Djibouti Data Center (DDC) Launches Tier 3 level Data Center Facility in East Africa

The DDC is the first and only data center facility in East Africa to provide direct fiber access to five undersea cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia markets with Africa. MTN selects DDC for collocation and undersea fiber cable head cross connect services in support of network expansion in Africa.

United Arab Emirates, Dubai (PRWEB) March 04, 2013

The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) has announced today at the Capacity Middle East Conference the launch of its commercial operations in Djibouti City. The Djibouti Data Center (DDC) leverages Djibouti’s strategic position in East Africa as the major meeting point for undersea fiber optic cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, to Africa. Collocated just meters from the new Djibouti Telecom cable landing station, the DDC offers international telecommunications carriers and content delivery network (CDN) providers neutral collocation facilities, Internet Exchange, and other enhanced services in one of the fastest growing regions in the world.

The DDC is a joint venture between Djibouti Telecom and Djibouti Data Center SARL, a group of local and international investors who are all seasoned international telecommunication executives.

The DDC offers mobile network operators, global voice and data carriers, and CDN providers, a new opportunity to establish unique cross connect access and collocation facilities directly adjacent to Djibouti Telecom’s cable landing station supporting seven different cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East and Asia with markets in Africa. These include SeaMeWe3, Aden-Djibouti, EASSy/WIOC, SEACOM, EIG, Djibouti – Ethiopia, Djibouti- Somalia cable systems. The strategic geographical location of the DDC offers service providers a new opportunity to reduce global network operating costs and greatly improve network resilience, latency and performance by accessing a Tier 3 level data center facility in East Africa. The DDC provides the capabilities to install, operate, and manage equipment and vital services in support of establishing an operator’s local and regional network in Africa.

“The Djibouti Data Center has simplified undersea cable head access and backhaul, interconnection, collocation, and Internet access capabilities for all service providers looking to expand in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions of the world,” says Anthony Voscarides, Chief Executive Officer at the Djibouti Data Center. “The DDC accomplishes this in a secure and fully redundant facility in one of the most strategic locations of the world for undersea fiber cable access connecting Europe, The Middle East, and Asia with Africa.”

“Djibouti Telecom is very enthusiastic about the inauguration of the new Djibouti Data Center. We want to leverage the special advantages that Djibouti’s strategic position in the region offers,” says Mr. Abdourahman Mohamed Hassan, the Director General of Djibouti Telecom. “Our objective is to reach out to operators worldwide and offer a unique source of secure interconnection and collocation that enables service providers to realize their growth potential throughout Africa, and with the rest of the world. The DDC solves the critical link that has been missing in accomplishing this objective.”

Among others, the DDC has been selected by MTN to provide cable cross connect and backhaul services from the cable landing station in Djibouti. MTN will use its newly created Point of Presence (POP) at the DDC for the purpose of network expansion and more efficient utilization of its existing undersea cable assets.

DDC Benefits

DDC Collocation: Secure, environmentally controlled, and expertly managed data center facility that offers a secure home for routing, switching and network server equipment. The DDC building site is just meters away from the new international cable landing station in Djibouti City.

Cable Head Access and Backhaul: All submarine cables landing at the Djibouti cable landing stations are connected to the DDC facility on diverse fiber paths. Backhaul to any cable head can be ordered directly from the DDC.

DDC VPOP service: The DDC offers a VPOP service using fully redundant ADM hardware for customers who wish to build their networks quickly and economically. The fully managed ADM service includes backhaul to any cable system, cross connection and aggregation services as per the customer design requirements.

DDC Meet-Me Room: The DDC Meet-Me Room offers carriers providing voice and data services, as well as Internet Exchange services, an economical cross connect capability. Physical connections can be accommodated via UTP or fiber optic cable between any hosted racks.

Internet Exchange DIX (Djibouti Internet Exchange): The Djibouti Internet Exchange Point (IX), is the first of its kind in East Africa, having the capacity to interconnect with numerous submarine cable systems in an open, affordable and secure environment.

CDN Services: The DDC offers CDN service providers a unique home for their network nodes in East Africa. Content typically associated with Internet services, including media streaming, can be cached locally and regionally in East Africa to improve on-net delivery, reduce demand on global infrastructure, and to generate incremental revenue from the growing content market in Africa.

Djibouti Data Center will be participating at Capacity Middle East, which takes place in Dubai, March 4-6, 2013. Capacity Middle East is one of the leading carrier events in the region. You are welcome to visit our booth and meet our delegates.

For more information about the event visit: Capacity Middle East 2013

About the Djibouti Data Center (DDC)

The Djibouti based DDC is the first and only data center facility in East Africa with access to all major international fiber optic systems. It combines convenient access to five (5) undersea fiber cable systems connecting Europe, the Middle East, and Asia markets with Africa. The DDC is a reliable and cost effective hub in Africa to many of the world’s fastest growing and emerging markets. The DDC offers flexible commercial terms for a broad portfolio of services that combine solutions tailored to meet new business requirements, while insuring scalability in line with business growth. Whether you are a carrier focused on enhancing your voice and data services, or a CDN operator looking at global expansion and an enhanced geographical footprint, the DDC enables business to expand more rapidly. Learn more about the DDC products and services at http://www.djiboutidatacenter.com

About Djibouti Telecom SA

Djibouti Telecom SA is the primary telecommunications company of Djibouti, providing landline, mobile and Internet services. The company is headquartered in Djibouti City, Djibouti. Djibouti Telecom has leveraged Djibouti’s strategic geographical position in East Africa, has made significant investments in undersea fiber cable infrastructure, and is now the leading strategic hub for international telecommunications services in East Africa. Djibouti Telecom has partnered with Djibouti Data Centre to offer direct fiber access to the Djibouti cable landing station, cross connect and backhaul services, collocation, and Internet Exchange DIX among other services.

Contact:

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Demos Kyriacou

dk(at)djiboutidatacenter(dot)com

357.99.689115

or,

John Melick

jm(at)djiboutidatacenter(dot)com

1.703.627.1332

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WAR SAXAAFADEED: SBF OO BIXINAYSA 59 DEEQOOID OO YAR-YAR OO U DHIGMA $2 MILLION

1, 750 Codsi oo ay heshay SBF wareegii 1aad, waxa ku guullaystay 59 mashruuc oo deeqaha yar-yar ah oo u dhigma 2million oo dollar. Waxaanu rajaynaynaa inay mashaariicdani abuuri doonto inka badan 600 oo shaqooyin, oo saddexmeelood marka loo qaybiyo ay qaybi noqondoonto dumar, 40%-na ay noqon doonaan dhalinyarta.  40% mashaariicda la taageeray waxay ka fulayaan goboloda kale ee ka baxsan Hargeisa.

Mashaariicdu way kala duwan yihiin waxaana ka mid ah:

• Beeraha: waraabinta beeraha ee casriyaysan si loo soo saaro khudaarta, kiraynta cagafyada, saliida gabaldayaha, tamaato qasaaca iyo kajapta(ketchup).

• Xoolaha: Naaxinta iyo xanaanaynta xoolaha, dhaqida digaaga(Beedka iyo Digaaga), hagaajinta haraga, iyo sifaynata caanaha geela

• Kaluumayasiga: mashruuca carsaanyada, qaboojiyeyaasha wax lagu kaydiyo, warshadaynta kaluunka, beerida kaluunka,

• Xabkaha iyo Beeyada;  sifaynta uduga, kor uqaadida tayada badeecada la dhoofiyo ee xabkaha iyo beeyada

• Maamulida iyo hagaajinta xashiishka: ururinta xashiishka iyo dib uhagaajinta meelaha xashiishka lagu qubo, Dib u noolaynata baateriyada iyo shakalada baabuurta,  iyo dib u cusboonaysiinta taayirada,

• Macdanta; milxda iodenta leh, soo saarka dhagaxaanta macdanta, mooysaxo tayo leh, biyo qodida

• Warshadaynata: samaynat tuumbooyinka PVC-ga, tolida dharka, samaynata finijarka, samaynta kaaryoonayaasha, buugaagta, qurxinta guryaha, samaynta darayska iskuulada, samaynata daaqadaha iyo albaabada aluumiiniyamka ah, warshada saabuunta, samaynata badeecadaha hargaha

• Tacliinta: Barashada technoolojiyada, aqoonta shaybaadhka dhismaha, iyo iskuul hoose

• Adeegyada: Doobiile casriyaysan, xafiiska xisaabaadka, garoomada da’dan, Samaynta Keegaga iyo macmacaanka

• Caafimaadka: Shaybaadhka pathologiga, baadhista xanuunada

Mashaariicda aanu soo xulanay waxa dib u eegay Guddiga La tashiga Deeqaha (GAP) oo ka kooban xubnaha  hoos ku qoran:

Dr Sacad Cali Shire (Gudoomiyaha Guddida)-Wasiirka qorshaynata
Mr. Abdirizak Khaliif Axmed( Gudoomiye ku xigeen)-Wasiirka Ganacsiga
Dr. Cabdi Aw Dahir –Wasiirka Xanaanada Xoolaha
Prof. Faarax Cilmi – Wasiirka Beeraha
Dr. Siciid Axmed Xasan – Mulkiilaha Jaamacada Gollis
Foosiya Maxamed – Gudoomiyaha SLNMA
Nafiisa Yuusuf – Nagaad Network

SBF waxay ku talo jirtaa inay bixiso deeqaha waawayn bisha May ee 2013. Wareega labaad ee deeqaha yaryar-ka iyo waayay-ka waxa la filayaa in ay noqoto bisha June.

SFB waxay abaabulaysaa halabuurida tayada leh iyo khayraadka ganacsatada, si loo abuuro shaqooyin loona kordhiyo dakhliga shacabka Somaliland. Sidaas Darteed deeqahan waxay ku caawinayaan ganacsatada in ay abuuraan badeecado cusub, galaan suuqyo wax loo dhoofiyo oo cusub, hagaajiyaan wax soosaarka iyo in ay noqdaan kuwo fikrado cusub la yimaada.

Deeqahani waxa loogu talo galay shakhsiyaadka cadaynkara in ay leeyihiin xirfad maamul, awood dhaqaale iyo sumcad ganacsi oo soo jireen ah si ay ugu guulaystaan mashaariicdan. Mashaariicda waxa lagu qiimeeyey iyada oo la eegayo suurtagalka fikradan ganacsi iyo saamaynta horumarka ay ku yeelanayso.

SBF waa qayb muhiim ah oo ka mid ah barnaamij-yada Baanka Aduunka ee loo yiqaano “ Private sector Re- Engagement Project Phase II, Kuwaasi oo taageeraya maalgashiga silsilada wada dheefiga kaluumaysiga iyo xabkaha iyo beeyada, iska hagaajinta iyo maamulka xashiishka, horumarinta dekeda Berbera iyo horumarinta adeega dhaqaalaha ee Somaliland. Barnaamij-kan waxa maalgaliyey Danish International Development Agency, The (UK) Department for International Development and the Baanka Aduunka gaybta dawladda iyo nabad dhisida.

SBF Waxa fulinaya Landell Mills International Development Consultants ee xaruuntoodu tahay dalka Ingriiska oo ay maamulayaan xubnaha maamul hoosaadka deeqaha (Fund Management Unit)

Wixii Faahfaahin ah Kala Xidhiidh:
Denis Dunn, Fund manager,
Tel: +2522483-7761 or 4850660
www. Somalilandbusinessfund.com  

FAO Somalia Animal Health Officer Job in Hargeisa, Somaliland March 2013

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Vacancy Announcement No: FAO/07/2013

Issued on 1 March 2013

Deadline for Application: 15th March2013 Position Title: Animal Health Officer    

Grade Level: SC-10 Duty Station: Hargeisa
 

Organizational Unit: Somalia Country Office (FAO-Somalia)
 

Duration: 6  months with possible extension

 Eligible Candidates: Somali Nationals Only

Anticipated Start Date: Immediately 

 

Under the general supervision of the Officer –in –Charge for Somalia and under the direct supervision of Livestock Project Coordinator, the Animal Health Officer will carry out  the following duties:

• Support and undertake liaison roles and linkages between FAO and public health unit institutions and other line government institutions in Somaliland
• Will actively mobilize meat sector stakeholders and authorities through participatory approach for implementation of FAO programme activities supporting public health and livestock marketing facilities
• Assist with the monitoring of  the implementation of animal production, health and marketing activities by implementing partners in Somaliland
• Proactively support the establishment and maintenance of appropriate sectorial coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the field level, actively participate in it and provided the secretariat service if and when required.
• Support the livestock sector in designing tailored training materials and facilitate trainings of primary facility stakeholders including slaughterhouse operators using the slaughter facilities and meat markets (butchers, meat vendors, slaughter facility supervisors) to improve the quality and wholesomeness of meat along the meat value chain and to avoid environment pollution.
• Participate in preparation of public awareness materials and facilitate dissemination to the public for a wider audience to mitigate public health hazards prevalent in the country.
• Undertake participatory community mobilization and sensitization concerning any new project
• Support the acquisition of land for construction or rehabilitation of livestock related infrastructures including slaughterhouses, water catchments, livestock markets, meat markets etc
• Assist with organization of trainings, workshops and  meetings  (communicate with partners, ensure follow-ups)
• Proactively be engaged in establishment of PPPs through PPP forums, workshops, meetings and actions for managing livestock infrastructures including slaughterhouses, meat markets, livestock marketing facilities, water facilities, fodder storage facilities.
• Support the compilation of reports when called upon
• Perform any other technical and administrative duties that may be identified by FAO line reporting officers

Academic Qualifications

• A degree in Veterinary medicine or a related science;
• Knowledge and experience in development projects with relation to sustainable livelihoods, local productions and local economy development
• Knowledge and experience in Public health and value addition

Technical Competencies and Experience Requirements

• Ten years  relevant field experience, preferably in the Somali ecosystem and in the region
• An understanding of UN/FAO operating procedures
• Excellent managerial and coordination skills;
• Ability to communicate effectively and to prepare complete and concise proposals/ reports.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with public veterinary officials and other  livestock sector stakeholders

Send your application to:

Candidates are requested to submit a covering letter quoting the Position Title and Vacancy Announcement No. FAO/07/2013 along with their current/detailed Curriculum Vitae and FAO Personal History (PH) form available at http://fmt.faoso.net/documents/PH_form-Blank.docx .

 

E-mail is the preferred means of receipt and the application should be sent to HR-Somalia@fao.org.

The subject line of the e-mail message should read CONFIDENTIAL – FAO/07/2013. If making a hard copy submission, the envelope should be clearly marked CONFIDENTIAL – FAO/07/2013 and sent to the following address: 

 

FAO-Somalia
UN-Somalia Ngecha Road Complex
Corner Lower Kabete Road/Ngecha Road
P.O. Box 30470-00100,
Nairobi, Kenya.

 

Applications may also be faxed, again clearly indicating CONFIDENTIAL – FAO/07/2013 in the subject line, to +254-20-4000333. 

 

Applications must be received by the deadline.

Late applications will not be considered.

Only short listed candidates meeting all essential qualifications will be contacted.

Somalia: Somaliland Transfers Suspect in Cleric's Death to Puntland

The Somaliland administration transferred a suspect in the assassination of prominent cleric and al-Shabaab critic Abdulkadir Nur Farah to Puntland authorities on Thursday (March 14th).

"Abdullahi Osman Ahmed (Aynte) was transferred due to the communication we had with Somaliland," Puntland administration spokesman Ahmed Omar Hirsi told Sabahi. "This is the second phase in solving the sheikh's murder after the man who shot him on February 15th was arrested by the security forces."
Farah was shot in the back as he was kneeling to pray inside a mosque in Garowe.

Ahmed fled to Somaliland after the sheikh's murder, and was soon arrested by Somaliland forces in Las Anod.

Hirsi said investigations are ongoing into Ahmed's potential role in the assassination. "Everyone who was involved in the shooting and in the plot to kill the sheikh will be brought to court," he said.

Ahmed was handed over to Puntland's Internal Security Minister Khalif Isse Mudan and several regional members of parliament in Sool following two days of negotiations between Puntland and Somaliland authorities, UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan reported. He will be held at the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters for interrogation prior to his arraignment.

Somalia: Somaliland University Puts Textbooks Within Reach

Hargeisa — Fatima Mohamed, a 24-year-old medical student at Gollis University in Hargeisa, no longer needs to worry about obtaining hard copies of textbooks in her field.

College textbooks have been in short supply in Somalia since the civil war, but now Mohamed has a better chance of accessing the books though a new electronic library that opened last month at the privately-run campus.

"I am happy about this service because it will be help improve and strengthen students' knowledge ... it has made studying easier for me," she told Sabahi.

The electronic textbook library became the first of its kind to open in Somalia when Gollis University officials unveiled it at the Hargeisa campus on February 12th. Students can now sit at a computer workstation and access textbooks on the screen in front of them.

Aidaros Mohamed Abib, the university's academic dean, said the electronic library is free for the university's 3,500 students.

"At any one time, 30 students can sit there, having the ability to use books used by the different college departments -- most of which are engineering, science, medicine, management and administration books," Abib said.

Abib said he hopes the university will be able to increase the number of computers in the library to accommodate more students at a time.

In addition, next month Gollis University plans to launch an online portal, where students and non-students alike can pay a nominal fee to access textbooks from any location via the internet.

"We will establish an [online] portal accessible from anywhere, and issue memberships to anyone who is interested," said Walid Mohamed Ali, director of the university's information technology department.

Once the portal is up and running, it will provide access to 50,000 college-level textbooks as well as 10,000 video and audio lectures online, he told Sabahi. Most of the textbooks are published in English, but some will be available in Arabic.

Establishing an electronic library will help redress the critical shortage of textbooks and reference books in Somaliland, but the region still has too few public libraries and too many textbooks are published in languages other than Somali, said Khadar Abayare, a professor at the University of Hargeisa.

Hargeisa only has two libraries open to the public: the privately-run Gandhi Public Library and a centre run by the British organisation African Educational Trust, said Hodo Sultan Aden, head of the Mohamed Mogeh Association for Reading, Writing, Tradition and Culture.

"Reading is an important element that is missing now, and students are limited to the explanations given by teachers," Aden told Sabahi. "This is a challenge that inhibits the quality and learning growth of university students in Somaliland."

Rapid Response Unit completes training in Somaliland

The Somaliland region graduated a second team of Rapid Response Unit forces on Wednesday (March 13th), concluding their training at the Mandera Police Training Academy, 50 kilometers east of Hargeisa.

Somaliland regional Vice President Abdirahman Abdullahi Saylii attended the graduation ceremony with Minister of Interior Mohamed Nur Arrale and Chief of Police Brigadier General Abdullahi Fadal Iman, among others.

RRU forces are charged with responding to emergency situations such as acts of terrorism or any other event that needs rapid deployment of security forces, Iman said.

"RRU forces are always ready. We are proud that they can respond to any emergency situation that may arise," Iman said. "I am confident that they will effectively deal with the enemies of Somaliland."

In the past year, Somaliland has increased the number of its security forces to properly handle the security needs of the region, Arrale said.

"Each RRU officer is different from other forces because he is a fully equipped officer. They even have bulletproof jackets," Arrale said.

Saylii thanked the British government for its role in providing training, equipment and technical support for the RRU forces.

When We Die, and Doctors 'Did Everything They Could,' Should Our Families Watch?

Emergency resuscitation can be grisly. But people who watched it performed on their family members reported less anxiety and depression after the event -- regardless of whether the person lived or died.

From the other side of the wall, in the hallway or waiting room, the accomplishments of emergency resuscitation can seem miraculous. On the inside, it's cold and disquieting. As Dr. Rosemarie Fernandez, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Washington, told The New York Times, "It's not like on Baywatch*, where somebody gets pulled out of the water and you do a few compressions and they walk away."

When someone's heart stops beating in a hospital, doctors, nurses, and technologists run to their room. One will stand over the patient on a tall stool to get a vantage where they use the leverage of their entire upper body to compress the patient's chest. It's not uncommon to hear and feel ribs cracking under their fingers as they press. Keeping the person's airway open can mean passing a large tube down their throat. Shocks of electricity are delivered that can make their limp body convulse. Doctors often need to insert a large I.V. through the side of the patient's neck in order to give the drugs that help restart their heart, which can be a bloody procedure.

We know that the support of friends and family during illness is of great benefit. The traditional wisdom around them being present during resuscitation, though, is that it's best for them to stay out of the room. The patient is not conscious -- at points, not even alive -- and they are being handled in an indelicate, impersonal way. Dire circumstances require it. It's not an idyllic last memory of a loved one.

In research published this morning in the New England Journal of Medicine, though, French physicians found that family members were ultimately better off when they watched CPR. Of 570 people, the 211 who witnessed resuscitation of a family member later reported significantly fewer symptoms of PTSD -- and less anxiety and depression -- at checkups following the event, regardless of whether the person survived.
The cases here, though, took place outside of hospitals. They happened wherever emergency medics got to the people. Resuscitation is usually less invasive when performed, say, in someone's home. There may also be more space to work. A hospital room gets crowded, and people become physical barriers. Some doctors argue that family being present disrupts the process in other ways, too. Emergency resuscitation is a choreographed procedure; one where stopping to address questions or console spectators could throw everything off.

In the New England Journal study, though, they found that the presence of family did not interfere with medical efforts or result in the health care team feeling more stress.

Dr. James Downar at Toronto General Hospital writes in an accompanying editorial that he rarely invites families into a room during resuscitation, and that he is hesitant to change his practice based on this research. "Cardiac arrests that occur at home are different in that family members actually 'invite' EMS to be present for the resuscitation, rather than the reverse," he notes.

Dr. Patricia Kritek at University of Washington offered a slightly more optimistic take. She believes that, when possible, families should have "the opportunity to be in the room in what may be the last minutes of [a patient's] life." She offers the thoughtful caveat, though, that it would be inappropriate to invite them in without also providing a liaison that could talk them through what's happening.

Kritek also gets to the point that immediately struck me. Emergency resuscitation is still, to many people, a mysterious process. Understanding the "brutal" nature of what we sometimes put people through is integral to any advance directive decision. When someone dies and is resuscitated, they do not bounce immediately back to normal. Their family is likely going to be speaking for them, making medical decisions on their behalf. When a family witnesses what "do everything possible" entails, it will inform future decisions. It will inform an increasingly transparent culture, where everyone has an accurate sense what resuscitation is and means before they opt into or out of it.

When people tell me they'd like extensive measures taken to revive their 105-year-old grandmother with advanced dementia and terminal cancer, it's hard to believe they'd say the same if they'd witnessed a similar resuscitation. Holding this curtain back as far as possible is best for patients. It seems like it's best for their families, too.

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* Baywatch was a TV fiction series that premiered in 1989. It starred Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff, and nothing it portrays should be mistaken for reality.

Ecuadorian minister visits Assange Wikileaks Founder

This August 19, 2012 file photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange making a statement to the media and supporters at a window of Ecuadorian Embassy in central London.

London - An Ecuadorian minister said on Wednesday that Julian Assange was in “good spirits” after visiting the WikiLeaks founder inside Ecuador's embassy in London. 

Assange has been holed up in the tiny diplomatic mission for nine months as he seeks to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault, which he denies. 

Ecuador's secretary of state for planning and development, Fander Falconi, met the former computer hacker during a brief visit to Britain. 

“He is in very good health and good spirits,” Falconi told reporters at the embassy. 

“He is very proud of Ecuador's foreign policy and the very professional way the government of Ecuador is dealing with this issue.” 

Assange fled to the embassy in June after losing his battle in the British courts against extradition to Sweden.

Ecuador granted him asylum in August but Britain has refused to allow him safe passage out of the country, sparking a diplomatic stalemate. 

Assange founded the WikiLeaks website that enraged Washington by releasing cables and war logs relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the biggest security breach in US history. - Sapa-AFP

Bildt accused of leaking secrets to the US

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has denied claims he leaked details of secret meetings to the United States following media reports based on diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks.

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 On Friday, the Aftonbladet tabloid reported that Bildt, at the age of 27, reported to the United States about details of closed-door government coalition talks in 1976.

That information was then sent on to the CIA, the paper claimed.

"He was well informed. I reported on everything he told us," US envoy Ronald E Woods told the paper.

Information about the make-up of the three-party coalition, the parties' attitudes to nuclear power, and how they would handle a referendum reached the United States before it reached the Swedish people.

Per Ahlmark of the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) was involved in the talks and emphasized that nothing said in the meetings should have been reported to outsiders.

"Everything we said was secret. Not only for foreign powers, but also for our own parties. We were very thorough about ensuring that nothing would get out," he said.

"Had I known that Bildt went and blabbed, I would have been very annoyed."

However, Bildt dismissed the conclusions Aftonbladet drew from the WikiLeaks cables.

"Today, the campaigning-style journalism that Aftonbladet occasionally engages in has celebrated new triumphs," Bildt wrote on his blog on Friday in response to the report.

He referred to the cables handed over to the paper by WikiLeaks' Swedish representative Johannes Wahlström as "pretty normal diplomatic reporting" and "pretty banal information".

"It is not about anything that can be labelled as 'secret'," according to Bildt.

One of the documents states that Bildt told Woods about a government deal on nuclear power.

Bildt admitted on his blog that the information about how the conservative coalition government planned to resolve the contentious issue of nuclear power was indeed sensitive.

But he denied that the telegram shows that he had leaked any information about the matter to the United States.

"What the telegram says on this point is factually incorrect - and it is unclear why. My bet is that the embassy twisted what they read in some newspaper. All the same, it was incorrect."

The publication of the WikiLeaks cables does not come as a surprise.

In February last year, the Swedish tabloid Expressen revealed that WikiLeaks was planning a smear campaign against Sweden to halt the extradition of its founder, Julian Assange, to the United States.

Expressen wrote that WikiLeaks planned to release documents allegedly showing that Bildt had acted as an informant for the United States since 1973.

The internal WikiLeaks memo reviewed by Expressen said that the organization planned to release classified documents, organize blockades of Swedish embassies and consulates as well as boycotts of Swedish companies.

“This is going to hurt Sweden more than the debate about the Mohammad cartoons,” a source with knowledge of the matter told Expressen at the time.

A WikiLeaks source claimed that “there are secret documents that reveal that Bildt cooperated with the American administration in a way that violates Swedish law… He'll be forced to resign. It will be the end of his political career.”

On his blog, Bildt wrote on Friday that Aftonbladet had mistranslated the original telegram and skewed its contents to fit the tabloid's own interpretation of events.

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Assange threatens the USA with sensational expose

In the coming months the British authorities can give up their plans for the extradition of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks to Sweden, where he is accused of raping two women. This means that the world famous journalist and Internet rebel, who has been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June of last year, will be set “free”.

The recent statements made by Ricardo Patino, Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs, leads one to such a conclusion. According to him, after the reelection for the third term of president Rafael Correa, «Great Britain realized that for the next four years Ecuador's position on Assange would not change». Given that the minister expressed his hope that already this year the sides would come to an agreement regarding the Australian's further destiny.

Not only the firm position of Ecuadorian leader can push the British towards the decision to stop prosecuting Assange. One must recall the reason's for the WikiLeaks' founder's «voluntary confinement». According to Assange, he chose such a destiny not due to what he believes to be «ridiculous» accusations of the Swedish side. The real danger for the journalist comes from the USA, where he can be brought from Stockholm. The alleged rape was Pentagon's response to the published secret materials about the military actions of the Americans in Iraq, says Assange. And for such «misbehavior» Washington punishes very strictly, up to the capital punishment.

However, strange as it appears, the salvation for the Australian can also come from across the ocean. These days in the US the court hearings on the case of the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of releasing a great deal of secret documents to WikiLeaks, are coming to an end. Of all the documents he handed over, the most scandalous was the video, in which the US soldiers shoot Iraqi civilians. That video cause a massive reaction in the US and all over the world, while Manning's personality according to the British newspaper The Independent became «the symbol of American hypocrisy». Julian Assange hopes that this court trials would help open the eyes of the world community as far as the role of the US in today's world is concerned and would force many people to view the situation around the founder of WikiLeaks differently:

«Manning's trial is a public beating of all those who is trying to open people's eyes. This is also proved by the degrading circumstances of keeping him under arrest. Not one single prisoner in the US has spent so much time in jail before the verdict», says Assange recalling that Manning was arrested back in 2010.

Depending on what Manning's verdict will be - the judge will announce the verdict on March 15 – Assange threatens to publish a new portion of documents revealing the US military atrocities. And in that case he will act as a prosecutor supported by the entire world community.