Hargeisa, 30 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Somaliland government expelled the representative of Interpeace from country. A group of Somaliland police arrived at Maansoor hotel where the representative was staying and guided him to the airport where he is flown...
Hargeisa, 28 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The United Nations has suspended its activities in Somalia in the town of Baidoa town, southwestern Somalia after their premises were raided by armed militia.
The Al-Shabab militia has accused some branches of the...
After all, the cats are out of the basket in the open. At least, corruption in Somalia, at the expense of the humiliation, pain and death of hundreds of thousands of innocent Somalis sacrificed and exchanged for cash...
Hargeisa, 25 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The South African Institute of International Affairs (Wits University) and the Nelson Mandela-initiated Institute for Global Dialogue have co-published a new book entitled Somaliland: an African struggle for nationhood and international recognition.
Authored by...
Mogadishu, 25 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of Hizbul Islam , will be lobbying for his rebel organisation to forge ties with other Islamists groups in the country and to oust the government of...
Hargeisa, 24 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- On 13 July, two broadcasters from independent radio, "Radio Horyaal" were detained by police on orders from the attorney general and were taken to the Criminal Investigation Department for questioning - they remain...
Bosaso, 23 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- At least twelve people were hurt, one of them in serious condition, in a bomb blast that tore through a private establishment in the Somali port city of Bosaso on Wednesday evening.
The explosion...
Hargeisa, 21 July 2009 (somalilandpress)-Historically, there were numerous diverse groups who controlled Somalia—from the European colonialists to the dictatorial regime of Siyad Barre to the warlords—some of which were more brutal and murderous than others. However, these diverse groups...
Garowe, 20 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- A Chinese cyclist has been forced to put the brakes on a 12-year world tour, after officials in Somalia deported him for not having the right documents.
Lee Yue Zhong, who says...
Mogadishu, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula has said his country is arranging camps where Transitional Federal Government of Somalia forces will be trained.
This was during a meeting with Western officials who are...