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'We have decided to take your life'
Related to country: Somalia

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As a Somalian journalist, he was used to threats and horrific violence. But a chilling phone call the day two colleagues were killed left him shaken.
By Abukar Albadri, Special to The Times

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA -- The voice on the other end of my cellphone was oddly calm, but intent.
"Abukar, I am calling to inform you that we have decided to take your life," the caller said. I glanced down at my phone to see the caller ID, which read "private."
"You're not worthy to live," the man continued. "You have three hours to tell your family and say your last words."
"Who is this?" I demanded.
"I am a man," was the reply.
It wasn't my first death threat. As a journalist in Somalia, I've received more than I'd care to count. In some, angry callers curse me as a "puppet" of the U.N.-backed transitional government in Baidoa and the Ethiopian troops that support it. Others accuse me of being a "terrorist" supporting the Islamic insurgents.
But this call came at the end of one of the darkest days of my life. Just a few hours earlier, I'd attended the funeral of a friend and colleague, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, a radio host gunned down that August morning. Then, as my fellow journalists and I drove back from the burial, a roadside bomb struck our convoy, killing Ali Iman Sharmarke, another prominent media figure in Mogadishu.
This month, gunmen shot another friend, Bashir Nur Gedi, acting manager of Shabelle Radio, who had been arrested and detained by government forces in September.
International journalist organizations say at least seven reporters have been killed in Somalia this year. No one has been caught or punished in any of these attacks.
After I hung up, dozens of questions ran through my mind: What am I guilty of? Who is my enemy? Why am I being targeted?
But for the first time, one question would not go away: Should I leave Somalia?
Many times I'd stood over the graves of friends. Now I imagined friends and family weeping over mine.
I began working as a journalist 10 years ago, at age 19, because I wanted to alert the world to the untold stories of Somalia. I had always admired an older cousin who had worked as a radio correspondent during the Mohamed Siad Barre regime, which fell in 1991.
As a journalist in the capital, Mogadishu, I've covered street battles, assassinations and public executions. I've had guns pointed at my head and I've stepped over twisted bodies on the road. I've been summoned to news conferences in the presidential palace only to be detained by corrupt officials who demanded a bribe.
Over the years, I've watched governments and authorities come and go. Warlords, Islamic courts, transitional governments. One thing stays the same: When new groups rise to power, they attack the media.
Today journalists who have dedicated their lives to telling the stories of Somalia find themselves caught between suicidal insurgents and the blazing guns of the transitional government's mad soldiers. Each is trying to make the media its puppet.
This year the government has arrested more than 50 journalists; eight remain behind bars. Officials have attempted to close media outlets and have imposed laws that restrict the activities of reporters. Somalia is the second deadliest country in the world for journalists, after Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
At the same time, insurgents have attacked and harassed us, distributing leaflets in many neighborhoods threatening to kill any journalist perceived as supporting the government. This summer we were flatly warned that we faced attacks if we covered the government's reconciliation conference.
I used to think that with commitment, dedication and a strong heart, I could survive. Now I'm not so sure. This job can be rewarding. But sometimes it feels like a curse.
During the reign of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006, I watched a guard tie a 50-year-old man to a stake after he was found guilty of stabbing another man to death. Then, in accordance with the regime's interpretation of Islamic law, the son of the victim stepped forward and cut the accused from his groin to his collarbone.
Some women began to ululate in support, but many spectators vomited or passed out. I turned away. The scene took place outside a primary school, as students peered over the wall. I thought to myself: What is happening to my country?
It got worse: In March angry crowds dragged the bodies of government soldiers and burned them on the streets. With bullets and missiles flying, I decided to take a couple of photographs, scrawl some quick notes and get away.
As I was getting ready to leave, I felt a gun at my head. A militiaman ordered me to drop my camera. I did. I emptied my pockets, raised my hands and pleaded for my life. He took my camera and cellphone, then turned to an angry, questioning crowd and declared me a spy. The crowd began cursing me and chanting.
"I'm a journalist. I'm a journalist," I shouted, showing my press card. Sweat poured from my body. I feared I would end up like the government soldiers.
The militiaman, however, had a different punishment in mind. He led me away to his leaders, eager to show off his captive.
I was lucky. The militia leaders knew me, and vouched for me. They let me go.
Still, those experiences were not a turning point. It was the killings of my two colleagues in August. But it was not an easy decision. I was born and raised in Mogadishu. To leave would feel as if I were giving up.
Instead I went into hiding, leaving my house, suspending my work and limiting my movements.
I grew suspicious. I viewed every passerby as a potential assassin.
One day, a friend and I were moving from one of our hide-outs to another when three young men came up behind us. We started walking faster. They walked faster. My heart raced. We stopped to let them pass, and one of them muttered something as they went by.
We thought we were safe. But a few minutes later, as we arrived at our destination, we saw the same three men approaching from the road ahead. We froze. I began praying and asking for God's forgiveness.
My friend said something to me, but I couldn't hear his words. I closed my eyes and waited for the bullets. I remembered the man on the phone days earlier, the chilling hatred in his voice.
Then the young men passed us by, with a simple nod and hello.
Were they just trying to intimidate us? Had something distracted them from their attack? Were they simply three men taking a walk?
It didn't matter anymore. My decision was made.
Five days later I left the country.
Albadri has worked as a journalist for several Western media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times. He is currently living in Djibouti and hopes one day to return home.

March 16, 2008 | 9:07 AM Comments  0 comments

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SOMALIA: Come back for liberation!
About this event: 100 DAYS OF COUNT DOWN
Related to country: Somalia

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

By Abukar Albadri

Journalist - Somalia

Somalia's new Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein (C) is welcomed in Mogadishu Jan. 20, 2008. Five people died in fighting on Wednesday around the Somali capital, where the AU peace and security commissioner had flown in to meet the new prime minister(Reuters Photo).

Just as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan has become a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda, the presence of thousands of Ethiopian troops in Somalia is creating a generation of religious warriors such as Alshabab, Islamic Front of Somalia (JIS), Alliance for Reconstitution of Somalia (ARS), and nationalist members radicalized by a daily diet of violence that leaves dozens of lives.
Somalia is occupied by a renowned enemy, Ethiopia, carrying a proxy war funded by the United States. Thousands of innocent and destitute civilians including children and women were victimized under the guise of the so-called global war on terror.

The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) facing Iraqi-style insurgency is yet to succeed in the control of the capital city's virtual green zone. Somalis believe the continuing battle for control of Mogadishu has revealed insurgents to be an increasingly influential power based in a city dominated by the Ethiopian-backed TFG.

The Islamic movements have very good credit in the eyes of Somalis. They restored the hope of the people one time, when the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) defeated and disarmed ruthless warlords who divided the country into small fiefdoms under their militia control. But Western powers have repeatedly described them as terrorists and the enemy of their strategic vision of Africa and of the world.

When UIC restored the short-lived peace to the country, the Somali diasporas returned home to invest in business, industry, education, and real estate. But most of those businesses have been destroyed after December 2006 when the city fell into Ethiopian hands.


Islamist movement have reformulated both the style and ideology of their operation despite differences.
Before the Ethiopian invasion, Arab countries tried to reconcile between TFG and UIC, but those attempts ended fruitless. Three serial meetings in Sudan under the auspices of the League of Arab States failed to persuade both parts to reach compromise and come up with a good plan to end the conflict.
Things went worse when the former Prime Minister of TFG Ali Mohamed Gedi said, “I will never meet the Islamist leader." He added, "To meet Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the mentor of the Islamic movements, means to meet Osama Bin Laden.”

This statement by Gedi led UIC members to adopt a more radical stance by refusing talks with TFG until Ethiopian forces retreated from Somali land they occupied by then.

In the early days of Ethiopian invasion, Arab nations did not play major role in the Somali affairs. Officially, Arabs stood but observers of what was similar to the invasion of Iraq. Instead, a few Arab well-wishers and good Samaritans sometimes provided some financial support to the Islamic movements through business companies.

Comeback Militancy

After the Ethiopian troops took over the country, however, Islamist movement have reformulated both the style and ideology of their operation despite differences.
These movements and nationalist leaders formed new Alliance for Reconstitution of Somalia (ARS) to drive Ethiopian forces out of the country, but disputes over war terminology has split ARS with other movements apart.


Alshabab, the most militant, adopts the Islamic concept of self-defense "Jihad" to describe attacks on invading Ethiopian forces. The ARS prefers the term "liberation" instead.
Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali, known as Abu Mansoor, a leader of Alshabab militants, declared that his team is no longer member of the Asmara-based ARS because of their interpretation of Jihad.

Abu Mansoor said the Asmara-based alliance refused to use the Islamic term "Jihad" instead of "Liberation" in order to please Western powers. "ARS respected the western powers, and we respect Allah," he said.

The successive split of the Islamic movements in Somalia changed the political landscape and created new challenges among groups opposed to the transitional government and the Ethiopian occupation.

Divisions among Islamic movements are likely to strengthen Ethiopian occupation and enable some informants of the western powers and Ethiopian forces to join them, which formerly led to failure of the Union of Islamic Courts, Said Sheikh Abdalla Omar, a Somali scholar.

In response to these internal division Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the leader of the former UIC and the current chairman of ARS, urged Alshabab leaders to stop misleading the people of Somalia.

Talking to some local media he said, “This is not a time for division, it is time for unity against the enemy, so Alshabab leaders must consider that.” “Some Alshabab leaders claimed secession from the Alliance, but this doesn’t mean using terms or words that would benefit the enemy of our people,” Sheikh Ahmed added.

Such calls to unify the resistance movements succeeded somehow to keep a few prominent Alshabab leaders within the confinements of ARS. Sheikh Hassan Abdulle Hersi, well known as Hassan Tukri, an Alshabab leader in the remote south areas of Somalia still remains within ARS.

“Allah ordered us to obey him, his prophet and our leaders; unless I see leaders committing some thing controversial to Islam I will obey them,” He said, “Unity is the only solution to face the enemy,” Abdulle Hersi said.

Former members of Al Itihad Al Islami, an Islamic movement that the U.S. government added to its terrorists list joined with ARS and both remained in unity. The movement changed its name to al-Itisam Bil-Kitab Wa-Al-Sunnah (abidance by the book and path of the profit)

In November 2007 al-Itisam chose its leader Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Salad, a Somali professor who used to teach Islamic studies in Pakistan and Malaysia. In December the movement formed a military wing named Jabhadda Islamiga Somalia (JIS) (Islamic Front of Somalia).Other small armed groups have started to appear in Mogadishu joining the violent attacks on Ethiopian troops and claiming no harm to Somali civilians.


Officially, Arabs stood but observers of what was similar to the invasion of Iraq.

Divided in Means, United in Goals
Despite fears that such disputes between Islamist Movements in Somalia would halt efforts to liberate the country, the common ground still remains large and fertile. Until today the common goal is still to install Islamic statehood and restore the Shari' a law in the country.

A year ago, Ethiopian forces entered Somalia’s capital to escort the Ethiopian backed president of Somalia Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed and his former Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi and toppled the UIC only to find themselves later bogged down in the inescapable Somali quagmire set up by remnants of the USC and clan insurgents. Today, Ethiopian Forces are in the dilemma of choosing between U.S. dollars and Ethiopian blood.

A withdrawal of Ethiopians from Somalia is “A tall order.” Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi said that he would not be able to withdraw his forces unless the 8,000 African peacekeepers are deployed to Somalia.

African states have until now failed to send in troops they pledged, and only 1,500 Ugandan forces and dozens of Burundians are currently on the ground in Mogadishu.

More than 6,000 civilians are believed to have died in the fighting this year, and over 1 million have been displaced without food and basic health and shelter needs,.

The country remains without functioning government since more than 17 years when the central government collapsed in 1991, and the internationally recognized TFG failed to restore law and order. Islamic insurgency and clan-based violence continues to escalates.

Somalia, a war-torn nation in the horn of Africa, has moved to the crossroad of regional and international interests leaving its people with little hope for a near end to the inherited 17 years of statelessness and political turmoil.



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Abukar Albadri is a Somali freelance Journalist based in Mogadishu. He has worked previously with LAtimes, DPA, Spanish News Agency (EFE) and Aljazeera English. Currently he is a member of Somali Journalists Society (SJS) and the Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ).



March 16, 2008 | 8:37 AM Comments  0 comments

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THE KILLERS OF THE PEOPLE ENJOY IMPUNITY AS THEY KILL THE PEOPLE FROM THE CRADLE…
Related to country: Somalia


THE KILLERS OF THE PEOPLE ENJOY IMPUNITY AS THEY KILL THE PEOPLE FROM THE CRADLE…

Mogadishu (GLED) –after four days of heavy fighting that engulfed more than 75 people, the situation of Mogadishu yet is in dilemma and the people are still worrying about another possible war.
Both parts are still threatening each other and the people are still confusing as if the other fighting will take lives of many other people.
A mission team from GLED Somalia visited the hospitals and the war areas to assess the situation and help those are still in the war areas with out a way to escape.
The GLED team met in Madina Hospital a 3 month old young girl called Amina Zahra Moalim who was seriously wounded in the arms and the stomach.
The team made an interview with Amina’s Mother and asked how her infant was victimised.
The gloomy mother crying said “The fighting was the misfortune of my daughter, because she was 85 days only in the world, now she is victim and no body is trying to punish those harmed my child” adding that “the bullets hit her arm and stomach and I am afraid that she will be mentally retarded because she banged her head on the ground when she bounced from the bet to the ground because of the reaction of the missile that destroyed the house”.
Amina’s situation is very critical and she is the youngest victim in the fighting.
Her family are very poor, her father is teacher and her mother was keeping small kiosk in front of their house but the storms of the missiles those destroyed their house and wounded Amina also destroyed the kiosk.
The perpetrators of the cases like these are members of the transitional federal government (TFG) and want to make the blood of the people as bridge to reach political positions.
Most of the education sectors are still closed; the people are alert to flee while more than 180 wounds remain in the hospitals those GLED Team visited on Tuesday-Monday.
Ugaso Sharif 23, pregnant mother of two children was paralysed by bullets on her backbone, she is in very serious situation and the doctors told her that they can’t do any thing for her.
Ugaso said “before a week I was working to get survival for my kids, but now I am paralyse and I feel very helpless, I don’t have money to go outside the country and the doctors told me that they have no way to safe my life” adding that “my house was destroyed, and my children are in displacement, while the perpetrators are still announcing another war”.

The situation is very critical, the people are hopeless and the phenomenon is another war that will destroy the lives of the rest of the people.

Not only Amin but the fighting affected the people extremely.
Elmi Mohamed Ahmed a 13 years old child who was seriously wounded in the stomach and other parts of his body, but recovered after four hours surgery told GLED “I was preparing to go to school with my younger siblings, unfortunately the fighting started, three of us were seriously wounded and my younger sister died”
Uneasy efforts are maintained by some well-known moderate religious leaders, but still don’t seem to have means to bring parts to gather in same table, because the fighting parts have still energy to fight and kill more people with out accountability.

Why the people feel that they are in dilemma?
The people are too nervous about the situation that they are facing at moment and at the future.
Prof. Abdulkader Mohamed Osman a lecturer in Somali Institute of Management and Administration development (SIMAD Institute) in Mogadishu shows his anxiety about the future of the country.
Osman said “I am worrying how the things are going on, the Sharia courts seem to have defeated the warlords and want to take power in the capital city” adding that “if the Islamists succeed the power, United States may attack on Somalia like Afghanistan and Iraq pursuing allegedly Alqaeda members, if the warlords succeed the security will worsen and killings of innocent people will continue.”.
Aweis Nur Abukar secretary general of Somali Youth Development network said to “I don’t believe that one of the rivals will fully succeed, but the result is the massacre of the people and displacement of the rest” adding that “The international community can send all of them to international criminal court in Hague and charge them war crimes, because they committed war crimes and violated the arms embargo in the country”.
Anfa Amin, the GLED deputy chairlady said “as the fighting is going the arms embargo is violated and the gun dealers order new frighting” adding that “If the UN waits more years these warlords will finsih the people and they will kill like the beasts”
The Islamists started propaganda offering CD-Room video clips about the fighting edited with some of their aims intended to succeed the public opinion to the Cyber-café.
Somalia is with out government for a long time and the people in the country are the hostages of the guns and gangs since 1991 when the central government was ousted from the authority.


Abukar Albadri
P.O.Box: 205 Mogadishu, BN03040 Somalia
Tel: 002521 271535, Mobile: 002521 572300
Email: albadri10@yahoo.com
Mogadishu - Somalia.

March 29, 2006 | 2:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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THE VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN SOMALIA
Related to country: Somalia


THE KILLERS OF THE PEOPLE ENJOY IMPUNITY AS THEY KILL THE PEOPLE FROM THE CRADLE…

Mogadishu (GLED) –after four days of heavy fighting that engulfed more than 75 people, the situation of Mogadishu yet is in dilemma and the people are still worrying about another possible war.
Both parts are still threatening each other and the people are still confusing as if the other fighting will take lives of many other people.
A mission team from GLED Somalia visited the hospitals and the war areas to assess the situation and help those are still in the war areas with out a way to escape.
The GLED team met in Madina Hospital a 3 month old young girl called Amina Zahra Moalim who was seriously wounded in the arms and the stomach.
The team made an interview with Amina’s Mother and asked how her infant was victimised.
The gloomy mother crying said “The fighting was the misfortune of my daughter, because she was 85 days only in the world, now she is victim and no body is trying to punish those harmed my child” adding that “the bullets hit her arm and stomach and I am afraid that she will be mentally retarded because she banged her head on the ground when she bounced from the bet to the ground because of the reaction of the missile that destroyed the house”.
Amina’s situation is very critical and she is the youngest victim in the fighting.
Her family are very poor, her father is teacher and her mother was keeping small kiosk in front of their house but the storms of the missiles those destroyed their house and wounded Amina also destroyed the kiosk.
The perpetrators of the cases like these are members of the transitional federal government (TFG) and want to make the blood of the people as bridge to reach political positions.
Most of the education sectors are still closed; the people are alert to flee while more than 180 wounds remain in the hospitals those GLED Team visited on Tuesday-Monday.
Ugaso Sharif 23, pregnant mother of two children was paralysed by bullets on her backbone, she is in very serious situation and the doctors told her that they can’t do any thing for her.
Ugaso said “before a week I was working to get survival for my kids, but now I am paralyse and I feel very helpless, I don’t have money to go outside the country and the doctors told me that they have no way to safe my life” adding that “my house was destroyed, and my children are in displacement, while the perpetrators are still announcing another war”.

The situation is very critical, the people are hopeless and the phenomenon is another war that will destroy the lives of the rest of the people.

Not only Amin but the fighting affected the people extremely.
Elmi Mohamed Ahmed a 13 years old child who was seriously wounded in the stomach and other parts of his body, but recovered after four hours surgery told GLED “I was preparing to go to school with my younger siblings, unfortunately the fighting started, three of us were seriously wounded and my younger sister died”
Uneasy efforts are maintained by some well-known moderate religious leaders, but still don’t seem to have means to bring parts to gather in same table, because the fighting parts have still energy to fight and kill more people with out accountability.

Why the people feel that they are in dilemma?
The people are too nervous about the situation that they are facing at moment and at the future.
Prof. Abdulkader Mohamed Osman a lecturer in Somali Institute of Management and Administration development (SIMAD Institute) in Mogadishu shows his anxiety about the future of the country.
Osman said “I am worrying how the things are going on, the Sharia courts seem to have defeated the warlords and want to take power in the capital city” adding that “if the Islamists succeed the power, United States may attack on Somalia like Afghanistan and Iraq pursuing allegedly Alqaeda members, if the warlords succeed the security will worsen and killings of innocent people will continue.”.
Aweis Nur Abukar secretary general of Somali Youth Development network said to “I don’t believe that one of the rivals will fully succeed, but the result is the massacre of the people and displacement of the rest” adding that “The international community can send all of them to international criminal court in Hague and charge them war crimes, because they committed war crimes and violated the arms embargo in the country”.
Anfa Amin, the GLED deputy chairlady said “as the fighting is going the arms embargo is violated and the gun dealers order new frighting” adding that “If the UN waits more years these warlords will finsih the people and they will kill like the beasts”
The Islamists started propaganda offering CD-Room video clips about the fighting edited with some of their aims intended to succeed the public opinion to the Cyber-café.
Somalia is with out government for a long time and the people in the country are the hostages of the guns and gangs since 1991 when the central government was ousted from the authority.

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Abukar Albadri
P.O.Box: 205 Mogadishu, BN03040 Somalia
Tel: 002521 271535, Mobile: 002521 572300
Email: albadri10@yahoo.com
Mogadishu - Somalia.

March 29, 2006 | 1:48 PM Comments  0 comments

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Dirty tricks as Brazilian gun referendum approaches (PRESS RELEASE) GLED SOMALIA
Related to country: Somalia


PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: Wednesday 19 October 2005

Dirty tricks as Brazilian gun referendum approaches (PRESS RELEASE) GLED SOMALIA

Nelson Mandela’s lawyers furious at abuse of his image by pro-gun lobby

With only a few days to go until Brazil goes to the polls in a radical referendum about banning the sale of guns and ammunition, the pro-gun lobby has appropriated the image of Nelson Mandela and his fight against apartheid to support its arguments that guns should not be controlled in Brazil.

This Sunday, 122 million Brazilians will go to the polls to answer the question: Should the commercial sale of guns and ammunition to civilians be prohibited?

Campaigners for both the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ votes have been given free airtime to promote their views. The image of Mr Mandela appeared in a TV advert for the ‘no’ campaign, linking his fight for freedom to the pro-gun lobby’s argument that people should be allowed to own firearms.

But in South Africa, Mr Mandela has been a firm advocate for gun control, with his face and signature appearing on certificates given to those who handed in their guns during a disarmament campaign in 1994. Lawyers for Mr Mandela have now written to the President of the Parliamentary Front of the pro-gun lobby in Brazil to complain about the abuse of his image in the campaign.

“It is incorrect, improper and illegal to use the reference to Mr Mandela fighting against apartheid, when such struggle bears no relation to the sale of guns,” says the letter.

“The outrageous cooptation of Nelson Mandela’s image in these ads sends a distorted message that Mr. Mandela supports the work of the pro-gun lobby in Brazil,” said Josephine Bourgois, a YES campaigner with the Rio de Janeiro-based NGO Viva Rio. “His lawyers have now set the record straight and, in doing so, have revealed that the wealthy and powerful gun lobby will stop at nothing to keep selling their deadly wares, even deliberately misrepresenting the facts.”

Heather Sutton of Sou da Paz, who is campaigning for a ‘yes’ vote to prohibit the sale of guns, added, “The ‘yes’ campaign is backed by doctors, lawyers, well-known actresses and singers, and public security experts – ten Nobel Peace Prize Laureates recently signed a petition in favor of the measure and activists all over the world rallied for a ‘yes’ vote in cities all over the world. No wonder ‘no’ campaigners are scrabbling to make up supporters.”

#Cont
Brazil has the highest number of gun deaths in the world, around 38,000 a year – or
more than 100 every day. This is a higher rate than in many conflict zones. It is also a significant arms producer. The referendum will be the first time in the world that a nation has put its gun laws to a popular vote.


CONTACT PERSONS
SOMALIA: Abukar Albadri +2521 572300 or +2521 217098
UK: Anthea Lawson +44 (0)20 7065 0875 or +44 (0)7900 242 869
Brazil: Jessica Galeria +55 21 2555 3750 or +55 21 8128 8808
South Africa: Joseph Dube +27 11 403 4590 or +27 835 888 765

For more information about the referendum see www.iansa.org



GLED Somalia is IANSA Members and IANSA is a global network of more than 600 civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. Its members include victim support groups, human rights activists, public health professional and research institutes.


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