October 2010 Archive
SOMALILAND: Berbera Inaugurates Second Livestock Quarantine Center
BERBERA (Somalilandpress) -– Vice President Abdirahman Saylici today cut the ribbon for the second regional quarantine and livestock facility to supply meat for markets in ...
Somaliland: University Of Hargeisa’s President resigns
HARGEISA(Somalilandpress) –University Of Hargeisa president Dr.Hussein Abdilaahi Bulhan has publicly announced his resignation from the university. Dr. Bulhan contributed his resignation after his employment ...
Brazil elects Dilma Rousseff, nation’s first woman president
(CNN)–Dilma Rousseff has won the election for president in Brazil, according to the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal Minister, making her the nation’s first woman to hold ...
SOMALILAND: Government forms a Beautification Committee for Hargeisa
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud named a Beautification Committee consisting of six members on Saturday according to a press release by the Presidential ...
Yemeni police arrest woman suspected of mailing printer bombs
Medical student quizzed in Yemeni capital Bombs bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda They were designed to explode mid-air SANA’A (Somalilandpress) — YEMENI investigators have questioned a woman ...
The injustices Northern Somalis felt
This writing is a follow up to the previous opinion article published under the title”The Night SNM Fighters Came to Hargeisa“. This writing is based on personal ...
Al Shabaab executes teenage girls accused of spying
MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — An al-Qaeda linked Somali group executed two teenage girls accused of spying yesterday in a public square as hundreds of people watched ...
SOMALILAND: Berbera airport gets new terminal
BERBERA (SomalilandPress) — The port city of Berbera today welcomed a delegation lead by Vice President Abdirahman Abdillahi Saylici, Minister of Aviation Mohamud Hashi Abdi ...
US supports AU in Darfur and Somali
Ethiopia (Somalilandpress) — The United States has provided more than US$940 million to support ongoing African Union operations in Darfur and Somalia as well as ...
In East Africa, A Bright Spot Amid The Anarchy
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Most of the news from Somalia comes from the capital, Mogadishu, and it’s mostly bad. But there is a different part of ...
Hate crime charges filed in attack on Somali women in Seattle
Seattle, WA (Somalilandpress) — A woman from Burien, Washington has been charged with a hate crime for physically and verbally assaulting two Muslim women at ...
UN Report: Fresh clashes drive 60,000 Somalis from their homes
New York (Somalilandpress) — The United Nations refugee agency today reported that fierce clashes in the Somali town of Beled Hawo on the Kenyan border ...
Somaliland: Mr Soren Pind, Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark arrives
HARGEISA (SomalilandPress) — Mr. Soren Pind, Minister for Development Cooperation of Denmark today arrived the capital of Somaliland, Hargeisa. Minister Pind who was leading ...
HRW Report: Donor Aid Supports Repression in Ethiopia
(London) – The Ethiopian government is using development aid to suppress political dissent by conditioning access to essential government programs on support for ...
African Odyssey
Her father’s story led Nadifa Mahomed to write her debut novel. Bron Sibree reports If Nadifa Mohamed ever had any doubts about writing her acclaimed ...
Brutality of Somalia war is displayed in Mogadishu streets
WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — Mogadishu’s streets never seem to be without a corpse or two. Whether ...
Stability in Somaliland boosts education prospects in the region
HARGEISA (IRIN) – Somalis from south-central Somalia and those in the diaspora have taken advantage of the stable environment in the self-declared republic ...
Op-Ed: Why the new PM is the right man for the job
(Somalilandpress) — Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo), the new Prime Minister designate was a former colleague of mine and fellow civil servant in Somalia’s Foreign Ministry. ...
Giant in Somaliland Journalism passed away
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Abdirisaaq Mohamed Dubad, a powerhouse in Somaliland print media who worked for number of the county’s major newspapers, died today of a ...
Ethiopia troops enter Central Somalia to stop Islamists
MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — Some of the Somali regions that share a border with Ethiopia have been in a state of turmoil over the past few ...
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