Warar kala duwan oo ka soo baxaya qarax xoogan oo ka dhacay dulleedka magaalada Muqdisho

 

Isniin, September, 04, 2017 (HOL) –Warar kala duwan ayaa ka soo baxaya qarax miino oo deegaanka Ceelasha biyaha ee dulleedka magaalada Muqdisho lala eegtay gadiid ay la socdeen ciidamo ka tirsan militariga dowladda Soomaaliya.

Goob joogayaal la hadlay warbaahinta ayaa sheegay in qaraxa oo loo adeegsaday miino dhulka lagu aasay lala eegtay gadiid marayay waddada xiriirisa Ceelasha biyaha iyo magaalada Muqdisho.

Labo qof oo rayid ayaa ilaa iyo hadda la xaqiijinayaa in ay ku dhinteen qaraxa kuwaa oo marayay waddada dhiceeda markii uu qaraxu dhacayay.

Sarkaal ka tirsan ciidamada dowladda federaalka ayaa xaqiijiyay ciidamada dhaawacyo uu ka soo gaaray qaraxa, balse aysan jirin dhimasho ka dhalatay.

Wararka qaar ayaa sheegaya in ciidamada la bartilmaameedsaday ahaayeen kuwa militariga ee Shirkada Bancroft ay tababarka siiso, kuwaasi oo saldhigooda uu yahay deegaanka Balidoogle ee Gobolka Shabeellaha Hoose.

C/raxmaan Diini, Hiiraan Online
diini@hiiraan.com

Al-Shabab attacks Somalia army base

Sunday September 3, 2017

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility and said 26 soldiers had been killed [FILE: Hamza Mohamed/Al Jazeera]

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Al-Shabab fighters attacked a military base near Somalia’s southern port city of Kismayu early on Sunday, a Somali army officer said, adding that he did not immediately have details of any casualties.

The armed group claimed responsibility for the attack and said 26 Somali soldiers had been killed in the incident, but that could not be confirmed by other sources.

"We understand al-Shabab attacked the base and fierce fighting and a blast occurred, but still we have no details," Mohamed Isa, a military officer, told Reuters news agency from Kismayu.

The attack was on a base in the village of Bula Gudud, near Kismayu.

State radio also reported the base had been attacked but said casualties were not yet known.

The base is jointly operated by the Somali national army and forces from the semi-autonomous Jubbaland region of southern Somalia, it reported.

Residents in Bula Gudud said a blast was heard and an exchange of gunfire broke out shortly after the first Muslim prayer of the day.

Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab's military spokesman, told Reuters: "This morning, we stormed the Jubbaland base near Bula Gudud. We killed 26 soldiers and burnt two cars."

The group left the base after taking weapons, ammunition and several vehicles, he added.

Al-Shabab is linked to al-Qaeda and wants to impose strict Islamic law in Somalia.

The group routinely exaggerates casualty figures.

Faah faahin ku saabsan dagaal culus oo ka dhacay deegaanka Buula-Gaduud

 

Axad, September, 03, 2017 (HOL) – Warar dheeraad ah ayaa ka soo baxaya dagaal culus oo saakay ka dhacay deegaanka Buulo-Gaduud oo 30Km dhinaca Waqooyi kaga beegan magaalada Kismaayo ee xarunta gobolka Jubbada hoose.

Dagaalka ayaa ku bilaawday gaari laga soo buuxiyay walxaha qarxa oo lagu beegsaday xero ay degenaayeen ciidamada xoogga dalka.

Xarrakada Al-shabaab ayaa sheegatay mas’uuliyada weerarka, waxaana ay intaa ku dareen in ay dileen tiro ka badan 20 Askari.

Dagaalka ayaa qaatay muddo saacado ah, iyadoo dagaalyahano fara badan oo ka tirsan Al-Shabaab ay xerada ciidamada gudaha u galeen.

Saraakiil ka tirsan Jubbaland ayaa sheegaya in ay iska caabiyeen Al-Shabaab, ayna dib ula wareegeen deegaanka, balse waxaa ay qirteen in khasaare xoog leh uu soo gaaray.

Sidoo kale xarrakada Al-shabaab ayaa sheegatay in dagaal kula wareegeen xerada iyo sidoo gadiid dagaal hub iyo saanad ciidan.

Weerarka Al-Shabaab saaka ku qaaday deegaanka Buulo Gaduud ayaa ah kii ugu xoogganaa ee ay ku qaado ciidamada Jubbaland.

Wararka ka imanaya deegaanka Buula-gaduud ayaa sheegaya in xaalad degenaasho ay ka jirto deegaanka.

C/raxmaan Diini, Hiiraan Online
diini@hiiraan.com

Another Heavy death toll from a conflict in Eastren Ethiopia

Intense fighting between the Ethiopian Somali and the Oromo ethnic groups in the eastern Ethiopia has left “more than 30 people”, including “more than a dozen army members”, dead and several others injured, Addis Standard learned.

Sunday September 3, 2017
According to three residents of Mieso town, west Hararghe zone, who contacted Addis Standard late this evening, today’s fighting in and around the town was between several members of local residents and heavily armed members of the “Liyu Police”.  

“We couldn’t take the killings our men, the raping of our girls and the lootings of our cattle by bandits openly supported by the Liyu Police,” wrote Abdulatif Kererro, a resident of the town in his message. A similar attack has left seven civilians dead last week in Chinakson in east Hararghe and its environs.  

The conflict has been going on for several months now. The local say it is aggravated by the presence of members of Ethiopia’s notorious police force, “Liyu Police,” a special paramilitary elite force accused of its close connection to Abdi Mohamoud Omar, president of the Somali regional state in eastern Ethiopia. Members of the “Liyu Police” are often accused of looting, rape and extrajudicial killings of civilians ever since their establishment in April 2007.

Last week, a group of elders who traveled from East Hararghe Zone, Gursum Woreda of the Oromia Regional State to the capital Addis Abeba have called for an end to the “Liyu police anarchy”.

In march 2017 weeks-long cross border incursions by armed militiamen that local say were members of “Liyu Police”  into many localities in eastern and southern part of the Oromia regional state, (bordering the Ethiopian Somali regional state in eastern and south eastern Ethiopia) had left more than 100 civilians dead.

It is not clear what trigged the latest conflict. But the Oromia regional state bureau head Addisu blamed the reasons for March’s conflict as “border expansion” and “economic” in nature.

The clashes happened after incursions by “armed men” from the Somali regional state into towns and villages administratively under the Oromia regional state.

In April 2017, following several attacks by Liyu police, Abdi Mohamud Omar and Lemma Megerssa, presidents of Somali and Oromia regional states respectively, have signed an agreement to end “border hostilities”. On August 19, the Oromia regional state said that as part of that agreement, of the 68 contested villages between the two regions, 48 have been returned to be under the administration of the Oromia regional state. But the deal doesn’t not seem to hold water.

Today’s heavy clash subsided late this afternoon after the “members of the federal army arrived in the scene”, according to Abdulatif, “but we are not going sit back and see this happen again,” he wrote.

Burma: Satellite Images Show Massive Fire Destruction

Sunday September 3, 2017

New satellite imagery obtained by Human Rights Watch shows the complete destruction of the village of Chein Khar Li Satellite imagery © DigitalGlobe 2017

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New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Burma’s Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said today. Imagery from the Rohingya Muslim village of Chein Khar Li in Rathedaung township shows 700 buildings burned, a near total destruction of the village.

The Burmese government should urgently grant access to independent monitors to determine the sources of fires and assess allegations of serious human rights violations made by ethnic Rohingya refugees who have fled into neighboring Bangladesh.

“This new satellite imagery shows the total destruction of a Muslim village, and prompts serious concerns that the level of devastation in northern Rakhine State may be far worse than originally thought,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director. “Yet this is only one of 17 sites that we’ve located where burnings have taken place. Independent monitors are needed on the ground to urgently uncover what’s going on.”

Human Rights Watch identified a total of 700 destroyed buildings in Chein Khar Li from an analysis of satellite imagery recorded on August 31, 2017. The imagery shows that 99 percent of the village was destroyed. Damage signatures are consistent with fire, including the presence of large burn scars and destroyed tree cover.

This imagery builds on previously published data collected by Human Rights Watch indicating burnings taking place at 17 separate sites across northern Rakhine state between August 25 and 30, 2017. Those burnings followed a series of coordinated attacks by ethnic Rohingya militants of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on the morning of August 25, 2017 against dozens of Burmese government police stations and checkpoints, government offices, and an army base.

Satellites initially detected active fires in the early afternoon of August 25 in the village tract of Koe Tan Kauk in Rathedaung township, where Chein Khar Li is located. There are two adjacent villages located north and south of Chein Khar Li (Muslim village) that appeared intact in the satellite imagery—Koe Tan Kaung and Chein Khar Li (an ethnic Rakhine-populated village with the same formal name as the destroyed village).

Human Rights Watch analysis indicates that the large areas shown as burnt in the satellite imagery means it is very likely the burning was deliberate.

Given the current monsoon weather conditions in Rakhine State, it would have been very difficult to set fire to such a significant number of buildings. The scale of the fire destruction suggests that burnings either were done with significant numbers of people or over a significant period of time to carry out this widespread degree of burning.

The Burmese government has blamed the setting of fires on ARSA militants and Rohingya villagers who the government claims set fire to their own homes. The government has not provided any evidence to support these allegations, nor did they ever prove similar allegations made by the government during the burning of Rohingya areas between October 2016 and December 2016. Human Rights Watch and others determined that Burmese security forces deliberately set those fires

Numerous Rohingya refugees who had recently fled from various other villages in northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh told Human Rights Watch that Burmese soldiers and police had burned down their homes and carried out armed attacks on villagers. Many of these Rohingya refugees suffered from recent bullet and shrapnel wounds.

The Burmese government should immediately grant visas to the three commissioners of the Fact Finding Mission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

“These new satellite images show exactly why it is critical for international investigators to be allowed on the ground in Rakhine State,” Robertson said. “The UN Fact Finding Mission should get the full cooperation of the Burmese government to fulfill their mandate to assess human rights abuses in Rakhine State and explore ways to end attacks and ensure accountability.”

Obama's struggling ancestral Kenya village misses him — and cashing in on his presidency

Sunday September 3, 2017

A vendor selling flags, caps and T-shirts, and wearing a shirt showing President Barack Obama with words in Luo reading "Father has reached home", sells his wares at an event attended by Sarah Obama, the step-grandmother of the former president, in her hometown of Kogelo, Kenya, on July 18, 2015.

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Barack Obama’s ancestral village here laments his exit from the White House — because that also caused an exit of tourists and financing for a community now wringing its hands over the future.

Elders recently gathered at the local chief's camp to discuss how to handle the rapid drop-off in Obama-spurred visitors, donations and other benefits the 44th president of the United States brought to the place where his father was born.

“We didn’t imagine life will be this bad without Obama,” said Willys Otieno, 45, a village. “The white people have left the village with their money. There are no more tourists coming here, and we (still) have to pay bills for everything.”

Students have dropped out of local private schools because they’ve lost scholarships funded by the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation, the Barack H. Obama Foundation and the Barack Obama Secondary School and Primary School. A few donor-funded health clinics in the region have shut down because of a lack of funding.

“Life changed early this year when Obama retired," said Grace Anyango, 16, a student who has depended on a scholarship to attend the Obama Secondary School. "I have been out of school for lack of fees. My friends have also dropped out.”

The former president's office had no comment about Kogelo's plight.

Obama did not directly fund the charities. But his family here used his name and high office to raise money and assist the poor in this village of 3,000 residents, 250 miles east of the capital, Nairobi.

Willys Otieno of Kogelo, Kenya, said his daughter lost a scholarship immediately after President Barack Obama left the White House. (Photo: Tonny Onyulo)

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During Obama's candidacy and eight years in office, a steady stream of journalists, tourists and others flocked to sleepy Kogelo to discover the birthplace of Barack Obama Sr., who died in 1982, and to meet the president's step-grandmother, Mama Sarah. The village provided a backdrop to scenes in Obama’s best-selling 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father.


Sarah Obama, step-grandmother to then-President Barack Obama, reacts with members of her family on Nov 7, 2012, in Kogelo, Kenya, after announcements of Obama's re-election victory. (Photo: Tony Karumba, AFP/Getty Images)

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The Kenyan government paved roads, extended electricity and water lines and built a police station in the village in response to all the attention.

Donors also rushed to help the village build an educational and health system. Many residents came to depend on charities driven by buzz around Obama’s presidency. Some residents even received grants from well-wishers to build new homes.

Now Obama's step-grandmother regularly decries the pathetic state of the Barack Obama schools since her grandson left office, blaming lack of maintenance. “We need to support them, as they will act as reservoirs for local brains,” she said.

Nicholas Rajula, Obama’s cousin and a family spokesman who owns a resort in the village, agreed that his famous relative’s departure from the White House has really affected his family and village.

“Life is completely different here since Obama left office,” Rajula said. “It has really affected my business, because there are no international guests coming to the village.”

Some still see an opportunity for the village, because the ex-president’s half-brother, Malik Obama, was a vocal booster of Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, Rajula said.

“We are expecting President Trump to reward Malik for his overwhelming support he accorded him,” he said, amid cheers from nearby villagers. “When he (Trump) gives Malik a good job, then the village will still benefit.”

That seems doubtful. The village might receive more help from Auma Obama, the former president's half-sister, who has helped raise funds for constructing a university on a 50-acre plot of land in the village.

According to Rajula, the foundation is seeking to build a world-class university named after Obama, plus an early childhood development center to assist widows in Kogelo.

Mama Sarah has asked Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to visit Kogelo and lay a foundation stone for what is tentatively being called Barack Obama University College. “The university will serve all Kenyans regardless of their political, social and tribal inclinations,” she said.

Even if it gets built, Otieno doesn't believe the university will keep the village from sliding back into the rampant poverty that prevailed before Obama was president.

“We don’t need structures. We need free health care and our children to go to school,” he said. “We want to see white people coming here like it used to be when our son was president."

Faah-Faahin: Dab xooggan oo xalay bur-buryiyay qeybo kamid ah Suuq Bacaad ee Magaalladda Muqdisho

 

Axad, September,03, 2017 (HOL) –Dab xooggan ayaa xalay fiidkii ka kacay Suuqa labaad ee ugu weyn Soomaaliya ee Suuq Bacaad ee Magaalladda Muqdisho.

Dabkan oo sida la sheegay ka dhashay koronto, ayaa markii hore qabsaday qaybta sarifka, waxaana uu daqiiqado ka dib uu ku fiday dhismayaal ganacsi ee ku dhow dhow, sida mid kamid ah ganacsatada Suuqa uu u sheegay Hiiraan Online.

Dabka oo bilowday abaarihii 7-dii fiidnimo, ayaa waxaa lagu guuleystay in la baqtiiyo 11-kii caweysnimo. Gawaarida dad demiska ee maamulka gobolka Banaadir iyo kuwa ay leeyihiin shirkado gaar ah ayaa ku guuleystay inay demiyaan dab ka kacay suuq Bcaad.

Dabka ayaa gubay qeybo ka mid ah suuqa, lamana oga qaraasaha ka dhashay, balse waxaa loo maleynayaa inay malaayiin dollar noqon karto.

Dad shacab ah oo ku noollaa nawaaxiga dabka uu ka kacay ayaa xalay xilli dambe laga saaray guryahooda.

Qiiq iyo Uuro wayn oo ka kacday suuqa ayaa laga arkay qaybo badan oo magaalada Muqdisho ka mid ah.

Hiiraan Online,
Hassan Istiila
Hassanistiila@hiiraan.com
Mogadishu,Somalia