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Egypt’s Morsi Government has initiated a return to covert war against Ethiopia, which controls the source of the Blue Nile, Egypt’s and Sudan’s principal source of water. The result will almost certainly lead to an increased level of insecurity in the strategic Red Sea/Suez sea lane and in the upper Nile riparian states, such as…
Cairo, June 9, 2013 (SDN)- Egypt‘s foreign minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile“, said on Sunday he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo‘s objections. Speaking to Egypt’s state news agency MENA two days…
Syria proves that the president of the United States remains the most powerful person on Earth. Despite relentless domestic and international pressure to do something, Barack Obama has refused to budge in his resolve not to get overtly involved. Absent America, there can be no humanitarian military intervention like the U.S.-led ones in 1995…
Hargeisa, June 08, 2013(SDN) –Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud ‘Silanyo’ met today with Yemeni investors and traders at the Presidential Palace in Hargeisa, presidential spokesman reveals. At the meeting, president Silanyo talked about the good opportunities for investment in country, as peace and appropriate legislation makes Somaliland country for foreign investors. The Yemeni investors while…
Mogadishu, June 08, 2013(SDN) -—At least eight people have been killed in fighting between rival Somali warlords battling for control of the southern port city of Kismayo, witnesses said Saturday. Gunmen from the Ras Kamboni militia of former warlord Ahmed Madobe – recently self-appointed “president” of the southern Jubaland region – battled against forces…
Pretoria, June 08, 2013(SDN) -— Former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in South Africa with a lung infection. A presidential spokesman said he is in a “serious but stable condition”, although he was able to breathe on his own – a “positive sign”. Mr Mandela, 94, has been ill for some…
Norfolk, June 08, 2013(SDN) -— The former commander of the USS Sterett said Friday that his orders were to prevent a band of Somali pirates from taking four American hostages with them from their yacht to shore, but that his crew wasn’t authorized to use lethal force. All four hostages onboard the Quest were eventually…
St. Paul, Minnesota, June 08, 2013(SDN) -Members of Minnesota’s Somali-American community converged on the State Capitol steps Friday to protest persistent xenophobia and recent violence against Somali refugees in South Africa. While they say hate crimes against refugees have been a problem for the past ten years, the outrage boiled over on May 31, when…
Cape Town June 08, 2013(SDN) -Members of the Somali community in South Africa have marched to parliament in Cape Town to protest against recent attacks on foreigners. Three Somalis have been killed this month and the Somali government has requested the South African authorities to do more to protect their nationals. About 200 people took…
Beijing, June 7, 2013 (SDN) — China on Thursday called on the United Nations and the international community to continue to play an active and constructive role in addressing the Somalia issue and advancing the peace process in the country. Li Baodong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said at an open Security Council…
One of the first Kenyan owned hotel management company, Icon Hotel Group Africa is set reap Somalia’s peace dividends by setting up a branch in the country. Peace and normalcy has returned to the troubled Horn of Africa state after Kenya and the African Union defeated the Al-Shabaab. Somalia had not known peace for more…
Kismayu, June 7, 2013 (SDN) — Inter-clan fighting broke out today in Fighting has broken out in Kismayo, the provincial capital of Jubaland state, according to residents of Kismayu. Fighting began in Calanley district hours ago and reports from the city have confirmed to us that the fighting is still going on. The Inter-clan…
Hargeisa, June 7, 2013 (SDN) — Just moments after hearing that his brother had been arrested, Bashe Abdi Godane saw the convoy of police cars descending on his mother’s home. Seven vehicles roared down the dusty street in the noonday sun. Dozens of masked gun-wielding police commandos leaped out of the cars, blocked off the…
Djibouti, June 7, 2013 (SDN) — The Djiboutian government’s Centre for the Purchase of Medicines and Essential Materials donated 650 cartons of streptomycin sulphate and 150 of vitamin B complex on Tuesday (June 4th) to help Somaliland fight tuberculosis, Djibouti’s La Nation reported. Somaliland Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Khalil Abdullahi Ahmed and Minister of…
Hargeisa, June 7, 2013 (SDN) — Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud “Silaanyo” on Thursday night paid a morale-boosting visit to Timacade basketball stadium to watch the basketball game between Marodijeh region and Sanaag region, saying he was very happy to their good performances. Even with government officials in the basketball arena, President Silanyo was the…
Hargeisa, June 6, 2013 (SDN) —Somaliland Army Brigadier General Ismail Mohamed Shaqale on Wednesday embarked on a four-day visit to Ethiopia. Shaqale is visiting Ethiopia at the invitation of the Chief of General Staff of Ethiopian armed forces. According to the local media the army chief of Somaliland’s National Army Brigadier General Ismail Shaqale accompanied…
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Spokesperson yesterday (June 5th) underlined that Ethiopia has been consistent in its policy of promoting a foreign policy based on mutual respect and mutual benefit with all its neighbors over the past two decades. In line with this policy, Ethiopia took the initiative to establish the International…
A Yemeni pursuing MBA programme in India has been caught with ‘khat’ leaves, coming under narcotic substances, at Asifnagar on Wednesday. The rented house of Emad Saif Mohammed, 29, at Syed Aliguda was raided by the Commissioner’s Task Force (South) team on a tip-off that he was selling ‘khat’ leaves to nationals of Yemen, Somalia…
The Commander of the Somali Coast Guard Force, Admiral Farah Ahmed Omar Qare, told the media that two Egyptian generals had visited the country to study the ways rehabilitate the Somali National Army (SNA) facilities. The Egyptian generals arrived at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport on Tuesday and were received by Somali military officials. The…
Bosaso, June 06 2013 (SDN) —The head of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia’s north-eastern region of Puntland has been captured, an official has told the BBC. Puntland’s Security Minister, Khalif Isse, said Abdikafi Mohamed Ali was wounded in a raid at a militant safe house in the port city of Bossaso. A soldier…