Press Release – September 12, 2009

Somaliland American Council (SAC) is dismayed by and condemning the actions of President Dahir Rayale’s government that resulted for the death of innocent people who were exercising their right to demonstrate SAC also condemns Rayale government for closing down the people’s house (the Read more »

By Jeremy Sare
guardian.co.uk,

Gordon Brown, in his speech on the war in Afghanistan last week served up that old truism: failed states are a seedbed for terrorism and establishing democratic elections are the long-term solution. Pity then that this principle is not applied more widely. Read more »

Hargeysa- SAMOTALIS- Waxa si fiican oo aad u balaadhan u bilaabmay banaanbax lexaad leh oo labada xisbi ee Kulmiye iyo UCID ay ku muujiyeen cududooda iyo taageerada dhabta ah ee dadweynaha. Waxa dawladdu isticmaashay awood kasta ooy ku baajiso. Kolkii lacag iyo laaluush wax qaban waayey, waxa ay adeegsatay taagtii askarta, iyadoo la joojiyey dhammaan wax gaadiid ah oo dadka qaada. Mey se dhicin inay taas wax yeesho dareenkii dadweynah, bal se wey sii dhiirisey. Maanta waxa cad in kalsoonida shacbigu gacanta ugu jirto mucaaridka. Read more »

Stockholm- Xaflad balaadhan oo ay soo agaasimeen Jaaliyadaha Reer Somaliland iyo Xisbiga KULMIYE ee Sweden ayaa lagu qabtay Magaalada caasimada u ah Wadanka Sweden ee Stocholm. Read more »

Press Release

Expatriate Somaliland Community of North America Communiqué

February 13, 2009

Ever since the rebirth of Somaliland as an independent state in 1991, the Somaliland Diaspora community in North America and elsewhere around the world has taken a keen interest in the affairs of their homeland and has worked hard to continuously provide material as well as moral support for this young fledgling nation in its march towards self determination and the establishment of democratic institutions. Read more »

HARGEISA (The Somaliland Globe) – A group of members of the Upper House of Parliament failed to table a motion to change the law that allows removal of the leader of the House despite the leader’s repeated request for them to forward their motion. Read more »

(CNN) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were dancing their way through 10 official inaugural balls after a day of pomp and circumstance that saw his first presidential address and excitement about her inaugural dress.

Michelle Obama, dressed in Jason Wu, and President Obama at the Home State Ball Tuesday night.

The Obamas were serenaded by Beyoncé during their first dance at the Neighborhood Ball Tuesday night.

Beyoncé sang Etta James’ “At Last,” from her role in the movie “Cadillac Records” as the couple laughed and took their first spin around the dance floor.

Before the dance, Obama addressed the crowd, which erupted in applause when he entered the room.

“First of all, how good-looking is my wife?” Obama joked. Watch the Obamas at the first ball of the night »

All eyes certainly were on Michelle Obama, who had kept her choice of a designer and dress style a secret until the moment she entered the dance floor.

The first lady was clad in a long white gown designed by up-and-coming designer Jason Wu, 26. The gown made especially for the first lady is made of ivory silk chiffon, embellished with organza and Swarovski crystal rhinestones and silver thread embroidery, according to one of Wu’s publicists.

Wu told CNN he didn’t know that she had chosen his gown until her first ball appearance Tuesday night.

“It’s thrilling. … For a young designer, I couldn’t ask for any more than this,” said Wu, whose design style combines modern lifestyle dressing and haute couture, according to his Web site.

He designed and delivered the dress at the request of Michelle Obama’s aides in December, according to fashion expert Mary Alice Stephenson, contributing editor at Harper’s Bazaar.

Wu — who has been in the business for three years, according to InStyle.com fashion director Joe Berean — said he intended the gown to stand for everything that she and President Obama are about. Listen to Berean critique Michelle Obama’s inauguration outfits »

“It’s about hope. It’s about newness,” he said. “It’s all a little dreamlike, and we’re making history, and I wanted to really reflect that.”

The Neighborhood Ball, a first of its kind and one of the balls open to the public, was the first of 10 official balls that the Obamas were scheduled to attend.

For the new president, the first was particularly important.

“I cut my teeth doing neighborhood work and this campaign was organized neighborhood by neighborhood,” he said.

For that reason “this ball is the one that captures best the spirit of this campaign,” Obama said.

The Obamas then moved to their second ball — the Home State Ball, for Illinois and Hawaii — at the Convention Center.

After greeting the crowd by saying “Aloha,” the president thanked many in the crowd who he said were old friends who had been part of the couple’s lives for awhile.

“This is a special ball because it represents our roots,” he said.

The couple laughed and embraced as they danced. President Obama even let loose after his long day, twirling his wife around in a circle — a move the crowd cheered. Time: See the glamour of past balls

Next, the Obamas made their way to the Commander-in-Chief Ball, attended by many members of the military, including wounded veterans.

“It is wonderful to be surrounded by some of the very best and bravest Americans,” Obama said. “Your courage, your grace and your patriotism inspire us all.”

Obama told the crowd that there is “no greater honor or responsibility than serving as your commander in chief.” Watch the Obamas as the Commander-in-Chief Ball »

Obama then introduced members of the military from Illinois stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. After thanking them, Obama took time for lighter banter, polling the members of the military about whether they were Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox baseball fans.

“Terrible!” quipped Obama, known to be a huge White Sox fan, as most said they were Cubs fans.

Then Obama introduced his wife, who took a moment to emerge from backstage.

“I may have been stood up,” he joked, before she came out for their next dance.

Next, the Obamas turned their attention to the Youth Inaugural Ball, where people between the ages of 18 and 35 gathered.

“When you look at the history of this campaign, what started out as an improbable journey — when nobody gave us a chance — was carried forward, was inspired by, was driven by, was energized by, young people all across America,” Obama said.

The president thanked the young people who came out to vote in dramatically high numbers, especially compared to past elections.

He said a new generation inspired an older generation, and “that’s how change happens in America.”

Afterward, the Obamas moved to the Home State Ball for Delaware and Pennsylvania, honoring Vice President Joe Biden.

“We are grateful to you, not only for the trust you bestowed, but also for a guy named Joe Biden,” Obama said. Biden was born in Pennsylvania and later moved to Delaware, which he represented in the U.S. Senate.

The Obamas then visited the rest of the parties earlier than scheduled and in quick succession, spending about five minutes each at the Mid-Atlantic, Western, Midwest, Southern and Eastern regional balls.

At the Western Ball, singer Marc Anthony helped entertain about 11,500 guests, including film director Ron Howard and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines. When the Obamas arrived, someone shouted “I love you” to the president.

“I love you back,” Obama responded. “Michelle loves you, too.”

Before the couple’s dance at the Midwest Ball, the president introduced the first lady by saying he’d “like to dance with the one who brung me, and who does everything I do except … in high heels.”

The first couple’s last dance of the night — at the Eastern Ball — happened shortly after 12:35 a.m. Wednesday.

Melanie Roussell, a spokeswoman for the committee, said that in keeping with tradition, the Obamas and Biden and his wife, Jill, would make appearances at each of the official balls. Quiz: First ladies gowns

There was more than chips and dip for the new president and his fellow partygoers. “We will have a little more than light fare,” said Roussell, who listed such menu items as penne Italiano and chilled chicken roulades with tomatoes, artichokes and pine nuts.

The balls also featured plenty of music to suit just about everyone’s taste. In addition to Beyoncé, the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center included recording artists Jay-Z, Faith Hill, Shakira and Alicia Keys. iReport.com: Are you in Washington? Share your story

Those not lucky enough to score a ticket or an invitation could watch on television.

“We are trying to make this the most accessible inauguration in history,” Roussell said. “We are encouraging people to plan parties in their own neighborhoods, and they can tune in and celebrate along with the president.

Source/ CNN

Obama kicks off U.S. presidency

AMERICAS

WASHINGTON – Barack Hussein Obama stepped into history Tuesday as the first black president of the United States, delivering an impassioned call for a new “era of responsibility” founded on the age-old American principles of honesty, courage, loyalty and old-fashioned hard work.

Obama, a quirk of the Constitution having moments earlier bestowed upon him the title of 44th U.S. president , lifted the weight of a troubled world onto his shoulders as he placed his hand on the gilt-edged Bible of Abraham Lincoln and took the oath of office.

“Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real,” Obama said in his inauguration speech.

“They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America – they will be met.”

More than a million people were jammed onto the National Mall to watch the historic moment, which in fact passed at noon without fanfare, thanks to a U.S. Constitution that says the president-elect gets the job at the top of the hour, oath or no oath.

Clad in a red tie and white shirt under dark overcoat adorned with an American flag pin, Obama thanked predecessor U.S. President George W. Bush as he began the difficult task of inspiring a deflated nation burdened with the cost of protracted wars and a deepening economic crisis.

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism – these things are old,” he said.

What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility, a recognition – on the part of every American – that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”

One of those challenges, the ongoing security of the United States in the midst of an international conflict that has not gone away, won’t result in the sacrifice of American ideals, the new president added.

“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake,” Obama said.

“And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.”

Along with the dignitaries, a distant sea of people clogged Washington to be a part of history.

Joy Diaz, 47, travelled from Burlington, Ont., to stand along the route Obama would pass during the afternoon’s inaugural parade. She came because she was fascinated by the 2008 campaign.

“It was riveting in Canada. We were addicted,” Diaz said. “When it was over, we were going through withdrawal.”

Diaz said her parents, who are natives of Trinidad, wanted to attend the 1963 march on Washington but could not because they had young children.

“They couldn’t be part of history,” she said. “I said I have to represent them at this historical event.”

Diaz was part of a crowd that was on hand to witness a watershed moment in a country with a shameful history of slavery and segregation – a moment that Obama himself made sure to temper with a pointed reminder that difficult days are ahead.

“Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions – that time has surely passed,” Obama said.

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

On hand for the ceremony were Obama’s living predecessors Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as his Obama’s wife Michelle, first lady Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Prior to the ceremony, Cheney – sitting in a wheelchair with a wooden cane across his lap after straining his back last week – emerged onto the inauguration platform with U.S. President George W. Bush, who was afterward spirited away to retirement at his ranch in Crawford, Tex.

Already a glorious structure, the Capitol was dressed to the nines for the historic event, elegantly draped with starry indigo bunting, flowing columns of red and white fabric and banks of snow-white bleachers for thousands of spectators.

Before the sun had even risen Tuesday, those determined to be on hand for the ceremony had started working their way into the National Mall to take in the spectacle.More than a million of them – all different colours, ages and nationalities – packed the Mall and along the inaugural parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House.

Obama mentioned Iraq and Afghanistan by name as he pledged to peacefully end America’s two unpopular wars, to mitigate the threat of nuclear war and tackle global warming.

But he also had a pointed message for America’s enemies.

“For those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.”

Just beyond the White House fence, huge crowds braved freezing temperatures and jostled for positions to see the ceremony, either with the naked eye or on Jumbotron screens.

They’ve been in D.C. for days, cramming the streets snapping pictures, buying all manner of Obama memorabilia and attending a massive outdoor concert at Lincoln Memorial in honour of their political hero.For many of them, Obama’s successful run for the presidency not only represents a long-overdue shattering of the race barrier, but a return to honour in politics the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1960s with iconic figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Americans sobered by enduring conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ongoing economic meltdown won’t be alone in counting on the new U.S. president to deliver on the impending era of hope he’s promised since his momentous electoral victory in November.

The rest of the world, weary of war and ravaged by the economic meltdown, is also optimistic.

Source / By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press

Laascaanood (Somaliland.org) – Guddoomiyaha xisbiga siyaasiga ah ee KULMIYE Mudane Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo) iyo wefti ballaadhan oo uu hogaaminayo ayaa gelinkii dambe ee maanta si layaab leh loogu soo dhaweeyay magaalo madaxda gobolka Sool ee Laascaanood oo maalinta berri ah ay si rasmi ah uga bilaabmi doonto hawsha diwaangelinta codbixiyayaasha doorashada madaxtooyada Somaliland ee fooda inagu soo haysa.

Wararka naga soo gaadhaya magaalada Laascaanood ayaa sheegaya in kumanaan dadwaynaha ku dhaqan magaalada Laascaanood oo sita calanka qaranka Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland iyo calanka xisbiga KULMIYE ay ku soo dhaweeyeen guddoomiyaha xisbiga KULMIYE iyo weftigiisa.

Soo dhawayntaasi ka dib, Guddoomiyaha xisbiga Siyaasiga ah ee KULMIYE Mudane Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo) ayaa meel fagaare ah kula hadlay dadwaynahan soo dhaweeyay, isaga oo uga mahad celiyay sida qiimaha iyo qaayaha badan ee ay  u soo dhaweeyeen. Guddoomiye Axmed Siilaanyo waxa uu dadwaynaha gobolka Sool uga waramay socdaalkooda iyo sida ay muhiimka ay u tahay in shacabka gobolka Sool guud ahaan ay u diyaargaroobaan diwaangelinta maalinta berri ah ka bilaabi doonta gobolkaasi.

Fagaarahaasi waxa kale oo ka hadlay Guddoomiye ku xigeenka labaad ee Golaha Wakiillada Somaliland Mudane Baashe Maxamed Faarax iyo Mudane Fu’aad Aadan Cadde oo ka mid ah masuuliyiinta sare ee xisbiga KULMIYE, iyaga oo dadwaynaha ku booriyay in ay diwaangelinta si wayn uga qayb qaataan.

Mujaahid Maxamed Kaahin Axmed oo isaguna munaasibaddaasi ka hadlay, ayaa ka waramay qiimaha nabad-galyada iyo degenaanshaha. Isaga oo ka mid ahaa raggii dedaalka badan ka galay nabadayntii beelaha Bariga Somaliland iyo guud ahaanba dalka Somaliland ilaa sannadkii 1991-kii.

Guddoomiyaha Xisbiga KULMIYE Mudane Axmed Siilaanyo waa masuulkii ugu miisaanka waynaa ee taga magaalada Laascaanood ee xarunta gobolka Sool, tan iyo sannadkii 2003.

Dhinaca kale, guddoomiyaha guddida diwaangelinta Komishanka Ismaaciil Muuse Nuur ayaa sheegay in diwaangelintu si rasmi ah maalinta berri uga bilaabmi doonto gobolkaasi, kooxihii ka hawl galayay diwaangelintuna ay gaadheen gobolka Sool, inkasta oo ay jiraan ‘buu yidh’ kooxo tiro yar oo weli ku sagan magaalada Burco oo ilaa caawa ay dirayaan.

Xigasho /Axmed Maxamed Saleebaan, Somaliland.org, Hargeysa.