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Somalia Politics Business and Love Problems!New report about Somalia politics business and love at the bottom of the page. Page last updated Friday March 25, 2005
They are just delivering their impacts into the recent situation. So the country knows no rest for a long time. Somalia politics business and love problems! If you do have any comment, or if you want to write about these issues, use the form at: Politics Business and Love! Somalia politics business and love! While the Somali opposition was working to topple Barry using a democratic measures, I was writing about Somalia politics business and love! and publishing news and analyses about this issue in Al-Watan Newspaper in Kuwait. Seyad Barry's embassy in Kuwait was not pleased and the embassador office contacted the editor-in-chief so many times to stop writing about the dictatorial military regime in Somalia. The Embassador himself visited the Newspaper in his luxurious automobile (I was in my office looking at it through the window) and requested to meet me to discuss this issue. The editor-in-chief knew that will get me into trouble so he declared to "his excellency" that I was not working in the newspaper main office but I was corresponding from London. Unfortunately, I was taking care of one of my Somali fiends family that time while he was somewhere in the world, so that came to the embassador's ears. Somalia politics business and love! I continued writing sincerely about this issue and conducted some interviews with some Somalis who were living in Kuwait in good positions. Somalia politics business and love! The embassy forgot about this issue after, as it seemed that it collected the information needed about me and then engagedin the Somalia politics business and love problems that were flowing the country. The following news are from the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), which is part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Somalia politics business and love!  
Somalia politics business and love!Somalia: Hundreds flee violence near Kismayo! [ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Nairobi, 20 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - Some 500 people fleeing factional fighting near the southern Somali port city of Kismayo crossed the border into Kenya at the end of last week and are now living with local communities on the Kenyan side of the frontier, a spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday. Most of the Somalis came from the village of Dhobley, not far from the border, and entered Kenya through the border town of Liboi on Friday and early Saturday, UNHCR spokesman Emmanuel Nyabera told IRIN. A UNHCR assessment team that visited the area at the weekend found that five families had settled with local families around Liboi, while another 300-500 people had been accommodated by the local community in a village called Dadaj Bulla, Nyabera said. The refugees told the UNHCR they were willing to go back home once the security situation improved in Dhobley. A local journalist in Kismayo told IRIN by telephone that many dwellings in Dhobley were burned down during last week's fighting that pitted forces of the Juba Valley Alliance, the faction that controls Kismayo, against those loyal to warlord General Muhammad Sa'id Hirsi "Morgan". Another source said that fighting had stopped and that some families which fled the violence had started returning to their homes. "Many people who left the villages of Bulo Haji, Halima A'dey and Hosingo are returning," he said. In another development, the newly formed Somali parliament has postponed the election of the country's president, which had been scheduled for 22 September, to10 October, saying the candidates needed more time to prepare for the elections. The president will be elected by members of the Somali transitional federal parliament. Last week, the members of parliament elected businessman Shariff Hassan Sheikh Adan as the assembly's speaker. The Somali National Charter, adopted by delegates at a reconciliation conference in September 2003, mandates the speaker to preside over the election of the president, who in turn appoints a prime minister who will then form a government. Once the federal government is fully constituted, it will move to Mogadishu and embark on its challenging mandate of rehabilitation and the restoration of law and order in a country ravaged by factional warfare since 1991, when the regime of Muhammad Siyad Barre was toppled. Somalia politics business and love problems!  Somalia politics business and love! SOMALIA: Calm in the south after factional violence near Kismayo! [ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Somalia politics business and love problems! Nairobi, 21 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - Southern Somalia's port city of Kismayo was reported calm on Tuesday following last week's fighting between two rival armed factions in the surrounding areas, residents said. "There has been no fighting anywhere in the Juba Valley since Saturday," a source told IRIN by telephone from Kismayo. The city is situated in the Juba Valley area. He said that most of the people who fled their villages near Kismayo had returned to their homes. Those who fled included an estimated 500 people who crossed the border into Kenya at the end of last week and who are now living with local communities on the Kenyan side of the frontier. Most of the Somalis came from the village of Dhobley, not far from the border, and entered Kenya through the border town of Liboi on Friday and early Saturday, UNHCR spokesman Emmanuel Nyabera told IRIN on Monday. He said most of them had expressed willingness to go back to their home area once calm had returned. The fighting pitted forces of the Juba Valley Alliance, the faction that controls Kismayo, against those loyal to General Muhammad Sa'id Hirsi "Morgan", who has made several attempts to capture the city in the recent past. Meanwhile, members of the newly created Somalia transitional federal parliament on Tuesday pledged to remain committed to the peace process. The MPs signed a peace declaration during a function to mark the International Day of Peace in the Kenya capital, Nairobi. Somalia politics business and love problems!  Somalia politics business and love! SOMALIA: Clashes reported in disputed Sool region! [ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Somalia politics business and love problems! Nairobi, 23 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - Troops from the self-declared republic of Somaliland and those of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland clashed on Wednesday in the disputed region of Sool, to which both sides have laid claim, a local source said. "A heavy exchange of gunfire took place around the village of Abeseoley [22 km north of the regional capital, Las Anod]," Muhammad Sa'id Kashwito, a journalist on the Bosaso-based Midnimo Radio, told IRIN on Thursday. He said reports from the area indicated that the fighting was between " reconnaissance units" from the two sides. It was not immediately clear what triggered the fighting or what the exact casualty figures were. Both sides blamed each other over the fighting. The regions of Sool and Sanag, in northern Somalia, geographically fall within the borders of pre-independence British Somaliland, but most of the area's inhabitants, the Warsangeli, Dhulbahante and Majerteen communities, who are members of the larger Darod clan, are associated with residents of Puntland. The timing of these clashes could not have come at worse time given the fact that residents of the area are suffering from the effects of the prolonged drought, a humanitarian source said. Tension between the two sides had been simmering since Puntland troops took total control of Las Anod, in December 2003. Before then, both sides had official representation in the town. Although no fighting was reported in the area on Thursday, both sides were said to have amassed troops on either side of the village of Ari Adey, 30 km west of Las Anod, Kashawito said. Ahmad Awad Ashara, a member of the newly created Somali transitional federal parliament, who hails from Puntland, the northeastern region of Somalia, told IRIN in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that he had heard about the fighting. "We have heard of the clashes, but we are reserving comment until we have the full details of the situation," he said. The official radio in Hargeisa, the Somaliland capital, quoted the defence ministry there as saying on Wednesday morning that forces from Puntland had launched attacks at "Somaliland National Army positions" in the village of Ari Adey. "Three wounded militiamen who were among those who launched the attack on the Somaliland forces were taken prisoner," the radio said. "Somaliland forces are now stationed 7 km away from the centre of Las Anod." Puntland leaders declared the region autonomous in 1998 with the aim of reconstituting Somalia as a federal republic. Northwestern Somaliland declared its independence from the rest of the country following the overthrow of the regime of Muhammad Siyad Barre in 1991. The region has remained relatively peaceful even as the rest of Somalia descended into anarchy and violence. Meanwhile, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard, on Wednesday urged forces fighting in the Lower Juba Region to immediately cease hostilities and seek a peaceful solution. "The current fighting in the area is seriously disrupting the humanitarian operations currently underway,” Gaylard said. “Unless the conflict can be stopped very soon, we could be witness to the kind of famine conditions experienced in 1992." Gaylard said he was also concerned that the conflict could lead to a larger-scale violence that might eventually spread to other areas of Somalia and put the latest achievement of the reconciliation and government formation process in jeopardy. Fighting broke out last week in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo between two rival armed factions in the surrounding areas. An estimated 500 people crossed the border into Kenya, mostly from Dhobley, not far from the border. The fighting pitted forces of the Juba Valley Alliance, the faction that controls Kismayo, against those loyal to General Muhammad Sa'id Hirsi "Morgan", who has made several attempts to capture the city in the recent past.  Somalia politics business and love! Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention A Historical bagground: The ancient Egyptians spoke of it as "God's Land" (the Land of Punt). Chinese merchants frequented the Somali coast in the tenth and fourteenth centuries and, according to tradition, returned home with giraffes, leopards, and tortoises to add color and variety to the imperial menagerie. Greek merchant ships and medieval Arab dhows plied the Somali coast; for them it formed the eastern fringe of Bilad as Sudan, "the Land of the Blacks." More specifically, medieval Arabs referred to the Somalis, along with related peoples, as the Berberi. By the eighteenth century, the Somalis essentially had developed their present way of life, which is based on pastoral nomadism and the Islamic faith. During the colonial period (approximately 1891 to 1960), the Somalis were separated into five mini-Somalilands: British Somaliland (north central); French Somaliland (east and southeast); Italian Somaliland (south); Ethiopian Somaliland (the Ogaden); and, what came to be called the Northern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya. In 1960 Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland were merged into a single independent state, the Somali Republic. In its first nine years the Somali state, although plagued by territorial disputes with Ethiopia and Kenya, and by difficulties in integrating the dual legacy of Italian and British administrations, remained a model of democratic governance in Africa; governments were regularly voted into and out of office. Taking advantage of the widespread public bitterness and cynicism attendant upon the rigged elections of early 1969, Major General Mahammad Siad Barre seized power on October 21, 1969, in a bloodless coup. Over the next twenty-one years Siad Barre established a military dictatorship that divided and oppressed the Somalis. Siad Barre maintained control of the social system by playing off clan against clan until the country became riven with interclan strife and bloodshed. Siad Barre's regime came to a disastrous end in early 1991 with the collapse of the Somali state. In the regime's place emerged armed clan militias fighting one another for political power. Siad Barre fled the capital on January 27, 1991, into the safety of his Mareehaan clan's territory in southern Somalia. Somalia politics business and love! Some more links: Sudan politics business and love! Eritrea politics business and love! Ethiopia politics business and love! Djibouti politics business and love! Wise Biz Marketing Newsletter! News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International Somalia politics business and love! AI Index: AFR 52/002/2005 17 March 2005 Somalia: Transitional government must address human rights issues in order to be viable As Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) embarks on a five-year plan to re-build the war-torn country after two years of peace talks and 14 years of state collapse, Amnesty International is making an urgent call for human rights to be made a priority. "Vital to the success of the transitional government and the establishment of the rule of law in Somalia will be to secure justice for victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity," said Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of the Africa Program of Amnesty International. "There must be an open and transparent process to start establishing the truth and responsibility for past crimes with a view to prosecutions once a competent and impartial justice system is in place." Fighting and political violence in Somalia continues and the stage for peace and reconciliation in the country is far from set. The country is beset by extreme poverty and years of civil wars have destroyed its infrastructure. A humanitarian emergency in several regions has been compounded by the tsunami which hit the north-east coast in December. The transitional government and parliament plan to relocate from Kenya to Somalia as soon as security permits. When it does, one of the most pressing issues will be how to address and punish the crimes and crimes against humanity committed by warlords who are now part of the government, without jeopardizing the government's viability. Critical first steps will be disbanding warlords' militia with the support of an African Union peacekeeping force, and creating new security forces which will respect human rights. "An impartial screening mechanism must keep perpetrators of crimes against international law out of the new security forces," Amnesty International urged. In its report, Somalia: Urgent need for effective human rights protection under the new transitional government, (full report online at Amnesty International Amnesty International calls on the TFG to take visible measures to protect and support human rights in the high-risk first year of the transition. These include rights to freedom of expression and opinion, fair trial, formation of political parties and non-governmental organisation (NGOs), humane treatment of prisoners; protection of human rights defenders; protection of humanitarian workers and NGOs; and protection of vulnerable groups, especially women, minorities, children and internally displaced persons. The TFG should support the creation of an independent National Human Rights Commission to monitor and promote human rights. Full report online at Amnesty International Somalia politics business and love! 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