HARGEISA, 16 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - IN recent weeks, Nairobi has hosted two crucial meetings that touched on pertinent issues that deal with wealth creation. The East African Investment Forum was as important at the AGOA gathering that followed...
New York, June 17, 2015-The Committee to Protect Journalists has helped more journalists fleeing into exile from Syria than any other country in the past five years, according to a report released today. Over that period, Syria and Ethiopia...
GAROWE, 5 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The minister of information of the Somalia's region of Puntland has been killed in Galkayo. The minister who was there for official work has been shot by two men wearing military uniform in...
By Alon Ben-Meir
Apr 10, 2015
The intensified public discussion about the root causes of violent extremism has focused mainly on the socio-economic and political conditions that exist in Arab countries and among Arab communities in Europe and the US, which...
MOGADISHU, 8 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Twenty four Somali nationals who are jailed in Mozambique (for being illegally in the country), have expressed concern over hardship they are facing in the prison.
They said they do not get enough food...
New York, November 6, 2018--Amid a challenging time for press freedom around the world, CPJ will honor four exceptional journalists for their courage at the 2018 International Press Freedom Awards on November 20, 2018, in New York City.
Each of the four...
Thirty years ago, the US-backed Somali government slaughtered an estimated 200,000 people. Now survivors want US help uncovering the crimes.
By Ismail Einashe and Matt Kennard
On a hot and humid June afternoon, a group of boys wearing FC Barcelona jerseys kicked around a...
On the road to democracy unity?
For some time now, I have been heralding Ethiopia’s irreversible march from dictatorship to democracy. In April 2011, I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Bridge on the Road(map) to Democracy”. I suggested,
We can conceive...
TEL-AVIV (Somalilandpress) -- Israel is increasing its partnership in Africa, united with factions which are battling fundamentalist Islam.
Following February talks between Israel and the Kenyan government in which the African country requested Israeli assistance in fighting terror, Israel and...
US Senate’s ‘Torture Report’ documented 119 victims of CIA torture
• Al Jazeera speaks to the former secret prisoners, including the family of a man who died from his torture in CIA custody
“Torture works, OK folks? I think we should go...