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Rayale Hails The SNM’s May Offensive
Hargeysa, Somaliland, June 3, 2006 – Somaliland president Dahir Rayale Kahin has sent a congratulatory message to the war veterans of the Somali National Movement, the organization that liberated Somaliland from Somalia, on the occasion of the 18 anniversary of the May 1988 offensive.
Sheikh School Benefits From North-East Fundraising
London, UK, June 1, 2006 – AN AFRICAN school where two North-East teachers were murdered by terrorists is to benefit from fund-raising by their friends.
“The People Of Somaliland Are The Most Ethiopia-Friendly Somalis In Centuries”
In 1960, former British Somaliland and former Italian Somaliland united into one country called the Somali Republic or Somalia. This was supposed to be the first step towards the reunification of all the five components of the Somali people, who had been fragmented by imperialism.
Annalena Tonelli School Of The Deaf And The Blind Faces Bleak Future
Borama, Somaliland, June 01, 2006 -- The Annalena Tonelli School of the Deaf and the Blind faces uncertain future after an Italian organization decided to stop its financial support to the school. No explanation was given for Comitata's decision to suspend its assistance.
Somaliland Angered By Ali Khalif Galaydh's Allegations Against Its Late President
Hargeysa, Somaliland, May 31, 2006 -- Somaliland's Information Minister Abdillahi Mohammed Duale today vehemently denied allegations by Dr. Ali Khalif Galaydh, a former Somali Prime Minister, that Somaliland's late President Mohammed Ibrahim Egal didn't believe in Somaliland's independence but was waiting for the opportunity when a Somali government was established.
Yemen Halts Somaliland Cattle Imports
SANA’A, YEMEN, May 31, 2006 — Media sources mentioned last Tuesday that top government directives were given to Al-Mokha Port officials to cease importing cattle from Somaliland Republic ports in Berbera and Hargeysa.
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Sharif Hassan’s Body Guards Beat Female Journalist
Baidoa, Somalia, June 3, 2006 – Maryan Mohamed who works for Radio Shabelle was on Thursday beaten by the bodyguards of the speaker of Somalia’s parliament, Sharif Hassan Adan.
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 30, 2006 – A U.S. official handling Somalia has been transferred from his job after criticizing payments to warlords that are said to be fuelling some of Mogadishu's worst-ever fighting, diplomats said on Tuesday.
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 30, 2006 – A U.N. official expressed deep concern Tuesday that weapons are flowing into Somalia and accused authorities in the violence-torn Horn of Africa country of doing too little to halt a new surge in fighting. Dennis McNamara, head of U.N. efforts to help people displaced in their own countries,
Washington DC, May 31, 2006 – As the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to dominate headlines, a new front in the war on terrorism has opened in Somalia. At a brutal cost to Mogadishu's civilian population, once-discredited warlords have reinvented themselves as "counter-terrorists," seeking and apparently
PUTRAJAYA, May 29, 2006 – The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia Monday claimed that there was a presence of Al-Qaeda network in the east African country and called on the international community for help, saying that the current situation posed grave danger to the world stability and security.
Merka, Somalia, June 02, 2006 – Living in the anarchy of Somalia, the sights of violence are nothing new to Halima Ahmed. But a one-year-old baby lying in the street, one leg severed by a mortar shell, is an image of horror that still haunts her.
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