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UN-Each year, Africa Day provides an opportunity to acknowledge the achievements of the peoples and Governments of Africa and to reaffirm the support of the United Nations for their efforts to build a better future. The United Nations commends Africa’s recent efforts to consolidate its peace and security architecture, and to reject unconstitutional changes of…
Lower Shabelle (SDN)- The Undulus broadcasting station used by the Al-Shabaab militant group’s communication arm has been off the air for the last few days following the expansion of AMISOM’s offensive military campaign in the region. The city of Ceelasha Biyaha where the broadcaster is located has been under siege for several days in a…
Burao (UNHCR/NRC)-A total of 50 permanent shelters, which will benefit 300 people, were constructed by members of the community with the training, technical assistance and supervision of NRC. The Somaliland Government was also instrumental in the success of the project. Each home consists of two rooms and outdoor space totalling 144 square metres. NRC provided…
Mogadishu (SDN) Towns in southern Somalia including Ceelasha biyaha, Lafoole, Carbiska, and Xaawo-Cabdi in the Lower Shabeelle region are at the centre of an unprecedented exodus. Hundreds of families have taken advantage of the reopening of the Afgooye-Mogadishu road that connects the regions of Banaadir and Lower Shabeelle. Some of those taking the journey told…
Mogadishu (UN)-As military forces make their way into Somalia’s Afgooye corridor, the United Nations top humanitarian official for the east African country today reiterated his call for efforts to be made to minimize the impact of conflict on civilians. “At this stage, we have no reports of significant movements of people from the corridor,” the…
HARGEISA (Reuters) – Coca-Cola Co. has opened a $15 million bottling plant in Somalia’s breakaway enclave of Somaliland, part of a plan to win more African consumers by investing $12 billion in the continent by 2020, the company said on Wednesday. The production plant is the first major industrial investment for the enclave, which declared…
Bur’ao, (SDN)-Somaliland’s Minister of Aviation Mahamuud Haashi Abdi made the announcement today that the ministry is poised to begin the reconstruction of the airport in Bur’ao city The Minister said that plans to rebuild the airport are complete. The project will cost 500,000 USD and the public is expected to be the largest contributor to…
Hargeisa, (SDN)-The government of Somaliland has responded to recent comments made by Augustine Mahiga the UN’s special envoy to Somalia who discussed the trial and sentencing of several men that attacked a military compound in Somaliland. Last night’s press release from Augustine Mahiga’s office stated that the sentencing is contrary to the constitution, despite the…
Toronto (SDN)-Somalilanders all around the world are celebrating today to mark the 21st anniversary of Somaliland’s independence from Somalia. Somaliland has taken great strides over the years to promote peace and rebuild institutions that were lost during the war or were never created as a result of the marginalization policy of the Siyaad Bare era….
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program. Since 2007, 985 refugees have been resettled in the United States from the island nation of Malta, which struggles to integrate refugees who reach its shores,…
Larry O’Dell (AP)-The former prime minister of Somalia is asking a federal appeals court in Richmond to rule that he can’t be sued over alleged war crimes. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments in Mohamed Ali Samantar’s case today. Samantar was a top official in dictator Siad Barre’s regime….
Allie Shah for the Star Tribune (Minneapolis)-A major bump has surfaced in the well-traveled road from Nairobi, Kenya, to Minnesota for Somali refugees hoping to reunite with family members here. Recently, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi began asking for more proof to verify that refugees applying to come here are who they say are. The…
Eva Salinas for The Sun Times- While Somali people around the world mourn a well-respected doctor this week, his death has shocked the mental health community in Owen Sound. Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar, chief of psychiatry at Grey Bruce Health Services, was killed Sunday in a car crash in his native Somaliland, an autonomous region in…
By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi and Thomas Harding for the Telegraph- The midnight attack by a single helicopter firing its machine gun into half-a-dozen Somali pirate skiffs is some distance from the “shock and awe” that usually heralds the start of most campaigns. But as innocuous as it might seem, the first act of aggression by…
Hobyo (SDN) Residents of Hobyo in Somalia’s Mudug region are fed up of the air campaign that has disrupted their livelihoods and sense of security. Residents told our website that they fear for their lives. As a precaution they leave their homes whenever they hear the engines of the planes approaching and stand outside so…
Hargeisa (SDN)-A confrontation between civilians and government soliders resulted in multiple casualties and injuries in Hargeisa, Somaliland today. The dispute took place in the neighbourhood of Ga’an Libaah in the city of Hargeisa. Casualties were reported on both sides after members of the community attempted to forcibly take over a parcel of land known as…
Dhagahleey (SDN) Reports emerging from the Dhagahleey refugee camp in Northern Kenya say that Kenyan defence forcers were targeted in an attack that left several dead. Witnesses say that the forces were targeted with an explosive device they believe was either a land mine or an improvised explosive device buried in the ground. Five Kenyan…
Hargeisa (SDN)-Security officials at Hargeisa’s international airport detained Hasan Umar Hussein (Haawa), a former member of Somalia’s parliament. Hasan Umar Hussein is a well known Hargeisa-born diplomat who has been living in Somaliland since July 2011 with the permission of President Siilaanyo. He has spent the last year conducting business in Hargeisa and Boorama. SDN received confirmation from…
Hargeisa (SDN) – The President of Somaliland Mr. Ahmed Mahamed Mahamuud “Siilaanyo” departed to Boorama in the region of Awdal today. The President and members of his administrations are making the journey to cut the ribbon on a newly commissioned road between the cities of Dilla and Boorama. He will also take the opportunity to…
Kampala (SDN)-A military court heard the case and sentencing of a Ugandan soldier accused of selling weapons to a local boy in Somalia during an AMISOM mission. The accused soldier pled guilty to the charge at a Ugandan military tribunal held in Mogadishu where the officer was sentenced to a year in prison and was discharged from…