This video is a compilation with pictures of war torn Somalia and Outlandish’s single “Look into my eyes” . Its one touching compilation I must say hence the re-upload for those who requested it.
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“The British couple being held hostage by pirates in Somalia believe they will be killed within days.
Paul Chandler, who was captured with his wife Rachel on October 23 last year while sailing from the Seychelles, said that the pirates had set a deadline of “three or four” days for a ransom to be paid.”
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Continue Reading...This is a short film about a young Somali community organiser from Islington, London doing his part to help young people achieve their goals.
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Somali teenagers Nura and Ilias live in London’s East End but visit an authentic Somalian camp at Degmo in Wales, a place which mirrors the traditional rural culture of their homeland – a far cry from the negative media images of Somalia.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2009/nov/13/somali-wales-immigration
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Calm has returned to Harardere town in the north of the Somali country, just after bitter confrontation between pirates that caused casualties of deaths and injuries, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
Residents said that the situation of the town was calm on Tuesday after more of the traditional elders and scholars of the region brought troops between the two rival sides to solve the tense between the Somali pirates who fought there as they disagreed a ransom payment that one of the jacked ships released.
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Enclosed are pictures of Somalia’s first government after the western colonisation:
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Click on the link below and watch the short video clip, it truly opens your eyes and its amazing.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Salam.
http://en.tackfilm.se (Updated)
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It’s important to give tribute to upcoming Somali artists. I hope you all go out and buy this book.
This is a review from the Independent:
In this debut novel, Nadifa Mohamed takes as her source material her father’s childhood journey across Africa, which begins in the Yemeni port city of Aden where ten-year-old Jama loses his mother, his only emotional mooring in the world, and embarks on a great Odyssean voyage northwards, to find his absent father.
Mohamed, who is herself a child of Africa’s fractured history – she lived in Hargeisa, Somalia, until war drove her family to London – says that she felt compelled to record her father’s survival spirit in fictive form, and partly composed the book from taped interviews with him.
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A lot of people have been wondering how this website operates, how to register and how to login just like the previous Qarxis.com website.
Well, with this website we took a totally different approach by integrating it with Facebook’s API and allowing people to setup accounts by simply clicking the blue “Connect with Facebook” button on the sidebar which pops up a window where users can enter their Facebook login details and press connect.
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