November 2010 Archive

UN council may help AU send more troops to Somalia

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Security Council members support the idea of increasing the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia to help support the country’s ...

VIDEO: Kenyan MP supports Somaliland

Mr. Elias Bare Shill, Kenyan Member of Parliament told local television station that he supports Somaliland’s quest for international recognition. Mr. Shill congratulated the people of ...

Abdikadir could do an Obama in Kenya

They say history is made by those who dare to dream. But, as William Shakespeare wrote in the Twelfth Night, “some are born great, some ...

President of Somaliland “Ahmed M Silanyo”Chatham House

Please share with us this video of President Ahmed M. Silanyo’s addresses Chatham House the opportunties presented by Somaliland and the peaceful transfer of power after last ...

Egypt set for key elections marred by clashes

CAIRO (Somalilandpress) — Egyptians are due to go to the polls in parliamentary elections, in a process which has already seen clashes between the opposition ...

FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say

The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

Somalia MPs endorse new cabinet

NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) — Somalia’s parliament has approved the government appointed by Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the country’s new prime minister, after weeks of disputes, officials say. Out ...

Somaliland Pushes for International Recognition

LONDON (SomalilandPress) –Somaliland has been fighting for its independence for three decades. Its newly elected president, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, is in London to strengthen economic ...

SOMALILAND: President meets British Minister for Africa, Anglo-Lander Chamber established

LONDON (Somalilandpress) — Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo met with British Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Wednesday morning ...

Doyen of Somali Studies, Prof Ioan Lewis’s review of Prof Iqbal Jhazbhay’s book on Somaliland

Book Review: International Affairs 86: 6, 2010, page 1451 Somaliland: an African struggle for nationhood and international recognition. By Johannesburg: Acumen. 2009. 243pp. R185.00. isbn ...

No war on the Nile just yet

CAIRO (Somalilandpress) — The Egyptian government dispelled any ideas that a war was brewing along the Nile for the world’s largest river’s water resources. It ...

SOMALILAND: A powerful quake rocked Borama overnight

BORAME (SomalilandPress) –- A powerful earthquark has hit the Somaliland town of Borama in the western region of Awdal at around 11:35-PM local time (East ...

Second Kenyan airliner launches direct flights to Somaliland

NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) — Jetlink is set to launch flights to Eritrea and Somaliland as it seeks to establish itself in the region. The airline is aiming ...

SOMALILAND: President Silaanyo expected to address Chatham House

The self declared but unrecognised Republic of Somaliland is a stable and peaceful democracy in the North West of Somalia. In contrast to the problems ...

Somali Cabinet fight exposses political paralysis

NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) — Somali parliamentarians are vowing not to endorse the proposed Cabinet of the new American-Somali prime minister over complaints that he has reduced ...

Somaliland FM says Ethiopia to support Somaliland recognition

Addis Ababa (SomalilandPress)Somaliland Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullahi Omar told The Reporter that the Ethiopian government had assured the somaliland government that it will work with ...

Op-Ed:Somaliweyn-2.0–From Nationalism to Subterfuge & Conspiracy

Introduction There is a new version of the failed concept of Greater Somalia, which I have named “Somaliweyn-2.0”, being promoted by a disparate alliance of Somali ...

Op-Ed:Somalia’s Special Envoy to United States Warns U.S. against Engaging Somaliland

Somalia’s Special Envoy to the United States, Abukar Arman, a rookie politician, whose shady political credentials don’t go beyond the claims that he wrote “prolific” ...

SOMALILAND:President Silaanyo arrives in UK

LONDON (SomalilandPress)—President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Silaanyo) and his delegation consisting of Foreign Minister Dr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omar, Interior Minister Dr. Mohamed Gabose, Minister of Planning ...

Local Somalis, envoy in talks over U.S. policy shift

 significant shift in U.S. policy on Somalia is not sitting well with some local Somalis. Now, a U.S. State Department official is in Columbus to ...

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