‘It is driving people crazy,’ says one of hundreds arriving across the Gulf of Aden in Berbera. ‘The air raids are destroying more houses than the fighting’
It was just after midnight when the livestock ship carrying nearly 200 people...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hon Mohamed Bihi Yunis met with the Italian Deputy foreign Minister Mr. Lapo Pistelli at the Italian foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome.
Somaliland Minster of foreign Affairs and...
APRIL 22, 2015
State authorities in Somaliland must immediately release detained lawyer and human rights defender Guleid Ahmed Jama, who is being detained on wholly baseless charges, said the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, in a...
22 April 2015
Press Release
On 20 April 2015, human rights defender Mr Guleid Ahmed Jama appeared before Hargeisa Regional Court and was remanded for 7 days pending further investigation. He was subsequently transferred to the Hargeisa Central Prison, where he...
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Date: April 22, 2015
Madashu (The NFCR) strongly condemns only the illegal detention of the Chair of the Human Rights Center (HRC), His Excellency Gulaid Ahmed Jama, but also the degrading and punitive conditions under which he has...
Free, Drop Charges Against Prominent Rights Lawyer
"Human rights activists shouldn’t face prosecution for voicing their concerns. Every day that the authorities keep Guleid in jail is another day of setbacks for human rights in Somaliland"
Leslie Lefkow, deputy Africa director.
April 22,...
By Staff
An Ethiopian muslim man has been identified as one of the two dozen Ethiopians killed by the Islamic State also known as ISIS. An al shabab source said a man named Jemaal Rahman is a muslim migrant from...
The Honorable Mayor of Hargeisa, Abdirahman Mohamoud Aideed ‘Soltelco’, addressed, Monday evening, the Somaliland Community in Stockholm and area, Sweden, and supporters of the sovereignty at a well-turned out function held in his honotr and the Hargeisa Council delegation...
CPJ highlights controls on Internet, independent media as top censorship tools
New York, April 21, 2015-With journalists often facing a choice of life in exile or prison, and with even reporters for state-run outlets in fear of arrest, Eritrea secures...
By James Jeffrey
Hargeisa, Somalia — Every day trucks loaded with the narcotic plant khat, grown in northeastern Ethiopia, hurtle along rough roads through the desert to make fresh deliveries to eager customers across Somaliland.
It's estimated that 90 percent of...