Somali gov't launches official website

[Som@li]

new website has been launched by the Somali government to promote and inform about its policies to the public and the world.

 

The site of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, www.tfgsomalia.com represents the only media for the beleaguered government to propagate itself to its people and its partners around the world

 

The site, slick and glossy as it is, still remains under construction with much of its links not yet operational. But Minister of information Farhan Mohamoud promises the site will soon improve.

 

The website "is still under constant improvement in terms of contents, context and design", said the minister in an email sent to the media.

 

The Somali government, which has been beset by persistent deadly insurgency since its establishment, does not have radio or television station or newspapers to compete with the dozen independent radio and televisions stations as well as newspapers in Mogadishu.

 

The opposition groups have their own sites where they propagate attacks on the Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers as well as their ideology.

 

The official government site, available both in Somali and English, has sections about the president, the prime minister, the parliament as well as latest news.

 

There are also links to the various government ministries along with a section on official government documents, such as the Transitional Federal Charter of the current government.

 

Source: Xinhua

[Jacaylbaro]

How many times do they have to make a new website ??

 

I mean come on ..... I thought there was one the last time when the old man was there.

[Xaq]

the site is http://tfgsomalia.ne t/

[Meiji]

According to the website,

 

official profile of Sh.Sharif

 

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud, Somalia’s youngest president ever, is the most prominent Somali politician in the 21 century. Born in 25 July 1964 in Middle Shebelle, has completed his Koran course when he was 9 years old. He continued his studies and joined Sheikh Sufi secondary school where he acquired a school leaving certificate for secondary education in 1988, a time the country was about to plunge into crisis.

 

 

His journey of searching higher education has not been blocked by the nation experience of one of the continent’s longest and devastating civil war that destroyed the universities of the country he and people like him had in mine to study.

He travelled to Khartoum, Sudan and started his undergraduate degree in geography at the University of Kordofan, before shifting to an Islamic law degree at Al-jaamac Al-maftuuxa University in Libya where he obtained his law degree in 1998, ten years after his secondary school.

 

Sheikh Sharif returned to his country in 2000, a time Somalia was under warlord’s control, a time two friends in Mogadishu neighborhoods could not visit each other as a result of clan separation and social mistrust. Scared and scarred people, the legacy of the civil war was everywhere in the country, and Sheikh Sharif’s had ambitions of saving Somalia, a dream no one could imagine it may come true in a few years.

 

He established Alshuruuq Agency, a cultural and heritage institution and the Federation of Adolescents in Mogadishu that created social interaction among Somalis in the capital, who never crossed virtual boundaries formed by war bosses. That step forward reshaped the city and brought together long term missing friends, schoolmates, religious leaders, women and elders.

 

In his mission of restoring law and order in a ruined, failed state,

he became the regional attorney of his home province, Middle Shabelle, where he was the chairman of provincial court in Jowhar between 2001 and 2002. The warlord in charge of the province, Mohamed Omar Habeeb Dhere had never appreciated the uncompromised Islamic law that Sharif exercised which favors no one whether he or she is high profile or law profile, rich or poor, man or woman, white or black or clan superiority.

 

He was expelled from the region by Mohamed Habeb, the governor of Middle Shabelle.

Many of Jawhar residents and other visiting Somalis suffered after Sheikh Sharif left the region since the law enforcement forces listened one man’s words that become the regulation of that area.

 

He then went back to Mogadishu in 2002, and started teaching geography at Jubba secondary school since 2004.

He is a simple man with humanity and respect, who never discriminated people regardless to race, religion and ethnicity.

 

The former chief executive officer of Somalia’s Foundation of Scholars during 2003 and 2005 was also the chairman of Sinai Islamic court in Mogadishu and later the leader of the Islamic Courts Union that controlled much of southern and central Somalia in the last have of 2006.

 

Under his six months government, Somalia has seen swift political and economical changes. Warlords were chased out, and their influence demolished. Roadblocks of peace removed in short time, with less expenses with the help of people’s support and capability, Mogadishu international airport and port were reopened after sixteen years which majority of Somali people considered as a long waited victory that every other force failed to bring, even with deployment of international forces under U.N mandate in 1993.

 

His short lived government was overthrown in December 2006 by Ethiopian forces claimed they were helping the Transitional Federal government of Somalia, a fragile, warlords dominated and divided institutions that did not do a single task of its assignment since it was established at Mbagathi, in Nairobi in 2004. He fled to the border between Kenya and Somalia, where he was detained, with three other Somalis, by Kenyan police on January 21, 2007 near the Hulugo border. He met the US Ambassador to Kenya for talks regarding cooperation with the TFG. He was under the protection of Kenyan authorities staying at a hotel in Nairobi. On February 1, 2007 Sharif Ahmed was released from Kenyan police authorities. By February 8, Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed had gone to Yemen.

 

As exile opposition leader, the former leader of the ICU was in many foreign capitals in search of a headquarters of his proposal of establishing the Alliance for Re-liberation of Somalia. In a big conference in Asmara, the Eritrean capital, he and his colleagues brought together nearly 500 delegates from Islamists, parliamentarians, civil society and Diaspora in September 2007. The representatives elected Sheikh Sharif as the chairman of the new opposition umbrella in 14 September 2007 and adopted the action plan of the institution.

 

 

 

In Feb. 2008, he had meetings with European envoys in Cairo setting up an agenda for a next Nairobi meeting between ARS and international community members where Sharif and Ould- Abdalla, U.N special envoy to Somalia signed a memorandum of understanding in Nairobi which paved the way the establishment of national unity government.

 

In June 9, 2008, Sheikh Sharif’s ARS and the Somali government have signed an agreement the U.N has praised as “a good progress and a courageous step forward to restoring the dignity of their wounded country ´´.

 

In the agreement, the government and ARS agreed “Within a period of 120 days of the signing of this agreement the TFG will act in accordance with the decision that has already been taken by the Ethiopian Government to withdraw its troops from Somalia after the deployment of a sufficient number of UN Forces” that gave Sheikh Sharif a huge support of the people who realized Ethiopian troops will not leave without a consensus in the political parties.

 

After two years in exile, he returned to Mogadishu in December 10, 2008 before Ethiopian forces leave the country receiving huge crowds of welcome in the capital unlike any other leader.

 

Under the agreement, 200 parliamentarians from his alliance joined in an expanded parliament of 550 members late December 2008.

 

Sheikh Sharif realized the need of serving to his nations after his parliamentary block of the ARS suggested that “they want Sh.sharif as their candidate of the election”. Sharif Ahmed, has accepted the proposal at Lisiesta Hotel in Djibouti, and a group of excited supporters picked him up waving Somalia’s flag.

 

On Saturday, December 30, 2008, the Somalia expanded parliament elected Sheikh Sharif, moderate Islamist opposition as new national president during a run-off vote in Djibouti. Ahmed passed the necessary majority of votes, 213 just before 4.00 am local time (01.00 GMT) during an all night session of parliament under a U.N brokered plan to forge a unity government in Somalia.

 

He was sworn in the next day at Kempinski Hotel. The president’s full day in office, was spent in the African Union summit in Addis where Somalia tops the agenda of the meeting.

[Jacaylbaro]

Somalia’s youngest president ever, is the most prominent Somali politician in the 21 century.

Most prominent eh ??

[Meiji]

Well considering the fact that since 1991 there were warlords (A.Yusuf and Aideed),factional leaders (Ali Mahdi)and old Barre schoolboys (Abdiqassim) who made a claim to the presidency and achieved to become a president on paper, Sh.Sharif is indeed the most promising of the socalled presidents before him.

 

From the list of ''paper-presidents'' he is thus the most promising of them all.

[Conspiracy]

what a crappy website, i never understood why would they release it to public when its still under construction?

and no backlash i don't really care which new old south north government or militia that made it, its just they could have waited to complete it before releasing it, they can't run a web project but they wanna run a government blah anyway rant is over

[B]

Yh i agree with you there. It should be completed. nice graphics though.

[Som@li]

this is it guys, they are good if they got this much together

 

Consipiracy, Donate some of your time ,skills, and help them out, pro bono,I know you could help instead of critizing them.

[Duufaan]

at least they know, .com is only for commercial purpose but .net is not for organisations use

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Dowlad Soomaaliyeed ayee sheeganayaan, qeyb afka Soomaaliyeedna loogu tala galayna kuma taalo shabakadooda. Mise caalamka laga rabaa labada shilin, shabakadoodana aims to those non-Soomaalis.

 

Even Xasan Abshir Faarax's individual website looks visually much, much professionally designed, not to mention Afsoomaaliga lagu qoray too.

[Conspiracy]

Originally posted by Dabshid:

this is it guys, they are good if they got this much together

 

Consipiracy, Donate some of your time ,skills, and help them out, pro bono,I know you could help instead of critizing them.

they are good if they got this much together? well then what could I possibly say to that..

 

whats up MMA!

[Som@li]

Originally posted by Duufaan:

at least they know, .com is only for commercial purpose but .net is not for organisations use

Actually it should be .gov.so and Somalia finaly succeeded in gettin .so domain.

 

Guys, Stop critizing, and atleast enjoy the new website, the whole Somali infrastructure has collapsed and it will take years to sort everything out.

 

Somalia government seeks control of .so domain

 

The interim government of Somalia has applied to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) seeking to regain control of the .so domain.

 

The government approached the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for help in regaining control of the domain, which has a registered office in the U.S. but is currently not operational.

 

The Importance of Network Time Synchronization: Download nowAs the ITU does not run the registries, the organization has enlisted Jim Reid, founder of RTFM, to help Somalia transfer control of the domain to its Telecommunications Ministry.

 

"The process could take days, weeks or months; it depends on the workload of IANA staff," Reid said

 

It is unlikely that IANA will ignore a request from a sovereign government," he noted. "The organization in the U.S. will have to prove that it has permission from the Somali government to run the domain."

 

In reviving the domain operations, Reid said he has spoken with friends and has managed to get secondary name servers scattered around the world to host for at least two years until the situation is assessed. The servers are hosted in Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Sweden and the U.S.

 

Somalia has been torn by civil war for 17 years, so there is no Internet Society chapter in the country.

 

Ahmed Ugas, chairman of the Somali ICT Development Association, recognized that the country faces communication challenges but noted that it is on the path of recovery.

 

"This is good progress," Ugas said of Reid's work. "It is important that the domain gets operational; then organizations can start using it."

 

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

[Som@li]

Delegation Record for .SO

(Country-code top-level domain designated for Somalia)

Sponsoring Organisation

Ministry of Post and Telecommunications

Mogadishu

Somalia

 

Administrative Contact

Mr. Ahmed M Aden

Ministry of Post and Telecommunications

Mogadishu

Somalia

Email: minpostel_somalia@ho tmail.com

Voice: +252 1 587 1200

Fax: +252 1 231 599

 

Technical Contact

SO-Tech Support

International Telecommunication Union

Place des Nations

Geneva 1211

Switzerland

Email:

so-tech@itu.int

Voice: +41 22 730 5554

Fax: +41 22 730 5337

[Jacaylbaro]

Webkii Dowladda Somalia oo is xiray iyo fadeexad heysata Wasiir Farxaan

 

 

Website uu Wasiirka Warfaafinta u furay dowladda Federalka Somalia ayaa is xiray,todobaad kadib ,waxayna Saraakiisha la shaqeeyso Wasiir Farxaan tilmaameen inuu yahay nin ka aradan aqoonta Wasaaradda uu ku magacaaban yahay.

 

Xeeldheerayaasha Saxaafadda waxay hore u dhaliileen Website-ka uu Wasiirka Warfaafinta u furay dowladda,iyagoo ku sifeeyay nin aan kala aqoon .com, .net,Org iyo .Gov.

 

"Website-ka uu Wasiir Farxaan furay wuxuu ka turjumayaa Network ee dowlad iyo Qaran kama turjumayo maxaa yeelay TfgSomalia.net,waa network isku xiran,waa ceeb,waana nasiib daro in dowlad qaran loo furo.website .net ah,waxaa laga doonayaa inuu ka dhigo TfgSomalia.gov,hadan a nasiib daro iyadoo ay joogaan Weriyeyaashii Warfaafinta u lahaa aqoonta durugsan wuxuu Wasiirka farta ka saaray Wiil lagu magacaabo Mahad Maxamed Sheekh Siidow,oo uu abti u yahay,hada todobaad kadib wuu is xiray"sidaas waxaa yiri,Agaasimaha guud ee Xafiiska Ra'isulwasaaraha Awaale Ali Kulan oo Waagacusub siiyay xog waran kooban.

 

Awaale Ali Kulan wuxuu sidoo kale fadeexad ku sheegay in Wiilka uu abtiga u yahay Farxaan Ali Gaban ee lagu magacaabo Mahad uu,si sharci daraa ugu diray shir lagu qabtay Shiinaha oo ay ku kulmayeen dhalinyaradda Africa iyo China.

 

Wasiirka Sports-ka iyo dhalinyaradda Saleebaan Colaad Rooble ayaa la soo weriyay inuu aad uga xumaaday xadgudubka lagu fara marooqsaday qeyb ka mida awooda Wasaaradda uu ka yahay madaxa.

 

Website-ka is xiray ee dowladda waxaa sameeysay hay'adda Mareykanka ee NDI lana shaqeeysa dowladda Federalka Somalia hasse yeeshee waxay fadeexada aloosan tahay inuu is xiray todobaad gudahiis,taas oo muujineeysa aqoonyarida heysata Wasiirka Warfaafinta Somalia.

 

Dowladda Somalia waxay u baahan tahay inay dhisto Telefishin,Idaacad,W argeys iyo Website,lagala socdo siyaasadeeda iyo guulaha ay ku tilaabsato balse sida dareenku yahay waxaa yar daacadnimada madaxda sare ee dowladda.

 

39 sano kadib waa nasiib daro in kuraastii Xukumadda iyo guud ahaan dowladda loogu tagrifalayo qaab qabiil,waana sheeko aan laga ilbixin in la arko Wasiir wiil uu dhalay,abti,adeer u yahay uga faa'iideeynayo shaqo uusan aqoon u lahayn,ayna joogaan dadkii u ehelka ahaa.

 

Madaxda dowladda Somalia iyo Xukumadda taageerta ee Washington waxaa looga baahan yahay inay ka gudbaan xeerka oranaya,yuu yahay,ee ay isweeydiiyaan muxuu yaqaan,muxuuse qaban karaa maxaa yeelay Mogadishu maanta shaqo loogama helo maxaad taqaan ee waxaa ilinka hore ku dhegan yaad tahay,kumaad tahay!!