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31Jan By SHOAHNo Comments
Afghanistan, Pakistan & Kashmir, Somalia, USA

The Children Killed by America’s Drones. “Crimes Against Humanity” committed by Barack H. Obama.

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, This is a list of names of innocent children killed by America’s drones But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends. Among the list, are infants of 1, 2, 3 and 4 years old. In some cases brothers and sisters of an entire family are killed. Four sisters of the Ali Mohammed Nasser family in Yemen were killed. Afrah was 9 years old when she and her three younger sisters Zayda (7 years old) , Hoda (5 years old) and Sheika (4 years old) were struck by an American drone. Ibrahim, a 13 year old boy of the Abdullah Mokbel Salem Louqye family in Yemen was struck by a US drone, together with his younger brother Asmaa (9 ...
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27Dec By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Somali woman gets 8 years in prison on ‘terrorism’ charge for her humanitarian work

NOVANEWS US GOVT FASCISM AT WORK -VS- US CITIZENS STAND UP AND BLAST VERDICT AGAINST SOMALIAN WOMAN SENTENCED ON TERRORISM CHARGES A young Somali woman and well-known community activist, Nima Ali Yusuf, was sentenced to eight years in prison, here on Dec.11, for conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization. Yusuf, a volunteer at the Humanitarian African Relief Organization was accused of sending a small sum of money - $1450 - to members of Somali resistance organization al-Shabab.At issue was the accusation that Yusuf helped out friends in Somalia, who were also said to be members of al-Shabab.The courtroom was packed with family, friends and supporters when Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz handed down the sentence.A statement from Yusef’s defense committee refers to her...
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4Jun By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Hands off Somalia Victory to the Resistance!

NOVANEWS Issued by: CPGB-ML The deeper imperialism sinks into crisis, the more desperately it takes to the path of war. In its struggle to dominate all markets, especially energy markets, imperialism strives to suppress any expression of national independence that interferes with its ability to exploit. Meanwhile, rivalries are mounting between the imperialist gangs themselves – rivalries that will ultimately end in war. The exploiters cannot help turning to war to solve their problems. Yet when they do, they end up increasing the forces of resistance that will finally overthrow their bloodthirsty system. The drive to war is particularly pronounced in Africa, that continent so wealthy in resources and so impoverished by imperialist robbery. The assault on Libya signall...
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9Apr By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Somali oil: black gold and imperial conquest

NOVANEWS The imperialist drive to monopolise Africa’s resources is intensifying.   Discussing imperialism in the years since Lenin’s seminal work on the subject, [1] the noted progressive US economist Harry Magdoff remarked: “One of the features of imperialism that persists unabated to this day is the reliance of the giant corporation [and consequently its home nation] for its monopolistic position, including the size of its profits, on foreign sources of raw materials. What is new in today’s imperialism is that the United States [and many of the other imperialist nations besides] has become a ‘have-not’ [ie, a net-importer] nation for a wide-range of both common and rare minerals.” [2] Magdoff was writing in the late 1960s, at a time when the predominant foreign policy ...
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9Apr By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Victory to the Somali resistance!

NOVANEWS   The Somali people must be allowed the government of their choice. Imperialism is becoming increasingly worried about the war in Somalia, and in particular the successes of the resistance led by al-Shabaab (‘The Youth’), which now controls the south and central areas of Somalia and most of the capital, Mogadishu. The completely ineffective ‘Transitional Government’ (TG), headed by Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed is holed up in a palace on a hill in the capital, while TG forces, equipped by imperialist funding, try, largely unsuccessfully, to create a few no-go areas for the resistance fighters. Around 7,000 troops from Uganda and Burundi, under the flag of African Union so-called ‘peace-keeping forces’, have so far saved the TG from being overwhelmed by the ...
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19Mar By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Famine in Somalia: imperialism is to blame

NOVANEWS The famine gripping Somalia is no “natural disaster”.  Even leaving aside the question of what impact man-made climate change has had on the frequency of drought episodes (now recurring every three years or so, a far cry from the predictable decennial droughts that afflicted the region half a century ago), or the knock-on effects of deforestation (as foreign demand for charcoal accelerates the destruction of trees), the instant translation of that drought into a massive and cruel famine can only be explained by the complete social and economic devastation wreaked upon Somalia over many decades by imperialism. How did Somalia get here? In the early years of her independence, Somalia struggled hard against a legacy of clan conflicts bequeathed by colonial rule, rendering the count...
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24Feb By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Somalia: Warring Parties Put Children at Grave Risk

NOVANEWS Al-Shabaab Rebels Impose Forced Marriages, use Students as ‘Human Shields’ Children recruited by the armed Islamist group al-Shabaab, at a training camp in the Afgooye Corridor, west of Mogadishu, southern Somalia, in February 2011. © 2011 Private RELATED MATERIALS: No Place for Children MORE COVERAGE: Somalia, Child Soldiers - Video Schools as Battlegrounds For children in Somalia, nowhere is safe. Al-Shabaab rebels have abducted children from their homes and schools to fight, for rape, and for forced marriage. Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy children’s rights director (London) – Somalia’s warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watch s...
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27Oct By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

Diary: Mogadishu’s destroyed buildings

NOVANEWS Ghaith Abdul-Ahad After three years of drought thousands of colourful tents made with sticks and branches wrapped in plastic sheets and bits of cloth have sprung up among Mogadishu’s destroyed buildings. Over the summer and early autumn tens of thousands of starving Somalis entered the city. Now the refugees fill the shells of long-defunct ministries, gather in the shade of the roofless cathedral and stand under the parliament building like worshippers seeking a miracle. They appear in the streets in tattered clothing, holding bundles on their oversized heads, carrying yellow jerrycans and babies on their backs. Inside the Ministry of Health, Fatima was building her tent, tying sticks together with strips of fabric, then wrapping larger pieces of cloth around them: a torn sar...
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3Sep By SHOAHNo Comments
Somalia

WikiLeaks: US accused Qatar of funding Somalia’s Al Shabab militia

NOVANEWS The United States accused its close ally Qatar of funding the Al-Shabab militia in Somalia, newly released diplomatic cables reveal. The extraordinary claim was made in a 26 October 2009 meeting between Ambassador Susan Rice, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations and her Turkish counterpart Ambassador Ertugul Apakan. A US diplomatic cable of minutes of the meeting was leaked by Wikileaks on 24 August. This accusation – if true – means that the United States and Qatar have been funding and arming opposing sides in Somalia’s bloody civil war, which has undoubtedly exacerbated the catastrophic famine that is gripping the country. Qatar, the cables show, strenuously denied the accusation. The cables also shed more light on the extent to which the United States i...
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