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Mogadishu (UN)-As military forces make their way into Somalia’s Afgooye corridor, the United Nations top humanitarian official for the east African country today reiterated his call for efforts to be made to minimize the impact of conflict on civilians. “At this stage, we have no reports of significant movements of people from the corridor,” the…
HARGEISA (Reuters) – Coca-Cola Co. has opened a $15 million bottling plant in Somalia’s breakaway enclave of Somaliland, part of a plan to win more African consumers by investing $12 billion in the continent by 2020, the company said on Wednesday. The production plant is the first major industrial investment for the enclave, which declared…
Bur’ao, (SDN)-Somaliland’s Minister of Aviation Mahamuud Haashi Abdi made the announcement today that the ministry is poised to begin the reconstruction of the airport in Bur’ao city The Minister said that plans to rebuild the airport are complete. The project will cost 500,000 USD and the public is expected to be the largest contributor to…
Hargeisa, (SDN)-The government of Somaliland has responded to recent comments made by Augustine Mahiga the UN’s special envoy to Somalia who discussed the trial and sentencing of several men that attacked a military compound in Somaliland. Last night’s press release from Augustine Mahiga’s office stated that the sentencing is contrary to the constitution, despite the…
Toronto (SDN)-Somalilanders all around the world are celebrating today to mark the 21st anniversary of Somaliland’s independence from Somalia. Somaliland has taken great strides over the years to promote peace and rebuild institutions that were lost during the war or were never created as a result of the marginalization policy of the Siyaad Bare era….
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program. Since 2007, 985 refugees have been resettled in the United States from the island nation of Malta, which struggles to integrate refugees who reach its shores,…
Larry O’Dell (AP)-The former prime minister of Somalia is asking a federal appeals court in Richmond to rule that he can’t be sued over alleged war crimes. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments in Mohamed Ali Samantar’s case today. Samantar was a top official in dictator Siad Barre’s regime….
Allie Shah for the Star Tribune (Minneapolis)-A major bump has surfaced in the well-traveled road from Nairobi, Kenya, to Minnesota for Somali refugees hoping to reunite with family members here. Recently, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi began asking for more proof to verify that refugees applying to come here are who they say are. The…
Eva Salinas for The Sun Times- While Somali people around the world mourn a well-respected doctor this week, his death has shocked the mental health community in Owen Sound. Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar, chief of psychiatry at Grey Bruce Health Services, was killed Sunday in a car crash in his native Somaliland, an autonomous region in…
By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi and Thomas Harding for the Telegraph- The midnight attack by a single helicopter firing its machine gun into half-a-dozen Somali pirate skiffs is some distance from the “shock and awe” that usually heralds the start of most campaigns. But as innocuous as it might seem, the first act of aggression by…
Hobyo (SDN) Residents of Hobyo in Somalia’s Mudug region are fed up of the air campaign that has disrupted their livelihoods and sense of security. Residents told our website that they fear for their lives. As a precaution they leave their homes whenever they hear the engines of the planes approaching and stand outside so…
Hargeisa (SDN)-A confrontation between civilians and government soliders resulted in multiple casualties and injuries in Hargeisa, Somaliland today. The dispute took place in the neighbourhood of Ga’an Libaah in the city of Hargeisa. Casualties were reported on both sides after members of the community attempted to forcibly take over a parcel of land known as…
Dhagahleey (SDN) Reports emerging from the Dhagahleey refugee camp in Northern Kenya say that Kenyan defence forcers were targeted in an attack that left several dead. Witnesses say that the forces were targeted with an explosive device they believe was either a land mine or an improvised explosive device buried in the ground. Five Kenyan…
Hargeisa (SDN)-Security officials at Hargeisa’s international airport detained Hasan Umar Hussein (Haawa), a former member of Somalia’s parliament. Hasan Umar Hussein is a well known Hargeisa-born diplomat who has been living in Somaliland since July 2011 with the permission of President Siilaanyo. He has spent the last year conducting business in Hargeisa and Boorama. SDN received confirmation from…
Hargeisa (SDN) – The President of Somaliland Mr. Ahmed Mahamed Mahamuud “Siilaanyo” departed to Boorama in the region of Awdal today. The President and members of his administrations are making the journey to cut the ribbon on a newly commissioned road between the cities of Dilla and Boorama. He will also take the opportunity to…
Kampala (SDN)-A military court heard the case and sentencing of a Ugandan soldier accused of selling weapons to a local boy in Somalia during an AMISOM mission. The accused soldier pled guilty to the charge at a Ugandan military tribunal held in Mogadishu where the officer was sentenced to a year in prison and was discharged from…
Lower Jubba (SDN) Reports from Lower Jubba say Kenyan forces are responsible for an attack on civilians in the town of Taabta that resulted in multiple injuries and deaths. An unconfirmed number of children died in the attack in Taabta according to area residents who were left shocked and dismayed at the turn of events….
Allie Shah for the StarTribune-Hundreds of people marched through downtown Minneapolis on Friday afternoon, stopping traffic and forcing officials to block off several streets and divert traffic. The protest, which began around 2:45 p.m. outside the Wells Fargo Center building, was aimed at getting Minnesota banks to resume business with local money transfer shops, which…
Garoowe (SDN)-The President of the regional administration of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mahamed Faroole has released a statement withdrawing support for Somalia’s controversial constitution that is currently being ratified by the transitional federal government. President Faroole addressed his statement to the UN, IGAD and other organizations involved in the constitution process where he took the opportunity…
Hargeisa (SDN) -Somaliland’s Education Minister Madam Samsam Abdi Aadan and her delegation toured the eastern region of the country and is currently in the city of Burco in the region of Togdheer. The Minister was joined by the head of the national examination commission Da’ud Ahmed Faarah, and the national education observer for the Ministry…