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After a five-year hiatus, hijackers have taken five vessels in the past month BETWEEN 2008 and 2011, the waters off the coast of Somalia were the most treacherous shipping lanes in the world. More than 700 attacks on vessels took place in this period. In...

By CALVIN OSARIGO @kalvohonsa Haniya Said Sagar, the widow of slain muslim cleric Aboud Rogo, on Friday was charged with withholding information that could have prevented the attack at the Mombasa Central Police Station on September 11. According to the charges, Sagar (pictured) had information prior...

By Alex Zietlow - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 16, 2017 Though scarred by memories of election-related violence a decade ago, Kenya’s voters would rather have a fair and credible result in next month’s hotly contested presidential election than an inconclusive but peaceful vote. Analysts...

As the drought intensifies in south and north-eastern Somalia, the United Nations emergency food relief agency today airlifted to Mogadishu enough high-energy biscuits to assist 31,000 people for three days. The shipment, made on a Boeing 747 donated by the UPS Foundation from Dubai, also...

  Horndiplomat-H.E the president of the Republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud “Siilaanyo”, appointed Dr Edna Adan Ismail, one-time First Lady of Somaliland, Foreign Minister, and the founder/Director of Edna Adan University Hospital his special envoy on the faltering Somalia-Somaliland.   https://twitter.com/slpresidency/status/889502359004610560 Dr. Edna, a revered and most...

By FRED OLUOCH More by this Author   The International Election Observation mission chief observer in Somaliland Dr Michael Walls spoke to The EastAfrican's Fred Oluoch about the recent election and the issues of international recognition. From what you have observed, how has the election gone, from voter...

The Somaliland Civil Society Organizations held series of meetings from 5th to 9th of August 2018, which members of civil society have discussed the upcoming elections of House of Representatives and Local Council that was scheduled to be held simultaneously in March 2019. These...

At least 61 people have been killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, officials said, the latest bout of violence to highlight increasing instability in a province racked by bloody protests in 2015 and 2016. In the latest bout of attacks...

By: Dr. Mohamed O. Guudle( PhD) A congratulatory message   Selaam Alaykum! A warm Greetings from the Heart of the Beautiful Hargeisa Somaliland. I take great pleasure in extending warm congratulations to  Admas University Hargeisa on the fifteenth anniversary of the University's founding, this 20th day of September 2006. I am...

by Seth G. Jones, Andrew Liepman, Nathan Chandler This report analyzes the U.S. and allied campaign against the al Qa'ida–linked terrorist group al Shabaab in Somalia, examines what steps have been most successful against the group, and identifies potential recommendations. It concludes that, while al...