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	Jowhar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jowhar (Somali: Jowhar; Italian: Giohar), also Johar or Giohar, formerly Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi or Villabruzzi, is the capital town of the Shabeellaha Dhexe region of Somalia, and, along with Baidoa, forms the joint administrative capital of the Transitional Federal Government.
		Jowhar only became the regional capital in the mid-1980s when Mogadishu was taken out of Shabeellaha Dhexe to form its own region, Banaadir.
		As part of a 2004 agreement, Jowhar and the town of Baidoa were to form a joint administrative capital of the Transitional Federal Government, sited away from Mogadishu for security reasons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jowhar (433 words)

	Wardheernews Online
		JOWHAR, Somalia, June 21 (Reuters) - Somalia's fledgling government has set up base in the city of Jowhar until security is restored to the capital Mogadishu, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
		A row over whether the government should be installed in Mogadishu, or the provincial towns of Jowhar and Baidoa had caused a major split in the government, further contributing to the delays.
		Residents in Jowhar said business is booming in the city along Shabelle River, known for its fertile farmlands.
	www.wardheernews.com /news/june/21_jawhar_base.htm (394 words)

	Middle East Online
		JOWHAR, Somalia - Somalia's exiled president and prime minister met with local leaders here Thursday on their first trips home since taking the helm of the lawless country's transitional government last year.
		Several thousand cheering and dancing Jowhar residents were at the airstrip to greet the president who arrived on his own plane shortly after Gedi touched down.
		After spending the night in Jowhar, Yusuf was expected to travel to his home region of Puntland in northeast Somalia while Gedi was to visit at least three other towns on his five-day tour: Beletuuein, Baidoa and Galkayo.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=12808 (733 words)

	Middle East Times
		JOWHAR, Somalia -- Fighters loyal to a US-backed warlord alliance reinforced their last remaining stronghold in Jowhar, Somalia, on Friday as Islamist militia in control of the capital gathered for a feared attack, witnesses said.
		The Islamists had withdrawn from a position close to Jowhar on Thursday after elders persuaded them not to attack but were re-grouping in the towns of Balad and Walewein, according to residents there.
		Many in Jowhar, the last stronghold of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), said that the Islamist withdrawal from positions to the south was a feint and that the attack would come from the west.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060609-082845-8726r (691 words)

	UNIFEED
		The streets are once again safe for the residents of Jowhar, and farmers have been able to return to some of the most fertile land in Somalia.
		His presence seemed to confirm what residents here already know: that Jowhar is a shinning example for the rest of Somalia, and the region itself is critical to Somalia’s future economic prosperity.
		This could be the bread basket of East Africa quite easily." As Jowhar resident celebrate their newfound peace and prosperity, the outside world can only wait to see if Jowhar rises to the challenge of being a new face for Somalia.
	www.un.org /unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=328 (1027 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UN offices in Jowhar taken over by Somali militia
		The UN agency is running numerous projects by local staff in Jowhar following the evacuation of 13 international UN staff last week as a result of military movements in and around the town, raising concerns over fighting between rival factions of the new Somali government.
		Militiamen obeying orders of different warlords are arriving in the Jowhar area, a central Somali town that President Yusuf controversially chose as the country's temporary capital earlier this year.
		The obvious rise in tensions between the Mogadishu and Jowhar fractions has caused renewed fear in the international community, observing that the 14th peace attempt in Somalia is slowly crumbling.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6G6P6K?OpenDocument (538 words)

	A glimmer of hope in Mog and Jowhar - Burci Xamsa
		In response to their counterparts’ overture, members of the Transitional Federal Institutions in Jowhar welcomed the initiative and described it as a “step in the right direction”.
		They must come to terms with the substantive issues that need to be deliberated and strive to reduce the gap in their opposing positions.
		I, therefore, trust that the government of Ethiopia will do its utmost to ensure that the initiative proposed by one of the contending parties, and welcomed by the other, would not by any means be derailed by the spoilers of the Somali peace process, both internal and external.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivenov05/051125201.htm (1132 words)

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		Locals said the warlords were preparing to defend their last redoubt of Jowhar, 90 km (55 miles) north of the capital, including an advance line outside the town.
		Fighters loyal to Jowhar warlord Mohamed Dheere had been reinforced by allies defeated in Mogadishu and the strategic town of Balad, on the road north, which fell on Sunday, he said.
		Islamic militiamen said their men, camped south of Jowhar, have been ordered to prevent planes from landing on the town's airstrip to block any escape by the warlords.
	today.reuters.com /News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L07224066 (716 words)

	Somali Militia Returns UN's Jowhar Office
		The U.N. international staff had been airlifted from Jowhar three days earlier, after a militia leader in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, issued a warning to foreign aid workers in the country.
		People living in Jowhar, they were given the option either to be relocated or stay behind because they have their families and they are living there.
		Olesen says his biggest concerns are the children and families affected when violence - or even threats of violence - disrupt aid operations, especially in Somalia where the government has collapsed, leaving international aid agencies to provide the bulk of basic services like health care and education.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/09/mil-050913-voa02.htm (457 words)

	Thom Cookes, and SBS Radio journalist Issa Farah travel to Jowhar in Somalia
		They're flying to Jowhar, the small town that has become Somalia's temporary capital, and they're planning to open a new embassy for the African Union.
		But as we arrive in Jowhar, the first person who approaches us is a local journalist who has just experienced media management, Somali-style.
		GEORGE NEGUS: Thom tells Dateline that a matter of hours after he left Jowhar, the local warlord took control of the UN compound where he and Issa were staying.
	www.hiiraan.com /2005/oct/sbs_visit.html (2717 words)

	Africast Global Africa Network- News
		JOWHAR, Somalia, July 28 -- Somalia’s transitional President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed arrived in the central town of Jowhar, which he insists will host the federal government as the Horn of Africa nation emerges from 14 years of anarchy.
		While in Puntland, Yusuf recruited fighters from among local militias to defend himagainst possible attacks from the Mogadishu warlords and protect government officials in Jowhar, which is controlled by his ally, Mohamed Omar Habeb.
		Habeb claimed in late June that Mogadishu-based militias were preparing to attack him for allowing the president to settle in Jowhar, thus denying the Mogadishu its status.
	news.africast.com /africastv/article.php?newsID=55948 (405 words)

	Middle East Times
		MILITIA: An armed Somali Islamic militia poses in the town Jowhar, north of the capital Mogadishu, on June 17.
		JOWHAR, Somalia -- Somalia's dominant Islamist militia on Monday imposed Sharia law in the former warlord stronghold of Jowhar, making good on their vows to bring Islamic theocracy to the shattered Horn of Africa nation.
		Last week Islamic militia routed warlords from Jowhar, which had acted as a key supply town for members of the US-backed Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) in southern Somalia.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060619-112841-7850r (606 words)

	Faction leaders meet in Jowhar
		Madobe, who is the group's spokesman, told IRIN on Thursday that the purpose of the meeting was to find ways of "salvaging" the talks being held at Mbagathi in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, under the auspices of the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
		However, a local journalist in Jowhar told IRIN that he believed the group was trying to persuade other groups to convene a separate peace conference inside Somalia, and very probably had "no intention of returning to Nairobi", from which "they have recalled all their delegates".
		We should strengthen this one." He pointed out that the Jowhar group had some concerns "and if their main concerns are addressed, I am confident they will be back".
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/03/mil-040304-irin01.htm (651 words)

	..::< HornAfrik Media Inc -- Warbaahinta Qarniga Cusub >::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The governor of Jowhar Mohamed Habeb withdrew his decision of welcoming the government after being disappointed with the arrival of the Somali president to that town on 14th of June 2005 and went instead to Jabouti country.
		The South African delegation that arrived in Somalia is said to be mediating both the opposing sides os the Somali federal government, who are divided about key issues sush as where the government is having a seat and whether the front-line states be part the peace keepingtrops that would be deployed in Somalia.
		The Somali president is said to have the intention of arriving in Jowhar by land together with thousands of his sub-clan militias, but the governor of Jowhar town who is hosting the government doesn’t wish the Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf did so in fear of losing his control of the town.
	www.hornafrik.com /Newspage/NewsEngelish.htm (1757 words)

	afrol News - Somali presidency set up in Jowhar despite protests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The transitional President believes his personal safety and popularity is more secured in the town of Jowhar, some 80 kilometres north of the capital.
		President Yusuf only yesterday arrived in Jowhar to launch the establishment of the first presidential office on Somali soil for more than a decade.
		The Mogadishu-based warlords, clans and armed groups traditionally have been in strong opposition to groups from the north and President Yusuf holds that his safety cannot be assured in the capital.
	www.afrol.com /printable_article/16847 (524 words)

	Jowhar oo shaki gashay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Guud ahaan Qadkii Telefonka, iyo safaradii Gadiidkii oo ka go'ay magaalada Jowhar, iyadoo uu Madaxweyne Cabdullahi Yuusuf uu halkaasi ku suganyahay
		Warar kala duwan oo laga helay degaano ay ka mid yihiin B/weyne, Buuloburde iyo Balcad ayaa waxay sheegayan in magaalada Jowhar ay soo gaareen Ciidamo Puntland ka yimid iyo Saraakiil Itoobiyaan ah kuwaas oo ku hubeysan Baabuurta Ciidamada iyo kuwa kale oo sida hamuul.
		Magaalada Jowhar waxaa ku sugan Madaxweynaha Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed iyo xubno ka tirsan Labada Gole ee Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya.
	www.jiimonet.com /septembernews/jowhar_shaki_060905.htm (244 words)

	IFEX :: Radio journalist freed but expelled from Jowhar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		New York, August 9, 2005 - A radio reporter jailed for five days in Jowhar was released without charge on Sunday, but was expelled from the town and told not to come back, according to the journalist and local sources.
		Adow said through an interpreter that he was transported out of Jowhar under armed guard and told not to return.
		Adow's arrest came after he reported that officials of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) had taken over Jowhar school buildings for their operations, displacing some 1,500 students, according to CPJ sources.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/68490 (390 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Islamists seize strategic town of Jowhar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Islamist capture of Jowhar gives them control of most of southern Somalia and raises the question of whether they will help the weak interim government or impose Islamic rule.
		Wednesday's assault appeared to be an attempt to deliver a final blow to the much-weakened warlords, whose fortunes as feudal rulers of patches of Somalia including Mogadishu for the past 15 years have taken a sharp turn for the worse.
		Hours before fighting began in Jowhar, four warlords who had gone there from Mogadishu fled the town, and a key ally said he was abandoning their cause.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=875662006 (830 words)

	GEESKA AFRIKA MAGAZINE AND HAN- geeskaafrika.com
		The Somali interim group has begun establishing itself in the town of Jowhar, where it will be based until security is restored in the capital, Mogadishu, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
		He said the expansion of the airport in Jowhar would cost US $ 900,000,and added that the expanded airport would facilitate the work of the government, which was expected to remain in Jowhar for "several months".
		Poor lighting at the airstrip in Jowhar had forced a plane transporting President Adullahi Yusuf Ahmed from Nairobi to Somalia on 13 June to fly instead to neighbouring Djibouti.
	www.geeskaafrika.com /somalia_23june05.htm (1188 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jowhar is the current seat of Transitional Federal Government ministers loyal to TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf.
		Adow's arrest came after he reported that TFG officials had taken over Jowhar school buildings for its operations, displacing some 1,500 students, according to CPJ sources.
		The TFG was formed at a peace conference in Nairobi, Kenya, last year, but is now split, with dissident ministers and parliamentarians in Mogadishu, and those loyal to Yusuf in Jowhar, 90 kilometers (56 miles) to the north.
	www.cpj.org /news/2005/Somalia03aug05na.html (250 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Somali president lands in Jowhar
		He was met by hundreds of people, including the prime minister, after flying in from his northern stronghold.
		Earlier this month, President Yusuf told the BBC he would be bringing troops and militia with him.
		They set up the transitional government last year, while in exile in Kenya.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4719047.stm (325 words)

	UNICEF Somalia - About UNICEF Somalia - Central/Southern Somalia operations
		The UNICEF office in Jowhar, Central Somalia oversees programmes in Central/Southern Somalia.
		Among the earliest examples of successful public-private partnership projects is the Jowhar Water Supply System which UNICEF rehabilitated.
		In HIV/AIDS, activities focus is on ensuring an enabling environment for community based, multi-sectoral action to prevent and control the spread of the pandemic, with a focus on youth friendly services and a conducive policy environment through community sensitization and awareness raising.
	www.unicef.org /somalia/about_2465.html (1110 words)

	SomaliNet News: Somalia: PM comes back to Jowhar victorious : SomaliNet > Somali > Somalia and Somalinad
		Parliamentarians and government officials who came with him were part of a larger group who originally sided with Mogadishu based faction leaders and held their sessions in Mogadishu, refusing to move to governmentâ€™s temporary operations headquarters, Jowhar.
		Qamar Adan Ali told SomaliNet she came to Jowhar for national cause and was very happy to be in Jowhar today.
		Mogadishu faction leaders who are losing political ground to the government accused their former allies who went to Jowhar voluntarily of seeking bribe from the president.
	www.somalinet.com /news/world/English/1119 (270 words)

	Somali News - Midnimo All About Somali
		Maleeshiyaadka Maxkamadaha oo daqiiqado ka hor nin ka Gancsan jiray qaadka ku dileen Jowhar
		Qaar ka mid ah Goobaha Ganacsiga Magaalada Jowhar oo Albaabada loo laabay
		Golaha Maxkamadaha oo saaka Magaalada Jowhar ka bilaabay Cashuur laga qaadayo dadweynaha
	www.midnimo.com (973 words)

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		Saakay aya alafilayay in diyaarad khaas ah ka soo qaadi doonto magaalada Gaalkacyo ee Gobolka Mudug balse hakad ku yimidislamrkaan 1-da duhurnimo ee maanta ay soo gaari doonaan Jowhar, waxaana magaalada ku sii qulqulaya Wasiiro iyo Xildhibaanno ka tirsan Golayaasha Dowladda, kuwaas oo ka kala imaanaya dalka gudihiisa iyo dibaddiisaba.
		Xubno sarsare oo ku sugan Jowhar oo ka tirsan Dwladda Federaalka KMG-ga ayaa sheegay in lagu howlan yahay soo dhawaynta Madaxweynaha iyo Wafdigiisa, waxaana aad loo adkeeyay ammaanka magaalada Jowhar iyo guud ahaan waddooyin soo gala sida wadada ka timaada Xamar iyo midda aadda B/weyne.
		Jowhar si ay uga qeeyb qaataan soo dhawaynta Maxweynaha, iyadoo lagu so waramayo in marka la xaqiijiyo soo caga dhigashada diyaaradda sidda wafdiga la qali doono tirooyin xoola ah oo isugu jira Geel, Lo’ iyo ari intaba.
	www.snnnews.net /july26jowhar.html (375 words)

	UNIFEED
		In June, Somalia’s interim government began establishing itself in the town of Jowhar, where it will be based until security is restored in the capital, Mogadishu.
		A section of the government disagreed with the decision to install the administration in Jowhar, and in May moved to Mogadishu saying it wanted to restore normalcy to the city so the government could operate from there.
		Prime Minister Gedi opened the new Duduble (or China) Canal, which was dug and built by the hands of Jowhar residents.
	www.un.org /unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=379 (721 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Somalia: Interim president moves to Jowhar
		Yusuf, Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi and supporters in the fractious Transitional Federal Government (TFG) are trying to set up interim state institutions in Jowhar pending the restoration of security to the capital, which they say is currently too unsafe.
		Yusuf travelled to Jowhar from his northeastern hometown of Galkayo in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland.
		Upon arrival in Jowhar, interim government officials, led by Gedi, and "hundreds of residents" received the president, Muhammad Ibrahim Ma’alimow, a Jowhar-based journalist, said.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6EQ84F?OpenDocument (560 words)

	Somali Official Government Web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The International peace Day was marked with the planting of a great tree by Somali President and Prime Minister on the women care compound in Jowhar.
		Invitations to the event were sent out in advance to the members of parliament and cabinet by Somali Coalition for Grassroots Women Organizations and Women Care Organization.
		goes on reconciliation processes in Jowhar to achieve its goals in the capital city of Mogadishu.
	www.somali-gov.info /photogallery.htm (125 words)

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