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Hargaysa 17.Sep 2016 (SDN/QJ):- The International Community expresses serious concern over the President of Somaliland’s decision to delay Somaliland’s Parliamentary March 2017 elections. This unnecessary delay will harm public and international confidence in Somaliland’s democratisation process and will have implications for the international community engagement with Somaliland. The postponement has been announced without a clear […]
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Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo recently claimed that more than one million citizens, out of the country’s population of 3.4 million, had signed a petition calling for the international community to recognise Somaliland. Since 1991, and the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia, the region has declared itself independent. But should it? The examples of the secession of […]
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Re: Presidential Decree on Equitable Parliamentary Representation With reference to the decision by the Somaliland political parties to bestow upon me their full confidence to make a decision on the issue of parliamentary seats allocation, following their inability to reach a unanimous decision, After taking into consideration the report by the Academy of Peace […]
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World’s 800m Olympic record holder David Rudisha and fellow athlete Mo Farah were briefly arrested briefly by Northumbria police officers in England. The two athletes who were doing a normal morning jog on saturday when they set off police speed camera, which prompted a chase. and an arrest. The police did not immediatly realize whom […]
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Meru Governor Peter Munya has said his life is in danger after he was blamed for a ban on miraa flights to Somalia. A combative Mr Munya said miraa cartels are likely to “trail and kill him” after Somali Ambassador to Kenya Gamal Hassan said he was to blame for the ban that took effect […]
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DUBAI, Sept 5 (SDN/QJ) – Dubai’s DP World has won a 30 year concession to manage and develop a port in the breakaway Somalia region of Somaliland that will require an investment of $442 million, the ports operator said in a stocks exchange statement on Monday. The Red Sea Port of Berbera project will focus […]
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Rio De Janeiro 22. August 2016.(SDN/QJ):- Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. If I Go Back To Ethiopia, They Might Kill Me: Feyisa Lilesa When Feyisa Lilesa crossed the line in second place in the Olympic men’s marathon, he put his arms up in an X. Ethiopians on Twitter immediately recognized that the gesture was […]
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KAMPALA, Uganda: Somali extremist group Al-Shabab Saturday shelled residential areas in the town of Baidoa, west of the capital Mogadishu, hitting a hospital and likely causing casualties, the African Union (AU) peace keeping force AMISOM said in a Twitter post. The Al-Qaeda-allied group, which wants to topple Somalia’s Western-backed government and rule the country according […]
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Portland: US Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump targeted Somali communities in Maine and Minnesota during a campaign speech in Portland, saying refugees from “dangerous places” should not be allowed in the US, a media report said. During the speech at Merrill Auditorium in Maine, Trump said the US does not do a good job of […]
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Sunday’s protest in Ethiopia involving thousands of people in Gondar, a city in Amhara region, is a rare example of an anti-government demonstration in the country. It was organised on social media but no group has taken responsibility for it. The demonstration comes two weeks after another protests in the city in which 15 people […]
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