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...
Explosions have ripped through two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing at least six people, including four foreigners, and injuring10, police say.
Jakarta authorities have said the synchronised attacks at the five-star Marriott and Ritz...
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...
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 – Federal officials unsealed an indictment in Minneapolis on Monday charging two young Somali-Americans with providing material support for terrorism.
The disclosure of the indictment, which was handed up by a grand jury in February, is...
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 - Eyewitnesses say two French journalists have been kidnapped from a hotel in the Somali capital.
Abdi Mohamed Ahmed, who owns a teashop in front of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, said about 10 gunmen disarmed...
Hargeisa, 14 July 2009 - A group of 92 people in need of international protection received the red carpet treatment at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Thursday, as they completed the last leg of a long and...