INAA LILAAH WA INAA ILEYHI RAAJICUUN:Anagoo Ka Tirsan Jaaliyada Reer Awdal Ee Ku Dhaqan Wadanka "Malaysia" Ee Cariga Asia, Waxaan Tacsi u Diraynaa Qoyskii & Qaraabadii & Asxaabtii Iyo Dhamaan Inta Ku Hadasha Afka Soomaaliga Amase Af Carabiga, Tacsidan Oo Ah Tacsi Lama Ilaawaan ah Qof Walboo Somali ah Maskaxdiisu Aysan Marnaba ka Maqnaani Doonin Ayuu Ahaa Alle ha u Naxariistee Marxuum XASAN SHEEKH MUUMIN GORAD.....
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Abdihakeem Ahmed Ali Miigane ( Cabdi Fadxi )
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Waxa Kale Oo Aan Tacsidan u Diraynaa Dhammaan Dadka Reer Awdal Iyo Ummada Somaaliyeed Oo Dhan Meel Kasta Oo Ay Joogaanba. Xasan Sheekh Mumnin Ma Uusan Ahayn Oo Keliya, Abwaan Ee Waxa Uu Ahaa Taariikhyahan, Aqoonyahan, Gabyaa Mu"alif, Iyo Hogaamiye Bulsho Oo Ay Adag Tahay Sida Loo Iloobi Karo Amase Lagaga Kaban Karo Marxuumka Illaahay Janadii Fardowza Ha Ka Waraabiyee Aamiin Aamiin Aamiin !!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Anagoo Ka Tirsan Jaaliyada Reer Awdal Ee Ku Dhaqan Wadanka "Malaysia"
Taariikhdiisii Qorantay; Abwaankeennii Qummannaa.
Aabaha Fanka iyo sugaanta iyo aqoonta Soomaaliyeed, isla mar ahaantaana ah, Abwaanka abwaanada soomaaliyeed, Xasan Sh Muumin (Raxmatullaah Calayhi). Taariikhdiisu horey ayay u qornayd, haatana ka dib geeridii naxdinta lahayd ee inaga qaaday, dib ayay u qorantay oo waa la wada qiray inuu ahaa “simply the best”.
Waanu ku faraxsannahay inaynu maqalnno in aaska Abwaan Xasan (AUN), uu ka dhici doonoo dhulkiisii Hooyo iyo hooygii uu ku soo barbaaray ee Boorama. Taasi waa sharaf iyo tix galin la siiyay rabitaanka marxuunka oo jeclaan lahaa inay xabaashiisu noqoto dhulka Hooyo. Iyo sidoo kale qaddarin la siiyay intii aadka u jeclayad oo sidaasi rabtay oo aynu dhammaanteenba ka mid nahay.
Maalinta la aasi doono Marxuuunka oo barrito ah (Arbaca), sida wararku sheegayaan (Harowo.com),waxa kale oo an jeclaan lahayn in Calanka Somaliland marka laga bilaabo isla maalintaas iyo labada cisho ee ku xigta (3 Cisho), isagana hoos loo dhigo, oo lagu sharfo marxuunka.
Waxaynu hambalyo iyo bogaadin kal iyo laab ah u diraynaa walaalaheen Ururka GURMAD, oo iyagu noqday kuwii ugu horreeyay ee tix galiyay codsigayagii ahaa in garoonka Boorama loogu magac darro magaca Abwaanka (Garoonka Xasan Sh Muumin: Hassan Sh Moumin Stadium).
Heesaha iyo gabayada iyo murtida lagu xusuusan karo Abwaan Xasan, way badanyihiin oo waa sida Badweyn ruuxba meel kaga jiro, culuuntiisuna waa maktabad (Library) an la wada madhin karin. Arrimaha ugu mucjisada badan ee Abwaan Xasan(AUN) lagu xusuusan karo waxay ahayd in hees kasta iyo riwaayad kasta oo uu sameeyo ay noqonayeen kuwa ugu sarreeya ee lagu xuso baalasha ugu horreeya ee fanka iyo suugaanta Soomaaliyeed.
Innagu waxaynu ku celcelinaynaa heestiisii lagu qoray Af-soomaaliga oo taariikhda baalka ugu sarreeya kaga jirta, qoraalka af-soomaaliga la'aantiisa waxba maynu qiri karneen, qiimaha abwaan leeyahay. Heestaasi ayaynu hal bog (page) oo ka mid ah, halkan ku soo qori doonnaa sidii ay ahayd. Kadibna isla halkaa bog ayaynu dheeganaynaa oo aynu ku dabaqaynaa taariikhda Abwaanka, kuna xusaynaa aaskiisa. Waana sidan:
Taariikhda qarada weyn
Afkeenii ka qatanaa
Qaayaha u leeyahay
Dunida ka qarsoonaa
Qorraxbaa u soo baxdoo
Mugdigii ku qoofalnaa
Daahii ka qaaddee
Qalinkaaga ii dhiib
Erayada an ku qoro
Qumaantina uga bogo
Afkii qalaad ha moodin
Carrabku qaldi maayee
Sidii caanaha u qudh-qudhiyaay.
By: Hassan Sh Moumin.
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Taariikhdiisii qoratanyoo
Abwaankeenii qummannaa
Qiimaha u leeyahay
Ummaddiisii qirataye
Hadday geeri qaadayna
Qofna illaawi maayoo
Qalbigayaguu ku noolyahee
Qabrigaaga Alloow
Kuu Qaqbooji Iilkoo
Qolkii Janno ku gee
Aqalo qurux lihiyo
Qaaliyadii Firdoowsaad
Ku Qudh-qudhi caanaha
By: Cabdiqani Yuusuf Caateeye
hiildan@yahoo.com
Monday, January 21, 2008
Somali government vows to halt violations of press freedoms
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia's new government on Monday pledged to put an end to a crackdown against journalists in the Horn of Africa country and vowed to restore press freedoms.
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein made the promise as he was taking part in a national press freedom day ceremony in the capital Mogadishu.
"I am taking this opportunity to say that the government promises to make sure violations against the free press are over. We will improve the relation between the media and the government," he said.
The prime minister made his first appearance in Mogadishu over the weekend.
The Somali capital has been wracked by violence between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamist insurgents, forcing the government to remained hunkered down in the town of Baidoa.
Somalia's newly-appointed information minister, Ahmed Abisalam, also a co-founder of the Somali media corporation Horn Afrik, also attended the Mogadishu ceremony.
"The important thing is to set a up a committee linking between the government and the media so that there will not be violations against the free press
"I hope that incidents in which journalists are deprived of their rights are a thing of the past, we don't want any struggle between the government and the media," he added.
Several Horn Afrik journalists were killed or wounded in 2007 as the government cracked down on media houses suspected of sympathies with the Islamist insurgents.
According to the Somali Coalition for Free Expression, which co-organised the press freedom day Monday, issued a report detailing violations against the media in 2007.
"At least eight journalists were killed, five wounded and 42 others were arrested in the 2007. Four of them are still detained by the Somali government in Mogadishu,"
the report said.
Source:AFP
UN court to hear Djibouti's claims over French judge's death
The case of judge Bernard Borrel's death in Djibouti has strained relations between France and its former African colony which is home to France's largest military base abroad.
The International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, will not go into the circumstances of Borrel's death but instead focus on Djibouti's complaint that France did not hand over the Borrel case files when asked.
The charred body of the judge, who had been advising Djibouti's justice ministry, was found in a ravine near the capital in 1995. He was apparently killed by a shot to the head.
While initially explained away as a suicide, French magistrates investigating at the request of Borrel's widow found that the death may well have been a case of murder.
His widow Elisabeth Borrel believes her husband was killed by Djibouti agents and that France helped the Djibouti authorities to cover up the crime. Djibouti maintains his death was a suicide.
A French court issued international arrest warrants in 2006 for Djibouti's chief prosecutor Djama Souleiman and the head of the country's secret service, Hassan Said.
In its complaint to the ICJ, Djibouti has also asked the court to withdraw those arrest warrants, arguing the men are internationally protected Djibouti nationals. Both Souleiman and Said are close to President Ismael Omar Guelleh.
Mortar Rounds Land Inside Somali Palace
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mortar shells landed inside the Somali presidential palace Sunday during a news conference announcing the prime minister's move to the capital.
Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein, who was appointed in November, said that he and his team of 18 ministers moved from the relatively safe city of Baidoa to Mogadishu to concentrate on security and reconciliation.
"You have welcomed us," the prime minister said, shortly before eight mortar rounds landed in the area.
Sa'id Mohamud Dhore, a nearby resident, said that six mortars landed inside the compound and two outside. The area was immediately cordoned off and it was unclear whether there were any casualties.
On Thursday, at least 20 people were killed in the Somali capital when Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies.
A radical Islamic group that was driven from power a year ago by a Western-supported offensive is making a significant comeback in Somalia and the government can do little to stop it, government officials say.
Thousands of Somalis died in fighting last year between Islamic insurgents and the Somali government and their Ethiopian allies. The insurgents had briefly taken control of the capital and much of the south before the Ethiopian troops pushed them back on behalf of the shaky transitional government in December 2005.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when rival warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then fought each other for power.
Source: AP
At least 82 migrants drown off Yemen
At least 82 African would-be migrants, mostly Somalis, have drowned off Yemen after their wooden boat capsized in choppy waters as it neared the end of its voyage from Somalia, Yemeni officials said.
The incident occurred a few kilometres off the town of Ahwar in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan on the Gulf of Aden late on Friday, the officials said.
They said local fishermen rescued 30 passengers and recovered bodies of 22 others after the boat ran into rocks and capsized.
Survivors told authorities there had been about 140 people aboard the boat.
"Around 60 bodies washed up on shores of Ahwar today (Sunday) and up to 28 people are still missing," a local official in Ahwar told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Sana'a by phone.
Hundreds of Somali and Ethiopian migrants die every year making the dangerous crossing of the Gulf of Aden to Yemen on small boats run by smugglers operating from Somali ports.
Last year, more than 113,000 people, most of them Somalis, made the perilous voyage to Yemen, with over 1,400 deaths, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
Since the outbreak of civil war in Somalia, Yemen has become a magnet for refugees fleeing violence and drought and a gateway to the oil-rich countries of the Arabian Peninsula and to Europe.
Yemen is the only Arabian Peninsula country that is a signatory of the 1951 Geneva Convention and 1967 protocol on the status of refugees.
Source: AAP
Sunday, January 20, 2008
In Somalia Refuge Rapes Left to Clan Justice
By Zoe AlsopWeNews correspondent
The Somalia town of Galkayo is known as a refuge from the violence to the south. But girls and women who are separated from their clans know little safety: An 8-year-old was raped and her mother must keep working with the man who did it.
GALKAYO, Somalia (WOMENSENEWS)--The man who raped 8-year-old Amina still keeps his shop a few hundred meters from the stick-and-rag shelter where she lives with her mother and three baby sisters. Her friends know what to do when they see him.
"If we see him, we run and hide," said Amina, who four months ago fled Mogadishu with her family for a camp called Bulo Kontrol on the outskirts of the central Somali town of Galkayo.
Chubby-cheeked with a stubborn tilt to her chin, the child in her olive green abaya hasn't got much more than a tough front and swift feet to protect her.
Until the early 1990s Galkayo was little more than a gathering point for camel-herding nomads.
That changed in 1991 when dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was driven from power and Somalia's civil war flared up. Members of a powerful sub-group of the Darod clan left Mogadishu to build a city of their own here, bringing their militias with them.
Today this dusty town on the dividing line between restive central and southern Somalia and the relatively peaceful autonomous state of Puntland serves as a beacon of stability. Here a densely packed warren of low stone buildings is spiked with delicate minarets of mosques gleaming white and blue in the desert sun. A handful of schools, small businesses and a brand new hospital testify to a steady trickle of remittances from relatives overseas.
But in a society where the power of one's clan is the only real guarantee of safety, it can be extremely risky for girls and women such as Amina and her mother who have lost the protection of elders and their entourage of militias.
Rapes Unchecked in Camps
Last year the United Nations, together with dozens of local organizations, conducted a survey on rape in Galkayo's nine settlements, which hold tens of thousands of displaced people.
"Rape is rampant," said Hawa Aden, chair of the Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development, who helped conduct the survey. "We have been saying this for quite some time. But since 2006, the more people come, the more it happens. And not only the rape; it is the camps themselves that are dangerous."
In interviews with Women's eNews, women and girls who fled Mogadishu for Galkayo in recent months and did not want their real names used--including Amina and her mother--described rape, robbery and beatings as they traveled through militia checkpoints blocking roads out of the city and as they settled in camps far from the clan connections that once might have afforded some security in the south.
Galkayo's reputation for stability nonetheless continues to draw people from all of Somalia's five main clans.
"Everybody knows of Galkayo as a peaceful place," said Madina, who arrived in Galkayo last month and is from the minority Somali Bantu group.
Madina said she left Mogadishu with three of her six children after insurgents broke into her house and forced her younger sister to carry a paper-wrapped parcel past a group of Ethiopian soldiers. The gunmen detonated the bomb by remote control, killing Madina's sister and then ran, leaving the enraged Ethiopians to trace the bomb to her family.
"Mogadishu is the worst," she said.
No Safety in Fetid Camps
But the fetid camp where she and her family share the tiny shelter of a generous stranger--a man in his 30s who gave his name as Hassan--is hardly safe, particularly for minorities like her.
"I was very sorry after my wife went out to use the toilet. She was raped by a gang," said Hassan. "I saw and I could not say anything because I would have been killed. You can't try to fight with them with sticks. Unfortunately they have guns. Our wives are being used by them."
Many gangs carry knives in case they come across a girl who has undergone female genital mutilation and then had her vagina stitched nearly shut to safeguard her chastity, a custom of many families here.
A woman is only as safe as her clan is formidable.
Aliya, a 55-year-old woman from Bulo Kontrol whose name has been changed, is certain that the man who pushed through the cloth door of her rag hut to rape her in early December knew that she was not from a powerful clan.
"I don't think they would have raped me if I were Majertan," she said, referring to one of the most powerful sub-clans in Galkayo.
Though two of her nephews tried to chase the man, neighbors warned them not to. Shaming the men could only bring more trouble to the camp.
Even if they had caught him, nobody can remember that a rapist has ever been convicted in a Galkayo court.
Influential Relatives
The man who raped Amina was charged with robbery and taken to jail for a couple of days. Though a minority himself, the man had been born in Galkayo and had influential relatives, who quickly let the child and her neighbors know they'd best stop talking about rape.
Amina's mother cannot afford to run. Work is scarce for displaced people who live in Galkayo. She still depends on the man who raped her daughter for the dime a day he pays her for the rubbish she collects from the town's roads. She sees him every day.
"When I see him, I cry," she said.
Recently a local women's group offered to rent a house for the family so they would not have to live next to the man. But Amina's mother does not dare move away from the few people she knows here. Two of her children have already died of malnutrition. Her neighbors are the only protection she has.
"I already know the people who live around my hut," she said. "Sometimes I'm away and they take care of my children; they provide food when we have nothing to eat. I have priorities."
Most days, Amina has to watch her younger sisters while her mother works but, twice a week, she attends a religious school, where the teacher has agreed to waive her fees. As her mother speaks, she makes her way seriously through the Arabic alphabet, her small fingers punctuating the curling script from right to left with wobbly dots.
Is her mother sure this is the best place she can find for her children?
"I have my doubts. If I can go some other place I would go happily," she said. "But I fled Mogadishu and I don't feel any place in Somalia is better than this place now. My hope is that my girls would go to school and learn something so they can survive."
Zoe Alsop is a freelance journalist based in Kenya. In December she traveled to Galkayo on assignment for Women's eNews.
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Final Burundian peace-keepers leave for Somalia: spokesman
BUJUMBURA (AFP) — The final members of the first battalion of Burundian soldiers to be deployed in Somalia as part of an African Union peace-keeping force left Bujumbura for Mogadishu Sunday, the Burundian army said.
The 210 soldiers -- the final element in a deployment of 850 soldiers -- were expected to arrive in war-torn Somalia late Sunday, nearly a month after the start of the deployment process.
The first Burundian soldiers arrived on December 24. They had been delayed for several months due to lack of supplies.
The commander of the Burundian forces, General Juvenal Niyoyankana, was among those making the trip Sunday.
Burundi is expected to deploy a total of 1,700 soldiers in Somalia, alongside around 1,600 troops from Uganda who have been in the capital Mogadishu since March.
"A second battalion of 850 troops is ready to go, although they are waiting for the right equipment," a Burundian army spokesman said.
"We would like to thank the US in particular, for giving us nearly all our uniforms, transport, all-terrain vehicles and radios," he added.
The African Union peace-keeping force in Somalia will ultimately number around 8,000 soldiers, in an attempt to stabilise the Horn of Africa country wracked by civil war for the past 16 years.
The capital, Mogadishu, has seen almost daily gun battles between Islamist insurgents and Somali and Ethiopian security forces.
Source: AFP
