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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

East Africa power update report: Horn of Africa


Big dams remain at the heart of Ethiopia's post-Meles electricity strategy. With an influx of donor funds into the transmission and distribution network, the government has room to finance its hydro projects with Chinese support.

This six-page report takes a project-by-project view of the power sector in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland. It includes a one-page opening analysis article and a full page map covering electricity infrastructure in the Horn of Africa.

Revised February 2013, the map provides a regional overview of electricity infrastructure across Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somaliland. Planned and existing generation and transmission projects are clearly marked. The map illustrates Ethiopia's hydroelectricity and geothermal power potential. Transmission projects are shown from 500kV down to a number of smaller 66 and 33kV lines. Detail includes major cross-border transmission links.
Example project entry from the update:

Gilgel Gibe III (1,870MW). EEPCo awarded EPC contract to Salini (July 2006) for power plant and 243 metre high dam with 14.7mcm reservoir. Completion estimated 2013-14, to cost €1.77bn. Contracts: electromechanical and hydraulic steel structure works – China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation (agreement signed with EEPCo, May 2010; $500m contract underwritten by ICBC). China’s Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock Company Ltd to build transmission line to Addis Ababa. Concrete forming equipment and engineering support for dam wall – Harsco Corp ($2m contract signed June 2010). Consortium of Mott MacDonald (UK), Sogreah (France) and local AG Consult performed economic, financial and technical assessment. Finance: WBG, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, EIB and AfDB withdrew support in 2010. EIB explicitly stated that withdrawal was not due to technical, environmental or social assessment results. Significant funding from Ethiopian government with Chinese support. Project’s procurement and environmental impact have been controversial. AE: 224/4, 192/13, 187/9, 184/12, 169/9, 153/13, 151/10, 141/10, 134/11, 132/9, 123/1, 119/10, 107/8.


The report can be accessed through an African Energy subscription or may be bought separately for £95.

Project reports are ideal for the busy executive who wants concise, considered analysis.

UNICEF Somalia Fast Facts - January 2013

Report from UN Children's Fund
Published on 31th January 2013


THE SITUATION

For two decades Somalia has experienced violence, conflict and lawlessness which have exacerbated poverty and hardship, undermined social and economic development and made it challenging for the international community to address humanitarian and development priorities.

Consecutive years of harsh droughts and ongoing conflict have resulted in repeated crop failure, depleted livestock, rising food prices and deteriorating purchasing power.

These have eroded coping mechanisms and triggered a long running state of emergency in Somalia. By July 2011 the situation deteriorated into one of the worst famines experienced in decades.

The overall nutritional situation has improved since the famine officially ended in February 2012 as a result of significant humanitarian efforts and a good harvest.

The Quarterly Food Security and Nutrition brief (Dec 2012) says the food security and nutrition situation in Somalia will continue improving in the first half of 2013 and the population in food security crisis will reduce. Most livelihoods in Somalia are likely to be classified as Stressed requiring programmes for disaster risk reduction, protecting livelihoods and building resilience.

Internally Displaced Persons in settlements in the North and Central with limited access to food will remain in food security crisis and will require humanitarian assistance. The nutrition situation in the South, in a few areas in the North and in the central regions is likely to remain Critical to Very Critical mostly due to underlying causes of malnutrition such as lack of health infrastructure, poor feeding practices and expected seasonal outbreaks of Acute Watery Diarrhea.

Currently, a third of the population (2.12 million people) is still in crisis and needs emergency assistance – over 70 percent are in the South. A further 1.7 million have only emerged from crisis in the past year, and could easily fall back without support to maintain their livelihoods. Some 236,000 of the total population of 1.5 million under the age of five are acutely malnourished, of these 54,000 are severely malnourished. And more than 1.1 million Somalis are internally displaced, often living in deplorable conditions.

Critical Issues affecting Children and Women in Somalia

• The child and maternal mortality rates for Somalia are amongst the highest in the world; one in every ten children dies before seeing their first birthday and 12 in every 1000 women die due to  complications related to child birth.

• Somalia is ranked one of the world’s lowest in terms of immunization coverage rates.

• In most regions of the south, 1 in 5 children is acutely malnourished and 1 in 15 is severely  malnourished, at exceptionally high risk of death.

• Only 30% of the overall population has access to safe water and only 20% in the worst affected  areas of the south.

• About 1.1 million people are internally displaced; close to 60% of them are children.

• The gross enrollment rate at primary school level is just over 33% and 75% of women are illiterate.

• Almost all women aged 15 to 49 years (98%) have been subjected to female genital  mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).

• Persistent recruitment and use of children as young as nine in armed conflict.


UNICEF EMERGENCY RESPONSE
  • UNICEF humanitarian action involves rapid response, preparedness, investment in early recovery as well as building communities’ resilience to disasters to reduce their exposure to risk.  
  • The rapid scale-up of humanitarian activities enabled UNICEF to more than double the number of children treated for malnutrition. This year UNICEF-supported nutrition centres admitted almost 396,000 malnourished children (of which more than 218,000 were severely malnourished) - the vast majority in the Central South Zone of Somalia (CSZ). A total of 38,000 households, including some 45,000 children under five have received support in wet feeding sites along border areas. Over 180,000 households have received at least one monthly supplementary food ration in accessible areas of southern Somalia through the UNICEF supported Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme.  
  • Basic equipment, essential medicines, medical supplies and running costs were provided to partners operating 148 Maternal and Child Health centres (MCH) and 236 Health Posts with a coverage area of an estimated 1.8 million people in CSZ.  
  • Since the beginning of 2012, 764,000 children aged between 9 months and 5 years have been vaccinated against measles in CSZ. 
  • 997,000 people in CSZ gained access to water through sustained (161,000) and temporary interventions (836,000) such as: construction and rehabilitation of water points, operation and maintenance and chlorination.  
  • Some 140,000 people gained access to sanitation facilities in 2012, mainly in IDP camps and host communities, including 60,000 people in Puntland and Somaliland who are now living in villages with no open defecation. 
  • UNICEF and partners are supporting an estimated 207,912 children (including 90,552 girls) in  652 schools. These schools have 5,121 teachers (1,047 female) managing the classrooms.  During the 2011/12 school year, UNICEF supported 386,657 with 43% girls.  
  • 26,000 households received fuel efficient stoves helping to lower the risk of sexual violence,  often perpetrated against women collecting firewood. 
  • 950 children formally associated with armed conflict and at risk of recruitment were enrolled in  reintegration programmes.  

Ethiopia and the horn of Africa

It is important that Ethiopia continues to be the "cool cat" in the crowd, staying calm and peaceful so not to disturb the fragile democracies in the making all around it.
Sunniva Hersir Sollid
by Sunniva Hersir Sollid, Student

Ethiopia is facing a very important election; the election of a new Patriarch which is currently being discussed in the high ranks of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Who it will be and what the implications might be is still unclear, but the outcome could have an effect not only on Ethiopia but the entire horn of Africa.

The Oslo Center is currently involved in three countries on the horn of Africa, all of them neighbors to the same country: Ethiopia. Since 2005, Ethiopia has been a relatively calm and peaceful country. Having a new government and slowly becoming a democracy after years of living first as a monarchy, then under a communist regime, Ethiopians have hope for the future. Both the former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the former Patriarch Abune Paulos have been deeply involved in keeping the peace after the Derg regime was defeated. They have initiated peace talks and interreligious dialogues that have helped the country move forwards and out of its oppressing past.

Changes in the situation

With the election of a new Patriarch coming up, there is much talk of different possible outcomes among the Ethiopian people. The late patriarch, Abune Paulos, was a liberal man who initiated peace talks with Eritrea during the civil war and was the initiator for the interreligious dialogues between the different religious communities in Ethiopia. He was concerned with the welfare of all religious communities and spent much time on interreligious relations. He became one of the seven serving presidents of the World Council of Churches and was a pioneer in his country.

With the election coming up, people are asking themselves if the next Patriarch will be as liberal as Abune Paulos. If they elect someone more conservative, many of the forums and dialogue centers might not survive. These interreligious meeting points are important for the religious freedom and tolerance in the country, if they shut down there will be no arena where doubt, suspicion and rumors can be confronted thru dialogue. Leaving statements uncommented and not confronted could lead to suspicion and rumors, and in the end false statements can be seen as the truth.

The possible impact

Having an unstable country in the midst of all these newly developing democracies on the horn of Africa is not ideal. Somalia is closely tied with Ethiopia, having its own region in Ethiopia in the southeast called Somali with more than 4.6 million people, making it the biggest Somali state second only to Somalia itself. Being in the process of building a democracy from scratch, Somalia does not have the resources to help a neighboring country. This is also the case with Kenya, being but two weeks from the general election and trying to keep the calm in a country where the last presidential election ended with 1300 dead. These new and fragile democracies are unstable enough themselves without having a neighboring country, which has been calm and peaceful until now, becoming unstable and disrupt the developments towards democracy on the horn of Africa.

It is important that Ethiopia continues to be the "cool cat" in the crowd, staying calm and peaceful so not to disturb the fragile democracies in the making all around it.

Somalia's Deadly Legacy: Landmines and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO)

Report from NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre

OVERVIEW
A failed state for over twenty years, Somalia has been without an effective central government since 1991 following the overthrow of then President Siad Barre. In 2012, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) successfully drove al Shabaab from its urban strongholds in the south and centre of the country, enabling Somalis to establish a new central government, including members of parliament, a president and prime minister. However, humanitarian conditions remain precarious and the population faces a myriad of issues as a legacy remains after years of fighting which urgently needs to be addressed amid continued insecurity. The landmine problem in Somalia stems from numerous internal and regional conflicts spanning nearly forty years with the first reported mine laid in 1964. The protracted conflict has left a deadly legacy of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) throughout the country, with incidents related to explosives reported almost daily. While the eastern Somalia-Ethiopia border region is heavily infected with UXOs laid during the 1977 border war, al Shabaab militants have similarly affected the centre and south. Mine action facilitates the safe disposal of these items, eliminating the threat to lives, and preventing unsecured items from undermining peace-building and reconstruction efforts.
The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) reports that anti-personnel landmines caused only four per cent of deaths and injuries in Somalia during 2011, while UXO represented 55 per cent, and unknown explosive items another 32 per cent. Of 134 known mine/Explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties verified in 2011, 73 per cent survived their accidents. According to UNMAS, most communities in south-central Somalia suffer “from a degree of explosive remnants of war contamination; few have the support or capacity to deal with these threats.” Moreover, the socioeconomic impact of landmines affect almost every aspect of Somali society: reduced land available for livestock and agricultural production, greater than before transportation costs, poor performance of rehabilitation and development efforts, disabilities and a loss of life, general insecurity, and obstruction of repatriation and reintegration. The UN asserts, however, that Somalia’s landmine and UXO threat is “a finite problem” and one that “given sustained attention,” can be resolved within a ten-year period if resources are made available.

FACTS
  • Somalia signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 2012.
  • The Somaliland Mine Action Center (SMAC), under the direction of the Office of the Vice-President, is responsible for coordinating implementation of the Act.
  • Information pertaining to number or types of anti-personnel landmines has not been provided by the government, however officials have acknowledged the existence of stockpiles. The Antipersonnel Mine Ban Act requires the destruction of all stockpiled antipersonnel landmines held by the government of Somaliland within four years.
  • Explosive stockpiles, abandoned weapons and ammunition caches, and improvised explosive device (IED) factories are the newest threats as the Somali government gains control of areas in centre and south Somalia.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

States continue to silence human rights NGOs at the UN

 
 
The UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which acts as the gatekeeper to NGO access to the UN, continues to wrongly delay, deny, and reject access to credible human rights NGOs.
 
At its most recent session in New York in January 2013, the Committee approved 159 NGOs for access (or ‘consultative status’) to the UN, but deferred a further 180 applications.
 
“It is deeply regrettable that some States on the Committee continue to oppose NGOs that hold views they do not agree with, or that have been critical of a government’s human rights record,” said Madeleine Sinclair of the International Service for Human Rights.
 
“NGO accreditation should be accessible, expeditious and based on fair, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria,” said Ms Sinclair.
 
ISHR’s research reveals that the NGOs that are most frequently and persistently delayed or deferred include those that work on sexual orientation and gender identity issues, women’s rights, reproductive rights, minority issues, caste, freedom of expression and association, and human rights more generally. Some NGOs waiting for accreditation have had their applications deferred for up to 10 years.
 
According to Ms Sinclair, “States that are not supportive of civil society engagement at the UN continue to use strategies to control the review process and defer applications, such as asking irrelevant or repetitive questions that go far beyond the scope of what NGOs are required to submit with their applications.”
 
ISHR welcomes statements from some states which decry this practice. At the January session of the UN Committee on NGOs, for example, Belgium noted “serious concerns about the long list of deferred applications and huge backlog” and expressed “deep regret” that many human rights organizations were blocked on arbitrary and spurious grounds. Bulgaria noted its concern that the applications of the “most knowledgeable and meaningful NGOs have been deferred”, saying that the Committee must be more efficient and ensure equal treatment.
 
 
Background
 
The Committee on NGOs is tasked with considering the applications of NGOs for consultative status with the UN as well as the quadrennial reports submitted by NGOs already in consultative status. Consultative status provides NGOs with access to a range of fora at the UN, including the Human Rights Council, ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, UN conferences, and special events organized by the President of the General Assembly.
 
The Committee has come under criticism in recent years for failing in its core task of giving civil society a voice at the UN and deviating from the guiding principles in ESOCOC resolution 1996/31 in its handling of applications for consultative status and review of quadrennial reports. It is widely accepted that State membership of the Committee lies at the root of these negative trends and the balance of the Committee’s membership tends towards States that do not support a vibrant civil society at the UN. Members of the NGO Committee for the period 2011-2014 are: Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Cuba, India, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan, Turkey, United States of America, and Venezuela.

Somaliland: Stanfield, the Epic 400Kms Trekker Fundraiser for Edna Hospital


How far would you go for Edna hospital: talk with Christopher Stanfield and fundraising event to support Edna Hospital?

Somalilandsun - West London Somaliland Community and others would like to invite you to a talk with Christopher Stanfield and fundraising event to support Edna Hospital, Hargeysa, Somaliland on Friday, 1st of March, 6pm at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London, E2 6HG

September 8th 2012, Christopher Stanfield began his challenge to walk from Egypt to Somaliland. The adventure was something Christopher had dreamed up 1 year previous; he wanted to raise both money and awareness for Edna Adan's maternity hospital in Somaliland. He also wanted to be able to help Somaliland take a step towards gaining recognition as a breakaway country, and to no longer be affiliated with Somalia.

"Edna Adan's hospital is an inspiring white light in Somaliland, and it is time we all stood up and recognized both the hospital, and this ever growing, and stabilizing country" Christopher

The journey took 4 months to complete almost 4000km, passing through Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti and finally Somaliland. After four grueling months and over 2000 miles of trekking, on January 4th 2013, he reached his destination a changed man. The physical journey might now be over, but the journey of change and prosperity is just beginning.
http://www.stanfields-somaliland.com/
http://www.stanfields-somaliland.com/apps/blog
http://www.ednahospital.org/
Friday, 1 March, 6pm
Oxford House, Derbyshire Street
London, E2 6HG
Your contribution: £20

Maamulka Dekeda Berbera Waxa uu Beeninayaa war kusoo baxay warbaahinta dalka

Eng.Cali Cumar Maxamed, Maareeyaha Guud Dekedda Berbera
Maamulka Dekeda Berbera Waxa uu Beeninayaa war kusoo baxay warbaahinta dalka oo ku saabsanaa Dekeda Berbera in la isku badelayo Madaxda Waaxyaheeda ama ku cusub la magacaabayo Taas oo ay qoreen wargeysyada dalka qaarkood 16 feb. 2013 waxaanu cadeynaynaa inaanay jirin wax isku shaandheyn iyo isku bedel ah oo qorsheysani inaanu jirin warkaasina yahay mid been abuur ah oo aan sal iyo raad toona lahayn.

Waxaanu kaloo cadeynaynaa inaanay waxba ka jirin in madaxda sare ee qaranku wax farogelin ah ku leeyihiin hawlaha shaqaalaha ee dekeda Berbera masuuliyadeedana Maamulka Dekedu leeyahay.

Waxaanu usoo jeedinaynaa Warbaahinta madaxa banan inay iska hubiyaan waxa ay qorayaan masuuliyiinta ay waxka qorayaana ay siiyaan xaqa ay u leeyihiin in wax laga weydiiyo waxa laga qorayo bulshadana aan loo gudbin war xaqiiqda ka fog oo been abuur ah.

ALLAA MAHAD LEH.

Eng.Cali Cumar Maxamed
Maareeyaha Guud Dekedda Berbera

Madaxwayne Ku Xigeenka Somaliland Oo Ku Dhawaaqay Inuu U Tartamayo Guddoomiye Ku Xigeenka Koowaad Ee Kulmiye

Hargeysa (Ramaas) Febr 18,2013 – Madaxwayne ku xigeenka Somaliland Md Cabdiraxmaan Cabdilaahi Ismaaciil (Saylici), ayaa caawa ku dhawaaqay inuu u tartamayo Guddoomiye ku xigeenka koowaad ee xisbiga Kulmiye, kaasi oo ololihii shirwaynihiisu bilaabmay.

Madaxwayne ku xigeenka Somaliland Md Cabdiraxmaan Cabdilaahi Ismaaciil (Saylici)
Cabdiraxmaan Saylici, oo Caawa Warbaahinta la hadlay ayaa sheegay inuu u sharaxan yahay Guddoomiye ku xigeenka koowaad ee Kulmiye, oo uu hadda hayo Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed oo shalay caddeeyay inuu u tartamaya Guddoomiyaha xisbiga iyo Musharax Madaxwaynaha.

Madaxwayne ku xigeenku waxa uu sheegay in si kasta oo xaalada xisbigu tahay, haddana isagu uu u taagan yahay Musharaxa Guddoomiye ku xigeenka Kulmiye, inkasta oo uu sheegay inaanu sheegi Karin wakhtiga shirwaynuhu dhacayo.

Xilka uu sheegay in Madaxwayne ku xigeenku u tartamayo ayaa waxa maanta isugu sheegay inuu u tartamayo Cabdikariin Xinif oo ah Agaasime Waaxeedka Maamulka ee Komiishanka la dagaalanka Aydhiska.

Dhawaaqa Cabdiraxmaan Sayliici, ayaa loolanka Kulmiye ee hogaanka xisbiga sii adkaynaya, maadaama oo ay hore hogaanka ugu tartamayeen siyaasiyiin door ahi.

Monday, February 18, 2013

SAXAAFADA SOMALILAND: Maqaalada La Soo Qoro Iyo Waajibka Saxaafadeed

Maxamud Caydiid Lafcanbe
Qalinkii Maxamud Caydiid Lafcambe

Wararka iyo dhacdooyinka saxaafadda reer Somaliland iyo dadka u badan baryahan dambe ee wax kaga soo qora warbaahinta ra`yiga akhristayaasha ayaa noqday mid ka baxday xuduudkii wax qoridda dadweynaha iyo mid ka fog dhaqankii iyo anshixii saxaafadeedba. Saxaafadda waajib iyo mus`uuliyad aad u baaxad wayn baa ka saaran qoraalada ay ku soo daabacayaan war baahintooda. 

Muwaadinniintana waajib muqadas ah ayaa ka saaran qoraaladay soo qorayaan ee war baahinta u soo daabacayso. 

Xoryadda daabacaadda qoraalada iyo xoriyadda odhaahduba waa tiir ka mid ah tiirarka dimuqraadiyadeeenna kuwa ugu muhiimsan.

In Xukuumad iyo mucaaradba  la is dhaliilaa waa mid ka mid ah  hannaanka dimuqraadiyadeed ee aynu qaadanay waxaa se qaldan in la duwo lana khal khaliyo majiiraha qoraalada ku dambaynaya saxaafadda.

Waxaa qaldan in xoriyatal qawlkii laga dhigto briij loo maro in aflagaaddooyinka war baahinta la isu mariyo, waxaa kale oo ila qaldan war is waydaarinta iyo war aan jirin abuurka la sameeyay in umadda lagu jaha wareeriyo.

Waxaa dhacda inta badan wararkii oo lagu duwayo siday ahaayeen ama uba dhaceenba bal se loo duwayo si qarad iyo ujeeddo kale ka dambayso. Waxaad arkaysaa websiyadii oo wararkii iyo dhacdooyinkii si kala duwan oo kala fog kuna salaysan ra`yi shakhsi oo ah ka wariyayaha loo soo daabacayo.

Doorka dabiiciga ah ee saxaafadu ku leedahay nolasha hawl maalmeedka ah ee qarananimadeenna waxaa waajib ku ah inay iska ilaaliyaan qoraalada dhaawacaya qarannimadeenna isla mar ahaantaasna iska hor keeni kara bulshadeenna.  Waxaa run ah in war tusaale ahaan ay qortay mid ka mid ah warbaahinta kala duwani uu abuuri karo kicin ,shaqaaqo iyo dhibaato wax yeeli kara qaranimada iyo xasiloonideenna aynu mudada dheer u soo dhabar adaygnay. 

Waxaa baryahan dambe saxaafadda ku soo baxa in la isugu jawaabo maqaalo beelaysan oo shar ah kana fog khayrka iyo walaaltinimada. Waxaa caado iska noqotay in maqaaladaas beelaysan aan la isugu aabbo yeelin laguna kala xishoon, oo kicin iyo dab hurinba lagu soo qoro.

Waxaa dhacda oo war baahinta ku soo baxa  in aad arkayso mararka qaarkood maqaalo dhaqanka ka baxsan oo rag  soo qoreen oo  qof dumara ama siyaasiyad ha noqoto ama yaanay noqon, ahna bir ma gaydo caar ah, hooyo ah, habaryar iyo eddo ah, sodoh ah ama walaal ah lagu weerarayo si xishmad darro ah. Wax isla dhinaca kale aad ka arkaysaa maqaal qof dumari  iyaduna soo qortay oo ka baxsan isna dhaqankeenna oo ay ku aflagaadoonayso nin ka da`wayn iyo mid aanay hore u sawirinba.

Mid waxaan u soo jeedinayaa saxaafadda reer Somaliland oo ah halbawle ka mid ah dhismaha qaranka, inay ku dadaalaan ilaalinta wajibka ka saaran qarankooda iyo mihnadooda saxaafadeedba umaddana u soo bandhigaan wararka iyo dhacdooyinka xaq`iqa ah ee ka fog mala awaalka, boqolkiiba boqolna cadayntiisii ay hayaan.

Waxaan saxaafadda u soo jeedinayaa inay gartaan masùuliyadda ka saaran qarannimada umaddana ka ilaaliyaan wararka aan cilmiyaysnayn ee suuqdiga ah isku dhacana abuuri kara. Saxaafadda waxaan u soo jeedinayaa inay warbaahinta ka ilaaliyaan wararka iyo maqaalada wax yeelada u leh qaranimada iyo mihnadoodoodii saxaafadeed ama nacayb iyo karaahiyo ku jirto.

Waxaa saxaafadda waajib ku ah inay saxaafadda ka ilaashadaan dadka eryada aflagaadaysan isugu jawaaba saxaafadda dhexdeeda. Saxaafadda waxaa waajib ka saaran yahay oo looga fadhiyaa maalin kasta war  iyo dhacdo xaqiiq ah, war xaqiidadiisu ay sal leedahay oo meel loogu hagaago la yaqaan , war aan loo adeegsan hunguri, war aan loo adeegsan nin jeclaysi iyo nin nacbaysi midnaba.  Halna waxaan u soo jeedinaya dadka qoraalada iyo aaraadaba ku soo biiriya warbaahinta kala duwan ee kala ah websiteska, jaraa ìdkii dalka iyo tiifiiyadaba inay iyaguna waajibkooda iyo mas ùuliyadoodaba ilaaliyaan. In Umadda ay isu jiidaan oo ay erayo latifan iyo dhaliilba is raacin karaan, wixii ra`yi ay ku biirinayaanna war baahintina ka daayaan colaad abuurka, kala fogaynta iyo aflagaadooyinkaba, inaanay isu muuqan, la isuna dul qaato war baahintana laga daayo wararka iyo maqaalada beelaysan iyo isu jawaabista dadka qaarkood kicin kara.

Waxaan taageersanahay Xoriyatal qawlka iyo xoriyadda qoraalka ee ku socota majiirihii, dariiqii iyo hannaankii ay lahayd, waxaan taageersanahay in xukuumad iyo mucaaradba la is dhaliili karo oo ay waajib tahay in la isu maro wadada habboon iyo hannaanka toosan ee xoriyatal qawlka iyo ta qoralkaba . 

Waxaa wanaagsan in dhaqanka anshaxa, ixtiraamka iyo edaabta suubban in la isu dhaliilo, qofk kastaa isaga oo qoraalkiisu eray latifan yahay ayuu hadana wax dhaliili kara laakiin eryga qalafsan ama aflagaadadu ku jirtaa dhaliil ma noqon karo ee waa cay dadka kala fogaynaysa uun. 

Dadku meel ma kala jiro ee waa isku dad, waa walaalo, habar- wadaag, waa ilma abti, waa isu abti iyo xididba. Waxaa iska caadi ah in hadaba aragtida siyaasadeed iyo ta xisbinimadaba lagu kala duwanaan karo  bal se si caafimaad qabta oo deggan doodaha qoraalada la isugu dhaliili karo. 

Waxaan waanadaydan ku soo gunaanadayaa,  umadda reer Somaliland  inay yihiin umad dun nadiif ah oo wanaagsan oo wada waaalo ah. Waa umad xejisatay nabadoodii iyo deganaanshahoodiba.  Hadaba walaaladayda saxaafada iyo dhamaan qorayaasha ku kala duwan ra`yga siyaasadeed waxaan kaga baxaya inay noqdaan kuwii qalinkooda ka ilaashada inaanu marnaba noqon kii sumeeya ama wax yeeleeya nabadgalyada, wada jirka iyo walaalnimadaumada reer Somaliland. 

ILLAAHAY waxaan inooga baryayaa inaynu noqono kuwii ilaashada qaranimadooda, walaaltinamadooda hormar iyo barwaaqana ku dambeeya.

Aamiin
Maxamud Caydiid Lafcanbe
Toronto, Canada

Halkan ka Daawo: Telefishanka Ruushka oo baahiyay, muuqaalo cusub oo ku saabsan markii Dhagax ololayaa cirka kaga soo dhacay gobolka Ural ee dalkaas

Moscow: Telefishanka Ruushka ee xukuumadu maamusho ayaa baahiyay, muuqaalo cusub oo isugu jira, kuwo la duubay wakhtigii dhagax olalaya oo sida kubada u malaasani cirka kaga soo dhacay gobolka Ural ee dalkaas iyo dhul baaxadiisu aad u balaadhan tahay oo holcaya kaas oo sida telefishanku sheegay dabka aan ilaa wali ololkiisu bakhtiyin uu dhaliyay dhagaxaasi.

Masuuliyiinta Ruushanka ayaa iyagu wakhti baahinta telefishanka ka horaysay ka hadlay dhagaxaas iyo inta heerkiisu gaadhsiisnaa, kaas oo masuuliyiintaasi ku tilmaameen inuu ahaa nukliyeer kooban oo aan shucaac lahayn, laakiin gaadhsiisan heerkii iyo quwadii nukliyeerka. Gobolka Ural ee dalka Ruushka ayaa dhagaxani maalintii Jimcihii ee 15-ka February 2013-ka, uu ku habsaday, kaas oo isagoo sida kubada u duuban xawaare aad u sareeyana ku socda sida gantaalka oo kale ugu dhacay meel kaabiga ku haysa haro biyo fadhiistaan oo gobolkaas ku taala.

Sida masuuliyiinta Ruushku sheegeen waxa gariirkii iyo xoogii dhagaxaasi markii uu dhulka ku dhacay uu sababay, in guryo badan oo deegaankaas ku yaalay ku dumaan, isla markaana ay ku dhaawacmaan dad tiradooda lagu qiyaasay ilaa kun iyo laba boqol oo qof, kuwaas oo ilaa sadex boqol oo carruur ahi ku jireen.