Khaatumo: Some Advice For The Participants At The London Conference 1. You can never suppress the wishes of people and the people of Khaatumo State of Somalia have already decided their own destiny. Throughout history from ancient Egypt through fascism, communism and any other ism, the wishes of the people have always prevailed. Khaatumo State [...]
14 February 2012 – The smuggling and trafficking in innocent Somalis must end, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today, expressing deep shock over the recent boat disaster in the Gulf of Aden that resulted in the death of 11 people, while another 34 are still missing. Last week, survivors found on Somali [...]
The African Union High Representative for Somalia, former President J.J Rawlings, says Somalia is still at risk of renewed crisis if humanitarian aid is cut. This, he said, was despite the fact that the United Nations had downgraded the famine situation in Somalia. In an address at the second annual conference of the Centre for [...]
Turkish Red Crescent did not only send aid materials to Somalia but also aimed to give training to Somali people, he said. Turkish Red Crescent will open a nursing and health care professional school in famine-stricken Somalia. Ahmet Lutfi Akar, director general of the aid organization, told AA correspondent that they would establish a nursing [...]
ABU DHABI // The former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has stressed the urgent need for UAE financial aid to help with the crisis in Somalia. Speaking on the sidelines of the Centre for Technology and Economic Development conference in the capital yesterday, Mr Rawlings said: “Africa is Africa and you don’t turn down any [...]
With a friend like Faroole who needs a foe By O.Badawi The SSC had a history of making sacrifices for the Somali cause for which they paid heavily, got little in return and expected none. First was the Darwish campaigns against the British colonisers in which close to a million people died, directly or indirectly, [...]
The UK is pushing to take the international lead on tackling Somalia. To discuss this was Sheikh Mahamud Shiekh Dalmar — Former BBC World Service ‘Voice of Mogadishu’, Duale Yusuf Chair of Somali Youth Project & Peace in the Horn. Also Mohamed Elmi Chair, Somali Diaspora UK Daalacatey :1707
(CNN) — A boat carrying Somalis fleeing violence in their homeland capsized this week in the Gulf of Aden, leaving at least 11 people dead and another 34 missing, a U.N. agency said. The vessel carrying 58 people, and captained by three smugglers, had set off from Somalia destined for Yemen last Saturday, the United [...]
By Mark Anderson Feb 9 (Reuters) – The breakaway territory of Somaliland is battling its own secessionists in a dispute that has raised tensions with neighbouring Puntland, in an area of Somalia usually more peaceful than the rest of the country. The fighting first erupted in January after the leaders of the northern regions of [...]
BoocameOnline(UK) Somalia diaspora discuss issues that concern them, with Henry Bellingham MP, Minister for Africa, and Tim Hitchens, Africa Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in preparation for the UK’s Somalia conference. Daalacatey :1188