opposition. Oromo activists argue that in practice, the focus on national unity or universal values by the likes of the Blue Party will bring more of the exploitation that Ethiopia's minorities historically experienced at the hands of traditional rulers.

Nile talks between Egypt, Ethiopia fail to reach deal

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

November 21, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian and Egyptian leaders on Tuesday held talks in Kuwait over Cairo’s concern regarding the construction of what will upon completion be Africa’s biggest hydro power plant.

According to Al Jazeera, Ethiopia’s prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, discussed the row over the Nile on the sidelines of an Afro-Arab Summit in Kuwait.

However, the talks between the two leaders ended with failure to reach an agreement, particularly after the Egyptian president demanded to negotiate over the dam project, a request rejected by the Ethiopian premier.

Egypt has proposed for reduction in the size of Nile dam’s structure and on the water holding capacity of its reservoir which is projected to hold 63 billion cubic meters.

Sudan Tribune’s attempts to contact officials in the prime minister’s office were futile as they were reported to be out of the country.

Egypt says the Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, being built at Nile tributary near the Sudanese border will diminish the water supply to its soil.

Water security is a prime concern to the North African nation as the Blue Nile -which has its soruce in Ethiopia- is the source to 85 % of Egypt’s resource of water.

Egypt argues that it does not have other alternative water sources unlike other Nile Basin Countries and insists the colonial-era agreement which gives Egypt around 70 percent of Nile River water sources shouldn’t be violated.

Addis Ababa however says its controversial dam project will not affect the water interest of the two downstream countries - Egypt and Sudan.

Ethiopia’s Minister of Water and Energy, Alemayehu Tegenu, told Sudan Tribune that his country won’t back off from its plans to build the power plant because of Egypt’s concern.

He said one country’s hegemony over a regional resource that belongs to all Nile Basin Countries is unacceptable.

Tegenu further said the hydropower plant is a regional project that would benefit all Nile Basin Countries and it shouldn’t be a source confrontation but cooperation.

A panel of international experts who were tasked to assess the dam project’s regional impact said in their final findings that the power plant project doesn’t have any adverse impacts on Egypt or Sudan.

The meeting in Kuwait was the first for the two leaders since former Egyptian president; Mohamed Morsi was ousted in July by the military following mass protests.

Egypt has in the past warned against any upstream projects and there has never been such bigger project along the river since Ethiopia launched the mega dam project two years ago.

Tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt escalated after Addis Ababa started diverting the course of the Nile River in May as part of an engineering work.

Following the diversion work Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, warned that all options were being considered to stop the dam.

The $4.2 billion massive Hydro power plant is currently 30 % complete and will produce 6,000 Megawatts of energy upon completion.

Source: sudantribune

Egypt and Ethiopia leaders meet over Nile row

Under colonial-era treaties, Egypt is entitled to the lion's share of the Nile's total flow [AP]

First talks on Ethiopia's plan to dam the Nile since Egypt's Mansour took power end without agreement in Kuwait.

The Egyptian and Ethiopian leaders have met for the first time to discuss tensions over Ethiopia's construction of a huge hydropower dam on the river Nile but the meeting ended without any agreement, sources said.

The Egyptian interim president, Adly Mansour, and Ethiopia's prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, met on Tuesday on the sidelines of an Afro-Arab Summit in Kuwait, sources familiar with the meeting told Al Jazeera.

It was the first meeting between leaders of the two countries over the Grand Renaissance Dam since the deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, met Hailemariam in May.

Ethiopia began diverting the Blue Nile in May to build what will be Africa's largest dam when it is finished in 2017. Thirty percent of its construction has already been completed, according to Ethiopia. The hydropower station will have a 6,000-megawatt capacity when finished.

Egypt, almost totally dependent on the river, fears the dam could diminish its water supply. Ethiopia, which hopes the hydropower dam will boost its economy through power exports, has said there will be no major impact.

The sources said the Egyptian side had requested the meeting to "negotiate" over the project but that nothing was agreed.

Hailemariam, a source said, rejected a request from Mansour that he be involved in discussons about the project.

Colonial-era treaties negotiated by the British gave Egypt and Sudan a majority share of Nile waters. Seven other countries through which the river flows argue the agreements were unjust and need to be torn up.

Egypt’s only current recourse lies with a panel of 10 experts from Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and other countries who have been reviewing the social and environmental impact of the dam.

The panel has issued a report about the project's potential impact on water levels, which has not yet been made public.

At a one-day meeting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum this month the water ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia agreed to form a panel to implement the expert recommendations.

But Egyptian objections about the composition of the committee have been delaying its formation, Ethiopia's water minister has said.

A second round of negotiations is scheduled for Khartoum on December 8.

Perceived insult

Egypt has previously sought to delay the construction of the dam and its requests to inspect it have been rejected by the Ethiopians, who say Egypt needs to relinquish its power to veto projects on the Nile, which it was also given as part of the 1929 and 1959 treaties.

Under those agreements, Egypt is entitled to 55.5 billion cubic meters a year, most of the Nile's total flow of about 84 billion cubic meters. However, about 85 percent of the river's water originates in the Ethiopian highlands.

A new deal signed in 2010 by other Nile Basin countries, including Ethiopia, allows them to work on river projects without Cairo's prior agreement. Egypt has not signed that deal.

The meeting on Tuesday, the sources told Al Jazeera, was almost called off because Hailemariam, who is also the current chairman of the African Union, was insulted by a request that he should go to Mansour.

The issue was resolved when the leaders ageed to meet halfway - in a corridor.

Source: aljazeera.com

Djibouti: Uncollected Steel Imports Create Congestion Risk At Port of Djibouti

Djibouti Port

Addis Ababa - Up to 200,000tn of steel that Ethiopia imported within the last three months through the Port of Djibouti is yet to be retrieved by importers, which could lead to congestion, Fortune learnt.

Most of the steel, 180,000tn of which belongs to private importers, failed to be picked up because of financial problems encountered by importers, according to the Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE).

The goods were imported through a uni-modal arrangement, where once the goods arrive at the port, importers are responsible for handling the paperwork and transportation into the country.

Though officials from the two countries are discussing the issue, they have disagreements on its seriousness.

While officials from the Enterprise are pushing importers to collect their steel 'soon', officials at the Port are insisting that not only is it not in danger of congestion, but that it has the capacity to handle even more steel.

"Congestion happened for the last time in October 2012 and we sorted it out," said Aboubaker Omar, chairperson of the Djibouti Ports & Free Zones Authority. "The issue of congestion does not worry us."

The Port, which has the capacity to serve about 150,000tn at a time, charges fees for each day that goods stay on its premises.

"They tell us that they can serve up to 500,000tn, but we know a large amount of steel is left on the soil near the water because they do not have enough space," Mesfin Teferra, freight-forwarding deputy CEO at the Enterprise, told Fortune.

These kinds of snags in importing goods are not new to Ethiopia, with reports by international organisations, such as the World Bank (WB), indicating that poor logistics is severely hampering trade and foreign direct investment. The country ranks 141 in the world in the logistics sector, according to the WB's latest assessment released in June 2013, which is a drop from the 104th ranking the country had just five years ago.

The Enterprise, which launched a multimodal system in mid-2010 to streamline shipments from Djibouti Port through a door-to-door service, aims to handle 80pc of cargo through this method by the end of the current fiscal year - up from the 56pc at the end of the 2012/13 year.

That system, which was supposed to help avoid warehouse fees in foreign currency and the confiscation of imported goods, has, however, also been subject to numerous reports of congestions and delays since the beginning.

These recurrent logistical problems are currently being studied by Nathan Associates Inc, consultants hired by the government for one million dollars in June 2012, to develop an in-depth logistics and trade strategy for Ethiopia.

The diagnostics analysis that the consultants submitted to the government in late September, which is the first of four reports due by March 2014, assessed institutions and stakeholders involved in the transport sector. These included the Modjo Dry Port and truck drivers that transport goods by land on the Ethio-Djibouti corridor. They found that much greater collaboration by different institutions in the logistics sector is needed to overcome the problem.

In the meantime, however, the problems remain unresolved.

On the Tuesday, November 13, 2013 edition of Addis Zemen - a state-owned Amharic newspaper where government announcements are published - the Maritime Affairs Authority (MAA), which is under the Ministry of Transport, warned importers that they have to pick up their goods within the next three weeks.

Though that is the extent of the measures the Enterprise has taken so far to solve the backlog of imports at the Port, depending on the reaction of the importers, serious measures may soon follow.

"The Djiboutians are not the losers when this happens," said Mesfin. "It is rather Ethiopian customers that will face the price hike that is likely to come when the importers attempt to compensate what they lost."

Previously, imported goods would be picked up within 15 to 20 days of their arrival, but 50pc of the steel imported and available at the Port currently has stayed for more than 90 days, according to available data at the MAA.

The part that belongs to the government is expected to be picked up from the Port and transported into Ethiopia within a month, according to officials at the Enterprise.

The government's steel was mostly stuck due to a shortage in transporters. The fact that the steel is needed to help the ongoing construction projects is the major drive for the government to insist it be transported soon, according to them.

Following truck congestion that happened at the Port previously, the Enterprise signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) a month ago with seven private transporters to transport goods from the Djibouti Port and Modjo Dry Port to Addis Abeba.

Source: Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)

HISTORY RECORDS: Dhagayso Madaxweyne Cigaal socdaalkii Maraykanka 1999kii Khudbad Dheer oo uu Jeediyay

HISTORY RECORDS: Dhagayso Madaxweyne Cigaal socdaalkii Maraykanka 1999kii Khudbad Dheer oo uu Jeediyay

Nurses for Edna -- A Medical Mission to Hargesia, Somaliland

  

by Nancy Leigh Harless, Nurse practitioner

In August 2013, Wanda Chestnut, Kim Law and Kerra Plesko, three members of the Nurses for Edna team, left for Hargesia, Somaliland. Due to a death in the family the last nurse, Sarah David, joined them two weeks later.

Each member of the team had expressed a passion to improve women's health around the world. For almost a year they had planned and worked. They held fund raisers to augment the already generous grant awarded by Barco's Nightingale Foundation for this mission. They sought free medical equipment and found ways to cover shipping costs and logistics. They sent out hundreds of appeals to friends and family to raise awareness of the plight of the Somaliland women. They did all this in an effort to make a difference in a country still struggling to recover from years of civil war. They traveled with little personal luggage so they might fill their baggage allowances with donations of medical equipment. The trip took more than 24 hours; they arrived exhausted, but eager to begin work.

The Hospital director, Edna Adan requested they teach a First Aid course while they were in Hargesia. What they didn't realize was how large the group would be - over 150 nurses, lab techs and public health students. Nor did they realize that some of their teaching would need to be done using pantomime and interpreters!

Although each member of the team expressed that the teaching experience was both frustrating and somewhat overwhelming, they also expressed that one of the best things about the trip was the positive feedback that they got from their students. They can feel proud that they were instrumental in teaching more than 150 students the necessary skills needed to provide basic First Aid Care for the people of Somaliland.

"My happiest moment is a culmination of positive feedback from my students and from the university. Both have expressed gratitude for and positivity towards my teaching and indicated they would happily have me teach again. Having never taught in a classroom setting before, and having experienced numerous frustrations throughout the course, the end response was very gratifying," Kim Law.

Besides teaching and working at the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital the nurses also worked and taught in the community at the Abdi Idan MCH Clinic. This free, government funded clinic provides multiple services including antenatal and postpartum care, low risk deliveries, a nutrition clinic, a pediatric health and immunization clinic, and lab services in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Hargesia.

While they were not able to spend as much time as they had hoped providing women's health clinical care at the hospital, the nurses did both work, and provide supervision to student nurses, on the wards. Three of the nurses identified their biggest challenge, and saddest moments, came while resuscitating a newborn infant with no doctor to guide them.

"We tried to get one of the nursing students to go find a doctor, but she didn't understand what we wanted. Finally, the nurse anesthetist came in and we were able to partially stabilize the baby and get it breathing. But, it was just a situation where no one in the room knew what to do and we couldn't find anyone to help us, Kerra Plesko.

It was during incidents like this one, and other long neonatal resuscitations that the nurses felt pummeled with a moral and ethical dilemma.

"My absolute worst experience here is the ethical dilemma I am now constantly thinking about. We've done a few, long neonatal resuscitations, and have been able to revive the babies, only to have them die a few days later. If they had lived they would have been severely disabled. Is it ethically responsible to do long resuscitations in resource poor countries where the risk for long term disability is high?" Kim Law

However, the nurses also expressed being positively impacted by their time in Somaliland; they came home with a greater appreciation for everything available to them at work and at home: medications, supplies and equipment.

"I now really appreciate being prepared at every delivery, having the necessary equipment ready, or even having it at all, and having qualified trained people who know the importance of quick resuscitation and being efficient with what we are doing. I appreciated it before, but I had never seen babies die from the lack of those things. I know we live in a rush- rush society and I do believe that we need time for slowdowns often, but I also value responding to a task quickly, and Africa has shown me how valuable that can be," Kerra Plesko

They also came home with a greater appreciation for their knowledgeable, supportive team members at their respective work places. Larger still, they returned with a sense of respect for the people of Somaliland and a reminder of the importance of humility.

"The people of Hargesia are so poor and despite being poor they are humble people. This experience reminded me to remain humble in all situations and circumstances," Wanda Chestnut.

The nursing team also described moments of happiness along a difficult medical mission. Moments of showing support for each other; of early morning work -out sessions on the roof to decrease their stress; and spontaneous dancing in their rooms after working all day to the point of exhaustion. But, the most gratifying memories they report are of times they saw their hard work actually bringing change in the nursing practice at the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital:

"My happiest moment was when I went downstairs one morning after breakfast and saw the nurses and midwives put two babies in the Embrace warmers! It was a proud moment. Not only did they do it correctly, but they actually remembered to use them! It's hard to tell when you get through to some of the nurses, but at that moment, I knew that our in-services and teachings had some sort of impact because the neonates were in Embrace," Sarah David

The nurses report feeling proud of some of the small, yet significant, changes they brought to the Edna Edan Maternity Hospital such as putting together an emergency resuscitation kit for the med/surg ward. They are particularly proud of the part they played in the prevention of neonatal hyperthermia.

"When we first arrived at the hospital, neonatal resuscitation were being done on an old cart with a heating pad. The babies would get extremely cold (like 34 C cold). They had two radiant warmers shoved into corners so we decided to check them out. One of them didn't work but the other one was in beautiful shape. It took several weeks to get everyone to leave the warmer on and plugged in at all times. But eventually, with perseverance and a little duct tape, we made it happen."Kim Law.

Although the mission to Hargesia was challenging, each nurse expressed how very grateful they are to have had this experience. Each feels this experience both gave them a fuller appreciation of their nursing careers at home, as well as helped to prepare them for future medical missions. Each member of the Nurses for Edna team: Sarah David, Wanda Chestnut, Kim Law, and Kerra Plesko plan to continue to volunteer in the global arena. One nurse at a time they will change the world!
The nurses of the Nurses for Edna team want to thank the non profits, One Nurse At A Time and the Barcos Nightingale's Foundation for their generous support of this medical mission.

Source: huffingtonpost.com

HISTORY RECORDS: Dhagayso Gabay uu Tiriyay Madaxweyne Cigaal

MACAMIISHA SHIRKADA TELESOM OO WERWERKII ABID UGU WAYNAA SOO WAJAYAHAY

 

BURCO - Bulshada Kunool Gobolada Dalka Somaliland Ayaa Waxay Farta Ku Fiiqayaan Barnaamija Zaad ee Shirkada Telesom Barnaamijkan oo Runtii aad Moodo In Dad Ku Imika Fahmeen Barnaamijkan Zaad Ayaan Markaan U Kuur Galay Cabtinkan Waxaan La eegay oo Larog Rogay Qodobkan Ay Bulshadu Kacabanayso oo Ah Qofka Zaadka Leh oo Runti Sifudud Loo ogaan karayo Magaciisa oo afar ah ) Magaciisa ilaa awawgii abihii) taas oo runtii aan wanaagsanayn in ilaa halkaa la ogado Qofka waayo bulshadani waa dad ay ka dhaxeeyaan arimo farabadan

Sanadkii 2010kii Ayaa Waxaa Magalada Garowe ka Dhacday Dil kaas oo u dhaxeeyay aano qabiil balse Barnaamijkan Zaad uu u Sahlay Dilka Ninkan Kadib Markii uu Ogaaday Ninkan Magaciisa oo Dhamaystiran Dilkiina uu Sidaa Kufulay

Hadaba Shirkada Telesom Ma ka Fakartay Arintan oo daraasad ma ku samaysay Magacan macamiisha ee loo adeegsanayo arimo farabadan xataa wakhti kasta amaankiisa ayay khatar ku tahay qofka la hayo magaciisa ilaa abihii awawgii xataa waxaa dhici karta in loo isticmaalo Siyaabo Khaldan oo Wax Loogu Furshado

Bulshada Ku Nool Somaliland Khaasatan Gobobolka Togdheer ayaa waxaad Moodaa in ay Arintan Dhibaato Kala Kulmeen Maxaa Yeelay Waxaa Isisotaraya Hadalhaynta Iyo Falanqaynta Qodabkan
Bulshada Reer Somaliland Waxay Kalo Runtii Taabteen oo aad yadana Uga Werwersanyihiin Lacagta Ugu Jirta Barnaamijka Zaad oo Runtii Ay Ku Tilmaameen Lacag Bilaa Damiina oo werwerkeedu joogta ku Yahay

Markaan La Kulmay Qaar Kamid Ah macamiisha Shirkada Telesom ayaa iiga Waramaya Xogdheerna Iga siiyay Barnaamijkan Zaad ninkan oo Ka Gaabsaday In uu Magaciisa iiSheego Ayaa Waxa uu Yidhi Lacagta Zaadka Kugu Jirta Maaha Lacag Wax Damiinna leh mana Jirto Wax Cadaynaya oo Lagusiinayo Marka aad Lacag Ku Shubato Barnaamijka Zaad Waxaan Odhankaraa Waa Lacag Bakhtiyaa Nasiiba Hadiiba Ay Khalkhal Ku Yimaado Systemka Shirkada
Balse Barnaamijakn Zaad Ayaa Runtiii Anigu aad Ugu Bogay Lacagtii Jeebka Laguqadanayay Ayaaan Jirin markaad Suuqa Wax Ka Iibsanayso Zaad Ayaad Ku IIbsanaysaa
Runtii Dadka Qaarna Aad Bay U amaanayaan Barnaamijkan Zaad Qaarna Way Ka Dayrinayaan Marka aad Waraysato

Hadaba Barnaamijkan Zaad Ayaa Waxa uu Dhibaato Ku Keenay Qodobkaa Hadii aannay Shirkada Telesom Wax Kabadalin Waxaa Dhici Doonta In Ay Kiissas Wawayn Usoo Jiido Magacyadaa Macamiisha Ay Meel Walba Ku Siidaysay uuna QodobkanI Noqdo Mid Ay Si Toosa u Isticmalaan Dadka Dannaha Gaarkaa Kaleh Magacayada Macmiisha.

Waxaanu isku dayaynaa Hadii Ilahay Kadhigo In aanu Arintan Badhitaan Fog Kusamayno oo Barnaamij Joogtaa Idiinka Soo Diyarino Qodobkan oo Ah In Si Fudud Loo Ogaado Qofkaad Doonto Magaciisa ilaa Abihii Awawgii

Abdalla Abu Haniifa
Xigasho :- Caynabanews

Somaliland: Safiirka Turkiga u Qaabilsan Somaliland/Soomaaliya Oo Booqasho Afar Maalmood ah ku yimid dalka

“Waxaan u socdaa sidii loo sii wadi lahaa wada hadaladii Somaliland iyo Soomaaliya”

Hargeysa - Safiirka Turkiga u fadhiya Somaliland/Soomaaliya Cemalettin Kanu iyo wefti uu Hoggaaminayo oo Ganacsato ah ayaa socdaal shaqo oo qaadan doona muddo afar maalmood ah ku yimid Somaliland, waxaana madaarka Hargeysa ku soo dhaweeyay xubno ka mid ah Golaha Wasiirrada.

Safiirka Turkiga oo ka hadlay booqashadiisa ayaa sheegay inay la xidhiidho sidii loo sii xoojin lahaa wax-wada qabsiga labada dal. Waxa kale oo uu tilmaamay inuu u socdo sidii loo sii ambo-qaadi lahaa wada hadaladii u socday Somaliland iyo Soomaaliya ee dalkiisu marti-gelinayay.

safiirka Turkiga 2

“Waxa ka mid ah ujeedada socdaalkayga sidii loo sii wadi lahaa wada hadaladii dalkayga Turkigu marti-gelinayay ee u dhaxeeyay Somaliland iyo Soomaaliya, inkasta oo ay jirraan mawduucyo siyaasiya haddana waxaan rajaynaynaa in la sii wadi doono wada hadaladan,”ayuu yidhi Danjiraha Turkigu.

Safiirku waxa uu sheegay inuu ku faraxsan yahay booqashadiisa Somaliland, waxaanu xusay in wadankiisu kala shaqayn doono horumarinta ganacsiga, maalgashiga iyo dhaqaalaha.

“Waxa maanta inoo yimid Safiirka Turkiga iyo wefti balaadhan oo uu Hoggaaminayo oo ka yimid dalka Itoobiya, ujeedada socdaalkooduna waxa uu la xidhiidhaa sidii loo sii xoojin lahaa cilaaqaadka qotada dheer ee ka dhaxeeya labada dal gaar ahaan dhinacyada waxbarashada, dhaqaalaha iyo siyaasadaba,”ayuu yidhi Wasiirka Qorshaynta Qaranka Dr. Sacad Cali Shirre oo ka mid ahaa Wasiirradii soo dhaweeyay weftigaasi.

Weftiga ka socda dalka Turkiga waxa madaarka Hargeysa ku soo dhaweeyay Wasiirrada Qorshaynta,Beeraha iyo Wasiir Ku xigeenka Ganacsiga, mudada afarta maalmood ah ee ay ku sugan yihiin Somaliland waxay booqan doonaan qaar ka mid ah magaalooyinka dalka oo ay u kuur-galayaan xarakaadka ganacsiga.

Waxa kale oo lagu wadaa inay kulan la yeeshaan xubno ka mid ah Golaha Wasiirrada iyo Madaxweynaha Somaliland Md. Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo).

Ganacsade Oomaar oo Wajahaya Qaanuunka iyo Sharciga Dalka Jabuuti iyo Salaadiin reer Somaliland ah oo Jabuuti u Tagay Ka Ergaynta xadhiga Ganacsade Oomaar !!!

Djibouti - Ganacsadaha caanka ah ee reer Jabuuti Jaamac Oomaar Seed, oo ah mulkiillaha shirkadda Oomaar Trading Company oo ka tirsan shirkaddaha ugu waaweyn dhinaca ganacsiga Dalka Jamhuuriyada Djibouti ayaa lagu wadaa wiigan gudihiisa in la horkeena Maxkamadda ku taala caasimada Jabuuti, kadib markii maalmihii la soo dhaafay uu ku xidhnaa mid ka mid ah saldhigyada Booliska magaalada Jabuuti, Ganacsade Oomaar ayaa ciidanka Jaandaaranku ka soo qabteen bilowgii bishan November gurigiisa oo ku yaala magaalada Jabuuti ayagoo ku eedeeyay in uu Koontarabaad farobadan in uu si joogto ah uu galiyo dalkaasi Jabuuti, isla markaana uu cashuuro farobadan sifo sharci daro ah uu ugala dhuuman jiray Qaranka Jabuuti.

Caasimadda Hargeysa waxa shalay ka dhoofaya 12 suldaan oo ka kooban dhammaan beelaha Somaliland, kuna sii jeeda magaalada Djibouti, kuwaasoo safarkoodu salka ku hayo inay waan waan ula tagaan Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Djibouti Ismaaciil Cumar Geelle,sidii xorriyaddiisa loogu soo celin lahaa Ganacsade Jaamac Oomaar Seed.

Sallaadiintan oo ay ka mid yihiin Suldaanka Guud ee Beelaha Somaliland Suldaan Maxamed Cabdiqaadir, Suldaan Maxamed Maxamuud Xandule (Indhacase), Suldaan Axmed Nuur Cabdilaahi Sammaale, Suldaan Barre Sheekh Aadan, Suldaan Maxamuud Axmed-sheekh, Suldaan Ismaaciil Suldaan Cabdiraxmaan, iyo sallaadiin kale, ayaa warar u dhuun daloola safarkoodu noo xaqiijiyeen  inay u baqoolayaan magaalada Djibouti, si ay wada hadal ugala yeesheen xadhiga Ganacsadaha ka hor inta aan maxkammadda la geyn.

Hay'adaha Sharci Fulinta Dalka Jabouti ayaa Albaabada u laabay Dhamaan Ganacsiyadii Shirkada Oomaar International Compnay Ee Wadanka Djbouti kadib xadhiga Ganacsade oomar.

Dhinaca kale waxa jira warar sheegaya in xadhiga Ganacsade Oomaar iyo xayiraada la saaray dhaqdhaqaaqiisa Ganacsi ay la xiriiraan ka dib markii Ganacsade Oomaar iyo Shirkadiisa Ganacsi ee Omar International Companay si qarsoodi ah ula lahayd xidhiidho ganacsi oo sanado badan socday Ganacsadaha dibad wareega ah ee lagu magacaabo Boore Oo Ganacsigiisa hore looga Mamnuucay Wadanka Djabouti .

Florida : Seminole mayor travels to Somaliland to give consultancy to local government officials, political parties

Seminole Mayor Leslie Waters

SEMINOLE – In October, Seminole Mayor Leslie Waters traveled to Somaliland to provide consulting services to elected local government officials and political party leaders in the East African country.

Mayor Waters was sent by the International Republican Institute and the U.S. Agency for International Development, two international support organizations.

The purpose of this assignment was to work with city councilors and mayors in Somaliland. Her training forums focused on how to be more effective government officials; how to improve communications with the people of Somaliland; how important it is that elected and party officials work together on outreach events; and the significance of the planning and hosting of Town Hall meetings.

Mayor Waters, with the oversight of the IRI Somaliland Country Director Bojan Ristic, and consulting partner Steve Pier, of Occident and Orient Development in Texas, trained over 150 people. Professions of attendees included physicians, camel and goat herders, fishermen, religious sheiks, educators and small business owners.

“Working with the good people of Somaliland was truly a humbling experience,” said Mayor Waters, “an experience where it was my intention to help make a difference in helping to enhance their democracy and improve the political process for the benefit of all Somalilanders.”

Somaliland is an unrecognized, self-declared de-facto sovereign state that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia. They have been a democracy for only 22 years. The country’s government is comprised of a president, cabinet, parliament and three branches of national government, as well as local government with mayors and councilors.

“Those who attended the training gained a great deal of knowledge on how to be effective elected officials, how to organize and plan community outreach events, and to how to better communicate constituents in their villages and communities,” Mayor Waters said. “Political parties benefited from trainings on how to help elected officials be successful, and how to grow their party influence and membership.”

Source : Tampa Bay Newspaper

Update : 11 Police Officers Among 28 killed in Somalia Suicide Attack

Muqdisho - Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into a police compound north of Somalia’s capital yesterday and opened fire on officers, leaving seven civilians, 10 militants and 11 police officers dead, officials and witnesses said.

Al Shabaab – the al-Qaeda-linked group that claimed responsibility for a deadly raid on a shopping mall in Kenya in September – said it carried out the assault.

African Union peacekeepers and Somali troops surrounded the compound and opened fire. Witnesses said the shooting inside then stopped.

Times of Malta

U.S.-Israel David's Sling Weapon System Intercepts Target During Integrated Flight Test

The Israel Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency completed a successful intercept test today of the David's Sling Weapon System.

This test, designated David's Sling Test – 2 (DST-2), is the second intercept test of the Stunner interceptor for the David's Sling Weapon System, and was conducted at a test range in southern Israel.

A target missile was launched and tracked by the system's multi-mission radar. The radar transferred flight information to the battle management control system. The Stunner interceptor successfully performed its planned trajectory and destroyed the target.

The David's Sling Weapon System is designed as an additional layer of defense against ballistic missiles, to add interception opportunities to the joint U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System and to improve the active defense architecture of the State of Israel against missile threats.

The successful test is a major milestone in the development of the David's Sling Weapon System and provides confidence in future Israeli capabilities to defeat the developing ballistic missile threat.

Media Points of Contact:

Israel Ministry of Defense Media Contact: Asaf Zohar, 972-3-6975546, dover@mod.gov.il
MDA Media Contact: Rick Lehner, 571-231-8212, richard.lehner@mda.mil

In a Changing Middle East, Israel and Saudi Arabia Cling Together

As unrest simmers in the Middle East and the United States edges toward detente with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia are trying to ride out the storm together.

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As unrest simmers in the Middle East and the United States edges toward detente with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia are trying to ride out the storm together.

By Carl Bloice,

A wind storm blows dust from the Arabian peninsula into Israel. (Etamar Laron / Flickr)

For years, Iranian Shiite pilgrims arriving in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj observance would hold a demonstration denouncing what they termed “enemies of Iran,” aimed particularly at Israel and the United States. A couple of times the protests resulted in violence.

One such occasion came July 31, 1987 when—for reasons that to this day are not entirely clear—a riot occurred. Saudi security forces crushed the demonstrators, but in the ensuing stampede over 400 people lost their lives and over 600 were wounded. A few days later, I encountered a clandestine leftist Saudi activist and asked what had happened. “We had nothing to do with it,” he said. “But the rulers are terrified. It showed that they no longer had complete control.”

Today, the kingdom’s rulers must look back on those days with envy. As the Saudi royals look out from their palaces in Riyadh, they see trouble everywhere. And they don’t have to look very far.

Despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has the Arab world’s largest economy, the unemployment rate for its citizens is 12 percent, much of it concentrated among the swelling ranks of young people. The royals recently decided to deal with the problem by expelling many of the country’s estimated 9 million migrant workers from Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Nepal, Pakistan, and Yemen. According to the BBC, 30,000 Yemenis departed for their impoverished home country in the first 10 days of November alone. Nearly 1 million Yemenis live and work in Saudi Arabia, remitting close to $2 billion every year.

On November 10, fighting broke out between the angry migrants on one side and Saudi civilians and security forces on the other. At least two people were killed and 70 others injured, and over 500 migrant workers were arrested.

International media briefly covered the riot and the expulsions, but most of its attention has focused on Saudi unhappiness about any potential agreement between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program. What the Saudis are really worried about is that any lessening of international tensions with Iran could have an impact on the internal stability of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies.

It’s a worry shared by the Israelis, who appear to have lost their veto power over U.S. diplomacy with Iran.

A Burgeoning Alliance

The Saudi monarchs’ crowns do not rest easy on their heads.

Nothing illustrates this clearer than the recent Saudi invasion of neighboring Bahrain. Two years ago, when Arab Spring protests spread to that country, the Saudis mobilized troops from the allied Gulf Coordinating Council, invaded Bahrain, and smashed the protests.

It was not the first time Saudi Arabia has dispatched troops into a neighboring country in an attempt to put down a perceived threat. In the fall of 2009, Riyadh launched an assault on Shiite Houthi rebels who control much of Saada province on the border with Saudi Arabia in neighboring Yemen. As with Bahrain, the Saudi excuse for the aggression was alleged Iranian influence in the area.

Of course, alleged Iranian influence is only part of the problem. “Saudi Arabia, perpetually in fear of chaos and instability, is a leading force in the counterrevolution against the Arab Spring,” explained Princeton Middle East scholar Bernard Haykel in the June 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs. “As a self-identified bulwark of stability and conservatism, Riyadh wants no change in the political structures or balance of power in the Middle East and is threatened by the potential emergence of representative forms of government in its neighborhood.”

David Gardner, international affairs editor at the Financial Times, recently piled on, identifying the Saudis’ two main fears: “the chaotic change wrought by the upheavals of the Arab awakening and the possibility of a U.S. rapprochement with Iran, its rival for Gulf control.”

Gardner believes the Saudis “happen to be on the right side on Syria, against a vile despot slaughtering his own people. But “that is not because they want democracy for the Syrians,” he continued. “It is because they wish to undermine Iran by bringing down its Syrian allies, the Assads, and because the Wahhabi fanaticism underpinning the Saudi state at home and abroad abominates the Shia as heretics.”

Enter the Israelis.

The right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has also been thrown for a loop by the shifting sands in the region.

While there has been considerable coverage of the burgeoning alliance between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the extent to which it has evolved remains murky. According to Israeli television, “Israel is negotiating an unlikely diplomatic alliance with several Gulf and Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, to deal with Iran’s nuclear program.” According to the report, “High-profile Israeli and Gulf diplomats held a series of meetings overseen by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the weeks leading to his speech to the UN General Assembly,” and a “high ranking official” from the Gulf even “came secretly to Israel to address growing concerns on Tehran’s nuclear program, following U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to open a dialogue with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.”

What the governments of Saudi Arabia and Israel fear most is not an Iran capable of producing a nuclear bomb, but rather the easing of the tension between the United States and Iran. “Shiite Iran is Sunni Saudi Arabia’s great rival in the region, and while a negotiated solution to end sanctions against Iran in return for assurances that it won’t be able to build a nuclear bomb is in the interests of the US and much of the world, the Saudis don’t see it that way,” wrote Dan Murphy in the Christian Science Monitor. “They, like Israel, want Iran to be economically and ultimately militarily crushed—not freed of the shackles of sanctions.”

The Israeli-Saudi alliance got a public airing in September when outgoing Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren told the United Nations General Assembly that “in the last 64 years there has probably never been a greater confluence of interest between us and several Gulf States. With these Gulf States we have agreements on Syria, on Egypt, on the Palestinian issue. We certainly have agreements on Iran. This is one of those opportunities presented by the Arab Spring.” Netanyahu himself told the UN, “The dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran and the emergence of other threats in our region have led many of our Arab neighbors to recognize, finally recognize, that Israel is not their enemy. And this affords us the opportunity to overcome the historic animosities and build new relationships, new friendships, new hopes.”

Friends in Low Places

It goes without saying that the Saudis stand to lose more than a little credibility on the Arab street by openly allying with Israel, but they enjoy little already. And the optics of Israel’s burgeoning alliance with a repressive monarchy don’t look good for a country that likes to call itself the Middle East’s only democracy.

Political rights, after all, are a nonstarter in the kingdom, and social rights don’t fare any better. Women aren’t allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and men who say publicly that they should are threatened with jail time. Public beheadings are common, and reportedly 69 people have been executed so far this year.

The kingdom came under fire in October over multiple human rights abuses, including its use of the death penalty and discrimination against women, in a report by United Nation Human Rights Council. “Many countries have problematic records, but Saudi Arabia stands out for its extraordinary high levels of repression and its failure to carry out its promises to the Human Rights Council,” said Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch deputy director for the Middle East.

But as unsavory as it may look, Israel and Saudi Arabia—and their backers in Washington—have likely decided that they need all the help they can get.

In the weeks and months ahead, we probably won’t hear much talk about human rights in the Gulf states, not even from the liberal interventionists and neo-conservatives always anxious to invade other countries under the banner of bringing “freedom” and “democracy.” Nor from the Israeli lobby in Washington or from Republican critics of the Obama administration like Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Nor from House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers, who recently spoke of “critical issues” that for the Saudis and others have “rattled their faith in the administration’s ability to protect them in a very dangerous world.”

A dangerous world makes for strange bedfellows. But neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia wants to see the bedding changed.

FPIF columnist Carl Bloice, a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, is a columnist for the Black Commentator. He also serves on its editorial board.

Source:http://fpif.org/changing-middle-east-israel-saudi-arabia-cling-together/