Nairobi, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) - A string of abductions of foreigners in Somalia have thrown the international spotlight on kidnapping in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke told Reuters on Sunday that the...
Berbera, 19 Jul 2009 -- Somaliland authorities arrested an MP from Somalia's transitional federal parliament on orders from Somaliland police Commissioner, Mr Mohamed Saqadi Dubad on Saturday. Mr Abdalla Ali Ahmed, who hails from Somaliland, was also the former mayor...
Mogadishu, 19 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Two French security advisers seized in Somalia will be tried under Sharia law, an official from their captors, the Islamic al-Shabab militia, says. The unnamed spokesman said they would be tried for spying and...
Nouakchott, 18 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Shooting has broken out in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott between "armed men" and police, hours before a presidential election was to begin, security sources say. Mauritanians will be voting on Saturday in a presidential...
Toronto, 18 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- When a Maclean’s reporter reached Somali journalist Abdi Ahmed Abdul on his cellphone as he walked back to his home through the streets of Mogadishu, he quickly ended the call, apologizing later that...
NAIROBI — Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in the self-declared state of Puntland, a media watchdog said Friday. The two Somaliland journalists Ahmed Saleban...
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 Horyaal journalists Mohamed Osman Mire and Ahmed Saleban Dhuhul, and the suspension of Horn Cable...
Hargeisa, 17 July 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Ethiopia’s state minister for communication affairs has refused to return home from the United Sates after an official visit, a top government official said on Wednesday. Ermias Legesse was issued with an 11-day visa...
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 August. The decision was announced on national TV by Gabonese Democratic Party's deputy general secretary Angel...
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 help bring security to the anarchic Horn of Africa nation, requiring at least triple the...