Tag: News in English

  Mogadishu 23, May (SDN) -Somali members of parliament shelved a vote of confidence against the prime minister on Wednesday, but warned the government it would face further parliamentary rebellions if it did not do more to improve the economy and security. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon has led a cabinet, in place since the…

Hargeisa May 23,2013(SDN)- Somaliland government has on yesterday released a well-known traditional leader King Rabi Yusuf after Hargeisa district court sentenced him to two years imprisonment on 20th March, 2013. King Rabi Yusuf a local traditional leader was arrested upon arrival in the country from Mogadishu on 2 Febaury, 2013. The king was found guilty…

London May 23,2013(SDN)-The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two Muslim terrorists wielding a machete and a cleaver hacked a soldier to death on a busy London street Wednesday while yelling “Allahu Akbar,” in an attack that was caught on video and left the nation shocked and horrified. Prime Minister David Cameron says there…

Dr. Edna Aden made the following speech at a conference at the EU headquarters in Belgium. Edna discusses in length the history of Somaliland and urges the World to recognize this democratic State.

21st summit of the African Union (AU) – Central African Republic, Guinea Bissau and Madagascar have been banned from attending the 21st summit of the African Union (AU), to be held from 25 to 27 May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A source close to the African bloc said the three countries were banned because of…

Hargeisa, May 21, 2013 (SDN) – Somaliland’s Justice and Welfare opposition party UCID has strongly condemned “irresponsible and misleading” political rhetoric against Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud over his remarks on Somaliland independence during the opening ceremony of a new center for orphans in Mogadishu which coincided with celebrations in Somaliland and elsewhere in the…

June will be the start of a new phase of United Nations engagement in Somalia, when the new U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) will replace the long-standing U.N. Political Office in Somalia (UNPOS), in place since 1995. In late-April, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tapped Nicholas Kay, a former British ambassador and Africa director at…

Those who think Somaliland is crumbling or uniting with Somalia should swallow their saliva and watch the festive mood of Somalilanders and their well-wishers around the world. Those who are dilly dallying and wavering from the idea of independent Somaliland should act swiftly and take note of the progress, the peace, the co-existence and the…

Garowe, May 21, 2013 (SDN) – The president of Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland has hosted Australian ambassador to Kenya in Garowe on Monday, marking the first high-level visit by an Australian diplomat to Puntland. President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole welcomed the Australian High Commissioner to Kenya, Ambassador Geoff Tooth, at State House in Garowe for…

Hargeisa, May 21, 2013 (SDN) – Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo has today cordially received the European Union’s Special Representative to Somaliland and Somalia Ambassador Michele Cervone in presidential palace Hargeisa. President Silanyo and the EU ambassador discussed issues of mutual interest between Somaliland and EU member states. After the meeting, Somaliland’s foreign minister, Dr….

Elasha Biyaha, May 21 2013 (SDN) —In a town not far from Mogadishu, vehicles slow to a crawl to negotiate the potholes that dot the town’s only tarmac road; ownerless donkeys wander about, scavenging for food; once-elegant villas with shining rooftops are now abandoned, with overgrown vegetation taking over their compounds. This is Elasha Biyaha…

  (Reuters) – Somalia’s new government said on Monday it was pursuing talks to resolve rival claims for control in the south that have stoked fears of a return to the clan wars that pitched the nation into anarchy two decades ago. A local assembly on Thursday declared a former Islamist warlord, Ahmed Madobe, president…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared bi-partisan support for Somaliland in the case of military action against the threat from neighboring Somalia and other external militants such as al Shabab. The Prime Minister delivered the keynote speech this weekend in the Ethiopian Parliament in front of Ethiopian legislators. Mr. Desalegn specified that Ethiopia is ready…

A young Somali journalist in Sweden named Amun Abdullahi got herself in trouble with the politically correct elite by reporting the truth about the radicalization of young Somalis in Rinkeby (a culturally enriched suburb of Stockholm), where they were recruited for jihad by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabab. The treatment meted out to Ms. Abdullahi…

The modern day Republic of Somaliland, which declared its Independence on 18 May 1991, is the third incarnation of the territory established by the British in the Horn of Africa in 1884. In June 1960, after more than seven decades as a British Protectorate, the British Somaliland Protectorate received its independence from Queen Elizabeth II….

Somalia’s clan elders have created a new mini-state and elected a Kenyan ally as its leader, a move likely to anger Mogadishu and sour ties between the two neighbouring countries. Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) has reportedly welcomed the development, strongly rejected by the Somalia government. “The Somali Federal Government regrets the way the people in…

There are more than 1,000 convicted Somali pirates in prisons around the world. Some of them end up in a UN-funded jail on the tiny island nation of Seychelles.  The Indian shopkeepers along the beach have never heard of the prison at Montagne Posee, but a villager tells me to drive above a deep ravine…