Monday, February 18, 2013
Soomaali iyo Maraykan ku Dhex Dagaalamay Dugsi ku Yaala Magaalada Minneapolis
Soomaali iyo Maraykan ku Dhex Dagaalamay Dugsi ku Yaala Magaalada Minneapolis
Soomaali iyo Maraykan ku Dhex Dagaalamay Dugsi ku Yaala Magaalada Minneapolis
Soomaali iyo Maraykan ku Dhex Dagaalamay Dugsi ku Yaala Magaalada Minneapolis
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Al Shabaab executes Kenyan, French hostages in Somalia
In January 2013, Al Shabaab terrorists killed a French hostage, Dennis Allex, only days after special forces troops from France failed in their rescue attempt, according to the French government.
France's elite French Foreign Legion using helicopters raided an Al Shabaab terrorist base in hopes of retrieving Allex, who is said to be a French security expert.
Unfortunately, the rescue operation failed to free Allex and two Legionnaires were killed.
"Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen has reached a unanimous decision to execute the French intelligence officer, Dennis Allex, " said Al-Shabaab.
Leaders from the brutal terrorist group said the killing of the Kenyan soldier on Friday was retaliation for Kenya's involvement with the African Union in helping the Somali military in fighting the Islamists.
During a video, Al Shabaab claims their execution of Dennis Allex was retaliation for the killing of Somali civilians by the French rescue team and for France's anti-terrorist policies including actions taken in fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan and radical Islamists affiliated with al-Qaeda in Mali.
The radical group did not say exactly when they carried out the "death sentence" imposed on the yet to be identified Kenyan hostage,
The French hostage has been in captivity since 2009 when he and a French intelligence officer were captured by the terrorists in Mogadishu. The intelligence officer and Allex were locked up separately and the intelligence officer managed to escape and elude his captors.
According to Glenn Beck's The Blaze, French President Francois Hollande said the “terrorist groups, drug traffickers and extremists show a brutality that threatens us all.†He vowed that the counterterrorism operation would last “as long as necessary.â€
Somalia has not had an effective central government for more than two decades. Al Shabaab has grown stronger and more skilled in the use of propaganda while also developing greater operational capabilities. Al Shabaab has used propaganda as both a method of reporting victories and as a tool to weaken the legitimacy of the Somali government and to improve its own legitimacy in the eyes of the civilian population, according to a report by Critical Threats.
Somalia: Blast on Beachfront Restaurant Kills 1
A Somali police officer says a car bomb detonated by remote control has killed one person and wounded two others in Somalia's capital.Mohamed Hassan said Saturday the explosion took place in the parking area of a popular beachfront restaurant in the Lido area of Mogadishu frequented by Somali officials and city residents. The restaurant called Lido Seafood was opened last year following the ouster of al-Qaida-linked militants from the seaside capital.
Hassan says the blast also destroyed cars. The attack was likely carried out by al-Shabab, a group of Islamic extremist rebels who have been fighting the Somali government for nearly six years. Africa Union forces pushed the al-Qaida-affiliated group out of Mogadishu in August 2011 but the rebels continue to carry out attacks in the capital.
PRESS RELEASE: The investment offered under the Somali Star Investments (SSI)
Monday 18th February 2013,
Ambassador Hotel, Hargeisa, Somaliland,
8am – 12noon
New investment scheme offers exciting development opportunities for Somaliland.
Hargeisa – A new investment scheme is being unveiled at the Ambassador Hotel Hargeisa, Somaliland this Thursday. The investment offered under the Somali Star Investments (SSI) are financial instruments that are specifically designed to raise funds for much needed capital-intensive infrastructure projects across the country. These include both social (hospitals and educational institutions, waste/sanitation) and economic infrastructure (roads, ports, telecoms, renewable energy and power, water) and other priority areas/sectors.
One such financial instrument SSI, in conjunction with our partners Salaam Financial Services, is Somali Star Bonds targeting Diaspora members. Pioneered in the 1950s, Diaspora bonds is one way to raise much needed funds from émigrés living overseas as well as from local Somali investors and they have been used to great effect by other developing nations throughout Sub-Sahara Africa and the world.
Along with providing Shariah complaint investment products SSI will use innovative technology such as mobile banking and online investment management tools in collaboration with partners Salaam and Homestrings.
Somali Star Investments (www.somalistarinvestments.com) will be offering the first such investment products and services available in Somaliland, promoting investment opportunities, initially within the business sector, but with a view to developing public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects in the long term alongside government.
The first and primary focus will be wind power, converting wind energy into electricity. Other longer term planned projects include hospitals, schools, solid waste management, water infrastructure, roads and telecoms.
Somali Star Investments is the result of a partnership between Transparency Solutions (TS), Salaam Financial Services and Homestrings Inc. The project has received a grant from USAID.
Project Director, Sharmarke Jama said: “Investment in infrastructure is critical to our country’s development in the short to long-term. The benefits are not just economic but will fundamentally change the lives of millions of people for the better. We are confident that we have the right products, the right projects and the right partners in place and we look forward to a brighter future with Somali Star Investments”
Speaking at the launch event will be officials from the Somaliland government, TS, Salaam Financial Services, Telesom and USAID.
Background notes for editors:
Somali Star Investments is a brand name of Transparency Solutions (TS). TS is a Somali-led organisation based in the UK and Somaliland. The company has considerable expertise in sustainable economic development as well as a world-class reputation for research, evaluation, project management and training.
Contact:
Sharmarke A. Jama
Managing Director
Transparency Solutions
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Mobile: +252-2-471 8869 / +252-2-473 2730 / +252-2-424 6860
Email: sharmarke.jama@transparencysolutions.co.uk
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Xarun cusub oo ka shaqayn doonta u doodista xuquuqda aadamaha aya waxa lagu daahfuray magaalada Hargeysa
Hargeysa (HWN):- Xarun cusub oo ka shaqayn doonta u doodista xuquuqda aadamaha aya waxa lagu daahfuray magaalada Hargeysa taasi oo loo bixiyey Xaruntax xuquuqda aadamaha (Human Rigths Center).
Munaasibada lagu daah furayey xarunta cusub ee u doodi doonta xuquuqda bina aadanka oo lagu qabtay Hotel Maansoor ee magaalada Hargeysa ayaa waxa ka soo qayb galay xildhibaano ka tirsan golaha wakiilada Somaliland,hogaanka xaruntaas iyo marti sharaf kale.
Ugu horayna waxa munaasibadan ka hadlay gudoomiyaha xaruntan cusub ee ilaalinta xuquuqda bina aadanka ayaa ka waramay muhiimada ay leedahay in la ilaaliyo xuquuqda bina aadanka, isaga oo ka waramay ujeedada loo furay xaruntan waxaanu yidhi ? Muhiimada uu xuquuqal insaanku leeyahay sida wax barashada , caafimaad iyo waxyaabaha u aasaasiga ah nolosheena , waxaana ka mid ah xuuquuqda shaqaalaha waxaana laga yaabaa in ay shaqeeyaan xaalado aad u adag kuna shaqeeyaan xaalad mushahar aad u hooseeya.?
Gudoomiyaha oo hadalkiisa sii wata ayaa intaas raaciyey ?qaxoontiga ku nool dalkeenu waxay u baahan yihiin tirakoob, waxaanay xaruntani u furan tahay inay si dhex dhexaad nimo ah ugu adeegto xuquuqda aadamaha.?
Sidoo kale xildhibaan Ibraahin Mahdi Buubaa oo ka mida mudanayaasha golaha wakiilada Somaliland oo munaasibadan ka hadlay ayaa sheegay inay muhiin tahay in wax laga qabto tacadiyada ka dhanka ah xuquuqda bina aadanka ah ? Waxaa muhiim ah in wax laga qabto tacadiyada faraha badan ee loo gaysto haweenka in wax laga qabto , taasi oo ah in ay waxii xaq ah ee uu inanku helo in ay gabadhuna hesho , waxaana ka mid ah dhibaatooyinka hadda loo gaysto dumarka kufsiga , oo ah kiisaska ugu badan ee hadda dhaca?
Xildhibaanka oo hadalkiisa sii wata ayaa intaas raaciyey ?Bulshadeena iyo dawladu way iska horyimaadaan , waxaana dhacda in ay hay?adda xuquuqal insaanku hoosta ka xariiqaan , waxaana idinka (Xaruntan) idinku waaninayaa in aydun u adkaysataan arrimahaasi?.
Pro Aadam Xaaji Cali oo ah madaxa machadka xalinta khilaafaadka ee jaamacadda Hargeysa oo ka mid ahaa dadkii madasha lagu soo casuumay oo munaasibadaasi ka hadlay ayaa halkaasi kula dardaaray aasaasayaasha ururkan in aanay ka niyad jabin haddii ay carqaladu ka soo waajahaan geedi socodka shaqada ururka oo uu xusay in ay inbadan dhacdo isaga oo ku sababeeyey waxyaabihii laga filaayey oo la waayo
Wasiirka cadaaladda Xuseen Axmed Caydiid oo isaguna munaasibadan ka hadlay ayaa yidhi ? arrin aan is leeyahay waxay soo baxday baryahan dambe oo an isleeyahay haddaba sharcigu wuu maqanyahay , sida jeel magnuunka oo macagiisu sidaasi ahayn oo ah xarun caafimaad dhallinyartu waa in ay kala ogaato in ay dabaqado kala leeyihiin xuquuqdu , oo ay ka mid tahay xaqa uu qof leeyahay oo ah intaanu wax u dhimaynin xaqa qofka kale , taasina waa in sidaasi loo ilaaliyaa , maxakamadaheenu waxay u aasaasanyihiin in ay xuquuqda ilaaliyaan iyaga iyo hay?adaha xuquuqduba?
KHATAR MUUQATA OO HALIS KU AH DADKA LA TAKOORO OO KA JIRTA MAGAALADA BOORAME & KIISASKA BAADHITAANKOODII SOCDO
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| KHATAR MUUQATA OO HALIS KU AH DADKA LA TAKOORO EE REER BOORAME |
1. Xukun cadaalad daro ah oo dil lagu xukumay 2 ka mid aha da'yarta gabooyahay magaalada boorama ku nool, tahdiid, cabsigalin iyo takoor dhan ka ah tiro kooban oo beelaha la takooro ee gabooyaha magaalada boorama ku dhaqan ayaa sababay barokac baahsan dhaqaalo burbur soo food saaray 30 qoys oo mid kastaaba ka kooban yahay celcelis ahaan 9 ruux, kadib markii wiil ka soo jeeda beelaha degaanka ee tirada badani uu jeclaaday gabadh yar oo gabooye ah kadibna uu qoyskoodii u sheegay in uu rabo in uu guursado balse si xoogleh ay uga diideen qoyskiisii taasi bedelkeeda oo la sheegay in uu is gubay maragyadii arkayay ayaa diiday in ay maraga furaan maxkamada horteed, maxkamada lafteeda ayaa lagu weeraray dad badan oo gabooye ah oo la iska xidhxidhay.
mid ka mid ah sababaha ugu waawayn ayaa ah Wiilka is gubay aabihii ayaa ah madaxa baadhista booliska saldhiga dhexe ee magaalada Boorama. Waxa wax lala yaabo ah isagoo Gudoomiyaha Maxkamada Sare ee dalku uu dhibanayaasha laga tirada badan yahay ee boorama loogu awood faro iyo dawlad sheegtay ku yidhi garsoorayaal ayaa Hargeysa ka dirayaaye inta ay dacwada qaadayaan noloshooda bixiya sidaana ay ku bixiyeen 700 oo Dollarka Maraykanka ah ..........................................Dacwadii ayaa mudaysan in 20 bishan Feb. 2013 ka bilaabanto Maxkamada Racfaanka magaalada Boorama.
kiiskan waxa HornWatch dib ugu dhigaysay ee ay u faafin waydday iyadoo ka baqaysa in waxyeelo ka soo gaadho dadka laga tirada badan yahay ee ku nool magaalada boorama khatar muuqata oo ka jirta boorame awgeed.
Warbixinta kiiskan ayaa ku jirta haatan garaacistii kama dambaysta ahayd ka hor inta aan la faafinin, waxa kiskan loo gudbin doonaa bal in uu wax ka qaban karo Komishanka Xuquuqda Aadamiga Qaranka somaliland.
2. Maalintii Saddexaad ayay u noqonaysaa ee ay saldhiga dhexe ku jiraan, mana cada in xorriyadooda dib loogu soo celin doono iyo in ay maxkamad la tiigsan doona Aamina Xasan Cawaale, Deeq Xasan Cawaale iyo Wiil ay dhashay oo lagu magacaabo Cado
Rising Voices: Do you have an idea for a project that would help your local community use citizen media to tell their own story. Apply this Fund
Do you have an idea for a project that would help your local community use citizen media to tell their own story? Do you need funding and support in making that idea become a reality?
Since 2007, Rising Voices has sought to support individuals, grassroots groups, networks, and organizations committed to helping their local communities participate more fully in the digital online space. By providing funding and mentoring to small-scale projects around the world, Rising Voices has supported 35 citizen media outreach projects located in all corners of the globe. These projects have helped local leaders bring new and underrepresented voices into the global digital conversation in order to tell their own stories or bring to light issues important to their own communities.
Beginning with the 2013 round of microgrant funding, Rising Voices has developed a new platform where applicants can publicly share their ideas with the broader community. This open process can enable greater opportunities to seek feedback and to help facilitate connections between groups located in the same geographic area or working around the same issue. We feel that this new way of sharing ideas will have a positive effect on the global community that shares the common goal of a more inclusive and diverse digital online space.
Once again, we will provide up to five microgrants in the amount of $USD 2,500-4,000 to successful applicants that have demonstrated a strong and clear idea how to best provide training and ongoing support to their local community members. Selected grantee projects will join the Rising Voices community of projects and be featured prominently across the Global Voices network.
GUIDELINES
Rising Voices seeks project proposals that share our mission of bringing voices from new communities, as well as underrepresented language groups to the online global conversation through the use of participatory citizen media. The project's primary activities should be to provide citizen media training workshops to the target community, as well vital ongoing support and mentoring. Please see our roster of current and alumni grantee projects for examples of previously funded projects.Examples of potential projects may include:
- Organizing a citizen media “boot camp” with experienced local bloggers to train and mentor participants from underrepresented communities that will result in a local network of support.
- Working with an indigenous community to teach and encourage new generations to begin to use Twitter to connect with others as a way to preserve and promote their native language online.
- Partnering with a local library with a computer lab to invite community members to discuss local problems and solutions, and train them how to create a group blog to take these conversations to the wider community.
- Organizing a series of digital photography group walks where residents can document life in their community together and create an online Flickr photography exhibit.
- Teaching local residents to record and edit audio recordings on Audacity for a community podcast that can be uploaded online, as well as distributed to local radio stations for a wider reach.
To apply, please visit the “Submit a Proposal” page, where you will find short questions that will enable you to outline your project plans. Please note that there is a character-limit for each answer (not word-limit).
APPLICATION PROCESS
The competition will follow the following timeline process:First Round – Applicants submit their initial proposal via the online platform. Once the proposal has been published, we invite applicants to share their proposal with their networks, as a way to solicit comments and input from others. Please note that there is an option for applicants to keep their proposal private if there are security concerns.
All of the proposals will be reviewed by a committee comprised of members from the Global Voices community, including past microgrant recipients.
Application deadline is Friday, March 1, 2013 at 23:59 GMT
Second Round – The selection committee will choose a shortlist of finalists, who will then be invited to submit a longer and more detailed proposal including budget, timeline, and additional detailed information. These finalists will also have the option to submit additional multi-media, such as a user-created video or photographs to help the committee make a final decision.
Winners will be announced by March 31 (subject to change based on the number of proposals to be reviewed).
United States-African Union Sign MOU to Strengthen Partnership
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| (Front left to right: Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson and Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma; Behind left to right: Ambassador Michael A. Battle and Ambassador Amina Ali) |
The core of the U.S.-AU Partnership MOU is mirrored after President Obama’s Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) and the subsequent U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, released by the White House in June 2012. Both the PPD and the MOU focus on the following four pillars or areas of mutual interest: peace and security; democracy and governance; economic growth, trade, and investment; and promotion of opportunity and development. The agreement also formalizes the annual U.S.-AU High-Level Dialogue, between the Secretary of State and the AU Chairperson, as well as Staff Talks between the AU Peace and Security Department and the U.S. Department of Defense. Further, the MOU also allows for the exchange of related information on best practices, lessons learned, and other technical matters.
On August 3, 2010, the United States and the African Union signed a $5.8 million multi-year assistance agreement to achieve common policy objectives in the areas of peace and security, economic development, regional integration, health and social welfare, and good governance on the African continent. Together, the 2010 assistance agreement, the 2012 PPD for sub-Saharan Africa, and recently signed U.S.-AU Partnership MOU provide a strong foundation for the U.S. to develop stable and secure partnership with African countries in the years ahead.
Following the official signing ceremony, U.S. Ambassador Michael Battle remarked that the MOU allows for an expanded, broader, and more robust relationship between the United States and the African Union, moving the partnership beyond the peace and security realm. He further commented that “the MOU signing is the fulfillment of many of the goals I set forth when I first arrived as U.S. Ambassador to the AU over three years ago.”
Learn more about the White House PPD here, and follow USAU on Facebook and Twitter.
Alberta woman taken hostage in Somalia speaks out about sex abuse Read it on Global News: Global News | Alberta woman taken hostage in Somalia speaks out about sex abuse
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| Amanda Lindhout |
"I just didn't know if I was going to have the courage to do it," she said Friday.
"Those are words that I have never said in public before, that I have said only in the confines of my therapist's office and with close friends and family. So for me, just like for any woman that has experienced this kind of abuse, to stand in front of people and say that publicly and really own that experience was extremely difficult for me to do."
But buoyed by a feeling of safety at the One Billion Rising event in Calgary, the 31-year-old writer and activist who hails from Red Deer, Alta., and now lives in Canmore, Alta., chose to reveal the repeated sexual attacks that she suffered during her captivity with the aim of showing solidarity with others dealing with the same issues.
Lindhout has spoken before of her time being held captive by a group of Somali youths who had kidnapped her off the side of the road outside the capital of Mogadishu in August 2008. At the time, she was working as a freelance writer.
When Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were abducted, their parents first turned to the Canadian and Australian governments for help, but eventually hired a private hostage negotiation group and paid a ransom to secure their freedom.
"When I came home from my experience as a hostage three years ago, I never felt an obligation to share publicly any great amount of details about the abuse that I suffered," she said.
"I shared what I felt was an appropriate level of detail with the Canadian public, who I did feel some responsibility to, considering how engaged the nation was during the 15 1/2 months I was a hostage."
Lindhout turned her attention to writing a book about her experiences and founded her Global Enrichment Foundation, which has a mandate of supporting vulnerable Somali women.
An articulate and composed speaker, Lindhout always seemed to exude confidence, but she admitted that surface belied the ongoing difficulties many survivors of sexual assault would be familiar with.
"There are still days that are really hard for me," she said. "I have pretty severe post-traumatic stress and it's something I live with every single day. I'm still afraid of the dark and I'm afraid of loud noises."
Adding to the complexity of her recovery was her work, which put her in daily contact with the subject of her greatest fears.
"Every woman who has experienced sexual abuse knows how hard it is to get up every single day, but then on top of that I have the public looking at me and the media asking questions about what happened to me," she said.
She may not have used the words rape and torture, but she said they often ended up in the headlines of stories about her.
"Every time I saw them and read them, I felt like I was victimized over and over again. Those words touched a raw part of me that was still unhealed."
But she became determined not to be a victim.
"I'm a survivor of rape and I'm a survivor of torture," she said. "I choose to walk the road of healing. It's been a long journey over the last three years, but it's something I choose every day."
She has learned the process of healing will likely take the rest of her life — she works with psychologists and therapists and nutritionists "to put both my physical and my emotional self back together."
She said the support she received after going public about her sexual abuse was heartwarming.
"I have been overwhelmed and extremely touched by how many women have reached out to me," she said. "If I'm in a position to have my voice heard because of what happened to me in Somalia and share my story and my experiences ... then I feel a bit of responsibility to do that.
"That wasn't easy for me to do yesterday. But it was worth it."
-- by Gwen Dambrofsky in Edmonton
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