ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandpress) -- The president of Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has recently held a meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister, Seyoum Mesfin in Addis Ababa.
The meeting which took place in Sheraton...
HARGEISA, (Somalilandpress) -- Officials in Somalia's self-declared independent state of Somaliland are concerned over a rise in human trafficking in the region. Children are mainly trafficked from south-central Somalia, because of the lack of government there,...
MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) -- Rich crop fields are sprouting up across Southern Somalia after heavy rains brought an end to a prolonged drought in the region. According to the UN, this season's expected to be the country's best...
MELBOURNE (Somalilandpress) -- Guinea-Bissau soldiers have arrested the army chief and the prime minister, at one point threatening to kill him, in an apparent coup bid in the unstable west African country.
There were varying accounts Thursday of whether Prime...
Addis Ababa, 31 March 2010 (Somalilandpress) - President Girma Woldegiorgis here on Wednesday held talks with Foreign Minister of Somaliland, Abdillahi Mohamed Duale.
President Girma on the occasion said the existing relations between Ethiopia and Somaliland should further be strengthened....
Ethiopia has launched an electric car, despite suffering from power shortages. It is only the second African country to do so, after South Africa.
Two versions of the Solaris Elettra will be manufactured in Addis Ababa, costing around $12,000 and...
NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) -- Somalia's president wants thousands of troops trained in Kenya to be deployed to Mogadishu for an upcoming offensive against Islamist militants, but Kenya has denied the request — yet another complication for a...
MOGADISHU, (Somalilandpress) -- Hundreds of Somalis have marched through the streets of Mogadishu, protesting against al-Shabab militants.
The protesters, mostly women and children and wearing traditional white clothes, chanted slogans denouncing the al-Qaeda-inspired group.
The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan...
Nairobi, 29 March 2010 (Somalilandpress) - A leader of a moderate Sufi militia group that signed a power-sharing deal with the Western-backed Somali government this month has vowed to rid the country of radical Islamists.
The government brought Ahlu Sunna...
NAIROBI (Somalilandpress) -- The Lord's Resistance Army killed about 300 people and kidnapped 250 more in a rampage in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2009, according to an international rights group and the UN.
The previously undocumented massacre,...