President Yusuf welcomed in Baidoa + Meeting to start..Pics

[General Duke]

Madaxweyne Yuusuf oo si weyn loogu soo dhaweeyay Baydhabo

 

Baydhabo 25 Feb. 06 ( Sh.M.Network) Madaxweynaha dowladda FS C/laahi Yuusuf Axmed iyo wafdi uu hogaaminayo ayaa si weyn loogu soo dhaweeyay magaalada Baydhabo oo lagu wado in maalinta berri ah uu ka furmo kulanka BFS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Somali president calls for deal to avert anarchy

25 Feb 2006 17:40:08 GMT

 

Source: Reuters

 

By Guled Mohamed

 

BAIDOA, Somalia, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Somalia's president urged the interim parliament on Saturday to act to stave off anarchy on the eve of its first session on home soil since one held in Kenya a year ago that was marred by fist-fights.

 

President Abdullahi Yusuf landed at an airstrip outside the south-central city of Baidoa and appealed to assembly members to reach a final deal to end a paralysing government split.

 

He joined parliament Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, titular head of a rival faction, and more than 200 members of parliament already in town for Sunday's session.

 

The 275-member parliament is to meet for the first time in Somalia. It met in March in neighbouring Kenya and proceedings ended in fist fights, chair-throwing and a smashed ballot box.

 

That solidified a rift in the government and Somali MPs say this meeting, agreed by Yusuf and Hassan last month, is the last best hope to rejuvenate the faltering administration.

 

"We want to urge our colleagues from the cabinet and the parliament to end their differences so we can save the people of Somalia from anarchy," Yusuf told reporters after arriving. "We want to ensure we come up with a lasting agreement here."

 

Hundreds of supporters braved the heavy downpour that coincided with Yusuf's arrival -- the first in months in the drought-ridden region -- and lined the potholed streets of Baidoa, dubbed the "City of Death" during a 1992 famine.

 

More than 1,000 gunmen have been forced outside Baidoa, a city of 800,000 around 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Mogadishu. Uniformed police only will be allowed in the city.

 

Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi is due to arrive on Sunday. Foreign diplomats are expected too.

 

Parliamentarians said it was not clear whether a powerful coterie of Mogadishu warlords including National Security Minister Mohamed Qanyare would attend.

 

MILITIA VIOLENCE

 

Militias backing the Mogadishu warlords clashed with those loyal to the capital's Islamic courts last week, killing at least 38 in the worst violence in the city in recent memory.

 

Though a ceasefire has been in place since Tuesday, residents say negotIations are not finished.

 

Qanyare and the other warlords lead the faction that split with Yusuf and his allies over where the government should first be located and if foreign peacekeepers should be allowed in.

 

Those debates top parliament's agenda on Sunday, along with basic issues like establishing committees.

 

Formed in late 2004 in Kenya, this government represents the 14th attempt to restore central authority to a country whose last national president was ousted in 1991.

 

Now the government is based in Jowhar, 90 km (56 miles) north of the capital, and Yusuf and his allies say Mogadishu cannot be the government's base until it is freed from the control of warlords.

 

The warlords, Hassan and almost half of parliament say the capital must be the seat of government as the interim constitution demands.

 

Since parliament last met the two sides have boosted their weapons stocks in defiance of a U.N. weapons embargo.

[SOO MAAL]

Somali MPs look to legislate, a year after brawling

24 Feb 2006 13:24:24 GMT

 

Source: Reuters

 

By Guled Mohamed

 

BAIDOA, Somalia, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Nearly a year after they brawled, threw chairs and punches at each other in Kenya, Somalia's interim parliament is to meet inside the anarchic country for the first time.

 

The parliament will meet in the city of Baidoa, seen as a neutral venue away from the capital Mogadishu, seat of powerful warlords, and Jowhar, temporary home of the interim government.

 

President Abdullahi Yusuf and Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan on Jan. 5 agreed to hold a parliament meeting inside Somalia within 30 days in a bid to reactivate their faltering government after more than a year of paralysis.

 

At the previous session last March deputies threw chairs and punched one another at a posh hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, where the government was set up in 2004 in the 14th attempt to restore central authority to a country whose last national president was ousted in 1991.

 

"People really need a government. We hope this time parliament will meet and work peacefully to end the anarchy in our country," speaker Hassan told Reuters.

 

Hassan said the MPs plan to choose committees, decide on how long they will meet and revisit the debate over allowing in foreign peacekeepers.

 

LAST BEST HOPE

 

In what many call the last best hope for this administration more than 100 MPs have come to the city.

 

They arrive outside the town in motorcades escorted by pickup trucks known as "technicals," carrying heavy machine guns and militiamen chewing the amphetamine-like qat leaf.

 

"No guns or technicals will be allowed in the town, only 400 uniformed policemen will be patrolling the city," local elder Mahamud Haji Mohamed told Reuters.

 

More than 1,000 gunmen have camped outside Baidoa, a city of 800,000 around 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Mogadishu, he said.

 

Foreign diplomats, President Yusuf and Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi, who some MPs have said they want to remove, should arrive on Saturday.

 

"We have not met since March 17 when we fought in Nairobi's Grand Regency hotel. Now we are friends," Mogadishu MP Abdirashad Aden Abdullhi told his former foe, Jowhar-based MP Hassan Isak Yaqub, as the two hugged.

 

The two MPs symbolise one of the main rifts in the government, namely where it should make its initial home.

 

The government is based in Jowhar, 90 km (56 miles) north of the capital and Yusuf and his allies say Mogadishu cannot be the government's base until it is freed from the control of warlords.

 

Mogadishu warlords in the cabinet, speaker Hassan and almost half of the 275-member parliament say the capital must be the seat of government as the interim constitution demands.

 

Since parliament last met the two sides have boosted their weapons stocks in defiance of a U.N. weapons embargo.

 

A number of hotels and restaurants have sprung up or been spruced up for the meeting in Baidoa, dubbed the "City of Death" during a 1992 famine that killed hundreds of thousands.

 

Drought threatens the country with famine again this year, according to the the United Nations.

 

Dozens of shoeshine boys have set up shop on the pot-holed streets, looking for work to relieve their crushing poverty.

 

"I think it will be good if we have a government because then I can get a better job than shining shoes," one of the boys, Kamal Mohamed, said.

[SOO MAAL]

War dheeraad ah oo ku saabsan Safarka Madaxweyne C/Laahi Yuusuf ee Baydhabo

Posted to the Web Feb 25, 16:07

 

 

Baydhabo:- Wafdi ballaaran oo isugu jira wasiiro iyo xildhibaano uu horkacayo Madaxweyne C/laahi Yuusuf Axmed ooka amababaxay magaalada Jowhar ayaa waxaa lagu soo warramayaa goor dhaw diyaaradii ay lasocdeen wafdiga madaxweynaha in ay caga dhigatay garoonka diyaaradaha ee magaalada Baydhabo.

 

Madaxweyne C/laahi Yuusuf oo ay socdaalkiisa ku wehliyeen gudoomiye ku xigeenka 1aad ee baarlamanka Prof. Max’ed Cumar Dalxa, gudoomiiye ku xigeenka 2aad Cusman Cilmi Boqorre, wasiirka dhulka iyo deegaamaynta Mowliid Macaane Maxamuud iyo xubno kale ayaa waxaa si diirran loogu soo dhaweeyay garoonka magaalada Baydhabo.

 

Soo dhaweyntooda ay waxaa kaqeyb galay qaar kamid ah xubnaha labada gole oo uu horkacayay gudoomiyaha baarlamanka Shariif Xasan Sheekh Aadan, masuuliyiinta magaalada Baydhabo, waxgarad iyo dadweyne aad u fara badan oo hareer safnaa wadooyinka kasoo baxa garoonka ee soo gasha magaalada Baydhabo.

 

Madaxweyne Yuusuf oo guri weyn looga diyaariyay magaalada Baydhabo ayaa waxaa lagu wadaa shir jaraa’id in uu ku qabto magaalada Baydhabo, kaasoo uu uga hadlayo socdaalkiisa uu kutagay Baydhabo oo ah kii ugu horreeyay oo uu ku tago tan iyo markii loo doortay xilka madaxweynanimada Soomaaliya,iyadoo maantana magaalada uu roob ka da'ay.

 

Dhanka kale Ra’iisul wasaare Geedi iyo wafdi uu horkacayo oo iyagana isuga jira wasiiro iyo xildhibaano ayaa waxaa lagu wadaa aroorta hore ee maalinta berrito ah inay ka soo ambabaxaan magaalada Jowhar.

 

Kalfadhiga Baarlamanka ayaa waxa uu muuqdaa mid qabsoomaya maadaama tirada xildhibaanada golaha baarlamanka ee loo baahan yahay in uu ku buuxsamo kooranka ay ka gadubtay intii loo baahnaa oo ah 138 mudane, iyadoo tirada xildhibaanada ku sugan magaalada Baydhabo ay iminka sii caga cagaynayso 200 oo mudane.

 

Halgan.net.

C/qaadir Osman

Xafiska Muqdisho.

[SOO MAAL]

Chronology of Somalia's collapse, peace talks

24 Feb 2006 13:39:40 GMT

 

Source: Reuters

 

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Feb 24 (Reuters) - Somalia's parliament will meet in the country on Feb. 26 for the first time since it was formed in Kenya more than a year ago.

 

A leadership split hindered its attempt to impose authority on the nation which has been controlled by warlords since the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Here is a short chronology of Somalia since then:

 

Nov 17, 1991 - Power struggle between rival clan warlords Mohamed Farah Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohamed erupts into violence. Thousands of civilians are killed and wounded. In early 1992, the rival warlords sign a U.N.-sponsored ceasefire but fail to agree on monitoring provisions.

 

April 24, 1992 - U.N. Security Council approves deployment of ceasefire observers. Siad Barre flees into exile days later.

 

-- Sept 19 - Warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed returns to Mogadishu and rules out deployment of U.N. troops.

 

-- Dec 3 - Security Council endorses full-scale military operation led by the United States.

 

-- Dec 9 - U.S. Marines hit Mogadishu's beaches under the glare of television lights in "Operation Restore Hope".

 

Jan 15, 1993 - At U.N. talks in Addis Ababa, feuding clan militias sign the first of many pacts to stop fighting.

 

-- Oct 3 - Eighteen U.S. Army Rangers and one Malaysian killed when Somali militias shoot down two U.S. helicopters in Mogadishu. Hundreds of Somalis also died in the ensuing fighting. U.S. mission formally ends in March 1994.

 

May 2, 2000 - The Somali National Peace Conference brings together more than 2,000 participants.

 

-- Aug 13 - Transitional National Government (TNG) is established to try to unite warring Somalis. In subsequent months, TNG's authority withers amid opposition from warlords.

 

Sept 15, 2003 - Factions at the talks agree to a transitional constitution and to set a five-year term for elections following the expiry of the TNG mandate in August.

 

Oct 10, 2004 - Ethiopian-backed warlord Abdullahi Yusuf is elected Somali president by lawmakers. In December, new Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Gedi swears in 27 ministers in Kenya.

 

Feb 24, 2005 - Somali President and prime minister arrive in their homeland in the central town of Jowhar, for the first time since their new government was formed in Kenya.

 

Jan 5, 2006 - Somalia's president and parliamentary speaker reach a deal to end the government rift by holding a parliamentary meeting inside Somalia within 30 days.

 

Feb 26, 2006 -----------------------------------

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Somali MPs put aside differences to legislate

Web posted at: 2/25/2006 8:47:26

Source ::: Reuters

BAIDOA, Somalia: Nearly a year after they brawled, threw chairs and punches at each other in Kenya, Somalia’s interim parliament is to meet inside the anarchic country for the first time.

 

The parliament will meet in the city of Baidoa, seen as a neutral venue away from the capital Mogadishu, seat of powerful warlords, and Jowhar, temporary home of the interim government.

 

President Abdullahi Yusuf and Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan on January 5 agreed to hold a parliament meeting inside Somalia within 30 days in a bid to reactivate their faltering government after more than a year of paralysis.

 

At the previous session last March deputies threw chairs and punched one another at a posh hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, where the government was set up in 2004 in the 14th attempt to restore central authority to a country whose last national president was ousted in 1991.

 

“People really need a government. We hope this time parliament will meet and work peacefully to end the anarchy in our country,†speaker Hassan said.

 

Hassan said the MPs plan to choose committees, decide on how long they will meet and revisit the debate over allowing in foreign peacekeepers. In what many call the last best hope for this administration more than 100 MPs have come to the city.

 

They arrive outside the town in motorcades escorted by pickup trucks known as “technicals,†carrying heavy machine guns and militiamen chewing the amphetamine-like qat leaf.

 

“No guns or technicals will be allowed in the town, only 400 uniformed policemen will be patrolling the city,†local elder Mahamud Haji Mohamed said.

 

More than 1,000 gunmen have camped outside Baidoa, a city of 800,000 around 240km northwest of Mogadishu, he said.

 

Foreign diplomats, President Yusuf and Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi, who some MPs have said they want to remove, should arrive today.

[QabiilDiid]

 

The voice of the NorthWest Regions....fight for us. fihgt for Somali Unity...ALLAA MACAK...

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Madaxweyne Yuusuf oo guri weyn looga diyaariyay magaalada Baydhabo ayaa waxaa lagu wadaa shir jaraa’id in uu ku qabto magaalada Baydhabo, kaasoo uu uga hadlayo socdaalkiisa uu kutagay Baydhabo oo ah kii ugu horreeyay oo uu ku tago tan iyo markii loo doortay xilka madaxweynanimada Soomaaliya,iyadoo maantana magaalada uu roob ka da'ay.

I thought he was there exactly a year ago in early Maarso, 2005.

 

Anyway, I am glad roob haduu ka dago dhulalkii abaarta ku dheeraatay. Usually roobka gu'ga wuxuu biloowdaa in Abriil. Gobolada kale taloow maka da'ay?

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General Duke any news on the meeting? TIA