Beledweyne (HOL) - Dahabshiil, one of the leading money transfer companies in Africa, has announced that it will be distributing food aid to flood victims outside Beled Weyne. Source: Hiiraan Online

Beledweyne (HOL) - Dahabshiil, one of the leading money transfer companies in Africa, has announced that it will be distributing food aid to flood victims outside Beled Weyne. Source: Hiiraan Online

(CNN) Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US pilots and prompted the US to launch a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing, two military officials told CNN. Source: Hiiraan Online

The Council of Foreign Ministers (CMF) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will begin its 45th session in Dhaka on Saturday under the theme “Islamic Values for Sustainable Peace, Solidarity and Development.” Source: Hiiraan Online

“LIKE Sarajevo, 1914,” said the late Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, of the first gunshots fired on May 6th 1998. “An accident waiting to happen.” Neither he nor his counterpart in neighbouring Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, imagined that a light skirmish at Badme, a border village of which few had heard, could spiral into full-scale war. But two years later about 80,000 lives had been lost and more than half a million people forced from their homes. Source: Hiiraan Online

SALT LAKE CITY — Thursday is graduation day at the University of Utah, and one of the student commencement speakers has quite the story: just five years ago she was in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Source: Hiiraan Online

(Bloomberg) -- Sudan and Ethiopia agreed to work together in developing and managing Port Sudan, their presidents said, as landlocked Ethiopia attempts to expand trade routes essential for its export-led economy. Source: Hiiraan Online

The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) in conjunction with UNFPA Somalia and UN Habitat Somalia on 19 April 2018 launched the Peace Building Fund (PBF) worth $2 Million. The PBF aims to facilitate youth political empowerment by enabling Somali young women and men to meaningfully engage in governance, peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts. Source: Hiiraan Online

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The U.S. military is dramatically expanding its operations at a former Soviet air strip in Somalia, constructing more than 800 beds at the Baledogle base, VICE News has learned. The construction at the secretive base marks the latest example of America’s growing and controversial shadow war in Africa. Source: Hiiraan Online

Acting on past experience, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is beefing up security in major urban centres ahead of the Islamic holy month of fasting. Source: Hiiraan Online

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 769thmeeting, held on 30 April 2018, received a briefing on the Somalia Transition Plan, and adopted the following decision: Source: Hiiraan Online

(CNN) At least 100 people have died and nearly 260,000 have been displaced by flooding in Kenya this month, the Kenyan Red Cross announced Thursday. Source: Hiiraan Online

Mogadishu (HOL) - Newly elected Lower House Speaker, Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman has officially assumed office on Thursday following handing over ceremony held in Mogadishu. Source: Hiiraan Online

Despite important progress through years of international assistance around counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, humanitarian efforts, and state-building, peace and stability remain elusive in Somalia. On April 6, the Africa Security Initiative in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings hosted a discussion with experts on the challenges Somalia faces now and potential paths forward. Source: Hiiraan Online

Muqdisho (Caasimada Online)-Wasiirka Wasaaradda Dhalinyarada iyo Ciyaaraha Xukuumadda Somalia Khadiijo Diiriye ayaa si carol eh u beenisay wararka sheegaya in si fool xun loola dhaqmay ciyaartooyda 17-jirada. Wasiir Khadiijo waxa ay sheegtay in wararka been abuurka ah ay faafiyeen kuwa ay xanuunjineyso Horumarka Somalia, waxa ayna carab dhawday in dhalinyaradaasi qudhooda la weydiinkaro waxa loo sameeyay. Ciyaartooyda ayey sheegtay in soo dhaweentooda ay ka qeybqaaten Madax iyo shacaba isla markaana ay marqaati leedahay in si wanaagsan looga soo dhaweeyay magaalada Muqdisho, hase ahaatee wararka beenta ah aysan u joojin doonin wanaaga jira. Wasiir Khadiijo Maxamed Diiriye waxa ay intaa ku dartay in Ciyaartoyda aysan aheyn kuwo Xabsi ku jira, isla markaana Magaalada halkii ay doonaan ay ka mari karaan. Waxa ay sheegtay in Caruurtaas Iskuulkii ay dhiganayeen fasax laga soo qaaday iyo sidoo kale Waalidintooda,isla markaana aysan mudneyn in la yiraahdo maxaa saas loo yeelay, waxa ayna ku talisay in laga Shaqeeyo horumarka Ciyaaraha dalka. Mas’uuliyiinta soo dhaweysay ee wakhtiga kula qaatay qeybta VIP Garoonka ayaa waxaa kamid ahaa Ra’isul wasaaraha Xukuumada Somalia Xasan Kheyre, Wasiirka amniga iyo Mas’uuliyiin kale. Haddalka Wasiir Khadiijo ayaa kusoo beegmaaya xili baraha bulshada lagu faafiyay Sawiro la sheegay in looga been abuuray Ciyaartooyda kuwaa oo waxbadan loogu dhimaayo Wasaarada Dhalinyarada iyo Ciyaaraha. Caasimada Online Xafiiska Muqdisho Caasimada@live.com

Ethiopia and Djibouti agreed to swap stakes in strategic public enterprises including airlines, ports and telecommunications companies, as the Horn of Africa neighbors pursue deeper economic integration. The deal would include exchanges of shares in Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, Africa’s biggest carrier by revenue, Djiboutian Finance Minister Ilyas Dawaleh said in an interview. Shareholdings in companies such as the Doraleh Container Terminal and in a new oil terminal, Ethiopian Telecommunications Corp. and Djibouti Telecom SA will also be swapped, he said. While the deal has been politically “endorsed,” the two countries will form a committee to work out the details, Dawaleh said by phone April 30. Ethiopian Information Minister Ahmed Shide confirmed the agreement in a text message. The pact came as Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, made his first foreign visit at the weekend to Djibouti, the tiny state located where the Indian Ocean meets the Red Sea and that’s become a strategic hub for the U.S. and China. Landlocked Ethiopia — which the International Monetary Fund ranks as the fastest-growing economy on the continent — is trying to boost its export-oriented manufacturing, making it reliant on neighboring nations with ports. Dawaleh said Abiy told Djiboutian officials that both countries should start referring to their state-owned enterprises as belonging to all, rather than one nation. Abiy said in a statement on his Facebook page that officials from both countries “underlined the importance of working towards the realization of complete economic integration of the two economies.” He didn’t elaborate. Source: – Bloomberg

Mogadishu. The African Union Peace-keeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has shifted operational tactic from military engagement to talking with communities in order to win hearts of Somalis.
The new approach involves reaching out to clan heads and ordinary citizens to challenge the dominant al-Shabaab propaganda that AMISOM troops are infidels who must be ousted. According to Lt Col Robert Nahamya, the commander of UPDF’s 19th Battalion Operating in Buufow under Battle Group 22, the al-Shabaab had won many hearts by convincing Somalis that AMISOM seeks to impose paganism on the country. “This harmful propaganda cannot work anymore because we have started engaging these communities and we are telling them, ‘look, AMISOM is composed of Muslims [as well]; it is wrong for you to simply fight on religious grounds’,” he said. The Colonel added: “This is already working and soon we shall defeat the enemy.” 
Uganda was the first to deploy in Somalia in March 2007, and still has the largest number of soldiers in the 22,000-strong AMISOM. The UPDF drove the militants out of the capital, Mogadishu, and are, alongside other troop contributors such as Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, helping to keep al-Shabaab in check.
Some security lapses have resulted in deadly attacks by the militants, the recent one being last month’s simultaneous attacks on three Ugandan bases in which President Museveni, the Commander-in-Chief, said up to eight soldiers were killed. The militants, Col Nahamye said in Mogadishu on Tuesday, used the polarised clan system to spread its propaganda by setting up one clan against another. THE POWER OF CLANS Capturing minds. Clans and religion are central to the lives of Somali people and war planners have decided that capturing the minds of the people, rather than military confrontation, is essential for lasting peace in the country.
Opinion leaders. Regarding the clan system, Col Nahamye said that they have identified key opinion leaders, mainly the elders, whom they are encouraging to preach oneness. Although Somalis are principally the same people, speaking a common language, the clan-based governance structure is so divisive and often erupts in inter-communal violence.
AMISOM, field commanders say, is playing the neutral arbiter to bridge the divide. Source: – Daily Monitor

The Somali government said that it has made headway in the investigation of the ICRC nurse who was kidnapped from the ICRC compound on Wednesday evening. Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdiaziz Ali Ibrahim announced that they have identified one of the kidnappers as Mohamud Mohamed Alas. Security officials have also identified the missing aid worker as Sonja Nientiet, a German national. Investigators believe that Alas, who worked as a security guard at the ICRC compound, had intimate knowledge of the compound layout and security measures and used this knowledge to facilitate the kidnapping. The ministry spokesman theory seems to corroborate with eyewitness accounts from Red Cross workers told media on Wednesday that the gunmen easily evaded the compound’s security guards and successfully snuck the nurse out of a back entrance and into a waiting vehicle. Ibrahim said that an extensive manhunt is underway to save the nurse and bring her captors to justice. He mentioned that the vehicle that was used in the kidnapping is now in police custody. A LinkedIn profile for Sonja Nientiet with extensive employment history with the ICRC gives us a glimpse of her professional career. She is a career humanitarian aid worker with postings in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I have a strong believe [sic] in the Human Rights, which is why I have chosen to change my focus from nursing in Germany to international humanitarian aid,“ reads her LinkedIn bio. In Somalia, aid workers and journalists have been targeted in the past by armed gangs or Al-Shabaab militants and held for ransom.

Muqdisho (PP) ─ Guddoomiyaha Gobolka Benaadir ahna duqa Muqdisho Mudane Cabdiraxmaan Cumar Cusmaan (Eng. Yarisow) oo maanta daah furay Barnaanijka Dhismaha Goleyaasha deegaanka ee degmooyinka Gobolka Benaadir, ayaa sheegay ujeedka ugu weyn ee arrintan laga leeyahay in ay tahay shacabka talada in dib loogu celiyo. Barnaamijkan ayaa waxaa dhinac socda qorshaha Isku xirka Maamulada Degmooyinka, Hey’adaha Amniga iyo Garsoorka dalka, arrimaha lagu falan qeeyey kulanka ayaa waxaa ka mid ahaa dowrarka iyo kaalinta Maamullada degmooyinka, hey’adaha amaanka iyo garsoorka Degmooyinka Gobolka Banaadir, Hoggaaminta suuban, Xalinta Khilaafaadka, sareynta sharciga iyo Dawladda wanaagga. Gudoomiyaha ayaa tilmaamay muhiimada ay u leedahay bulshada iyo Dawladnimada Soomaaliya in la hello maamul hoos laga soo dhisey, si bulshadu ay iyagu go’aan uga gaarto cidda matalaysa. “Si magaalada Muqdisho looga hirgeliyo dimuqoraadiyad hana-qaada looguna diyaar garoobo doorashooyinka 2020 dalka oo dhan ka dhici doona muwaadinkuna u helo fursad ah inuu wax doorto lana doorto, waxaan bilownay geeddigan oo leh habraac dhameystiran oo ku jirto wada shaqeynta hay’adaha amniga iyo Garsoorka dalka,” ayuu yiri Yarisow. Duqa Muqdisho ayaa tilmaamay dhowrkii bilood ee la soo dhaafay shacabka ku nool Caasimadda in loo dhaweeyey maamulka, isla markaana arrintaas ay ka dhalatay kalsooni iyo wadashaqeyn buuxda. Waxuna xusay sida ay lagama maarmaan u tahay in shacabku ay yeeshaan talada lagu hagayo deegaankooda. Ugu dambeyn, Kulan howlleedkan ayaa socon doona 3da ilaa 9 ka bisha, waxaana degmo walba uga soo qeyb galay toddoba xubnood oo kala ah, Gudoomiyaasha degmooyinka, Kuxigeenada 1aad ee amniga iyo siyaasadda, Kuxigeenada 2aad ee Arrimaha Bulshada, Xoghayaha Degmada iyo taliyeyaasha qeybaha Ciidamadda. PUNTLAND POST The post Muqdisho oo lagu Daah-furay Barnaamijka Dhismaha Golayaasha Deegaanka Xamar appeared first on Puntland Post.

Suqatra (Caasimada Online) – Dibadbaxyo carreysan ayaa ka billowday jasiiradda Suqatra ee u dhow Soomaaliya kadib markii Imaaraadka ay geeyeen 10 askari oo lagu daad gureeyey afar diyaarad. Dadka deegaanka ayaa taleefishinka Al-Jazeera u sheegay in afarta diyaarad ee Imaaraadka ay si sharci darro ah ku yimaadeen, si ay u cabsi geliyaan dowladda beesha caalamku ay aqoonsan tahay ee Yemen. Jaziiraddaan ayaa kaliya 80 KM u jirta Soomaaliya, hase yeeshee waxaa lahaanshaheeda sheegta Yemen. Muuaqaallo lagu baahiyey baraha bulshada ayaa muujinaya dibadbaxayaasha oo ku qeylinaya erayo ay ku taageerayaan madaxweynaha Yemen Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. سقطرى تهتف لليمن بحضور ابن دغر. شعب نبيل،يعاني ويهتف لوطنه. بالله عليكم مثل هذا الجمهور ألا يستحق أن تكونوا معه؟ إنه يبحث عنكم. عودوا إليه. pic.twitter.com/VqUzzW6pcL — Dr Mohammed Jumeh (@MJumeh) May 2, 2018 Dadka deegaanka ayaa ka carreysan in ciidamada Imaaraadka ay ceyriyeen ciidamadii dowladda Yemen ee ilaalada ka ahaa jaziiraddan. Jaziiraddan ayaa waxaa ku nool 60,000 oo qof, waxaana maamula dowladda Yemen.

Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Maxamed Cabdullaahi Farmaajo ayaa maanta kulan dhiirrigelin, qado sharaf iyo bogaadin ah oo ku saabsan guushii Qaranka ee koobkii Bariga iyo Bartamaha Qaraadda Afrika (CECAFA) waxa uu la qaatay Guddiga Ciyaaraha Qaranka, Macalimiinta, Tababarayaasha iyo Ciyaaryahannada Qaranka Soomaaliyeed ee da’doodu ka yartahay 17 sano. Madaxweynaha ayaa ku bogaadiyey xulka da’yarta Soomaaliyeed ee heer Qaran, daadaalka ay muujiyeen iyo sida ay caalamka ugu soo bandhigeen in dhallinyarada Soomaaliyeed ay kaalin muuqata ku lahaan karaan saaxada tartannada heer qaaradeed. “Annaga waxa ay noo xisaabsan tahay in aad guuleysateen, sababtoo ah waxaad ka soo guuleysateen intaas oo dal, idinkoo dalkiinnu uu soo kabanayo ayaad ka badiseen dowlado badan oo aan bur bur ku dhicin, dowladahaas oo sannadadii aan bur burka ku jirnay iyagu soo dhismayey.” Ayuu yiri Madaxweyne Farmaajo. Sidoo kale, Madaxweynaha ayaa ku dhiirri geliyey Maamulka iyo shaqaalha Wasaaradda Cayaaraha, dhallinyarada iyo Xiriirka Kubadda Cagta Soomaaliyeed dadaalka ay ku bixiyeen da’yarta heer Qaran iyo guud ahaan cayaaraha dalka. Xulka Da’yarta Qaranka ee U-17ka ayaa isu diyaarinaya ka qeyb galka Koobka Qaaradda Afrika ee 17-jirrada oo saddex bilood kaddib fumi doona.

Majalada caanka ah ee “the New Statesman” ee ka soo baxda dalka Ingiriiska, ayaa shalay baahisay in dawladda Ingiriisku doonayso inay taageerto qaddiyadda madaxbanaanida Somaliland, laakiin haddana ay jirto cabsi haysa taas oo ku qasbaysa inaanay doonayn inay noqoto dalka u horeeya ee aqoonsada Somaliland. Majaladan, ayaa sheegtay in dawladda Ingiriisku iftiimisay inay doonayso inay taageerto qaddiyada madaxbanaanida Somaliland, laakiin aanay haddana doonayn inay noqoto dawladda u horaysa ee banaanka u soo baxda, “Iyadoo ka cabsi qabta.” Ayay warbixintu tidhi, “In lagu eedeeyo inay dib u gumaysanayso maxmiyadeedaas hore [Somaliland.” Laakiin wasiirka arrimaha dibadda Somaliland Dr. Sacad Cali Shire ayaanay doodda dawladda Ingiriisku qancin, “Mawqifkayagu waxa weeye inaanad go’aamada u qaadan oo aanad ku salayn waxa ay dadku odhan doonaan, laakiin maxaa sax ah, maxaase khalad ah lagu saleeyo.” Wasiir Sacad Cali Shire, wuxuu kaloo wargeyskan u sheegay in Somaliland ay gobalka Geeska Afrika ka hirgelisay nidaam doorasho oo dimuqraadiyad ku salaysan, “Waxaanu ilaa hadda qabanay saddex doorasho oo madaxtooyo, mid walibana nabadglelyo ayay ahayd, mid walbana waxa lagu doortay madaxweyne. Sannadkii 2003 80 cod oo keliya ayaa lagu kala helay kala helay.” Waxase ay warbixintu soo qaadatay inkastoo uu wasiirku sidan u ammaanay nidaamka dimuqraadiyadeed ee Somaliland haddana in dhawaan lagu xidhay gabadh dhallinyaro ah oo abwaanad ah. Wasiir Sacad Cali Shire, wuxuu sheegay in Somaliland ay arrimaheeda ku maamulatay gacanteeda, iyadoo dib u heshiisiintii beelaha Somaliland. Waxa kale oo uu wasiirka arrimaha dibadda Somaliland sheegay in aqoonsi la’aanta baasaborka Somaliland ay caqabad ku tahay ganacstada Somaliland ee doonaya inay dibadaha u safraan. Waxa kale oo uu sheegay in aqoonsi la’aantu ay Somaliland ku hayso caqabad ah inaanay soo jiidan Karin maalgashedayaasha, taas oo dib u dhac ku haysa dhaqaalaha Somaliland.” Geeska Qaran News

Taliye ku-xigeenka kowaad ee Booliska dowladda Puntland,G/sare. Bile Faarax Cali ayaa goor dhoweyd koox hubaysan dhaawac ugu geysteen goob is-baaro ah oo ku taalla degaanka Buura-wadal ee gobolka Sool,sida ay xaqiijiyeen saraakiil ka tirsan Booliiska. Taliyaha ayaa dhaawac ka soo gaaray lug iyo gacan,kadib markii koox hubaysan ay rasaas huwiyeen gaari uu saarnaa,kaasoo si kedis ah u soo galay is-baaro kooxdu ay dhigteen degaanka Buura-wadal,sida uu xaqiijiyay sarkaal Boolis oo diiday in magaciisa la xigto. Wararku waxay sheegayaan in ciidanka Booliiska iyo kooxda hallkaas uu dagaal kooban ku dhex maray,inkastoo aan weli la xaqiijin akrin khasaaraha ka dhashay dagaalkaasi. Sidoo kale waxaan weli la ogayn kooxda is-baarada joogtay iyo halka ay ka yimaadeen. Faahfaahinta kala soco:Puntlandpost.net The post Deg deg: Taliye ku xigeenkii Booliiska Puntland oo la dhaawacay. appeared first on Puntland Post.

Dood-cilmiyeed ku saabsan sidii Booliiska iyo bulshada ku dhaqan Garoowe uga wada-shaqeyn lahaayeen arrimaha amniga,gaar ahaanna ka hortagga tacaddiyada loo geysto haweenka iyo carruurta ayaa maanta Garoowe lagu qabtay. Doodda ayaa waxaa ka soo qeyb galay saraakiil ka soctay Booliiska,mas’uuliyiin ka tirsan dowladda hoose,qaar kamid ah guddiyada xaafadaha Garoowe iyo guddoomiyaashooda,iyo dhalinyaro kala metalaysay bulshada ku nool dhammaan xaafadaha ay ka koobantahay caasimadda Garoowe. Booliiska iyo bulshadii kulanka isku arkay ayaa dood dheer ka yeeshay caqabada hortaagan wada-shaqeynta Booliiska iyo shacabka Garoowe ee ku aaddan arrimaha amniga caasimadda,gaar ahaanna ka hortagga tacaddiyada loo geysto haweenka iyo carruurta,waxaana sidoo kale laga dooday habka ugu fiican ee si wadajir ah looga wada-shaqeyn karo amniga. Dhammaan ka qeyb galayaashii dood-cilmiyeedka ayaa geba-gabadii cod midaysan ku sheegay, in la isku raacay wada-shaqeyn buuxda oo dhex marta Booliiska caasimadda iyo bulshada qeybaheeda kala duwan si looga hortago guud ahaan wixii amniga dhibaateynaya,gaar ahaanna tacaddiyada haweenka iyo carruurta. Halkaan ka eeg sawirrada PUNTLAND POST The post Booliska iyo bulshada Garowe oo dood ka yeeshay arrimaha amniga iyo tacaddiayda haweenka iyo carruurta. appeared first on Puntland Post.