Q+A – Who is behind Somalia's kidnappings?
Nairobi, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) - A string of abductions of foreigners in Somalia have thrown the international spotlight on kidnapping in the anarchic...
Somaliland: Police Arrest Somali Lawmaker
Berbera, 19 Jul 2009 -- Somaliland authorities arrested an MP from Somalia's transitional federal parliament on orders from Somaliland police Commissioner, Mr Mohamed Saqadi...
Sharia trial for Somalia hostages
Mogadishu, 19 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Two French security advisers seized in Somalia will be tried under Sharia law, an official from their captors,...
Mauritania vote begins amid gunfire
Nouakchott, 18 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Shooting has broken out in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott between "armed men" and police, hours before a presidential...
Somalia: A state of terror
Toronto, 18 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- When a Maclean’s reporter reached Somali journalist Abdi Ahmed Abdul on his cellphone as he walked back to...
Journalists arrested, beaten in Somaliland and Puntland: RSF
NAIROBI — Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in...
U.S. Urges Release of Journalists in Somaliland
U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya
Press Release
July 17, 2009
U.S. Urges Release of Journalists in Somaliland
The United States government condemns the recent arrests in Somaliland of Radio...
Ethiopia: Minister Ermias Legesse Defects to the U.S.
Hargeisa, 17 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Ethiopia’s state minister for communication affairs has refused to return home from the United Sates after an official...
Bongo son set for Gabon candidacy
The son of Gabon's late president, Omar Bongo, has been chosen by the ruling party to stand in the presidential election expected in late...
AU force in Somalia needs stronger mandate – Uganda
AU force needs 16-20,000 troops
Three AU troops killed over weekend
KAMPALA, July 15 (Somalilandpress) -- African Union peacekeepers in Somalia need a stronger mandate to...
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