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[General Duke]

BARI NOMAD,

 

THanks for the post about the returning Somali's. I hadn't come across that one, it was quite informative.

[General Duke]

Beesha uu ka dhashay siyaasiga Gacmo Dheere oo taageertay musharaxnimada Col. C/llaahi Yuusuf

 

Sida uu saaka daabacay wargeyska Codka Xoriyadda ee maalinlaha kana soo baxa magaalada Muqdisho cadadkiisii 702-aad ayaa wuxuu sheegay in beesha reer Xaaji Saleebaan oo ka mid ah beelaha H./GEDIR oo uu ka dhashay siyaasiga lagu magacaabo Max’ed Max’ud Guuleed (Gacmo Dheere) ayaa noqotay beeshii ugu horreysay ee taageerta musharaxnimada madaxweynaha maamul goboleedka Puntland Col. C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed oo isagu ah siyaasi ka soo jeeda beelaha D.A.R.OD .

 

 

Beesha Reer Xaaji Saleebaan ayey wararku sheegayaan in ay aad u soo dhaweysay musharaxnimada C/llaahi Yuusuf iyadoo C/llaahi Yuusuf oo horey booqasho howleed ula soo maray deegaanada Puntland xiriiriyaha dallada Aragtida xisbiyada siyaasadeed ee dalka Dr. Max’ed Max’ud Guuleed (Gacmo Dheere) oo ka mid ahaa musharaxiintii shirkii Carte kana qeyb galaya hadda shirka ka soconaya Mbaghati.

 

Warar ku dhow dhow beesha oo uu ka soo jeedo Gacmo dheere ayaa waxey sheegayaan in ay magacaabeen guddi qaabilsan taageerida C/llaahi Yuusuf iyo sidii loogu ololeyn lahaa musharaxnimadiisa waxaana guddigaasi ka mid ah sida qoraalka wargeyska Codka Xoriyada ku soo baxay saaka xubno ay ka mid yihiin Daahir Rooble Warfaa, Siciid Siyaad Shirwac, Salaad Yuusuf Dhoole Yare, Max’ed Xasan Barow, Max’ed Cabdulle Furre, Xildhibaan Cabdi Faarax Jaamac (Cabdi dheere), Cusmaan Abti Doon iyo xubno kale.

 

 

Wariye Cabdishakuur Cilmi Xasan ,Dayniile,Muqdisho,Somaliya

[General Duke]

Qaar Ka Mid Ah beelaha H.A.W.I.Y.E Oo taageeray

 

HobyoNet Muqdisho.Talaado,22-July-03.

 

 

 

Wararka naga soo gaaraya magaalada Neyroobi ayaa sheegaya in shirar ay lahaayeen beesha xaaji Saleebaan ee ********** oo looga hadlaayay xaalada shirka & Mowqifkooda ku aadan. Waxaana ka soo qeyb galay Siyaasiyiinta, waxgaradka & Odayaasha dhaqanka, ayaa la sheegay iney go’aansadeen iney taageeraan musharaxnimada Col. Cabdullaahi Yuusuf, waxeyna noqoneysaa beeshii ugu horreysay ee ku dhawaaqdo taageerida musharax aan ka soo jeedin beelaha HAWEYE, iyadoo sida la ogyahay Mr. Maxamed Max’uud Gacma-dheere oo ah siyaasi u dhashay beesha uu dhowaan booqday Gobolada Puntland ahna ninka ka dambeeyay musharaxnimada Col. Cabdullaahi Yuusuf.

[BN]

SNW,

 

Thanks. I try to add what I can.

 

 

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Foreign Powers Stalk Peace Talks

 

Ken Opala

Nairobi

 

Somali delegate Hawa Kheri protests after being thrown out of the talks at the Kenya College of Communications Technology, Mbagathi, Nairobi. She was one of the 170 delegates ejected for allegedly using fake cards to register.

 

It is about 11am on Friday. Somali delegates are clustered in groups. The ambience is relaxed yet the voices are mere murmurs.

 

Four groups are in the tea room on the second floor of the Kenya College of Communication Technology (KCCT) hotel while outside at the entrance, on the tarmac parking bay, are perhaps half a dozen people.

 

About four diplomatic cars are parked outside the hotel. The "observers" are from Egypt, Italy, Djibouti, United Nations, Arab League, Ethiopia, the UK, and the US. In low tones, these diplomats coach the delegates on how to influence the deliberations.

 

This is characteristic of the Somali peace and reconciliation talks at the KCCT, Mbagathi, in Nairobi's outskirts, nine months after former President Daniel arap Moi assembled protagonists around a ceasefire table.

 

But who are are these "observers"?

 

"People are here to pursue own interests. In fact, one would say that Somalia is up for grabs," says a delegate from Somaliland, the renegade region whose "head of State" has snubbed the Nairobi talks.

 

Mr Awad Ashara, spokesperson for Puntland region, talks of vested interests at play "outside the meeting rather than inside".

 

Kenya is impartial, he told this writer earlier in the week. "Kiplagat is a very, very compassionate and respectable, conciliatory person, he is an all-inclusive," he says of the Kenya Government's appointed mediator, Mr Bethuel Kiplagat.

 

As the Somaliland delegate talks, an Italian envoy in Kenya emerges from the building sandwiched between five elderly Somalis, all chatting away in Italian.

 

This writer tries to stop him for a question or two but he says he is in a hurry. "Call me in the office and let's see whether we can set up an appointment."

 

A representative of the Arab League gestures, saying: "The talks are going ahead all right but there are little things here and there we feel strongly about."

 

He abruptly pauses, stealing a glance at an approaching delegate. Then his voice drops, and he momentarily stops mid-sentence until the passer-by disappears. "We are not comfortable with the federal system and we want Arabic language to be retained in Somalia. These two issues are top on our agenda".

 

He adds: "The unity of the Somali people has to be highlighted. This is very important".

 

The observer has made it known to the delegation that Somalia's continuity in the Arab League depended on whether or not the country retained Arabic as the official language.

 

According to a British envoy, the Somalia negotiations "show a bit of a way to go". But there was hope, he said.

 

Interestingly, the presence of the US at KCCT has been erratic. However, an American of Somali origin has been constantly monitoring the discussions.

 

The ghosts of foreign interference have refused to leave the backyard. Last Tuesday, a number of delegates accused the Egyptian ambassador to Somalia of backing the current President of the Transition National Government, Mr Abdikassim Salat.

 

Mr Salat has been the lone voice against federalism, a stance that has infuriated his critics. In a letter to the just-concluded African Union summit in Maputo, Mozambique, dated July 9, 2003, a number of delegates asked the Union to banish Mr Salat for "being against" Nairobi negotiations.

 

About 21 signatories said since the Nairobi talks had made breakthrough in adopting a charter and laid the structure for a transition government that would guide them for the next four years, Mr Salat should not speak as president. His mandate, they said, had been cancelled by the new charter.

 

"The TNG president failed to implement the charter (that asked for federalism) for the two years he has been in power. In fact, that is why he is opposed to the charter," says Mr Ashara, who is also Puntland's minister for Justice.

 

But Mr Salat blames his predicament on neighbouring Ethiopia which, he says, has sponsored Somali rebels to frustrate his reconstruction efforts. "In short, Ethiopia's strategy is to undermine the re-emergence of a strong, united and vibrant Somalia," he says.

 

Some people call the negotiations "the scramble for Somalia", the Horn of Africa country reduced by militia to a clutter of regions.

 

The ousting of strongman Siad Barre on January 26, 1991, opened a pitched struggle of sorts. His adversaries went for the spoils on failing to agree on power-sharing. They grabbed regions populated by their own clans.

 

Unlike other African countries strewn by multi-lingual and ethnic loyalties, Somali is of one tribe: Somali. Islam is the only religion while the culture is distinctly homogeneous. Yet its own survival is in the hands of a social order knit together by clan loyalties and political disorientation, all wrapped up by decades of dictatorship since independence in 1960.

 

Soldier Barre seized power on October 21, 1969, following the assassination of then President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke a week earlier.

 

According to From Barre to Aideed, a book by former Somali ambassador to Kenya Hussein Ali Dualeh, Somalia's political order is based on kinship clans, namely: ****** , **** , Dir, ***** , Digil and ********* . And, the clanship is a weave of sub-clans.

 

Thus conflicts in the population is traced to the multiplicity of political parties, each of them drawing support and loyalty from specific clans or alliances. Currently, 60 clan-based political factions straddle the country.

 

So obvious have been fears that the clan loyalties threaten to balkanise the country, and historically, some of the big groups, such as the ****** , have insisted on cessation. Now without a central administration, Somalia is balkanised into 16 regions, each led by a warlord.

 

Mr Asmara estimates the militia force at 100,000 soldiers.

 

The peace talks enter a crucial phase tomorrow. The 400 delegates will nominate 351 MPs who will in turn elect a transitional president and Speaker of the House and two vice-Speakers.

 

These officials will have four years to oversee the disarmament of the militias, pursue reconciliation and lay the ground for a popular government.

 

Somali leaders expect the international community to fund the transition. Yet to be worked out is the amount of finances required to bring order in the country, but if the apparent involvement of foreign nations in the mediation indicates their interest, the assistance should be readily available.

 

Puntland President Abdullahi Yusuf wants the federal forces to be blended with an international force with the mandate to mop up illegal guns.

 

"If we do not do that, we will fall in the way of Salat. He has been holed up in Mogadishu and he cannot administer because he is unable to implement the charter," he says.

 

"Well, we want to immediately establish a government here and immediately disarm people and pacify the country".

 

The President of Somaliland snubbed the talks. Mr Kiplagat says Somaliland leaders declined reconciliation overtures.

 

His predecessor, Mr Elijah Mwangale, travelled to Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital to convince the leadership to take part in the negotiations but they declined. Mr Kiplagat himself sent a letter to the Somaliland administration but he received no reply.

 

Yet the talks are riven with fears that some delegates and non-governmental organisations are uncomfortable with the likely end of hostilities because that would threaten their easy money.

 

However, Kenyan scholar, Prof Ali Mazrui, says Somaliland should be let to go its way, for it has resources to sustain itself. "The situation in Somalia now is a culture of rules without rulers, a stateless society," he said last week.

 

"There is order there, they have the potential to survive". One day, he says, Somaliland will organise and get back to the larger Somalia.

 

 

http://allafrica.com/stories/200307211224.html

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SOMALIA: Peace talks to move to third and final stage

 

 

NAIROBI, 24 Jul 2003 (IRIN) - The organizers of the Somali peace talks in Kenya say a plenary session will start early next week to conclude the second phase of the conference and move on to the third and final phase.

 

James Kiboi, political and diplomatic liaison officer of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) technical committee, which is steering the conference, told IRIN that an interim charter would be submitted to the plenary session of the conference next week "for discussion and adoption".

 

Kiboi said that a consensus was emerging on the controversial issue of a charter. "We have "87 per cent agreement, and are currently working on the remaining 13 per cent. We want to ensure that once we present it at the plenary session we have as much consensus as possible", he stressed.

 

Kiboi told IRIN that once the charter was adopted, the talks would move to the third and final phase, "hopefully by next week". In this phase, members of parliament would be selected "on the basis of the 4.5 formula, the clan formula", he said.

 

This final phase involves the contentious issue of power sharing, and "will be the most difficult", a Somali delegate told IRIN.

 

"Every faction leader and every clan here wants a bigger share than they will probably get," the delegate noted. "It will take a great deal of effort to convince all of them to settle for less than what they expect."

 

Meanwhile, IGAD had started transporting Somali traditional elders to the venue of the talks, Kiboi told IRIN. "So far over 30 have been brought in and the rest will hopefully be brought in by this weekend". Kiboi said that Somalis should feel confident that the mediators "will bring to the talks all legitimate and real traditional elders", adding "all clans will have equal representation".

 

Kiboi said the elders would have a two-fold role in the final stage of the peace talks. First, they would participate in the selection of future parliamentarians, in which "they will have a significant and important role and their presence will give legitimacy to the process". Secondly, their presence "will contribute to the reconciliation of the various political leaders".

 

The third and final stage of the conference would last "three to four weeks", by which time an interim government would have been formed, Kiboi said.

 

The IGAD-sponsored talks on Somalia began in October 2002 in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, but were moved to the capital, Nairobi, in February this year.

 

 

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http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=35584&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=SOMALIA

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An International Reconnaissance Mission Arrives In Garawe.

 

July 23, 2003. HornAfrik, Mogadishu, Somalia.

 

An international reconnaissance delegation for disarmament has arrived on Tuesday in Garowe in Puntland as part of its visit in Somalia.

 

The six member delegation from the African Union IGAD Arab League and the disarmament committee of the ongoing Somali peace talks in Nairobi will collect information on ways of disarming Somalia armed militias.

 

During its visit to Garowe yesterday, the delegation toured through the town and met with officials from Puntland authority.

 

According to one member the delegation it will pave the way for the eventual deployment of African Union peace keeping forces in Somalia, after the formation of an inclusive government in Kenya.

 

The delegation has flown on Wednesday to Kardo and Bosaaso in Puntland.

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Kenyan Mediator Holds Talks With Somali Traditional Leaders.

 

July 24, 2003. HornAfrik, Mogadishu, Somalia

 

The Kenyan mediator of the ongoing Somali peace conference in Nairobi, Bethwel Kibligat, has held talks today with the Somali traditional leaders who are currently there.

 

The talks were centered on the ways of selecting members of country’s future parliament.

 

The mediator has expressed his gratitude to the elders describing them as peace makers.

 

Mr. Kibligat said the aim of his meeting with the traditional leaders was an attempt to establish an inclusive parliament for Somalia that in turn will elect a head of state.

 

He said that the 351 member parliament will be based on clan system.

 

Mr. Kibligat called for the Somali traditional and political leaders to hold consultations to from the parliament.

 

“We asked the African Union and IGAD to deploy peace keepers in Somali when an inclusive government was formed” he said

 

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TNG Condemns the Burning Of Egyptian Flag in Mogadishu

 

July 24, 2003. HornAfrik, Mogadishu, Somalia

 

The transitional national government of Somalia has fiercely condemned on the Thursday a recent demonstration that has taken place in Mogadishu in which the Egyptian flag was set on fire.

 

The second deputy chairman of the transitional assembly, Ahmed Abrone Amiin, said that those behind the burning were illiterate people.

 

He made this speech in a large meeting took part by ministers and MP’s from the transitional authority that has taken place in the compound of the former ruling party.

 

Mr. Amin said that he apologizes the Egyptian government for that act.

 

Late last week, supporters of the faction leader, Mohamed Omar Dere held a demonstration in Mogadishu to condemn the Egyptian role in the current peace talks in Nairobi.

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TNG President Promises to Hand over Power.

 

July 24, 2003. HornAfrik, Mogadishu, Somalia.

 

The president of the transitional national government of Somali, Abdikasim Salat Hassan, whose mandate is abut to end with in a week, has said last night that his government will hand over power if an alternative one is established in Kenya where the Somali peace conference is currently underway.

 

In a wide range interview with the Arabic television channel, Al-jaszira, Mr. Salat described his task as an uphill one which needs patience and courage.

 

He reiterated his accusations to Ethiopia saying his government in Mogadishu could have done far more in the three years of its existence had it not been daily interference of Ethiopia in Somalia’s international affairs.

 

Speaking about the issue of the self declared republic of Somaliland, Mr. Salat said that Somalia’s unity was unassailable.

 

“It rests with Somali’s to choose what ever system they want” he said in reply to a question put to him about federalism.

 

When asked how his government managed all foreign funds it received the president said.

 

“We got not funds from the European Union, we only received a little from the Arab league and we used it to reinstate the country’s army for the first time in ten years”

 

Mr. Salat has underlined the necessity to deploy an international the peace keeping forces in Somalia to disarm and rehabilitate the country’s armed militias.

 

He was elected three years ago at Somalia’s peace conference in Djabuti with a mandate to restore peace and stability in the country but there has been a little one the ground.

 

They accused Egypt of trying to undermine the peace process.

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Shirka Somalida, Wakhti go'an oo loo qabtay ansixinta dastuurka, dhismaha barlamaanka iyo doorashada Madaxweynaha - Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 09:18

 

Nairobi, (AllPuntland)- Warar AllPuntland ka heshay wargalo jooga Nairobi ayaa xaqiijinaya in gudiga farsamada Igad ee shirka Somalida ay qorshe cayiman u dajiyeen wajiga seddexaad ee shirka, waxaana jira digniino la siiyay madaxda kooxaha.

 

Warka ayaa sheegaya in todobaadka inaku soo fool leh iyo bilowga todobaadka soosocda loo qorsheeyay in la ansixiyo dastuurka ay ku dhaqmi doonto dawlada Somaliya la filayo in halkaas loogu dhiso, iyadoo dastuurkaas qodobadiisii ugu adkaa kooxuhu ay ka heshiiyeen 5-tii bishaan.

 

Ugu dambayn 10-ka bisha inagu soo fool leh ee August ayaa loo qorsheeyay in lasoo xulo xubnaha baarlamaanka dawlada fedaraalka Somaliya yeelan doonto, mudadaas oo laba maalmood uun ka horaysa marka uu wakhtigu ka dhamaanayo Baarlamaankii tuulada Carta ee dalka Jabuuti lagu soo dhisay.

 

16-ka August 2003 waxaa loo qorsheeyay sida warku sheegayo in la doorto madaxweynaha dawlada Federaalka Somaliya, wakhtigaas oo todobaad uun ka horaysa marka xiligu uu ka dhamaanayo Cabdiqaasim Salaad Xasan jagii Carta loogu soo doortay ee madaxweyne nimada DKMG ah.

 

Wararka ayaa sheegaya in qorshahaan wixii la saanqaadi waaya aan shirku u hakanayn oo loo dayndoono inay dhamaystirto dawlada la dhisayo.

 

Warka ayaa intaas ku daraya in gudiga shirka hagaya ee IGAD iyo dawladaha taageerayaba ay isla garteen inay gacan adag ku qabtaan wajiga saddexaad ee shirka oo la filayo inuu noqdo kan ugu adag marxaladihii uu soomaray shirka Somalidu, marka laga eego isagoo ah kii xubnaha dawlada Somaliya hagi lahaa lagu dhisayo, qodobkaan oo ah kan ugu wayn ee Somalidu isku haysay.

 

Warar ku dhaw dhaw madaxda kooxaha ayaa sheegaya in ka qaybgalayaasha shirka markaan la siiyay digniino kama dambeys ah iyo hanjabaad sharci ah oo laga dhabeyn doono sida la sheegay, lama faahfaahin waxa ay noqondoonaan talabooyinka laga qaadi doono cidii loo aqoonsado inay carqaladaynayso wajiga saddexaad ee shirka.

 

Inkastoo qorshahaan ay u dajiyeen gudiga farsamada IGAD ee shirku haddana waxbaa iska badali kara qorshahaan wakhtiyadiisa cayiman, marka loo eego wakhtiyo gudoomiyaha shirku Mr. Kiblagat uu horay ugu qabtay shirku inuu kusoo gabogaboobi doono, wuxuuse warku sheegayaa in gudiga farsamada IGAD ee shirka Somalida markaan la siiyay awood dheeraad ah oo uu shirka ku gunaanado.

 

Shirka Somalida uga socda Kenya ayaa magaalada galbeedka Kenya ku taal ee Eldoret ka furmay 15-kii Oktoobar 2002, iyadoo xiligaas dheer ee shirku soo jiitamayay ay sabab u ahayd iyadoo ay jireen isqabqabsi badan oo u dhexeeyay dhinacada Somalida ee shirka ka qaybgalayay iyadoo haddana farta lagu fiiqayay kooxo aan doonayn in shirku guul gaaro, kuwaas oo wali tuhumo badan laga qabo.

 

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