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Facebook tracking is under scrutiny
In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information.
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system.
Online tracking involves technologies that tech companies and ad networks have used for more than a decade to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads to each viewer. Until now, Facebook, which makes most of its profits from advertising, has been ambiguous in public statements about the extent to which it collects tracking data.
It contends that it does not belong in the same camp as Google, Microsoft and the rest of the online ad industry's major players. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this point to interviewer Charlie Rose on national TV last week.
For the past several weeks, Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials have sought to distinguish how Facebook and others use tracking data. Facebook uses such data only to boost security and improve how "Like" buttons and similar Facebook plug-ins perform, Bejar told USA TODAY. Plug-ins are the ubiquitous web applications that enable you to tap into Facebook services from millions of third-party web pages.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company has "no plans to change how we use this data." He also says the company's intentions "stand in stark contrast to the many ad networks and data brokers that deliberately and, in many cases, surreptitiously track people to create profiles of their behavior, sell that content to the highest bidder, or use that content to target ads."
Conflicting pressures
Rather than appease its critics, Facebook's public explanations of how it tracks and how it uses tracking data have touched off a barrage of questions from technologists, privacy advocates, regulators and lawmakers around the world.
"Facebook could be tracking users without knowledge or permission, which could be an unfair or deceptive business practice," says Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsor with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of a bill aimed at limiting online tracking of children.
The company "should be covered by strong privacy safeguards," Markey says. "The massive trove of personal information that Facebook accumulates about its users can have a significant impact on them -- now and into the future."
Noting that "Facebook is the most popular social media website in the world," Barton adds, "All websites should respect users' privacy."
After Zuckerberg appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show last week, Markey and Barton sent a letter to the 27-year-old CEO asking him to explain why Facebook recently applied for a U.S. patent for technology that includes a method to correlate tracking data with advertisements. They gave Zuckerberg a Dec. 1 deadline to reply.
"We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from our patent application," Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt says.
Facebook is under intense, conflicting pressures.
It must prove to its global financial backers that it is worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've poured into the company, financial and tech industry analysts say. Those investors include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, Hong Kong financier Sir Ka-shing Li and venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel.
The success of the company's initial public offering of stock, expected sometime next year, hinges in part on Facebook's ability to move beyond the bread-and-butter text ads that appear on members' home pages and emerge as a key player in graphical display ads and corporate brand marketing campaigns, says Rebecca Lieb, advertising media analyst at the Altimeter Group.
In advertising, knowing more about consumers' preferences is key. "More data means better targeting, which means more revenue," says Marissa Gluck, managing partner of the media consulting firm Radar Research.
To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.
Ground rules needed
Companies are incorporating tracking data into new business models "without necessarily appreciating the long-term and collective consequences," says Craig Spiezle, executive director of the non-profit Online Trust Alliance.
Last week, consumer reporter Ric Romero of station KABC in Los Angeles showed how insurance companies monitor Facebook and Twitter, looking for reasons to raise premiums and deny claims. Previously, ABC News reporter Lyneka Little reported on how employers use Facebook information as part of the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have documented how tracking data culled from Internet searches and surfing can be meshed with personal information that Internet users disclose at websites for shopping, travel, health or jobs. Personal disclosures made on social networks, along with preference data gathered by new apps for smartphones and tablet PCs, are being tossed into this mix, too.
Privacy advocates worry that before long, corporations, government agencies and political parties could routinely purchase tracking data from data aggregators.
"Tracking data can be used to figure out your political bent, religious beliefs, sexuality preferences, health issues or the fact that you're looking for a new job," says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There are all sorts of ways to form wrong judgments about people."
So far, it does not appear that this sort of data correlation is being done, at least not on a wide scale. But in the absence of ground rules, technologists, regulators and privacy advocates worry that companies involved in collecting tracking data could succumb to the temptation to cash in.
Says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com: "We can only imagine that an advertising company with a richer trove of data will sell more and more of that data."
Facebook's trove of data
Facebook for the first time revealed details of how it compiles its trove of tracking data in a series of phone and e-mail interviews conducted by USA TODAY with Bejar, Noyes and Schnitt, as well as engineering manager Gregg Stefancik and corporate spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin. Here's what they disclosed:
-The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a new account, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie.
-From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded.
-Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log.
If you are logged-on to your Facebook account and surfing the Web, your session cookie conducts this logging. The session cookie additionally records your name, e-mail address, friends and all data associated with your profile to Facebook. If you are logged-off, or if you are a non-member, the browser cookie conducts the logging; it additionally reports a unique alphanumeric identifier, but no personal information.
Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.
He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.
Bejar also acknowledged "technical similarities" in the cookie-based tracking technologies used by Facebook and the wider online advertising industry. "But we're not like ad networks at all in our stewardship of the data, in the way we use it, and the way we lay everything out," Bejar says. "We have a very clear and transparent approach to how we do advertising that I'm very proud of."
Even so, Facebook's public descriptions of its tracking systems have not satisfied some critics -- particularly European privacy regulators. Ilse Aigner, Germany's minister of consumer protection, last month banned Facebook plug-ins from government websites and advised private companies to do the same.
And Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, expressed alarm at how Facebook's technology could potentially be used to build extensive profiles of individual Web users.
"Whoever visits Facebook or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in a statement. "Such profiling infringes German and European data protection law."
Adding fuel to such concerns, Arnold Roosendaal, a doctoral candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Nik Cubrilovic, an independent Australian researcher, separately documented how Web pages containing Facebook plug-ins carried out tracking more extensive than Facebook publicly admitted to.
Noyes says Germany doesn't understand how the company's tracking technologies work. And he blames "software bugs" for the indiscriminate tracking discovered by Roosendaal and Cubrilovic.
"When we were made aware that certain cookies were sending more information to us than we had intended, we fixed our cookie management system," Noyes says.
However, researcher Roosendaal says Facebook's tracking cookies retain the capacity to extensively track non-members and logged-off members alike. "They have been confronted with the same issue now several times and every time they call it a bug. That's not really contributing to earning trust."
Some corporate security executives have become concerned about cybercriminals getting hold of tracking data relayed by Like buttons, then using that intelligence to steal intellectual property. They've asked firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks to identify and block traffic from Facebook tracking cookies, while enabling their employees to continue using other Facebook services.
"The concern is that Facebook has rich personal information, which Google doesn't have," says Nir Zuk, founder and chief technology officer for Palo Alto Networks. "Combining that personal information with Web browsing patterns could be revelatory."
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system.
Online tracking involves technologies that tech companies and ad networks have used for more than a decade to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads to each viewer. Until now, Facebook, which makes most of its profits from advertising, has been ambiguous in public statements about the extent to which it collects tracking data.
It contends that it does not belong in the same camp as Google, Microsoft and the rest of the online ad industry's major players. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this point to interviewer Charlie Rose on national TV last week.
For the past several weeks, Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials have sought to distinguish how Facebook and others use tracking data. Facebook uses such data only to boost security and improve how "Like" buttons and similar Facebook plug-ins perform, Bejar told USA TODAY. Plug-ins are the ubiquitous web applications that enable you to tap into Facebook services from millions of third-party web pages.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company has "no plans to change how we use this data." He also says the company's intentions "stand in stark contrast to the many ad networks and data brokers that deliberately and, in many cases, surreptitiously track people to create profiles of their behavior, sell that content to the highest bidder, or use that content to target ads."
Conflicting pressures
Rather than appease its critics, Facebook's public explanations of how it tracks and how it uses tracking data have touched off a barrage of questions from technologists, privacy advocates, regulators and lawmakers around the world.
"Facebook could be tracking users without knowledge or permission, which could be an unfair or deceptive business practice," says Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsor with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of a bill aimed at limiting online tracking of children.
The company "should be covered by strong privacy safeguards," Markey says. "The massive trove of personal information that Facebook accumulates about its users can have a significant impact on them -- now and into the future."
Noting that "Facebook is the most popular social media website in the world," Barton adds, "All websites should respect users' privacy."
After Zuckerberg appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show last week, Markey and Barton sent a letter to the 27-year-old CEO asking him to explain why Facebook recently applied for a U.S. patent for technology that includes a method to correlate tracking data with advertisements. They gave Zuckerberg a Dec. 1 deadline to reply.
"We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from our patent application," Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt says.
Facebook is under intense, conflicting pressures.
It must prove to its global financial backers that it is worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've poured into the company, financial and tech industry analysts say. Those investors include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, Hong Kong financier Sir Ka-shing Li and venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel.
The success of the company's initial public offering of stock, expected sometime next year, hinges in part on Facebook's ability to move beyond the bread-and-butter text ads that appear on members' home pages and emerge as a key player in graphical display ads and corporate brand marketing campaigns, says Rebecca Lieb, advertising media analyst at the Altimeter Group.
In advertising, knowing more about consumers' preferences is key. "More data means better targeting, which means more revenue," says Marissa Gluck, managing partner of the media consulting firm Radar Research.
To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.
Ground rules needed
Companies are incorporating tracking data into new business models "without necessarily appreciating the long-term and collective consequences," says Craig Spiezle, executive director of the non-profit Online Trust Alliance.
Last week, consumer reporter Ric Romero of station KABC in Los Angeles showed how insurance companies monitor Facebook and Twitter, looking for reasons to raise premiums and deny claims. Previously, ABC News reporter Lyneka Little reported on how employers use Facebook information as part of the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have documented how tracking data culled from Internet searches and surfing can be meshed with personal information that Internet users disclose at websites for shopping, travel, health or jobs. Personal disclosures made on social networks, along with preference data gathered by new apps for smartphones and tablet PCs, are being tossed into this mix, too.
Privacy advocates worry that before long, corporations, government agencies and political parties could routinely purchase tracking data from data aggregators.
"Tracking data can be used to figure out your political bent, religious beliefs, sexuality preferences, health issues or the fact that you're looking for a new job," says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There are all sorts of ways to form wrong judgments about people."
So far, it does not appear that this sort of data correlation is being done, at least not on a wide scale. But in the absence of ground rules, technologists, regulators and privacy advocates worry that companies involved in collecting tracking data could succumb to the temptation to cash in.
Says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com: "We can only imagine that an advertising company with a richer trove of data will sell more and more of that data."
Facebook's trove of data
Facebook for the first time revealed details of how it compiles its trove of tracking data in a series of phone and e-mail interviews conducted by USA TODAY with Bejar, Noyes and Schnitt, as well as engineering manager Gregg Stefancik and corporate spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin. Here's what they disclosed:
-The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a new account, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie.
-From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded.
-Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log.
If you are logged-on to your Facebook account and surfing the Web, your session cookie conducts this logging. The session cookie additionally records your name, e-mail address, friends and all data associated with your profile to Facebook. If you are logged-off, or if you are a non-member, the browser cookie conducts the logging; it additionally reports a unique alphanumeric identifier, but no personal information.
Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.
He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.
Bejar also acknowledged "technical similarities" in the cookie-based tracking technologies used by Facebook and the wider online advertising industry. "But we're not like ad networks at all in our stewardship of the data, in the way we use it, and the way we lay everything out," Bejar says. "We have a very clear and transparent approach to how we do advertising that I'm very proud of."
Even so, Facebook's public descriptions of its tracking systems have not satisfied some critics -- particularly European privacy regulators. Ilse Aigner, Germany's minister of consumer protection, last month banned Facebook plug-ins from government websites and advised private companies to do the same.
And Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, expressed alarm at how Facebook's technology could potentially be used to build extensive profiles of individual Web users.
"Whoever visits Facebook or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in a statement. "Such profiling infringes German and European data protection law."
Adding fuel to such concerns, Arnold Roosendaal, a doctoral candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Nik Cubrilovic, an independent Australian researcher, separately documented how Web pages containing Facebook plug-ins carried out tracking more extensive than Facebook publicly admitted to.
Noyes says Germany doesn't understand how the company's tracking technologies work. And he blames "software bugs" for the indiscriminate tracking discovered by Roosendaal and Cubrilovic.
"When we were made aware that certain cookies were sending more information to us than we had intended, we fixed our cookie management system," Noyes says.
However, researcher Roosendaal says Facebook's tracking cookies retain the capacity to extensively track non-members and logged-off members alike. "They have been confronted with the same issue now several times and every time they call it a bug. That's not really contributing to earning trust."
Some corporate security executives have become concerned about cybercriminals getting hold of tracking data relayed by Like buttons, then using that intelligence to steal intellectual property. They've asked firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks to identify and block traffic from Facebook tracking cookies, while enabling their employees to continue using other Facebook services.
"The concern is that Facebook has rich personal information, which Google doesn't have," says Nir Zuk, founder and chief technology officer for Palo Alto Networks. "Combining that personal information with Web browsing patterns could be revelatory."
Facebook tracking is under scrutiny
In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information.
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system.
Online tracking involves technologies that tech companies and ad networks have used for more than a decade to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads to each viewer. Until now, Facebook, which makes most of its profits from advertising, has been ambiguous in public statements about the extent to which it collects tracking data.
It contends that it does not belong in the same camp as Google, Microsoft and the rest of the online ad industry's major players. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this point to interviewer Charlie Rose on national TV last week.
For the past several weeks, Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials have sought to distinguish how Facebook and others use tracking data. Facebook uses such data only to boost security and improve how "Like" buttons and similar Facebook plug-ins perform, Bejar told USA TODAY. Plug-ins are the ubiquitous web applications that enable you to tap into Facebook services from millions of third-party web pages.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company has "no plans to change how we use this data." He also says the company's intentions "stand in stark contrast to the many ad networks and data brokers that deliberately and, in many cases, surreptitiously track people to create profiles of their behavior, sell that content to the highest bidder, or use that content to target ads."
Conflicting pressures
Rather than appease its critics, Facebook's public explanations of how it tracks and how it uses tracking data have touched off a barrage of questions from technologists, privacy advocates, regulators and lawmakers around the world.
"Facebook could be tracking users without knowledge or permission, which could be an unfair or deceptive business practice," says Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsor with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of a bill aimed at limiting online tracking of children.
The company "should be covered by strong privacy safeguards," Markey says. "The massive trove of personal information that Facebook accumulates about its users can have a significant impact on them -- now and into the future."
Noting that "Facebook is the most popular social media website in the world," Barton adds, "All websites should respect users' privacy."
After Zuckerberg appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show last week, Markey and Barton sent a letter to the 27-year-old CEO asking him to explain why Facebook recently applied for a U.S. patent for technology that includes a method to correlate tracking data with advertisements. They gave Zuckerberg a Dec. 1 deadline to reply.
"We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from our patent application," Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt says.
Facebook is under intense, conflicting pressures.
It must prove to its global financial backers that it is worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've poured into the company, financial and tech industry analysts say. Those investors include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, Hong Kong financier Sir Ka-shing Li and venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel.
The success of the company's initial public offering of stock, expected sometime next year, hinges in part on Facebook's ability to move beyond the bread-and-butter text ads that appear on members' home pages and emerge as a key player in graphical display ads and corporate brand marketing campaigns, says Rebecca Lieb, advertising media analyst at the Altimeter Group.
In advertising, knowing more about consumers' preferences is key. "More data means better targeting, which means more revenue," says Marissa Gluck, managing partner of the media consulting firm Radar Research.
To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.
Ground rules needed
Companies are incorporating tracking data into new business models "without necessarily appreciating the long-term and collective consequences," says Craig Spiezle, executive director of the non-profit Online Trust Alliance.
Last week, consumer reporter Ric Romero of station KABC in Los Angeles showed how insurance companies monitor Facebook and Twitter, looking for reasons to raise premiums and deny claims. Previously, ABC News reporter Lyneka Little reported on how employers use Facebook information as part of the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have documented how tracking data culled from Internet searches and surfing can be meshed with personal information that Internet users disclose at websites for shopping, travel, health or jobs. Personal disclosures made on social networks, along with preference data gathered by new apps for smartphones and tablet PCs, are being tossed into this mix, too.
Privacy advocates worry that before long, corporations, government agencies and political parties could routinely purchase tracking data from data aggregators.
"Tracking data can be used to figure out your political bent, religious beliefs, sexuality preferences, health issues or the fact that you're looking for a new job," says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There are all sorts of ways to form wrong judgments about people."
So far, it does not appear that this sort of data correlation is being done, at least not on a wide scale. But in the absence of ground rules, technologists, regulators and privacy advocates worry that companies involved in collecting tracking data could succumb to the temptation to cash in.
Says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com: "We can only imagine that an advertising company with a richer trove of data will sell more and more of that data."
Facebook's trove of data
Facebook for the first time revealed details of how it compiles its trove of tracking data in a series of phone and e-mail interviews conducted by USA TODAY with Bejar, Noyes and Schnitt, as well as engineering manager Gregg Stefancik and corporate spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin. Here's what they disclosed:
-The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a new account, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie.
-From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded.
-Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log.
If you are logged-on to your Facebook account and surfing the Web, your session cookie conducts this logging. The session cookie additionally records your name, e-mail address, friends and all data associated with your profile to Facebook. If you are logged-off, or if you are a non-member, the browser cookie conducts the logging; it additionally reports a unique alphanumeric identifier, but no personal information.
Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.
He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.
Bejar also acknowledged "technical similarities" in the cookie-based tracking technologies used by Facebook and the wider online advertising industry. "But we're not like ad networks at all in our stewardship of the data, in the way we use it, and the way we lay everything out," Bejar says. "We have a very clear and transparent approach to how we do advertising that I'm very proud of."
Even so, Facebook's public descriptions of its tracking systems have not satisfied some critics -- particularly European privacy regulators. Ilse Aigner, Germany's minister of consumer protection, last month banned Facebook plug-ins from government websites and advised private companies to do the same.
And Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, expressed alarm at how Facebook's technology could potentially be used to build extensive profiles of individual Web users.
"Whoever visits Facebook or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in a statement. "Such profiling infringes German and European data protection law."
Adding fuel to such concerns, Arnold Roosendaal, a doctoral candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Nik Cubrilovic, an independent Australian researcher, separately documented how Web pages containing Facebook plug-ins carried out tracking more extensive than Facebook publicly admitted to.
Noyes says Germany doesn't understand how the company's tracking technologies work. And he blames "software bugs" for the indiscriminate tracking discovered by Roosendaal and Cubrilovic.
"When we were made aware that certain cookies were sending more information to us than we had intended, we fixed our cookie management system," Noyes says.
However, researcher Roosendaal says Facebook's tracking cookies retain the capacity to extensively track non-members and logged-off members alike. "They have been confronted with the same issue now several times and every time they call it a bug. That's not really contributing to earning trust."
Some corporate security executives have become concerned about cybercriminals getting hold of tracking data relayed by Like buttons, then using that intelligence to steal intellectual property. They've asked firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks to identify and block traffic from Facebook tracking cookies, while enabling their employees to continue using other Facebook services.
"The concern is that Facebook has rich personal information, which Google doesn't have," says Nir Zuk, founder and chief technology officer for Palo Alto Networks. "Combining that personal information with Web browsing patterns could be revelatory."
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system.
Online tracking involves technologies that tech companies and ad networks have used for more than a decade to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads to each viewer. Until now, Facebook, which makes most of its profits from advertising, has been ambiguous in public statements about the extent to which it collects tracking data.
It contends that it does not belong in the same camp as Google, Microsoft and the rest of the online ad industry's major players. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this point to interviewer Charlie Rose on national TV last week.
For the past several weeks, Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials have sought to distinguish how Facebook and others use tracking data. Facebook uses such data only to boost security and improve how "Like" buttons and similar Facebook plug-ins perform, Bejar told USA TODAY. Plug-ins are the ubiquitous web applications that enable you to tap into Facebook services from millions of third-party web pages.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company has "no plans to change how we use this data." He also says the company's intentions "stand in stark contrast to the many ad networks and data brokers that deliberately and, in many cases, surreptitiously track people to create profiles of their behavior, sell that content to the highest bidder, or use that content to target ads."
Conflicting pressures
Rather than appease its critics, Facebook's public explanations of how it tracks and how it uses tracking data have touched off a barrage of questions from technologists, privacy advocates, regulators and lawmakers around the world.
"Facebook could be tracking users without knowledge or permission, which could be an unfair or deceptive business practice," says Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsor with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of a bill aimed at limiting online tracking of children.
The company "should be covered by strong privacy safeguards," Markey says. "The massive trove of personal information that Facebook accumulates about its users can have a significant impact on them -- now and into the future."
Noting that "Facebook is the most popular social media website in the world," Barton adds, "All websites should respect users' privacy."
After Zuckerberg appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show last week, Markey and Barton sent a letter to the 27-year-old CEO asking him to explain why Facebook recently applied for a U.S. patent for technology that includes a method to correlate tracking data with advertisements. They gave Zuckerberg a Dec. 1 deadline to reply.
"We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from our patent application," Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt says.
Facebook is under intense, conflicting pressures.
It must prove to its global financial backers that it is worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've poured into the company, financial and tech industry analysts say. Those investors include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, Hong Kong financier Sir Ka-shing Li and venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel.
The success of the company's initial public offering of stock, expected sometime next year, hinges in part on Facebook's ability to move beyond the bread-and-butter text ads that appear on members' home pages and emerge as a key player in graphical display ads and corporate brand marketing campaigns, says Rebecca Lieb, advertising media analyst at the Altimeter Group.
In advertising, knowing more about consumers' preferences is key. "More data means better targeting, which means more revenue," says Marissa Gluck, managing partner of the media consulting firm Radar Research.
To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.
Ground rules needed
Companies are incorporating tracking data into new business models "without necessarily appreciating the long-term and collective consequences," says Craig Spiezle, executive director of the non-profit Online Trust Alliance.
Last week, consumer reporter Ric Romero of station KABC in Los Angeles showed how insurance companies monitor Facebook and Twitter, looking for reasons to raise premiums and deny claims. Previously, ABC News reporter Lyneka Little reported on how employers use Facebook information as part of the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have documented how tracking data culled from Internet searches and surfing can be meshed with personal information that Internet users disclose at websites for shopping, travel, health or jobs. Personal disclosures made on social networks, along with preference data gathered by new apps for smartphones and tablet PCs, are being tossed into this mix, too.
Privacy advocates worry that before long, corporations, government agencies and political parties could routinely purchase tracking data from data aggregators.
"Tracking data can be used to figure out your political bent, religious beliefs, sexuality preferences, health issues or the fact that you're looking for a new job," says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There are all sorts of ways to form wrong judgments about people."
So far, it does not appear that this sort of data correlation is being done, at least not on a wide scale. But in the absence of ground rules, technologists, regulators and privacy advocates worry that companies involved in collecting tracking data could succumb to the temptation to cash in.
Says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com: "We can only imagine that an advertising company with a richer trove of data will sell more and more of that data."
Facebook's trove of data
Facebook for the first time revealed details of how it compiles its trove of tracking data in a series of phone and e-mail interviews conducted by USA TODAY with Bejar, Noyes and Schnitt, as well as engineering manager Gregg Stefancik and corporate spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin. Here's what they disclosed:
-The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a new account, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie.
-From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded.
-Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log.
If you are logged-on to your Facebook account and surfing the Web, your session cookie conducts this logging. The session cookie additionally records your name, e-mail address, friends and all data associated with your profile to Facebook. If you are logged-off, or if you are a non-member, the browser cookie conducts the logging; it additionally reports a unique alphanumeric identifier, but no personal information.
Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.
He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.
Bejar also acknowledged "technical similarities" in the cookie-based tracking technologies used by Facebook and the wider online advertising industry. "But we're not like ad networks at all in our stewardship of the data, in the way we use it, and the way we lay everything out," Bejar says. "We have a very clear and transparent approach to how we do advertising that I'm very proud of."
Even so, Facebook's public descriptions of its tracking systems have not satisfied some critics -- particularly European privacy regulators. Ilse Aigner, Germany's minister of consumer protection, last month banned Facebook plug-ins from government websites and advised private companies to do the same.
And Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, expressed alarm at how Facebook's technology could potentially be used to build extensive profiles of individual Web users.
"Whoever visits Facebook or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in a statement. "Such profiling infringes German and European data protection law."
Adding fuel to such concerns, Arnold Roosendaal, a doctoral candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Nik Cubrilovic, an independent Australian researcher, separately documented how Web pages containing Facebook plug-ins carried out tracking more extensive than Facebook publicly admitted to.
Noyes says Germany doesn't understand how the company's tracking technologies work. And he blames "software bugs" for the indiscriminate tracking discovered by Roosendaal and Cubrilovic.
"When we were made aware that certain cookies were sending more information to us than we had intended, we fixed our cookie management system," Noyes says.
However, researcher Roosendaal says Facebook's tracking cookies retain the capacity to extensively track non-members and logged-off members alike. "They have been confronted with the same issue now several times and every time they call it a bug. That's not really contributing to earning trust."
Some corporate security executives have become concerned about cybercriminals getting hold of tracking data relayed by Like buttons, then using that intelligence to steal intellectual property. They've asked firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks to identify and block traffic from Facebook tracking cookies, while enabling their employees to continue using other Facebook services.
"The concern is that Facebook has rich personal information, which Google doesn't have," says Nir Zuk, founder and chief technology officer for Palo Alto Networks. "Combining that personal information with Web browsing patterns could be revelatory."
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Afhayeenka Isutaga Ururada Xuquuqda Aadamiga Somaliland Oo Dhaleecayn culus u soo jeediyay xukumada
Nov 02, 2011 at 05:42 PM
Dallada midowga Ururadda Xaquuqul Insaanka Somaliland (SOHIRA) ayaa Eedaymo kulul u jeediyey Xukuumadda Madaxweyne Siilaanyo, kuna Canbaareyey falal ay ku kacday oo bulshada ka dhan ah. Dallada SOHIRA ayaa waxa ay Xukuumada ku dhaliishay qaabkii loola Macaamilay Dadkii ay Todobaadkii Horre ka Raraysay Xaafadda Shacabka taas oo uu ku geeryoodeen lada qof ayna ku dhaacan tahay Gabadh kale oo shicib ah. Sidaasina waxa ku dhaqaaqay Afhayeenka Ururadda Xaquuqul Insaanka Somaliland ee SOHIRA Md. Saleebaan Ismaaciil Bulaale (Xuquuq) oo Maanta shir jaraa’id ku Qabtay Hotel Imperial ee Magaaladda Hargeysa.
Saleebaan Ismaaciil Bulaale waxa uu sheegay tan iyo intii Xisbiga KULMIYE talladda dalka qabtay in ay dalka ka Jirtey dhibaatooyin kala duwani isaga oo arintaasi ka hadalaya waxa uu Yidhi “Tan iyo Maalintii uu Qabsaday Xisbiga KULMIYE Talladda Dalka Waxa dalka Ka Jirey dhibaatooyin kala duwan, waxa ay dalka ka geysteen Xadgudubyo xaquuqul Iinsaan, Waxana ay dilayaan kuwii loogu tala galay in ay ka ilaaliyaan cadawga, dadkan ay dileena ma ay sidan xabad ama rasaas, badan koodda waxay xabaddu kaga dhacday iyaga oo sii cararaya, oo dabadda ayay kaga dhacday, qaarna Qaadaadka ayay kaga dhacday. Saleebaan Xuquuq ayaa sheegay in haddii ay Madaxdu Dabadda u baxaan la Dacweyn karro isla markaana lagu eedayn karro Dambiyo dhinaca xuquuqda aadamaha ah oo uu sheegay in ay dalka ka galeen waxana uu Yidhi “Haddii ay maddaxaddu dabadda u baxaan way ashkatayn karaan dadkii ay ka dhinteen Dhalinyaradda la Xasuuqay, waana loo Xukumi karaa.
Afhayeen Saleebaan Ismail Bulaale wuxuu ku eedeyay madaxweyne Siilaanyo inuu kala furfuray midnimadii iyo wadajirkii umada Somaliland wuxuuna kooto geliyey ganacsigii dalka taas oo uu uga jeedo inuu as-khaas gaar ah u gacan geliyey ama ku naasnuujiyo.
Afhayeen Saleebaan xuquuq wuxuu ku eedeyay in madaxweyne Siilaanyo cadaadis saaray gobolada Saaxil iyo Awdal oo ay ka soo kala jeedaan madaxweyinihii iyo ku xigeenkiisi hore Rayaale iyo Axmed Yaasiin,wuxuu intaas raaciyey in madaxweyne Siilaanyo albaabada u xidhay jaamacadii Berbera qalabkeediina la gurtay.sidoo kale wuxuu intaas raaciyey in hogaanka sare ee xukumada siilaanyo aanay ku jirin masuuliyiinta gobolada bariga somaliland metelaa.
Mudane Saleebaan wuxuu sheegay in Siilaanyo iyo madax kale ee Somalilandba ay dacweyn karaan waalidkii iyo qaraabadii ay ka dhasheen dhalinyaradii dhawaan la xasuuqay,waana loo xukumi karaa waxaanan u soo jeedinayaa beesha caalamku inay la xisaabtanto Siilaanyo,ururada xuququl insaankana waxaan u soo jeedinayaa inay ku cadaadiyaan siilaanyo iyo xukumadiisaba inuu habdhaqankiisa wax ka bedelo intuu ingiriiska nasashada u joogo si bulshada caalamku wax uga bedesho dhaqankan xukumada Siilaanyo.
Saleebaan Xuquuq wuxuuu intaas ku daray in xukumadu qudha ka goysay dadkan rayidka ah ee muwaadiniinta ah iyaga oo aan hubaysnayn oon xabad sidanin, rasaasta boolisku ku ridayeena waxay haleeshay iyagoo ka sii yaacaya qaarkood qadaadka ayey kaga dhaceen rasaastii dishay qaarna dabada ayay ka haleeshay iyagoo ka sii yaacaya.
Afhayeenka Ururka Xuquuqal-insaanka ee SOHIRA Mr. Saleebaan Ismaaciil Bullaale (Xuquuq), oo hadalkiisa sii wata ayaa ku eedeeyey maamulka Gobolka Saaxil inay ku kaceen musuqmaasuq iyo dabiyo ka dhan ah xuquuqal-insaanka, isaga oo dhan kale xukuumadda Madaxweyne Siilaanyo ku dhaleeceeyey in aanay waxba ka qaban xatooyada hantida ummadda iyo hawlgalada axmaqnimada ah ee maamullada dawladda hoose iyo gobolku kula kacaan dadka ku dhaqan caasimadda Hargeysa, isaga oo xusay in hawlgaladii ugu dambeeyey khasaare laxaad leh oo meel-ka-dhac ku ah xuquuqal-insaanka ay ku kaceen.
Mr. Saleebaan Xuquuq waxa uu sidaas ku sheegay shir jar’aaid oo uu ku qabtay hudheelka Imperial ee magaalada Hargeysa, isaga oo dhaliishiisa ugu badan saaray dawlada hoose.
“Dambiyada iyo musuqmaasuqa ay dawladda hoose kula kacday bulshada muddaday joogtay xukuumadda Madaxweyne Siilaanyo wax alle wax ay ka qabatay ma jirto, haddii ay Golaha Degaanku is yidhaahdaan musuqmaasuqa iyo tacadiyada ay gaysanayaan ka qabta, waxa ka qabata oo maayirka iyo ku-xigeenkiisa la soo safata xukuumadda oo u hiilisa.
Maanta meelgaadhi maraa oo bannaan ma jirto, waxaanan aaminsanahay in xabaalihii Gol-jannoee dadka ay ku laayeen ay iibsan doonaan oo ay qaybsan doonaan Jiciir iyo Uur-cadde, waana dad ku foogan markasta sidii ay dan guud u cuni lahaayeen,” ayuu yidhi Mr. Saleebaan Xuquuq.
Mr. Saleebaan Xuquuq, waxa uu intaas ku daray; “Waxa uu madaxweyne Siilaanyo badhasaabadii gobollada ka dhigay dad aynu odhan karno waa ciyaal suuq sida Ramaxaa oo miidhan.
Saaxil waxay lahayd jaamacad kaliya oo dad bulshada ka mid ah si dhib leh ku dhiseen, maanta kombuyuutaradeedi waxay yalaan maxkamadda gobolka iyo guriga maareeyaha dekeda oo carruurtiisa wax ku barata.
Ramaax weriyayaasha Gobolka Saaxil wuxuu ku yidhi ma diri kartaan war aydaan ila soo marin oo war dhexdhexaad ah lagama heli karo Berbera, waana meel-ka-dhac xuquuqdii bulshada lagula kacay.”
Waxa kale oo uu Saleebaan Xuquuq ku eedeeyey maamulka Gobolka Saaxil iyo maxkamadahoodaba inay ku heshiiyeen musuqmaasuq iyo boob ula kac ah oo ay ku qadeen jaamacaddii Berbera.
Wuxuu hadlakiisa ku soo jaray madaxweyne Siilaanyo dadka qaar wuu hagraday daka qaarna cagta hoosteedu geliyay qaarna dhabarkuu ku qaatay.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Ururka Solja Iyo 8 Urur Saxaafadeed Oo Ka Jira Dalalka Afrika Oo Si Kulul U Cambaareeyay Jidh Dil Booliska Hargeysa Kula Kaceen Laba Wariye Oo Ka Kala Tirsan RAMAAS iyo Saxafi.
Oct 29,2011 – Ururka saxafiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA ayaa si kulul u cambaareeyay tacadiyadda ciidamada Somaliland kula kacaan saxafiyiinta ka hawl-galla hay’adaha warbaahinta ee madaxa banaan.
War-saxaafadeed uu soo saaray ururka SOLJa ayaa lagu sheegay in tacadiyada saxaafada ay ku hayso xukuumada Madaxwayne Axmed Siilaanyo ay bilihii u dambeeyay ay kor u soo kacayeen, iyagga oo soo bandhigay laba wariye oo labadii todobaad ee u dambeeyay ciidamada boolisku garaacis iyo jidh dil ku sameeyeen.
Wariyayaashan ciidamada boolisku jidh-dilka ku sameeyeen ayaa waxa ka mid ah Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid ah hawl-wadeenada shakabada wararka ee RAMAAS iyo waliba Mustafe Sheekh Cumar oo ka mid ah wargeyska madaxa-banaan ee SAXAFI, iyagga oo sidoo kale difaacay muwaadin lagu waxyeeleeyay ray uu ku baahiyey wargeyska Waaheen.
War-saxaafadeedkaas oo dhamaystirana waxa uu u dhignaa sidan “Ururka suxufiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA wuxuu canbaaraynayaa tacadiyada, xadhiga iyo garaacista lagula kacayo suxufiyiinta reer Somaliland iyagoo shaqadoodii gudanaya.
Tacadiyada iyo dhibaatooyinka lagu hayo wariyeyaasha ayaa dhawrkii bilood ee u danbeeyay kor u sii kaceen, waxaana kamid ah tacadiyada iyo dhibaatada lagula kacay Wariyeyaasha ka hawlgala Somaliland dhawrkii bilood ee u dambeeyey kuwan hoos ku qoran:
1. weriye maxamed cabdi kaahin (boosh) ka shaqeeya ramaasnews iyo royal tv oo sadex askari oo ka tirsan ciidanka booliska khamiistii shalay kula kaceen garaacis si axmaqnimo ah oo bina,aadanimada ka baxsan u garaaceen iyagoo ku haystay islaamo cabanaya ayaad maalin dhaweyd sawir ka qaaday
2. weriye mustafe sh.cumar geedi oo ah tifaftiha wargeyska saxafi oo 19-kii bishan ay askarta d/hoose ee magaalada hargeysa garaacis iyo xadhig kula kaceen isagoo sawiraya dad danyar ah oo d/hoose ee hargaysi ka raraysay xaafada gol-jano,
Sidoo kale waxaa xadhig sharci daro ah lagu xidhay weriyaha wergayska Waaheen ee burco axmed muse Mohamed (sakaaro) ee 5-tii sept 2011 lagu xidhay burco ,iyo
weriyaha wergayska ogaal ee burco mahad c/laahi farax oo 6-dii September 2011 oo isna sidoo kale lagu xidhay magaalada burco
-Jaamac cilmi siciid oo ah muwaadin fikirkiisa ku cabiray wargeyska waheen bishii hore ee September 2011 waxaa lagu garaacay suuqa isagoo qoray maqaal la yidhaa habarjeclooy u kala hadha qaladka iyo saxa aad isku wada raacaysaan arintaana jaamac wuxuu ii xaqiijiyay 12/10/2011 cabaara 12-kii duhurnimo oo aan kula kulmay baar hargeysa
Digniin:
-Ugu horreyn, waxaannu uga digaynaa Xukuumadda iyo ciidamada booliska Somaliland xadhigga iyo garaacista sharcidarrada ah ee Suxufiyiinta, iyaga oo aan haysan waaran-maxkamadeed,
Xildhibaan Kijaandhe iyo dhawrka Xildhibaan ee xulafadiisa ah waxaannu uga digaynaa, xeerka uu soo samaystay ee uu Ajendaha ku darsaday isaga oo aan weli soo gaadhin golaha Wakiillada. Iyada oo aan la garanayn cidda dabada ka waddaa inay hay’adda IREX tahay iyo inay xubno Xukuumadda ka tirsan oo hoosta ka wadata tahay. Inkasta oo uu isagu sheegay maalin dhoweyd oo aannu SOLJA ahaan ula kulannay in aannu wax lacag ah ku qaadan.
Waxaannu leennahay adigoo ka mid ah xildhibaannadii sida Dimuqraaddiga ah u yimid, ha baabiin kii ay sameeyeen Golihii Wakiillada ee beelaha ku yimid, ee kanna dhaqan-geli, kii Radio-yadana samee, adaa lagaa sugayaa si ay taariikhda kuugu gasho.
Aniga oo shirguddoonka ka raalli-gelinaya qadafyadii yaryaraa ee ay saxaafaddu ku qaad-qaadday, maalintii xeerka aad ku dartay ajandaha aad wadato, adiga oo aan la garanayn baahida aad u qabto, ee kugu kelliftay,iyadoo aanay waxba ka ogeyn wasaaraddii warfaafinta iyo warbaahinta madaxa bannaanaydba.
Anigoo agaasimaha guud isku aragnay dabayaaqadii September addis ababa isagoo ku socda London iina xaqiijyay inaanu waxba ka ogayn xeerkaa cusub ee saxaafada ee la horkeenay golaha wakiilada
sidoo kale wasiirka warfaafinta ayaa ku cadeeyay inaanu waxba kala socon xeerka saxaafada ee cusub ee golaha wakiilada la geeyay ee ajandaha lagu daray wargayska jamhuuriya cadadkiisii soo baxay 23sept.2011
sidaa daraadeed waxaanu ka codsanaynaa golaha sharci dejinta inay joojiyaan xeerkan oo ay noo sameeyaan xeerkii idaacadaha madaxa banaan oo baahi weyn loo qabo
hadii kale waxaanu samayn Annaga oo dareenkayaga ku muujin donna mudaaharaad salmi ah, haddii uu taas ku joogsan waayana, saxaafaddu waxay samayn doontaa shaqo-joojin.
Baaq:
Waxaan hay’adaha UN-ta, dawladaha deeqda bixiyayaasha , sida, Midowga Yurub, USA, UK, Africa, Asia, INGO’s, and LNGO’s iyo khaasatan hayadihii xidhiidhku ka dhexeeyay ururka solja , Xukuumadda, Ganacsatada Somaliland, Shirkadaha waaweyn iyo Shicibkaba, inay naga caawiyaan xuquuqdii warbaahinta iyo kor-u-qaadista waxbarasho ee suxufiyiinta iyo Xorriyatul-Qawlka.
Codsi:
Dhammaan ururrada waddaniga ah iyo shirkadaha Teleefannada waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay joojiyaan kana fogaadaan saxaafada shaqadeedii oo ay qabanayaan, sida awareness-ka, tababarrada, ogeysiisyada iyo xayaysiisyada.
Golaha Wakiillada Somaliland, Golaha Xukuumadda iyo ka Garsoorkaba; inay joojiyaan xeerka Kijaandhe. Waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay soo diyaariyaan sharcigii Idaacadaha, noona dhaqan-geliyaan xeerkii Saxaafadda ee hore loo ansixiyay, iyaga oo ku daraya kan broadcasting-ka.”
Wasaarada warfaafinta inay shaqadoodii kusoo celiso ama waxbarasho u bilawdo 38-kii weriye ee 10-kii bishii September 2011 imtixankii laga qaaday la sheegay inay dhaceen taas oo ka hor imanaysa xuquuqda shaqaalaha iyo balanqaadyadii xusbiga kulmiye .
Ugu danbayn waxaanu wada shaqayn guud kala yeelan doonaa ururada suxufiyiinta wadamada jaarka ah ee ay ka midka yihiin,DJABOUTI,ETHIOPIA,KENYA ,SOMALIA,SOUTH SUDAN, TANZANIA,RWANDA, UGANDA ,BURUNDI,
Association of Djibouti Journalists (ADJ)
Ethiopia National Journalists Union (ENJU)
Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA)
National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)
Rwanda Journalists Union (RJU)
Tanzania Union of Journalists (TUJ)
Uganda Journalists Union (UJU)
Union Burundaise des Journalistes (UBJ)”
War-saxaafadeedkan uu soo saaray ururka SOLJA ayaa waxa ku saxeexnaa xoghayaha ururkaas Maxamed-Rashiid Muxumed Faarax.
Dhinaca kale, ururka Caalamiga ah ee NUSOJ ayaa si gaar ah uga hadlay garaacista iyo tacadiga lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid hawl-wadeenada RAMAASNEWS.COM waxayna cambaareeyeen garaacis ay khamiistii todobaadkii hore kula kaceen saddexda askarta booliska Hargeysa ah, iyagga oo ku eedeeyay inuu ka qaaday sawiro ay isticmaaleen warbaahinta maxaliga ahi.
Ururka NUSOJ oo la soo xidhiidhay wariye Maxamed Boosh ayaa tilmaamay inuu u sheegay in loo garaacay si axmaqnimo ah “Markii ay ii garaaceen si halis ah, waxaan dalbaday inay saldhiga I geeyaan, laakiin way diideen inay diiwaangaliyaan dambiga ay igu haystaan.” Sidaa waxa NUSOJ u sheegay Wariye Maxamed Boosh.
NUSOJ waxay aad u cambaareysay falkaasi lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Boosh waxayna sheegtay inay arintaasi kala hadlayso masuuliyiinta xukuumada si baadhitaan loogu sameeyo kiiskaasi.
War-saxaafadeed uu soo saaray ururka SOLJa ayaa lagu sheegay in tacadiyada saxaafada ay ku hayso xukuumada Madaxwayne Axmed Siilaanyo ay bilihii u dambeeyay ay kor u soo kacayeen, iyagga oo soo bandhigay laba wariye oo labadii todobaad ee u dambeeyay ciidamada boolisku garaacis iyo jidh dil ku sameeyeen.
Wariyayaashan ciidamada boolisku jidh-dilka ku sameeyeen ayaa waxa ka mid ah Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid ah hawl-wadeenada shakabada wararka ee RAMAAS iyo waliba Mustafe Sheekh Cumar oo ka mid ah wargeyska madaxa-banaan ee SAXAFI, iyagga oo sidoo kale difaacay muwaadin lagu waxyeeleeyay ray uu ku baahiyey wargeyska Waaheen.
War-saxaafadeedkaas oo dhamaystirana waxa uu u dhignaa sidan “Ururka suxufiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA wuxuu canbaaraynayaa tacadiyada, xadhiga iyo garaacista lagula kacayo suxufiyiinta reer Somaliland iyagoo shaqadoodii gudanaya.
Tacadiyada iyo dhibaatooyinka lagu hayo wariyeyaasha ayaa dhawrkii bilood ee u danbeeyay kor u sii kaceen, waxaana kamid ah tacadiyada iyo dhibaatada lagula kacay Wariyeyaasha ka hawlgala Somaliland dhawrkii bilood ee u dambeeyey kuwan hoos ku qoran:
1. weriye maxamed cabdi kaahin (boosh) ka shaqeeya ramaasnews iyo royal tv oo sadex askari oo ka tirsan ciidanka booliska khamiistii shalay kula kaceen garaacis si axmaqnimo ah oo bina,aadanimada ka baxsan u garaaceen iyagoo ku haystay islaamo cabanaya ayaad maalin dhaweyd sawir ka qaaday
2. weriye mustafe sh.cumar geedi oo ah tifaftiha wargeyska saxafi oo 19-kii bishan ay askarta d/hoose ee magaalada hargeysa garaacis iyo xadhig kula kaceen isagoo sawiraya dad danyar ah oo d/hoose ee hargaysi ka raraysay xaafada gol-jano,
Sidoo kale waxaa xadhig sharci daro ah lagu xidhay weriyaha wergayska Waaheen ee burco axmed muse Mohamed (sakaaro) ee 5-tii sept 2011 lagu xidhay burco ,iyo
weriyaha wergayska ogaal ee burco mahad c/laahi farax oo 6-dii September 2011 oo isna sidoo kale lagu xidhay magaalada burco
-Jaamac cilmi siciid oo ah muwaadin fikirkiisa ku cabiray wargeyska waheen bishii hore ee September 2011 waxaa lagu garaacay suuqa isagoo qoray maqaal la yidhaa habarjeclooy u kala hadha qaladka iyo saxa aad isku wada raacaysaan arintaana jaamac wuxuu ii xaqiijiyay 12/10/2011 cabaara 12-kii duhurnimo oo aan kula kulmay baar hargeysa
Digniin:
-Ugu horreyn, waxaannu uga digaynaa Xukuumadda iyo ciidamada booliska Somaliland xadhigga iyo garaacista sharcidarrada ah ee Suxufiyiinta, iyaga oo aan haysan waaran-maxkamadeed,
Xildhibaan Kijaandhe iyo dhawrka Xildhibaan ee xulafadiisa ah waxaannu uga digaynaa, xeerka uu soo samaystay ee uu Ajendaha ku darsaday isaga oo aan weli soo gaadhin golaha Wakiillada. Iyada oo aan la garanayn cidda dabada ka waddaa inay hay’adda IREX tahay iyo inay xubno Xukuumadda ka tirsan oo hoosta ka wadata tahay. Inkasta oo uu isagu sheegay maalin dhoweyd oo aannu SOLJA ahaan ula kulannay in aannu wax lacag ah ku qaadan.
Waxaannu leennahay adigoo ka mid ah xildhibaannadii sida Dimuqraaddiga ah u yimid, ha baabiin kii ay sameeyeen Golihii Wakiillada ee beelaha ku yimid, ee kanna dhaqan-geli, kii Radio-yadana samee, adaa lagaa sugayaa si ay taariikhda kuugu gasho.
Aniga oo shirguddoonka ka raalli-gelinaya qadafyadii yaryaraa ee ay saxaafaddu ku qaad-qaadday, maalintii xeerka aad ku dartay ajandaha aad wadato, adiga oo aan la garanayn baahida aad u qabto, ee kugu kelliftay,iyadoo aanay waxba ka ogeyn wasaaraddii warfaafinta iyo warbaahinta madaxa bannaanaydba.
Anigoo agaasimaha guud isku aragnay dabayaaqadii September addis ababa isagoo ku socda London iina xaqiijyay inaanu waxba ka ogayn xeerkaa cusub ee saxaafada ee la horkeenay golaha wakiilada
sidoo kale wasiirka warfaafinta ayaa ku cadeeyay inaanu waxba kala socon xeerka saxaafada ee cusub ee golaha wakiilada la geeyay ee ajandaha lagu daray wargayska jamhuuriya cadadkiisii soo baxay 23sept.2011
sidaa daraadeed waxaanu ka codsanaynaa golaha sharci dejinta inay joojiyaan xeerkan oo ay noo sameeyaan xeerkii idaacadaha madaxa banaan oo baahi weyn loo qabo
hadii kale waxaanu samayn Annaga oo dareenkayaga ku muujin donna mudaaharaad salmi ah, haddii uu taas ku joogsan waayana, saxaafaddu waxay samayn doontaa shaqo-joojin.
Baaq:
Waxaan hay’adaha UN-ta, dawladaha deeqda bixiyayaasha , sida, Midowga Yurub, USA, UK, Africa, Asia, INGO’s, and LNGO’s iyo khaasatan hayadihii xidhiidhku ka dhexeeyay ururka solja , Xukuumadda, Ganacsatada Somaliland, Shirkadaha waaweyn iyo Shicibkaba, inay naga caawiyaan xuquuqdii warbaahinta iyo kor-u-qaadista waxbarasho ee suxufiyiinta iyo Xorriyatul-Qawlka.
Codsi:
Dhammaan ururrada waddaniga ah iyo shirkadaha Teleefannada waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay joojiyaan kana fogaadaan saxaafada shaqadeedii oo ay qabanayaan, sida awareness-ka, tababarrada, ogeysiisyada iyo xayaysiisyada.
Golaha Wakiillada Somaliland, Golaha Xukuumadda iyo ka Garsoorkaba; inay joojiyaan xeerka Kijaandhe. Waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay soo diyaariyaan sharcigii Idaacadaha, noona dhaqan-geliyaan xeerkii Saxaafadda ee hore loo ansixiyay, iyaga oo ku daraya kan broadcasting-ka.”
Wasaarada warfaafinta inay shaqadoodii kusoo celiso ama waxbarasho u bilawdo 38-kii weriye ee 10-kii bishii September 2011 imtixankii laga qaaday la sheegay inay dhaceen taas oo ka hor imanaysa xuquuqda shaqaalaha iyo balanqaadyadii xusbiga kulmiye .
Ugu danbayn waxaanu wada shaqayn guud kala yeelan doonaa ururada suxufiyiinta wadamada jaarka ah ee ay ka midka yihiin,DJABOUTI,ETHIOPIA,KENYA ,SOMALIA,SOUTH SUDAN, TANZANIA,RWANDA, UGANDA ,BURUNDI,
Association of Djibouti Journalists (ADJ)
Ethiopia National Journalists Union (ENJU)
Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA)
National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)
Rwanda Journalists Union (RJU)
Tanzania Union of Journalists (TUJ)
Uganda Journalists Union (UJU)
Union Burundaise des Journalistes (UBJ)”
War-saxaafadeedkan uu soo saaray ururka SOLJA ayaa waxa ku saxeexnaa xoghayaha ururkaas Maxamed-Rashiid Muxumed Faarax.
Dhinaca kale, ururka Caalamiga ah ee NUSOJ ayaa si gaar ah uga hadlay garaacista iyo tacadiga lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid hawl-wadeenada RAMAASNEWS.COM waxayna cambaareeyeen garaacis ay khamiistii todobaadkii hore kula kaceen saddexda askarta booliska Hargeysa ah, iyagga oo ku eedeeyay inuu ka qaaday sawiro ay isticmaaleen warbaahinta maxaliga ahi.
Ururka NUSOJ oo la soo xidhiidhay wariye Maxamed Boosh ayaa tilmaamay inuu u sheegay in loo garaacay si axmaqnimo ah “Markii ay ii garaaceen si halis ah, waxaan dalbaday inay saldhiga I geeyaan, laakiin way diideen inay diiwaangaliyaan dambiga ay igu haystaan.” Sidaa waxa NUSOJ u sheegay Wariye Maxamed Boosh.
NUSOJ waxay aad u cambaareysay falkaasi lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Boosh waxayna sheegtay inay arintaasi kala hadlayso masuuliyiinta xukuumada si baadhitaan loogu sameeyo kiiskaasi.
Ururka Solja Iyo 8 Urur Saxaafadeed Oo Ka Jira Dalalka Afrika Oo Si Kulul U Cambaareeyay Jidh Dil Booliska Hargeysa Kula Kaceen Laba Wariye Oo Ka Kala Tirsan RAMAAS iyo Saxafi.
Hargeysa (Ramaas) Oct 29,2011 – Ururka saxafiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA ayaa si kulul u cambaareeyay tacadiyadda ciidamada Somaliland kula kacaan saxafiyiinta ka hawl-galla hay’adaha warbaahinta ee madaxa banaan.
War-saxaafadeed uu soo saaray ururka SOLJa ayaa lagu sheegay in tacadiyada saxaafada ay ku hayso xukuumada Madaxwayne Axmed Siilaanyo ay bilihii u dambeeyay ay kor u soo kacayeen, iyagga oo soo bandhigay laba wariye oo labadii todobaad ee u dambeeyay ciidamada boolisku garaacis iyo jidh dil ku sameeyeen.
Wariyayaashan ciidamada boolisku jidh-dilka ku sameeyeen ayaa waxa ka mid ah Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid ah hawl-wadeenada shakabada wararka ee RAMAAS iyo waliba Mustafe Sheekh Cumar oo ka mid ah wargeyska madaxa-banaan ee SAXAFI, iyagga oo sidoo kale difaacay muwaadin lagu waxyeeleeyay ray uu ku baahiyey wargeyska Waaheen.
War-saxaafadeedkaas oo dhamaystirana waxa uu u dhignaa sidan “Ururka suxufiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA wuxuu canbaaraynayaa tacadiyada, xadhiga iyo garaacista lagula kacayo suxufiyiinta reer Somaliland iyagoo shaqadoodii gudanaya.
Tacadiyada iyo dhibaatooyinka lagu hayo wariyeyaasha ayaa dhawrkii bilood ee u danbeeyay kor u sii kaceen, waxaana kamid ah tacadiyada iyo dhibaatada lagula kacay Wariyeyaasha ka hawlgala Somaliland dhawrkii bilood ee u dambeeyey kuwan hoos ku qoran:
1. weriye maxamed cabdi kaahin (boosh) ka shaqeeya ramaasnews iyo royal tv oo sadex askari oo ka tirsan ciidanka booliska khamiistii shalay kula kaceen garaacis si axmaqnimo ah oo bina,aadanimada ka baxsan u garaaceen iyagoo ku haystay islaamo cabanaya ayaad maalin dhaweyd sawir ka qaaday
2. weriye mustafe sh.cumar geedi oo ah tifaftiha wargeyska saxafi oo 19-kii bishan ay askarta d/hoose ee magaalada hargeysa garaacis iyo xadhig kula kaceen isagoo sawiraya dad danyar ah oo d/hoose ee hargaysi ka raraysay xaafada gol-jano,
Sidoo kale waxaa xadhig sharci daro ah lagu xidhay weriyaha wergayska Waaheen ee burco axmed muse Mohamed (sakaaro) ee 5-tii sept 2011 lagu xidhay burco ,iyo
weriyaha wergayska ogaal ee burco mahad c/laahi farax oo 6-dii September 2011 oo isna sidoo kale lagu xidhay magaalada burco
-Jaamac cilmi siciid oo ah muwaadin fikirkiisa ku cabiray wargeyska waheen bishii hore ee September 2011 waxaa lagu garaacay suuqa isagoo qoray maqaal la yidhaa habarjeclooy u kala hadha qaladka iyo saxa aad isku wada raacaysaan arintaana jaamac wuxuu ii xaqiijiyay 12/10/2011 cabaara 12-kii duhurnimo oo aan kula kulmay baar hargeysa
Digniin:
-Ugu horreyn, waxaannu uga digaynaa Xukuumadda iyo ciidamada booliska Somaliland xadhigga iyo garaacista sharcidarrada ah ee Suxufiyiinta, iyaga oo aan haysan waaran-maxkamadeed,
Xildhibaan Kijaandhe iyo dhawrka Xildhibaan ee xulafadiisa ah waxaannu uga digaynaa, xeerka uu soo samaystay ee uu Ajendaha ku darsaday isaga oo aan weli soo gaadhin golaha Wakiillada. Iyada oo aan la garanayn cidda dabada ka waddaa inay hay’adda IREX tahay iyo inay xubno Xukuumadda ka tirsan oo hoosta ka wadata tahay. Inkasta oo uu isagu sheegay maalin dhoweyd oo aannu SOLJA ahaan ula kulannay in aannu wax lacag ah ku qaadan.
Waxaannu leennahay adigoo ka mid ah xildhibaannadii sida Dimuqraaddiga ah u yimid, ha baabiin kii ay sameeyeen Golihii Wakiillada ee beelaha ku yimid, ee kanna dhaqan-geli, kii Radio-yadana samee, adaa lagaa sugayaa si ay taariikhda kuugu gasho.
Aniga oo shirguddoonka ka raalli-gelinaya qadafyadii yaryaraa ee ay saxaafaddu ku qaad-qaadday, maalintii xeerka aad ku dartay ajandaha aad wadato, adiga oo aan la garanayn baahida aad u qabto, ee kugu kelliftay,iyadoo aanay waxba ka ogeyn wasaaraddii warfaafinta iyo warbaahinta madaxa bannaanaydba.
Anigoo agaasimaha guud isku aragnay dabayaaqadii September addis ababa isagoo ku socda London iina xaqiijyay inaanu waxba ka ogayn xeerkaa cusub ee saxaafada ee la horkeenay golaha wakiilada
sidoo kale wasiirka warfaafinta ayaa ku cadeeyay inaanu waxba kala socon xeerka saxaafada ee cusub ee golaha wakiilada la geeyay ee ajandaha lagu daray wargayska jamhuuriya cadadkiisii soo baxay 23sept.2011
sidaa daraadeed waxaanu ka codsanaynaa golaha sharci dejinta inay joojiyaan xeerkan oo ay noo sameeyaan xeerkii idaacadaha madaxa banaan oo baahi weyn loo qabo
hadii kale waxaanu samayn Annaga oo dareenkayaga ku muujin donna mudaaharaad salmi ah, haddii uu taas ku joogsan waayana, saxaafaddu waxay samayn doontaa shaqo-joojin.
Baaq:
Waxaan hay’adaha UN-ta, dawladaha deeqda bixiyayaasha , sida, Midowga Yurub, USA, UK, Africa, Asia, INGO’s, and LNGO’s iyo khaasatan hayadihii xidhiidhku ka dhexeeyay ururka solja , Xukuumadda, Ganacsatada Somaliland, Shirkadaha waaweyn iyo Shicibkaba, inay naga caawiyaan xuquuqdii warbaahinta iyo kor-u-qaadista waxbarasho ee suxufiyiinta iyo Xorriyatul-Qawlka.
Codsi:
Dhammaan ururrada waddaniga ah iyo shirkadaha Teleefannada waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay joojiyaan kana fogaadaan saxaafada shaqadeedii oo ay qabanayaan, sida awareness-ka, tababarrada, ogeysiisyada iyo xayaysiisyada.
Golaha Wakiillada Somaliland, Golaha Xukuumadda iyo ka Garsoorkaba; inay joojiyaan xeerka Kijaandhe. Waxaannu ka codsanaynaa inay soo diyaariyaan sharcigii Idaacadaha, noona dhaqan-geliyaan xeerkii Saxaafadda ee hore loo ansixiyay, iyaga oo ku daraya kan broadcasting-ka.”
Wasaarada warfaafinta inay shaqadoodii kusoo celiso ama waxbarasho u bilawdo 38-kii weriye ee 10-kii bishii September 2011 imtixankii laga qaaday la sheegay inay dhaceen taas oo ka hor imanaysa xuquuqda shaqaalaha iyo balanqaadyadii xusbiga kulmiye .
Ugu danbayn waxaanu wada shaqayn guud kala yeelan doonaa ururada suxufiyiinta wadamada jaarka ah ee ay ka midka yihiin,DJABOUTI,ETHIOPIA,KENYA ,SOMALIA,SOUTH SUDAN, TANZANIA,RWANDA, UGANDA ,BURUNDI,
Association of Djibouti Journalists (ADJ)
Ethiopia National Journalists Union (ENJU)
Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA)
National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ)
Rwanda Journalists Union (RJU)
Tanzania Union of Journalists (TUJ)
Uganda Journalists Union (UJU)
Union Burundaise des Journalistes (UBJ)”
War-saxaafadeedkan uu soo saaray ururka SOLJA ayaa waxa ku saxeexnaa xoghayaha ururkaas Maxamed-Rashiid Muxumed Faarax.
Dhinaca kale, ururka Caalamiga ah ee NUSOJ ayaa si gaar ah uga hadlay garaacista iyo tacadiga lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Cabdi Kaahin (Boosh) oo ka mid hawl-wadeenada RAMAASNEWS.COM waxayna cambaareeyeen garaacis ay khamiistii todobaadkii hore kula kaceen saddexda askarta booliska Hargeysa ah, iyagga oo ku eedeeyay inuu ka qaaday sawiro ay isticmaaleen warbaahinta maxaliga ahi.
Ururka NUSOJ oo la soo xidhiidhay wariye Maxamed Boosh ayaa tilmaamay inuu u sheegay in loo garaacay si axmaqnimo ah “Markii ay ii garaaceen si halis ah, waxaan dalbaday inay saldhiga I geeyaan, laakiin way diideen inay diiwaangaliyaan dambiga ay igu haystaan.” Sidaa waxa NUSOJ u sheegay Wariye Maxamed Boosh.
NUSOJ waxay aad u cambaareysay falkaasi lagula kacay wariye Maxamed Boosh waxayna sheegtay inay arintaasi kala hadlayso masuuliyiinta xukuumada si baadhitaan loogu sameeyo kiiskaasi.
Somaliland Police Beat Journalist in Hargeysa
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns the
violations against journalist which continues in Somalia as Somaliland
police has beaten seriously a Television journalist in Hargeysa.
Mohamed Abdi Kahin aka Boosh, who works for both a Somali new website
Ramaas and Royal Television 24 respectively, was seriously beaten by
Somaliland police on Thursday Oct. 27, 2011 at Shacabka neighborhood
in Hargeysa, in proud daylight. The police accused the journalist for
taking recently published photographs.
"When I was seriously beaten, I requested them to take to the police
station." Mohamed Abdi Kahin told NUSOJ, "But they refused me to file
even my case to the police."
"We condemn the strongest terms possible and call for the Somaliland
authorities to investigate the case thoroughly and stop the harassment
of the journalists and the obstruction of the freedom of the
expression." Mohamed Ibrahim, the Secretary General of the National
Union of Somali Journalists said, "It is unlawful and inhuman to beat
a journalist or any other human what so ever the circumstance might be
and the violations against journalists in Somaliland has to end."
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) documented at least a
dozen press freedom cases in Somaliland. NUSOJ asks for the United
Nations, Human rights Organizations and press freedom groups to
intervene the worsening and the climate for journalists in Somaliland
and the rest of the Somalia.
violations against journalist which continues in Somalia as Somaliland
police has beaten seriously a Television journalist in Hargeysa.
Mohamed Abdi Kahin aka Boosh, who works for both a Somali new website
Ramaas and Royal Television 24 respectively, was seriously beaten by
Somaliland police on Thursday Oct. 27, 2011 at Shacabka neighborhood
in Hargeysa, in proud daylight. The police accused the journalist for
taking recently published photographs.
"When I was seriously beaten, I requested them to take to the police
station." Mohamed Abdi Kahin told NUSOJ, "But they refused me to file
even my case to the police."
"We condemn the strongest terms possible and call for the Somaliland
authorities to investigate the case thoroughly and stop the harassment
of the journalists and the obstruction of the freedom of the
expression." Mohamed Ibrahim, the Secretary General of the National
Union of Somali Journalists said, "It is unlawful and inhuman to beat
a journalist or any other human what so ever the circumstance might be
and the violations against journalists in Somaliland has to end."
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) documented at least a
dozen press freedom cases in Somaliland. NUSOJ asks for the United
Nations, Human rights Organizations and press freedom groups to
intervene the worsening and the climate for journalists in Somaliland
and the rest of the Somalia.
Buuga “Tilmaamaha Saxafiyiinta Somaliland” Oo Maanta Lagu Daah-Furay Caasimadda Hargeysa Iyo Ururka Solja Oo Soo Jeediyay In Lagu Daro Qodobo Ka Hadlaya Xoriyatul-Qowlka Saxaafadda
Hargeysa(Ramaas) Oct 29,2011 – Caasimadda Somaliland ee Hargeysa ayaa maanta lagu daah-furay buug ka hadlaya tilmaamaha saxaafada Somaliland, kaas oo magaciisu yahay “BUUGA TILMAAMAHA SAXAAFADA SOMALILAND”.
Buugan ayaa waxa soo saarytay isla-markaana turjuntay hay’adda IPRT, waxaana qoray aqoonyahan ajaanib ah oo magaciisu yahay Doug Rushton, waxaana maalgalisay safaarada dalka Ingiriiska ee Magaalada Addis-Ababa.
Buugan tilmaamaha saxaafada Somaliland ayaa ka hadlaya isla-markaana qodob qodob u dhigaya qofka saxafiga ah, waxa shaqadiisu tahay, habka uu u shaqaynayo, waxa xaq loogu leeyhay, waxa uu saxafigu xaq ugu leeyahay umadda qaybaheeda kala duwan iyo waliba waxyaabo kale oo tiro badan, kuwaas oo khuseeya saxafiga Somaliland iyo hanaanka uu u hawl-galo.
Xaflada lagu daah-furay buugan cusub oo ka dhacday huteelka Guuleed ee Magaalada Hargeysa ayaa waxa ka hadlay shakhsiyaad door ah, kuwaas oo ka hadlay muhiimada buugani ka hadlayo iyo sida loogu baahnaa buug hab cilmi ah u qoran oo ka hadla muhiimada saxaafada iyo doorka ay ku leedahay horumarka umaddooda.
Munaasibada waxa ka hadlay Dr Axmed Xuseen Ciise oo ah madaxa hay’adda IPRT oo iyaddu turjuntay buugan, waxaanu ka hadlay buugan iyo sababta loo daabacay la iskuguna hawlay turjumaadaasi.
Dr Axmed Xuseen Ciise, waxa uu sheegay in buugan ay ku jiraan waxyaabo muhiim ah oo saxaafada hagaya, kuwaas oo tilmaan iyo toosinba u ah saxaafada madaxa-banaan iyo ta dawlada ee qaranka Somaliland.
Md Axmed Xuseen Ciise, waxa uu saxaafada dalka u soo jeediyay inay ka faa’ideysato buugan qiimaha leh, kaas oo uu ku macneeyay inuu yahay kii ugu horeeyay ee si dhab ah u hagaya warbaahinta dalka.
Agaasimaha telefiishanka qaranka Somaliland (SLNTV) Mr Axmed Saleebaan Dhuxul oo isna halkaasi ka hadlay ayaa sheegay in saxaafada dalku soo dhawaynayso buugan tilmaamaha ah, isaga oo si weyn uga hadlay doorkii Saxaafada madaxa-banaani uga qayb-qaadatay horumarka iyo dimuqraadiyada Somaliland, isaga oo xusay in doorkaasi uu yahay mid aan la ilaawi Karin oo qalbiga shacabka iyo saxaafadaba meel ugu qoran.
Madaxa-tababrada Wasarada Warfaafinta iyo wacyi-galinta Somaliland Faysal Maxamed Cabdi (Fadh-fadhle) oo sidoo kalena ah saxafi weyn oo kaalin muuqata kaga jira aqoonta saxaafada Soamliland oo isna halkaa ka hadlay ayaa sheegay in aqoonta saxaafadu aanay ahayn mid dhammaata, wuxuuna saxafiyiinta Somaliland u soo jeediyey in ay ka faa’iideystaan buugan, isaga oo xusay in markii uu arkay buugan tilmaamaha saxaafada Somaliland uu ku farxay, isla-markaana uu aad ula yaabau hanaanka farshaxan-nimada ah loo loo daabacay.
Xoghayaha Ururka Saxafiyiinta Somaliland ee SOLJA Maxamed-Rashiid Muxumed Faarax oo isna halkaa ka hadlay ayaa tilmaamay in buugan ay ku jiraan qodoba badan oo saxaafadu baahi u qabtay, waxaanu soo jeediyay in buugan lagu soo daro qodobo ka hadlaya xoriyatul-qawlka saxaafada inta laga soo dheego dastuurka qaranka iyo xeerka anshaxa ee saxaafadu leedahay, isaga oo hay’adda IPRT ku amaanay dedaalka ay samaysay.
Munaasibadan oo kulmisay inta badan xubnaha saxaafada Somaliland ayaa shakhsiyaadka kale ee ka hadlay waxa ka mid ah tifaftiraha telefiishanka madaxa-banaan ee HCTV Cabdilaahi (Wayeb), wakiilka laanta afka Soomaliga ee Idaacadda BBC-da ee Hargeysa Axmed Siciid Cigge iyo Wariye Cabdi-shakuur Xaaji Maxamuud (Heer-sare), dhammaantoodna waxay ka hadleen muhiimada buugan TILMAAMAHA SAXAAFADA SOMALILAND, waxayna amaaneen hay’adda IPRT iyo khabiirka ajaanibka ah ee qoray buugan oo magaciisu yahay Doug Rushton.
Somali President Shariff Sheikh Ahmed's Remarks
Taken Question
PRN: 2011/1835
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
October 29, 2011
QUESTION: Does the U.S. agree with the Somali President who said Monday that he opposed Kenya's week-old military assault against Islamists in the south of his country?
ANSWER:
We understand that the Government of Kenya and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia are in contact regarding their continued efforts to promote regional security.
Prime Minister Abdiweli’s office issued a press statement on October 27, reiterating the common stand that Somalia and Kenya have taken against al-Shabaab and their intent to continue to collaborate in their efforts to address the conflict in Somalia as originally articulated in their joint communique of October 18.
ANSWER:
We understand that the Government of Kenya and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia are in contact regarding their continued efforts to promote regional security.
Prime Minister Abdiweli’s office issued a press statement on October 27, reiterating the common stand that Somalia and Kenya have taken against al-Shabaab and their intent to continue to collaborate in their efforts to address the conflict in Somalia as originally articulated in their joint communique of October 18.
PRN: 2011/1835
Monday, October 24, 2011
Kris plans huge trek for Somaliland hospital
24 Oct, 2011 12:00 AM
ORMISTON'S Kris McBride is embarking on a 1800km walk across Egypt in January to raise awareness and funding for a maternity hospital in Hargeisa.
Kris said growing up with five sisters provided impetus for the trip, which finishes at the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa.
Kris leaves Cairo on January 2, 2012, heading south to Aswan (900km intending to walk 30km daily), taking the ferry to Wadi Halfa, walking to Atbara in central Sudan, then heading to the Red Sea. He said he intends to catch a boat down the sea to Dijibouti before walking the final 500km.
Kris will be joined by a friend, Chris, from England.
"We have been provided with a video camera from Ink Productions in the UK and a satellite phone from another company. We have also been given a few smaller things, so things are coming together," Kris said.
He said he was currently seeking more sponsors in order to kit out with trekking boots, a bag and gas cooker.
Kris moved to Ormiston at age eight, and attended Cleveland State High School.
"I am doing what I can to help the female population and highlight the facts facing these women in Somaliland," he said.
Kris leaves Cairo on January 2, 2012, heading south to Aswan (900km intending to walk 30km daily), taking the ferry to Wadi Halfa, walking to Atbara in central Sudan, then heading to the Red Sea. He said he intends to catch a boat down the sea to Dijibouti before walking the final 500km.
Kris will be joined by a friend, Chris, from England.
"We have been provided with a video camera from Ink Productions in the UK and a satellite phone from another company. We have also been given a few smaller things, so things are coming together," Kris said.
He said he was currently seeking more sponsors in order to kit out with trekking boots, a bag and gas cooker.
Kris moved to Ormiston at age eight, and attended Cleveland State High School.
"I am doing what I can to help the female population and highlight the facts facing these women in Somaliland," he said.
The FPA Great Decisions National Opinion Ballot: On Somalia
by | on October 19th, 2011 |
The Foreign Policy Association has released the results of its National Opinion Ballot in which highly-informed participants in the Great Decisions (GD) program, the centerpiece of the FPA, weigh in on the various issues that GD covers in a given year. Among the issues that this year’s poll respondents addressed was the instability in the Horn of Africa with particular emphasis on Somalia.
In a vacuum I can understand the sentiment of the respondents, who, in summary: 1) Overwhelmingly reject American military involvement as part of an international mission in Somalia. 2) Believe that the US and the international community should “stop trying to reconstitute what has proven to be a failed state in the case of Somalia.” 3) By a plurality reject the idea of recognizing and boosting the prospects of independent states in Somaliland and Puntland by supplying direct economic and military aid to these regions. And 4) Believe that the three largest priorities in the region should be preventing terrorist organizations such as al-Shabaab and al Qaeda from gaining a foothold, ensuring the safe passage of oil and other goods traveling through the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, and believe in support for humanitarian and economic aid.
But Somalia and Somalians do not exist in a vacuum. I can easily understand the reluctance to use military intervention as a tool in Somalia right now. Not only is there tremendous fatigue over interventions and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but those interventions seem demonstrably not to have worked especially efficiently at accomplishing even vaguely laid out goals. It seems to me that if a plurality of respondents believe that al-Shabaab, for example, is the greatest threat to Somalia (and the case is not a hard one to make) then taking military action, even as part of a larger coalition, and even as a last resort, seems shortsighted, especially as the region appears set to erupt in some form of warfare beyond that already engulfing Somalia.
On the second issue, that the US should “stop trying to reconstitute what has proven to be a failed state in the case of Somalia” (a question that to me veers precariously close to push polling) I have to ask how that gibes with point three, which is an unwillingness to help Puntland and Somaliland forge a separate path. It seems to me that you can have your way in point 2 or you can have your way in point 3 but you cannot have both. Unless you are simply saying to leave the region to its own devices, but the various priorities listed in section four of the poll indicates that pure isolationism is also not the goal.
I do not mean to be critical of either the poll or its respondents. But what the results point out is just how difficult, how frustrating, and how paralyzing the crisis in the Horn of Africa is and how at times it appears that we are in search of the least bad option amidst a sea of imperfect choices.
The Foreign Policy Association has released the results of its National Opinion Ballot in which highly-informed participants in the Great Decisions (GD) program, the centerpiece of the FPA, weigh in on the various issues that GD covers in a given year. Among the issues that this year’s poll respondents addressed was the instability in the Horn of Africa with particular emphasis on Somalia.
I would like to look more closely at the results in context.
- The Great Decisions poll also found seriously waning support for U.S. military involvement in the crisis-plagued Horn of Africa. An overwhelming 66 percent of poll respondents were against American military involvement in an international mission to help resolve governance failures in Somalia.
- The U.S. military has been involved in a number of military operations in the region in recent years, including drone attacks, often in search of al-Qaeda operatives. In fact, 33 percent of poll respondents think that preventing al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups from establishing base operations in Somalia should be the number one priority for U.S. interests in the region. Nearly half of poll respondents reject the idea of even providing assistance—either economic or military—to Somalia.
In a vacuum I can understand the sentiment of the respondents, who, in summary: 1) Overwhelmingly reject American military involvement as part of an international mission in Somalia. 2) Believe that the US and the international community should “stop trying to reconstitute what has proven to be a failed state in the case of Somalia.” 3) By a plurality reject the idea of recognizing and boosting the prospects of independent states in Somaliland and Puntland by supplying direct economic and military aid to these regions. And 4) Believe that the three largest priorities in the region should be preventing terrorist organizations such as al-Shabaab and al Qaeda from gaining a foothold, ensuring the safe passage of oil and other goods traveling through the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, and believe in support for humanitarian and economic aid.
But Somalia and Somalians do not exist in a vacuum. I can easily understand the reluctance to use military intervention as a tool in Somalia right now. Not only is there tremendous fatigue over interventions and wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but those interventions seem demonstrably not to have worked especially efficiently at accomplishing even vaguely laid out goals. It seems to me that if a plurality of respondents believe that al-Shabaab, for example, is the greatest threat to Somalia (and the case is not a hard one to make) then taking military action, even as part of a larger coalition, and even as a last resort, seems shortsighted, especially as the region appears set to erupt in some form of warfare beyond that already engulfing Somalia.
On the second issue, that the US should “stop trying to reconstitute what has proven to be a failed state in the case of Somalia” (a question that to me veers precariously close to push polling) I have to ask how that gibes with point three, which is an unwillingness to help Puntland and Somaliland forge a separate path. It seems to me that you can have your way in point 2 or you can have your way in point 3 but you cannot have both. Unless you are simply saying to leave the region to its own devices, but the various priorities listed in section four of the poll indicates that pure isolationism is also not the goal.
I do not mean to be critical of either the poll or its respondents. But what the results point out is just how difficult, how frustrating, and how paralyzing the crisis in the Horn of Africa is and how at times it appears that we are in search of the least bad option amidst a sea of imperfect choices.
SOMALILAND: Failing law leaves children unprotected in Somaliland
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Photo: Abdi Hassan/IRIN Activists say unless the juvenile justice law is implemented, children in conflict with the law will continue to face arbitrary justice (file photo) |
According to Khadar Nour, a child protection activist in the capital, Hargeisa, children are regularly detained for minor offences and "end up being detained with adults because there are no rehabilitation centres for children or prisons for children".
Somaliland passed a juvenile justice law in 2007 but is yet to implement it due to what government officials say are financial constraints and lack of knowledge of the law by the responsible institutions and their staff.
The law puts the age of criminal liability at 15, and requires that punishment be proportionate to the circumstances of the child and the gravity and nature of the offence. It limits maximum punishment to 15 years and prohibits corporal punishment, life imprisonment and the death penalty. The law also sets out protective measures relating to the child's record, and ensures clear child participation and child rights during proceedings.
But according to an assessment conducted in August by Somaliland's ministry of justice, just 5 percent of the average 200 children detained monthly are processed though the judicial system; children are often arrested and freed arbitrarily.
Ahmed Ismail Ali, director of child protection in Somaliland's ministry of justice, said at the time of the assessment, a total of 104 children were in prison for offences such as theft, possession of illicit drugs and rape.
"Out of the total [number of children in prison], 10 percent were female; 59 percent of all children in prisons were convicted by courts mainly for rape, drug [possession] and gang-related offences as well as other minor offences, while the remaining 41 percent are on remand," Ali said, quoting the assessment. "During trial, it was learned that 46 percent of those convicted were subjected to arbitrary detention."
Police fail to apply law
The assessment found that more than half of Somaliland's police stations did not apply the juvenile justice law.
"This law... calls for the establishment of children's courts, children's pre-trial detention centres and children's rehabilitation centres," said Ahmed Aidid Hussein, the minister for justice, adding that the law had been held up primarily by a lack of funds for implementation and the training of police officers, social workers and other staff required to implement it.
However, officials with the UN Children's Fund in Hargeisa told IRIN the institutionalization of children was not ideal, and ways should be found to keep them within the community rather than in rehabilitation centres.
Traditionally, criminal cases against children in Somaliland are dealt with by clan elders, with the clan, and not the child, taking responsibility for the crime. The 2007 law aims to protect the rights of children in accordance with international human rights law in a way that harmonizes the provisions of secular, Sharia and customary laws relating to children in conflict with law.
"I appeal to international and UN partners engaged in juvenile justice to commit themselves to contribute to the establishment of these institutions without which juvenile justice cannot be implemented," Hussein said.
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Theme (s): Aid Policy, Children, Education, Governance, Human Rights,
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Hope in Somalia is four-legged, woolly
SAYYID AZIM / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge Image
Young men struggle to keep goats and sheep together on the streets of Hargeisa. 
For the first time since the collapse of Somalia as a unitary state in 1991, Saudi and Lebanese traders have ventured into the local livestock markets. Goats are mainly exported to Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that $250 million worth of animals will leave the port of Berbera and its more ramshackle rival, Bossaso, in the seven weeks before the haj in early November.
In the livestock market in Hargeisa, capital of the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland, sweaty goatherds press in on Adan Ahmed Deria, a trader. Hundreds of camels are being loaded onto trucks. Deria nods to show that the price is fixed. "God willing," he says, "I will buy 800,000 goats and sheep this year." That is $52 million of business, in cash, in a country where the economy has apparently collapsed.
Trade is set to grow further. Saudi Arabia wants to double its livestock imports from Somalia by 2013. The herders face fierce competition from Georgia, China and Paraguay, but halal butchers value the quality of Somali animals, which are raised by nomadic Muslims.
Somalis have hardly begun to tap the value of their animals. With about $50 million in international help, they could invest in watering stations, encourage communities to cure animal skins, make soap from bone marrow and fashion buttons from camel bone. They might also usefully improve transportation by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.
Though the region suffers from rampant piracy, it mainly affects international shipping rather than locals. Last month, pirates captured a livestock ship in the waters off Bossaso; they were killed within hours by irate traders and herders. Meanwhile, hijacked foreign freighters litter the coastline undisturbed.
As parts of the economy grow, Somalis increasingly look to the diaspora for loans. Its members are prominent in gold and metal markets across Africa. Many excel at moving goods and money around. The once-thriving fishing industry would be helped by investment in refrigerators, as would frankincense cultivation, which employs 10 per cent of the workers in Puntland, a breakaway region in the north.
None of this is to deny that the situation in south Somalia -- the country's breadbasket -- is anything other than dire. UN figures yet to be published suggest that 80,000 people may already have died as a result of the famine. More are certain to follow them to the grave. According to Somali aid workers from the hungriest areas, the situation is bad but improving. Forecasts for the coming rains are promising. Showers have already arrived in some places. Recovery will be a struggle, but apocalypse looks less likely now.
An American celebrity campaign emphasizes that famines are man-made. That is unhelpfully vague, but not necessarily wrong. In Somalia, famine results from the strictures imposed by the al-Qaida-linked Shabab militia, which controls large parts of the south. A drought has strained the entire region. But Kenya and Ethiopia have dealt with it much better than the ignorant and petty Shabab. They have been kicked out of Mogadishu, Somalia's ruined seaside capital, by African Union troops paid by America and the European Union.
The Shabab are not yet defeated, but they have lost a lot of ground and support. The story of a 23-year-old farmer, Ahmed Mohammed, is typical. He fled his village of Bulamerer on the Shabelle River along with his heavily pregnant wife and one of their children. They left two other children behind in the village with Mohammed's mother and his teenage brothers and sisters. The family's goats died of hunger. He fears his children might suffer the same fate. Still, he says he will not return home until the Shabab have gone.
The fighters take a third of the harvest as taxation, ban singing, whip the men to prayers, force the women to cover their faces and violently break up any gathering of four or more people. The village school is run by the Shabab, but only those loyal to their cause are allowed to attend. Echoing the suggestion that the famine is at least in part man-made, Mohammed claims he and others were denied access to river water for their crops.
Now on the defensive, the Shabab have taken actions as desperate as they are deadly. On Oct. 4, they arranged a suicide bombing in Mogadishu that killed more than 100 people. Most were students queuing up for scholarships to Turkey. The bomber, a teenager, recorded an interview before the attack in which he said of the victims, "They never think about the hereafter and about harassed Muslims."
The target of the bombing was education -- hope itself -- but also the Transitional Federal Government. It is supported by the AU troops in the capital. The prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, wants to finish off the Shabab and has said, "This is the time to intervene" and that the "cowards" should not be allowed to regroup. An offensive led by the AU and transitional government troops this week hammered Shabab positions on the edge of Mogadishu. Publicly, donor countries say the government is the best bet to run the country. Privately, they lambaste it. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the lacklustre president, has extended his mandate by delaying elections to next year, to nobody's satisfaction. Venal and inept, his government surely needs to be replaced. But with what?
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 18, 2011 A10
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