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Addis Ababa, 30 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The African Union’s Peace and Security Department approved plans to train more peacekeepers serving in its mission in Somalia on maritime security and air defence capabilities to better protect war-ravaged Somalia.
Somali is...
Kismayo, Somalia (Somalilandpress)-A major rift has formed between Al-Shabab and the Raas Kambonii Brigade over the control of Kismayo, the capital of Lower Jubba Region in southern Somalia, and residents are anticipating armed clashes.
The two militant Islamist groups had...
HELSINKI (Somalilandpress) -- Construction engineer Faisal Ali Farah, a naturalised Finnish citizen living in Espoo, is running for the office of President of Somaliland in elections scheduled for the coming autumn.
Somaliland, which declared itself independent from...
Niger, 20 March 2010 (Somalilandpress) - Weeks after the African Union boldly announced the end of an era of coups on its continent, Niger’s military staged a spectacular overthrow.
Heavily armed in armoured vehicles soldiers blasted their way into...
South Africans are about to vote in the most competitive election they’ve had since democracy began in 1994. But, despite this, the poll will have far more impact on the factional battle within the governing African National Congress (ANC) than on...
Jo Cox, who died after a shooting in her constituency on June 16. Yui Mok/PA
It was just before 5pm when a sombre Dee Collins, the temporary chief constable of West Yorkshire police in northern England, read out the news....
Djibouti, 12 March 2010 (Somalilandpress) - Dr. Jubarah Bin Eid Alsuraisry, Minister of Transport of Saudi Arabia (pictured left), today signed the Code of Conduct on the Suppression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian...
HARGEISA, Somaliland — A Somali just home from eight years in the US jail at Guantanamo Bay told AFP Monday the prison was "hell on Earth", and alleged torture there had scarred some of his fellow inmates.
Mohamed Saleban Bare,...
Liboi, 17 April 2010 (Somalilandpress) - Suspected members of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militias have for the second time this month raided Kenya’s border town of Liboi.
The heavily armed gunmen barricaded and attacked several positions within the remote settlement, some 18km...