Reuters
Thu 4 Dec 2008
Andrew Cawthorne and David Clarke
NAIROBI - The breakaway enclave of Somaliland offered on Thursday the use of ports along its long coastline for foreign naval patrols against Somali pirates.
The Somali sea-gangs have attacked dozens of ships in the Gulf of Aden this year, but generally prefer to strike in waters near Yemen [...]
Category Archives: Somaliland
Somaliland offers ports for anti-pirate operations
December 4, 2008 – 10:18 pm
America’s hidden war in Somalia
December 1, 2008 – 6:43 pm
Chicago Tribune
November 24, 2008
NOBODY IS WATCHING’
Paul Salopek
BERBERA, Somalia
To glimpse America’s secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali [...]
Somaliland Blames Recent Suicide Attacks on Al-Shabab
November 28, 2008 – 4:57 pm
VOA
(Some information for this report was provided by AFP. )
27 November 2008
Officials in the breakaway region of Somaliland are blaming the Islamist militant group al-Shabab for last month’s suicide bombings in the regional capital Hargeisa.
Addressing reporters Thursday, Somaliland’s interior minister, Abdullahi Ismail Ali, said an investigation found that two al-Shabab leaders masterminded [...]
Obama’s To-Do List: Somalia
November 24, 2008 – 9:01 am
CBS News/The New Republic
New Republic: Somalia An Opportunity To Show He Won’t Repeat Mistakes Of U.S.’ Recent Past
Jonathan Stevenson
Nov. 22, 2008
Somalia, a genuine failed state, ranks alongside Sudan as the world’s most conspicuous candidate for American attention in the early days of Barack Obama’s administration. Last week, capping a series of territorial gains across [...]
Somalia sinks deeper into a state of total disintegration
November 23, 2008 – 3:20 pm
Observer/Guardian, UK
Sunday November 23 2008
Peter Beaumont
Millions have fled their homes in terror; a raped 13-year-old has been stoned to death for ‘adultery’; aid workers have been murdered by Islamist militias. While the world’s attention is on the pirates off its coast, the failed African state is being ripped apart by violence.
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Eritrea blames US for Somali piracy
November 22, 2008 – 10:25 am
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, [...]
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 [...]
