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NEWS FROM June 2009

Gruesome Details Emerge On Young Somali Girl

Jeddah, 1 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Investigations with the six men taken under custody in connection with the killing and burial of an 8-year-old Somali girl have revealed gruesome details about the whole issue.
Police found the body of the girl buried in an under-construction building in Bab Shareef District here on Friday. Besides the six [...]

A Mendacious Pen for Hire: Megalomatis’s Articles on Somalia

Among many other things, the chief characteristic of the 21st century is the internet that opened up the gates of communication and closed the vast distances between continents and communities. The unrestricted nature of its cyber-communication turned local issues into International battlegrounds. This has special connotations for Somalia. The proxy wars over Somalia are not [...]

Donald M Payne Speech: Somaliland rejects to participate in Washington meeting on Somalia

United States Congress (Washington, DC)
Somalia: Prospects for Lasting Peace and a Unified Response to Extremism and Terrorism
Donald M. Payne
29 June 2009
document
Washington, DC — Opening remarks of Chairman Donald M. Payne at the hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health on Somalia: Prospects for Lasting Peace and a Unified Response to Extremism and Terrorism, [...]

Ignoring Somaliland’s Interests Damages US Interests

Hargeisa, 1 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) – In order to get an idea of what is wrong with US policy towards Somalis, one only has to look at the title of the congressional hearing that took place on the 25th of this month: “Somalia: Prospects for Lasting Peace and a Unified Response to Extremism and Terrorism.”
Three [...]

Somali President Jets Off To Libya

Mogadishu,Jun 30 2009 (Somalilandpress) — Somalia’s transitional leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed led a delegation of Ministers and Parliamentarians to the Libyan city of Sirte on Monday for the summit of the New Economic Partnership of Africa’s Development.
The African Union Summit titled “Investing in Agriculture for Economic Growth and Food Security” is scheduled for the [...]

U.S. Congressman Lashes Out at Democratic Republic of Somaliland

Written by Dalmar Kaahin

Hargeisa, 30 June 2009 (Somalilandpress) — As I watch the video of U.S. congressional hearings convened in Washington DC in June 25, 2009 about the current turmoil in Somalia, a hostile voice echoes in the conference room: “If they [Somaliland people] want to be isolated, they can be assured that I will [...]

Yemeni plane crashes off Comoros, 150 on board

MORONI, Jun 30 2009 (Somalilandpress) — An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros Tuesday, a senior government official said.
“We don’t know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane,” Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters from the airport at [...]

US official stresses support for embattled Somali govt.

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — A top US diplomat on Monday stressed his country’s support for Somalia’s transitional government, whose control has been hanging by a thread in the face of a fierce Islamist insurgency.
“The US government has always been clear that it is important to support the TFG (transitional federal government),” US Deputy Secretary of [...]

East Africa: Kenya Would Do Well to Keep Off the War in Somalia

By Paul Goldsmith And Abdi Umar
Nairobi, Jun 30 2009 (Somalilandpress) — Naturally, threats to bring down glassy skyscrapers and demands that Kenya withdraw security forces patrolling the border evoke public alarm.
Sometimes an ostensibly negative and emotionally charged development can flip over into a moment of analytic clarity.
The Al Shabaab surge in Mogadishu may be such [...]

Noble Travel Agency Gets Ethiopian Airlines Contract

Hargeisa, 29 June 2009 (Somalilandpress) — Ethiopian Airlines has officially delegated Noble Travel Agency to carry out their flight bookings in Somaliland. The agency will have exclusive access to Ethiopian Airlines 1.95 million passenger database and cliets would be able to make bookings with them as well as Ethiopian Airlines affiliated carriers.
Since the suicide attacks in Somaliland October [...]

Ethiopian Art Shines In Somaliland

Hargeisa, Jun 29 2009 (Somalilandpress) — World refugee day took place in Somaliland on June 20th at the Ethiopian refugee center. The celebration proceedings were opened by Somaliland Vice Minister of Resettlement, Mr Abdilhamid Garad who said, “I am happy to be with you on this occasion, this is not the first time I participate [...]

Somaliland appeals to international community for urgent emergency livelihood assistance

Somaliland: press Release Urgent Emergency Humanitarian Assistant
The Vice President
To: All International Agancies And Organizations
Since The Year Of 2007. The “Dayr” and “Gu” rains in Somaliland were below normal rainfall (Deyr 07/08, Gu 08, and Deyr 08/09) and this year’s “Gu” was poor.
As a result, poor pasture, scarcity of water, food and waakened human animal health [...]

Somali envoy says situation “very severe”, calls for intervention

Somali’s Ambassador to Kenya Muhamad Ali Nur has said the situation in his country is “very severe” and has consequently appealed for help from the international community.
Speaking during an interview with Kenya’s privately-owned KTN TV at the Somali embassy in the capital, Nairobi, Nur said: “The situation is very severe. We have humanitarian crisis. People [...]

Somaliland: Xukuumadu Maxay ka tidhi Abaaraha Ba’an iyo Biyo-yaraanta Baahsan ee Caasimada?

Hargeysa (Somalilandpress)- Madaxweyne ku-xigeenka Somaliland ahna Gudoomiyaha Guddida uu Madaxweyne Daahir Rayaale Kaahin u xilsaaray Gurmadka Abaaraha, ayaa shaaca ka qaaday inay wadanka ku habsadeen abaaro baaxad leh oo isaga dambeeyay iyo aafada Ayaxa. “Beryahan danbe waxa ina haysatay Mushkilad Biyo la’aan ah, arrintaasna waxa aan u saaray inay soo daraaseeyaan Guddi heer qaran ah [...]

What to Do With Somalia and Somaliland ?

Washington, 28 June 2009 (Somalilandpress) — The Problems plaguing Somalia show no sign of abating in the near future.
It seems that every other day there has been a Bomb Explosion in Mogadishu killing dozens of people or requests made by the Transitional Government for Assistance have been falling on Deaf Ears.
Is there any hope for [...]

Why we are not orienting social change thoughts?

Why we are not orienting social change thoughts?
Our early history we were rural society and moving towards where rain falls after a period we immediately change urban society although some remain their stage we changes our camels to cars and so on, as we passing these social change steps we suddenly stopped un-expected stage that [...]

Somaliland: Does Temporary recognition Will Serve for All Interests?

Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Somaliland scored 4.5 in the numerical index rating, with 1 representing the most respect and 7 the least respect; ranked the Somaliland as the 144th world’s political and civil rights respecting country out of 208 countries (193 recognized and 15 yet to be recognized countries); which further indicated [...]

Somaliland Central Bank Opens First Branch In Sool

Las Anod, June 27 2009 (Somalilandpress) — The Central Bank of Somaliland (CBS) opened it’s first branch in Las Anod, the regional capital of Sool on Friday. The branch will introduce Somaliland currency [Somaliland Shilling] to the region and will carry out all monetary policies, financial research, note issuance and anti-money laundering as well as general services of [...]

Ethiopian-American Lawyer on Conflicts Along the Nile

A scorpion once tried to cross the river Nile. He approached several animals, asking if he could ride on their backs. None of them dared trust him, and they all refused.Finally, an old sheep agreed because the scorpion said that if he strung the sheep during the crossing, they would both die.
In the middle of [...]

“Somalia: Militant Islamists Try to Draw Kenya Into a Trap”,

Hargeisa, 27 June 2009 (Somalilandpress) – As Somalia’s transitional government fights for its existence and the region’s governments debate how to respond, guest columnist Daniela Kroslak argues strongly against another foreign military incursion. Instead what is needed, she writes, is more international investment in the political process aimed at re-orienting and broadening reconciliation efforts already [...]

NEWS FROM June 2009

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