HARGEISA, 8 February 2010 (Somalilandpress) - As part of the UK-based team coordinating election observers for the much-delayed presidential elections in the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland, Progressio today welcomes recent progress made to resolve the Somaliland voter registration...
NAIROBI, Feb 20- Violence, a deeply chauvinistic society and a lack of cash are locking women out of elected office in Kenya, east Africa's leading economy but a laggard when it comes to female representation.
The country's new constitution guarantees...
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HARGEISA, 17 August 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Suspected Islamist insurgents stormed a U.N. aid compound in southern Somalia overnight, witnesses said on Monday, but U.N. guards fought back and killed three of the attackers in a gun battle.
One U.N. official...
The sights and sounds of an African police state
When Erin Burnett of CNN visited Ethiopia in July 2012, she came face-to-face with the ugly face of an African police state:
We saw what an African police state looked like when...
By: Bazi Bussuri Sheikh
As Mandela stated “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb”, the current social anger at immigrants over unemployment is one of the main hills South Africa needs...
It's called shaping the battlefield. It's not the traditional air onslaught or artillery barrage designed to weaken an intended enemy before the offensive goes in.
Instead it's now about shaping the information battlefield, because in Afghanistan - and in...
GALKAYO (Somalilandpress) -- Hundreds of families in Somalia's state of Puntland have fled inter-clan fighting in the town of Galkayo in Mudug region, witnesses said.
The fighting, the second as many months broke out early Wednesday morning when heavily armed...
Hargeisa, 3 July 2009 - Somali pirates have claimed a new victim by disrupting the laying of an undersea fibre optic cable that has promised to end east Africa’s isolation as the last region of the world not connected...
The UK’s prestigious Royal Television Society has presented its Judges’ Award to Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy.
The award is given to recognise their outstanding contribution to the advancement of television journalism.
The trio were put in...