Gunmen
Hold Somali Government to Ransom MOGADISHU,
Somalia (Reuters) - Mohammed Qanyare leans back and smiles
when asked whether he would leave the government if he does
not get what he wants.
AN EDITORIAL: LET ETHIOPIA KNOW By
Mohamed Siad Togane
Somali
leader promises battle MOGADISHU,
Nov 23 (BBC) - The newly-elected leader of the self-declared
autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia has vowed
to fight on against attempts to oust him.
Ethiopian troops enter Puntland: witnesses MOGADISHU,
Nov 23 (AFP) - Some 1,000 heavily armed Ethiopian troops entered
the Somali autonomous region of Puntland on Friday at the
invitation of the
Somalia:
News in Brief Dubai,23rd
November 2001 By Banadir.com THE fifth session of the International
Holy Quran Competition, a sectio
TALKING
POINT: THE SOMALIS - A WRONGED PEOPLE By
M.M. Afrah, Toronto (Canada)
COMMENTARY:
OPEN LETTER TO HASSAN ABSHIR FARAH By
M.M. Afrah, Toronto (Canada)
Editorial:
FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY BY M.M. Afrah - Part 9 toronto
- EXCLUSIVE TO BANADIR.COM An extract from a new book by M.M.
Afrah to be published in Canada in the winter of 2002
IS
HASSAN ABSHIR THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB?
EDITORIAL BY M.M. AFRAH Toronto (Canada)
OPEN
LETTER TO THE WARLORDS/FACTION LEADERS COMMENTARY
BY M.M. AFRAH Toronto (Canada) - Because of you we have been
on the run for more than ten years. Many of us ended up where
XAWAALA:
A CHALLENGE TO THE WESTERN MEDIA COMMENTARY
By M.M. Afrah, Toronto (Canada) - This commentary is direct
challenge to some of the Western Media that frequently employs
Somalia
seeks economic, political boosts MOGADISHU,
Somalia Cash-strapped, lawless and growing in reputation as
a safe haven for terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden, Somalia
is struggling to reunify a
NON-ARAB
STATE MAY BE NEXT TARGET IN TERROR WAR November
22, 2001 -- Inside Washington TEAM Bush keeps making it clear
that "eventually" it will go after Iraq's Saddam Hussein,
but there's growing
PRESS
RELEASE: UN AGENCIES CALL FOR PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS AND
CONTINUED HUMANITARIAN ACCESS IN SOMALIA Nairobi
(22 November) - Faced with an upsurge of violence and
Fierce
fighting in Puntland (BBC)-
Fighting has broken out in Garowe, the regional capital of
Somalia's breakaway north-eastern region of Puntland. .
Somalia:
News in Brief BBC
Monitoring Service - Ships and private aircraft which operate
from the coastal town of Berbera in the self-declared republic
of Somaliland have been ordered to keep off from the area.
Somalia
Seeks Distance From Terror MOGADISHU,
Somalia (AP) -Even before Somali organizations were shut down
by the Bush administration for allegedly funneling cash to
Osama bin Laden, the 15-month-old
Somalia
The
Guardian - United Kingdom; Nov 17, 2001 - Somalia would be
an easy target as it is a "failed" state that is even more
run-down than Afghanistan.
No
evidence of links between Liban Hussein and terrorism: judge
OTTAWA
(CP) - A man initially suspected of helping finance terrorism
walked free on bail Wednesday after a judge concluded there
was
EDITORIAL:
FASTING IN ISLAM IS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE ! 16th
November 2001- With the Compliments of Banadir.Com - YE WHO
believe! fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed
to those
ID
for Somalis in Ethiopia! Mogadishu
(bbc) - The Ethiopian Government has called on Somalis living
in the country to apply for new identity cards.
NIN
TOLKI YU' SOO YIRI IMA GARABEYSTO
EDITORIAL
(balcad.com) By Dr. Abdi Ulluso (Toronto)
Infighting as new Puntland leader chosen
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Political in-fighting in Somalia's breakaway
north-eastern region of Puntland has intensified after an
influential conference voted for a new leader
Telecommunications
Company in Somalia Cut off From Int'l Calls
MOGADISHU, Nov 14, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Al-Barakat
company, a major telecommunications firm in Somalia, Wednesday
Warar
Goos Goos ah - Somali News
(BBC Monitoring Service ,AFP. and Rueters)
Somalis
Concerned by Asset Freeze
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Somalis
- already desperately poor - found a major lifeline cut off
Saturday after a Bush administration list of terrorist
Kenya
Police Arrests Five Somalis Suspected of Spying NAIROBI,
Nov 8, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Five Somalis, suspected
to be allies to warlords rejecting a peace accord initiated
in Nairobi by Kenyan
Somali
President Appoints New PM
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
appointed a new prime minister Monday, two weeks after the
fledgling government lost a parliamentary
Somali PACE Project operating under the NGO Consortium is
looking for Somali nationals
MOGADISHU, Somalia - PAN AFRICAN PROGRAMME OF CONTROL OF EPIZOOTICS-
(PACE) SOMALIA
XASAN ABSHIR OO RA'IISUL WASAARE LOO MAGACAABAY !
Mogadishu,12th November 2001 By Banadir.com Warar lagu kalsoon
yahay oo iminka inaga soo gaaray magaalada Muqdsiha ayaa sheegaya
in
Where's proof of bank's terrorist links? Abdiqassim asks US
MOGADISHU ,AFP(12th November 2001) Somalia's transitional
President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan said late Sunday that the
United States
Somalia's Barakaat group wants to clear its name
MOGADISHU, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Gunmen in sunglasses cradling
AK-47 assault rifles stand guard outside Barakaat Bank in
the ruins of Mogadishu
Somali
Immigrants Fear Cash Flow
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Once each month, a call came to Zaynab
Awaleh's makeshift home in a bullet-ridden former school in
Mogadishu, Somalia.
LETTER
OF THANKS FROM M.M. AFRAH
(Toronto - Canada) , Dear readers and visitors to banadir.com,
after deliberating with myself whether to send an individual
email of thanks, I finally decided to send you this
SOMALIS
BEING ON LIST OF NEW US VISA CURBS
WASHINGTON AFP (11 th November 2001)- The United States is
placing new requirements on visa applications from men from
predominantly
Infighting
as new Puntland leader chosen
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Political in-fighting in Somalia's breakaway
north-eastern region of Puntland has intensified after an
influential conference voted for a new leader
Telecommunications Company in Somalia Cut off From Int'l Calls
MOGADISHU, Nov 14, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Al-Barakat
company, a major telecommunications firm in Somalia, Wednesday
Somali President Appoints New PM
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan
appointed a new prime minister Monday, two weeks after the
fledgling government lost a parliamentary
Somali PACE Project operating under the NGO Consortium is
looking for Somali nationals
MOGADISHU, Somalia - PAN AFRICAN PROGRAMME OF CONTROL OF EPIZOOTICS-
(PACE) SOMALIA
XASAN ABSHIR OO RA'IISUL WASAARE LOO MAGACAABAY !
Mogadishu,12th November 2001 By Banadir.com Warar lagu kalsoon
yahay oo iminka inaga soo gaaray magaalada Muqdsiha ayaa sheegaya
in
Where's proof of bank's terrorist links? Abdiqassim asks US
MOGADISHU ,AFP(12th November 2001) Somalia's transitional
President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan said late Sunday that the
United States
Somalia's Barakaat group wants to clear its name
MOGADISHU, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Gunmen in sunglasses cradling
AK-47 assault rifles stand guard outside Barakaat Bank in
the ruins of Mogadishu
Somali
Immigrants Fear Cash Flow
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Once each month, a call came to Zaynab
Awaleh's makeshift home in a bullet-ridden former school in
Mogadishu, Somalia.
LETTER
OF THANKS FROM M.M. AFRAH
(Toronto - Canada) , Dear readers and visitors to banadir.com,
after deliberating with myself whether to send an individual
email of thanks, I finally decided to send you this
SOMALIS
BEING ON LIST OF NEW US VISA CURBS
WASHINGTON AFP (11 th November 2001)- The United States is
placing new requirements on visa applications from men from
predominantly
OPEN
LETTER TO THE WARLORDS/FACTION LEADERS COMMENTARY
BY M.M. AFRAH Toronto (Canada) - Because of you we have been
on the run for more than ten years. Many of us ended up where
Warar
Goos Goos ah - Somali News
(BBC Monitoring Service ,AFP. and Rueters)
Somalis
Concerned by Asset Freeze
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Somalis
- already desperately poor - found a major lifeline cut off
Saturday after a Bush administration list of terrorist
Kenya
Police Arrests Five Somalis Suspected of Spying NAIROBI,
Nov 8, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Five Somalis, suspected
to be allies to warlords rejecting a peace accord initiated
in Nairobi by Kenyan
XAWAALA:
A CHALLENGE TO THE WESTERN MEDIA COMMENTARY
By M.M. Afrah, Toronto (Canada) - This commentary is direct
challenge to some of the Western Media that frequently employs
Somali
internet provider named on US blacklist AfricaOnline.com
Correspondent NAIROBI, 8 Nov 2001 - The Somali Internet Company
is one of the companies listed by the US treasury as having
links to terrorist
Crackdown
hits Somali brothers' Dorchester office
(boston globe) - Two Somali brothers living in Dorchester
were charged yesterday as part of a nationwide raid on money-transfer
operations that have
Fed
Raids Expose Somali Wire Transfer WASHINGTON
(AP) - Raids by federal agents Wednesday disrupted a scheme
that has routed millions of dollars to Osama bin Laden's network
Wararka
Soomaalia oo Gaagaaban (7/11/2001) 7th
November 2001, Report prepared by Banadir.com
THE
CREDENTIALS OF THE SOMALI AMBASSADOR RECEIVED ! Abu
Dhabi, (WAM) 6th November 2001 His Highness Sheikh Makhtoum
bin Rashid Al-Makhtoum,Vice President and Prime Minister of
the
SHIRKII
NABADEYNTA SOOMAALIDA OO MAANTA NAIROBI LAGU SOO GEBEGEBEEYAY
!
Nairobi,5th
November 2001 Report prepared by Banadir.com Madaxweynaha
Kenya Danial Arab Moi ayaa maanta
Somalia
denies being site for bin Laden bases
NAIROBI
(Reuters) - Somali President Abdiqassim Salad Hassan Monday
denied media reports that Osama bin Laden had bases in his
country and reaffirmed
Somalia:
Pro-Ethiopia factions turn down invitation to attend talks
in Nairobi
BBC
Monitoring Service - The majority of the SRRC delegation which
was in Ethiopia for a meeting have returned
Editorial:
FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY BY M.M. Afrah - Part 8
Toronto
- EXCLUSIVE TO BANADIR.COM An extract from a new book by M.M.
Afrah to be published in Canada in the winter of 2002
Somali
Leader Makes a Plea for America to Re-engage
NAIROBI,
Kenya, Nov. 4 The president of Somalia's transitional government
says he understands why his country is getting the cold shoulder
from the United
OPEN
LETTER TO ABDIQASSIM
Toronto
-By
M.M. Afrah - Your
Excellency, I venture to write this open letter to you to
impress upon you a few crucial matters in which
TAKE
THIS MESSAGE TO INA SALAD BOY: AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE SOMALIS
ABROAD
By MOHAMUD
SIAD TOGANE - (balcad.com)
Somalis love traveling abroad seeking remedies for their
COMMENTARY:
DUMPING ALI KHALIF GALAYR IN ABSENTIA By
H.M. Shabeel, Ottawa (Canada) - Ali Khalif must have been
biting his nails to the quick during the last two weeks; desperately
wondering what the
TALKING
POINT: THE COURAGE OF GALAYRD
By M. Togane
(balcad.com) - The
ordeal lasted almost over a year! The miracle is that Dr.
Ali Khaleef Galayrd could stand it for a whole
EDITORIAL:
GALEYDH KADIB,MAXAA CABDIQASSIM LA GUDBOON ?
Mogadishu, 28th October 2001- Report prepared by Banadir.com
Sidii la sugayay, waxaa saaka ( 28/10/2001) Baarlamaanka
Somali
Gov't. Loses No-Confidence Vote
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's fledgling government lost
a no-confidence vote Sunday, ending the tenure of the country's
prime minister and his Cabinet after
COMMENTARY:
GALAYR WALKS ON A TIGHTROPE By
H. Shabeel, Ottawa (Canada) - A year ago, many Somalis were
talking a new beginning: the end of anarchy and mayhem. They
hoped that the Arta
TALKING
POINT: THE RISE OF A FACTION LEADER Toronto
(by M.M.Afrah)- The rise of Mogadishu's newest faction leader
gave Ethiopia, Somalia's ancient enemy, great opportunity
to farther polarize
Editorial:
TALKING POINT: TARGETTING MUSLIMS INFLAMES OPEN ATTACKS ON
INNOCENT PEOPLE.
October 17, 2001- By M.M. Afrah.
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