By Associated Press, Published: May 12 MOGADISHU, Somalia — An upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of Somaliland — a normally peaceful enclave considered by many to be a sanctuary from Somalia’s decades of violence. Knife-wielding young men follow women along the dusty streets of Hargeisa, the capital of the region, dragging [...]
Muqdisho, May 11, 2013…… Ra’iisal Wasaaraha Xukuumada Federaaliga ah ee Soomaaliya Cabdi Faarax Shirdoon (Saacid), Gudoomiya Maxkamada Sare Caydiid Ilka Xanaf iyo Wasiirka Arrimaha Guddaha iyo Amniga Qaranka Cabdikariin Xuseen Guuleed, ayaa ka qeyb-galay munaasabada xilwareejinta taliyaaha cusub ee Ciidanka Booliiska Soomaaliyeed General Cabdixakiim Dahir Saciid (Gen. Saacid) oo xilka kala wareegay General Sharif Shiikhuna [...]
U.S. assistance to Somalia aims to: help develop a stable government; ensure Somalia is not a safe-haven for terrorists; respond to and mitigate humanitarian crises; combat piracy; and prevent instability in Somalia from destabilizing the region. On January 17, 2013, the United States formally recognized the Federal Government of Somalia as an acknowledgement of the [...]
UK Prime Minister David Cameron says Somalia has made “huge progress” in efforts to end more than two decades of conflict. He is co-hosting a conference in London with Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to help the East African state rebuild itself. Somalia is widely regarded as a failed state, hit by an Islamist insurgency, [...]
Kenya’s newly elected President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against humanity, is expected to attend a Somalia conference next week in London at the invitation of the British government, sources said on Friday. Britain’s high commissioner (ambassador) to Kenya, Christian Turner, extended the invitation to Kenyatta, who is due to stand trial [...]
By Yusuf M Hasan NEW YORK (Somaliland) – As the visiting head of Somaliland President Ahmed Mahmud Silanyo prepares to meet with citizens of his country living in the USA at Chantilly, Virginia, his foreign minister has submitted a letter to the UN Security Council. In his letter, the Somaliland foreign minister Dr Mohamed Abdilahi [...]
William Hague opens new British embassy in Somalia Foreign Secretary William Hague has opened a new British embassy in Mogadishu – the first time the UK has had one in Somalia since 1991. The UK is the first European Union country to reopen an embassy in the country since the Federal Government of Somalia was [...]
Gabe Joselow April 24, 2013 NAIROBI, KENYA — Ethiopia’s foreign ministry has denied there are plans to immediately withdraw all troops from Somalia, despite remarks by the Ethiopian prime minister expressing frustration with the pace of military progress in the country. Speaking to parliament Tuesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said the African Union force [...]
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time Abraham Lincoln Ronald Reagan was a great communicator and I would like to borrow his famous words in a debate with Jimmy Carter ““There you go [...]
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA | Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:48pm BST (Reuters) – Ethiopia will withdraw its troops from Somalia soon, its prime minister said on Tuesday, voicing frustration with the Mogadishu government and African Union peacekeeping forces that are also battling Islamist militants there. After waging an ill-fated war in Somalia in 2006-2009, [...]