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, [...]

SOMALIA: Appeasing bureaucrats, gangs first—helping drought-stricken Somalis second

Whether it is anarchic Somalia or other corrupted African nations, before the World Food Program (WFP) feeds drought-devastated locals: catering to the needs of the government officials as well as the local gangs first tantamount to resolving the most critical aspect of the crisis. The governments’ bureaucracies kill far more people than droughts obliterate victims [...]

Somaliland: Police wary of revenge attacks on Puntland truckers

BURAO (Somalilandpress) — At least five trucks belonging to businessmen hailing from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland were taken into custody in Burao on Saturday under new security arrangements, officials say.
Togdher regional Police Commissioner, Col. Abdulrahman Ahmed Liban, said police in the region have taken a number of trucks belonging to Puntland because of possible [...]

The Search for Appropriate Policies for Somalia

HARGEISA, 27 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – In a series of articles published in Aljazeera.net, the Somali-born academic and lecturer, Dr. Afyare Elmi, has put forward policy prescriptions for the international community to help Somalia become a country with a functioning state. His discussion on the emergence of Somalia’s Islamist militant organizations is interesting although he [...]

Ransom Paid To Somali Pirates for Indonesian Ship

MOGADISHU — Somali pirates said they were air-dropped a ransom of 3.7 million dollars (2.7 million euros) Friday to release an Indonesian chemical tanker and its 24 crew members.
“The pirates already agreed to free the ship after receiving ransom money of 3.7 million US dollars, I think they will get off the ship some time [...]

Somaliland’s Most Prominent Woman: Edna Aden Ismail

HARGEISA, 27 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – The Republic of Somaliland, a former British Protectorate, which has gained its independence from the British on June 26, 1960, after short union with the South, it reclaimed i’ts independence in 1991, after an armed struggle against the totalitarian regime of Mohamed Siad Bare. Somaliland has since continued to [...]

A Message to Young Somalilanders Worldwide

I first of all wanted to say hello to all my fellow young Somalilanders and future leaders. It is you who I speak of when I promise Somaliland politicians that ‘Somaliland will be fine after your entire generation dies.” While those words may be harsh, the stinging reality of its promise garners at [...]

SOMALILAND DROUGHT: Food Distribution to Resume in Baki District

PRESS RELEASE
Food distribution by World Vision has resumed in Baki district, Somaliland, after suspected cases of loss of food aid resulted in temporary suspension of the Baki food programme in December 2009. Investigations conducted by World Vision have also led to termination of five staff members based in Baki district.
The announcement to resume distribution was [...]

Somali pirates seize Somaliland aid trucks

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — Somali pirates in Puntland seized food aid trucks and their drivers to obtain the release of detained comrades, officials said Friday, in a rare land attack by the sea bandits.
The five trucks had been contracted by the UN’s World Food Programme and had finished delivering food aid in the Galkayo area, in [...]

Will the Dubai hit increase Israel’s global isolation?

These are the known facts: The Dubai police claim that 26 visitors entered and exited the emirate over the past year on false British, Irish, Australian, German and French passports. Some or all were involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who also entered Dubai under a false identity. The Dubai police [...]

Somaliland: “Vice President is Doing Fine” Says the Government

HARGEISA, 25 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – Somaliland government strongly denied reports say the vice president passed away in Paris. Today, some of the media reported that the Somaliland’s Vice President, Ahmed Yusuf Yassin passed away this morning while he was at a hospital in France.
According to a press release from the government’s spokesman, Said [...]

Krug Shares About Life in Somaliland

HARGEISA, 25 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – Teresa Krug, a 2003 Heber Springs High graduate, is an English teacher in Somaliland in the eastern horn of Africa. She has been there since October 2009. She was originally supposed to teach English and journalism to university students, but since January she has been teaching English at the [...]

Nigeria stablity depends on 2011 poll planning: US

WASHINGTON (Somalilandpress) — The United States pressed Nigeria’s caretaker president on Tuesday to revamp the oil giant’s tattered election machinery, saying it must hold credible polls in 2011 or risk increased instability.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said acting President Goodluck Jonathan, who stepped in this month to fill the power vacuum left by [...]

The Somali Community Needs To Learn To Deal With The Reality of Mental Illness

Mental health is a very real and difficult issue which many in society face. Mental health concerns how those with mental illness think, feel and consequently behave. According to the National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain one in four people in the UK have a mental health problem at some point in their lives [...]

The Mourning Tree – An Autobiography and A Prison Memoir by Mohamed Barud Ali, February 2010

In 1993, as a Minister of the Republic of Somaliland, “I was given the same office that the National Security Service interrogated me in the first night I was arrested [in 1982]. What can I say? All the demons have been exorcised from my life”. So ends, in characteristic modesty and generosity of spirit, the [...]

Somaliland Thwarts Attack on Military

LAS ANOD (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland military said it thwarted a Puntland militant attack on members of it’s 12th division stationed in east of Las Anod on Monday morning.
Mr. Saleban Guled, Somaliland Defense minister, said there were no casualties on either side but the militants fled back to Puntland.
The attack came as Somaliland prepares the last [...]

Somaliland: Two girls kidnapped from Puntland, Sri Lankan arrested

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — A Sri Lankan citizen of Russian native was detained for questioning after he was caught attempting to smuggle a 13 year old girl from Puntland, Haatuf reports.
Asha Mohamed Hassan, 13, from Qardho in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, went to her usual work on Friday 5th of February in one of the [...]

The Somaliland Independent Scholars Group: The Long March Forward to Presidential Elections”

HARGEISA, 23 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – On 16 February, the ISG members held their regular monthly meeting at the Academy of Peace and Development (APD) to discuss and assess the overall progress made on the six-point Agreement. The meeting was sponsored by the Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI). It was moderated by its Acting-Director, [...]

“I Nearly Become a Somali Pirate”: Dji

Mogadishu, 22 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) – “I nearly became a pirate,” 28- year-old Dji told Xinhua correspondents Saturday at a clinic run by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), in the capital city of a country which has not seen an effective central government since 1991.
Dji is the name this young man invented for [...]

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(Somalilandpress) — The Committee to Protect Journalist reports that veteran radio journalist Barkhat Awale was killed by crossfire today in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports. He is the second journalist killed on duty in Somalia this year, according to CPJ research.
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