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Exiled Former Interior Minister of Siyad Bare regime will return to Somaliland

HARGEISA (SomalilandPress)–A long time politician in Somalia, General Jama Mohamed Qalib is expected to return to Somaliland via Egal International Airport during the Eid festival. It was in 2003 when General Qalib landed in Berbera Airport after his return from Somali reconciliation conference that he was arrested on arrival. Mr. Qalib was [...]

Hargeisa: Muslim Aid Distribute Food to 100 Families

Hargiesa (Somalilandpress) – The charity organization, Muslim Aid, distributed dry food to hundred of internally displaced families in Hargiesa. The food distribution took place near Hargeisa National Stadium, where many Internally Displaced Refugees (IDPs) from South and central Somalia and Ethiopia take shelter. Before the Eid celebration Musilm Aid distributed different types of food including [...]

Somali Muslims Claim They Were Fired, Harassed Over Religion

Colorado (ABC) — Discrimination and harassment complaints from nearly 200 Somali Muslims against a meat processing corporation have caught the attention of federal employment attorneys who blasted the company in joint lawsuits from two states. The employees — 85 from Nebraska, 89 from Colorado — allege religious and ethnic intolerance so severe that the workers were taunted [...]

Op-Ed: Horn of Africa needs an internal hero

JOHANNESBURG (Somalilandpress) — Somalia once again made headlines this week when alShabaab militants killed 31 people at a Mogadishu hotel. But, “Somalia”, as seen on the map, simply doesn’t exist. There is Southern Somalia, the Federal State of Puntland to the NorthEast, and the Republic of Somaliland on the northwestern flank. This is a region that, for [...]

Gaddafi wants EU cash to stop African migrants

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a “black Europe”. Speaking on a visit to Italy, Col Gaddafi said Europe “could turn into Africa” as “there are millions of Africans who want to come in”. Italy has drawn [...]

USA’S AFRICOM may directly train Somali troops

(Somalilandpress) — Since the creation of Africa Command Center under Bush administration in 2007, much focus of the Command has been creation of development projects and military cooperation between participating African countries and the United States military. In addition to providing logistics in fight against piracy activities off the Somali coast, [...]

Uganda asks US help to send 10k troops to Somalia

KAMPALA (Somalilandpress) — Uganda said Wednesday it is ready to send 10,000 more troops to Somalia if the U.S. provides the funding, a move that would see the African Union force in Mogadishu more than double in size. Uganda’s pledge comes in the wake of twin bombings in Kampala during July’s World Cup final that killed [...]

Police commander gunned down in Las Anod

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) -–The Special Police Unit (SPU) commander of Sool region, Mr. Abdi Isse Nour was killed in the city of Las Anod in South East of Somaliland this evening at 6:30 pm. Assailants gunned down the commander as he was outside his home. Mohamed Abdi, one of the relatives of the officer told Somalilandpress [...]

4 peacekeepers killed in Somalia fighting

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — One day after relative calm in the Somalia capital, heavy fightings resumed between the Islamic militant group, Al Shabab and Somali government troops backed African peacekeepers. News coming from government sources confirms that at least 10 people died, including four African Union peacekeepers from Uganda. The AU troops died when a mortar hit the [...]

increase in numbers of Somali businesses in Maine

LEWISTON, Maine — Inside his Somali grocery store, Hussein Ahmed smiles with pride as he talks about becoming a property owner. He bought the lower Lisbon Street building with the familiar teal awning from Paul Dube of Dube Travel after the travel agency moved to Auburn. Ahmed’s store, Barwaqo Halal Market, moved in June from 274 Lisbon [...]

Hitler related to Somalis, Berbers and Jews

(SomalilandPress)–DNA research shows that the German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was related to Somalis, Berbers and Jews. Dat staat deze week te lezen in het tijdschrift Knack. That is this week to read the magazine Knack. Door het DNA van familieleden van de Führer te analyseren, kon men de zogeheten ‘haplogroep’ van Hitler bepalen. By the [...]

Op-Ed: Should Somaliland allow the formation of a unionist party?

Ludicrous idea, isn’t it? How can I suggest such a treacherous idea when I am known as an unflinching advocate for Somaliland’s independence and sovereignty? How could I dare even to utter the ugly U-word which I have denigrated so forcefully and irrevocably in many of my writings? I can see jaws dropping with [...]

Conflicting reports about Ethiopian forces crossing into Somalia

DOLO (Somalilandpress) -- Conflicting reports are emerging from Somali-Ethiopian borders about Ethiopian troops crossing into Somalia to support the weak Transitional Government in face of increasing attacks by the militant group, Al-Shabab. Numbers of reporters inside Somalia have reported that they saw Ethiopian military forces accompanied by Somali troops inside Somali borders.

Somali woman jailed over plane hijack attempt in New Zealand

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A Somali woman was sentenced to nine years in jail in New Zealand’s first aircraft hijacking case, local media reported on Friday. Asha Ali Abdille, 36, a refugee from Somalia, had pleaded guilty to the attempted hijacking of a 19-seat aircraft on a domestic flight between the South Island centres of Blenheim and [...]

Somaliland religious community condemn Al-Shabab attack

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) – Somaliland prominent religious leaders have condemned recent bombings of Muna Hotel in Mogadishu. The militant group, Al-shabab has claimed responsibility of the attack. 31 people including six MPs were killed in the attack. During the Friday sermons, religious leaders around Somaliland condemned the attack and talked about how such violent attacks are [...]

30 Somalis and a journalist killed in Mogadishu continuous battles

(Somalilandpress) — The Committee to Protect Journalist reports that veteran radio journalist Barkhat Awale was killed by crossfire today in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports. He is the second journalist killed on duty in Somalia this year, according to CPJ research. Awale, 60, director of the community radio station Hurma [...]

Al-Shabaab’s Unavoidable Clash with Somaliland Democracy

WASHINGTON DC, (Somalilandpress) — Jake Zenn at Jamestown Foundation (a thinktank ) in Washington DC, wrote this article about inevitable clash between Al-Shabab and the Somaliland government, which he considers the last hope for Somalia as a stable country. Mr. Zenn cites number of recent terrorist attempts in Somaliland as the main reason of unavoidable [...]

Somalia has a role model for success on its doorstep

LONDON (Somalilandpress) — The escalating war for control of what is left of Somalia, between the al-Shabab extremists and the African Union puppet “transitional federal government”, offers little hope of peaceful resolution. Al-Shabab is now deeply entrenched and, with the help of foreign jihadists, virtually controls all southern Somalia. However contentious, their viciously anti-feminist interpretation of [...]

British ambassador to Ethiopia departures from Somaliland

Hargeisa (SomalilandPress) — Delegation lead by British ambassador to Ethiopia, Mr. Norman Ling has departured from Egal International Airport after a two days visit to Somaliland. The delegation which consisted of Ambassador Norman Ling, second secretary at the British Embassy, Mr. Matt Woods and Jonathan Hargereaves a senior Governance adviser at DFID. Ambassador Norman Ling [...]

At Least 30 Killed in Somalia Hotel Attack

NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) — Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including 6 lawmakers, laying bare how vulnerable Somalia’s government is, even in an area it claims to control. The insurgents methodically moved room to room, killing hotel guests who tried [...]