Autistic teen pulls off tycoon hoax

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A teenage boy has fooled British airline and airport executives into believing he was a tycoon who owned a fleet of jets. The...

Q+A – Who is behind Somalia's kidnappings?

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Nairobi, Jul 20 2009 (Somalilandpress) - A string of abductions of foreigners in Somalia have thrown the international spotlight on kidnapping in the anarchic...

From refugee in Australia to a leader in war-torn Somalia

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ISSA Farah is a government minister who carries a pistol in his belt. Melbourne, 20 Jul 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- After 25 years as a refugee...

Arab League holds talks with Kenya, Ethiopian officials on Somalia

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The Arab League secretary general has held a meeting with various officials to discuss the situation in Somalia. The Arab League Secretary General, Amir Musa has...

Somaliland: Police Arrest Somali Lawmaker

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...