Balli Hiile, 9 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) The town of Balli Hiile lies about an hours drive south east of Burcao in eastern Somaliland. Miles and miles of monotonous semi-desert landscape surrounds the village, nothing but acacia trees, termite mounds...
Hargeisa, 8 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Health officials in Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland have expressed concern over a rise in mental illness, which they attribute to post-war trauma, joblessness, drug abuse and khat use.
"Mental health problems have...
Hargeisa, 8 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The stalled electoral process has plunged Somaliland into a serious political crisis that presents yet another risk of destabilisation for the region. If its hard-won political stability collapses under the strain of brinkmanship...
SHEIKH, 7 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- It is always exciting when a new species are discovered in country, but the idea that most animals are long gone from Somaliland either by migration or the due to the civil war...
STOCKHOLM, 5 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- University of Hargeisa Chancellor, Dr. Hussein A. Bulhan and Somaliland Representative Sweden, Mr. Eidarus Sh Adan, visited the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm on Friday.
The delegation was received at the Swedish National...
HARGEISA, 4 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Muhammed interrupted me by pounding the ground, laughing out loud and exchanging a few words with Seleban Yussuf , the village's elder sitting next to him.
"Unbelievable. Can you believe this guy...
LAS ANOD, 4 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Somaliland anti-terrorist forces have arrested six men suspected of planning acts of terrorism in the southern town of Las Anod, the regional capital of Sool on Tuesday , QaranTv reported.
Somaliland government issued...
HARGEISA, 5 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Somaliland Islamic leaders have condemned the suicide bombing that killed 22 people in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. During Friday prayer in Hargeisa's main mosque, prominent Somaliland religious leaders said the attack was un-Islamic and...
LONDON, 3 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The West London Somaliland Community in partnership with SSUK (Somaliland Society UK) and SSE (Somaliland Societies in Europe) is pleased to present the “Attaining Somaliland’s Dream Through Education” event.
This event is to welcome...
HARGEISA, 1 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - “…Xiddigihii Dilaadee, Daadanaayay waayadan, Maantana qod baa dumay, Dabayshaygu soo furay…”
These words were part of a poem I wrote on hearing the death of Haji Hersi Awale on January 16, 1982 but they...