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Somaliland:National Airport levy and Security bill has been passed by Parliament
Somaliland National Assembly has today passed the Somaliland national airports levy and security bill. The original national airports levy and security bill draft bill presented ...
Somaliland beyond the confines of the Al-Mansour Hotel
To diplomats, NGO wallahs and journalists a visit to Somaliland seems to centre upon the Al-Mansour Hotel in Hargeisa. Strategically, located in the country’s dusty ...
Anti-election protest escalates and spreads in Somaliland
FURY over changes to the disputed Municipal Council election results spread across the Somaliland capital on Monday, raising concerns that disputes could drag on, creating ...
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 ...
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 ...
Somalia: Election fever replaces al-Qaeda in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU — As date for the presidential vote on Aug 20 draws ever more closer and political activities in the city intensifies with campaigning by ...
Somaliland’s Lower House lowers age of candidacy
HARGEISA — Somaliland’s Lower House of Parliament on Tuesday approved amendments to the constitution that will reinforce the role of youth in public and parliamentary ...
President Guelleh wins Djibouti poll
DJIBOUTI — Results from presidential elections in the tiny Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti – third since 1994 reconciliation – show a massive win ...
SOMALILAND: Former leaders awarded $3 million by the EU, local source
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Earlier this week a local newspaper said the two former heads of state have cashed in a combine amount of US$3 million ...
Minnesota’s Somalilanders celebrate their homeland’s democracy
In late July, hundreds of Somalilanders in Minnesota gathered at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis to celebrate elected President Ahmed Mohamed “Silanyo” Mohamoud’s victory ...
Voting in a country that doesn’t exist
Somaliland voters braved al-Qaeda threats to engage in “the devil’s practice” — but the result of the poll won’t be recognised outside the country By ...
U.S. Congratulates Somaliland on Election Proceedings
The following is a presse release from U.S. – Kenya Embassy. U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya Press Release Wednesday, July 07, 2010 Nairobi, July 7, 2010 ...
New Somaliland President Looking for Recognition and Investment
BERBERA (Somalilandpress) — Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, the opposition candidate who won the recent presidential election in Somaliland, says international recognition for the self-declared republic is ...
SOMALILAND: Outgoing Riyale to stay as an opposition leader
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The outgoing president Dahir Riyale Kahin, UDUB party leader, said he will stay in Somaliland politics as an opposition while speaking to ...
New Somaliland leader to fight for international recognition
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The newly-elected president of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamud Silaanyo, vowed Friday to campaign “vigorously” for international recognition of his breakaway republic in the ...
Opposition leader wins election in Somaliland
Silanyo declared winner in Somaliland Won nearly half the vote Third party contesting the election HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The electoral commission in Somaliland, a breakaway ...
Ethiopia: ‘the winners are the people of Somaliland’
ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandpress) — Ethiopia on Friday called political parties in Somaliland to accept the provisional results of the 26 June poll in that country ...
Somaliland opposition head wins presidential poll
* Opposition chief had been widely expected to win * Incumbent manages only third of vote * Supreme Court has to endorse results By Hussein ...
Somaliland leader says will step down if loses polls
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The president of Somalia’s self-declared Somaliland state said Thursday he would step down if he was defeated in presidential polls held at ...
Former British officer votes in Somaliland election
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — On Saturday, June 26th, more than a million Somalilanders including a former British officer queued for hours to cast their historical vote ...
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