Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
French leftist leader meets 'prisoner' Assange in London
Published: 07
December, 2012, 02:36
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| Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (R) shakes hands with French politician Jean Luc Melenchon inside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on December 6, 2012.(AFP Photo / Leon Neal) |
Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange (R) shakes hands with French politician Jean Luc Melenchon inside the
Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on December 6, 2012.(AFP Photo / Leon
Neal)
Former French
presidential candidate Jean Melenchon has met with Julian Assange at London's
Ecuadorian Embassy to show his solidarity with, he says, the “prisoner” of a
government that lets dictators walk free but is not brave enough to free
Assange.
The politician also
called on Sweden to not extradite Assange to the United States, while praising
the Ecuadorian government or having a “very brave attitude… unlike many
other countries” who offered to help the whistleblower, quotes the
French Liberation.
Following a meeting
between the two, Melanchon told reporters, “We say to the British Government:
you freed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, you let him go in 2000,
you may well let Julian Assange [go],” the Paris Depeches reports.
Assange, who was not
present following the meeting, was described by the French politician, as an “intellectually
combative” individual who feels sympathy for the incarcerated Bradley
Manning, the former US serviceman accused of delivering classified data to
Assange.
"The situation is
that Mr. Assange is a prisoner," the Left Front leader added.
As far as Melanchon's
reasons for visiting the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he, alongside Ambassador
Ana Alban, said, “I am a friend of the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador,
and so I feel a duty to come in contact with my friends, express gratitude and
solidarity."
It was the first
face-to-face meeting between Melanchon and Assange. The two had previously
spoken on the phone in August.
In turn, the Ecuadorian
ambassador told the reporters that Assange is slowly assimilating. "You
can imagine how difficult it can be to have fresh air and to have sun and
space. In the beginning it was quite difficult, but now it's fine" Alban
said in a press briefing.
Last week, it was
reported that Assange had developed a chronic lung condition “which
could get worse at any moment." The whistleblower requires
constant medical attention at his refuge in the embassy, Ambassador Alban told
reporters in Quito last week.
In November, Assange's
lawyer warned that the forty-one-year-old Australian's health could deteriorate
if he remains confined much longer.
Assange has been inside
the Ecuadorian Embassy since June 19th, when Ecuador granted him political
asylum.
If he leaves the
building, the whistleblower faces immediate arrest and extradition to Sweden,
where he is wanted for questioning on charges of sex crimes.
Many see the Swedish
extradition as a ruse that would allow his extradition to the United States,
where he could face execution for his activities with WikiLeaks.
Ecuador has petitioned
the British government for permission to allow Assange from the London embassy
to Ecuador. They also asked for a guarantee of his safety if he is to be
admitted to a UK hospital.
London refused to
negotiate, stating that it is legally obligated to hand him over to Sweden if
he leaves the premisses of the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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| Photo from twitter.com user @jpo11ard |
Bradley Manning: A Window into the American Soul
by Paul Craig Roberts
December 8, 2012
Liberty consists of government being
ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our
founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that
defines the United States. Every member of the government and the
armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution—not to the government
or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology—to defend
the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
Today the emphasis needs to be on the
Constitution’s domestic enemies in “our own” government. America’s
foreign enemies are miniscule. But the domestic enemies are legion.
America’s enemies consist, with whistleblower exceptions, of the entire
US government, both executive branch, legislative branch (with possibly a
dozen exceptions), and judicial branch (with few exceptions).
The three branches of our government
have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax, “the
war on terror.” Even if the US were overrun with terrorists, how could
they harm us more than our government has harmed us by destroying the US
Constitution?
If you don’t believe that the US
Constitution has been destroyed by Republicans and Democrats alike, read
my book coauthored with Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, and the five articles whose URLs are provided below.
Bradley Manning, a member of the US
military, complied with his oath of office, with the US Military Code,
with the Nuremberg standards set by the US government, with the
strictures expressed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during
the George W, Bush administration, and with his own conscience.
Manning, allegedly (we will never know), released to Wikileaks the video of the US military murdering two journalists and a dozen innocent people walking down a street.
After the murder of these people by the
US military playing video games with live people, a father with two
young children stopped his van to help the survivors crawling in the
street. The US military, due to either blood-lust, incompetence, or
total evil, killed the father and sent high caliber bullets into the
bodies of the two small children.
The murderers then blame the father for
bringing children into the combat zone created by the incompetence or
evil of the US troops, who obviously get their jollies from murdering
people. TV cameras are claimed to be weapons and justifications for
murdering 15 people.
Subsequently, a few people, whom the video shows to be unarmed, walk into a building.
The US troops claim the unarmed people
have weapons and RPGs and send three hellfire missiles into the
building. The US troops then report that all the “targets” are dead.
Any real patriotic American who saw this
video would be compelled to release it. If Manning released it to
Wikileaks, then Manning is the most morally responsible American alive.
What has Manning’s moral conscience cost him?
It has cost Manning 900 days held
incommunicado illegally by the US government. President John F.
Kennedy’s presidency lasted 1,000 days. Manning was held and tortured
for almost the entire length of Camelot.
And the US government has got away with it.
Americans don’t care. It is not them. They are too stupid to understand that once law is gone, they can be next.
In their desire to punish Manning, US
military and civilian authorities failed to realize that the lesson for
soldiers is that crimes against humanity will not be punished, but those
who reveal the crimes will be punished.
On November 29 Bradley Manning testified in federal court about his illegal confinement and torture by the US government. Manning’s testimony was not covered by the US media. The New York Times, in Chris Floyd’s words, “contented itself with a brief bit of wire copy from AP, tucked away on page 3.”
In contrast, the British Guardian
covered Manning’s testimony in detail in two stories 68 paragraphs long.
The British people are informed of the US government’s crimes against
humanity in violation of international law and US law, but not the
American people.
A formal United Nations investigation
into the illegal, brutal and inhuman treatment of Bradley Manning
denounced his treatment as “cruel and inhuman.” The US State Department
spokesman, Col. P.J. Crowley, resigned after publicly protesting
Manning’s illegal and inhuman treatment by the US government.
The presstitute media was silent.
Glenn Greenwald, the constitutional
attorney, concludes that “the US establishment journalists have enabled
the government every step of the way.” The presstitutes hold “themselves
out as adversarial watchdogs, but nothing provokes their animosity more
than someone who effectively challenges government actions.”
Greenwald praises Bradley Manning who
“has bestowed the world with multiple vital benefits. But as his court
martial finally reaches its conclusion, one likely to result in the
imposition of a long prison term, it appears his greatest gift is this
window into America’s political soul.”
The window into America’s political soul
reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen
People. Nothing else can be said for those who rule and oppress us.
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org and has been used here with permission.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Rabshadihii Ugu Xumaa Taariikhda Dimuqraadiyadda Oo Istaagay Iyo Booliska Oo Ka Hadlay Khasaarihii Ka Dhashay
“Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu
nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle” Cabdilaahi Fadal
Iimaan.
Hargeysa
(Waaheen) – Rabshado habeen hore fiidkii ka bilaabmay degmadda Axmed
Dhagax ee Magaaladda Hargeysa isla-markaana ku xidhiidhsanaa natiijadda
ka soo baxday codadkii laga dhiibtay doorashaddii degmooyinka Caasimadda
oo sii socday ilaa galinkii hore ee shalay ayaa is-taagay ka dib markii
ciidamadda booliska ee rabashadahaasi ka hortagayey ay toogasho ku
dileen hal qof isla-markaana ay laba kale dhaawaceen.
Rabashadahan oo ay samaynayeen dhalinyaro taageersan urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo aan ku qancin natiijadda codadkii ay ka heleen Hargeysa oo ay sheegeen in la musuqmaasuqay, ayaa waxa inta la ogyahay ku geeriyooday laba qof oo dhalinyaro ah, waxaana dhaawacyo ka soo gaadheen ilaa 7 ruux.
Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo kaashanaya Madax-dhaqameedka gobolka Hawd iyo culimadda dalka, ayaa si weyn uga hawl-galay sidii dhalinyaraddu u joojin lahaayeen rabashaddaha oo ahaa kuwo dhibaaato amaan daro u horseedi gaadhay Magaaladda Hargeysa, waxayna subaxdii shalay dhalinyarada
Mudaharaadka dhigayey isugu yeedhen garoonka kubadda Cagta ee Hargeysa Istaadiyam, halkaasi oo ay kala hadleen isla-markaana u soo jeediyeen inay joojiyaan rabshadaha si xaqdarada ay tirsanayaan xalkeeda loo doono, inkasta oo markii kulankaasi waanada ahaa markii u dhamaaday ay dib u bilaabeen rabashadihii, taasi oo keentay in boolisku toogto saddex qof oo mid ka mid ahi geeriyoodo.
Rabashadahan oo noqonaya kuwii ugu xumaa ee ka dhaca dalka, intii Somaliland ku dhaqmaysay nidaamka dimuqraadiga ah, ayaa duhurkii istaagay, iyadda oo ilaa hadda cisbitaaladda Magaaladda Hargeysa lagu daweynayo dadkii dhaawacyadu ka soo gaadheen rasaasta booliska.
Taliyaha booliska Somaliland Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan oo shalay ka hadlay rabashadahan, ayaa sheegay inuu ka xun yahay dhibaatadda dhacday iyo dadka ku waxyeeloobay.
Taliye Fadal, waxa uu Tacsi u diray dadka dhintay, isagoo sidoo kalena caafimaad u rajeeyay kuwo dhaawacmay “Shalay (doraad) waxa lagu dhawaaqay natiijaddii doorashadda ee Hargeysa, taas oo aan qancin ururka Xaqsoor, markaa dad dhalinyaro ah oo arintaasi ka gadoodsan ayaa sameeyay rabash waxayna iska hor yimaadeen ciidamadda booliska, waxaana ku dhaawacmay lix qof, waxaana ku dhintay hal qof”
Taliye Fadal waxa uu sheegay inay aad uga xun yihiin dhibaatadda ku dhacday dadka rabashadaha khasaaruhu ka soo gaadhay “Aad iyo aad uga xunahay, kuwa dhintayna waanu tacsiyadeynaynaa, kuwa dhaawacnmayna waxaanu ILAAHAY uga baryeynaa caafimaad”ayuu yidh waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ka jawaabaya waxa mar walba ciidamadda boolisku dadka rasaasta nool ugu isticmaalaan “Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle”
Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor, Salaadiinta, culimadda iyo waxgaradka gobolka Hawd ayaa ku mashquulsan sidii aanay rabshadahaasi aanay mar labaad u dhaceen si looga badbaado khasaare kale oo yimaada, inkasta oo aan la ogeyn in Masuuliyiinta Xaqsoor laga qanciyey tabashada ay qabbaan ee dhibaatadani ka dhacday, inkasta oo xukuumaddu sheegtay inay arinkan ku dhamanaynayaan si nabadgalyo ah.
Dhanka kale, xukuumadda ayaa shalay galinkii dambe ciidamo faro badan oo Milatari u badan dhigtay inta badan jidadka xaafadaha degmadda Axmed Dhagax ka kooban tahay, iyadda oo gaadiidka galaya ama ka soo baxaya xaafadahaasi ay ciidamaddu aad u baadhayeen si ay u hubiyaan in dadku mar kale rabashadu isku diyaarinayaan rabashado kale oo dheeraad ah.
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| Taliyaha Ciidanka Booliska Somaliland General Fadal |
Rabashadahan oo ay samaynayeen dhalinyaro taageersan urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo aan ku qancin natiijadda codadkii ay ka heleen Hargeysa oo ay sheegeen in la musuqmaasuqay, ayaa waxa inta la ogyahay ku geeriyooday laba qof oo dhalinyaro ah, waxaana dhaawacyo ka soo gaadheen ilaa 7 ruux.
Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo kaashanaya Madax-dhaqameedka gobolka Hawd iyo culimadda dalka, ayaa si weyn uga hawl-galay sidii dhalinyaraddu u joojin lahaayeen rabashaddaha oo ahaa kuwo dhibaaato amaan daro u horseedi gaadhay Magaaladda Hargeysa, waxayna subaxdii shalay dhalinyarada
Mudaharaadka dhigayey isugu yeedhen garoonka kubadda Cagta ee Hargeysa Istaadiyam, halkaasi oo ay kala hadleen isla-markaana u soo jeediyeen inay joojiyaan rabshadaha si xaqdarada ay tirsanayaan xalkeeda loo doono, inkasta oo markii kulankaasi waanada ahaa markii u dhamaaday ay dib u bilaabeen rabashadihii, taasi oo keentay in boolisku toogto saddex qof oo mid ka mid ahi geeriyoodo.
Rabashadahan oo noqonaya kuwii ugu xumaa ee ka dhaca dalka, intii Somaliland ku dhaqmaysay nidaamka dimuqraadiga ah, ayaa duhurkii istaagay, iyadda oo ilaa hadda cisbitaaladda Magaaladda Hargeysa lagu daweynayo dadkii dhaawacyadu ka soo gaadheen rasaasta booliska.
Taliyaha booliska Somaliland Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan oo shalay ka hadlay rabashadahan, ayaa sheegay inuu ka xun yahay dhibaatadda dhacday iyo dadka ku waxyeeloobay.
Taliye Fadal, waxa uu Tacsi u diray dadka dhintay, isagoo sidoo kalena caafimaad u rajeeyay kuwo dhaawacmay “Shalay (doraad) waxa lagu dhawaaqay natiijaddii doorashadda ee Hargeysa, taas oo aan qancin ururka Xaqsoor, markaa dad dhalinyaro ah oo arintaasi ka gadoodsan ayaa sameeyay rabash waxayna iska hor yimaadeen ciidamadda booliska, waxaana ku dhaawacmay lix qof, waxaana ku dhintay hal qof”
Taliye Fadal waxa uu sheegay inay aad uga xun yihiin dhibaatadda ku dhacday dadka rabashadaha khasaaruhu ka soo gaadhay “Aad iyo aad uga xunahay, kuwa dhintayna waanu tacsiyadeynaynaa, kuwa dhaawacnmayna waxaanu ILAAHAY uga baryeynaa caafimaad”ayuu yidh waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ka jawaabaya waxa mar walba ciidamadda boolisku dadka rasaasta nool ugu isticmaalaan “Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle”
Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor, Salaadiinta, culimadda iyo waxgaradka gobolka Hawd ayaa ku mashquulsan sidii aanay rabshadahaasi aanay mar labaad u dhaceen si looga badbaado khasaare kale oo yimaada, inkasta oo aan la ogeyn in Masuuliyiinta Xaqsoor laga qanciyey tabashada ay qabbaan ee dhibaatadani ka dhacday, inkasta oo xukuumaddu sheegtay inay arinkan ku dhamanaynayaan si nabadgalyo ah.
Dhanka kale, xukuumadda ayaa shalay galinkii dambe ciidamo faro badan oo Milatari u badan dhigtay inta badan jidadka xaafadaha degmadda Axmed Dhagax ka kooban tahay, iyadda oo gaadiidka galaya ama ka soo baxaya xaafadahaasi ay ciidamaddu aad u baadhayeen si ay u hubiyaan in dadku mar kale rabashadu isku diyaarinayaan rabashado kale oo dheeraad ah.
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Allithwaite man's help in Somaliland democracy
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| Written by By Hannah Upton |
11:09am Thursday 6th December 2012 in News
A FURNITURE maker from Allithwaite had a unique hand in democracy when he volunteered to help oversee an election in the Horn of Africa.
With the voting system in the country only in its infancy, and with just a handful of presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections under their belt, the electorate are still finding their feet when it comes to polling day.
“It was very different from what you would see here, mostly because it is something we do so regularly, and something we have been brought up with,” Mr Le Mare said.
“But it is quite a new way of doing things there.
“Traditionally in their clans they would not use a balloting system as we know it to elect someone; it would be done through debate.”
In his former career as a desk officer for Action Aid, his speciality was Somaliland and Ethiopia.
He visited Somaliland several times between 1994 and 2006 and said it was a great experience to return to a land and people he knows well.
“I have never done any election observation before but when I heard they were looking for volunteers I jumped at the chance.
“There were 55 volunteers from 15 different countries, including native Somalis who have left the county, so it really was an international operation in that sense.”
After flying out to Somaliland a week prior to voting, Mr Le Mare and
the other volunteers spent a week in briefings on the history of the
country and its elections.
Somaliland declared its independence 20 years ago but is not recognised internationally.
In the municipal elections, 2,368 candidates contested 379 positions across the country’s six regions.
For his part, Mr Le Mare travelled to the town of Boroma where his team would observe voting at four polling stations.
“At the end of the day we oversaw the sealing of boxes and the vote count,” he said.
“It all went very well; I was impressed with the skill and professionalism of the leader of the particular polling station we were at for the count, a young man who was a student at a nearby university.
“He was assisted by an older man who was a teacher in a local school. It was conducted very, very well.”
After voting, each man and woman dipped a finger in indelible ink to prevent them returning to vote again.
“The electorate there are hugely engaged in the political process, which is great,” he said, “But it is almost to the point of spoiling the process.”
Progressio, a charity which helped assemble the observer mission, also reported great advances in the participation of women in the election.
While in 2002 only five women contested the local elections, but approximately 140 did so this time round.
Mr Le Mare said: “In some ways it is opening up for females, though society is still very much dominated by men and the clan system.
“For the election the men and women lined up in separate queues, and there were roughly equal numbers in each.
“But there is more of a problem with low representation at the higher political level, like in the House of Representatives.”
A spokesman from Progressio paid tribute to the team of international volunteers who gave up their time for the election.
“Because they have got these international observers, in a young democracy like this they have got some external verification about how free and fair their process is.
“This helps in a very difficult part of the world to make the country more stable. The observers really do make a difference to people’s lives.”
Friday, December 7, 2012
Illegal migration on the rise in Somaliland
HARGEISA, 3 December 2012
(IRIN) - More youths from the self-declared
republic of Somaliland are illegally migrating from the region, mainly
due to a lack of jobs, traveling through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya on
their way to Europe, say officials.
“There is no exact data, but we estimate that in the last three months of 2011, only 150 youth [illegally migrated], compared to this year's last three months, [in which the number was] 300 to 350 persons," Sa'id Omar, youth department director at Somaliland's Ministry of Youth and Sports, told IRIN.
About 150 Somaliland youths were repatriated back between January and November 2011, after Ethiopian authorities captured them along the Ethiopian-Sudan border; by comparison, 200 youths were repatriated in the first 11 months of 2012, according to Somaliland immigration officials in the border town of Tog-Wajale, along the Ethiopia-Somaliland border.
“We don't [encourage] any illegal migrants to cross the border, but sometimes they cross the open border between Somaliland and Ethiopia and continue on their way to the Sahara Desert to cross the Mediterranean [Sea]," said an immigration official in Tog-Wajale.
Mohamed*, now in Norway, illegally migrated there in early 2012. “I started my journey on 13 March, [travelling] through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya at a cost of US$5000 for the whole journey. We were connected to brokers in Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya,” he said.
“As soon as we reached the Libyan border town of Sabha we were handed over like animals to a Libyan man who earns $800 per individual, but he beat us and tortured us using electric wires. Later, we were taken by a Land Cruiser pick-up to Tripoli, where we found some Somali-Arab brokers who rented for us the boat [to Europe].”
Few opportunities
Joblessness is fuelling the illegal migration, even though the journey carried inherent risks such as abuse, debt, deportation and imprisonment.
“The high rate of unemployment is Somaliland is considered the main factor that encourages youths to [undertake] illegal migration," said Mohamed-Rashid Muhumed Farah, the secretary general of the Somaliland Journalists Association. "For example, I was in Addis Ababa [Ethiopia's capital] in 2011 when we met about 30 Somaliland youths who wanted to go to Europe, and they told us that the main reason they were going was lack of employment in the country.”
According to Ali Osman Abdi-Liba, a political scientist, youths with higher educations are also more likely to leave Somaliland.
“University students feel proud, and they have high hopes. In the first two years, [they are] interested in studying, but in the last two years of university [their] hopes decrease because [they] know former university students [who] are in the town without jobs. For this reason, as soon as they finish university, if they don't get jobs, they will [be] frustrated and [undertake] illegal migration,” he said.
Abdi-Liba called for the creation of technical schools, as these skills are needed in the market.
The Somaliland government is set to establish a youth employment fund, to be funded at about US$130 million initially, which will be raised from the privatization of former government buildings, according to Bashe Yusuf Ahmed, the director general in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
“We hope that international donors will also contribute, and about 50,000 jobs will be created in the coming years to decrease the unemployment rate from 80 percent to 20 percent,” said Ahmed.
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| Ethiopian immigrants in Somaliland (file photo): Somaliland youths are increasingly illegally migrating to Europe |
“There is no exact data, but we estimate that in the last three months of 2011, only 150 youth [illegally migrated], compared to this year's last three months, [in which the number was] 300 to 350 persons," Sa'id Omar, youth department director at Somaliland's Ministry of Youth and Sports, told IRIN.
About 150 Somaliland youths were repatriated back between January and November 2011, after Ethiopian authorities captured them along the Ethiopian-Sudan border; by comparison, 200 youths were repatriated in the first 11 months of 2012, according to Somaliland immigration officials in the border town of Tog-Wajale, along the Ethiopia-Somaliland border.
“We don't [encourage] any illegal migrants to cross the border, but sometimes they cross the open border between Somaliland and Ethiopia and continue on their way to the Sahara Desert to cross the Mediterranean [Sea]," said an immigration official in Tog-Wajale.
Mohamed*, now in Norway, illegally migrated there in early 2012. “I started my journey on 13 March, [travelling] through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya at a cost of US$5000 for the whole journey. We were connected to brokers in Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya,” he said.
“As soon as we reached the Libyan border town of Sabha we were handed over like animals to a Libyan man who earns $800 per individual, but he beat us and tortured us using electric wires. Later, we were taken by a Land Cruiser pick-up to Tripoli, where we found some Somali-Arab brokers who rented for us the boat [to Europe].”
Few opportunities
Joblessness is fuelling the illegal migration, even though the journey carried inherent risks such as abuse, debt, deportation and imprisonment.
“The high rate of unemployment is Somaliland is considered the main factor that encourages youths to [undertake] illegal migration," said Mohamed-Rashid Muhumed Farah, the secretary general of the Somaliland Journalists Association. "For example, I was in Addis Ababa [Ethiopia's capital] in 2011 when we met about 30 Somaliland youths who wanted to go to Europe, and they told us that the main reason they were going was lack of employment in the country.”
According to Ali Osman Abdi-Liba, a political scientist, youths with higher educations are also more likely to leave Somaliland.
“University students feel proud, and they have high hopes. In the first two years, [they are] interested in studying, but in the last two years of university [their] hopes decrease because [they] know former university students [who] are in the town without jobs. For this reason, as soon as they finish university, if they don't get jobs, they will [be] frustrated and [undertake] illegal migration,” he said.
Abdi-Liba called for the creation of technical schools, as these skills are needed in the market.
The Somaliland government is set to establish a youth employment fund, to be funded at about US$130 million initially, which will be raised from the privatization of former government buildings, according to Bashe Yusuf Ahmed, the director general in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
“We hope that international donors will also contribute, and about 50,000 jobs will be created in the coming years to decrease the unemployment rate from 80 percent to 20 percent,” said Ahmed.
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maj/aw/rz
Saturday, December 1, 2012
UN voted overwhelmingly to recognise Palestine as the world's 194th state!!!
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| Madrid Action: Avaaz members want Spain PM Rajoy to say YES! |
A few minutes ago, the UN voted overwhelmingly to recognise Palestine as the world's 194th state!!! It’s a huge victory for the Palestinian people, for peace, for our community, and people across the world are joining with massive crowds in Palestine to celebrate.
The Palestinian people's journey to freedom is far from over. But this is a powerful step, and our community played a key role in it. Palestine's Ambassador to Europe said today:
"Avaaz and its members across the world have played a crucial role in persuading governments to support the Palestinian people's bid for a state and for freedom and peace. They have stood with us throughout and their solidarity and support will be remembered and cherished across Palestine." - Leila Shahid, General Palestinian Delegate to Europe
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- Nearly 1.8 million of us signed the petition calling for statehood.
- Thousands of us donated to fund public opinion polls across Europe -- showing that a whopping 79% of Europeans supported a Palestinian state. Our polls were plastered all over the media, and repeatedly cited in Parliamentary debates in the UK, Spain and France!
- We sent tens of thousands of emails, Facebook messages and Tweets to leaders across Europe and made thousands of calls to foreign ministries and heads of state.
- We unfurled a giant 4-storey banner outside the EU Commission in Brussels (right) while leaders were meeting inside. Then, we staged another stunt in Madrid. Previously, we had sailed a flotilla of ships past the UN calling for a vote. Our actions made headlines all over Europe.
- Avaaz staff and members met with dozens and dozens of government ministers, top advisors, senior journalists, parliamentarians and thought leaders in each of the key countries, in many cases teaming up to win over leaders one by one through advocacy, pressure, parliamentary resolutions and public statements, always drawing on the surge in people power behind this cause.
- We reached out to key thought leaders like Stéphane Hessel, a 94-year old survivor of Nazi concentration camps, and Ron Pundak, an Israeli who played a key role in Oslo peace process, to speak out in favour of statehood.
The US and Israel argued first that statehood was dangerous for peace, and then, when they'd lost, that it didn't matter and the vote was just symbolic. But if it were just symbolic they wouldn't have done everything to try and stop it. And after years of bad-faith negotiations and Israeli comfort with the status quo as they steadily colonize more Palestinian land, this move shows the US and Israel that if they do not engage in good faith, the Palestinians and the world are prepared to move forward without them. It's a more balanced basis for real peace talks. And that's the best alternative to the kind of violence we saw Israel's government and Hamas offer in Gaza this month.
For decades the Palestinian people have suffered under a stifling Israeli military dictatorship, repressive controls on their travel and work, continual denial of their rights and the constant threat of insecurity and violence. 65 years ago today, the UN recognized the state of Israel, beginning a path to the establishment of a safe home for the Jewish people. Today the Palestinians take a step down the same path, and gain a dignity in the eyes of the international community that they have been denied for a generation. And from that dignity, we can build the foundations of peace.
With hope and joy,
Ricken, Alice, Ari, Wissam, Allison, Sam, Julien, Pascal, Wen, Pedro, Saravanan, Emma, Ben, Dalia, Alexey, Paul, Marie, Aldine, Luca, Jamie, Morgan and the whole Avaaz team.
PS Here are some sources - The Associated Press covers today's victory, the Guardian covers our polling two weeks ago, Avaaz's Daily Briefing provides a map of the vote result, and Haaretz describes Israel's response.
Somaliland gets high-speed fiber optic cable
Three companies have launched a project to provide Internet access to the African country, with expansion plans for other nations
By Rebecca Wanjiku | 29 November 12
Three international companies have launched an ambitious project aimed at connecting a million people in Somaliland with high-speed Internet access.
Somcable, Bluwan and Globecomm systems will connect businesses and homes in Somaliland with up to 8Gbps capacity through FTTA (fiber through the air) access. The project is set to start in the capital, Hargeisa, and will later be deployed to other towns such as Burco, Borama and Berbera. Somaliland broke away from Somalia and is considered fairly stable.
"We have set a target to provide 1 million subscribers with access to high-speed broadband by 2015, our target market is primarily focused on the cities of the horn of Africa; residentials (affluent or middle class), small-medium enterprises or corporate customers and we have several business models that are adapted to each segment of the market," said Somcable CEO Michael Cothill.
To deliver capacity to the mass market, kiosks will be fitted with an omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna and strategically positioned within each city to deliver a replacement service for current under-performing Internet cafés. The kiosks enable customers to purchase prepaid vouchers with a wide range of different services to suit the various markets.
(The kiosks with act as bandwidth hubs with the ability to provide up to 8Gbps of capacity within a 5 kilometer radius, peaking to speeds of 100Mbps to thousands of customers at a time.
Somcable originates from the landing station in Djibouti and Somcable will subsequently extend this service to land-locked countries such as Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan.
The horn of Africa country has rocky terrain, no legacy infrastructure and most communities are nomadic, but Somcable and Bluwan said they have worked up a business model that will ensure return on investment.
"The combination of various business models, along with the technology deployed (FTTA, Long Term Evolution) allows us to get a sub $10 per subscriber connection fee and still be profitable with a good return on investment," said Cothill.
Somcable will become the latest fiber optic cable to join the African coastline. The combination of available fiber optic cables has increased the international Internet bandwidth serving African countries from 1.21Gbps in 2001 to 570.92Gbps in 2011, and 25Tbps of submarine capacity is expected to be in place by 2013, according to market researcher TeleGeography.
MUNAASIB AD SOO DHAWAYN IYO XOGWARANKA XUKUNKII KU DHACAY KALI TALIYE GENERAL CALI SAMANTAR OO LOO SAMEEYAY DHIBANE XADGUDUB XUQUUQ AADAMI MR. BAASHE ABDI YUUSUF
Munaasabad soo dhoweyn ah isla markaana ah xog waran ku
saabsan Ali Samatar iyo xukunkiisii ayaa loo sameeyey Baashe Abdi Yusuf
Munaasabad ku saabsan soo dhoweyn farxaddi ku dheehan tahay isla markaana ah xog waran oo loo sameeyey Baashe Abdi Yusuf ayaa lagu qabtay xarunta West London Somaliland Community ee ku taal Hays, London oo uu soo qabanqaabiyey Masuulka West London Somaliland Community Eid Hassan muuse ayaa habeenimadii Khamiistii la qabtay 29/11/2012.waxa ka soo qayb galay dadweyne fara badan oo waliba halkaasi ku waydiiyey su’aalo Baashe oo isagu ah ninka wax walba u huray in Ali Samatar abaalkiisa la mariyo! waxaad maqli doontaan goordhowna,isla markaana aad daawan doontaan munaasabada oo dhan ee la soco.
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