MOGADISHU, 17 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Djibouti prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita today attended the
ceremony to mark the end of training of some 350 Somali soldiers by France.
The charge d'affaires at the Somali embassy in Djibouti, Mr Abourhaman Mohamed...
Baraawe, 16 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) - To outsiders Somalia is a remote and forsaken land, drenched in blood, clogged by diseased refugees and doomed to irreversible destruction and hopelessness.
But one town in my country is a seaside oasis of...
HARGEISA, 16 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Diyaarada way afduuban tahay. The four words, screamed by a mad man wielding a pistol in mid-air, are etched into my memory like lyrics in a veteran singer’s mind. This plane is...
JIGJIGA, 15 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) — Armed forces of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) launched a broad multiple front military operation against military positions of the Ethiopian occupation army liberating seven towns in Ogaden on Tuesday,10 November, 2009....
JIGJIGA, 15 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Ethnic-Somali rebels in the south-east of Ethiopia say they have launched an offensive against government forces and captured several towns.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said it began attacking on several fronts on...
BURAO - 14 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Thousands of people displaced by fighting in Somalia are ending up in the relatively peaceful neighbouring territory, Somaliland.
Once part of Somalia, it is now a self-declared republic in the troubled Horn of...
HARGEISA, 12 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) PARIS — As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly expanded, providing a crucial safety net.
As...
HARGEISA, 10 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) - Somali pirates have seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship loaded with weapons bound for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation in contravention of a U.N. arms embargo, maritime experts said on Monday.
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Cairo, 09 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- The Chinese government has pledged to give African countries billions of dollars in cheap loans at a two-day Africa-China summit in Egypt.
Addressing hundreds of Chinese and African businessmen at the Red Sea resort of...
ERIGAVO, 09 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) -- Two men believed to be linked to a recent attempt to hijack a Daallo airliner in the neighboring Somali port town of Bosaso were arrested by Somaliland state police in the town of...