When, where and why to use RRU? The frequent use of SL Rapid Response Unit known as RRU against Somaliland civilians is damaging president Muj Ahmed Siilanyo’s excellent reputation for being caring and honorable statesman.
In fact this is very controversial indeed nobody in government seems to understand when and where to deploy these unit. While i, support the creation of RRU in principle only for specific, and major threat to national security. In a nutshell the Somaliland population are very alarm, and worried the frequent use of RRU in a minor public disorder, and peaceful protest.
I therefore urge president Muj, Ahmed Siilanyo to take a swift and necessary measures to assure the public that his government and officials will only deploy RRU as a last resort. It is vitally important that president Ahmed Siilanyo and his government should always maintained, professionalism integrity, and uphold the law of the land.
At the moment it appears that the government’s popular policies and recent developments, such as Road development pay rise for the army and the police have been over shadowed by the re’ occurrences of SL RRU, daily raid, on civilian houses and random shooting without any regard for innocent lives, on peaceful protesters wishing to express their hard fought, liberty, and democratic rights.
In conclusion the reputation and credibility of the president Ahmed Siilanyo is at stake here simply because he is highly regarded, the father of the nation. Kulmiye party, as a opposition fought a clean campaign to win the heart and mind of all Somalilanders, both at home and abroad pledging, to curb and root out corruption, rebuilding and restoring public confidence.
president Ahmed Siilanyo needs to keep up, that momentum bearing in mind that recent political events in the country, will play a crucial role for re,election of Kulmiye party, presidential candidacy.
Today The Adal Diaspora in London, have collectively welcomed their Traditional Leader Ugas Abdi Rashid Ugas Doodi Ugas Robleh.
The diaspora members were led by The Traditional Leader of the Adal Diaspora’s in UK & EU Suldan Ilkajir and the councillor of Ugas in London Councillor Harun AbdiRahman Qadi, Overall enormous Adal politicians have jointly participated the welcoming event including young politician AbdiRahman Hamud Aleel, Professor Hassan Mussa Khalif who is the prime host of the Ugas, Hussein Mike, Sucdi Haji Musse and her husband Abdi Nur Omar Qaddi,
The arrival terminal at Heathrow airport, children wore their ancestor’s traditional clothes, amazingly this traditional welcoming style attracted the attention of a lot of tourists/staff members at the airport, were some said is he the Dalai lama of East Africa, mother and youths also contributed their share etc.
Ugas AbdiRashid was excited and heartily smiled for the crowd of his diaspora in London. During the media coverage, The Ugas thanked warmly to all delegates who welcomed him, he then informed to the media, that he will meet both diaspora and other delegates from The Great Britain’s lords.
During his visit, Ugas Abdi Rashid, will participate a welcome event, organized by the traditional leaders in UK, were all the Somali, Ethiopian, Djibouti and East African Diasporas in London are warmly welcome to celebrate with ADAL traditional evening.
The Event will be held in Harrow on Saturday The 4rth of January 2014.
Wa Bilaahi Tawfiiq
Adal Diaspora UK Representative
Abdi Rahman Hamud Aleel
The most heartwarming initiative that happened in Mogadishu in 2013 was the start of an inspirational reconstruction momentum thanks to the city’s energetic and ambitious mayor Mohamud Ahmed Nur Tarsan. If he continuous with this vigor and commitment aimed at restoring the beauty and glory of Mogadishu, Tarsan will be the person to watch in 2014.
It is encouraging also to see the vital role played by the diaspora returnees who are investing heavily in rebuilding the city not only in the form of pouring money into business but also in bringing back creative ideas and breathing a new life into the morale of the people. There is no doubt that the Somalis with their renowned entrepreneurial skills that created lucrative businesses in many parts of Africa as well as in Minnesota, London, Dubai and elsewhere can and should make Mogadishu the pearl and commercial hub of the Horn of Africa. After more than 20 years of ruin, misery and lawlessness, one can see the undefeatable spirit of the Somali people who despite the forces of darkness like Al Shabab who wants to keep the people under their destructive and backward ideology, surge ahead in a promising effort to make the country stand again on its feet.
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
Having said that, it was disheartening to watch how the government of Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud squandered a lot of opportunities. The year 2013 began on a high note for the Somali Federal Government (SFG) led by Mohamoud as the U.S recognized Somalia’s government for the first time since 1991 when the country slipped into chaos and eventually became a byword for a failed state. This was followed by the UN Security Council’s decision on the partial lifting of the decades-old embargo on selling arms to Somalia for a year. In a quick response to this, President Obama decided to allow the provision of US military assistance to Somalia.
But instead of capitalizing on the good-will of the international community and taking measures to bolster domestic security, Mahmoud’s government started globetrotting with photo shoots with world leaders as their biggest achievement. Back home, Al Shabab continued to dominate the security situation despite their diminished visibility on the streets of Mogadishu. To prove their tenacity and to expose the vulnerability of Mahmoud’s AMISOM-propped government, Al Shabab struck Mogadishu’s main court complex in April killing about 30 people, while launching daring daylight attacks on the Presidential Palace and the UNDP compound in the capital. Their attack on the Westgate Mall of Nairobi was also to remind the world that no matter how much assistance the International Community provided to Mogadishu, the key to the region’s security still remained in their hands.
The government even mishandled the impromptu arrival of Hassan Dahir Aweys who fell in the government hands as a windfall from Al Shabab’s infighting. Aweys deserves to be sharing the same fate and cell with Charles Taylor for the crimes he committed against the Somali people and for keeping the whole country in cyclic violence for more than two decades. But the failure of the government to yet bring him to court is sign of its unwillingness or weakness to serve justice to the victims of this brutal terrorist and his affiliates.
EMBROILED IN CLAN POLITICS
In another apparent misplaced priority, Mahmoud’s government was embroiled in clan politics which allowed neighboring countries to have a greater leverage in resolving domestic issues. The agreement between Mahmoud’s government and Ahmed Madoobe in Addis Ababa on the creation of the Juba region administration showed the government’s inability to rise above clan politics.
The government also squandered the generous hand extended to it by the international community in the form of a three year “New Deal” cemented with a pledge of 2.4 billion dollars aid to boost the country’s economy and security.
The resignation of Yussur Abrar as the Central Bank Governor due to what she called the government’s double-dealing behavior had damaged the international community’s trust with the government and had put the fulfillment of the New Deal into jeopardy.
The replay of the previous government’s dueling between the President and Prime Minister and the unceremonious sacking of the PM by the President-bought parliament had also thrown whatever hopes the people had in President Mahmoud’s government being any different from its precedents.
It was again the appointment of the new Prime Minister that proved beyond doubt that not every Somali child can dream to rise to the country’s leadership unless she/he belongs to certain clans. Looking back at the succeeding Somali administrations from independence until now with the exception of the short-lived tenure of Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, one can see that the practiced formula was always and still remains to be: “Kolla Rashiid, Kollar Rasaaq, Inta kale, Ma rooti baa?” Weary of war and lawlessness, the Somali people hoped for a new dawn with Mahmoud’s government but it seems Professor Ahmed Samatar’s disconcerting observation of duopoly in Mogadishu is indeed carved in stone.
As the year rolled to its end, it was somewhat amusing to see President Mahmoud rushing to Nairobi to join other IGAD leaders who were trying to bring an end to Africa’s latest civil war in Southern Sudan, while he left Al Shabab to make a name for itself in grappling with the devastating clashes in Lower Shabelle and Hiiran regions.
The autonomous region of Puntland welcomed 2013 with bombast as the region’s president Ahmed Faroole celebrated his 4th year in office but his chance for a second term and the hope for the region’s change from clan-based structure to a democratically elected administration hit a snag with the cancellation of the municipal elections in July.
Although the cancellation averted a civil war, it was the tropical cyclone that smashed Puntland’s coast in November and killed scores of people and had devastated the livelihoods of other hundreds that united the people again.
The year ended with clan-nomination of Puntland’s new 65-member strong parliament which is due to elect a new President on 8th January. The system of clan nomination of representatives which took place in Mogadishu earlier and now in Puntland, falls short of Somaliland’s experiment of a direct elected parliament.
WOMEN’S CONTINUED PLIGHT
Somalia still remained to be a black hole for women’s rights. Rape and violence against women continued unabated to the extent that Amnesty International described it as “ongoing epidemic”. The report cites that perpetrators of such heinous crimes against women included government security officials, armed groups and members of AMISOM. The government’s inability to halt the spiraling rate of rape and violence against women and its appalling actions sometimes of incarcerating the victim instead of the criminal makes a mockery of its otherwise commendable gesture of appointing women to high political and bureaucratic posts such as the deputy prime minister/foreign minister and the Central Bank governor as an apparent cosmetic action aimed at appeasing donor countries.
Press freedom also continued to bleed heavily in 2013 as Somalia retained its notorious position as one of the most dangerous places for media people to work. It remained in the rank of the five worst countries in the world for press freedom as per the 2013 report of the Reporters without Borders.
Going to 2014, it has become obvious that the Somali people have the resilience to rebuild the country but only if Mahmoud’s government liberates them from the grip and fear of Al Shabab and provides them with badly needed justice and a clean fiscal management.
SOMALILAND IN CRISIS
If one attached a name to 2013 in Somaliland it could be called the Year of Roads. A number of initiatives were taken to mobilize the nation to rehabilitate its old roads and build new ones. Most of the projects were people-based although the government also contributed handsomely to them. The plan to build the Buora-Erigavo road, the longest road in the country with the most dangerous terrain, is indeed a highly ambitious and commendable endeavor.
The year 2013, however, started with the country reeling from the aftermath of badly handled municipal elections. Sporadic peaceful demonstrations, police brutality, and heavy handedness against the press have been the main spotlights.
Rape against women reached an unprecedented level as the Ministry of Health reported that 104 rape cases occurred during 2013. What made the situation even worse was that a number of the women were gang raped with impunity.
The political situation was dominated by the wrangling between the government and the opposition about the possibility of holding a national debate to evaluate the status of Somaliland after more 20 years since Hargeisa declared its unilateral secession from Somalia.
The government and the opposition may have different motives for either rejecting or accepting the debate, but one can feel that the unspoken agenda behind the debate is to discuss nothing but the viability of Somaliland’s secession. With thousands of youth graduating every year from the mushrooming universities in the country and the non-existence of employment opportunities for them, and with the majority of the population relying on remittances for their livelihood, there is a great economic crisis in the offing. And also with the improving situation in Mogadishu and the international community’s recognition of the federal government and the sovereignty of a united Somalia as a whole, Hargeisa found itself in the doldrums of a self-imposed political isolation.
The problems we saw on the surface in Somaliland in 2013 such as the deepening divide between the people on tribal lines, the water shortage in Hargeisa and elsewhere, the rampant unemployment, the government’s failure to attract foreign investment and its inability to provide relief assistance to victims of natural disasters such as droughts and rains in far-flung areas of the country, its lack of strategy and clarity of vision in dealing with Somalia as well as its erratic actions regarding the banning of United Nations flights at its airports and its prohibition of its citizens from using Somali passports without offering an alternative, all these problems are just obvious signs of a chronic economic, social, cultural, and political crisis that need an immediate remedy before it is too late. The much talked about debate is therefore not only necessary but timely to extricate Somaliland from its current untenable situation.
Ethiopian Consulate in Somaliland held discussions with Ethiopian community members living in Borama town and its vicinity an on Saturday, 28 December 2013.
The meeting was attended by Consul General Brigadier General Berhe Tesfay, Deputy Chief of Borama District, Mr. Abdi Nur Sugal, Mayor of Borama City, Mr. Suleiman Hassan Hadi and other high level officials from the security sector and a number of religious leaders.
Discussions covered the overall development and security situation in Ethiopia and a briefing on the new Ethiopian Diaspora Policy which aims to ensure the participation of the Diaspora in the development of the country and their benefits thereof.
In the discussion, the participants were urged to establish stronger community association capable of implementing broad self-support packages among community members.
General Berhe Tesfay urged the participants to play a part in the Ethiopian Government schemes including the recent housing scheme aiming to benefit Ethiopians including in the Diaspora.
He noted the Ethiopian government’s ambition and determination of ensuring sustainable growth which will benefit all segments of the society in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. General Berhe hailed the Ethiopian communities’ encouraging roles in reinforcing the people-to-people relations between Ethiopia and Somaliland. Community members vowed to continue uncovering any anti-civilian disruptive plots orchestrated by anti-peace elements such as Al-shabaab, ONLF and OLF and bringing the perpetrators to justice.
General Berhe appreciated the participants’ commitment towards peaceful co-existence and in fighting terrorism.
Deputy Chief of Borama district, Mr. Abdi Nur Sugal, for his part said his administration will remain committed in addressing any challenges the Ethiopian community members are facing.
He said the joint efforts towards expedited cooperation will continue and emphasized the positive role the Ethiopian community in Borama and other parts of Somaliland could play for the achievement of this.
Higher education, especially at the university level is of paramount importance for Somaliland’s future. Somaliland requires both highly trained people and top-quality research in order to be able to formulate the policies, plan the program and implement the projects that are essential to economic growth and development of Somaliland. Preparing individuals for positions of responsibility in government, business, and in professions is a central role of the Somaliland’s universities and supporting these individuals in their work with research, advice and consultancy is another equally important role.
Although there was rapid expansion of university education in Somaliland, which increased access, demand for places still outstrips supply. In spite of the expansion, only a small proportion of the eligible age group has access, based on my assumptions the great majority of university students are aged between 19 and 24 years and no more than 10 percent of the eligible age group attends university education.
Like other levels of the education systems, there are major national imbalances in access to university education. As In most African countries, the proportion of female student enrolment in Somaliland declines as they move up the educational ladder. Female participation in terms of access, persistence and achievement is lower than that of males. These disadvantages translate to inequitable selection and participation at the university level. The quality of university education, like other levels of education can be measured through an analysis of: (a) inputs such as teaching and non-teaching staff, curricula, facilities and technologies for teaching and learning arrangements for students’ catering and institutional management; and (b) outputs such as tests and examinations.
Physical planning in the Somaliland universities both public and private does not commensurate with their rate of growth and expansion as more students are enrolled; the managers of universities continue to accommodate them in the existing facilities. This has often led to an over-stretching of such facilities. As a consequence, there is congestion in lecture Halls, laboratories, libraries and boarding facilities. The situation is most deplorable in the sciences and technologies where mostly the private companies have helped to build them some halls. The required inputs which include adequate laboratory space and as well as spare parts for equipment maintenance and repair, routine replacement and upgrading of equipment, reagents and other consumable supplies are seriously lacking in most universities in the Somaliland.
Libraries are among the worst hit facilities in Somaliland universities. Despite increased enrolments, universities do not invest much in the acquisition of books. Libraries hold less capacity of the required books most of which are too old. Some libraries which were designed to accommodate 600 students now serve as many as 5,000 students like UOH. Apart from inadequate space, most libraries cannot afford to contribute to current journals, Latest books and other scholarly publications from outside Somaliland. There is also a scarcity of reference materials.
The massive expansion of enrolments in our universities without a corresponding increase in the number of teaching staff has meant that the staff to student ratio has risen. Normally each university has its own staff development scheme. However, there are many indications that due to lack of strategy plan, Corruption, post-graduate study, which is the basis of staff development, does not meet the demands in the university faculties. To recruit academic staff for both public universities and private universities, the propensity has been towards relaxing the recruitment and promotion criteria. Moreover, due to very low salaries, it is no longer possible to attract competent staff from education market to teach in our universities.
From the poor situation of the teaching and learning environment and the quality and morale of the academic staff, not much is expected in the quality of instruction in our universities. Many lecturers in our universities use old material, which means that the courses they teach are also out of date and this situation has affected the quality of instruction in the universities. With lack of reading materials, students prefer the familiar expository method of teaching as they perceive university education to consist primarily of the reproduction of assimilated lecture materials for purposes of passing Examinations.
Measures to increase the quality of higher education through teaching and research should remain the principal objective for both Higher education and MOE and Long-term development goals cannot be met without it. It is however, appreciated that improvements in quality are unavoidably expensive. Brothers and sisters those who ready to contribute Somaliland education systems the improvement of higher education quality can be achieved through a variety of measures. Urgent attention should be paid to the establishment and gradual implementation of standards of provision for the full range of inputs to teaching and research. The provision of libraries with the necessary books and periodicals should be the highest priority, closely followed by supplying laboratories and materials needed for equipment maintenance and repair. The revival of long-term efforts to upgrade the academic qualifications of staff (lecturers) is also quite essential.
Thank you!!
Mohamoud Dahir Omar
Education Analyst
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Tell: 0634423327
Recently the Somali Regional government installed a statue in the middle of Jijiga town (the regional capital). This statue is for the 19th century “Somali patriot” who fought with all forces within the Horn of Africa. Historical books and literatures are full of the ideal he had waged battles and wars. In this short article I would like to consider whether he was an Ethiopian and deserve a multi-million dollar statue in the centre of the regional capital. And examine the legacy this man will send to our next generation. Ethiopia is championing a democratic state in which nation/nationalities live in equality, fraternity and brotherhood. The symbolic representation of this man hardly reflects these ideal.
Before we engage with these question let us see the historical background to the emergency and rise of Sayyid Mohamed Abdillahi Hassan. Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (born 1856, Somalia, died 1920, Ogaden) was Somalia’s religious and nationalist leader (called the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British). For 20 years he led armed resistance against British, Italian, and Ethiopian colonialist forces in Somalia.
He was born and brought up in the current Somaliland from his ogaden father and Dhulbahante Mother around the Talex area. As all local children he went to the local quranic school and studied Islamic religion. He was the eldest son of Sheikh Abdille, a religious Ogaden Somali. Hassan’s hero was his maternal grandfather, Sade Mogan, who was a great warrior chief. In addition to being a good horseman, by 11, Hassan had learned the entire Qur’an by heart. In 1875, he worked as a Qur’anic teacher. He then devoted 10 years to visiting centres of Islamic learning in Somalia and Sudan. He then travelled to Saudi Arabia and to perform his Hajj Pilgrimage. It was during his visit to Mecca and Medina he met with a religious fanatic known as Muhamud Saleh, the founder of Salihiyya order.
He was a religious zealot indoctrinated in religious fanaticism, just like the current al- shababa leader, Ahmed Godane, Mukhtar al zubed. Initially he mobilised Somali clans’ men for his doctrine of war against infidels and non-believer and waged war against both British and Ethiopian forces in the Horn of Africa. When the Somali clans were disillusioned with the motive of his fighting, they started to abandon him in bulk. To enforce obedience, he used some cruel form of punishment against anyone who opposed him. It was at this time that he relied a lot on his clans men. At the end of his life, he was much more a clan leader who simply waged war against anyone. As a result, he attacked many Somali clans both in Somaliland and Puntland and Somali regional state and after he simply resorted to looting and pillaging ordinary people and killed.
A turning point in his history was when he killed the Suldan of Dhulbahante Somali clan who lend him a lot of support during his campaign of hatred among Somali. His Islamic teaching in Berbera, current Somaliland port, had not gone well with the local population who already used to follow a moderate Islamic sect. As the result, the fanatic leader became isolated and irrelevant for the cause of Somali people in the Horn of Africa. A tribal raid under Somalis armed by the British killed the remaining Dervish but failed to catch Hassan. Along with some followers, he escaped to Arsi Oromo in Ethiopia where he tried to stabilize his position. In 1920, Hassan died of influenza at the age of 64.
Mohamed Abdillahi Hassan known as the ‘mad Mullah’ by the British was a fanatic religious leader who simply resorted to common criminality to advance his objectives. There is a striking similarity between him and the current Somali regional state, Abdi Mohamed Omar. The latter formed the Liyu police forces just as the fanatic religious leader did more than hundred years ago. He enlisted his own tribes’ men. Initially he attacked his own ogadeni clan to get the green light from his EPRDF/TPLF masters in Harar and Addis Ababa. Then he waged war in to the Somali clans in the regional state. It is an open secret that the liyu police forces also carried out operation beyond current Ethiopian border just like what the Mad Mullah used to do.
There are many Ethiopian Somali who fought for Ethiopia in the long past immediate recent. We are baffled by the decision of the Somali regional government to put a statue in the middle of the jijiga town of this fanatic. The most surprising thing is Ethiopian’s so called federal government tacit acceptance of somebody who plundered and bloody the people’s nose as a hero. While the people of Somali regional state are suffering in much form of manmade calamities, it is a beggar belief to build substantial statue at the cost of tax payers.
Taking into account all these, then the question everyone asking is what the purpose of erecting a statue in jijiga town for a person who preached hatred, religious, cultural and clan intolerance among Somali people and wider Ethiopia. It is also putting a torn in wound to inaugurate this statue on the day of nation/nationalities by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Haile Mariam Desalagn . What message this is sending to next generation.
Personally I don’t have any grudge against this man and his ideal. I might be judging a person sitting in period and time that completely different from his time. However, it is completely a mockery of Somali culture and an insult to the nation/ nationality and clan and tribe democracy the current Ethiopian government want to advance. The next generation of the country will get the opportunity of reading the historical fact written about this man in many books and literatures. They will get opportunity to read his poems in which contain his venomous hate toward other religious sect, Christianity, clan and nation/nationalities. Moreover, this man’s policy at the beginning was based on “greater Somalia” idea. When he failed, he turned to his close affinity with his clansmen by persuasion, sometime by force. He led expeditions against many Somali clans who opposed his indoctrination.
Somaliland Customs agents have confiscated vehicles which were fraudulently brought in by yet-to-be-identified persons without paying the necessary levies this was revealed by the Auditor –General Mr.Mahmoud Aw Abdi (Mahmoud Dheere)
“We have focused on vehicles that reach our market with falsified number plates. Some are stolen from other countries and others are transit diversions,” Mahmoud Dheere said.
The Auditor –General showcasing the impounded vehicles to the media added that both the plate numbers and the documents of the vehicles we have in our custody were either forged or taken off non-functional vehicles.
Mr. Mahmoud Dheere warned the general public against buying vehicles from brokers and other agents before verifying through with Somaliland Custom Authorities as this implies that the buyer will have to pay taxes earlier forfeited by the importer and penalties.
“Those who wish to buy cars through other channels other than designated car bonds should come and crosscheck with Somaliland customs to verify documentation and avoid these penalties,” he warned.
A thought to all those who have died prematurely this eventful year of political crisis in circumstances still unclear:
· A Rayaleh Mahamoud Elmi, a professor of French and activist committed USN, found dead in his cell in the prison Gabode the morning of August 29, 2013,
· A Hafez died young schoolboy Obock December 30, 2012 during clashes between young people of the region and the security forces,
· In all other anonymous fallen to an ideal of freedom and democracy, to all victims of abuse of power and injustice …
Thought also to all those who are deprived of their freedom and their fundamental rights including:
· To all political prisoners currently in Gabode
· To all those who are deprived of their most basic rights,
· To all those who are persecuted for their political commitment, humanistic, social, …
A wish to see the emergence of a genuine democracy in our country and the rule of law in which the dignity and rights of each and everyone will be respected.
A wish again, to see that men and / or women in our skies like Mandela who will cut the chains of discrimination, tribalism, dictatorship, violence against women and the Djiboutian children deprived of education and basic care.
The ODDH continue as sentinel to denounce all forms of violation of human rights and contribute to the full for the advent of a truly democratic constitutional state.
On behalf of the ODDH and on my own behalf b onne year to all. Year 2014 is that of the triumph of human dignity and the rights of peoples.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Three bombs that exploded within an hour outside a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 11 people and the death toll was expected to rise higher.
“At least 11 people are dead and 17 others are wounded. That is what we have carried,” Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of a private ambulance service told Reuters.
HE Vice President Abdurrahman Abdullah Ismail (Saylic)has today officially opened the 6th Somaliland Business Fair which is being held at the Hotel Guleid entertainment park.
More than 100 companies local and international were present today at the 6th Somaliland Business Fair among them DAHABSHIL,TELESOM,SOMCABLE,SOMTEL,AL NUUR to name a few
Mr. Ibrahim Ali Yusuf representing the SOMCABLE high speed internet provider said, “We have launched an ambitious project aimed at connecting a million people in Somaliland with high-speed Internet access.
“SOMCABLE aims to deliver reilable internet capacity to the mass market by deploying kiosks which will be fitted with an omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna and strategically positioned within each city to deliver a replacement service for current under-performing Internet cafés. The kiosks will enable customers to purchase prepaid vouchers with a wide range of different services to suit the various markets”, Stated Mr. Ibrahim Ali Yusuf.
The Somaliland chamber of commerce, industry and agriculture offers the opportunity for members of the business fraternity both local and international to display their wares at the sixth Somaliland Business Fair which will be held from the 1st to 7th of November 2013 at Hotel Guleed Park, Hargeisa.
Somaliland business fair enables both public and private sectors of the country to display their services and get the opportunity to percent and promote their products, services and contributions to the development of the country.
The events is a perfect gateway for businesses to expand their market potential and build new local and internationallynetworkwhich will feature a broad range of Somaliland’s success within the business circle. It offers an excellent way to promote your business and opportunity to connect with other local businesspeople and exchange ideas.
Somaliland business fair was launched in June, 2010 by a group of youth entrepreneurs who came up with the idea to contribute the development of their country in order to achieve in seeing a society with knowledge and civilization, fighting against poverty, free from drugs and crimes.
The business was launched with the aim of attracting potential investors and identifying potential businesses in various emerging markets, with special emphasis on both East Africa and international markets.
