AU meeting in Abuja starts: Somali President present

[General Duke]

While Dahir Riyaale is on holiday in Cape Town, the AU meeting starts.

 

 

 

Shirkii afaraad ee Midowga Afrika oo Maanta ka Furmay Dalka Nigeria

- Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 18:08

 

Madaxda Midowga Africa ayaa shir laba maalmood soconaya Maanta 30/01/2005 uga furmay Magaalada Abuja ee Dalka Nigeria. waxaana kasii horeeyey shir laba maalmood soconayey oo ay yeesheen Wasiirada Arimaha Dibadda ee dalalka Africa, kasoo loogu sii gogol xaarayey agendayaasha ay ka wadahadli doonaa Madaxda Africa maanta iyo Barito. shirkaan oo ah kii afaraad oo ay yeeshaan midowga africa tan iyo intii ladhisay ayaa waxaa looga hadlayaa xal uhelidda dhibaatooyinka (conflicts) ka aloosan qaaradda, iyo sidii Midowga Africa ugu yeelanlahaa matalayaal Golaha Amaanka ee Qaramada Midoobay.

 

Isbadalka la doonayo in lagu sameeyo Qaramada Midoobay ayey Qaaradda Africa donaysaa inay si wayn uga faa'idaysato. waxaana ka mida isbadallkaas, Golaha Amaanka oo ka koobnaa shan dowladood (USA, Britain, France, Rushia iyo China) oo lagu siyaadinayo lix dowladood, iyadoo loo qaybsanayo sidan: Africa 2xubnood, Asia 2 xubnood,Europe 1xubin iyo Koonfurta America oo hal xubin ah. Mid kamida labada xubnood ee lasiinayo Africa ayaa waxaan muran la'aan lasiinayaa Dowladda Koonfur AFrica, iyadoo xubinta labaadna ay ku tartamayaan Dalalka Masar iyo Nigeria.

 

Madaxweynaha Dalka Masar, Xusni Mubarak ayaa kasoo qaybgalay shirkan lagu qabanayo Nigeria, isagoo muddo toban sano ah ka maqnaa shirarka Africa, kadib markii koox dabley ahi isku dayeen inay ku dileen Magalada Addisababa ee xarunta Africa, isagoo kasoo qaybgalay shirkii OAU ee 1995. kasoo qaybgalkiisaan ayaa lagu macneeyey inuu doonayo inuu adkeeyo Diplomasiyadda Dalkiisa iyo tartanka uu ugu jiro xubinta labaad ee Golaha Amaanka ee lasiiyey qaaradda Africa oo dalka Nigeria ku tartamayaan.

 

Madaxda ayaa sidoo kale uga hadlaya shirkaan Amniga cuntada ( food security) iyo la dagaalanka cudurada sida wayn ufaafa oo ay ka midyihiin, Aidska, Malaariyada, Qaaxada iyo Dabayshu, iyo Agendayaal ay soo bandhigeen qaar kamida Dalalka xubinta ka ah Midowga Africa.

 

Madaxweynaha Libya Col. Mucamar Alqadafi oo aha maskaxdii ka danbaysay aasaaskii Midowga Africa ayaa soo bandhigay in Midowgu yeesho Wasiirada, Arimaha Dibadda, Difaaca iyo Isgaarsiinta (transportation).

 

Midowga Africa ayaa culays wayni kaga imaanayaa sidii ay u xalin lahaayeen Dhibaatooyinka ka aloosan Dalalka, Congo, Burundi, Ivory Coast iyo Dibudhiska Somaliya iyo sidii Ciidamo hubkadhigis ah loogu diri lahaa, iyadoo DKF Somaliya ee hadda kusugan Dalka Kenya ay bilaabayso sidii ay uga hawlgali lahayd dalka Somaliya Maalmaha nagu soo foodleh. wuxuuna horay ugu dhawaaqay Midowga Africa in ciidamo loo dirayo Somaliya, iyadoo uu shirkaas Soomaaliya uga qaybgalayo wafdi uu hogaaminayo madaxweynaha DKF Soomaaliya Md. Cabdullaahi Yusuf Axmed, waxaana jirtay in uu Wasiirka Amniga ee DKF Somaliya, Md. Maxamed Qanyare Afrax uusoo bandhigay golaha xukuumada Soomaaliya qaabkii ay ciidamada African ka ahi ushaqayn lahaayeen iyo sidii hubkadhigista loo samayn lahaa, qorshahaas oo marka uu kasoo gudbo golaha xukuumada la horkeeni doonaa Barlamaanka oo haddii uu aqbalo hirgali doonaa 14 bari kadib markii uu saxiixo Madaxweynaha DKF Somaliya.

 

Faysal Gabanow

 

Addisababa, Ethiopia.

 

email: fcgabanow@hotmail.com

[General Duke]

Kibaki leaves for AU meeting

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By Francis Openda

 

President Mwai Kibaki flew out to Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday for the Africa Union Heads of States special summit.

 

The President and his entourage flew out of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 1 pm for the four-day tour.

 

With him were First Lady Lucy Kibaki, Foreign Affairs Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere, East Africa Cooperation Minister John Koech and Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Esther Tolle.

 

Others include Permanent Secretary Stanley Murage, Kenya’s Ambassador to the African Union, Mr Boaz Mbaya, Kenya’s special envoys to the Somalia and Sudan Peace talks, Bethwel Kiplagat and Lazurus Sumbeiywo, respectively.

 

Information Minister Raphael Tuju, Civil Service Head Francis Muthaura, Chief of General Staff Raymond Kibwana, Police Commissioner Major-General Hussein Ali, and service commanders saw the President off at the airport.

 

The Abuja Forum is expected to discuss the Somalia and Sudan peace process, as well as conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Great Lakes region.

 

The AU with the support of the United Nations, is expected to send a peace-keeping force to Somalia to help the new government, currently in Nairobi, settle down.

[General Duke]

Make 2005 a 'turning point', UN's Annan tells African Union summit

01-30-2005, 18h51

 

 

 

Pius Utomi Ekpei - (AFP)

ABUJA (AFP) - This year could be a "turning point" for Africa, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said at a summit of the 53-member African Union, urging pan-African cooperation to resolve conflicts on the world's poorest continent.

 

"Africa has an indispensable contribution to make in ensuring that 2005 becomes a turning point for the continent, the United Nations and the world," the Ghana-born Annan told the gathering of some 40 heads of state.

 

"It can bring to the process a deep understanding of the hopes and aspirations not only of Africa but the whole developing world."

 

Heads of state including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, attending his first African summit in a decade, were to have devoted much of the summit to debate rival proposals that would expand Africa's leadership role at the United Nations, under a prospective revamp of the powerful Security Council.

 

But after clear disagreements emerged on the issue during three days of preliminary talks by foreign ministers, forum organizers opted to convene a separate meeting.

 

Representatives from 15 countries will gather in Swaziland from February 20 to 22 to discuss the two options: whether Africa will pitch for two permanent seats on the council or for four seats with three-year rotating terms, AU officials said.

 

Working behind closed doors, the heads of state turned their focus to the long-running conflicts that have hamstrung development for the 830 million people on the continent, 300 million of whom live in abject poverty.

 

"Africa has a disproportionate share of the world's poor and lags behind other parts of the developing world in achieving the Millennium Development Goals as it continues to suffer the tragic consequences of deadly conflict and poor governance," Annan said.

 

Without bold development strategies and the fulfillment of existing financial assistance compacts, few countries on the continent will meet the goals laid out in 2000 to halve the number of people in poverty and improve access to water and sanitation by 2015, he said.

 

"If security does not improve, development is impossible," said AU commissioner Alpha Oumar Konare in his keynote address.

 

Eradicating AIDS and other diseases such as polio and malaria also figures on the agenda of the fourth summit of the body created in 2001 to replace the unwieldy and ineffective Organization of African Unity.

 

AIDS kills some 6,000 people per day on the continent and has reduced the average life expectancy to 40 years in nine African countries. The figures for malaria, and polio -- virtually eradicated in the rest of the world -- are equally sobering.

 

"The poverty and infections diseases such as AIDS which affect so many millions every year in Africa are among the gravest threats to international peace and security," Annan said.

 

The heads of state grappled with the problems gripping Sudan, as they have for more than two decades. Although the conflict between northern and southern Sudan appears to have been resolved, a second war has devastated the country's western Darfur region for the past two years, claiming some 70,000 lives and causing an exodus of 1.6 million people in the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

 

The rebuilding of post-anarchic Somalia, instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo more than two years since a peace pact was signed to end five years of civil war, and restive Burundi were also key topics of discussion, officials told AFP.

 

"Let us show to the world that we can really tackle and solve African issues," Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, chairman of the AU, said in his keynote speech.

 

Ivory Coast's two years of crisis again took center stage at the AU meeting, following an inconclusive result from the January 11 meeting in the Gabon capital Libreville of the body's Peace and Security Council.

 

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and the AU-appointed mediator to the west African state, South African President Thabo Mbeki, held early morning talks and were expected to meet again before the summit wrapped up on Monday.

 

"Other heads of state are trying to soften the ground for the mediation so that the options will be clearly presented to Gbagbo," a UN official said on condition of anonymity.

 

"This is really a last chance for Ivory Coast, because they have exhausted all of their options, and the heads of state are growing tired of this."

 

The summit opened with a minute of silence to remember the more than 280,000 victims of the December 26 earthquake and tsunami disaster, which claimed some 300 lives in the Horn of Africa state of Somalia.

[General Duke]

African Union summit begins

 

 

Sunday 30 January 2005, 13:30 Makka Time, 10:30 GMT

 

 

Togan nationals welcome delegates to the talks in Nigeria

 

 

The fourth summit of the 53-member African Union has opened in Abuja to discuss conflicts on the world's poorest continent and assess the impact of diseases such as AIDS, malaria and polio.

 

 

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday joined heads of state including Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo, chairman of the AU, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Egyptian President Husni Mubarak for the two-day gathering in the Nigerian capital.

 

The heads of state will base their talks largely on a series of draft resolutions worked out over three days by their foreign ministers, primarily focusing on two proposals to expand Africa's representation on the powerful UN Security Council under planned reforms of the 15-member body.

 

Conflict resolution

 

The summit will also be used to hammer out African solutions to African problems, including the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast as well as the humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region of Sudan.

 

A decision is also expected on Somalia, where a new government was provisionally installed earlier this month, in a bid to fill a 14-year power vacuum in the Horn of Africa state.

 

Talks were under way on Sunday morning before the summit between Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and Mbeki, appointed in November as the AU's mediator in the two-year civil war in the west African state.

 

The Ivory Coast conflict was the main focus of the AU's Peace and Security Council at a meeting on 11 January in the Gabonese capital Libreville, but little headway was made in reconciling the divided country, the world's top cocoa producer.

 

Annan, who arrived in Abuja after lobbying for African debt relief at the annual World Economic Forum of the global elite in Davos, Switzerland, was expected to meet with reporters after the opening ceremony at the International Conference Centre.

[Qudhac]

i see the begging bowl is still being circlelated in foreign lands please help me find a country to be president of is c/y motto.

 

That article homeless president comes to mind

[General Duke]

Qudac. Going to an AU meeting as head of the Somali state is not the same as claiming to be the orphans of Queen Elizabeth now thats absurd right

[Mohamed nuur]

Originally posted by Duke_Valantino:

Qudac. Going to an AU meeting as head of the Somali state is not the same as claiming to be the orphans of Queen Elizabeth now thats absurd right

And not only that, i cant believe Somalilands believe they are diffrent people just because they were occupied by british for 3 to 10 year round.

 

Yeah, Italy occupied somalia too. did you ever see any somali saying they are but of the italy nation, no. we moved on, somali like you should be put to death. not because they said what you said but they should be put to death because they bring anything to but failure to the nation.

[Suldaanka]

^^^ Now we are talking, Morgan II in the making. :eek: :eek:

 

 

Duke

"orphans of Queen Elizabeth"

 

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this. I noticed its your favourite of references.

[Grad Student]

In this quagmire, The Somaliland case would have to come up at some point. As a Somali, who does not like the idea any more than uninformed/oppressed/abused/ masses, along with the power-hungry intellectuals, some sort of political solution would have to be developed. Name-calling is not the answer. "somaliland" or not, they are our brothers and sisters. At the end of the day, they speak Somali and we are Somali.

Remember the idea of Nationalism is simple, as it is a new phenomena of Western construct in Westphalia in 1648.

I LOVE SOMALIS EVERYWHERE.

 

P.S. I despise the idea of separating Somalia any further than has already done. In fact, I am sick of it! Than Again, I am just a poor citizen.

[Jumatatu]

Originally posted by Mohamed nuur:

somali like you should be put to death. not because they said what you said but they should be put to death because they bring anything to but failure to the nation.

Bisinka..! Am glad the admin made SOL a weapons free zone...damn just to think what this trigger happy dude would have caused...

[General Duke]

Suldanka

"orphans of Queen Elizabeth"

Give me a break dude, all you need to do is ask your FM miss Edna whats her name. Hell yeah its a wonderful statement, giving an insight into the myth based ideology of our brothers up in the North West

[Garyaqaan2]

mohamed nuur.

 

Yeah, Italy occupied somalia too. did you ever see any somali saying they are but of the italy nation, no. we moved on, somali like you should be put to death. not because they said what you said but they should be put to death because they bring anything to but failure to the nation.

 

 

well said sxb .

 

 

about a weak ago one of my classmates was ask what is the different between north of somlia and south of somalia. there was the answer, couse north of somalia was occupied britsh. so now we are happy, couse we were slaves of italy and britsh.

 

alot people are very happy becouse britsh occupied them :confused:

[Mohamed nuur]

Hopefully the Presidnet of the future nation or any future of somalia will represent us.

 

I always wondered why we had to solve our proplems with the gun rather than diplomacy, negotiation, and comprimises. cant we, or are we incapable of doing such things as the above.