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Letter Presented By Minerals Minister To Account For Funds Meant For Somaliland Sheffield Community Proven False
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Telecommunications Companies Anger Sillanyo For Failing To Block Haatuf’s Websites
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President Ahmed Sillanyo’s Berbera Entourage In Wreck
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Coalition To Defend The Freedom Of The Press Formed
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Terrorists Break Out Of Hargeysa’s Jail
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Donors Warn Sillanyo’s Government Of Election Delay Tactics
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Of Somalia Sanctions & UN Guards, Somaliland's Aspirations, Censors
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Local and Regional Affairs
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University Students Demonstrate Against Fee Hikes
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UK’s FCO Advice Against All But Essential Travel To The Cities of Hargeysa and Berbera
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Edna Adan: Inaugural Recipient Of The Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award
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Maalim Ready To Defend His Statement If Prosecuted
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Barclays Settles Dispute With Money Transfer Company Dahabshiil
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Criminalization Will Not Stop FGM In East Africa
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A Plan To Revolutionize The Horn Of Africa — Starting With 5,000 Animal Skins
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Somaliland Apologizes After Detained Ethiopian Diplomats
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Wajir Businessman Sets Up First Islamic Insurance For Herders
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ISS: Somalia - Why Orthodox Aid Policy Must Give Way To Battlefield Reality
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Editorial
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Sillanyo And Company Discredit The Judiciary To Protect Their Ill-Gotten Gains
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Features & Commentary
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Somaliland Dispatch: 'I’m A Cutter And I’ll Take A Razor To My Daughter In The Holidays'
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United States: Implications Of U.S. Sanctions Program On Intellectual Property Owners
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The US’s Invasion Of Africa That Nobody Knows About
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International News
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Somaliland President Says, “If We Are Granted International Recognition During My Presidency, We Would Put On The Biggest Celebration The World Has Ever Seen”
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Kiev Promises Russian Language Status Choice As Military Op Enters ‘Inactive Phase’
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Opinion
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Tower Hamlet’s Labor Party Moyoral Candidate Pledges To Recognize Somaliland If Elected
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Somaliland Is New Source Of Rare Earth Elements: Science And Security Of Fusion Minerals
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Our Dear Country of Somaliland is in the Grips of Multi-Faceted Crises
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Somaliland Needs Real Change
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Article 32: Freedom Of Public Demonstration, Express Of Opinion, Press And Other Media
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University Students Demonstrate Against Fee Hikes
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 19, 2014 (SL Times) – Students at the University of Hargeysa demonstrated against the university's increase in tuition. Riot police reacted violently to the demonstration by beating and arresting the demonstrators.
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UK’s FCO Advice Against All But Essential Travel To The Cities of Hargeysa and Berbera
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland except for the cities of Hargeysa and Berbera to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel. Any British nationals in areas of Somalia to which the FCO advise against all travel should leave.
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Edna Adan: Inaugural Recipient Of The Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award
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Honoring a Leader in Global Women’s Health
Philadelphia, PA (April 18, 2014) – Following an intense selection process, Edna Adan has been named the inaugural recipient of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health.
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Maalim Ready To Defend His Statement If Prosecuted
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Former National Assembly Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim accompanied by his lawyer Harun Ndubi have recorded a statement at the Anti Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU).
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Barclays Settles Dispute With Money Transfer Company Dahabshiil
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LONDON-- Barclays PLC settled a legal dispute with one of Africa's largest money transfer companies after the British bank was accused of unfairly trying to shut down its bank account.
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Criminalization Will Not Stop FGM In East Africa
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An Oxford University study has found that criminalization of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia has lead to underground circumcisions. Social norms, not just the law, need to change
Kirrily Pells and Lorriann Robinson
Since female genital mutilation (FGM) has been outlawed in Ethiopia, some rural families have been holding clandestine circumcisions, said parents at confidential focus group discussions in Ethiopia for Oxford University's Young Lives study.
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A Plan To Revolutionize The Horn Of Africa — Starting With 5,000 Animal Skins
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Stabilizing one of the most dangerous regions in the world from the ground up
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Len Tiahlo vividly recalls a flight he took more than a decade ago that had to make an emergency landing on a dirt strip serving as a runway outside the tiny enclave of Jijiga in eastern Ethiopia.
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Somaliland Apologizes After Detained Ethiopian Diplomats
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Somaliland officials apologized for the detention of Ethiopian government personnel, who were previously deemed spies turned out to be “diplomatic staff”.
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Wajir Businessman Sets Up First Islamic Insurance For Herders
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WAJIR, Kenya – The son of a camel herder, Hassan Bashir knows how tough traditional life in Kenya's arid north is, where pastoralists rely on livestock herds surviving boom and bust cycles of drought.
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ISS: Somalia - Why Orthodox Aid Policy Must Give Way To Battlefield Reality
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Written by ISS Africa, Thursday, 17 April 2014
Jens Mjaugedal, Special Envoy of Norway to Somalia, is frustrated… which is hardly surprising given his mission to try to turn Somalia, which has officially been the world’s most failed state for many years, into a success.
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Letter Presented By Minerals Minister To Account For Funds Meant For Somaliland Sheffield Community Proven False
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – An acknowledgement letter presented at an April 9 press conference by Somaliland’s minister of Minerals in order to discredit press reports that he had misappropriated funds donated by his government in support of the Somaliland community in Sheffield, UK, has now proven false.
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Telecommunications Companies Anger Sillanyo For Failing To Block Haatuf’s Websites
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – President Sillanyo became irate with Somaliland’s telecommunications companies after he learned of their failure to block both Haatuf Media’s websites (Haatuf.net and somalilandtimes.net).
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President Ahmed Sillanyo’s Berbera Entourage In Wreck
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Berbera, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – One of the vehicles accompanying President Ahmed Sillanyo during his trip from Hargeysa to Berbera got into a very bad accident.
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Coalition To Defend The Freedom Of The Press Formed
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – A collation to defend the basic human rights of Somalilanders, especially the freedom of the press was formed this week.
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Terrorists Break Out Of Hargeysa’s Jail
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – Five convicted terrorists who are serving jail sentences in Hargeysa’s prison broke out.
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Donors Warn Sillanyo’s Government Of Election Delay Tactics
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, April 26, 2014 (SL Times) – Donors have warned Sillanyo’s government about delaying the elections that are supposed to take place in 2015.
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Of Somalia Sanctions & UN Guards, Somaliland's Aspirations, Censors
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By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, April 26 -- When the UN's Somalia envoy Nicholas Kay along with AMISOM head Mahamat Saleh Annadif took questions on April 23, Inner City Press asked them about the new Ugandan guard unit, about the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group and about Somaliland including its disputed airspace.
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Since 2008, Narayan Mahon has been taking photographs in the unrecognized states of Somaliland (a region of Somalia), Nagorno-Karabakh (a region of Azerbaijan), Transnistria (a region of Moldova), Northern Cyprus (a region of Cyprus), and Abkhazia (a region of Georgia), for a series called “Lands in Limbo.”
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Somaliland - A Model For Development Or Clan Identity Dressed As A Nation?
Somaliland President Says, “If We Are Granted International Recognition During My Presidency, We Would Put On The Biggest Celebration The World Has Ever Seen”
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This article is written by Terje Vigtel, Former Director of Norwegian Volunteer Service, Ambassador to Zambia and Director of Norad’s Civil Society Department.
I am amazed by the enthusiasm people from Somaliland have about their country. They point to the territory`s growing economy and the development of a democratic political system that works better than many others on the continent.
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Kiev Promises Russian Language Status Choice As Military Op Enters ‘Inactive Phase’
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Kiev has promised to let the regions decide on the status of any languages on their own, calling for “peace and unity.” Troops remain in eastern Ukraine, although the military operation has been rendered “inactive.”
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Somaliland Dispatch: 'I’m A Cutter And I’ll Take A Razor To My Daughter In The Holidays'
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No mercy: Cutter Khadija Geedi with her daughter at their home in the village of Baki in Somaliland
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By Martin Bentham
The Somali cutter sat with her 10-year-old daughter beside her and explained calmly why she will take a razor blade to her this summer. “I am a circumciser,” she declared.
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United States: Implications Of U.S. Sanctions Program On Intellectual Property Owners
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Article by E. Martín Enriquez
Lewis Roca Rothgerber
To advance U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives, the U.S. maintains laws and regulations that impose economic sanctions against certain countries, individuals, and entities (the "U.S. Sanctions Program"). 31 C.F.R. § 501 et seq.
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The US’s Invasion Of Africa That Nobody Knows About
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By John Glaser for AntiWar.com
The U.S. is assembling the rudiments of imperial infrastructure throughout Africa, and hardly anybody knows about it.
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Sillanyo And Company Discredit The Judiciary To Protect Their Ill-Gotten Gains
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The circular issued by Hargeysa Regional Court judge Ismail Ahmed Dalmar which the government used to justify its suspension and occupation of Haatuf’s premises is so bereft of any semblance of legal reasoning that it makes one wonder if Ismail Ahmed Dalmar had really studied law or what sort of legal school awarded him a degree. For one thing, the judge claims to have issued the circular based on a request by the CID department that Haatuf had published a series of articles defaming ministers and parliamentarians. The request further alleged that Haatuf Media had written that Bashe Awil (the president’s son-in-law) is the most powerful person in Somaliland’s government although he does not hold any official position in the government.
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Tower Hamlet’s Labor Party Moyoral Candidate Pledges To Recognize Somaliland If Elected
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“Just like Sheffield, this is a victory for every Somalilander, but this is an example that shows how small campaign, by small number of people, can make a positive difference to our search for nationhood”.
As a member of the Labour party, I would like to share all Somalilanders that the Labour Party administration in Tower Hamlets is ready to follow suit of the positive Sheffield city council example and recognize Somaliland. This is a result numerous meetings between Somalilander members of Labour Party in Tower Hamlets who lobbied for the recognition of Somaliland, and the Labour party’s mayoral candidate John Biggs who finally confirmed that any future Labour administration led by him, will take a leading role in recognizing Somaliland.
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Somaliland Is New Source Of Rare Earth Elements: Science And Security Of Fusion Minerals
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Somaliland stands at critical moment facing with several complex issues related to insecurity, and unable to protect people, infrastructure, organizations and foreign investments from terrorism threats.
Recent geological survey indicated that Somaliland has ample deposits of gemological period comprises; the Neogene to Quaternary, Oligocene, Paleocene to Eocene, Cretaceous, Jurassic marine deposits (prevailingly early to middle and late Jurassic), Triassic deposits, Magmatic; intrusive plutonium, and vulcanite. Formed over 6 billion years ago, uranium, a dense, silvery-white metal, was created “during the fiery lifetimes and explosive deaths in stars in the heavens around us,”
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Our Dear Country of Somaliland is in the Grips of Multi-Faceted Crises
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Abdihalim Musa
Today, Somaliland our dear country is in the grips of multi-faceted crises. A crisis caused by hardship, Incompetence, Parochialism and systemic Corruption. This state of affairs must not endure any longer.
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Somaliland Needs Real Change
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This thread is not whether Somaliland should go separate ways or join Somalia to make the perfect union, it is about people, good governance and development. The change, we in the diaspora are looking or propagating might not be achievable, but we should always push for a government for the people. I believe democracy is always the best option for a change.
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Article 32: Freedom Of Public Demonstration, Express Of Opinion, Press And Other Media
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Every citizen shall have a freedom, in accordance with the law, to express his opinions orally, visually, artistically or in writing or in any other ways.
No person may be arrested, searched, or detained, except when caught in flagrante delicto or on the issue of a reasoned arrested warrant by a competent judge.
Today is another black day for Somaliland free press. The Haatuf News was invaded by Somaliland police called Rapid Responses Unit (RRU). It is not the first time the Rapid Responses Unit invaded the compound of the free press properties. Last year Hubaal newspaper was invaded twice leading it to eventually close forever. I feel really sorry for them.
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