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IGAD PEACE CONFERENCE CREATES WAR !
NAIROBI / KENYA, 16th October 2002 - PRESS STATEMENT BY THE MADHIBAAN SUPREME COUNCIL
- In an open letter to the United Nations, the heads of states and the
international community, the Madhibaan - a genuine people of Somalia, spoke out against the continuous persecution and neglect, from which
they still have to suffer: The Madhibaan, traditionally also called Midgaan and belonging to the
Sa'ab group of people, are an outcast minority of non-Somali origin and ancient hunter-gatherer
culture.
Lineage
identity is central organizing force in Somalia (2002)
"Based on their patrilineal kinship and lineage segmentation,
the Somali people are divided into six major clans, which in turn
branch out into numerous sub clans, and minority groups. The major
clans include Darod, Dir, Hawiye and Issak collectively known as
Samale group, and the Rahaweyn (Digile and Mrifle) community
categorized as Sab group. The Hawiye clan includes Habargedir, Abgal,
Murusade, Hawadle, Galjel, Moblen, Sheikal, Djijele, Badi Adde, and
Ajuran while the Darood group include Majerten, Marehan, Dhulbahante,
and Ogaden, LeelaKase, Ortoble, Kaskiiqabe and Dashiishe.
International Movement Against All Forms of
Discrimination and Racism
Friday the 9th of August, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concluded its
discussion on discrimination based on descent with a number of Committee Experts
expressing the need to urge States parties to implement positive measures
against such discrimination. The Committee is expected to adopt recommendations on discrimination based on
descent on the
basis of the discussions held on the 8th and 9th of August before concluding its three-week session on 23
August.
STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE
ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
(August 2002) Brief Review of Somali Outcaste Groups
- Summary of research by Professor Asha A.
Samad, City University of New York (CUNY) and Executive Director,
SAFRAD – Somali Association
NEWS
2001
SOMALIA
According
to reliable sources (UK Home Office, UNHCR, UN IRIN) over 100,000
Somalis have been repatriated from Ethiopia and Kenya
NEWS
2000
Horn of Africa: IRIN
Weekly Round-up 1 covering the period 4 - 8 Sep 2000
SOMALIA: Faction leaders condemn new interim authority - Faction leaders in Somalia
opposed to the newly elected interim authority have called for new
peace talks in which they should lead the process, the independent
daily 'Xog Ogaal' reported on Monday. It said the faction leaders,
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad, Husayn Aydid, Uthman Ato, Husayn Haji Bod, Adan
Gabiyow and Mawlid Ma'ni Mahmud, had issued a four-point statement
after meeting on Sunday in Garowe, capital of Puntland in northeastern
Somalia.
UN activities in
Somalia for the week of 25 - 30 Sep 2000
UNDP - On 28 September, the UN
Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator travelled to Djibouti to meet
members of the Transitional National Government. Consultant Jeremy
Brickell,
author of the Somali Civil Protection Programme (SCPP) document, is in
Nairobi to prepare a meeting on demobilisation of militia. The meeting
is scheduled for the first week of November. Please contact UNDP for
more information.
Mid-year 2000: Somalia:
Chaos Continues
(August 28, 2000) Somalia's chaotic civil war and sense of pervasive lawlessness moved
into its twelfth year in early 2000. During the first half of
the year, thousands of newly displaced Somalis descended on the
capital, Mogadishu; gunfights in Mogadishu and at other locations left
hundreds dead; a local aid worker was killed and two international
relief workers were kidnapped; and floods damaged two displacement
camps and killed thousands of livestock.
Shut
down the so-called
Djibouti Peace Initiative for Somalia
and put
in place a neutrally assisted, committed reconciliation - Minority
Somali Communities in Kenya press release , 2 April 2000
- The
so-called Djibouti Peace Initiative for Somalia is a disguise to
perpetuate the crisis in our country. We demand to stop this
proxy-peace initiative, misguided by the UN and other outside forces.
Horn of Africa: IRIN
News Briefs, 26 January 2000
ERITREA: UNHCR allowed to resume operations - The Eritrean government
and UNHCR reached agreement on Monday to allow the refugee agency
resume operations in the country, from which it was expelled in May
1997 for what Eritrea considered "undue pressure" to revive
the stalled repatriation from Sudan of Eritrean refugees who fled
their home country during the war of independence with Ethiopia.
Monday's agreement, under which the refugee agency will focus on the
voluntary repatriation of 147,000 Eritreans registered in refugee
camps in Gedaref and El Showak in eastern Sudan, followed a visit to
Asmara by UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Soren Jessen-Petersen,
UNHCR spokesman Jacques Franquin told IRIN on Wednesday.
The
Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Africa
Moringe Parkipuny, Member of Parliament, Ngorongoro, Tanzania - Mr.
Parkipuny delivered these remarks before the Sixth Session of the
United Nations ; Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneve,
Switzerland on August 3, 1989. -- Madam Chairperson, fellow
representatives and friends in the struggles of indigenous peoples
rights, first, I convey from Africa the message of unity and
resolute determination to consolidate the strive for our common
course.....
NEWS 1993
Slippery
solution - Mabo case highlights aboriginal land rights
1993 - Aboriginal leaders in Australia have rejected the Labor
Government’s response to the controversial Mabo land-rights case.
The High Court ruling in the case of Mabo vs Queensland in June 1992
overturned the assumption that Australia belonged to no-one before
white colonization.
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