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Somalia: I have the Best Financial and Diplomatic Support to Rebuild Somalia If I am Appointed for the Post of the Somali Prime Minister in 2012 to 2016

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I would like to inform our President his Excellency Hasssan Sheikh Mohamud that all the African Governments, Kingdoms and many other nations have already received my message as Somalia’s most educated Prime Minister and they encouraged me with complimentary Congratulations.

I can ascertain you that I will be your next most educated Somali Prime Minister so, welcome to Ambassador Dr. Badal Kariye who’s the renowned author of 6 Novels & 4 Academic Books, a Noble Prize Candidate in Contributory Knowledge in Literature, The Founder of the Office of Somali Governmental Information Technology in Multilingual E-Governance, the Chief of the NSS/Diplomatic Branch, the Current Spokesperson of the Republic of Somalia and you can read and review my official biography in these following websites

As Somali Power-Sharing is based on clan formula system 4.5 then the Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” is Somali American from Darod Tribe specially Tanade  Darod/Leelkase Clan.

The Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” has PhD in Political Sociology and is a career public diplomat  since on September 15, 2000 until now working and providing the State of the Art Information Technology in Multilingual E-Governance to the  People and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Somalia voluntarily and philanthropically.
http://www.opm.somaligov.net/
http://www.primeminister.somaligov.so/

On August 8, 2012 the Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” took up the post of the Spokesperson of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Somalia
http://www.spokesperson.somaligov.so/ when Eng. Abdirahman Omar Yarisow left it voluntarily in order to take up a post of a director at the Bar-kulan Radio in Nairobi Kenya.

The Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” is Somali American, a Noble Prize Candidate in a Contributory Literature and he has been working and living in Minneapolis, MN USA  since September 2006 where he used to help the Government of the Republic of Somalia virtually by providing the State of the Art Information Technology in Multilingual E-Governance to the People and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Somalia.

The Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” worked and collaborated with the United Nations Political Office for Somalia Ambassador Winston A. Tubman, IGAD Front-Line States, African Union, AMISOM, n Union etc.

Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr. Humble” has also served as the Head of the Somali Diplomatic Branch within the Somali National Security Service http://www.nss.somaligov.so/

He’s been writing to the United Nations Security Council to help Somalia and stop any corrupted cases in Somalia and around the world  at large.

The Future Somali Prime Minister Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye “Dr.  Humble” speaks English, French, Swahili, Arabic, Italian, German, Spanish, some Afrikaans, Some Russian and Good Chinese.

If you need to read more about the Future Somali Prime Minister  Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye”Dr. Humble” please visit us
http://www.badalkariye.somaliauthors.com/ or http://www.badalkariye.so/

Or You can visit us http://www.primeminister.somaligov.so/
Http://www.opm.somaligov.net http://wwww.presidency.somaligov.so/
http://www.somalgov.net/

I also enclosed my Curriculum Vitae.

Best Wishes,
Ambassador Dr. Badal W. Kariye
The Forthcoming Prime Minister of the Republic of Somalia in 2012
512 Cedar Ave SO #
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Cell: 6129865395

Somalia: Fourth Somali journalist killed in Mogadishu in 24-hour span

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Nairobi, September 21, 2012–Unidentified gunmen killed veteran Somali journalist Hassan Yusuf Absuge in Mogadishu this morning, just hours after he had reported on an explosion that killed 14 people including three of his colleagues.

The assailants shotHassan three times in the head near a high school in Yaqshid district, but fled the scene before police arrived, according to local journalists and news reports. Hassan, a reporter and producer for the private Radio Maanta, had covered Thursday’s suicide bomb attack at a popular café frequented by journalists and civil servants, news reports said.

Local journalists told CPJ that the identities of the gunmen were not clear, but news accounts citing local journalists reportedthat the attacks were happening in government-controlled areas. “So it could be Al-Shabaab or another militia, or even former government officials,” said one journalist who spoke to CPJ on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. It is not clear why Hassan would have been targeted.

“CPJ mourns the death of Hassan Yusuf Absuge and extends its deep condolences to his family and colleagues,” said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. “Mogadishu has lost yet another good journalist who persisted with his work in the face of enormous risk. The new government must do its utmost to ensure security for the press.”

Hassan had worked as a journalist since 1989 and contributed to Radio Mogadishu and GBC broadcasters, according to local news reports.

The three journalists killed in Thursday’s attack were buried in different cemeteries in the city today due to security concerns, according to local reports. Somalia is the most dangerous country in Africa to practice journalism, according to CPJ research. The threat of violence has driven more journalists into exilefrom Somalia than from any other country in the past year, CPJ research shows.

  • · For more data and analysis on Somalia, visit CPJ’s Somalia page here.

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CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization
that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide.

Contact:
Mohamed Keita
Africa Advocacy Coordinator
Tel. +1.212.465.1004 ext. 117
Email: mkeita@cpj.org

Tom Rhodes
East Africa Consultant
Email: trhodes@cpj.org

Somalia:Three Somali journalists killed in suicide bomb attack

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Nairobi, September 20, 2012-Three Somali journalists were killed and at least four were injured in a suicide bomb attack in a Mogadishu café today, according to news reports and local journalists. The attack took place across the street from the National Theater, where a bomb blast in April wounded at least 10 journalists, news reports said.
Two unidentified men entered “The Village” café at around 5:30 p.m. and detonated bombs, killing a total of 14 people and injuring 20, according to news reports and local journalists. Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the militant insurgent group Al-Shabaab, said the bombing was carried out by supporters of the group, according to Agence France-Presse. “We did not directly order the attacks, but there are lots of angry people in Somalia who support our fight,” AFP reported Rage as saying.
The café was frequented by the press and civil servants, leading local journalists to speculate they were the targets of the attack. “If anyone wanted to kill journalists en masse, that was the place and the time,” said one journalist who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The blasts killed Abdirahman Yasin Ali, director of Radio Hamar (“Voice of Democracy”); Abdisatar Daher Sabriye, head of news for Radio Mogadishu; and Liban Ali Nur, head of news for Somali National TV, according to news reports and local journalists.
Somalia National TV reporter Mohamed Hussein, along with three reporters for Radio Kulmiye-Abdullahi Suldan, Abdirisaq Mohamed, and Nour Mohamed Ali-were wounded. The injured journalists have sought treatment at local hospitals. CPJ is monitoring their conditions.
“We offer our deep condolences to the families and colleagues of Abdirahman Yasin Ali, Abdisatar Daher Sabriye, and Liban Ali Nur at this terrible time,” said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. “The senseless slaughter of journalists is continuing in
Mogadishu, one of the world’s most dangerous places for the press. We call on the new Somali government to do its utmost to stop these attacks.”
Several people were killed in the attack on the National Theater in April, including two of the nation’s top sports officials, news reports said. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, the reports said.
Somalia is the most dangerous country in Africa to practice journalism, according to CPJ research. The threat of violence has driven more journalists into exile from Somalia than from any other country in the past year, CPJ research shows.
• For more data and analysis on Somalia, visit CPJ’s Somalia page here
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CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization
that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide.

Contact:
Mohamed Keita
AfricNairobi, September 20, 2012-Three Somali journalists were killed and at least four were injured in a suicide bomb attack in a Mogadishu café today, according to news reports and local journalists. The attack took place across the street from the National Theater, where a bomb blast in April wounded at least 10 journalists, news reports said.
Two unidentified men entered “The Village” café at around 5:30 p.m. and detonated bombs, killing a total of 14 people and injuring 20, according to news reports and local journalists. Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the militant insurgent group Al-Shabaab, said the bombing was carried out by supporters of the group, according to Agence France-Presse. “We did not directly order the attacks, but there are lots of angry people in Somalia who support our fight,” AFP reported Rage as saying.
The café was frequented by the press and civil servants, leading local journalists to speculate they were the targets of the attack. “If anyone wanted to kill journalists en masse, that was the place and the time,” said one journalist who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
The blasts killed Abdirahman Yasin Ali, director of Radio Hamar (“Voice of Democracy”); Abdisatar Daher Sabriye, head of news for Radio Mogadishu; and Liban Ali Nur, head of news for Somali National TV, according to news reports and local journalists.
Somalia National TV reporter Mohamed Hussein, along with three reporters for Radio Kulmiye-Abdullahi Suldan, Abdirisaq Mohamed, and Nour Mohamed Ali-were wounded. The injured journalists have sought treatment at local hospitals. CPJ is monitoring their conditions.
“We offer our deep condolences to the families and colleagues of Abdirahman Yasin Ali, Abdisatar Daher Sabriye, and Liban Ali Nur at this terrible time,” said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. “The senseless slaughter of journalists is continuing in
Mogadishu, one of the world’s most dangerous places for the press. We call on the new Somali government to do its utmost to stop these attacks.”
Several people were killed in the attack on the National Theater in April, including two of the nation’s top sports officials, news reports said. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, the reports said.
Somalia is the most dangerous country in Africa to practice journalism, according to CPJ research. The threat of violence has driven more journalists into exile from Somalia than from any other country in the past year, CPJ research shows.
• For more data and analysis on Somalia, visit CPJ’s Somalia page here
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CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization
that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide.

Contact:
Mohamed Keita
Africa Advocacy Coordinator
Tel. +1.212.465.1004 ext. 117
Email: mkeita@cpj.org

Tom Rhodes
East Africa Consultant
Email: trhodes@cpj.org
a Advocacy Coordinator
Tel. +1.212.465.1004 ext. 117
Email: mkeita@cpj.org

Tom Rhodes
East Africa Consultant
Email: trhodes@cpj.org

Somali rebels reinforce Kismayu, fears of showdown grow

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist rebels fell back on their last bastion on Wednesday, pouring hundreds of fighters into the port city of Kismayu and raising fears of a bloody showdown with advancing African Union soldiers, residents said.

Locals said the al Qaeda-linked insurgents drafted in militants from several outlying regions in southern Somalia. The reinforcements arrived in convoys of machinegun-mounted pickup trucks and set about building defenses, witnesses said.

Somalia is a hotspot in U.S.-led efforts to combat Islamist militancy and al Shabaab is the most powerful of Somali militias spawned by two decades of conflict in an unstable region.

The Al Shabaab reinforcements arrived in Kismayu a day after locals said the militia’s commanders had pulled out, leaving only a small number of fighters to defend the stronghold.

“Al Shabaab fighters have filled the bases and camps they abandoned in the past few days,” said butcher Farah Roble.

“We’re terrified. Al Shabaab looks determined to fight for Kismayu,” he said.

Rumors swirled though Kismayu’s winding alleyways that one of the militants’ top three commanders was now in the city.

Resident Ismail Sugow said al Shabaab had drafted in fighters from nearby Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions. A second resident said the reinforcements came from “other parts of the country”.

Earlier this week, Kenyan forces overran several militant outposts to the north and southwest of Kismayu, pushing to within 50 km (30 miles) of Somalia’s second biggest city.

Kenyan military spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna said the final assault on Kismayu was inevitable.

“We have to be cautious, the way is littered with explosives. Nevertheless, it will happen. Kismayu will fall,” he told Reuters by phone.

Defeat in Kismayu, a hub of al Shabaab operations throughout the group’s five-year insurgency, would badly hurt the rebels’ morale and weaken their capacity as a fighting force.

However, it might not deliver the knockout blow sought by Mogadishu and its regional allies. Western diplomats expect the insurgents to turn increasingly to guerrilla-style hit-and-run raids and urban bombings.

“JOIN THE JIHAD”

The AU force urged the militants to lay down their arms.

“Already a number of them have contacted us indicating their wish to cease fighting and we have assured them of their safety if they give themselves up to our forces,” AMISOM Deputy Force Commander General Simon Karanja said in a statement.

Al Shabaab said Kismayu, about 500 km (311 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu, was calm. Its radio station, Radio Andalus, was back on air after broadcasts stopped on Tuesday.

“All offices and businesses are open. We do not fear our enemies. They cannot just dash into Kismayu because we have strong defenses,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, spokesman for al Shabaab’s military operations, told Reuters.

The U.N. refugee agency said about 4,000 civilians had fled Kismayu since Monday. Residents reported on Wednesday that al Shabaab were trying to stop locals from fleeing.

“Al Shabaab is taking to the mosques and ordering people to fight. They said Muslims have a duty to fight,” said resident Sugow.

Al Shabaab could be heard test-firing their artillery on the city’s outskirts, Sugow said.

Another resident, Hussein Nur, said the militants, who accuse the government of serving only Western interests and want to install a strict interpretation of sharia, Islamic law, were whipping up fear among the local population.

“Al Shabaab said in the mosques: ‘All Muslims should join the jihad as Kenyan troops will rape your wives and sisters and loot your property’,” Nur said.

Kenya sent troops into Somalia, on its eastern border, in October to help crush the militants. Kenyans are expected to lead AMISOM forces in an eventual assault on the port city.

Source:Reuters

US launch of Mary Harper’s Book, Getting Somalia Wrong?

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Mary Harper will begin her book tour in the USA on Tuesday, September 25th at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston, MA.  Mary will be speaking about Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State at the following venues. Please come if you can.

Tuesday, September 25 from 5-7pm
The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Boston, MA
 
Wednesday, 26 September at 4pm
Yale University, New Haven, CA
 
Monday, October 1 at 2pm
United States Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC 20037
More details available via this link: Book event at USIP: Whither Somalia?
 
 
Tuesday, October 2
Private event hosted by the Centre on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, New York, NY
Wednesday, October 3
Private event hosted by the Social Science Research Council, New York, NY
Wednesday, October 3 in the afternoon/ early evening
New York University, New York, NY
 
 
The book will be available at the events. You can also buy it from Amazon and other outlets, and as an e-book. For more details click this link: Where to buy Getting Somalia Wrong?

Somali woman helping rape victims wins UN award

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Hawa Aden Mohamed won the United Nations refugee agency’s Nansen Refugee Award on Tuesday for her work in helping thousands of Somali women and girls, many of them rape victims, start new lives in their battered homeland.

Mohamed, 63, is a former Somali refugee who returned from safety in Canada to her war-torn country in 1995, launching an education programme in Puntland to shelter and train Somalis who have fled war, famine and violence, it said.

“When Hawa Aden Mohamed rescues a displaced girl, a life is turned around,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

Known as “Mama Hawa”, she founded the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development which has assisted more than 215,000 displaced and victims of violence since 1999, it said.

 

“In a society like Somalia, it’s very often that a woman or a girl is raped and they are severely marginalised thereafter. So what she has done is given them is a home, a new start, hope for a new life and their dignity back,” UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a news briefing.

Young Somali boys also receive vocational training in carpentry and welding to keep them off the streets and avoid them falling prey to criminal or armed groups, the agency said.

Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office on Sunday, calling for an end to terrorism and piracy in a nation mired in conflict for more than two decades. More than two million people have been displaced.

Recent laureates include the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy for sponsoring asylum legislation and former British soldier Chris Clark for removing mines in Lebanon, allowing displaced people to return home after Israel’s 2006 invasion.

Mohamed, currently in hospital in Kenya recovering from surgery, is expected to attend the awards ceremony in Geneva on October 1, Fleming said.

 

Source: Reuters

SOMALILAND: President secretly flies to Djibouti, Ethiopia and France

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HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — President Dahir Rayale Kahin has flown out off the country on Thursday to the Djibouti Republic for a surprise visit to the Red Sea nation, Ethiopia and France.

The president was accompanied by the first lady, Huda Barkad Adan, minister of Post and Telecommunication, Mr. Ali Sandule, Director of port of Berbera, Mr. Ali Horhor, and the President’s Personal Secretary, Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Isse.

It is unclear why the trip has been kept so secret but according to a source close to the government the president received an official invitation from the French government. He will stop by Djibouti to pay a personal visit to the French embassy in the Djibouti to follow up the recent visit to Hargeisa by the French Ambassador and his delegation (see British and French diplomats arrive).

While in Djibouti, the Minister of Post and Telecommunication will also sign a major telecommunication deal that will see Somaliland connected to Europe’s fast internet cables via the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) and Seacom. The submarine-cable will also be connected to Ethiopia through Somaliland’s Berbera waters.

The president will then fly to Addis Ababa, where he will meet officials from the Ethiopian government, diplomats from a number of European nations, before he flies to Paris.

A local analyst believes the president and his team might also meet with French investors and might sign a major contract worth $700-million USD with Bolloré Africa Logistics to manage the port of Berbera. He added that, president Rayale will also discuss the issue of the port with the Ethiopians leaders.

Somaliland has been pushing landlocked Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa to use it’s Berbera as their prime port. Bolloré Africa Logistics has held a separate meetings with Prime Minister Meles Zenaw of Ethiopia in December of 2009.

Vice President Ahmed Yasin, who just returned from a Paris hospital after falling ill saluted the president as he jetted off to the Red Sea nation of Djibout.

While visiting Hargeisa, the French ambassador to Djibouti on Saturday, told the president, that France would support development in Somaliland in particular in education. He cited his country will consider giving Somaliland students free scholarships to study in France.

This is not the first time President Rayale has received an invitation from the French government, in September of 2008, he led a delegation to France on a working mission. However, the President is leading a very different team this time, his Foreign Minister, is already in Addis Ababa after Somaliland was invited to a summit of Ambassadors and diplomats spearheaded by Romania, the intermediate chairman.

According to the government radio, Radio Hargeisa, Mr. Abdullahi Mohamed Dualeh, will address the diplomats from leading European, American, African and Asian countries gathering in the Ethiopian capital. He will make a case of Somaliland’s quest for international recognition and might win new friends.

The president’s visit will last about two weeks.

Photo: President Rayale receives French Ambassador to Djibouti, Mr. Dominique Decherf at the presidential palace.

Somalilandpress, 22 April 2010

SOMALILAND: The missing corpse of SNM commander found – mayor

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HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The missing corpse of Hassan Saleban Mohamed, the first SNM commander was recovered in the village of Bali Abane, 60 km south of the capital, Hargeisa, after 27 years on Monday.

According to the mayor of the village, Mr. Hassan Shillin, the first commander of Somali National Movement (SNM) was beheaded in 1983 by members of the Somali national army (SNA) under the orders of Somalia’s totalitarian dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre and Defense Minister, Mohamed Ali Samater, who currently resides in Virginia, United States.

He added that after they hacked the head of his lifeless body, the Somali army, hanged his head from a tree above their military camp in the village in a move to humiliate SNM and to create fear among the locals. Mr. Shillin said they hid the rest of his body else where and has been missing ever since.

A local elderly man, who witnessed the event on that day in 1983, said: “Mr. Hassan and his forces launched a raid on the military camp in the village that lasted from dawn through to dusk, a bullet striked him in the evening and the Somali forces recovered his body on a pick-up truck and took him to their military post.”

The corpse was unearthed by HALO Trust, a non-political NGO, specialising in the removal of hazardous debris of war including landmines and heavy weapon systems. HALO Trust also successfully dismantled 175 mines consisting of anti-personnel and anti-tank minebelts.

Somaliland minister of resettlement, Mr. Mohamed Yusuf Osman, said his administration plans to give the late commander, a divisive figure, the honour of national burial in Hargeisa in the coming days. The family of the commander, including the former minister of commerce and industry, Mr. Mohamed Saleban Mohamed (brother), have been informed.

Neil Ferrao, the director of HALO Trust Somaliland, praised the findings as well as the donor nations however he said there is more to be done and more funds were needed. Mr Ferraro said a large number of minefields remain in the country that were laid during the 1964 and 1977 – 78 Somali-Ethio conflicts and between 1981 and 1991, when SNM waged an armed struggle against the Somali dictator. The fields exist along the Somaliland-Ethiopia border and vast number of them in farmlands and private properties.

Last week, two employees of HALO were killed in the Togdher region when their Land Rover carrying four staff was striked by a landmine while driving back to their camp in the village of Daba-gorayale. Until now it is not clear, how this has occurred because the agency has previously marked the road clear of mines. This is the first time someone from HALO trust was killed in Somaliland since it’s operations began ten years ago. HALO has since issued a press statement vowing to investigate the matter with the collaboration of “the police and the Somaliland Mine Action Centre” (see The HALO Trust: Press release).

The Somali National Movement (SNM), which waged an armed insurrection against the regime of Mohamed Siad Barre, was found in the streets of Jeddah in 1981 by a small group of prominent Somalilanders. Few months later, it’s most powerful branch and financial body was established in London. It’s core mission was to remove the Somali dictatorial regime from Somaliland and restore the national constitution. By the following year, it transformed its national base to the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa, where it conducted a number of successful raids inside Somaliland with the backing of Ethiopian small arms.

By 1988 SNM was able to operate inside Somaliland and captured a number of towns from Siad Barre of which he responded with indiscriminately shelling of major Somaliland urban towns (Hargeisa, Burao and Berbera) with the support of Rhodesian fighter jets. At least, 500, 000 civilians were massacred. In 1991, SNM drove the last SNA pockets from the country, the Siad Barre central government in Mogadishu collapsed, and SNM declared the independence of Somaliland. Today, Somaliland is democratic but unrecognized and SNM remains an important part of it.

Photo: History in the making- HALOs first ever female demining section in Somaliland

Somalilandpress, 22 April 2010

ETHIOPIA: Somali’s 2.7m Voters Bring Nat’l Count to 32m

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Addis Ababa, 21 April 2010 (Somalilandpress) – The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) disclosed an additional 2,755,453 registered voters from the Somali Regional State, universities and the military on April 16, 2010, bringing the total to nearly 32 million.

Somali Regional State has produced 2,524,184 voters, out of which 1,380,512 are male and 1,143,672 female. The remaining 231,269 voters have come from 111 sites, including high education institutions and military camps. These sites delivered 189,923 male and 41,546 female voters.

“The number of registered voters has increased from 29,170,867 to 31, 926,320,” Mohammed Abdurrahman public relation officer of the National Electoral Board told Fortune.

The number of total registered female voters has increased from 14,067,022 to 15,252,240. The male registered voters also show increase from 15,103,845 to 16,674,280 voters.

There are 31 candidates from the Somali Regional State for the Parliament, according to Mohammed.

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The number of registered voters at four universities and some Somali remote areas are not yet received by the NEBE because these places are remote from Addis Abeba. When these data are received, the total is expected to exceed 32 million voters.

“This exceeded the board’s expectation by two million additional voters,” Mohammed said.

Special polling stations are prepared for military and civil personnel of the defence forces and students of higher learning institutions because they live far away from their constituencies. However, they can only vote for candidates fielded in the constituency where they had been living before, Merga Bekena (Prof.) chairman of the NEBE said.

“These special polling stations handle 700 voters to avoid being crowded at one place,” Merga, told Fortune.

A total of 2,205 candidates are running for Parliament in all regional states, of which 1,948 are male and 257 female. For regional councils, there are 4,023 male and 711 female candidates. There are only 31 independent candidates at both levels, of which only two are women.

Source: Addis Fortune

Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index

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New York, April 20, 2010 (Somalilandpress) —Deadly, unpunished violence against the press has soared in the Philippines and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes. Impunity in journalist murders also rose significantly in Russia and Mexico, two countries with long records of entrenched, anti-press violence.

But Brazil and Colombia, historically two of the world’s deadliest nations for the press, each made marked improvement in curbing deadly violence against journalists and bringing killers to justice, CPJ found. Recent convictions in Brazil, in fact, moved the country off the index entirely.

“We’ve heard repeated pledges from governments that the killers of journalists will face justice, but until these promises are fulfilled, media will continue to be targeted by those who believe they are above the law and immune from consequences,” said Joel Simon, CPJ’s executive director. “One country, Brazil, made its way off this list of shame by investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators in these crimes.”

For the full report, click here.

URL: http://cpj.org/reports/2010/04/cpj-2010-impunity-index-getting-away-with-murder.php

Photo: Hirabe (NUSOJ)

CPJ is a New York–based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information, visit www.cpj.org.

Tom Rhodes

Africa Program Coordinator

Committee to Protect Journalists

330 Seventh Avenue, 11th Floor

New York, NY 10001 USA

(212) 300 – 9022

trhodes@cpj.org / www.cpj.org

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