LUANDA (Somalilandpress) -- Gunmen have fired on a bus carrying Togo's football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, wounding players and reportedly killing the driver.
The attackers machine-gunned the vehicle after it crossed from the Republic of...
York, January 6, 2010(SomalilandPress)— The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about deteriorating press freedom conditions in Puntland, including detentions, censorship, harassment, and direct attacks by police officers.
January 6, 2010
His Excellency Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud Farole
President of Puntland
Presidential Palace
Garowe, Puntland
Via...
While the eyes of most pundits and spies are on the current Military Action in Yemen. The Situation on the other side of the Gulf of Aden needs just as must focus as there is currently towards Yemen. ...
HARGEISA, 5 January 2010 (Somalilandpress) - Despite its name, the propeller-driven Dash flies slower than its companion, the Dornier jet – taking three hours or more from Nairobi's JKIA to Hargeisa. And for most of the time, you are...
BERBERA (Somalilandpress) -- A large livestock vessel has left the port town of Berbera last night bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after removing an 11-year ban on livestock imports from Somaliland.
On its maiden voyage, the MV Bader...
Somalia's Islamist hardline, Al-Shabab group parade through the streets of northern Mogadishu on Friday 1st of January to show their new fighters as well as military might as they pledge to retake regions they lost to other groups.
They added...
ABUDWAQ (Somalilandpress) -- Somalia's Al-Shabab militants have seized a key-town from pro-government Ahlu Sunna Walajam'a fighters on Saturday, witnesses said.
Al-Shabab overpowered the predominantly Sufi group in the town of Dusa-Mareb in the strategic central region of Galgadud.
Witnesses said Al...
BORAMA (Somalilandpress) -- Despite enjoying some relative peace the breakaway republic of Somaliland remains unrecognized by the international community. But Kenya which has a significant number of expatriates in the region is reassessing its position.
Yassin Juma was...
ADDIS ABABA (Somalilandpress) -- An Ethiopian minister has denied reports that millions of people need urgent food aid after failed rains.
Disaster Prevention Minister Mikitu Kassa told the BBC that the government was helping those hit by the...
Addis Ababa, 30 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The African Union’s Peace and Security Department approved plans to train more peacekeepers serving in its mission in Somalia on maritime security and air defence capabilities to better protect war-ravaged Somalia.
Somali is...