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Hargeisa, June 20, 2013 (SDN) —Somaliland joins the countries around the globe to celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20 with a well-organized ceremony today in Mansoor Hotel in Hargeisa. Hundreds of participants from all walks of life, including ministers, local leaders, UN agencies and refugees, attended the ceremony. Mr. Marcos has spoken on behalf…
Barawe, Jun 20 2013 (SDN) –Heavy fighting has taken place between rival factions of Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab near the key coastal town of Brava, witnesses say. Six militants, including two foreigners, were killed in the gun-battle at dawn, they told the BBC. Al-Shabab denied there had been any fighting within its ranks. If…
Mogadishu, Jun 20 2013 (SDN) –During the years when Mogadishu resembled one big battlefield, the U.N. and other aid workers trying to improve Somalia often lived in the comfortable, modern and largely safe capital of Kenya. As security improved in Mogadishu over the last two years and the lives of Somalis returned to a semblance…
Aboard Jubba Airways, a rickety plane filled with a cacophony of Somalis all speaking at the same time, we landed in Mogadishu. A port that has for centuries been a major transit point in trade with other nations. The ancient silk routes lured many to its shores. It became cosmopolitan. It was fought over by…
Hargeisa, Jun 20 2013 (SDN) – Haksoor political association which failed to qualify as a political party in last year’s local council elections has denied that they have reached a deal with KULMIYE led government of President Ahmed Silanyo. According to a press release issued by the chairman of Haksoor Hassan Issa Jama has said…
Mogadishu, Jun 20 2013 (SDN) – The United Nations’ gradual, peaceful return to Somalia was shattered this morning as a truck full of explosives was detonated at the front gates of its compound in the capital, Mogadishu. Less than a month after declaring the end of the transition period in the East African country and…
Mogadishu, Jun 20 2013 (SDN) – Seven-year-old Istar Mumin lies on a bed, motionless, in one of the rooms of her family home in Mogadishu’s Hamarweyne district. She has just gone through the horrifying ritual of “the cut,” which was carried out by a local Somali nurse. “I am in pain. I cannot move. They…
Accra, June 20, 2013 (SDN) —A delegation headed by the International entrepreneur Deepak Kuntawala, Founder and Chairman of the global commodity trading and finance boutique Company DVK Group accompanied by the head of Africa Development Fund Mr. Hussein Al-ishaqi recently paid working visit to Ghana in order to discuss with the leaders of the possibility…
The Jubaland State President, H.E Ahmed Mohamed Islam condemns the cowardly act in the UN complex in Mogadishu by Al-Shabab terrorist, where innocent people have lost their lives. The purpose of this heinous act to disrupt relative calm that Mogadishu enjoying for the last few months. However, this will not dislocate the efforts to recuperate…
Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) — South African state weapons firm Denel said two of its staff were killed in an attack on Wednesday on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu. A spokeswoman for South Africa’s largest manufacturer of defense equipment said the identity of the workers was not yet known. “We…
Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “shocked” at the news of an attack on a UN compound in Somalia on Wednesday, his spokesman said. “The Secretary-General is aware of the attack against the United Nations in Somalia, and he is shocked by it,” Martin Nesirky, the spokesman, said in…
Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) —At least 14 people died and 15 others were wounded in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday. Seven militants, four U.N. employees and three female civilians were killed, said Abdikarim Hussein Guled, the country’s interior and national security minister. The other victims…
19.June (SDN) The vice president of Somaliland Md. Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail Saylici has arrived Borama yesterday, the vie president and his delegates are warmly welcomed at Dila district to the Governor of Awdal, region, Mayers of Borama and Dila, other senior government officers, cultural elders, local government counselors and different parts of the community. …
Hargeisa, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –– A woman was allegedly murdered in cold blood by unknown assailants at Jigjiga yar village in Hargeisa last night. The slain woman was said to have been murdered moments after she had descended the bus. She was said to have been stabbed several times on the lower part of her…
Hargeisa, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –– Somaliland authorities on Tuesday denied clearance to a passenger Airline to land at the Hargeisa’s Egal international airport. Civil aviation ministry revealed in a press statement that the plane, carrying passengers, was denied permission to land after the pilot took landing permission from Mogadishu. The press statement also revealed that…
Kabul, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –– NATO troops in Afghanistan officially passed security responsibility to national forces at a ceremony in Kabul today, marking an important transition in the country’s 12-year war. “Today is a historic day for Afghanistan,” President Hamid Karzai said, standing alongside NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The transition began in July…
Addis Ababa, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –- Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to hold further talks on the impact of a huge Ethiopian dam project to quell tensions between the two countries over water-sharing. “We agreed that we will start immediately on consultations at both the technical level… and the political level,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel…
Piracy off the coast of West Africa has now overtaken Somali piracy, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) and other seafarers’ groups says. It says 966 sailors were attacked in West Africa in 2012, compared with 851 off the Somali coast. West African pirates mostly steal fuel cargo and the crews’ possessions, often…
Hargeisa June 18, 2013 (SDN) – Somaliland’s House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill titled ‘executive and parliamentary privilege bill No/62/2013. Forty four MP’s have attended the session chaired chairman Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi “Cirro” and once the voting commenced, thirty eigth MP’s have voted in favor of passing the bill while two MP’s rejected and…
Mogadishu, , June 18, 2013 (SDN) –Al Shabab the Al Qaeda militiants has released through its Twitter account the photos of two Kenyan police officers in which they claim holding and weapons captured from the Kenyan police. The captured police officers brings the total of Kenyan captives to 7 as Al shabab claims. They claim…