Somaliland: Country Hosts 85,000 IDP’s

Wednesday, 09 January 2013 13:06

IDP in HargeisaIDP in HargeisaReport by: Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development

Somalilandsun – It is estimated that 85,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are currently living in Somaliland, of which 2,500 families are hosted in Mohammed Moge IDP camp, surviving some of the region's worst living conditions.

During the months of September and October 2012, ACTED and REACH conducted two rapid IDP needs assessments in this camp on behalf of the Shelter Cluster. CollecteACTED donatations to IDPsACTED donatations to IDPsd data demonstrates that 87% of the surveyed families are living in a single room, 78% of households are forced to sleep on the floor due to lack of materials, while 73% of respondents reported that their shelters had recently been damaged by rains. Almost all IDPs that took part in the survey said they did not have a door or a locked door, demonstrating a significant lack of safety and security for families living in the camp.

This information has been collected and published so that ACTED and other aid organisations can plan timely and targeted assistance to households in response to critical humanitarian needs.

Sudan police attack activists in front of human rights commission

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Sudanese human rights and pro-democracy activists have been beaten by police as they tried to deliver a petition critical of Al Bashir's government to the state-appointed human rights commission on Friday, Reuters reported. The activists were also blocked from entering the building.

The commission, which has largely avoided criticizing the Sudanese government, condemned the beatings after plain clothes police arrived at the scene with batons tried to bar around 40 activists from entering their building.

"Plain clothed agents beat several activists trying to submit their petition and also journalists covering the protest," a witness told Reuters.
The current regime has faced down a slew of protests this year over economic problems and corruption within the government.

Ethiopian court finds 10 men guilty of terror charges

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ten men were found guilty by an Ethiopian court on Tuesday of plotting attacks against political and economic targets in the Horn of Africa country with the help of Islamist militants from neighbouring Somalia.

Ethiopia waged an ill-fated war in Somalia in 2006-2009 and sent troops back in 2011 to fight the al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab group, opening a third front alongside Kenyan troops and an African Union mission.

It has long been seen by the West as a bulwark against radical Islam in east Africa, and there have been no attacks linked to al Shabaab in the past few years.

Prosecutors said Kenyan national Hassan Jarso was the leader of the group of Ethiopians and the mastermind of the planned attacks.

"Their aim was to set up camps and wage jihad by carrying out attacks on numerous targets," Justice Ministry Spokesman Desalegn Deressa told Reuters.

He said Jarso was a member of al Shabaab and that prosecutors were seeking life imprisonment for the Kenyan.

In September, al Shabaab withdrew from the southern port of Kismayu, their last major urban stronghold, a retreat that signalled their demise as a quasi-conventional military force.

The rebels vowed to step up a campaign of suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks.

The defendants faced three terrorism-linked charges, which included plotting attacks, recruitment and illegal entry into Ethiopia for Jarso.

Out of 11 suspects that were charged, six were convicted in absentia and one man was acquitted. All but Jarso are Ethiopian nationals.

The court will deliver its sentences on January 15.

South Sudan police arrest two journalists for failing to cover presidential speech

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(Reuters) - South Sudan government has arrested two state journalists for failing to ensure coverage of a speech by President Salva Kiir, a government official said on Sunday, prompting an outcry from an international media watchdog.

Journalists often complain of persecution by the security services of the African republic that seceded from Sudan in 2011. That year, Juba authorities closed a newspaper after it criticized Kiir for allowing his daughter to marry a foreigner.

The government of South Sudan's Western Bahr El Ghazal state said it had detained two senior staff at its broadcaster for "administrative issues" after the station failed to cover Kiir's visit to the town of Wau last month.

"They were arrested simply because when the president arrived here in Wau on December 22, 2012, he gave a very, very important speech," state information minister Derrick Alfred Uya told Reuters.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based media watchdog, named the detained pair as Louis Pasquale, director-general of the state broadcaster in Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Ashab Khamis, director of state television.

The committee said the two had been arrested probably as part of a campaign to stop the media from investigating recent unrest in Wau. Soldiers shot dead 10 people protesting against the relocation of a local council last month, triggering more violence in the town located close to the Sudan border.

"We call on authorities to release Louis Pasquale and Ashab Khamis immediately, and allow journalists to cover events in the state without facing intimidation or arrest," CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes said in a statement.

A local journalist said security agents had been pressuring reporters in Wau to find out who had provided foreign news channels such as Qatar's Jazeera English with a tape which purportedly shows the shooting of unarmed protesters in Wau.

"I heard they arrested the journalists because they suspect the tape comes from state television," said the reporter, asking not to be named. "They were worried when the tape was shown on Jazeera."

South Sudan is a country with no media law, making it difficult for reporters to get information as the government and security services are mainly made up of ex-guerrillas who are used to impunity, a legacy of decades of civil war with Sudan.

Last month, unknown gunmen shot dead prominent blogger and government critic Diing Chan Awuol at his home.

France-based Reporters Without Borders ranked South Sudan 111th out of 179th in its 2011-2012 press freedom index.

Lack of disclosure a major problem in tackling the spread of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia - research

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(FIGO) - Efforts to tackle the spread of HIV in Ethiopia may be undermined by a lack of disclosure among carriers of the infection.

According to Brown University in the US and Ethiopia's Jimma University, two-thirds of people have made their spouse aware that they suffer from HIV.

Meanwhile, less than one in five carriers have informed their siblings of their medical status.

Ayala Reda, a sociology researcher at Brown, is concerned that this widespread non-disclosure could lead to the infection spreading further among Ethiopian nationals.

"This will create significant obstacles to the lifelong treatment process and the prevention of the spread of the virus, he commented.

"It may also increase drug resistance."

Figures showed that more than 11 per cent of HIV patients in Ethiopia failed to make their health status known to anybody at all.

More than 1.2 million people in the African country – one of the most heavily populated nations in the entire continent - currently carry the HIV infection.

رجل مسن واعمى يستدل على المسجد بحبMAAD KU CIBRO QAADAN WALAALKAYGA MUSLINKA AHOW, ODAY WAAYEEL AH OO INDHO BEELAY KA DIBNA SAMAYSTAY XADHIG UU MASAAJIDKA KU TAGO MAALIN KASTANA 5-SALAADOOD SIDAA JAMACA KULA TUKADAل

MAAD KU CIBRO QAADAN WALAALKAYGA MUSLINKA AHOW, ODAY WAAYEEL AH OO INDHO BEELAY KA DIBNA SAMAYSTAY XADHIG UU MASAAJIDKA KU TAGO MAALIN KASTANA 5-SALAADOOD SIDAA JAMACA KULA TUKADA

"رجل مسن واعمى يستدل على المسجد بحبل"

Muuqaalkani waa nin waayeel ah oo u dhashay dalalka Khaliijka, waxa uu gartay ninkani in shanta salaadood yihiin, sahaydiisa dhabbta ah ee Aakhiro, anficina doonaan maalin aan wiil iyo maal midna wax tarin, waxa uu waayay labadiisi indhood, laakiin muu waayin indhihii caqliga, waxaanu samaystay xadhig uu gurigiisa ilaa masaajidka ku xidhiidhsado maalin kasta, kaas oo marka dhulka yaala marna haga isaga, oo gacanta bidix uu ku qabsado, gacanta midigna uu ushiisa ku halabsado, laakiin waa cibro u baahan in dadka indhahooda qabaa wax ku qaataan.

DAAWO MUDAHARAAADKII SAAKA KA DHACAY SAYLAC:

Hal Ayaa Ku Dhintay 6 Kalena Dhaawac Culus ayaa Soo Gaadhay Kadib Markii Ciidamadda Qaranku Saaka Rasaas Nool la Dhaceen Dadwayne Mudahraadayay Deg. Saylac 

WAR DEGDEG AH OO DHIILO XAMBAARSAN: Hal Ayaa Ku Dhintay 6 Kalena Dhaawac Culus ayaa Soo Gaadhay Kadib Markii Ciidamadda Qaranku Rasaaseeyeen Dadwayne Mudahraadayay Deg. Saylac

Mid ka mid ah Toddoba Qof oo ay saaka salaadii rasaas la dhaceen Ciidamadda Milatariga Saylac ayaa ku geeriyooday dhexda, iyadoo loo sii siday dhinaca Jabuuti, sidaas waxa ku soo waramaya wariyaha Waaheen ee Saylac oo khadka toos ugu jira.

Wariyuhu waxa uu sheegayaa in xaaladda dhaawaca kale ee yaala Cisbitaalka Sayalc ay aad u adagtahay isla markaana qaarkood la filayo in loo qaadi doono dhinaca Jabuuti, iyadoo Xiisadii saaka halkaas ka dhacday wali taagan tahay.

Ciidamadda Milatariga ayaa wali gacanta ku haya magaaladda Sayalc kadib markii ay Booliisku waxba ka qaban kari waayeen muranka ka taagan Golaha Deegaanka Saylac.

Madaxweynaha Somaliland ayaa hore u sheegay Doorashadaasi inay si sax ah u dhacday, hase yeeshee Beesha Ciise ayaa baaq ay soo saartay Madaxweynaha kaga dalbatay in uu dib uga noqdo.

Qaybtii 3aad: Gorfaynta Xeerka Sir-doonka Qaranka: Xakamaynta Qawlka iyo Qalinka. Qoraaga Sare Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale

 Qaybtii 3aad: Gorfaynta Xeerka Sir-doonka Qaranka: Xakamaynta Qawlka iyo Qalinka. Qoraaga Sare Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale

Qoraaga Sare Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale

Beryahaa uu macallinkii Maxamed Siyaad Barre dalka ka talinayay, sidaas ayaa loo yaqaannay Baarlamaan-ku-sheeggii dalka ka jiray.

Intii aynu la soo noqonnay madax-bannaanideenna ee aynu samaynay Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland, naanaysaha u baxay Golaheenna Wakiillada waxa ugu mudnaa ama ugu magac-dheeraa, sida aad ka wada dheregsan tihiin magaca ‘Dhaameel’. Waa intii aanay xukuumadda maanta dalka ka talisaa kursiga ku fadhiisan.

Maanta, marka aynu dheehanno xaaladdan aloosan iyo sowraca xeerarkan ay inagu sharciyaynayaan, iyo sida aanay u danaynayn goldaloolooyinka maamulka ku jira, maxaa loo bixin lahaa ama loogu wan-qali lahaa? Malahayga waxa ila fiican in aynu ku deysanno tuduc Hadraawi lahaa oo odhanaya:

“Dib baa looga sheekayn,

Ka-daraa u-magac-bixin,”

Waxaan hordhacan gole-ka-fuulka ah ee kooban ku soo khatimayaa, tuducyo aan ka soo qaadanayo maansadii Taariikhiga ahayd ee ‘Daba-taxan’ ee 5/1/1997kii Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac, Gaarriye, ka tiriyay Shirweynihii Guurtida ee xilligaa ka socday Hargeysa, waxaanu yidhi maalintaas:

“Afartaa dheh: ‘Deelleey,’

Dig siiyee ku soo noqo,

Demmenaha warkiisii,

Dadka waxa ka soo dhacay,

Duruustii la barayoo,

Daarihii burburay shalay,

Waxa maanta kaga daran,

Iimaan-darraantiyo,

Nabaad-guurka Diintiyo,

Kaga dhacay damiirkoo,

Dal waxaan ku noolahay,

Saddexdii dalaaqood,

Lagu furay dadnimadii,

Dal waxaan ku noolahay,

Runtu arag-darraysoo,

Daaddihi la yidhi been,

Hadday dunida ceeb tahay,

Dus-duskiyo khiyaamadu,

Noo dabeecad weeyaan,

Nin dillaala mooyee,

Degmadaan ku noolahay,

Nin daryeel yidhaahdaa,

Dulli buu ka qoran yahay,

Hebel laga ducaystiyo,

Mana laha nin dooroo,

Dayaxii u soo baxa,

Daammur baa la mariyaa,

Mooralkaana laga dilay,

Danabyadii u kici laa,

Markii geela loo diray,

Kii maqasha daayacay,”

Maanta oo dhan ka geyoon meynno xigashada Gaarriye ee waxyaabaha dalkeenna ka dhacaya ee aynu goob-joogga ka nahay ee aan weliba la iskula yaabayn.

Waxaan is-lahayn, siday ugu soo xiiqeen ee ay ugu xoolo beeleen si ay kursigan u fadhiistaan iyo dareen-la’aanta iyo dhugmo-la’aanta maanta taagan. Beyd Hadraawi lahaa oo maansadii Gudgude ku jiray ayaa igu soo noq-noqda oo ahaa:

“Gunti furay nin caashaqay haddii, guudka loo sudho e’”,

Waxay ahayd oo xeer iyo xaagaanba inoogu qoran in aynu wax-qabadka iyo hawl-gallada Golaha Fulinta ee Madaxweynuhu hoggaamiyo uga cabanno ugana dacwoonno Golayaasha Xeer-dejinta. Waa se sillan-sugan oo waa sidii kale. Golihii Wakiillada ee aynu u dacwoon lahayn ee aynu Waaxda Fulinta uga caban lahayn, ayaynu Madaxweynihii Waaxda Fulinta u madaxda ahaa uga dacwoonaynaa. Wax walba madaxiisii minjo ayaynu u rognay. Meeday dimuqraadiyaddii baarlamaaniga ahayd ee aynu ku naalloonaynay. Waa Wakiillo dadweynaha ka wakiil ah oo la soo doortay oo ay tahay in ay ra’yiga dadweynaha la shir-yimaaddaan Sidaas ayay Wakiillo ku noqonayaan, illeyn Golaha Wakiillada soo wada fadhiisan meynno oo inama wada qaadayo e’. Iyaguna waxay isu qaateen in la Boqray oo aynu addoomo u hoggaansan nahay. Xildhibaanku marka uu Golaha Wakiillada dhex fadhiyo ayuun buu ina dheer yahay hadalka ama doodda uu ka qayb-gelayo iyo farta uu taagayo. Ma haddii kalaa, waa qof caadiya oo magaciisa loo raacinayo Xildhibaan ee wax kale yaanay isu qaadan. Miskiinnimadeenna ayay arkeen.  Fulin iyo Xeer-dejinba innaga ayaa dirannay. Waa in ay inoo adeegaan oo aanay inoo qaadan in aynu innagu u adeegayno. Karaamada iyo Haybaddaba innaga ayaa iska leh.

Gole Xeer-dejineed iyo Gole Fulineed oo isku jiq ah meel ku gaadhi meynno. Laba isu nacamleeyana kob caano leh kaga soo durdurin meynno. Mid waliba xilkiisa si nadiif ah ha u guto oo dadka iyo dalka ha u shaqeeyo ee yaan laga shaqaysan oo aan loo heshiin ma-huraanka maanta la hagranayo, horena loo hagraday, dibna loo hagran doono haddaan laga gurman.

Waxba yaan qalin-taraarin e’, aan meel gaaban oo aan sidaa u sii fogayn ka soo kala fireeyo.

Mowduuceennii Hay’adda Nabadgelyada ku soo noqo:

Hay’addan Nabadgelyada ama Nabad-sugiddu wax adduunka ku cusub ma aha. Dhanka kale marka aad iska taagto, adduunyadu waa ay ku kala duwan tahay aragtida ay ka kala qabto Hay’adahan Nabadgelyada. Siyaabo badan ayaa loogu kala duwanaan karaa ama la iskugu khilaafi karaaba.

Marka mowduucan Xafiiska Nabadgelyda laga murmayo waxa laga kala dhaqaaqayaa aragtiyaha ay ku dhisan yihiin dawladaha kala duwani. Midi iyadu shaki kuma jirto oo waa geed-ka-go’an: Talis milleteri ah oo qori caaradii dal ama ummadba ku qabsaday, Hay’adda nabadgelyo ee uu dhistaa waa mid cadaadin, cabbudhin iyo xasuuq dadweyne loogu talo-galay si aanay uga hor iman nidaamkaa dalka ka talinaya.

Nidaamkii Maxamed Siyaad Barre iyo kuwa la midka ah ee xukuumadaha qoriga ku qabsada, la yaab ma laha in ay samaystaan Hay’ad Nabad-sugideed oo dadweynaha u cabbudhisa una ciqaabta. Maxaa wacay? Nidaamyada baadi-soocdaa lihi waxay marka horeba halkan soo dhigtaan in aanay xukunka ka deign, haddii aanay weliba marka danbena dhaxaltooyo ka dhigin.

Su’aasha is-weydiinta mudani waxay tahay: innagu nidaam ahaan miyaynu sidaas oo kale noqon karynaa? Jawaabtu waa MAYA far waaweyn ku qoran. Dalkan Dastuur ayaa lagu maamulaa, xilkuna waa meerto oo waa muddeysan yahay. Kolka xaal caynkaas yahayna sabab la isu xuuraamo, la isu dabo-galo, la isu dhega-dhegaayaa meesha ma taal. Dastuurkii ayaa dammaanad qaadaya dimuqraadiyad si badheedh ah oo xalaal ah la isugu dhalliilayo, la isugu ololeeyo si uu xilku meerto u noqdo oo aanay cidi ugu dheggenaan. Laba jeer wax ka badan in aad xilka hayso Dastuurka ayaa xaaraantimaynaya. Markaa maxaa looga baahan yahay in dadka guuxooda iyo dareemmadooda laga tarjumo. Mise wax aynaan ogeyn ayaa jira, oo burkaba bahal kama aynaan filan.

Nidaamyada keli-taliska ah waxa ka duwanaan kara sida caqliga fayoobi ina siinayo, Hay’adaha Nabadgelyada ee ay dhistaan xukuumadaha Barlamaaniga ah ee ku dhaqma nidaamka dimuqraadiga ah. Waxyaabaha kale ee lagu kala tegi karo waxa iyaguna ka mid ah:

Ujeeddooyinka gude iyo dibadba laga yeelan karo hay’adaha noocan ah,

Baaxadda jiidaha ama aagagga laga hawl-gelayo,

Miisaaniyadda ama adeegyada la haysto si loo hawl-geliyo hay’ad noocan oo kale ah,

 (la soco qaybta 4aad …………………………………..)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai surrounded by privately-hired heavily armed bodyguards.

January 7, 2013

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai surrounded by privately-hired heavily armed bodyguards.

IT SOUNDS like a radically modern idea. With the Royal Navy now downsized to a mere shadow of its former glory how do you protect commercial shipping, not to mention human cargo, in pirate-infested waters? Answer: bring in a private navy.

And in a couple of months that is precisely what corporations or indeed governments will be able to do when Typhon, a privately owned and run British maritime force, goes into operation. Set up by British businessman Simon Murray Typhon will provide an armed escort for shipping off the east of Africa which has long been plagued by Somali pirates. Murray, 72, plans to provide at least three so-called “mother ships” to accompany shipping convoys wanting to take the shortest – but also the riskiest – route from the Horn of Africa through the Mozambique Channel down to the Cape of Good Hope.

With a former Royal Navy commodore and an ex-commander on board as heads of operations the venture seems destined for success.

After all, since almost every other public service has been privatised – the railways, telecommunications, gas and electricity – privatising a branch of the armed forces seems a natural progression, a move in step with the march of the modern world.

Private armies already operate in at least 50 countries from South America to the Middle East. President Karzai of Afghanistan’s bodyguards are provided by a private company not his own state. In Nigeria private forces guard oil platforms. Iraq is awash with private security firms with around 48,000 operatives. The Americans alone employ about 20,000 of them. The US army has even used a private firm’s Apache helicopters to fly special forces personnel to the location of a covert operation.

The Libyans guarding the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya’s second city, when the building was torched last September were employed not by the Libyan state or even by the Americans but by Blue Mountain, a British company. Indeed about 70 per cent of private military or security firms are British or American.