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by Amina Mire
The “Ir-Reconciliation Conference” and TFG’s Bililqo[1]of the Bakaraha Market "According to BBC News today, Wednesday 11 July 2007, an international delegation led by the European representative for Somalia visited Mogadishu. Under pressure from the United States, the international community seems poised to support the holding of a so-called reconciliation conference by the Ethiopian foisted and dictated TFG entity in Somalia".

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By Barney Jopson in Nairobi
The Chinese state oil giant, CNOOC, has won permission to search for oil in part of Somalia, underlining China’s willingness to brave Africa’s most volatile regions in its hunt for natural resources.



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By Stephen Gowans
When Africa scholar Mahmoud Mandani looks at the slaughter and displacement of civilians in Darfur he notices something odd. The mass death of civilians in Darfur has been called a genocide, but slaughters of civilians of similar magnitude in Iraq and on a larger scale in Congo have not.
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Sophia Tesfamariam
“…To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole…” Chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Waxaa maamlmahaan Socdey hadal heynta Oday dhagareed laaluush uu qaatay kadib ogolaaday inuu ka mid noqodo addoomada Tigreega u adeega ee dulleysan. Sidoodaba xaqa iyo baadilku waa labo shay oo kala madax bannaan oo mid waliba goonidiisa u taaganyahay xorna u yahay, mana is bedelaan oo xaqu baadil manoqon karo baadilkuna xaq manoqon karo.

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By Jama Mohamed Ghalib
According to BBC News today, Wednesday 11 July 2007, an international delegation led by the European representative for Somalia visited Mogadishu. Under pressure from the United States, the international community seems poised to support the holding of a so-called reconciliation conference by the Ethiopian foisted and dictated TFG entity in Somalia.

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By Bright B Simons, Evans Lartey and Franklin Cudjoe
Titans make Africa their stomping ground
ACCRA, Ghana - Last month, the administration of US President George W Bush gave itself about 18 months to establish a unified military command for the entire African continent save for those parts of North Africa, notably Egypt, vital to America’s strategic Middle East goals.


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By John C K Daly

As plans move ahead for a US Africa Command, African nations remain cool to the idea amid fears of mission creep and unclear US intentions. As US plans for an African command (AFRICOM) operations base forge ahead, perceptions that the base's raison d'etre is to gain control over regional oil assets and counter growing Chinese influence are growing. Read More...

by Chris Tomlinson, Forbes
The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces.
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by Mahdi Farah

Learning from the past is a wise thing to do when dealing with the present events. Reasons for this are many and it’s a self-evident. But for clarity’s sake let’s say: reading and learning from history will help you to avoid repeating the same mistakes as those before you and as a consequence you will save lots of efforts and many lives. Read More...

By Abdulkadir Abdirahman
For some everything that could go wrong for Somalia has came to pass, for others, considering how rapidly Mogadishu is turning into Baghdad, the worst, both for Somalia and the region, is yet to come. However, there is no dispute that each day that passes makes it more evident that occupation leads neither to "reconciliation" nor to a "way forward."
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Editorial: NY Times
It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit. Like many Americans, we have put off that conclusion, waiting for a sign that President Bush was seriously trying to dig the United States out of the disaster he created by invading Iraq without sufficient cause, in the face of global opposition, and without a plan to stabilize the country afterward. Read More...

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‹Midka adhiga mamuli yaqaan moorada iyo geela
Ama saca maqarka u sidee baadiyaha meera
Maqalraacu Soomaali waa mudaneheediiye›
-- Abwaan Garnayl Kude Uurgub: Maxaad Ka Taqaan Midgaan?

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By M. A. Shaikh
It sounds strange, but even the highly secular western media now admit that the people of Somalia “yearn” for the return of the Islamic Courts Union, which had ruled some parts of the country, including the capital (Mogadishu), for several months before it was toppled as a result of the US-backed invasion by the Ethiopian army.
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A. M. Yusuf© ¦ wayeel@operamail.com
“Suugaantu waa dhaqan haddana waa sud iyo dhiibe
Dhidib iyo lud bay leedihiyo dhaabad iyo meele
Dhuuxuu ka eegaa ninkii dhilan yaqaannaaye”
Abwaan Hadraawi: Dhulgariir
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Ku: Odoyaasha Dhaqanka Beesha Hawiye
Ku : Odoyaasha Dhaqanka Beelaha Soomaaliyeed
Ku: Umadda Soomaaliyeed
Mahad ballaaran Allaah ayey sugnaatey , nabadgalyo iyo naxariisna nabigeenii Muxammad dushiisa ha ahaato iyo inta raacdey ee dariiqiisa ku taagan. Read More...

By Prof: Amina Mire

If the above image of Meles Zinawi, shoulder to shoulder with two other Africa’s leaders, seeks to project an image of a statesman, below is another image of Zinawi.
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The Ethiopian military has forcibly displaced thousands of civilians in the country’s eastern Somali region in recent weeks while escalating its campaign against a separatist insurgency movement, Human Rights Watch said today. Both the government and rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) must protect civilians and ensure their access to humanitarian relief. Read More...

Chances are that the United States has run out of options in Somalia after the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ms Jendayi Fraser conceded last week that Washington’s support for the ouster of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) by Ethiopia might have been a miscalculation. In an interview with BBC, Fraser conceded that the use of force in Somalia had only aggravated an already atrocious situation. Read More...