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		Leaders from the self-declared state of Puntland, in the northeast, issued a statement saying there would be no participation unless the Djibouti conference recognised the existence of Puntland.
		The Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which controls Bay and Bakool regions in southern Somalia, has announced it will attend the conference, after initially refusing.
		In Djibouti, the foreign ministry said the formal opening had been delayed to give the government and army time to set up facilities in Arta, 35 km west of Djibouti.
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	Rahanweyn Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rahamweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which is also known as the Reewin Resistance Army, was the first Reewin armed faction to emerge during the Somali civil war.
		The RRA was found in a shir assembly at Jhaffey, west of Baidoa, on 13 October 1995.
		The formation of the RRA was triggered by the invasion of Baidoa by Mohamed Farah Aideed's militia on 17 September 1995, which overthrew the local government, The Digil-Mirifle Supreme Governing Council, which was established in March 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rahanweyn_Resistance_Army (395 words)

	Rahanwein Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) is a violent autonomist group operating in the two southwestern regions of Somalia, Bay and Bakool.
		The stated goal of the RRA is the creation and recognition of an independent state of Southwestern Somalia, currently led by Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud.
		According to the United Nations, the RRA recruits children for armed conflict.
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	History of Somalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the Sudanese resisted Egypt's advance and the Mahdist revolution of 1885 ejected the Egyptians from Sudan and shattered Egypt's hope of a neo-Egyptian empire.
		Somali resistance to their colonial masters, both familiar and foreign, began in 1899 under the leadership of religious scholar Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Ogaden sub-lineage of the Darod tribe and his mother was Dulbehante sub-lineage of the Darod tribe.
		Meanwhile, the ministries atrophied and the army's officer corps was purged of competent career officers on suspicion of insufficient loyalty to the president.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somalian_Civil_War (9813 words)

	Udlændingestyrelsen
		Regarding the relationship between Elders and the RRA the Elders in Baidoa explained that the Rahanweyn people are, firstly, under the administration of their traditional Elders, who act as the principal interface between the people and the central authorities, run by the RRA.
		The establishment of the RRA as a fighting force was significant as historically the Rahanweyn have preferred discussions to conflict to resolve difficulties and they are seen by other Somali clans as non-violent, which to a large extent explains their past vulnerability.
		Rahanweyn Elders were consulted by the RRA over whether Aideed should be allowed into Baidoa and they agreed, in the interests of reconciliation.
	www.udlst.dk /Publikationer/Publikationerne/fact_findingsomalia.htm (20266 words)

	Baidoa Disappointed With ....
		RRA Secretary-General Abdullah Derow Isaaq was elected as Speaker of the new parliament during the Djibouti-hosted talks.
		Somali political sources told IRIN that the Bay and Bakool regions in the south, including Baidoa, had suffered extensive looting by both the former regime and opposing militia forces headed by the late General Muhammad Farah Aydid, culminating in the devastating Baidoa famine of 1992.
		The area was also later affected by in-fighting between the local Rahanweyn clans, the presence of the extremist Al-Ittihad forces and the involvement of Ethiopia, which backed and armed the local RRA to fight as a proxy in its war against Eritrea.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archiveoct00/001003105.htm (460 words)

	September 15 — October 15, 2002
		Army spokesman General Mohamed Beshir Suleiman told reporters that Khartoum's troops "have destroyed the capabilities" of the SPLA "around Torit," near the border with Uganda.
		Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said that the Sudanese army had responded to attacks by the Ugandan LRA rebels at Nisitu, near the southern Sudanese town of Juba.
		Maj Shaban Bantariza, the Ugandan army's spokesman, told IRIN that the civilians had been ordered to return to the camps so that they would be protected against the LRA, as well as against any possible fall-out arising from the army's stepped-up offensive against the rebels.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_543.html (6150 words)

	madhibaan.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The RRA captured Huddur in Bakool region from Aideed's SNA in October 1998, prompting the return to the town of many refugees.
		The decision to establish the SWS administration was taken at a meeting in Baidoa of the RRA's central committee and over 70 Elders from the Digil and Mirifle (Rahanweyn) clans.
		The meeting elected RRA chairman, Colonel Hassan Mohamed Nur 'Shaatigaduud', as President of the new regional state to serve for a four-year term.
	www.madhibaan.org /faq/report-2003-1.htm (7195 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Muhammad Siyad Barre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Prior to his presidency he was an army commander under the parliamentary government Somalia had inherited from their former Italian colonial government.
		Morgan, a former sub-lieutenant in the army, rose rapidly through the ranks to head the Ministry of Defence in the last days of Siyad Barre's rule.
		Somali peace talks are also being held in Kenya, attended by more than 300 representatives acting on behalf of the provisional national government which was formed in Mogadishu since 2000 and warlords who oppose it, under the auspices if the Somali council for reconciliation and rebuilding and leaders of other groups concerned and civic groups.
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	Radio Xoriyo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Regional parties in the Somali Region of Ethiopia also periodically claimed the army had taken control of the Ogaden and were guilty of abuses, including summary executions.
		By 1999, there were also complaints, recorded by international journalists, that young men from the Somali Region and the Ogaden were being forcibly recruited to fight in the Ethiopian-Eritrean war.
		Faction leaders in Mogadishu protested in 1999 and 2000 to international bodies, including the OAU and the UN Security Council, that Ethiopia was invading Somali territory, as well as arming and training militia.
	www.radioxoriyo.com /un/SecretWar2.htm (464 words)

	Imhotep: The Collective African Blog: Somalia: When a Nation Chases a State
		A third the same year in the south west resulted in the declaration of the state of Jubaland and “a fourth self-proclaimed entity led by the Rahanweyn Resistance Army was set up in 1999, along the lines of Puntaland.” Somalia as a country had ceased to exist.
		Confronted with his declining popularity and armed and internal resistance, Siad embarked on a reign of terror the Majeerten, the Hawiye, and the Isaaq clans.
		In a bid to smash Majeerteen opposition to Barre’s rule, the Red Berets army unit destroyed a reservoir to deny water to Umar Mahamuud Majeerteen sub-clan and their herds and many of them died of thirst.
	www.greatimhotep.com /2006/07/somalia_when_a_.html (1775 words)

	<strong><font size=3>SOMALIA: Baidoa tense amidst fears of possible militia ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The governor of Baidoa, Muhammad Ali Qalinle, said forces loyal to former Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) chairman Hassan Muhammed Nur Shatigudud, and former RRA first deputy chairman Shaykh Adan Madobe, both ministers in the Somali transitional government, had been mobilised in an area 76 km west of the town.
		Baidoa was in late May the scene of fierce fighting between factions of the RRA, which controls much of the regions of Bay and Bakool in southwestern Somalia.
		The conflict in Baidoa is rooted in a power struggle within the senior ranks of the RRA that resulted in a split in 2001.
	www.somaliherald.com /artman/publish/printer_683.shtml (315 words)

	Attacks on the Press 2003: Africa
		For example, on January 24, journalist Abdullahi Madkeer, of Democratic Media Concern (DMC) Radio, was accidentally shot in the stomach by a faction of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) while covering the reopening of Baidoa Airport in the southwest.
		The airport had been closed for months because of fighting between rival RRA factions.
		According to Somali journalists’ organizations, militia members fired on the crowd at the airport to protect a cargo of khat, a narcotic plant.
	www.cpj.org /attacks03/africa03/somalia.html (706 words)

	Rahanweyn Resistance Army (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Rahanweyn_Resistance_Army.html (786 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1999 - Somalia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On June 11, Marehan and Habr Gedr militiamen captured the southern town of Kismayo from a rival militia led by General "Morgan" of the Majereteen subclan.
		In late April and early May, fighting between forces loyal to Hussein Mohamed Aideed and forces from the Rahanwein Resistance Army for control of the town of Baidoa resulted in the deaths of several dozen civilians and numerous injuries.
		Following the June capture of Baidoa by the Rahanweyn Resistance Army, a few Rahanweyn families reportedly were evicted from their houses in South Mogadishu.
	www.usemb.se /human/human1999/somalia.html (4819 words)

	Somalia
		Hayd said the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) "was being used by a foreign country as an instrument of division".
		The RRA controls the Bay and Bakol regions in southwestern Somalia.
		Sheikh Adan Muhammad Nur, deputy chairman of the RRA (which carried out the attack on Wanle Weyne on 27 May where at least 19 people were killed) said it would continue to fight until "we remove the TNG and its supporters from all Digil and Mirifle lands".
	www.westerndefense.org /articles/Somalia/july01.htm (439 words)

	Saylac \| Somalia News and Information
		He is a prominent businessman from the Asharaf subclan of the Rahanweyn clan.
		He is a member of the Harin subclan of the Rahanweyn clan.
		He is from the Leysan subclan of the Rahanweyn clan.
	www.saylac.com /news/morenewsmay06.htm (732 words)

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		NAIROBI, 28 May 2002 (IRIN) - The Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which controls the Bay and Bakol regions in southwestern Somalia, has denied reports of a split within its senior ranks which is reputed to be giving rise to tension in Baidoa, capital of Bay Region.
		According to this source, the two had asserted that inasmuch as the RRA chairman, Col Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud, was now president of the self-declared South West State of Somalia, Sheikh Aden, the first vice-chairman should become chairman of the RRA.
		The decision was reached at a meeting of the RRA central committee and over 70 elders from the Digil and Mirifle clans in Baidoa in late March, with Shatigadud inaugurated as president of the new regional administration for an initial four-year term on 31 March.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=27985&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&... (526 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "US in Kuwait and Somalia"
		The Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA), whose leader was given a seat in the government's transitional assembly, pulled out of the plan on October 17, claiming anger over the choice of Mogadishu as the country's capitol.
		According to the radio, a senior Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) official Muhammad Adan Qalinle, who is the governor of Baidoa, has confirmed the presence of the American officers.
		The RRA is a member of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC), which is a grouping of southern factions opposed to the TNG.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/10990.html (1842 words)

	Somalia
		On March 14, fierce fighting near the village of Buulo Fulaay between fighters from the Rahanweyn Resistance Army and militias from the Rahanweyn Salvation Army and the Digil Salvation Army resulted in the deaths of over 30 persons and injuries to numerous others.
		Although many civilians died as a result of fighting during the year, politically motivated extrajudicial murder was uncommon; however, in the latter part of the year, acts of violence, including several killings, increased against supporters or members of the Transitional Government.
		On November 5 in Baidoa, RRA soldiers forcibly abducted and detained more than 12 local elders believed to support the Transitional Government; however, they were released by year's end.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/index.cfm?docid=780 (9192 words)

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		The decision was reached at a meeting of the RRA central committee and over 70 elders from the Digil and Mirifle clans.
		The move to establish the autonomous region now is seen by Somali observers as a way for the RRA "to come to the talks as an established administration as opposed to a faction".
		"The RRA controls the base from which the SRRC operates, and many of its members are factions in name only, controlling little or no territory," he said.
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	Journalists killed in 2003
		Army officials said the rebels had set up a checkpoint in the area where the journalist was killed, the Bogotá-based daily El Espectador reported.
		Buford Blount, commander of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, confirmed that a single shell had been fired at the hotel from a tank in response to what he said was rocket and small arms fire from the building.
		Later, the army said that Miller was struck by a bullet from behind, claiming that he may have been hit by Palestinian fire.
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	FTR 2002/UN Commission / Pages 1--31
		Resistance to the Arta peace process prompted enhanced assertiveness on the question of the independence of the region.
		The Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), formed in 1995, gained control of the town in June 1999 after several years of fighting.
		The two missions were escorted together by a considerable and heavily armed contingent of the TNG army and police between the airport and the city.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/commission/e-cn4-2002-119.htm (11298 words)

	News Safety Institute
		Abdullahi Madkeer, a journalist with DMC Radio, was shot in the stomach by members of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) militia while covering the reopening of Baidoa Airport in the southwest of the country.
		The shooting occurred while militia belonging to the RRA faction of Shaykh Adan Madobe fired on the airport crowd to drive them back from an aircraft with a cargo of the narcotic khat.
		Israeli army spokesmen said he was hit as troops fired in defence, but other witnesses say Miller and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank.
	www.newssafety.com /casualties/2003.htm (2239 words)

	RRA leaders in talks with TNG (Site not responding. Last check: )
		NAIROBI, 2 Sep 2002 (IRIN) - Talks between a deputy chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) and the speaker of the Transitional National Assembly (TNA) are reported to have taken place last week in Banaaney village of Qoryooley district, 130 km southeast of Mogadishu, a source close to the talks told IRIN on Monday.
		The talks between Mohammed Ibrahim Habsade, deputy chairman of the RRA and Abdalla Derow Isak, the TNA speaker - both members of the Rahanweyn clan - were shrouded in secrecy, the source said.
		The fighting first broke out in Baidoa, the headquarters of the RRA, on 1 July between forces loyal to Shatigadud and those of his two deputies, in an apparent power struggle.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=29653 (475 words)

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		Early reports had suggested the Rahanwein Resistance Army had gained an upper hand%2C but conflicting versions of the event were soon being presented.
		According to the radio%2C a senior Rahanweyn Resistance Army %28RRA%29 official Muhammad Adan Qalinle%2C who is the governor of Baidoa%2C has confirmed the presence of the American officers.
		The RRA is a member of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council %28SRRC%29%2C which is a grouping of southern factions opposed to the TNG.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID43/Data/3204.txt (894 words)

	Horn of Africa Review May 27 - June 26 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The official Sudanese news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying that no Sudanese troops participated in the fighting in Uganda, accusing the Ugandan army of using the accusations of Sudanese involvement as a pretext for three days of continuous shelling of the Sudanese border.
		According to a Ugandan military spokesman, 31 rebels were killed by the army in the attacks, which were carried out 29 May. The rebels are part of the forces (some 2,000 troops) that are reported to have crossed from Sudan into Uganda and had broken up into smaller groups.
		Subsequent to a request by tribal leaders, Liberation Resistance Army leader Jospeh Kony is also reported to have said that he wants peace talks with Kampala.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /eue_web/hoa0696.htm (3905 words)

	SOMALIA ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES OF A RETURN TO CENTRALISM
		As the RRA is the guarantor of peace in Digil and Mirifle territories, they do not see the need to equate RRA, a legitimate professional force in its own soil with freelance militia gangs that operate in some areas of the South and be rehabilitated and disarmed.
		Disarmament of RRA is also a fatal contradiction to a peace plan that will supposedly focus on decentralisation.
		Under these conditions RRA is a legitimate force in its own soil, and RRA's right to bear arms in its soil is non negotiable.
	www.arlaadinet.com /Forum/somalia_adverse_consequences_of_.htm (968 words)

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