Somaliland Press, Somaliland June 22, 2011 HARGEISA, Somaliland – The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, Rajakumari Jandhyala, traveled to Hargeisa to see USAID’s work with Somalis and to learn about progress of USAID programs. The Deputy Assistant Administrator met with government representatives, staff members from USAID’s Partnership for Economic Growth, [...]
Category Archives: Somaliland
Somaliland Government Calls for African Recognition, Help Fighting Piracy
June 22, 2011 – 6:59 pm
Bloomberg June 20, 2011 Mohamoud Ali Mohamed Somaliland appealed to African nations to grant the semi-autonomous region recognition as a sovereign state and called for international help to deal with piracy off its coast. “We need more support from African states,” Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdillahi Omar said in an interview on June 15 in the [...]
SOMALIA: The hidden cost of piracy
June 20, 2011 – 9:08 am
IRIN June 16, 2011 LONDON-NAIROBI – The growth of piracy off the coast of Somalia from an occasional nuisance to shipping into a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise has another, often deliberately overlooked cost: the worsening violence meted out to thousands of captured crew members. “There definitely has been a change, and we don’t know why,” Pottengal [...]
Prof. David Shinn: Revolutionary Winds from North to South of the Sahara: Wishful Thinking?
June 13, 2011 – 4:47 pm
(as provided by the author; no link) The Horn of Africa David H. Shinn Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University Overview In assessing the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa of the political upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East since the beginning of the year, it is essential to be careful [...]
Coca-Cola Invests $10 Million in Somaliland Bottling Plant
June 7, 2011 – 9:21 am
Businessweek, US May 31, 2011 Sarah McGregor Coca-Cola Co., the world’s largest soft-drink maker, plans to set-up a bottling plant in the breakaway republic of Somaliland, saying its stability and economic growth provide “conducive” conditions for investment. Somaliland Beverage Industries, owned by local businessman Ahmed Osman Guelleh, was awarded a license to operate the factory [...]
Somaliland at 20
May 27, 2011 – 5:10 pm
Atlantic Council, US May 18, 2011 J. Peter Pham Today is the twentieth anniversary of the day when, in the wake of the collapse of the Somali state, clan elders in the onetime British Protectorate of Somaliland proclaimed their sovereignty. In the two decades since, while the rest of the country became the exemplar par [...]
Money man serves the Somali diaspora
May 26, 2011 – 4:26 pm
Financial Times,UK May 24, 2011 Katrina Manson Steeped in the community: Abdirashid Duale says his family has built the business through understanding its customers and developing a network of outlets Aged eight, Abdirashid Duale would rush back from school to take his place in the family’s small shop in Burao, a dusty livestock trading town [...]
Eritrea opposes South Sudan, Kenya may recognize Somaliland
May 23, 2011 – 7:48 am
Jimma Times, expatriate opposition website May 22, 2011 The Somaliland Press claims that Kenya is preparing to recognize Somaliland’s independence, which would create another new country in the horn of Africa. “Kenyan Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Richard Onyonka said during an event held in Nairobi to commemorate Somaliland’s 20th anniversary of Independence that his [...]
20 Years After Secession, Somaliland Still Seeks Recognition
May 21, 2011 – 6:07 am
VOA May 18, 2011 James Butty Rashid Nur, Somaliland’s representative in US, says the de facto country has demonstrated stability through successive elections Somaliland’s representative in the U.S. says it is about time for the international community to officially recognize Somaliland as a country. This comes as Somaliland this month celebrates 20 years of its [...]
Somali piracy costs $8.3bn a year, report says
May 19, 2011 – 8:05 am
BBC May 13, 2011 Anti-piracy force boards a hijacked dhow. EU NAVFOR Anti-piracy patrols, like this EU operation off the coast of Somalia, have had limited success. Geopolicity report Piracy off the Somali coast costs the international community up to $8.3bn (£5.1bn) a year, a new report from the Geopolicity consultancy estimates. That sum could [...]