The head of United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees, Antonio Guterres visited the Somali capital, Mogadishu, during Eid on Wednesday, to assess the current status of famine in the country. Guterres expressed his annual solidarity to a community during an important time that relates to their religious beliefs. This year, he picked Somalia and scheduled a visit that coincided with the end of the holy month of Ramadan - Eid. While this is a celebratory occasion for Muslims, Somalis have been suffering from the severe drought and starvation. "The international communities need to get together. All actors -- UN, Red Cross, Red Crescent, NGOS, Islamic organizations, need to work in a combined way, in a coordinated way, to be able to address the needs of these people that are suffering so much," said Guterres. According to Guterres, there are currently 850,000 refugees outside Somalia, and 1.4 million displaced inside Somalia, which he says is more difficult to support. "The Eid is a good moment to make this appeal, after Ramadan, to all parties to the conflict, to respect the humanitarian law, and to let humanitarian aid reach the totality of the territory of Somalia," he said. Relief aid agencies are finding it difficult to reach certain areas with millions of people who require aid. Many areas are under the control of Al Shabaab rebels, an al Qaeda-affiliated group. By Al Arabiya
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AJE speaks to Islamic Relief on the Somalia drought
Somalia is suffering its worst drought in 60 years, but getting aid to the country has been difficult because al-Shabab fighters control much of the country's most desperate areas. Jehangir Malik, the director for aid organisation Islamic Relief talks to Al Jazeera about the situation on the ground.
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Horn of Africa Famine: Millions at Risk in "Deadly Cocktail" of War, Climate Change, Neoliberalism
Original Website : democracynow.org http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/horn_of_africa_famine_millions_at Democracynow is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/DemocracyNow Friday, July 22, 2011 : Al-Shabab Says Foreign Aid Ban Continues in Somalia The militant Islamist group al-Shabab has announced its ban on foreign aid groups remains in place in Somali areas under its control. Al-Shabab reversed the longstanding ban earlier this month as the crisis in Somalia escalated into what the United Nations has now declared to be a famine threatening millions of people. The ban had grounded efforts to reach residents of drought-stricken areas across southern Somalia. Al-Shabab has also dismissed U.N. claims of a famine in Somalia as "100 percent false." Touring southern Somalia on Thursday, World Food Programme executive director Josette Sheeran appealed for more aid. Josette Sheeran: "They need fortified supplemental foods in massive quantities throughout the areas where they have been unable to be reached. So, mostly in southern Somalia we're seeing a weakened population, and we have to focus on this. We have called on all global supply lines to supply these fortified foods. We need the contributions and the supply chain to not end." http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/headlines#1 Horn of Africa Famine: Millions at Risk in "Deadly Cocktail" of War, Climate Change, Neoliberalism The United Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss the Horn of Africa drought, which it says has already claimed tens of thousands of lives. Famine was declared in two regions of Somalia on Wednesday where 3.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Another eight million people need food assistance in neighboring countries including Kenya and Ethiopia. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the situation a "catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought" and has appealed for immediate aid. We go to Nairobi for an update from Kiki Gbeho of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. We also speak with Christian Parenti, author of "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence." "This was predicted long ago by people on the ground," Parenti says. "It's a combination of war, climate change and very bad policy, particularly an embrace of radical free market policies by regional governments that mean the withdrawal of support for pastoralists, the type of people you saw with their dead cattle. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/22/horn_of_africa_famine_millions_at Video source file : http://ewheel.democracynow.org/dn2011-0722.mp4.torrent End music : Music Box Opening (by Lzn02) http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/338677 The original content of DemocracyNow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/legalcode
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Al Jazeera interview on merger of Somalia rebel groups
Abdi Aynte, an editor for the Al Jazeera English website, said the merger process between al-Shabab and Islamic Party insurgents poses no threat. He said the process was more a surrender than a merger, and a contract under duress. (Dec 24, 2010)
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Somalia fighter still eludes arrest - 16 Sep 07
Sheikh Hassan Turki has evaded capture by Somalia's transitional government and its allies since the Islamic Courts Union was ousted earlier this year. He is also wanted by the United States and Kenyan governments. The main accusation against him is that he was involved in the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salam in 1998. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Nairobi.
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Somali Piracy (Al-Jazeera English)
Piracy has become an almost daily occurence off Somalia since the withdrawal of the Islamic Courts. The highest ransom to have been is said to have been around $2.5 million, and the pirates are so well connected that they receive the money outside Somalia with little difficulty.
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Interview with Dr. Afyare Elmi on Somalia and the killing of Saleh Ali Nabhan
When American special forces killed Saleh Ali Nabhan in Somalia, Al-Jazeera asked Dr. Afyare Elmi, a Somali political scientist at Qatar University's Department of International Affairs. This brief interview discusses about the statelessness in Somalia, the impact of the killing.
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Accountability and Struggle with the Self (part1)
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Islamic Festival 1/4 Danish Cartoons : Muslim Response
Islamic Festival of Mahaba (love). Part 1 of 4. This festival was the Muslim world's response to the Danish cartoons against Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1whZJ3kbio danish denmark cartoons prophet muhammad islam islamic muslim response
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I.Y.O.S Amir Muhadith a.k.a Loon pt1
Amir Junaid Muhadith (born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, June 20, 1975) better known by his stage name Loon, formerly an African-American rapper who was part of P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. Amir (Loon) accepted Islam in Dec. 2008 whilst on tour in Dubai, UAE. His inspiring story of rising up from the ghettos of Harlem, NY to street-hustling and later making it in to the rap game and eventually realising the truth of Islam and becoming Muslim, is quite a story. Amir never attained true personal fulfilment despite enjoying the pinnacle of material life (wealth, success and fame), no matter how hard he strove, he couldnt attain that inner peace that can only be realised by submitting to ones Lord, living for the hereafter and not the present life, the complete contentment of believing in, worshipping and supplicating to the Lord of the worlds, practising the beautiful religion of Islam.
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I.Y.O.S Amir Muhadith a.k.a Loon pt2
Amir Junaid Muhadith (born Chauncey Lamont Hawkins, June 20, 1975) better known by his stage name Loon, formerly an African-American rapper who was part of P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records. Amir (Loon) accepted Islam in Dec. 2008 whilst on tour in Dubai, UAE. His inspiring story of rising up from the ghettos of Harlem, NY to street-hustling and later making it in to the rap game and eventually realising the truth of Islam and becoming Muslim, is quite a story. Amir never attained true personal fulfilment despite enjoying the pinnacle of material life (wealth, success and fame), no matter how hard he strove, he couldnt attain that inner peace that can only be realised by submitting to ones Lord, living for the hereafter and not the present life, the complete contentment of believing in, worshipping and supplicating to the Lord of the worlds, practising the beautiful religion of Islam. Nomadic Status - Nomadic TV
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Sheekh xasan ibraahim ciise: Naxariista eebe 4 HQ
maka ka mid tahay kuwan? waa dadka naarta ugu badan...ilaahow naga kori!! 1} dadka caasi waalideynka ah , 2} gabdhaha qaawan oo xijaabka qaadan , 3} dumarka ragooda ku soo af celiya, 4} dadka maalqabeenada ah oo masaakiinta wax siinin, 5} dadka aan zakada bixinin, 6} dadka taariku salaadka ah 7} dadka aanan soomin
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