HWC 14-15

This article talks about the possibility for Somaliland to vote like Scotland recently did to become independent. It discusses the pros and cons of different political actions the government could take to try to achieve international recognition. This relates to our discussion about Somaliland and its failure to be recognized by other countries.

This article compares Somaliland to Scotland, because Scotland just had a vote on becoming independent from the UK, just as Somaliland would like to be recognized as independent of Somalia. The article says that in a vote for a constitution, 97% of people voted in favor of becoming a full independent state. This relates to our studies, because it shows the nationalism of Somaliland.

This article details Somaliland's struggle to gain recognition as an independent country to foreign powers. Foreign countries said that they would recognize Somaliland as such if they worked it out with Somalia. Negotiations between the two fell apart twice before: the first time because there was not a strong central government in Somalia, the second time because Somalia blatantly disregarded cooperation with Somaliland. However, the writer believes that the time is ripe for Somaliland to seek recognition as an independence country once again, for issues such as Scotland seeking independence from the United Kingdom are fresh in the public memory. This relates to NPR's Somaliland story because the fact that these efforts continue to this day show the strong nationalism that the people of Somaliland feel for their country.

This article describes the positive aspects of the Zimbabwe land reform. It discusses how Robert Mugabe's land distribution benefited farmers across the country. This relates to the activity because it discusses the positive results of the land reform.

This article describes the positive and negative effects of the Zimbabwe land reform. It discusses that while some land is very lucrative, other land is poorly maintained and provide little profit. This relates to the activity because it shows the modern effects of the land reform policy

This article explains that there are new stories about people affected by land reform that are being brought forth to a meeting that will reflect on the positives and negatives of the land reform.

This article talks about Zimbabwe's land reform and the new evidence that research has provided. This is connected to the issues addressed in the activity because the activity looked at the causes and issues with land reform, and this article talks about the most recent news about the land reform.

The article describes Somaliland and it's transition into statehood, and some of the conflicts it faced with it's foreign policy and it's country isolation. This connects with the audio article as it drives into problems that Somaliland is facing as well as it's goal to reach recognition by other parts of the world.

This articles describes recent events of Somali's Islamist group al-Shabab leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US air strike attack earlier this week, the Pentagon has said. This relates to the previous articles because it talks about how, "The al-Shabab leader had publicly claimed the group's responsibility for the deadly Westgate shopping centre attack in September last year, he said."; in addition, this article also talks about the many suicide bombings that had taken place, which they now take responsibility for.

This article describes the attack that occurred one year ago, where gunmen from the Shabab militant group in Somalia laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. This relates to the article "Somlia Militants Mixing Business and Terror", as they talked about large scale attacks on civilians and even stated this incident/massacre directly.

This article explains that Somaliland is looking for international recognition, but says that this hope is merely a daydream. It states that the only reason Somaliland wants to be independent and recognized is because Somalia is a failed state. This relates to the audio story because it describes why Somaliland independence and recognition has failed.

This article describes the death of the leader of Al-Shabab. President Barrack Obama announced the death of Ahmed Abdi Godane was caused by a U.S. airstrike that hit the car he was riding in. This relates to the reading in this activity because Al-Shabab was mentioned multiple times in the reading and the death of it's leader will take a tremendous blow on the terrorist group.

This article talks about a recent al-Shabab attack on a Somali government official. The official's driver and bodyguard died in this attack. The story relates to our assignment about the al-Shabab and how they use violence to be terrorists in Somalia.

Friday morning a church collapsed in Nigeria killing at least 70 people, many of which were definitely from South Africa. President Zuma said that 67 of his compatriots died on Friday night, which is thought to be one of the worst tragedies in South African history, even more than many of the massacres during the time of Apartheid.