afrol News, Norway
21 November 2008
The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has blamed Washington’s alleged policy of “balkanising Somalia” for being the root cause behind piracy off the Somali coast, adding that breakaway Somaliland and Puntland must return to Somalia to create a forceful unit.
Eritrean government statement
According to the official Eritrean statement, [...]
Category Archives: Somaliland
Eritrea blames US for Somali piracy
November 22, 2008 – 10:25 am
The lawless Horn
November 20, 2008 – 2:56 pm
The Economist
Anarchy in Somalia
Nov 20th 2008
Pirates are only part of a much bigger problem in east Africa
IT IS tempting to be jaunty about piracy. So what if a few Robin Hoods in skiffs nick the odd tanker off the Horn of Africa? Often enough, the owners pay ransom and nobody gets hurt. Everyone needs a [...]
Islamists poised to seize Somalia again in setback to U.S.
November 20, 2008 – 2:51 pm
McClatchy Newspapers, US
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Shashank Bengali
NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Shabaab, a radical Islamist group that U.S. officials say is tied to al Qaida, has methodically seized much of southern Somalia and is poised to take the capital, Mogadishu, as the country’s internationally backed government nears collapse.
The rise of al Shabaab — from [...]
SOMALIA: Hostility rises in Hargeisa after suicide bombings
November 12, 2008 – 10:47 am
IRIN
10 November 2008
HARGEISA - Somalis displaced to the self-styled independent republic of Somaliland from other parts of the Horn of Africa country have faced increasing hostility after three suicide bombing incidents in late October.
Reports of criminal incidents targeting non-Somaliland Somalis in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital, have prompted Interior Minister Abdillahi Ismail Irro to call for [...]
Horn of Africa’s challenges grow
November 9, 2008 – 12:31 pm
Oxford Analytica
November 5, 2008
Horn of Africa’s challenges grow - 05 Nov 2008
SUBJECT: The political and economic outlook for the Horn of Africa in 2009.
SIGNIFICANCE: The region in 2009 will continue to see some of the world’s worst humanitarian, political, and security crises, but major political changes are in the air that could yield new [...]
SOMALIA: Conflict, drought force more children onto Hargeisa streets
October 22, 2008 – 8:53 pm
IRIN
October 22, 2008
HARGEISA, 22 October 2008 (IRIN) - Conflict, drought and economic hardships have led to an unprecedented increase in the number of street children in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia’s self-declared independent republic of Somaliland, with government and aid agencies calling for urgent steps to stem the increase.
“Many of children on the streets of [...]
Somaliland’s prepares for 2009 elections
October 22, 2008 – 7:58 am
Sub Saharan Informer, Pan-Africa
Moha Dahir Farah Jire
Voter registration starts in the small region of Sahil
HARGEISA, SOMALILAND- Voter registrations have started in Somaliland in preparation for the upcoming general elections expected to take place at the end of march 2009. On Tuesday this week registrations of the voters started in the first region in Somaliland [...]
SOMALIA: Displaced and neglected in Somaliland
October 18, 2008 – 3:49 pm
IRIN
October 16, 2008
HARGEISA - More than 26,000 people displaced from southern Somalia to Somaliland are not receiving adequate assistance because officials in the region, which regards itself as an independent country, give priority to those displaced within Somaliland.
“We have a different definition of IDPs [internally displaced persons] compared with the international community because the [...]
The Remarkable Story of Somaliland
October 3, 2008 – 7:01 am
somaliland
Seth Kaplan
Journal of Democracy
Vol 19, No. 3
July 2008
Hunger levels soar in East Africa
September 21, 2008 – 7:55 am
BBC
20 September 2008
Rising food prices have hit Ethiopia hard
Nearly 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of food and other aid - almost twice as many as earlier this year, the UN has said.
Some $700m (£382m) in emergency aid is needed to prevent the region descending into full-scale [...]
