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The latest in a succession of scandals in the UK House of Lords is a reminder that oversight and restraint are crucial ingredients of strong democratic institutions. Willful neglect of effective checks and balances on the executive and legislature has been widespread in the post-independence era in sub-Saharan Africa. The imperial ambitions of presidents need…
At the back corner of the top floor of a little office building in London’s East End, around the corner from the Tesco down Mile End Road from the Whitechapel subway stop, sits the one-room Somaliland Mission in the UK. Yes, Somaliland, not Somalia (as the pamphlets in the office make painfully clear). In 1991,…
Jubaland threatens to cut ties with central government as Mogadishu rejects declaration of statehood. Somalia’s central government and the leaders of one of the country’s regions are locked in a power struggle that could turn violent. The dispute centres on Jubaland – an area in the southern-most part of Somalia that has claimed statehood and…
Despite decreases in successful naval piracy attempts in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea over the last two years, international experts have urged greater regional cooperation to eliminate this security threat. They also told Gulf News on the sideline of a symposium on Tuesday that the UAE is playing a vital role in…
Hargeisa, June 5, 2013 (SDN) —Somaliland joins the countries around the globe to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th with a well-organized ceremony today in Ambassador Hotel, Hargeisa. Hundreds of participants from all walks of life, including ministers, local leaders, UN agencies and university students, attended the ceremony. The director general of Somaliland’s ministry…
Hargeisa, June 5, 2013 (SDN) —Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri conducts an interview with Ahmed Mahamoud Silanyo, Somaliland president. President Silanyo discusses regional stability, aid, the challenges Somaliland faces and African affairs. Below are the excerpts of the Interview. Nazanine Moshiri: President Silanyo, it has been 22 years since Somaliland declared independence, but you still haven’t…
Borama 05.June (SDN) The most famous educator and politician, a Somaliland citizen, Prof. Ahmed Samatar received, a very high warm welcoming, from the government and society of Awdal region collectively. Prof. Samatar has been welcomed excitedly, by thousand of Awdal community with hundreds of vehicles, and waving and slogans with the picture of the Prof….
Columbus, June 5, 2013 (SDN) —Torture victim Abukar Hassan Ahmed was living in London when he decided several years ago to search again for the man he says crippled him during interrogations in Somalia in the 1980s. It took just a half-hour Internet search in 2005 to locate the former government official then living in…
Press release The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuing targeting the journalists by armed groups from Somalia after the journalist Abdulqader Abdulrazek Gama’ was shot who works of Royal and the Future Radio as he was targeted by armed me who aimed live ammunition on him. Abdulrazek, on Thursday night,…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it has helped volunteer return of 42 Ethiopian migrants stranded in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The return by IOM bus from Hargeisa to Jijiga, on the Ethiopian side of the border, took three hours. The migrants underwent pre-departure IOM medical checks to ensure that they were physically able to travel…
Mogadishu, June 4, 2013 (SDN)— Al-Shebab fighters in Somalia on Sunday publicly displayed two soldiers they claim are Kenyans, captured during skirmishes that left five people dead last month after a cross-border attack. Al-Shebab fighters displayed the two prisoners to thousands of people gathered in southern Somali town of Jilib. The Islamists used vehicles…
Al-Shabab Islamic extremists in Somalia are routinely killing civilians in attacks on soft targets and have regained some territory in areas where a security vacuum emerged despite efforts by the new federal government to consolidate peace, the U.N. chief said in a report circulated Monday. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that, eight months after forming a…
Virginia, Norfolk, June 04 2013 (SDN)—Three Somali men face a possible death penalty when they go on trial today for a pirate attack that led to the death of four Americans. Jury selection begins today (Tuesday) in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, for Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Sheikh Abrar. The…
The chance of a censure Motion against Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) passing in Somalia’s parliament is getting slimmer each day,the standard media reports. The author of the Motion told The Standard that he will “reconsider” it if his concerns are addressed. Its challangers also said they will defeat it if it comes to the floor….
Nairobi June 04 2013 (SDN)—President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday reassured Somalia of Kenya’s commitment to the stabilization of the war torn country within the framework of the IGAD peace process and in accordance with the country’s Federal Constitution. President Kenyatta made the remarks at State House Nairobi when he met with the President of Puntland Federal…
Hargeisa, June 04 2013 (SDN) – There has been an increase in the number of students attaining higher grades in secondary and primary schools leaving exams, according to education minister Ms. Samsam Abdi Aden. Briefing the country’s House of Representatives Monday on the work of her ministry, Samsam said “Since I came to office I…
Somalia’s president says he “wants answers” from South Africa after the brutal murder of a Somali man in Port Elizabeth, Al Jazeera has learned. The Somali man, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death on May 30 by a mob. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and shared on the internet….
Mogadishu June 03 2013 (SDN) — A new taxi company is changing the way people travel in Somalia’s capital. Offering cheaper prices and using radio communication to pick up customers, Mogadishu Taxi is the first of its kind in Somali in more than two decades. The idea to create this company started in 2012 when…
Mogadishu, 03 June 2013 (SDN) -The new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, arrived in Somalia today to assume his duties as head of the new UN political mission, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). Upon his arrival, SRSG Kay said “I am very pleased to be in Mogadishu…
The Somali government called on South Africa to protect Somali nationals living in the country after a spate of attacks on foreigners. Residents in a township near Johannesburg rioted against the Somali community last week, while tensions have also flared in Port Elizabeth in the east of the country. The unrest in Diepsloot township came…