soc.culture.somalia Google Group

We Need Volunteers to Sit on Our Board of Accontability

abduralm...@yahoo.com (abdurratln) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:08 UT

We are a new micro-finance NGO, based in Zimbabwe. We adhere to the
principles of Pan-Africanism. As such, we have Africans from the
Diaspora and the African Union working with us. We believe that to
have a citizen of Somalia would be very beneficial to our efforts to
advance the Pan-African character of our work.

Witnesses: about 40 Somalis killed in 2 attacks

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:09:27 UT

Separate attacks with roadside bombs struck near a presidential
motorcade and a military convoy in Somalia's capital region Friday,
causing soldiers to open fire, witnesses said.
About 40 people were killed, the witnesses said, but they could not
say how many died from explosions and how many from gunfire.

somalia-Somali soldiers search in former president’s house-witnesses

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:31:02 UT

Heavily armed troops from Somali government have entered inside the
house of former TNG President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan on Saturday
witnesses said.
Eyewitnesses said that the guards of the house were forced to open
under duress the gate of the house where armed troops have poured into
inside the house.

Dodging bullets, QRC doctors heal wounds in war-torn Somalia

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:50:13 UT

THE belief that it is a “human obligation to assist the people of
Somalia”, is the driving force behind the efforts of Qatar Red
Crescent volunteers offering medical expertise in that country at the
moment, according to a volunteers’ leader.
Despite 17 years of armed conflict affecting the country, there are

Whither Somalia and her refugees?

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:41:39 UT

Mike Whitney explains in a damning article titled “Bush’s Blood-Orgy
in Somalia”, the real motives behind the invasion were oil and
geopolitics. “Bush’s new war-lord friends in the Transitional Federal
Government [TFG] have already indicated a willingness to pass a new
oil law that will encourage foreign oil companies to return to

Somali woman jailed for helping failed attacks in UK

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:11:32 UT

Fardosa Abdullahi was 17 when she gave Yassin Omar her mother's robes,
a handbag and mobile phone the day after the attacks. She accompanied
him to a North London bus station, from where he fled to Birmingham,
and then repeatedly lied to police about his whereabouts.
Abdullahi, now 20, became engaged or possibly married to Omar in an

Hawiye council condemns killing of 8 civilians by Somali soldiers

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:09:01 UT

Hawiye elders today have strongly condemned the killing of 8 civilians
in Deynile neighborhood by Somali soldiers on Friday.
The council was shocked to learn of the killing and condemned “this
outrageous and contemptible act against unarmed civilians,” Hawiye
chairman Mohamed Hassan Haad said.
“This appalling attack follows a series of other incidents directed

The Forgotten: Somalia's American-Made Road to Perdition

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:10:10 UT

In the absence of media interest and clarification, both the would-be
presidents seem to have made it clear that in their administrations it
will be business as usual for Somalia – the blood-soaked business of
empire.
The on-going, American-backed atrocity continues to rage in Somalia,
where George W. Bush has launched a third "regime change" front in his

Somalia: Troops killing people 'like goats' by slitting throats-new Amnesty report

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:29:07 UT

Amnesty International today released a report revealing the dire human
rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia.
The report contains first-hand testimony from scores of traumatised
survivors of the conflict, exposing the violations and abuses they
have suffered at the hands of a complex mix of perpetrators which

The main problem in Somalia is not Islamists, it is Ethiopia

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:42:43 UT

Somalia has been stateless for close to two decades now, and efforts
by neighbouring countries, particularly Djibouti, to bring it back to
the world map is frustrated, if not made impossible, by Ethiopia.
The other neighbouring countries have sympathised with the Somali
situation, and have done nothing to complicate an already complicated

Death toll rises to 25 in central Somalia fighting-witnesses

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:07:22 UT

Following heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and islamist
fighters in Mataban village in Hiran region central on Tuesday the
death toll from the fighting reached up to 25 people eyewitnesses
officials said.
According to independent sources, Tuesday's fighting took place in and
around the village that as well caused dozens of wounds.

Disaster in Somalia

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:27:24 UT

The situation in the troubled East African nation hardly seemed like
it could get any worse
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Somalia Targeted by the Colonial US - Anglo-French. Why

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:33:31 UT

Many Somalis believe that US targeting of Somalia has been inspired by
the Ethiopian government's allegations that Somalia is being taken
over by Islamic extremists. Such charges are clearly intended to
advance Ethiopia's own objectives. Having gone to war with Somalia at
least three times in as many decades, Ethiopia would like to see

Hundreds flee central Somali town as fighting breaks out

amaan...@hotmail.com (kadiye8) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:33:34 UT

Hundreds of families fled their homes in the central Somali town of
Guriel as fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents
broke out, residents in Guriel said Sunday.
The Ethiopian troops arrived in the town of Guriel Saturday night
after withdrawing from Beledweyn, the provincial capital of Hiran

Are Sudanese and Somalis killing each other...

themilitaryto...@pacbell.net (Otis Willie PIO The American War Library) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:52:07 UT

Are Sudanese and Somalis killing each other...
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{EXCERPT} Daily Nation, Kenya Clionadh Raleigh and Henrik Urdal, both of the
Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) and the International Peace Research
Institute in Oslo,...