Law says Media law will protects the rights of journalists

The Technical Committee on Somalia Media Law held its regular meeting in Mogadishu today 22 August 2013 to review the media law. Representatives included the Deputy Minister of Information, Posts, Telecommunications & Transport, Senior Advisor & Spokesperson of the Office of the President, Spokesperson of the Office of the Prime Minister, Secretary General of NUSOJ, Representatives from SMSG, IST, UNSOM and a lawyer from the Office of the Prime Minister.

After the meeting the technical committee issued the below press release

Somali Media Law will be Somali owned and protects the rights of journalists

Mogadishu, 22 August 2013 – The Federal Government of Somalia is pleased to report on the progress of the stakeholder consultation in the preparation of a draft Somali Media Law, and to correct the number of misrepresentations and misunderstandings that have recently been reflected in the press about this process.

The process of drafting the law takes several stages and the Ministry of Information, Posts, Telecommunications and Transport (MIPTT) has established a Technical Committee to coordinate this. The Committee consists of representatives of MIPTT, Office of the President, Office of the Prime Minister, legal expertise and the representative organisation of Somali journalists, NUSOJ. In addition to these representatives the Committee has sought international legal opinion, recognising that our law must comply with international law, as well as serve Somali media. This legal opinion has been given by international expert NGO Article 19 (whose analysis has already been approved of and quoted by several commentators) the Oxford University Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) and the German Press Council (a member of the IFJ). These contributions have been coordinated by the AU/UN Information Support Team on behalf of the Somali Media Support Group, whose members include all the major international organisations supporting Somalia, NGOs and media operators that are in Somalia or act on behalf of Somali media.

Through this consultation our draft Somali media law has been cross-referenced with:

· International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

· African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

· Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa.

· African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information.

· The joint declarations of the three international mandates on freedom of expression:

o the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

o the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Representative on Freedom of the Media

o the Organization of American States Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
Before the re-draft is presented to Parliament there will be regional consultation so that journalists, civil society and stakeholders throughout Somalia will have the chance to discuss and contribute to the law.

Throughout the review and consultative process the re-drafting of the law has been in Somali hands, under the MIPTT.

The Prime Minister and the President have both held meetings with Somali journalists and gave assurances that the law will protect Somali journalists’ rights and responsibilities. This commitment is demonstrated by the work of the Technical Committee and its inclusive consultations.

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Technical Committee on Media Law

NEWS ANALYSIS: Somalia seems stuck with its basket-case image

CARNAGE: Troops of the African Union mission in Somalia secure the scene of a suicide bomb attack 

outside the United Nations compound in Mogadishu on June 19. 

Picture: REUTERS

by Peter Martell

NAIROBI — Hope that Somalia may soon turn the page on decades of anarchy has been dealt a string of blows, giving the internationally backed government little to cheer as it marks its first birthday.

Al-Qaeda-inspired fighters, breakaway regions, rival clans and a climate of rampant insecurity have conspired to ensure the Horn of Africa nation remains saddled with its basket-case image.

The new government was the first to be given global recognition since the collapse of the hardline regime in 1991, and billions in foreign aid has been poured in.

But in a major blow in August, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as MSF) — an aid agency used to working in the world’s most dangerous places — pulled out after two decades in the country.

The agency said it could no longer put up with a "barrage of attacks", including kidnappings, threats, lootings and murder.

"It came at a moment when world leaders, for the first time in decades, began making positive noises about a country on the road to recovery and with a stable government," said MSF president Unni Karunakara.

"For them, the timing of our decision could not have been worse." Somalia has taken steps forward, particularly in the coastal capital of Mogadishu — now busy with labourers rebuilding after Islamist al-Shabaab fighters fled their city trenches two years ago.

But the situation elsewhere remains bleak.

"Rarely has it been so important to bear in mind the old maxim: Mogadishu is not Somalia," argues Matt Bryden, in a report for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

"The stream of returnees, investors, aid workers and diplomats to Mogadishu has not been replicated elsewhere in the country, creating an artificial, almost surreal bubble of optimism." Mogadishu’s government, selected in a UN-backed process in August 2012, was hailed as offering the best chance for peace in a generation.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in May 2013 ahead of an international conference on Somalia in London, said then that the steps forward had "exceeded all expectations".

But the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) noted that progress has been "painstakingly slow".

"The failure of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s administration to consolidate power beyond Mogadishu and the general lawlessness in many parts of the country, remain stark reminders of the huge challenges to lasting peace in Somalia," the ISS added.

Outside the city, the weak central government has little influence, with much of the country fractured into autonomous regions, including the self-declared and fiercely independent northern Somaliland.

The northeast Puntland region cut ties with central government in a furious row earlier in August, while in the far south self-declared leaders of the Jubaland region defy Mogadishu’s authority.

The al-Shabaab too remain powerful, despite losing a string of key towns and leaders carrying out bloody purges of rivals.

Suicide attacks on a United Nations (UN) compound in June demonstrated al-Shabaab’s ability to strike at the heart of the capital’s most secure areas.

UN monitoring group reports in July estimated the al-Shabaab is still about 5,000 strong, and remains the "principal threat to peace and security to Somalia".

Multiple armies fight for control of southern Somalia, including rival warlords, Islamist extremists and a rag-tag national army backed by the 17,700-strong African Union (AU) force.

Aid workers are struggling to contain a dangerous outbreak of the crippling polio virus, with the UN warning that while more than 100 cases have been recorded there are "probably thousands more with the virus".

Compounding the problem is an almost impossible environment for aid workers.

"Acceptance of violence against health workers has permeated Somali society," Mr Karunakara said.

"This acceptance is now shared by many armed groups and many levels of civilian government, from clan elders to district commissioners to the federal Somali government." Over 1-million Somalis are refugees in surrounding nations and another million are displaced inside the country, often in terrible conditions, with the UN warning of "pervasive" sexual violence.

Investigations were launched last week after a Somali woman alleged she was gang-raped by AU troops and Somali soldiers.

Progress in Somalia is relative, but steps forward have been taken since the 2011 famine that struck large parts of the south of the country, including in camps in the capital.

"The gains are fragile, however, and the magnitude of the crisis remains enormous," UN humanitarian co-ordinator Philippe Lazzarini said, adding that more than 2.7-million Somalis were still dependent on aid.

Somaliland re-opens airport at Hargeisa + 3D PHOTOS

Written by  Piers Evans

Republic of Somaliland, in east Africa, has completed a renovation of the runway at Egal International Airport (HGA), which serves its ‘capital’ Hargeisa.

Hargeisa Egal airport has re-opened with a revamped 2.4km runway and expanded terminals.

Ethiopian Airlines will now restart daily flights from Addis Ababa, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation & Air Transport in Somaliland.

For almost a year, all international flights to the autonomous region in Somalia have been through Berbera Airport (BBO).

The revamped Egal airport can now cater for larger aircraft and features improved air control equipment, according to local media reports.

Five wind turbines have also been installed to help power the gateway.

The refurbishment was funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development ($4.4m), the Somaliland government ($1.5m) and USAID ($800,000).

Kuwait Fund has also paid to overhaul Berbera Airport, which is set to open a new terminal on November 15.

In July, Somaliland reached an agreement with Somalia over the control of its airspace, according to a spokesperson for Somaliland’s aviation ministry.

By the end of 2013 the UN is set to relinquish control of Somalia and Somaliland’s airspace.

Both governments will appoint members to a technical committee, based in Hargeisa, to take over administration.

Source: www.airport-world.com

Somaliland's International Book Fair: A haven of jollity and calm

THE still unrecognised republic of Somaliland has been parading its de facto independence from its battered bigger brother, Somalia, with an international book fair in its self-styled capital, Hargeisa. Along with the reopening of a revamped international airport, the fair was intended to show the world that Somaliland is open for business, especially with the West.

At the jamboree, the literary talents of Somaliland were on display. Though Nadifa Mohamed, a novelist listed among Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists for 2013”, was not there this year, her latest work, “The Orchard of Lost Souls”, recently published in London, was much mentioned. A largely British foreign line-up included Michela Wrong, author of books on Congo, Eritrea and Kenya; Mary Harper, author of “Getting Somalia Wrong”; a Scots poet and translator, W.N. Herbert; a Nigerian, Chuma Nwokolo; and a Kenyan poet, Phyllis Muthoni. Cheers and ululations in a packed auditorium greeted Hadraawi, Somaliland’s national poet.

The fair, now in its sixth year, is the brainchild of two diaspora Somalilanders, Jama Musse Jama, a businessman based in Italy, and Ayan Mahamoud, who lives in London, where she has run an annual Somali Week festival for several years. Prominent among the sponsors of the Hargeisa event were a number of “frontier” private-equity funds interested in oil and mineral rights. One of its unstated aims was to persuade Westerners that Somaliland is safe and stable. Compared with Somalia, whose capital, Mogadishu, is still periodically clobbered by suicide-bombers, dusty, bustling Hargeisa seems a haven of jollity and calm.

Source: economist.com

United State: From Spying on "Terrorists Abroad" to Suppressing Domestic Dissent: When We Become the Hunted

Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyer's Guild. (Photo: City Lights Books)

By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview
If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read what Michael German, senior policy counsel for the ACLU (and former FBI agent), says about the new book, Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance:
Heidi Boghosian's 'Spying on Democracy' is the answer to the question, 'If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you care if someone's watching you?' It's chock full of stories about how innocent people's lives were turned upside-down by public and private-sector surveillance programs. But more importantly, it shows how this unrestrained spying is inevitably used to suppress the most essential tools of democracy: the press, political activists, civil rights advocates and conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and government abuse.
Truthout recently spoke with Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, about the ever-expanding government/corporate surveillance state.
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Mark Karlin: Aren't we at a juncture in history where we've arrived at a perfect storm for nearly unrestricted surveillance in the United States? We have the political cover of keeping America "safe from terrorism" to justify the surveillance state. We have technology so advanced that few people cannot be monitored and tracked unless they are hermits hidden in caves. We have a corporate sector that increasingly depends on data mining for marketing and increasing profitability. And we have a rising tide of rebellion against the financial status quo, which the state has an interest in suppressing on behalf of the economic elites.
Heidi Boghosian: The confluence of circumstances enabling mass surveillance has the potential to permanently imperil Americans' civil liberties. How we respond will determine whether we continue to function as a democracy.
Several other factors add to the urgency of this challenge: The Obama administration is on the defensive after Edward Snowden's disclosures and will likely invest even more resources to protect its perpetual "war on terror" campaign and the corporate partners that profit from this manufactured war. As the public, and certain legislators, express apprehension about mass surveillance, the executive branch and the NSA may enact more stringent measures to fortify and safeguard their highly sophisticated spying infrastructure.
On top of that, CEOs of telecommunications and defense companies such as Lockheed Martin, Verizon and Microsoft are allied with the administration, guiding telecommunications and anti-terrorism policies through the president's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. And in addition to the lucrative business of data mining, corporations continue to adapt and refine technologies of war, from laser microphones to motion sensing capabilities, with which to monitor civilians.
Mark Karlin: Of course, we also have the "feed the beast" phenomenon that we have with the military-industrial complex. There are now so many US agencies and private contractors with a financial interest in the surveillance industry that it has the lobbying power to grow exponentially. How many individuals are approximately employed in the government-corporate surveillance behemoth? How important and approximately how many private companies have a stake in surveillance dollars?
Heidi Boghosian: We have created an entire new class of society that gathers and has access to classified information - an elite class that promises to grow as private companies seek increased revenue and as the government operates in unparalleled secrecy.
The majority of national intelligence, an astonishing 70 percent, is carried out by contractors. That translates into tens of thousands of analysts from more than 1,900 private firms who have performed intelligence functions over the past few years. Large contractors conduct most of the work, including Booz Allen Hamilton (which according to The New York Times, derived $1.3 billion in revenue from intelligence contracts), Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation (with 39,600 employees, a reported $11.17 billion in revenue as of 2013, and a recent $6.6 billion contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency).
In 2012, an estimated 1.1 million private contractors had security clearance. The number of federal employees with security clearance is 2.6 million.
Mark Karlin: Historically, the U.S. government and local and state governments have used law enforcement agencies to suppress dissent. We have seen this in almost every era: Those who challenge the established financial order, in particular, are subject to surveillance. We are seeing the increased criminalization of protesting, whether it be the Occupy Movement, environmental protests, animal abuse protesters (you cover spying on critical mass bicyclists in NYC), etc. How easy is it to shift the surveillance data and information that the US and its contractors are assembling into focusing it on those who exercise First Amendment rights to challenge the status quo?
Heidi Boghosian: Not only is it easy for the US and its contractors to focus on activists, it is imperative that they do so. They must target social advocates in order to justify maintaining their budgets and their livelihoods. There are simply not enough "terrorists" in existence for the government to warrant the current level of intelligence spending. As a result, enormous federal resources are devoted to identifying and tracking activists who are portrayed as "extremists." Individuals who have helped bring about changes in corporate policies, such as animal rights or environmental advocates, are labeled domestic terrorist threats by the FBI.
The more individuals the security industry can identify as posing a national security threat - often based on tenuous, inaccurate or misleading information - the more it becomes possible to secure sizable government contracts.
The catch-all "anarchist extremist" can describe many individuals who challenge the status quo. Law enforcement circulated a list with photographs of "known anarchists" in 2004 before the Republican National Convention in New York. An unclassified DHS-FBI Intelligence Bulletin received much media coverage during the 2012 political conventions; it warned of possible increased risk of violence and property damage by anarchist extremists, arousing fear among local residents and businesses. FBI agents persist in circulating lists of alleged anarchists and visiting their friends, families and colleagues to frighten and harass politically active individuals and to create threats where none exist.
Mark Karlin: Explain the significance of the recent revelation that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was using secret surveillance data supplied to it by other agencies and not informing defendants or their counsel of the existence of the secret monitoring or information as the origin of the DEA charges.
Heidi Boghosian: This is precisely why we cannot trust the administration when officials say they are only using data for specific reasons. Secrecy is not compatible with the rule of law or with democracy.
The DEA's Special Operations Division's routine use of NSA information to initiate cases (and then backtracking and lying about how cases began) illustrates just one of the many possible ways that information gathered covertly may be used to contravene the laws of this nation. Hiding evidence gathered secretly violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable government searches and seizures and also impugns due process requirements of a fair trial. This shows how secrecy inherently corrupts a fair judicial process. And there are many other ways that covertly gathered personal data may be misused.Mark Karlin: Much has been made by the Obama administration of alleging Edward Snowden has done great damage to the surveillance state by revealing its illegal and Foreign Intelligence Service Act-authorized activities and massive information database. But if such a large number of people allegedly are involved in surveillance activities, isn't data kept on us and those around the world at risk of leaking to foreign governments and private global corporations? Isn't this "top secret" information vulnerable to being obtained in parts or whole by parties other than the government for uses that have nothing to with "preventing terrorism"?
Heidi Boghosian: As more individuals are entrusted with access to and oversight of vast troves of personal data, this information necessarily becomes more vulnerable to misuse, whether by the parties gathering and analyzing it or by foreign governments and private multinational corporations. Because this data literally contains information related to people's entire lives, it is ripe for bullying, blackmail, threats or other improper uses.
But this "top secret" information is already being used by our own government for reasons that have little to do with combating threats to national security. Ownership of this information affords the administration unlimited power to suppress dissent, inhibit free speech and intimidate would-be critics into adhering to the status quo.
Stored data is vulnerable in the future as well. We cannot know now what activities the government may elect to stigmatize or criminalize years from now. Having access to stored data means that currently benign information may be assigned sinister meaning long after it was collected.
Recall that J. Edgar Hoover wielded enormous powerful because his FBI agents gathered information that he stored in secret dossiers on key politicians for nearly five decades. Presidents despised him but wouldn't fire him because he knew the intimate details of their personal and political lives and could use it to ruin their careers.Mark Karlin: Just continuing on this concept of inherent vulnerability built into the NSA and the other government and private agencies doing US authorized surveillance work, doesn't the alleged hacking into the Pentagon database and other sites by the Chinese government generate serious implications that the US cannot protect its data, given rapid advances in technology?
Heidi Boghosian: No system is completely secure. There is only one surefire way to safeguard data, and that's by not collecting and storing it in the first place. The more data that the NSA and other government and private intelligence agencies amass about us, the more vulnerable we are, as individuals and as a nation. This underscores the dangers of secrecy. If there was a massive data breach, corporations and the government would not inform the public. They would hide it. We would be none the wiser, and our overall security would be greatly compromised. The less data that private security companies collect, the less money they make. The current dynamic is to sustain and grow the private surveillance industry; as a result, mistakes will be covered up.
Mark Karlin: Given the fascination of US consumers with new technology, isn't technological surveillance going to continue to have new products that will enable it to tighten its grip even further on monitoring individuals?
Heidi Boghosian: Technology cuts both ways: that which protects privacy and that which destroys privacy. Edward Snowden's disclosures will hopefully spark a public backlash against the model pioneered by Google, Apple and other corporations, namely, personal data in exchange for free services. People should start to recognize that when something is offered for free, the customer/user becomes the product.Mark Karlin: What are the threats to a free press, even the mainstream media, in recent Obama administration use of surveillance information to threaten prosecution and to intimidate journalists?
Heidi Boghosian: Radical changes in media ownership, coupled with the Obama administration's penchant for secrecy and control of information, pose a formidable threat to the possibility of a free press - the ability of the media to be independent of the government.The administration's unprecedented attacks on whistleblowers and members of the media have impeded the ability of investigative journalists to cultivate new sources, causing Jane Mayer of The New Yorker to proclaim that "investigative reporting has come to a standstill."
Those writers who do engage in investigative journalism, such as Associated Press reporters or James Rosen from Fox News, are spied on and may be accused of being co-conspirators in felonies for communicating with confidential sources. New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen was monitored and subpoenaed after exposing President George W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program and publishing State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.
The mainstream press is now part of the corporate-government system. Anyone who doubts the alignment between the media and government should be reminded that Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, bought The Washington Post, was awarded a 10-year, $600 million cloud computing contract with the CIA.
With the creation of the Department of Homeland Security came more ways for the government to collect and retain personal information about members of the press. The DHS Office of Operations Coordination and Planning and the Media Monitoring Initiative of the DHS National Operations Center are authorized to gather and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors and others who use traditional or social media in real time.
These examples are part of a history of threatening journalists and the independent press. From 1971 to 1978, the FBI's COINTELPRO targeted alternative newspapers with the goal of shutting them down. Banks routinely handed over financial records for these papers and their subscribers; from 1971 to 1978, the number of alternative publications declined from more than 400 to 65, as a direct result of customer and printer harassment, infiltration, wiretaps and even bomb threats.
Mark Karlin: Is there a chance that the surveillance-state story that has evolved is so massive that people won't be able to comprehend the extent of how the government is amassing information that can be used to control its citizens? There are so many forms of surveillance - and such obfuscation from the White House and the surveillance industry - that it's hard to get one's hands around the specifics. On top of that, let's not forget that we - as citizens - know only what we know. We don't know what is still secret.
Heidi Boghosian: We can never know the true extent to which the government is amassing information, given that the nature of intelligence gathering is covert, but we can begin to surmise the scope. Knowing what we do know, we have a duty to reign in an overreaching government and its corporate partners. Frank Church, chairman of the Church Committee that investigated surveillance abuses in the 1970s, predicted that the NSA could be used to control the citizenry: "The [National Security Agency's] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, andno American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter."
Mark Karlin: Given the history of the National Lawyers Guild in defending protesters exercising their constitutional rights against a government that historically suppresses dissent that threatens the elite status quo, are you in any way optimistic that the surveillance state can be slowed down or rolled back?
Heidi Boghosian: The power of the people united against government and corporate abuse is the most resilient power in the world. Revolutions rippling across the globe, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to protests in Turkey, make clear that the vast majority of people are dissatisfied with the global system and are ready, and able, to resist. Because of this, I am optimistic that we can curtail the surveillance state.
To do so we must first end the war-on-terror campaign. James Madison noted that "no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare," and it is apparent that the current perpetual war on terror is indeed thinning our lifeblood, namely our freedoms. This perpetual war is as much a failure as the government's ill-conceived and costly war on drugs, initiated during the Nixon administration.We must also restore transparency to government.
At the bleakest moments in our past, whether in the labor or civil rights movements, people persevered against overwhelming odds. The challenges facing us now are: will we, the people, elect to harness our collective power to curb a mass surveillance state that infringes on our privacy and our constitutional rights? Will we demand transparency and accountability from government agencies? Will we respect the Supreme Court decisions affording corporations the same rights as people, or will we demand that the law protect human rights and not the property interests of an elite few?
I hope we will do all this and more - people power is limited only by one's imagination, and history has proven humanity to be eminently resourceful, creative and persistent in the face of injustice.

GAASHAANLE SARE ABDI ADEN MAGAN OO UU ADEER U AHAA MAXAMED SIYAAD BARE OO MAXKAMADI KU XUKUNTAY US$15 MILYAN OO MAGDHAW XADGUD XUQUUQ AADAMIGA AH OO UU GAYSTAY AWGEED

 
Garsooraha Maxkamada Federaalka Maraykanka oo magaalada Columbus ayaa ku xukumay 15 milyan oo dollar oo magdhow ah in uu bixiyo Gaashaanle Sare Abdi Aden Magan oo uu adeer u ahaa Madaxwaynihii Digtatorka ahaa ee Somalia Maxamed Siyaad Bare

Go'aanka maxkamadan ayaa waxa si wayn u soo dhaweeyay guud ahaan difaacayaasha iyo ururada xuquuqda aadamiga ee dunida oo dhan, kuwaasi oo ku tilmaamay xukun taariikhi ah.

Qareenka Dhibanaha dacwadan Abukar Hassan Ahmed oo lagu magacaabo Christina G. Hioureas, ayaa daqiiqado kadib markii maxkamadu ku dhawaaqday go'aankan saxaafada u sheegtay "go'aankan maxkamadu waxa uu daboolka ka qaaday in dalka Maraykanku aanu noqonaynin dal gabaad u noqda dadka gaysta xadgudubyada xuquuqda aadamiga"

Iyadoo hadalkeeda sii wadata Christina G. Hioureas, waxay intaasi raacisay " go'aankani waxa uu fariin adag u dirayaa kuwa gaystay gabood falada xuquuqda aadamiga in sharcigu qabandoono."

Garsoore lagu magacaabo George C. Smith oo ka tirsan maxkamada degmo Maraykanka ah ayaa sanadkii tagay ku helay sarkaal sare oo ka tirsanaan jiray ciidamadii Nabadsugida Somalia oo lagu magacaabo Abdi Aden Magan, kaasi oo markii dambe degay Columbus, in uu jidhdil u gaystay Abukar Hassan Ahmed dabayaaqadii sanadihii sideetamaadkii (1980s). Abdi Aden Magan ayaa xukuumadii Mirataniga Somalia ee uu hogaamin jiray Kali Taliye General Maxamed Siyaad Barre ka ahaa Taliyaha Hogaanka Baadhista Ciidanka Nabadsugida Somalia, iyadoo uu Siyaad Bare u ahaa adeer.

Dhibane Abukar Hassan Ahmed oo macalin ka ahaa Kuliyada Sharciga ee Jaamacadii Somalia kuna dhashay caasimada Somalia ayaa sheegay in Colonel Abdi Aden Magan in uu ku xidhay Muqdisho sanadkii 1988 kadib markii uu ku arkay isagoo sita warbixin ay soo saartay Hay'ada Amnesty International oo ka hadlaysay tacadiyada baahsan ee xukuumada Somalia ay ka wado Gobolada Waqooyiga Somalia, Colonel Magan ayaa ku xidhay qol yar oo ciriiri ah isagoo labada gacmoodna katiinad kaga xidhay halkaasi oo uu ku xiraa mudo seddex bilood ah, dhibane Abukar waxa uu sheegay in uu seexan jiray sibidhka dushiisa, kuna kaaji jiray daasada caanahu ka madheen, isla markaasina uu ay cunto u siin jireen maalintii oo dhan labo xabo oo rooti ah .

Colonel Magan ayaa ugu hanjabay in uu qudha ka jari doono waxanu ku amray saraakiisha xabsigu in ay garaacaan Profosser Abukar waxana ay ku ciijin jireen xadhig, iyagoo kalbad kaga qaban jiray xiniinyahiisa waxana ay afkiisa ku qulaamin jireen biyo, ciid iyo dhagaxaan yar yar oo ay isku qaseen askarta xabsiga ku haysay iyadoo si khasab ah loo cabsiin jiray.




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http://hornwatch4rights.blogspot.com/2013/08/good-news-for-all-somali-speaking.html

WAR DEGDEG AH: DABLEY HUBEYSAN OO MUQDISHO KU DHAAWACAY HAWEENEY SWEDAN AH, KUNA DILAY 2 KA MID AH ILAALADEEDA – DAAWO SAWIRADA WEERARKAN

 

Kooxo hubeysan ayaa degmada Hodan ee magaalada Muqdisho ku dilay Wiil Turjumaan ahaa iyo Askari ka tirsan ciidamada dowlada Soomaaliya, iyagoona dhaawac u geystay Haweney u dhalay dalka Sweden.
Weerarka ayaa ka dhacay agagaarka Jaamacada Soomaaliya gaar ahaan qeybta ay ka degen tahay aggaarka isgoyska MK4 ee magaalada Muqdisho, waxaana haweeneyda u dhalatay Sweden la sheegay inay halkaas ka bxsay Cashar ku saabsan dowlada wanaaga.

Falkan weerarka ah ayaa dhacay xilli haweeneydaas ay kasoo bexeysay ilinka hore ee jaamacada Soomaaliya, waxaana ilaa iminka la xaqiijiyay geerida wiilka Turjumanka ahaa iyo Askri ka tirsan ciidamada dowlada, halka haweeneyda Sweden -ka kasoo jeeda uu dhaawac soo gaaray.

Mid ka mid ah Ardayda dhigata  Jaamacada Soomaaliya ayaa sheegay in falka markii uu dhacay kadib ay goobta soo gaareen ciidamo ka tirsan Dowladda Soomaaliya,iyadoo goobta ay xireen baaritaanana ay sameeyeen.

Kooxihii dilka Geystay ayaa durba meesha ka baxsaday,waxaana la ogeyn sababta ka dambeysay dilka loo geestay turjumaanka iyo askari iyo sidoo kale dhaawaca haweenaydaasi.

Daawo Sawirrada Weerarkan

Elmore Leonard, crime novelist, dies aged 87

 

Leonard suffered a stroke earlier this month in Detroit

US crime writer Elmore Leonard, author of such books as Get Shorty, Maximum Bob and Out of Sight, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.

A statement on his official website said he had died on Tuesday morning "surrounded by his loving family".
The author of 45 novels, Leonard had been in the process of writing his 46th.
Author Patricia Cornwell paid tribute, saying he was "one of the true icons of crime literature and entertainment".

She added he would be "hugely missed".

Leonard suffered a stroke earlier this month in Detroit and had been in hospital. He died at his home in the city's Bloomfield Village suburb.

British author Ian Rankin called Leonard "a great writer". "Gave me a few tips once," he wrote on Twitter. "I ignored most of them."

Journalist and author Tony Parsons also remembered Leonard as a "great writer" whose books would "never die".

Born in New Orleans in 1925, Leonard started out writing western stories before turning to crime fiction in the 1960s.

Renowned for his terse, no-nonsense style and sparse use of dialogue, his works inspired numerous screen adaptations.

Hombre, 3.10 to Yuma, Get Shorty and Rum Punch were among those filmed, the latter by Quentin Tarantino under the title Jackie Brown.

One of his more heroic characters, US Marshal Raylan Givens, inspired the TV series Justified, while his 1978 novel The Switch was filmed this year as Life of Crime.

Yet Leonard was not always impressed by how his books were adapted, being particularly dismayed by the two films made of his 1969 novel The Big Bounce.

"I wanted to see my books made into good movies, but for some reason they'd just be lame," he once said.

"At first that sort of thing frustrated me, but I've since learnt to live with it."

His 10 Rules of Writing, published in 2001, contained such salutary admonishments as "never open a book with weather" and "keep your exclamation points under control".

"I always start with the characters," he revealed in 2004. "I get to page 300 and I start thinking about the ending."

The same year he wrote A Coyote's In the House, a book for children about a coyote who befriends some canine performers in Hollywood.

His many accolades included the F Scott Fitzgerald award in 2008 and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.

He received a further lifetime achievement prize last year, presented at America's National Book Awards.

Crime writer Mark Billingham paid tribute to Leonard, describing him "as one of the greats. A crime writer whose work made it abundantly clear that a mystery novel or a western could have literary merit. He was flat out one of the best writers of dialogue that has ever lived and one of the very best when it came to writing about writing.

"His 10 Rules Of Writing are indispensable to any serious writer. They should be pinned above the desk of anyone who calls themselves a writer. My favourite of the rules is 'try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip'. Nobody ever skipped a word reading an Elmore Leonard novel."

Fellow writer Peter James also paid tribute: "He was a fabulous writer and a diamond of a guy. I was privileged to have had dinner with him a few years ago in Italy, and we slunk away outside a few times for sneaky ciggies!

"I told him how much I loved his work, but every time I re-read Get Shorty I could not get John Travolta out of my mind as Chili Palmer. In his wonderful, quiet, laconic voice, Elmore said to me, 'You know Peter, I have another problem with John Travolta. Every time I meet him I can't think of anything to say to him!'

"He gave me a grin that said it all. I know would a million times over who I'd rather have dinner with. And I'm sad that now I'll never have another chance."

Michael Morrison, president and publisher of HarperCollins, said: "It feels not in keeping with Elmore's 'no fuss' persona to try to pay tribute to this great man. But Elmore was a true legend - unpretentious, unbelievably talented and the coolest dude in the room....

"All of us at HarperCollins will miss working with this national treasure and one of our favourite authors of all time."

Leonard's editor William Morrow, of publishers David Highfill, said: "There was, is, and will be only one Elmore Leonard. He was the most original in this prolific age of American crime fiction, the original jazz man.
"His voice - sly, gentle, funny, often startling, always human - will speak to readers for generations to come through Ray Givens, Jack Foley, Chili Palmer and so many other unforgettable characters. I miss him already."

Leonard is survived by five children, all from his first marriage, as well as 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He divorced his third wife Christine last year.

Egyptian Court Orders Release of Hosni Mubarak & Egypt prosecutor detains Mursi for 15 days in new case: report

CAIRO(Reuters) — An Egyptian court Wednesday ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak, providing another potential flash point in a country reeling from unprecedented political violence.

Contrary Egypt's public prosecutor ordered on Monday the detention of deposed President Mohamed Mursi for 15 days pending an investigation into allegations he participated in "violent acts", state news agency MENA said. On Thursday, Egyptian judicial authorities extended Mursi's detention period for 30 days in a separate case.

Mursi, who was overthrown by the army on July 3, is being held at an undisclosed location on allegations of murder and spying. The new case centers on protests that took place in front of the presidential palace last December, MENA said. 

Back to Hosni Mubarak tale, a judge in Cairo said there were no legal grounds to hold the 85-year-old former autocrat under allegations of corruption related to gifts he had received from a state publishing house while in office. As part of a settlement, Mr. Mubarak repaid the state several million dollars for the gifts, which included watches and jewelry. 

Prosecutors Have 48 Hours to Challenge Decision

Prosecutors have 48 hours under Egyptian law to challenge the judge's decision. In a statement, the prosecutor general's office said it couldn't appeal the judge's decision to release Mr. Mubarak because he had paid restitution.

The judge's decision comes as opponents of Egypt's new interim government continue their weekslong protests against the military's ouster of Mohammed Morsi , Mr. Mubarak's successor and Egypt's first freely elected president. More than 1,000 people have died in internecine political violence over the past six weeks, the deadliest episode of political change in Egypt's modern history.

For many Egyptians, Mr. Mubarak's release will act as a symbol of a resurgent old order, 2½ years after Egypt's tumultuous revolution began. Mr. Morsi, an Islamist and stalwart opponent of Mr. Mubarak, is currently in jail.

Mr. Mubarak's draconian emergency law that Mr. Morsi's supporters rolled back was renewed last week, and the country's military is once again managing the affairs of state from behind the scenes.
As Mr. Mubarak prepares to leave prison, Egypt's interim government is continuing to round up leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood that Mr. Mubarak long suppressed. Just Tuesday, police detained the once-powerful organization's leader, Mohammed Badie .

Mr. Mubarak still faces a retrial on capital charges of murdering protesters during the early 2011 uprising that ousted him. But the court determined on Monday that Mr. Mubarak was eligible for release because his custody period exceeds the allowable two years under Egyptian law.
—Leila Elmergawi contributed to this article.

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By MATT BRADLEY, TAMER EL-GHOBASHY AND Tom Perry and Shadia Nasralla; editing by Crispian Balmer

Finding Hope in Somalia

 

By Michael Shank

As Doctors Without Borders announced last week that they're quitting Somalia after 20-plus years in the country due to an increase in violent attacks, the need for new solutions to this crisis is key. The answer to the rebel group al-Shabaab's growth in Somalia, as I discovered this month while visiting Mogadishu, can be found in the women and youth.
Sound like an oversimplification of a sophisticated counter-terrorism problem? Perhaps. But there's a reason why the military response – as witnessed by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) presence throughout the country – has yet to put a stop to al-Shabaab. Armed attacks by AMISOM will only go so far in stopping armed attacks by al-Shabaab.

The real way to prevent any growth of the "Shabaab" – which, not coincidentally, means youth in Arabic – is through Somalia's youth and Somali mothers. So how will it work? As I visited various women and youth organizations doing outreach, training and empowerment throughout the country – from the Somali National Women's Organization to the Coalition for Grassroots Women Organizations to the Somali Youth Development Network – what became clear is that this critical constituency is the underfunded and under-pursued answer to countering al-Shabaab.

What I heard consistently and categorically from the women and youth above, who are courageously working to build a sustainable peace in Somalia, was that the United States wasn't supporting this important work. This is disappointing given how much the State Department and USAID emphasize the importance of empowering women, especially in Muslim countries.


The women, however, remain undeterred and continue the fight in the trenches irrespective of the violence around them. While visiting with one of Somalia's great female politicians and peace activists, Asha Elmi, who happens to be married to the Prime Minister of Somalia and who has been featured for her work to bring dignity to the women of Somalia's refugee camps, she is absolutely convinced the answer lies with the mothers.

A mother loses all influence with her child, said Elmi, after she is unable to put food on the table. Considering that Somali kids are being recruited by al-Shabaab for as little as a gift of a cell phone, a mother's ability to put food on the table is priceless. Walking through the streets of Mogadishu, not only was the poverty painfully apparent, but so too were the high numbers of youth aimlessly roaming with nothing to do. Easy pickings, then, for opposition groups keen to recruit among these disenfranchised youth.

As part of a sustained effort to improve a mother's ability to put food on the table, Somalia's female activists have made significant political headway but still have a ways to go. Somalia's constitution allocates 30 percent of the seats in parliament, but women currently fill only 12 percent of the seats – due, in part, to lack of political campaigning precedent and infrastructure.

Elmi and others reiterated the need for the international community to support women in Somalia in even the smallest of ways. Since United Nations Special Representatives to Somalia and the international community's ambassadors to Somalia have historically been men, the message being sent is one that undermines local efforts to empower capacity and promote gender equality. That must change, say Somali women on the ground, if a stable Somalia is the desired goal.

A stable Somalia's main sticking point, however, is with the youth, since they compose the large majority of the al-Shabaab fighters. The Somali Youth Development Network is working with youth at risk of being recruited by al-Shabaab, providing religious counseling, training in marketable and employable skills, help with trauma healing (for those that have witnessed violence) and rehabilitation (for those that have already engaged in violence). Reintegrating these at-risk youth back into the mainstream is no easy task.

In a meeting, the Minister of Interior noted that $18 million has been set aside, provided by the international community, to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate 3,000 former al-Shabaab fighters (most of them youth), and that 700 have successfully gone through the program. With an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 al-Shabaab fighters in total, a doubling of the available funds seems very doable. The key question is, will the international community commit to it.

Beyond rehabilitation and reintegration of youth, however, the necessary long-term work is in conflict mitigation and violence prevention, as SOYDEN has emphasized. On mitigation, they support 15-member peace committees in all of Mogadishu's 16 districts, capable of dealing with conflicts before they turn violent. Let's help them scale that up nationally. On prevention, they emphasize that it's all about jobs and socio-economic development. They couldn't be more right.

One elder minister of the parliament – as he walked me through Mogadishu's destroyed downtown infrastructure, once a beautiful colonnade of colonial-era buildings – said the answer lay here in the ruins. Why wasn't the international community helping Somalia rebuild itself, instead of throwing so much money at drones, air strikes and AMISOM military? That would provide jobs, tens of thousands of them, for years to come and for much less funding. Again, yes.

As the power outages, the dusty, muddy and potholed roads, the pervasive waste and sewage and the thousands of internally displaced persons indicated, Somalia now needs to be rebuilt and there are youth ready and willing to do it. Somalia's peace lies in Somalia's future. Time to help them put food on the table.
Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the director of foreign policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.