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1. 1. Somaliuk Your Portal For News, Chat Rooms, Culture, Music, and Forums

   www.somaliuk.com/News/archive. - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2004   Last Visited: 4/22/2006

   A military court-martial will convene in September to decide whether the former member of the disbanded Canadian Airborne Regiment is to face charges.
   
   Matchee was released from the military in April 1995 on medical grounds and sent to live at a psychiatric hospital in North Battleford, Sask.
   ...
   The horrifying images of the beating -- taken by the offenders themselves -- caused a scandal in Canada and soiled the nation's reputation as an international peacekeeper. As a result of the incident, the Canadian Airborne Regiment was disbanded.
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   ELDERLY and disabled members of Greenwich's Somali community who feel they are being treated as second-class citizens are set to present a petition to the council.
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   Koreans Freed After Detention in Somalia
   
   Three South Korean seamen have been released from a yearlong detention in Somalia and are now in Kenya, the Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry said on Wednesday. Three South Korean seamen have been released from a yearlong detention in Somalia and are now in Kenya, the Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry said on Wednesday.
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   The three South Koreans, freed from Somalia along with eight other Indonesian mariners, arrived in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, at around 7 p.m. on June 29 local time," ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil said.
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   They took shelter at a port of Somalia on July 11 last year due to bad weather conditions, when they were detained for failing to pay their company's debts owed to Somalian agents and suppliers.
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   Somali Soldiers Gunned Down by Militia
   
   Mogadishu - Eight Somali soldiers were killed and at least 12 others wounded when armed militia opened fire on a military camp near the capital, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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   The witnesses said the attack occurred early on Monday when machine-gun wielding militias loyal to the Botan Isse Alin political faction stormed the Animal Market area which links Mogadishu to Somalia's central region.
   ...
   Warlords and traditional leaders are trying to restore a central government to the country at reconciliation talks hosted by Kenya, but the 19-month-old process has been dogged by rifts between Ethiopia and Arab states, rivals for influence in the Horn of Africa.
   ...
   Conflict and famine have killed hundreds of thousands of people in the country of more than seven million since then.
   
   East Africa regional governments have warned various militiamen to end fighting in Somalia so as not to undermine the country's peace process currently on its final stages.
   
   On Monday, at least two people, including the mayor of Somalia's northern port town of Bosaso, were gunned down, residents said.
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   NAIROBI, 28 Jun 2004 (IRIN) - Widespread and severe food shortages have continued to affect people in the northern pastoral and southern agricultural areas of Somalia as a result of prolonged drought, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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   It had been hoped that the long rains this year would provide relief to the pastoralists, who had undergone seven seasons of inadequate rainfall, but the season ended early with poor precipitation in May and June, OCHA said.
   ...
   The OCHA report said any remaining water was likely to run out by mid-July.
   ...
   Meanwhile, in the south, the Jareer (Bantu) population along the Juba valley were experiencing food shortages due to inadequate rainfall and vulnerability following four seasons of below post-war average. High levels of malnutrition and an increase in malnourished patients (from 38 in February to 116 in March) were reported at a Medecins Sans Frontieres therapeutic feeding centre in Marereey.
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   Fighting that pitted the combined forces of Rer Hasan/Rer Howrarsame and Faqih Ya'qub against the Rer Ahmad/Ali Dhere and part of Faqih Ya'qub over the control of Bulo Hawa town near the Kenyan border left 59 people dead and many others injured.
   ...
   The area's livelihood is agro-pastoralism and was affected by inadequate rainfall as well as an influx of pastoralists from Ethiopia, increasing competition for available resources.
   
   In another development, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had granted Somalia nearly US $8.9 million towards preventing and controlling malaria, one of the main killers of children in the country, the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) said on Monday. In another development, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had granted Somalia nearly US $8.9 million towards preventing and controlling malaria, one of the main killers of children in the country, the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) said on Monday.
   ...
   Andrea Berloffa, the chairwoman of the SACB's health sector committee, said the funds were crucial in Somalia's fight against malaria, and would be utilised over a two-year period.
   ...
   The grant follows a successful application to the Global Fund by SACB, which comprises donor governments, UN agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organisations working inside Somalia.
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   Warlords Told Off
   
   A presidential candidate in the forthcoming Somali elections has dismissed the role war lords are arrogating themselves in the electoral process.
   
   Mr Farah Wehliye Addo said only the people of Somalia, and particularly clan elders, will decide who to elect to parliament.
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   "But I can't fathom Somalia being ruled by a war lord," Mr Addo, who is considered among the favourites, said.
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   "I talked to them and their elders and the skirmishes stopped. I hope they maintain the peace," he said.
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   Nairobi - A fund set up to combat three of the world's most devastating diseases has given aid agencies working in Somalia $8,9-million (almost R60-million) to combat malaria over the next two years.
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   The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria granted the money to the United Nations children's agency and eight other aid agencies to distribute insecticide-treated nets and improve preventive treatment in the country's prenatal clinics, said Andrea Berloffa of the Somalia Aid Co-ordination Body.
   ...
   Malaria kills more than a million people a year, with 90 percent of these deaths occurring in Africa, mostly children under the age of five, acording to the UN.
   ...
   The UN says malaria is a major health concern in Somalia, accounting for about 12 percent of all illnesses among children under five years of age in central and southern parts of the Horn of Africa nation.
   
   Somalia, which has a population of about 7 million, has not had an effective central government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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   The Global Fund is becoming the largest financier of insecticide-treated bed nets in the world. - Sapa-AP
   
   Posted on Monday 28th June at 15:04:52
   
   Immigration Delays Dog Somali Refugees
   
   Ahmed Fahmi came to Canada from Somalia six years ago.
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   Being a refugee means Fahmi is not eligible to buy a house; his daughter who's now in Grade 10 won't be able to attend university or college; his wife can't return to Somalia to see her dying mother one last time.
   ...
   "(The immigration officer in London) said now, my fingerprints, all that stuff, expired in April. April 2004. And they received my file in October 2003. That means that I have to do all that stuff again."
   ...
   Fahmi came to Canada in 1998 as a convention refugee because of Somalia's civil war.
   ...
   Fahmi passed security and medical checks and managed to get his family's birth certificates from Somalia.
   ...
   Fahmi voiced his concerns to MP Sue Barnes (L --London West), who frequently takes on cases of those who want help with their immigration claims.
   ...
   "They get impatient and I empathize with that," she said.
   ...
   MOGADISHU, June 28 (Reuters) - At least two people, including the mayor of the northern Somali port town of Bosaso, were shot dead by gunmen on Monday, residents said, further destabilising security in the breakaway enclave of Puntland.
   ...
   Somalia collapsed into chaos in 1991 after the ouster of military ruler Mohamed Siad Barre.
   ...
   Leaders of Puntland and rival groups have been holding stop-start peace talks in neighbouring Kenya in a bid to end more than a decade of anarchy in the country.
   ...
   Officials said Puntland's leader, Abdullahi Yusuf, had returned to Somalia from the Kenyan peace talks to try and solve the political crisis.
   
   East African regional governments have warned militiamen to end their fighting in Somalia to avoid undermining the final stages of the country's peace process.
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   All the Somalis claim that a brutal dictator destroyed their country and most of the Somalis support a disgusting dictator, much worse than Siyad Barre by all standards, hence

2. 2. Somaliuk Your Portal For News, Chat Rooms, Culture, Music, and Forums

   members.somaliuk.com/News/arch - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2004   Last Visited: 4/21/2006

   A military court-martial will convene in September to decide whether the former member of the disbanded Canadian Airborne Regiment is to face charges.
   
   Matchee was released from the military in April 1995 on medical grounds and sent to live at a psychiatric hospital in North Battleford, Sask.
   ...
   The horrifying images of the beating -- taken by the offenders themselves -- caused a scandal in Canada and soiled the nation's reputation as an international peacekeeper. As a result of the incident, the Canadian Airborne Regiment was disbanded.
   ...
   ELDERLY and disabled members of Greenwich's Somali community who feel they are being treated as second-class citizens are set to present a petition to the council.
   ...
   Koreans Freed After Detention in Somalia
   
   Three South Korean seamen have been released from a yearlong detention in Somalia and are now in Kenya, the Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry said on Wednesday. Three South Korean seamen have been released from a yearlong detention in Somalia and are now in Kenya, the Foreign Affairs-Trade Ministry said on Wednesday.
   ...
   The three South Koreans, freed from Somalia along with eight other Indonesian mariners, arrived in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, at around 7 p.m. on June 29 local time," ministry spokesman Shin Bong-kil said.
   ...
   They took shelter at a port of Somalia on July 11 last year due to bad weather conditions, when they were detained for failing to pay their company's debts owed to Somalian agents and suppliers.
   ...
   Somali Soldiers Gunned Down by Militia
   
   Mogadishu - Eight Somali soldiers were killed and at least 12 others wounded when armed militia opened fire on a military camp near the capital, witnesses said on Tuesday.
   ...
   The witnesses said the attack occurred early on Monday when machine-gun wielding militias loyal to the Botan Isse Alin political faction stormed the Animal Market area which links Mogadishu to Somalia's central region.
   ...
   Warlords and traditional leaders are trying to restore a central government to the country at reconciliation talks hosted by Kenya, but the 19-month-old process has been dogged by rifts between Ethiopia and Arab states, rivals for influence in the Horn of Africa.
   ...
   Conflict and famine have killed hundreds of thousands of people in the country of more than seven million since then.
   
   East Africa regional governments have warned various militiamen to end fighting in Somalia so as not to undermine the country's peace process currently on its final stages.
   
   On Monday, at least two people, including the mayor of Somalia's northern port town of Bosaso, were gunned down, residents said.
   ...
   NAIROBI, 28 Jun 2004 (IRIN) - Widespread and severe food shortages have continued to affect people in the northern pastoral and southern agricultural areas of Somalia as a result of prolonged drought, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
   ...
   It had been hoped that the long rains this year would provide relief to the pastoralists, who had undergone seven seasons of inadequate rainfall, but the season ended early with poor precipitation in May and June, OCHA said.
   ...
   The OCHA report said any remaining water was likely to run out by mid-July.
   ...
   Meanwhile, in the south, the Jareer (Bantu) population along the Juba valley were experiencing food shortages due to inadequate rainfall and vulnerability following four seasons of below post-war average. High levels of malnutrition and an increase in malnourished patients (from 38 in February to 116 in March) were reported at a Medecins Sans Frontieres therapeutic feeding centre in Marereey.
   ...
   Fighting that pitted the combined forces of Rer Hasan/Rer Howrarsame and Faqih Ya'qub against the Rer Ahmad/Ali Dhere and part of Faqih Ya'qub over the control of Bulo Hawa town near the Kenyan border left 59 people dead and many others injured.
   ...
   The area's livelihood is agro-pastoralism and was affected by inadequate rainfall as well as an influx of pastoralists from Ethiopia, increasing competition for available resources.
   
   In another development, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had granted Somalia nearly US $8.9 million towards preventing and controlling malaria, one of the main killers of children in the country, the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) said on Monday. In another development, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had granted Somalia nearly US $8.9 million towards preventing and controlling malaria, one of the main killers of children in the country, the Somalia Aid Coordination Body (SACB) said on Monday.
   ...
   Andrea Berloffa, the chairwoman of the SACB's health sector committee, said the funds were crucial in Somalia's fight against malaria, and would be utilised over a two-year period.
   ...
   The grant follows a successful application to the Global Fund by SACB, which comprises donor governments, UN agencies, NGOs and intergovernmental organisations working inside Somalia.
   ...
   Warlords Told Off
   
   A presidential candidate in the forthcoming Somali elections has dismissed the role war lords are arrogating themselves in the electoral process.
   
   Mr Farah Wehliye Addo said only the people of Somalia, and particularly clan elders, will decide who to elect to parliament.
   ...
   "But I can't fathom Somalia being ruled by a war lord," Mr Addo, who is considered among the favourites, said.
   ...
   "I talked to them and their elders and the skirmishes stopped. I hope they maintain the peace," he said.
   ...
   Nairobi - A fund set up to combat three of the world's most devastating diseases has given aid agencies working in Somalia $8,9-million (almost R60-million) to combat malaria over the next two years.
   ...
   The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria granted the money to the United Nations children's agency and eight other aid agencies to distribute insecticide-treated nets and improve preventive treatment in the country's prenatal clinics, said Andrea Berloffa of the Somalia Aid Co-ordination Body.
   ...
   Malaria kills more than a million people a year, with 90 percent of these deaths occurring in Africa, mostly children under the age of five, acording to the UN.
   ...
   The UN says malaria is a major health concern in Somalia, accounting for about 12 percent of all illnesses among children under five years of age in central and southern parts of the Horn of Africa nation.
   
   Somalia, which has a population of about 7 million, has not had an effective central government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
   ...
   The Global Fund is becoming the largest financier of insecticide-treated bed nets in the world. - Sapa-AP
   
   Posted on Monday 28th June at 15:04:52
   
   Immigration Delays Dog Somali Refugees
   
   Ahmed Fahmi came to Canada from Somalia six years ago.
   ...
   Being a refugee means Fahmi is not eligible to buy a house; his daughter who's now in Grade 10 won't be able to attend university or college; his wife can't return to Somalia to see her dying mother one last time.
   ...
   "(The immigration officer in London) said now, my fingerprints, all that stuff, expired in April. April 2004. And they received my file in October 2003. That means that I have to do all that stuff again."
   ...
   Fahmi came to Canada in 1998 as a convention refugee because of Somalia's civil war.
   ...
   Fahmi passed security and medical checks and managed to get his family's birth certificates from Somalia.
   ...
   Fahmi voiced his concerns to MP Sue Barnes (L --London West), who frequently takes on cases of those who want help with their immigration claims.
   ...
   "They get impatient and I empathize with that," she said.
   ...
   MOGADISHU, June 28 (Reuters) - At least two people, including the mayor of the northern Somali port town of Bosaso, were shot dead by gunmen on Monday, residents said, further destabilising security in the breakaway enclave of Puntland.
   ...
   Somalia collapsed into chaos in 1991 after the ouster of military ruler Mohamed Siad Barre.
   ...
   Leaders of Puntland and rival groups have been holding stop-start peace talks in neighbouring Kenya in a bid to end more than a decade of anarchy in the country.
   ...
   Officials said Puntland's leader, Abdullahi Yusuf, had returned to Somalia from the Kenyan peace talks to try and solve the political crisis.
   
   East African regional governments have warned militiamen to end their fighting in Somalia to avoid undermining the final stages of the country's peace process.
   ...
   All the Somalis claim that a brutal dictator destroyed their country and most of the Somalis support a disgusting dictator, much worse than Siyad Barre by all standards, hence