Somaliland: Two girls kidnapped from Puntland, Sri Lankan arrested

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HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) -- A Sri Lankan citizen of Russian native was detained for questioning after he was caught attempting to smuggle a 13 year...

Swiss police just arrested 7 FIFA executives

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Swiss police just arrested 7 FIFA executives, giving hope to billions of people around the world who love football and hate corruption. But unless...

Africa: AfDB Commits US $57.66 Million Towards Food Security Program in Horn of Africa

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Four million pastoralists to benefit in the first five years NAIROBI, Kenya, February 27, 2013/ -- The African Development Bank (http://www.afdb.org) today signed a US...

MLK: “When Will You Be Satisfied?”

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When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in August 1963, he asked the “devotees of civil rights”...

When men tackle mother and child health: lessons from Malawi

In rural Malawi traditional leaders have played an important role in persuading men to get involved in women’s health. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
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Talk of gender mainstreaming – the assessing of all policies, programmes, laws and interventions on the basis of their impact on both men and...

Donors Should Treat The Disabled Equally

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Hargeisa, 12 July 2009  - Dissatisfied with donors' unwillingness to promote disabled people's rights in their dealings with Kenyan organisations, Phitalis Were Masakhwe calls...

Ethiopia: Ogaden Whistle-blower Receives 2014 Anna Politkovskaya Award

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By Ahmed Abdi Abdullahi Hussein, a former head of state-run media and adviser to Ogaden Regional President, Abdi Mohamoud Omar, has been awarded this year's Anna...

Somaliland Foreign Minister Meets U.S. Congressional Leaders and Hudson Institute to Bolster Bilateral Ties

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Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdirahman Dahir Adam led a delegation to Washington, D.C., engaging in high-level discussions with U.S. Congressional leaders and the Hudson Institute...

UN Role In Somalia Comes Under Fire

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HARGEISA, 08 September 2009 (Somalilandpress) – The UN Secretary-General's special representative to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah has not answered reporters' questions concerning his involvement in...

Somalia: Alshabaab Threatens to Attack Kenya

Al-Shabaab’s first attack on Kenyan soil was in 2008. Since then the Kenyan government has responded with force. United Nations Photo/Flickr
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Hargeisa, 22 June 2009 - The spokesman of Al shabaab, Sh. Hassan Yaqoub threatened threatened to carry out suicide attacks on Nairobi should they...