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SOMALIA: Too many patients, one mental health facility

The number of people seeking mental health treatment has increased in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s autonomous region of Puntland, despite the existence of only one small health unit, officials said.
“We have only two rooms; one for males and one for females, with five beds each,” Abdulkadir Khalif Ali, the nurse who manages the [...]

Is East Africa the Next Frontier for Oil?

NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) — According to local lore, Portuguese travelers as far back as the late 19th century suspected oil might lie beneath parts of East Africa after noticing a thick, greasy sediment wash up on the shores of Mozambique. More interested in finding cheap labor, though, the explorers had little use for oil.
A century on, [...]

Israel Partnering in Africa Against Terror

TEL-AVIV (Somalilandpress) — Israel is increasing its partnership in Africa, united with factions which are battling fundamentalist Islam.
Following February talks between Israel and the Kenyan government in which the African country requested Israeli assistance in fighting terror, Israel and Kenya may form a joint force to guard against the entry of terrorists through the northern [...]

South Africa slams Israel over heritage site annex

PRETORIA (Somalilandpress) — South Africa’s response to Israel’s decision to declare the cave of the Patriachs and Rachel’s tomb in the West Bank to be National Heritage sites.
The South African Government has noted with concern Israel’s decision to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem in the West Bank [...]

Foreign officials suspected of rights abuses should be deported

WASHINGTON (Somalilandpress) — IN THE SUMMER of 1988, Aziz Deria had left Somalia and was living in the United States when he heard the horrible news: His father, Mohamed, and brother, Mustafa, had apparently been dragged from their home and murdered by Somali soldiers intent on killing members of the Isaaq clan.
Mr. Deria, now a [...]

University of Virginia Law Students Back Victim’s Right to Sue Former Somali Leader

WASHINGTON (Somalilandpress) — Law students in the University of Virginia’s International Human Rights Clinic have contributed to a Supreme Court amicus brief submitted by several congressional leaders that supports the right to sue former government officials for acts of torture.
“The clinic is integrally involved in important cases that are going all the way to the [...]

SOMALIA: Poverty Pushes Bosasso Children On To Streets

BOSASSO, (Somalilandpress) — A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia’s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government officials calling for urgent steps to resolve the problem.
“In the past, most of the [...]

CANADA: Islamic School Is On ‘A Mission’

OTTAWA (Somalilandpress) — It’s 10 a.m., and the bell for morning recess rings at Abraar School.
Students don their winter coats and boots before heading out onto the sunny playground at the Bayshore-area elementary school.
As they pass principal Moussa Ouarou in the hall, they call him “Brother Moussa” and offer a polite Arabic greeting: Salaam alaikum [...]

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab

We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 20 [...]

Child Sponsorship Report 2009, from Somaliland

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Current Situation
The failure of the rains in many parts of Somaliland has led to massive loss of livestock, particularly for the rural population, many of whom are pastoralists. Yet despite this drought Sheikh has been [...]

Somaliland FM requests U.S. to extradite alleged War Criminal

ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Abdullahi Duale is believed to have asked U.S. officials for the extradition of the former Somali Prime Minister, Gen. Mohammed Ali Samantar on charges of war crimes in Somaliland in the 80s and early 90s.
In a meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Mr Duale [...]

Somaliland draws Chinese investors

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — A 14-member delegation from the People’s Republic of China are on official visit to the Republic of Somaliland to study the economic and investment climate in the country.
The delegation which consists of some of China’s leading investors, government officials and members of China’s leading media-houses arrived in the capital Hargeisa on Friday [...]

Foreign Minister trip to pave way for Somaliland visit to Washington

ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Abdullahi Duale has visited the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday to meet with U.S. officials to prepare for high-level Somaliland delegation visit to Washington, Somaliland’s official news agency reported on Friday.
Duale’s visit will pave the way for an official visit to the country by high level [...]

Horn of Africa: Unprecedented Enthronement of Issa’s Tribal Chief – updated

Issa is one of the major tribes in horn of Africa and live in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland. The Issa’s geographical homeland starts from northwest of Ethiopia’s city of Dire Dawa, Djibouti and to historic northern Somaliland city of Zeila at Salal Region. Issa crown their young tribal chief in Zeila City as part of [...]

Floods displace thousands in Somaliland-Ethiopia border area

HARGEISA, (IRIN) — Around 1,000 families have been displaced by flooding after heavy rains in an area straddling the border between Ethiopia and the self-declared independent republic of Somaliland, according to officials.
“The floods occurred in the last 24 hours. About 1,000 families were displaced, and they are with their relatives in other parts of [...]

Arab League condemns Israel over Somaliland recognition

CAIRO (Somalilandpress) — Arab foreign ministers meeting in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday for their 133rd session have called for diplomatic action against Israel’s measures that posed a threat to the region and the peace efforts, as their adopted a draft agenda for the upcoming Arab summit.
The Arab officials condemned Israel’s inclusion of the Al-Ibrahimi [...]

Finnish citizen running for president in Somaliland

HELSINKI (Somalilandpress) — Construction engineer Faisal Ali Farah, a naturalised Finnish citizen living in Espoo, is running for the office of President of Somaliland in elections scheduled for the coming autumn.
Somaliland, which declared itself independent from the rest of Somalia in 1991, has taken gradual steps toward democracy. A referendum on [...]

Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition

Co-published with the Institute for Global Dialogue
Somaliland has been described as an ‘inspiring story of resilience and reconstruction, and a truly African Renaissance, that has many lessons to teach the rest of Africa and the international community’. This study seeks to identify some of those lessons, particularly those pertaining to Somaliland’s sustained efforts to create [...]

Video: Somaliland National Library fundraising appeal

LONDON (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland Society of United Kingdom has launched a fundraising appeal for the construction of Somaliland’s National Library.
Ahmed Dahir Elmi, Chairman of Somaliland Society of UK, Dr Saed Ahmed Hassan, Chancellor of Golis University, Professor Hussein A. Bulhan, Chancellor of of University of Hargeisa and Faisal Ali Warabe, Chairman of UCID party address [...]

Israel accused of dooming Ethiopian baby boom

TEL AVIV (Somalilandpress) — A feminist movement has accused the Israeli government of adopting a racist policy towards the country’s Ethiopian Jews.
Activists believe black women are deliberately being given a controversial contraceptive drug to bring about a drop in the population – a claim the government denies.
Thousands of Ethiopians have immigrated to Israel since the 1980s, [...]

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