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Djibouti:Message from the Djiboutian

Farah (DAF), president of the DSU and spokesman of the USN Djibouti, May 19, 2013 My dear compatriots, I would again like to speak to ...

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Djibouti: The Djiboutian opposition voice heard in Paris

A conference on the crisis in Djibouti was held in Paris on Saturday April 20. Since the parliamentary elections of February 22, all opposition parties ...

USN unites global Djibouti Diaspora

Djiboutians in the UK met today to join the opposition movement, Union for National Salvation (USN), to add their voice and concerns with regards to ...

More than 5,000 Somalilanders gather outside the British Parliament to request recognition (Photo: Wayne Moser)

Somaliland: The Folly of Premature International Recognition

Quite often we hymn the praises of our young nation and glorify its achievements as a burning flame of hope in an area of the ...

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SOMALILAND: Manufactured lies backfire big time

If separatists holding hostage to parts of North Somalia needed a credible election to help justify that their hell-bent agenda of dividing Somalia was a ...

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Somaliland election dispute stirs up old feuds

A week after Somaliland’s district and council elections, officials are still scrambling to tally votes in key districts, with number of new political associations saying ...

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Somaliland:Congratulations to My Beloved Fellow Somaliland Citizens

By |Architectural-Eng. Hussein Adan Igeh|Hussein Deyr |UK|   The local council election on November 28th 2012 was a great win for all peace & development ...

Separatist parties win Catalonia election

Separatist parties win Catalonia election – Update 1

BARCELONA — Separatists in Catalonia won a large majority in regional elections but a poor result for the biggest local nationalist party complicates a push ...

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Somaliland gears up to clear democratic test hurdle

Somaliland is well positioned to clear one of its final crucial democratic test hurdles this week when it conducts the first local elections in a ...

Protests turn violent in Puntland region of Somalia

SOMALIA: Puntland Presidential hopeful warns Farole over violence

Puntland region presidential hopeful Abdirahman Mohamed Hassan has accused the sitting president Abdirahman Farole of carrying out massacre in Gardo. Speaking from the Egyptian capital, ...

Puntland President’s visit to Gardo turns Violent

Somalia: Violence erupts in Puntland over elections

On Friday, the political battle in Puntland turned violent when demonstrates clashed with Presidential guards in Gardo, the provincial capital of Karkaar region. The demonstrators ...

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Intervention in Silanyo’s government is warranted for the sake of Somaliland

An Arabian proverb categorizes people in to four kinds of people: 1: “He who knows not and knows not he knows not. That one is ...

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What Next for Somaliland’s Politics

Somalilanders abroad feel cheated by the international community.  successfully attending the London confernce on Somalia many of them thought that their unrecognized nation was finally taking ...

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SOMALIA: Former Somali Prime Minister calls Puntland authority ‘oppressive’

This week, the former Prime minister of Somalia, Abdiweli Ali Gaas has called on the Puntland authorities not oppress the people and the media, reports ...

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It is the Silanyo administration that is inciting violence

Silanyo nakedly, unashamedly and unconstitutionally denied major political parties to exercise their fundamental rights to run for the upcoming elections. They were shunted off to ...

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Appointment of New President Signals Change and Challenges

ON MONDAY, Somalia lived up to its track record for never re-electing an incumbent leader. President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed lost to a political newcomer, Hassan ...

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U.S. congratulates Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud on becoming Somalia’s new president

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Statement by the Press Secretary on the Elections in Somalia ...

Somalia's new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud after being elected by MPs. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

Somalia chooses new leader in presidential elections

Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud after being elected by MPs. Photograph: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP MOGADISHU — Celebratory gunfire erupted in Mogadishu on Monday night ...

LIVE: Somalia’s Presidential Elections

Somalia’s first presidential election after over two decades of violence and unrest is currently underway in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Members of the newly formed ...

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Somalia to elect new president amid fraud fears

MOGADISHU — Members of parliament in Somalia will vote for a new president today in the first vote of its kind in decades amid fears ...

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