Thursday, April 05, 2007
ASMARA, April 5 (Reuters) - Eritrea said on Thursday that Somalia's former parliament speaker and a deputy prime minister were in the Horn of Africa country to discuss ways to help Somalia out of its problems.
Eritrea's Information Minister Ali Abdu said Sheikh Sharif Adan Mohamed Nuur -- voted out as speaker in January for reaching out to the government's Islamist rivals -- and Hussein Aideed, had been in the country for about three days.
"We are talking with them about the way out of Somalia's problems and the bottom line is that Somalia's problems should be solved by the Somalis themselves," Abdu told Reuters.
"They are the owners of their own destiny."
Eritrea was widely accused of supporting the hardline Islamist movement in Somalia that was defeated by Ethiopian and government troops in a war over the New Year. Asmara denies it.
Aideed has been in the interim government since its inception at peace talks in Kenya in 2004.
The Somali government considers the former speaker a traitor, but diplomats see him as a potentially strong figure for reconciliation talks which are due in Mogadishu on April 16. Many doubt they will go forward because of the insecurity there.
Some 124,000 people -- or a tenth of the Somali capital's population -- have left the capital since February as a result of fighting that followed the Islamists' ouster.
Fighting between pro-government forces and insurgents peaked with four days of fighting in a four day offensive that ended on Sunday after more than 400 people were killed.
Source: Reuters, April 05, 2007
qarandiid qiil ma waayee wuu qeeliyaa,
qarandiid kheer malahoo way qaloocdeen,
qarandiid qabri kama baqee wuuba u qoystaa,
qarandiid khashkhashaad ma daayee waa qowsaar,
qarandiid lagama karo ka daa qaranka qowda,
qarandiid qiyaamaha uma shaqeestaanee way u qayilaan,
qarandiid qofka qarandoonka ah waxay ugu yeeraan qabiileeste,
qarandiid markaa waxaa la tusay in ay qaldanyihiin!
qarandiid kheer malahoo qiyaamay ka shalayn,
qarandiid ayaantaan qurbaheey ka soo qeeliyaan,
qarandiid qowdii ku dhacdaa qalbi tirtay,
qarandiid ma yaqanaa kheerka qarankee,
qarandiid qaskiisu waa mid asaga quusiya.
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SOMALIA ITSELF HELPED A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS FOR DIFFERENT REASONS:
We helped Asias Afeworke(Ereteria), Melez Zenawi(Tigrean),& Waqo Guto(Oromo) to destabilise Ethiopia.
We helped Somali galbeed & Djabouti to achieve our goal of greater Somalia.
We helped Uganda & Tanzania with peacekeepers in 1973 to avoid Africam bloodshed.
Therefore, you have to look at evrything we did for other nations within the context of our foreign policy at the time.
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Isias Aferwoki and the ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front) were
worth every penny of Somali taxpayer help.
Aferworki helps out Somalia in its time of need as we helped
Eritrea in its struggle for independence.
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Somali politics has become a poker game and the good cards
were given to it's enemies to tighten their strangle hold on
it.Erteria just like Ethiopia is playing it's own game
for it's own gain but in a pacive way. In other words no one
is helping Somalia including it's own people
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No one helped or is helping Somalia. Ethiopia is hurting them so bad but the rest of the world ain't helping. The Somalis need to wake up and start becoming humans again!!
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Thank you Erteria for heloing Somalia in its hour of need. we shall never forget your help
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