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Why Should I Send My Daughter to School?

Nimo was an 18 year old orphan girl born into a poor family, she lived with her mother in the Sheikh Nour village in the outskirts of Hargeisa. As many other young people in this area, she can not afford to continue her higher education. She completed 26 June Secondary school last year and according [...]

Yaa U Xeydan In aan Dekeda Berbera Xoolo Ka Dhoofin‏

Tixraaca warki kusoo baxay jariirada carabiga ee magaceeda la idhaahdo Al-Xayaat kana soo baxda dalka Sucuudi Carabiya kuna taariikhaysan 30/01/2010 sabti cadadkeedii.
Warka ay Jariiradaasi qortay ayaa guud ahaan mid lagu canaananaayo wasaarada Beeraha iyo daaqa ee Sacuudi Carabiya iyo mid wax loogu dhimaayo qaranimadeena, nabadgalyadeena iwm.
Akharistaw inta aanan dulucda maqaalkaygan u daadagin, horta adigu akhri [...]

No Alternative To President Rayale

HARGEISA, 3 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – 2010, without doubt, is one of the most crucial year for Somaliland and its people. It is a year of hope and dreams and a year to take the deserved opportunity to reflect upon a near decade of peace and political and social stability as well as growth. It [...]

Arr Goes To Somaliland Part V: The Finale

The past eight months I’ve spent in Somaliland have been amongst the most exciting, memorable and humbling of my life. Immersing oneself in the customs and local aspects of such a great culture can prove difficult even for those whose blood it is native to.
I was new and naïve in my previous articles but [...]

Somaliland: A Country Suffering From Little Land Use

HARGEISA, 1 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – I wonder sometimes, if the evergrowing population of China or India ever know a country like Somaliland. A country of only 3.5 Million population, a country the land exceeds its population and so are its resources, yet suffering from lack of exploitation. I am a citizen of that [...]

Demystifying The Iidoor Scapegoat Phenomena.

Dear Abdul Rahman Hariri,
I read your opinion piece entitled, “Response To What ICG Said About Las-Anod”.
Read the ICG’s comments: http://somalilandpress.com/11253/somaliland-las-anod-remains-isolated-as-american-secret-agent-arrives/
While I respect your opinion, you have failed to mention the root cause of Sool region’s problem and as usual you have blamed the usual suspects: Isaaq or Iidoor (Iidoor: a derogatory term) as some of [...]

SOMALILAND: My dream country, not yet!

“Oh my country! When right, keep it right; when wrong, set it right!” – Carl Schurz
THE REPUBLIC of Somaliland has been a ‘new’ country in the midst of hostile region for the last nineteen years. For almost these two decades, several praiseworthy work have been brought to fruition. Our petty differences are no longer unbreakable [...]

My Country in 2009: Memories, Difficulties and Achievements (Part two)

HARGEISA, 25 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – In 2009 many people mainly married women have been robbed off their money in a swindle way- an irregular banking system which has been operating for the last two years in Somaliland. In this peculiar system, clients used to receive 15% of their capital per month. Later on, [...]

Things a Responsible Somali Government Would Do

Mogadishu, 25 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – There is a dire need to take care of the Somali nation and its myriad issues, crises and interests. The Transitional Government can still do the job it has been established for and even accomplish for the nation. To do so, it will need to regain the initiative. The [...]

New Radio Station for the Djiboutian Opposition: could they be able to use it responsibly?

Djibouti, 22 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – The other day a friend of mine sent me an email about a new internet-based Radio station about two weeks ago: www.lavoixdedjibouti.com. (The voice of Djibouti). The message of this Website announce: ‘a group of young Djiboutian Diaspora opens up a free and independent Radio station. It doesn’t say [...]

Somalia’s instability is not Ethiopia’s fault.

London, 17 January 2010 (Somalilandpress)Your article “Violence, fear and confusion: Welcome to the Horn of Africa” (World News) implied Somalia was at peace before Ethiopia’s intervention in 2006. Assumptions used to criticise Ethiopia in relation to the instability are unfounded and fallacious. Lack of peace and stability in Somalia date from the overthrow of Siad [...]

How Financiers of Terrorist Attacks Against Somaliland Enjoy Western Lifestyle

Although Alshabaab terrorists’ horrific attacks steal attention from the other deadly groups in Somalia, some smaller group’s violent campaign also sends body parts flying over rooftops in Somaliland. Yet hardly anyone pays a scant attention to them. Worse yet, they orchestrate their villain attacks not in Somaliland—but in the West.
In November 2008, I wrote a [...]

Mr. Right and Minnesota

Minnesota, 15 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – I recently visited Minneapolis, MN the promise land for Somalis in North America. Though this was not my first trip there, it was my longest stay, and lasted about four weeks. I went there for a project and had a delightful time, even though I was mainly working and [...]

Way dayacan yihiine, dadyahow yaa u maqan? Barkhad M. Kaariye

Hargeysa, 13 Jan, 2010 (Ogaal/Somalilandpress)- Way dacayan yihiin, way dayaysan yihiin, dulmi baa u dheer. Dhib kasta oo dalka soo waajahdaa iyaga ayay ugu hor saamaysaa, dheef kastase way ka qatan yihiin. Waa qayb ka mid ah tiirarka Dimuqraadiyadda iyo nabadgelyada, balse ma helaan xuquuqdooda, loomana dhaaddana sidaas. Ma jiro Xisbi waxtar iska dhaafe, ku [...]

When the Jihadists Take Mogadishu

HARGEISA, 14 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – Last Friday, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council voted to extend for another six months the mandate of its woefully undermanned military force in Mogadishu. The AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), comprised of some 5,000 soldiers from Uganda and Burundi, has been besieged by Islamist insurgents since [...]

Election and Leadership in Somaliland

HARGEISA, 14 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – Somalilanders are a people that seen a great cruelty and hardship during their country union with Somalia. In 1991 it was when Somaliland has asserted itself as a nation heading for new start, that in a sense they build their own country without any international help, and they [...]

My Country in 2009: Memories, Difficulties and Achievements

HARGEISA, 14 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – I took the pen with my right hand holding on my dairy book, reading between the lines my eyes caught so many events that are really startling, inspirational and some how marvelous. From these stories we learned that all of us as people of Somaliland had moments of [...]

World Vision Somaliland is The Most Corrupt Agency in The Country

Borama, 13 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) – We, the human being, belong the same species that must unite its perceptions and its ways of conduct. Acting on this point, the ultimate vision of all highly civilized and well established societies is to make different societies with different culture close together. Really, our different cultures are not [...]

Deputy Speaker’s visit to Somaliland: It was about time.

The honourable Farah Maalim, deputy speaker of the Kenyan parliament, visit to Somaliland was well-timed and well-received. Mr. Maalim took it upon himself to see the truth about Somaliland. First and foremost, Somaliland become independent on 26th of June, 1960, five days before joining Italian Somalia to form a union which become [...]

Somaliland In Focus: 2010 and the economy

In my previous article I have discussed about the current political issues in the country. However today, I would like to give you an overview about Somaliland’s limited economy, our expectations in 2010 and areas we have to improve to achieve economic growth – this is my view.
Clearly every year has its ups and downs [...]

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