HARGEISA — A mass grave containing the remains of at least nine bodies thought to have been killed during Siad Bare's rule were found on Thursday after heavy torrential rains in the out skirts of Hargeisa, in the Boqol...
HARGEISA, 26 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - A ruling that Somaliland will hold its oft-postponed presidential election without a voters’ list has prompted demonstrations, a boycott threat and warnings that the secessionist state’s relative stability is in jeopardy.
Somaliland, which unilaterally...
HARGEISA, 24 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - It is difficult to imagine a situation where the same problem keeps reoccurring, and the same failed solution keeps being applied time and again. At some point lessons need to be learned and...
HARGEISA, 20 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Hundreds of people have taken part in an anti-government demonstration in Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland as part of what opposition parties say will be a day of protest across the country.
The...
NAIROBI, 17 August 2009 (SomalilandPress) - Some rains have fallen in northern Somalia, but this has not stopped an exodus of drought-affected people from rural areas to urban centres in Somaliland, local officials said.
"We know that hundreds of thousands...
HARGEISA, 17 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Opposition parties said they postponed the mass demonstrations until Thursday. An official from the Opposition told Somalilandpress that they decided to postpone the demonstrations that were expected to take place tomorrow so that...
HARGEISA, 11 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Xorriyo Airways, which ran flights from Dubai to Berbera in Somaliland, has collapsed. I found this out the hard way. I soon became one of more than 600 people stranded in Somaliland. At...
HARGEISA, 10 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) –- Somaliland youth across the country have been learning ways to empower themselves and develop new leadership skills this week in a one-day workshop as a part of an initiative headed by CK Consultancy...
HARGEISA, 9 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Somaliland court has sentenced three journalists Six months jail and fined Six Million Somaliland shillings today.
The case has been going on since last few weeks where the three journalists were accused of misinforming...