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Hargeisa, Jun 28, 2013 (SDN) – The son of a South Hams water engineer murdered in Africa is pleading for help from the British Government. Nim’an Bowden, who lives in Somaliland, claims he is one of five children whose father Brian Bowden was from Dartmouth. Brian Bowden, who was born in Dartmouth in 1928, left…
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….
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…
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…
Hargeisa June 02 2013 (SDN) — in a shocking news coming from Gabiley, Somaliland’s most celebrated cartoonist Abdirashid Muhumed Qalinle has been arrested today on charges of insulting Gabiley region governor after drawing a cartoon that depicted Gabiley region governor mismanaging Turkish food aid. The cartoon was reportedly drawn in last month with the intent…
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) a separatist rebel group fighting to make the region of Ogaden (also known as Ogadenia) in eastern Ethiopia an independent state has accused Somaliland government and Ethiopian regime crimes against humanity. A report by ONLF published on Monday says there is evidence of government complicity in crimes against Ogaden poeple…
Mogadishu May 19 2013 (SDN) -Somalia’s foreign minister Fawziya Yusuf Haji Adam has returned to the country from an official working visit in neighbouring Kenya. Government officials received minister fawziya at Adancade International Airport in Mogadishu and she told the media that the foreign ministry is working hard to re-establish foreign diplomacy with the international…
Kismayo May 18 2013 (SDN)– A visiting IGAD delegation led by IGAD’s secretary general Mohbub Moalin has reached today the capital of Jubaland state Kismayu after meeting with the Somali government yesterday in Mogadishu. During their stay in Kismayu the delegation will meet with the Jubbaland government as well as traditional elders. The delegation will…
Hargeisa 18.May (SDN) -The Horn of Africa has been ravaged by war and famine for decades, and now one of Somalia’s regions, hopes to become an independent state. Somaliland sits on the Gulf of Aden and is officially regarded as an autonomous region of Somalia. The two were, however, separate until 1960. During the civil…