Tag Archive "bbc"

Breaking News: Somali election: Hassan Sheikh elected as president

Somali MPs meeting in the Mogadishu have elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country’s new president, in the latest step to end decades of war. ...

African viewpoint: Scramble for Nigeria’s $15m ‘bribe’

In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos wonders about the fate of $15m (£12m) deposited in the Central Bank of ...

Frenetic pace of Ethiopia’s khat boomtown

AWADAY — The global trade in khat is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year and in one Ethiopian town daily life centres almost ...

SOMALILAND: Going it Alone – BBC assignment

It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the ...

Somalia: 20 years of anarchy

When you land at the clean, tidy airport in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, you feel you could have arrived in any small African state. ...

Brain gain: African migrants returning home

Africa may still be suffering from a chronic brain drain but some of the continent’s elite are turning their backs on the West and taking ...

Ethiopia’s love affair with the rubber stamp

ADDIS ABABA, August 11 2009 (Somalilandpress) – As she prepares to leave Addis Ababa, the BBC’s Elizabeth Blunt reflects on the intense level of officialdom she ...