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Voting opens for African p...
Voting opens for African player award
The five candidates for the 2008 BBC African Footballer of the Year award have been revealed on the BBC’s African sports programme Fast Track.   The nominees are: Mohamed Aboutrika, Emmanuel Adebayor, Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o and Amr Zaki. You can vote for your choice right up until 9 January and the winner will be announced a week later. Click here for instructions on how to vote   The...
Bill Clinton mentioned for...
Bill Clinton mentioned for wife’s Senate seat
After eight years as senator from New York, Hillary Clinton is trading places, moving from Congress to the incoming administration.  On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he asked his former rival to be his secretary of state. That means the scramble begins to replace Clinton on Capitol Hill. Among those mentioned to take her seat as New York’s junior senator is her husband,...
Choice for U.N. Backs Acti...
By PETER BAKER CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be ambassador to the United Nations, picking an advocate of “dramatic action” against genocide as he rounds out his national security team, Democrats close to the transition said Sunday. Mr. Obama intends to announce Ms. Rice’s selection at a news conference here Monday along with...
Somali pirates to free Yem...
BOSASSO, Somalia, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Somali pirates have agreed to release a Yemeni cargo ship, the MV Amani, without ransom, after negotiations between the hijackers, local elders and provincial officials, a minister said on Friday. “No ransom was paid, but after negotiations, the pirates will get off the ship soon. The Yemeni ship will be released in the coming hours,” Ali Abdi Aware,...
Somalia: Parliament Speake...
Somalia: Parliament Speaker, ex-PM Gedi to ‘visit Puntland’
GAROWE, Somalia Nov 30 (Garowe Online) - A high-level delegation is expected in Somalia’s self-governing region of Puntland, including ex-Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, confidential sources tell Garowe Online. The delegation is expected to arrive in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, on Monday and hold discussions with interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, the sources added. Along with Gedi,...
Ina Buubaa oo Somaliland u...
Ina Buubaa oo Somaliland ugu baaqay in ay heshiisiiyaan K. Somalia
“Somaliland waa inay ka shaqayso sidii koonfur u degi lahayd, taas macno weyn bay siinaysaa, aqoonsiguna taas ayuu ku jiraa” Nairobi (Qaran News/W.Wararka)- Mr. Ismaaciil Maxamuud Hurre (Buubaa) oo ka tirsan Baarlamanka dawladda Mbeghati, ayaa markii ugu horreysay rajo wanaagsan ka muujiyey aqoonsi buuxa oo beesha caalamku u fidiso Somaliland. Ismail Hurre Buubaa oo ah siyasi Somaliyed Mr. Buubaa...
Somalia’s old stadium re...
Somalia’s old stadium reconstruction to conclude early next year
The reconstruction of Somalia’s oldest football site, Stadium Banadir is due to be completed by early next year, Engineers revealed on Sunday. Engineer Abdi Salaan Mohamed Mahmoud who is leading the rebuilding work on Sunday told reporters he is very hopeful that the reconstruction work will be concluded by March 2009. Stadium Banadir in Mogadishu“Now I can say that we have done at least 50% of...
Somaliland: Voters Registr...
Somaliland: Voters Registration to Resume Tomorrow
Somaliland voter registration   Somaliland’s voters registration is expected to resume tomorrow after a 30-days of delay due to the suicide bombs in Hargeisa last month. At least two times have been postponed the regisration because the authorities wanted to wait the investigation results that was going on.The registration is beginning in Marodi-jeh region including the capital city of...
U.S. appears to be losing ...
BERBERA, Somalia — To glimpse America’s secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali Isse. Security guards in Bosaso, Puntland Isse, 36, is a convicted murderer and jihadist. He is known among his fellow prisoners, with...
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