Opinion
Press Release.
September 2, 2010
Boston, Massachussets, USA
CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FOR HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT ABDI MOHAMED OMAR FROM THE YABARREE DIASPORA of North America
By TONY BLAIR Tony Blair
Adapted from Tony Blair's A Journey: My Political Life, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
During my time as Prime Minister I came to love America - loved its sense of aspiration, the notion of coming from nothing and making something of yourself. I didn't start that way; I didn't know many Americans at school or university, and I was 32 before I visited the U.S. My view of America had been formed from countless movies and TV shows and the odd interaction with American tourists. I had a touch of that British raised eyebrow at our American cousins. But in 1985, I was part of a delegation of Members of Parliament sent to see then U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker, to talk about an issue that had arisen over double taxation, which happens when two nations both claim to be able to tax the same economic activity. I knew nothing about Jim, but it was decided that I would be the one to make our case to him and give the Treasury Secretary a good tough talking-to. Like the diligent lawyer I then was, I mugged up on the facts, became an overnight expert on double taxation and was duly thrown into the fray, the flight over on the Concorde having boosted my sense of my own importance.
QURBA-JOOGTA G/DHAGAXBUUR , DDS, ETHIOPIA
WAQOOYIGA AMERICA
AUGUST 29, 2010
WAR SAXAAFADEED.
Waxaanu la soconay Shirka Nabadoonimada ee ay hormoodka ka ahaayeen Cuqaasha iyo wax-garadka bulshada ku dhaqan G/Dhagaxbuur oo galabta lagu soo gabo-gabeeyey Xarunta Cilmi-baadhista ee dooxada Faafaneed, Dhagaxlle, Jigjiga, DDS Ethiopia. Anagoo, hadaba, tixraacayna shirkaas waxaanu doonaynaa, marka hore, inaanu kobtan ka muujino sida aanu raali uga nahay hadafka iyo natiijooyinka shirkaas ka soo baxay. Waxaanu taageersanahay dadkii soo agaasimay, kuwii hirgaliyey iyo kuwii ka qayb-galay intaba. Waxaanu, marka xiga, ku faraxsanahay inaanu aragno bulshada: DDS guud ahaan, gaar ahaan bulshada G/Dhaxbuur oo u dhaqaaqsan dhanka: NABADA, HORUMARKA iyo NOLOSHA tayada leh. Waxaan isleenahay waxaa halkan ku haboon inaan soo xigano erayadii Dr. Martin luther King Jr markii uu lahaa “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. “ oo macneheedu yahay “mugdigu kaama saari karo mugdi; iftiin umbaa kaa saari kara mugdiga.”. Waxaynu ognahay in dagaalkii iyo dadaalkii Jab-hadaynta ayna meel fog ina gaadhsiin marka aan bar-bardhigno kharashkii naf-iyo-maalka lahaa ee aan galinay 50-kii sano ee ugu dambaysay. Sidaa darteed, wuxuu cagliga fiicani inoo tilmaamayaa inaan la nimaadno tabo iyo xeelado cusub oo aan kula tacaali karno xiligan la joogo si dadkeenu uga midnoqdo bulshawaynta caalamka ee ka badbaaday cidhibtirka kayimaada dagaalada, cudarada, gaajada, aqoondarida iyo kuwa lamid ka ah.
The declared aim and ideal of African liberation and pro-democracy movements toward democratic transitions fall in three broad categories. The first are countries where the armed liberation movements that once secured independence from colonial rulers are still in power (Angola and Mozambique 1975; Zimbabwe 1980; Namibia 1992; South Africa 1994). Then there are the second generation liberation movements that waged armed struggles against African dictatorships in the 1990s, and have been in power ever since (National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda, Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in Ethiopia, and Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) /People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) in Eritrea). And thirdly, there are pro-democracy movements that have seen the establishment of multi-party political systems since the early 1990s in many African countries like Zambia and Malawi. But also in the new democracies there has been a striking weakness of opposition, and the pro-democracy party has generally remained in power. As a striking contrast to electoral policies in new democracies globally, African incumbents have seldom lost elections, despite persistent poverty and poor governance. Dominant executives, weak democratic institutions and shrinking space for critical deliberation and contestation of political power characterize most countries—despite democratic constitutions and multi-party elections.
Bayaan ku aadan heshiiska Jabhadda UWSLF iyo Ethiopia
http://www.unpo.org/article/11567
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