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Addis Ababa, 31 May, 2013 (SDN) -United Kingdom signed a bilateral assistance agreement with Somaliland’s Ministry of Interior on Thursday, in Addis Ababa to pledge its support to the Somaliland Police, Immigration and criminal investigation department. The pact signed by Somaliland’s minister of interior, Mohamed Nour Arrale “Duur” and Deputy British Ambassador to Ethiopia Mr….
Port Elizabeth, 31 May, 2013 (SDN) -A Somali man was stabbed to death in Greenfields, Port Elizabeth, on Thursday, the third murder in the area this week, Eastern Cape police said. The man was stabbed in the head, chest and abdomen, Captain Stanley Jarvis said. “It is alleged that a group of people went to…
Mogadishu, 31 May, 2013 (SDN)-The Saudi National Campaign for the Relief of the Somali People has pledged a comprehensive aid package worth $24 million for reconstruction projects in Somalia, according to the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), which is helping to co-ordinate the funds. The aid will cover all regions of Somalia and will go…
Concern has been raised over the ease with which a Londoner killed in a drone attack in Somalia was able to attend militant Islamist camps in the country. Bilal Berjawi, from St John’s Wood, was reportedly operating at a senior level within the Islamist group Al Shabab until he was killed. BBC London has now…
Nairobi, 30 May, 2013 (SDN)-Somali MPs plan to file a motion sponsored by the Government in Parliament this week to censure activities of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). Mohamedamin Hassan Abdullahi, an MP with the Somali federal Parliament said they are mobilising other parliamentarians to support a motion against the activities of KDF/Amisom in Kismayo,…
After decades of war, Somalia is taking small steps toward recovery, but breakaway regions, rival clans and the competing interests of neighbouring nations are threatening its fragile progress, analysts warn. In the past two years, African Union troops have wrested town after town from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, hauling down their black Islamist banners and…
Mogadishu, May, 30 2013 (SDN) -Bashir Osman moves hurriedly along a white sandy beachfront, giving instructions to a driver operating a bulldozer. Near them, a large truck is ferrying away piles of rocks, clearing a sun-soaked beach lapped by the azure blue waters of the Indian Ocean. Work here is well underway as Osman presses…
A planned trip to Somalia by the Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was cut short by a Kenyan police informer just before he reached the country, police sources in Kenya said. Adebolajo, who was escorted on the 2010 trip to a remote island waypoint in northern Kenya by a man now accused of planning two…
Hargeisa 29.May (SDN) -Somaliland’s trailblazing news TV Horn Cable has celebrated today a decade of bringing stories of triumph, resilience and tragedy to a national audience. The country’s longest-running news and current affairs TV has survived tough times to become a beacon of broadcasting in a country where TV broadcasting is rare. Since its beginnings,…
Hargeisa 29.May (SDN) A member of Hargeisa Local Councilor has shot dead a man by the name of Rashid Adam at early morning of Wednesday. Police immediately arrested the councilor and are investigating the causes of the incident. The murderer, councilor Mustafe Osman Dahir was elected from UMADDA political association in November last year. The…
Somaliland’s government is investing in training veterinarians to become a regional hub for animal production. The Republic of Somaliland is currently a major exporter of livestock to Gulf States, but wants to expand that to guarantee quality livestock. Minister of Livestock Dr Abdi Aw Dahir Ali said the major port of livestock for the Horn…
Hargeisa May, 29 2013 (SDN) -Stiffer penalties and reduced reliance on traditional justice systems could help end the rising incidence of rape in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, say officials. “We estimate that about 5,000 rape cases may have taken place in Somaliland in 2012, compared to 4,000 cases in 2011,” Abdi Abdillahi Hassan, the…
Washington May, 29 2013 (SDN)- The Pentagon has confirmed that a U.S. reconnaissance drone crashed off the coast of Somalia on Monday, but defense officials deny it was shot down by fighters loyal to the al-Shabab insurgency. The Al Qaeda-affiliated militant group posted several pictures to its Twitter account that it claimed are parts of…
Somaliland’s minister of foreign affairs Dr. Mohamed Abdilahi Omar is currently in Nairobi, Kenya on official duties pertaining to UN protocols discussions took time to participate at the on-going business and investment promotion conference organised by a Somaliland-registered company, Hanvard, and attended by Somaliland, Somalia and Kenya officials and business companies at the at the…
Mogadishu, May 28, 2013(SDN) – The president of Somalia’s Federal government Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has on today returned to the capital Mogadishu, after attending the Extra-ordinary session of the IGAD Assembly of the Heads of State and Government on the Situation in Somalia held in Addis Ababa. The president and his delegation arrived at Aden…
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) a separatist rebel group fighting to make the region of Ogaden (also known as Ogadenia) in eastern Ethiopia an independent state has accused Somaliland government and Ethiopian regime crimes against humanity. A report by ONLF published on Monday says there is evidence of government complicity in crimes against Ogaden poeple…
Borama, May 27 2013 (SDN) – After solving armed skirmishes in Harirad, Salal region, 10 elders from the Issa tribe were released from the Borame central prison today, and welcomed back into the community by their families and tribal elders. The elders were arrested in February this year after the abduction of senior Selel regional…
Hargeisa, 27 May 2013(SDN) – Qatar national basketball team skipper Yasseen Hassan Nour has been warmly welcomed in his native country; Somaliland on today. The professional basketball player has not been back to Somaliland for quite a while. The basketball star arrived at Berbera International Airport, about 11.00Am from Doha, where he plays for Al-Rayyan…
Ethiopia will receive $1 billion in funding from the Brazilian Development Bank to build a section of a railway that will be extended to connect to neighboring South Sudan, a Foreign Ministry official said. Andrade Gutierrez Participacoes SA of Brazil will build the link running from the capital, Addis Ababa, to Jimma about 439…
Borama 27.May (SDN) The minister of Interior, Mr. Mohamed Nur Arale Dur, has been on work for some day in Awdal region, Mr. Dur, Opened several major development projects, during his stay in Borama. The minister held talks with the regional and district level senior officers, as well as the other most important cultural leaders…