UPI
March 9, 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing [...]
Category Archives: Somaliland
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
March 12, 2010 – 8:23 am
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
March 11, 2010 – 8:31 pm
UPI
March 9, 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation.
But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to fight the growing [...]
Somaliland can not be recognized as an independent state’ TFG
March 5, 2010 – 3:52 pm
Shabelle News Network, Somalia
March 4, 2010
MOGADISHU– The authorities of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia have said that the breakaway republic of Somaliland can not be recognized as an independent state, just as Israel said recently it gave identification to Somaliland administration, officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Abdiwahid Abdi Gonjeh, the deputy prime minister of [...]
Experts call for holistic war against piracy
February 22, 2010 – 5:09 pm
The East African, Kenya
February 22, 2010
BERNARD SANGA
International maritime experts are rooting for a multi-pronged approach to eradicate piracy off the Somali coast. They are calling for a land-based strategy, a pointer to the limitations of the on-going sea-based approach.
The proposed strategy, seen by The EastAfrican, underscores the importance of matching the current military [...]
SOMALIA: Drought-hit Somaliland pleads for aid
February 18, 2010 – 9:57 am
IRIN
February 16, 2010
Livestock deaths have increased the need for humanitarian intervention
HARGEISA – Officials in Somalia’s self-declared independent republic of Somaliland have appealed to the international community to provide humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of people, especially children, in the wake of prolonged drought.
“The affected population is estimated at about 40 percent of Somaliland’s [...]
Somali pirates get 15-year sentences: officials
February 16, 2010 – 8:35 am
AFP
February 14, 2010
MOGADISHU — A court in Somalia handed out 15-year prison sentences to 11 pirates on Sunday, the presiding judge said.
Prosecutors at the court in Berbera, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland, brought a number of charges against the men, including piracy and attempted armed kidnapping.
They showed the court photos obtained from NATO [...]
Israel says ready to recognize Somaliland
February 12, 2010 – 3:45 pm
Somaliland Press
February 11, 2010
HARGEISA — The government of Israel is ready to restore the de jure recognition it has offered to Somaliland in 1960 as it eyes the Red Sea and the Horn, an Israeli spokesman says.
According to a local source, Golisnews, Mr. Yigal Palmor, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman is quoted on the Israeli newspaper [...]
SOMALILAND: Finland fact-finding delegation arrives
February 11, 2010 – 10:19 am
Somaliland Press
February 10, 2010
HARGEISA – A Finnish delegation from it’s embassies in East Africa has arrived in Somaliland’s capital on Monday on a fact-finding mission, Qarannews reports.
The delegation is led by Mr. Simo-Pekka Parviainen, Counselor (conflict) at the Finnish embassy in Addis Ababa, Mrs. Pia Stjernvall, First Secretary & Deputy Permanent Representative to UNEP [...]
Ten die on drifting Gulf of Aden migrant boat
February 8, 2010 – 11:58 pm
AFP
February 7, 2010
HARGEYSA, Somaliland — At least 10 migrants died and 30 went missing when the boat smuggling them from Somalia to Yemen suffered an engine failure in the Gulf of Aden, officials said Sunday.
Seventy people, mostly Ethiopians, were rescued when the coastguard in the northern breakaway state of Somaliland’s Sanag region spotted the boat [...]
Somali regions urged to battle Islamist militia
February 4, 2010 – 8:09 am
Guardian Newspaper, Nigeria
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
A SIX-NATION East African regional bloc has urged Somalia’s two breakaway regions of Puntland and Somaliland to jointly battle Islamist militia which it said had extended to the areas.
Heavy mortar fire between African Union peacekeepers and Islamist insurgents [...]
