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Fighting Corruption: on the Peak priority of Somaliland New Government
In Somaliland, corruption is found almost everywhere, and now is considered one of the highest corruption rates in Africa that increases the poverty rate of Somaliland people. Corruption has been an...
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Crowdfarming is being used to bring Somalia’s livestock market into the...
Look at all these camels. (Reuters/Thomas Mukoya) Somalia is a global leader in the export of goats and sheep, and livestock trade generates about 40% of the country’s gross domestic product. Yet...
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Somaliland’s 2017 Presidential Election: Interview with Dr Michael Walls
In this extended interview by Edward Paice, Director of Africa Research Institute, Michael Walls reflects on IOEM’s mandate, the performance of the National Election Commission, the positives and...
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Why is Orthodoxy booming in Ethiopia?
ome interesting observations here about recent findings from the good people at Pew, via Sandro Magister: With respect to Catholicism and Protestantism, which over the past century have expanded...
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Israel firm’s spyware used against Ethiopia dissidents
Surveillance software from Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems Ltd was used in an espionage campaign targeting Ethiopian dissidents living outside the East African nation, a Canadian research...
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Somaliland Currency Dealers decry rising inflation
HARGEISA— The Somaliland currency, the Shilling, has slid to all time low against the dollar on Wednesday traders said. Some currency dealers in the street of Hargeisa have said that there is a need...
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Murdered Suhaib Mohammed ‘collateral damage’ to drug dealers
Suhaib Mohammed died two hours after being shot in the chest A teenager who was murdered in the UK after moving from Somalia was “just collateral damage” to a drug dealing gang, a senior police...
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Ali Omar Ader found guilty in kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout in Somalia
An image of Ali Omar Ader is projected on a screen at RCMP headquarters during a press conference about his arrest for the kidnapping of Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, in Ottawa on June 12,...
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Somaliland, Northern Cyprus, Transnistria and Abkhazia are examples of...
The Somalialand flag flies high even if the country is not recognised by a single country in the world. Photo: iStock Last month, voters in Somaliland, a country in the horn of Africa, bigger than...
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Somaliland: Ex-President Rayale pays courtesy call on President-elect Musa Bihi
By: Ms. Farrah Mohumed HARGEISA— The former President of Somaliland, His Excellency Dahir Rayale Kahin paid a courtesy call to President-Elect and met him at the presidential mansion today. In his...
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Two Saudi Aircraft Laden With Medical Aid Arrive in Somalia
Mogadishu, Rabi’I 19, 1439, December 07, 2017, — In implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Crown Prince on providing...
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Somaliland: President-Elect Confers with UN & Turkish Envoys
Somaliland’s newly elected president Muse Bihi Abdi accompanied by the vice President Abdurahman Abdullahi Ismail (Zayli) and somaliland’s foreign minister Dr. Sa’ad Ali Shire met with three...
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The Sultanate of Al Mahra and Socotra – A light in the gloom
Rarely a week goes by without more depressing news concerning the Middle East. This week has witnessed two especially dramatic events, the first the killing by Houthi rebels of the Former Yemeni...
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University lecturer spent months at terrorist training camp in Eritrea
Tadesse Kersmo spent months at a terrorist training camp and possessed files useful for terrorism AN ETHIOPIAN asylum seeker flew to east Africa where he spent months at a terrorist...
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Somaliland: Renowned Somali Singer, Guduudo Carwo Dies at 82
Shamis Abokor, nick named “Guduudo Carwo” was born in 1935 and was the first to sing live at Hargeisa Radio in 1953. She sang her first “Heello” song in August of that year, becoming the first female...
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Somaliland: Muse Bihi Abdi: President Elect Left the Nation on the tenterhooks
The people of Somaliland have in recent past elected Muse Bihi Abdi, who was Kulmiye party’s Presidential aspirant as President of Somaliland for the next five year term in a landslide victory – as he...
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First batch of Ugandan troops withdrawing from Somalia return home
KAMPALA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — The first batch of Ugandan peacekeeping troops withdrawing from Somalia have arrived home, a military spokesman said here on Thursday. Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki, Ugandan deputy...
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Independent Diplomat London Director Paul Whiteway Speaks On Somaliland...
What is the current status of democracy and statehood in Somaliland? By comparison with many other African nations, Somaliland has a remarkable democratic record because of its peaceful political...
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How drones could be game-changer in Somalia’s fight against al-Shabab
A former member of U.S. military intelligence is helping fight one of the deadliest terror groups in Africa. He is also a pioneer in the U.S. military’s use of drones and is now using that expertise...
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Worsening humanitarian situation in Ethiopia prompts additional €15 million...
Ethiopia is facing the most critical levels of food and nutrition insecurity in 10 years, especially in its southern and south-eastern pastoral areas. © Rikka Tupaz/UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2017...
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