INSIDE AN AL-SHABAAB TRAINING CAMP
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SOMALIA'S GOVERNMENT BAN AL-SHABAB NAME FROM MEDIA
4 May 2015
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UNRAVELLING AL-SHABAAB’S PARTIAL INTERNET BAN AND SIMILAR
STUNTS IN SOMALIA
BY SOMALIA NEWSROOM on january 13, 2014
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WHAT’S IN A NAME?: SOMALI GOVERNMENT’S AL SHABAB MEMO
JEOPARDIZES JOURNALISTS
June 19, 2015
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BOTH SOMALIA'S GOVERNMENT AND AL-SHABAAB BAN EACH OTHER'S
NAME FROM MEDIA
Tuesday May 05, 2015
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SOMALIA’S GOVERNMENT JUSTE BANNED CALLING LA SHABAB BY ITS
NAME
WAR IS BORING
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SOMALIE
2013 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
SPECIAL CASE
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SOMALIA
COUNTRIES/JURISDICTIONS OF PRIMARY CONCERN - SOMALIA
BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
AFFAIRS
2015 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT (INCSR)
REPORT
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SOMALIA
THE PROVISIONAL FEDERAL CONSTITUTION (PFC) PROVIDES FOR THE
RIGHT OF EACH INDIVIDUAL TO PRACTICE ONE’S RELIGION.
Executive Summary
1
The constitutions of Somaliland and Puntland State enshrine
Islam as the state religion, prohibit Muslims from converting to another
religion, bar the propagation of any religion other than Islam, and stipulate
all laws must comply with the general principles of sharia.
2
Al-Shabaab maimed and killed persons suspected of converting
from Islam or those who failed to adhere to the group’s edicts.
3
Violent conflicts continued between the terrorist
organization al-Shabaab and the FGS and its allies. Through violence,
Al-Shabaab imposed its own interpretation of Islamic law and practices on other
Muslims. Al-Shabaab militias killed FGS officials and their allies, calling
them non-Muslims or apostates.
In the areas it controlled, al-Shabaab banned
cinemas, music, and watching sporting events on television. It prohibited the
sale of khat (a popular narcotic), smoking, and any behavior it characterized
as “un-Islamic,” such as shaving beards.
Al-Shabaab also enforced a strict
requirement that women wear full veils
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SOMALIA
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DIPLOMACY IN ACTION
U.S. Relations With Somalia
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U.S. RELATIONS WITH SOMALIA
BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS
FACT SHEET
SOMALIA
June 15, 2015
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AL-SHABAAB
BACKGROUND
1
The Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahidin—commonly known as al-Shabaab—was
the militant wing of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts that took over most
of southern Somalia in the second half of 2006.
2
Despite the group’s defeat by Somali and Ethiopian forces in
2007, al-Shabaab—a clan-based insurgent and terrorist group—has continued its
violent insurgency in southern and central Somalia.
3
The group has exerted temporary and, at times, sustained
control over strategic locations in those areas by recruiting, sometimes
forcibly, regional sub-clans and their militias, using guerrilla warfare and
terrorist tactics against the Somali Federal Government (SFG), African Union
Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers, and nongovernmental aid
organizations.
4
As of 2013, however, pressure from AMISOM and Ethiopian
forces had largely degraded al-Shabaab’s control, especially in Mogadishu but
also in other key regions of the country, and conflict among senior leaders has
exacerbated fractures within the group.
5
In 2013 al-Shabaab rivalries culminated in a major purge of
opponents of deceased group leader Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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SOMALIA NEWS AND INFORMATION CENTER
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
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POLITICAL PARTIES LINKS WITH TERRORISM
ARS-Djibouti is party of the Unity Government of the
Democratic Republic of Somalia
ARS-Asmara is the official Opposition against the Democratic
Republic of Somalia, and is led by Hassan Dahir Aweys
Union of the Islamic Court (UIC) was dismantled into two
known groups: ARS-Djibouti and Ars-Asmara
Al-Shabaab is youth organization which has links with the
well-known Al-qadea Organization and is one of the first terrorist list in Horn
of Africa
RELIGIOUS PARTIES
Ahalusunna Waljameeca is very friendly and 85% of the Somali
Pollution are Ahlausuna Wajameeca and classified as non-violant organization
that has enjoying popularity among the Somalis wherever they live.
HISBUL ISLAAM is another terrorist groups that is trying to
topple Somali's current regime and will also invent to dismantle and disrupt
neighboring security and regimes if they overthrown the current regime of
Somalia.
Wahabism is considered one of the dangerious and modern
threat to Somalia's religious creed because they tried to posses and demolish
the Ahlu Sunna Waljameeca sect.
Akhwanul Muslimiin is very good and keep low profile
themselves.
Tafiir is another dangerious sect, and has been trying to
pursue fellowers but confined in solitary status and do not interact with the
rest of other groups
Saalaxiya is very nice and has patience and religious
tranquality, and they have operating friendly.
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20-YEAR-LONG CONFLICT IN SOMALIA
YOU DON’T KNOW WHO TO BLAME’: WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA
Human Rights Watch
August 14, 2011
The 58-page report, “‘You Don’t Know Who to Blame’: War
Crimes in Somalia,” documents numerous abuses during renewed fighting in the
past year by parties to the 20-YEAR-LONG CONFLICT IN SOMALIA.
1
These include the Islamist armed group al-Shabaab, the
Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the African Union peacekeeping
forces (AMISOM), and Kenya- and Ethiopia-backed Somali militias.
The report also examines abuses by the Kenyan police and
crimes committed by bandits in neighboring Kenya against Somali refugees.
2
Somalia's crisis isn't just about drought. HRW's Ben
Rawlence explains how war crimes have helped fuel the crisis in Somalia.
3
All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed
serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the country’s
humanitarian catastrophe, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH said in a report released today.
All sides should immediately end abuses against civilians,
hold those responsible to account, and ensure access to aid and free movement
of people fleeing conflict and drought.
4
All sides have used artillery in the capital, Mogadishu, in
an unlawful manner that has caused civilian casualties. Al-Shabaab has fired
mortars indiscriminately from densely populated areas, and the TFG and AMISOM
forces have often responded in kind with indiscriminate counterattacks.
As a result, civilians have not known where to turn for
protection.
5
The TFG has largely failed to provide basic security and
human rights protections in the limited areas under its control, Human Rights
Watch said.
It and its allied militias have committed serious rights
violations, including widespread arbitrary arrest and detention, restrictions
on free speech and assembly, and indiscriminate attacks harming civilians.
6
Ethiopia and Kenya are parties to the conflict, having
deployed units of their armed forces in military operations in southern Somalia
in 2011. They have also provided military assistance to militias supporting the
TFG.
Yet neither Ethiopia nor Kenya has acted to ensure
accountability for abuses by their troops or by the militias they support.
5
Ethiopian military intervention ousted a coalition of
Islamic courts from power.
Although Ethiopian forces withdrew from the city by January 2009,
insurgents continue to fight the transitional government and its Supporters
7
In May 2010 the armed opposition - including al-Shabaab and
Hizbul Islam insurgents - began a new offensive to topple the TFG, which is recognized
internationally.
THE TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT controls only a few areas of
Mogadishu.
It is backed by more than 8,000 peacekeeping troops from the African Union Mission in
Somalia (AMISOM), and Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa militias, a moderate Somali Islamic
group erratically allied to the transitional government.
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SOMALIE
MÉMO À L’ONU
DISPUTE TERRITORIALE
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SISTER SOMALIA, THE FIRST RAPE CRISIS CENTER IN MOGADISHU,
SUPPORTS SOMALI SEXUAL VIOLENCE SURVIVORS
BY PROVIDING COUNSELING, MEDICAL
SERVICES, RELOCATION, EDUCATION, AND BUSINESS STARTER KITS.
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BLAMING THE VICTIMS OF RAPE IN SOMALIA
FATIMA HAD BECOME UNCHARACTERISTICALLY TACITURN, TELLING HER
AUNT TO ABANDON HER, TO "CONSIDER HER ALREADY DEAD".
SHE "BECAME HOPELESS" AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY
SETTING HERSELF ON FIRE
May 6, 2015
Mogadishu (AFP)
14-year-old Fatima was raped by a tuk-tuk driver, she was
arrested, detained for a month and raped repeatedly by a police officer,
according to the child and her aunt.
The man was released and Fatima was accused of being a prostitute.
Sexual violence is widespread in Somalia and rarely
prosecuted. If anyone is punished at all it is often the victim, not the
perpetrator.
When it comes to rape cases in the socially conservative
Horn of Africa nation, blaming the victim is the norm -- and there have been no
consequences for Fatima's uniformed attackers.
A slight girl no more than five feet (150 centimetres) tall,
she lives in one of the squalid camps for the uprooted that dot the city. The
UN children's agency UNICEF says young women and girls in the camps are
"systematically preyed upon", frequently by armed personnel.
Last year the advocacy group Human Rights Watch accused some
members of the 22,000 African Union force in Somalia of rape and sexual
exploitation.
Other forms of sexual violence and abuse, including the
near-universal female genital mutilation -- the cutting off of the clitoris --
and widespread forced and early marriage.
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THE FIRST PUBLIC ART MUSEUM IN JAPAN DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO
CONTEMPORARY ART, IT IS LOCATED IN THE HIJIYAMA PARK, WHICH HAS A SPLENDID VIEW
OF HIROSHIMA AND IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CHERRY BLOSSOMS.
GOETHE INSTITUT
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[360°] DÔME DE LA BOMBE ATOMIQUE DE HIROSHIMA, PATRIMOINE
MONDIAL
MUSÉE DU MÉMORIAL DE LA PAIX D'HIROSHIMA
LES LANTERNES SONT ALLUMÉES À LA « FLAMME DE LA BOMBE
ATOMIQUE»,
Des braises trouvées par Yamamoto Tatsuo, un soldat affecté à
Hiroshima, dans les décombres de la librairie de son oncle, un mois après le
bombardement. Cette flamme est aujourd’hui conservée à Hoshino, petit village
dans la préfecture de Fukuoka.
Le Musée du Mémorial de la Paix d'Hiroshima a
continuellement appelé à l'abolition de des armes nucléaires et à la
réalisation d'une paix permanente à travers le monde.
Le musée est séparé en « bâtiment est » et en «bâtiment
principal». Dans le « bâtiment est », l'histoire de Hiroshima « Hiroshima no
ayumi » consacrée à LA PÉRIODE DE L'ATOMISATION est présentée par
l'intermédiaire d'une exposition de panneaux de photos, de films et de
maquettes basés sur des faits liés au cadre historique de l'époque.
Dans le « bâtiment principal », le musée expose en détail
l'état de Hiroshima dévasté par la bombe atomique.
Le Parc Commémoratif de la Paix où se situe le musée est un
endroit bien connu pour ses cerisiers
