Tag Archive | Somaliland
Posted on May 8, 2017. Tags: Hussein Bulhan, Independence, President Silanyo, Somalia, Somaliland
From Somaliland Sun By Yusuf M. Hassan Dr Hussein Bulhan Somalilandsun- Ordinary citizens, intellectuals and government officials in Somalia shall not the opportunity to publicly debate the issue of Somaliland sovereignty. This opportunity was to have been availed courtesy of public speeches on the issue by prominent Somaliland intellectual Dr Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan in Mogadishu. […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Democracy, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on April 5, 2017. Tags: Democracy, Economy, Human Rights, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland, UAE
From The Messenger By Jason Patinkin for The Messenger With a sea breeze to his back, Ali Farah Negeye greets the lunch crowd at the Al Xayat restaurant in the Somaliland port city of Berbera. For the last fifteen years, he’s served lemonade and fried barracuda to a steady stream of regulars, who debate the […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Defense News, Democracy, Economy, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland
Posted on March 7, 2017. Tags: Drought, Famine, Hunger, Somaliland
From ITV News RAGEH OMAAR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR The international community has only now taken tentative steps to help Somaliland’s drought-hit population. Credit: ITV News ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar has travelled across Somaliland as severe drought brings the unrecognised east-African nation to the brink of a preventable humanitarian catastrophe. Somaliland is a […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on October 10, 2016. Tags: David Shinn, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan
From Joomla Who is David Shinn and what is his relationship with the Horn of Africa? A: David Shinn, who has a BA, MA, and PhD from George Washington University, served from1964 through 2000 as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. Nearly all of his assignments dealt with Africa either […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Defense News, Democracy, Djibouti, Economy, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Politics and Security, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan
Posted on June 17, 2016. Tags: Democracy, Economy, Human Rights, Somaliland
Al Jazeera P Photo: amediaagency.com/ To much of the world, Somalia has a fearsome reputation. It is seen as one of the most dangerous places on the planet – a failed state that is widely believed to be home to warlords, pirates and terrorists. To much of the world, Somalia has a fearsome reputation. It […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Democracy, Economy, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on May 13, 2016. Tags: Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland
By Mohamed Amin Jibril HARGEYSA, 13 May 2016 Somalia has made a $1 million donation to the drought-hit breakaway northwestern region of Somaliland, ahead of controversial talks between the two sides later this month to clarify their future relations. Mogadishu, far from one of the world’s flushest governments, has been quick to point out the […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Defense News, Democracy, Economy, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on May 9, 2016. Tags: Islam, Marriage, Somaliland, Women
New York Times Photo CreditIllustration by Melinda Josie One August afternoon last year, waiting in the polished lobby of the Maan-Soor Hotel in Hargeisa, Somaliland, I wondered if it wasn’t too late to cancel the appointment I had made. I had been returning to the city of my birth regularly for the past eight years, […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Opinion Roundup, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on April 18, 2016. Tags: Democracy, Djibouti, Irredentism, Kenya, NFD, Politics and Security, Somalia, Somaliland
Center for Policy Analysis and Research By Abdiwahid Abdullahi* April 12, 2016 Since the awakening of the Somali nationalism in 1945 after the defeat of Dervish warriors in the Godan plains of Nugal, the Somalis were dreaming to settle an old grievance that divided the Somali inhabited territories. The arrival of the Europeans had not […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Defense News, Democracy, Djibouti, Economy, Ethiopia, Kenya, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland, Tanzania
Posted on March 20, 2016. Tags: Recognition, Somalia, Somaliland
Image: REUTERS/Feisal Omar Written by Nima Elmi, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somaliland People often look at me with a bewildered expression on their face when I mention the Republic of Somaliland. Many assume that I meant to say Somalia. Mention the Horn of Africa and people inevitably think of […]
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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Democracy, Economy, Regional Issues, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland
Posted on February 6, 2016. Tags: Africa, Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Foreign Policy, Politics Economy, Rwanda, Somalia, Somaliland
The Strathink Editorial Team We live in interesting times. Our world today is faster, more connected and, in many ways, smaller than the planet we inhabited just twenty years ago. Yet, one part of our world seems surprising unchanged if we view that region from the perspective of the West—Africa. Despite the profound changes that […]
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Posted in Burundi, Congress Watch, Countries, Democracy, Economy, Editorial, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Opinion Roundup, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Rwanda, Somalia, Somaliland, Somaliland