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Mombasa, , June 17, 2013 (SDN) – Kenyan police shot dead two suspected militants on Monday who they said were planning attacks in the country on behalf of Somalia’s al Shabaab. During a dawn raid on a house in the port city of Mombasa, police shot Kassim Omollo after he defied orders to surrender and…
Somaliland is inhabited by the same people with same ethnicity, culture, tradition, religion, and language. Unfortunately tribalism has overtaken all those rich characteristics and has taken its roots in the peoples’ hearts. It is part of their blood. It has an influence in their daily actions and activities. It has disadvantages to some Somali Scholars…
Hargeisa, June 17, 2013 (SDN) – Somaliland’s minister of Presidency Hirsi Haji Ali spoke to Fred Oluoch of Kenya’s the eastafrican on the various challenges facing the self-declared independent state as it continues to be denied international recognition despite 22 years of relative peace and democratic leadership. How has Somaliland managed to remain peaceful while…
National Cement S.C (NCSC), located in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, has started exporting cement to neighboring Djibouti and Somaliland. National Cement, the previously state owned Dire Dawa Cement Factory, commenced export after it began production with its full capacity following completion of expansion at a cost of 2 billion Ethiopian birr. According to Sisay Kebede, National…
David Cameron once famously voiced his disgust at the incessant use of Twitter in a 2009 radio interview, but that hasn’t stopped the word ‘tweet’ officially entering the English language. ‘Tweet’ – to post a message to Twitter – has been included in the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Although the word ‘tweet’…
Mogadishu, June 17, 2013 (SDN) –At least five people were wounded following last night mortar attacks in the capital city of Mogadishu. According to witnesses the mortars were aimed at Villa Somalia, where some of them landed in back gate of the villa and other mortars landed near the residence of Prime Minister Sacid but…
Hargeisa, June 17, 2013 (SDN) –While one part of the UN, Mogadishu-based Nicholas Kay as new head of the UNSOM, purports to be wooing Somaliland to accept his mission there, another part of the UN is soliciting bids for “professional security firms” to operate in Hargeisa and Burao in Somaliland reports innercitypress. Seeking such services,…
Hargeisa, June 16, 2013 (SDN) – UNSOM’s political role is to rebuild a federal Somalia and is against the sovereignty of Somaliland, its constitution and peoples will, according to foreign minister Dr. Mohamed Abdilahi Omer. Briefing the country’s House of Representatives today on the work of his ministry and the recent visits that president Silanyo…
Hargeisa, June 16, 2013 (SDN) – Somaliland President H.E Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud ‘Silanyo’ met on today with deaf student at the presidential palace. The president’s meeting with the deaf students was also attended by the vice president Abdirahman Zaylici, presidency minister Hirsi Haji Ali, education minister Samsam Abdi Adam, Finance minister Abdiaziz Mohamed Samale, minister…
Borama 15.June (SDN) The civil society actors, NGOs, community cultural leaders, intellectual groups and government officers of Awdal region, released regional press statement on support to the Somaliland president sent decree, that prohibited the UNSOM organization to have any residential offices in Somaliland. The groups expressed their supportive ideas, to their government decision, in which…
The day after Somaliland through its foreign minister told UN envoy to Somalia Nicholas Kay that his UNSOM mission is not welcome in Somaliland, Inner City Press asked Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman Martin Nesirky for the UN’s response. Nesirky said he’d try to get an answer from the Department of Political Affairs. And soon…
Tehran, June 15, 2013 (SDN) – Iran’s reformist-backed candidate has won the election to be that country’s next president, the Interior Ministry announced Saturday, triumphing in a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran’s ruling clerics. Former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani pulled off an outright victory and avoid a two-person runoff by…
Mogadishu, June 15, 2013 (SDN) – A delegation led by the president of the federal republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will attend the G8 summit in London today. The president got an official invitation from the prime minister of Britain Mr. David Cameron. The president is accompanied by high government delegation including Somalia’s finance…
Hargeisa, June 15, 2013 (SDN) -The late Ahmed Ibrahim Dahir (Ahmed Wayne) has been laid to rest in Hargeisa. The president H.E Ahmed Mahmud Silanyo was among thousands of mourners who attended the state burial of Somaliland Member of Parliament late Ahmed Ibrahim Dahir (Ahmed Wayne) at the Heedho cemetery. The burial of late Ahmed…
Mogadishu, June 14, 2013 (SDN)- The al-Qaida-linked militants who once controlled the southern port city of Kismayo are gone, but a fight for control of the city has broken out and at least 10 people have been killed in the recent violence. Kismayo is home to a contingent of militiamen and warlords, and five…
On Thursday, 13 June, the Security Council received a briefing from Assistant Secretary-General Tayé-Brook Zerihoun on the situation in the Juba regions of Somalia. Members of the Security Council expressed their concern at the deterioration in the security situation in the Juba regions, particularly in Kismayo, and at the resulting impact on the civilian…
Hargeisa, June 14 2013 (SDN) —Somaliland’s minister of presidency Hirsi Ali Haji Hassan has created a new blog to communicate with the people. The blog lets people to communicate easily with the minister. A brief introduction posted by the minister to his new blog reads like this; Hi and welcome to my blog. I…
Hargeisa, June 13 2013 (SDN) — Somaliland government has denied hosting UNSOM offices in the country. The government’s denial came after UN Special Representative for Somalia and Somaliland Ambassador Nicholas Kay’s meeting with president Silanyo ended empty handed. Foreign minister Dr Mohamed Abdilahi Omar has informed the press after the meeting that the newly…
Mogadishu, June 13 2013 (SDN) —Somalia took a giant leap towards full control of its airspace today, as Cabinet approved a draft civil aviation law that will revolutionize sovereignty of the country’s skies. “This law is going to help Somalia take charge of its airspace,” said Minister of Information, Transportation and Telecommunication Abdullahi Elmoge Hersi….
New York, June 13, 2013 (SDN) –The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the closure of Hubaal newspaper and its English sister publication of The Independent in Somaliland. In a press release issued by the CPJ in New York has called Somaliland’s acting attorney general should withdraw his request to suspend the independent daily Hubaal….