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This Week's Somaliland News

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UNHCR Aides Local Youth NGO ‘Havoyoco’ ‎To Supply Commercial Electricity

Port Of Berbera Implements The ISPS Code‎  

Berbera Port Boosts Operations - ‎Transporters Praise Efficiency, Speed‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

The Long Reach Of ‎Majeerteenya’s Criminal Activities‎

UNPO Member, Somaliland Demands ‎Global Recognition‎‎

Secret Dubai Deal Helped Save Oil Tanker ‎Hijacked By Somali Pirates‎

Kenya: Somalia Talks To Cost ‎Kenya Sh1.2 B, Says Kiplagat‎

Regional Affairs

Pirates Hijack Another Ship In South Somalia

Special Humanitarian Envoy Visits ‎Drought Affected Djibouti‎

Somali Recruits Unfit For Training Deported ‎From Kenya‎

Activists Blame Donors, Neighbors For ‎Somalia, Sudan Conflicts

New Malaria Treatment Introduced In ‎Somalia‎‎‎‎

US Appeals For Calm Amid Tensions In Mogadishu

Politics: Somalia And The War Against Terrorism‎‎

Editorial
Special Report

International News

'We Just Want To Know How He Died'‎‎

British American Tobacco Reports Huge Profits

FEATURES & COMMENTARY

"Second Slavery" Snares Migrants‎‎

Day Gunmen Stopped Me On My Way To School

When Nations Yearn For Their Tormentors‎

Batulo Essak Awarded The Prestigious Aleksandra ‎Prize For Achievements In Promoting Equality‎

Opinions

In Defense Of Honorable Basha Farah, ‎Somaliland's Deputy Speaker Of Parliament‎

Hirad On Somaliland: Manifestations Of Hysteria‎‎‎

The Effective Establishment: Small Is Smart‎‎‎‎‎

Abdillahi Yusuf, The Author Of His Own ‎Misfortunes‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ ‎‎‎

A Rejoinder To Abdalla A Hirad’s ‎Outburst Against Professor Jhazbhay


UNHCR Aides Local Youth NGO ‘Havoyoco’ ‎To Supply Commercial Electricity

Hargeysa, 28 April 2006 – A local electricity power supply company in Hargeysa has accused UNHCR and Havoyoco, a vocational training institute based at Bada-As, Hargeysa of diverting funds and resources intended for youth training projects for private enterprise and commercial trade activities.


OSLO, Norway, April 21, 2006 – The Port of Berbera in Somaliland has signed a contract with the Norwegian-based company Nordic Crisis Management to implement the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) in accordance with United Nations’ standards.


President Rayale Receives Ethiopian ‎New Ambassador To Somaliland

Hargeysa, April 29, 2006 - Somaliland President Dahir Rayale Kahin received the new ambassador of Ethiopia to Somaliland Wubeshet Demmise on Thursday morning.


Berbera Port Boosts Operations - ‎Transporters Praise Efficiency, Speed‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

HARGEYSA, Somaliland, April 29, 2006 – The days when the deep-water berth of Berbera port were silent, cranes and empty white warehouses stayed idle, and dwarf and small boats discharged only paltry cargo of bananas, seem to be gone for good


UNPO Member, Somaliland Demands ‎Global Recognition‎‎

Amsterdam, April 26, 2006 – Somaliland declared its independence in 1991 and has been a UNPO Member since 2004. Since then Somaliland has embarked upon reconstruction and reached a remarkable political maturity, despite the lack of international recognition.


Local Headlines Somalia

Garowe, April 29, 2006 – In previous articles we reported on a spate of murders committed by militias from Majeerteenya in such places as Majiyahan, Wajid and Baidoa. Qandala is also one place where militias from Majeerteenya committed acts of violence.

Dubai, UAE, April 27, 2006 – A KHALEEJ TIMES special investigation can today reveal the remarkable cloak and dagger operation mounted after Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker as it sailed from Bahrain to South Africa in October last year. Conducted in secret and across three continents, the ransom operation to save the tanker San Carlo and its 25-man crew culminated three weeks later in Dubai with a $650,000 cash payment to the pirates.


Kenya: Somalia Talks To Cost ‎Kenya Sh1.2 B, Says Kiplagat‎

Nairobi, April 27, 2006 – Kenya will have spent Sh1.2 billion (US$16 million) in the Somalia peace process when final payments are made this week.


NAIROBI, April 28, 2006 – Somali pirates have hijacked a ship in southern Somalia in the latest attack off the country's lawless coast, a maritime official said late on Friday.


NAIROBI, April 27, 2006 – Kenya has deported 17 Somali recruits who were unfit to complete their police training at a Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) camp, officials confirmed here Wednesday.


Activists Blame Donors, Neighbors For ‎Somalia, Sudan Conflicts

NAIROBI, Apr 27, 2006 – Conflicts in Sudan and Somalia are raging on because donors and regional mediators have failed to implement peace agreements for the two war-ravaged countries, peace activists said on Wednesday.


Nairobi, 25 April 2006 – A New effective treatment has been introduced in Somalia to curb the incidence of malaria which is one of the leading killers of children and women, UNICEF Somalia Representative, Christian Balslev-Olesen announced today on the occasion of Africa Malaria Day today.


NAIROBI, Apr 20, 2006 – The United States on Thursday appealed for calm in Somalia, urging leaders to work together and exercise restrain as tension mounts over a new round of fighting for control of the capital, Mogadishu.


First home-trained Somali police officers graduate‎

NAIROBI, April 22 -- The first police officers from northeast and south Somalia trained in decades has graduated from the recently established Armo Police Academy in Puntland, northern part of the Horn of African nation, UNDP said Saturday.

 


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