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 Rising Star Ayub Daud: Juventus Are The Best

The teenage striker signed his first professional contract earlier this week and looks forward to his future in Bianconero… and Azzurro.

6 Mar 2009 09:25:09

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• Juventus

Ayub Daud grabbed plenty of column inches during the recent Viareggio Carnival Cup, one of the most important youth competitions in Italy.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/03/06/1141007/rising-star-ayub-daud-juventus-are-the-best 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SECURITY NETWORK

6 Feb 2009

Somalia sees hope in new leader

A destroyed home in south Mogadishu, the result of a shelling duel between Al-shabaab and African Union peacekeeping forces. 2008

The election-in-exile of a new Somali president lends hope to a dire situation, but clan complexities, fragile peace processes and humanitarian crisis make for a very cautious optimism, Georg-Sebastian Holzer writes for ISN Security Watch.

By Georg-Sebastian Holzer for ISN Security Watch

The Somali parliament-in-exile on 31 January elected the 44-year-old cleric Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the former moderate head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), as their country’s new president. While this has given many a glimmer of hope that the country is on a path to stability, the fundamental political struggles in Somalia remain to be solved.

Sharif Ahmed defeated the candidate favored by the West, Prime Minister Nur Hassan, who was the driving force behind the UN-sponsored Djibouti peace process that was initiated to relaunch talks between the increasingly discredited Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the ever-stronger Islamist opposition.

SOMALIA: "The Somali people do not want any more fighting"

12 Feb 2009 14:43:36 GMT

Source: IRIN

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DJIBOUTI, 12 February 2009 (IRIN) - Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was recently elected President of Somalia at a parliamentary meeting in Djibouti. Before returning to Mogadishu where he will appoint a prime minister and form a government, Ahmed talked to IRIN about the challenges ahead. Below are excerpts:

IRIN: What are the biggest challenges facing your administration?

Ahmed: The biggest obstacle is trying to get people to believe and have hope again that things can and will get better. The people have suffered and are still suffering. They have been divided. Rebuilding the unity of our people and nation will be one of our biggest challenges. Every time they were hopeful, they were knocked back again. We must keep this hope alive.

We also face the task of building government institutions from scratch. We are basically broke and the country broken. All these in my opinion are obstacles we will have to deal with urgently.

What role do you expect donors to play? 

Somalia: "New U.S. Moves ill_Advised, Counter-Productive"

26 December 2008
allAfrica.com

The last-minute attempt by the Bush administration to force through a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a new peacekeeping mission inSomalia is both ill-advised and counterproductive.

During two meetings on Somalia last week in New York - one of the Security Council and one of the International Contact Group on Somalia - the United StatesSecretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, stepped up pressure on governments to support  a new UN peacekeeping force in Somalia by the end of the year.