After a decade, the Somaliland electorate is heading to the polls to elect candidates for the local elections. Nine political parties would contest for the upcoming election; however, the process the un-elected registration commission selected the political parties was flaw, questionable and un-democratic, and it could undermine our fledgling democracy. In addition, the three existing [...]
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By Abdirahman Mohamed Dirie Politicians, and leaders of the world have commented Osama evil policy of targeting civilians of all faiths — I hope it will drastically decline in the future after he was eliminated — but they failed, it seemed , to foretell the long term repercussions and the negative affects of Osama upon [...]
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Somaliland has impressively managed to create democratically elected governmental institutions, political stability, and more importantly, a bottom-up peace building program throughout the last two decades. The wonderful performance of the private sector in Somaliland reflects what we can do as a nation. However, this article is not intended to discuss neither the historic events that [...]
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The recent Somaliland presidential election represents a singular achievement not seen in the Horn of Africa sub-region for over forty years. The last time an incumbent president gracefully conceded defeat through a democratic electoral process was in 1968, when president Aden Abdulle Osman of Somalia lost to Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke. He went into the history [...]
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Efforts to link Somali pirates to terrorism, capture and showcase them in American, European, and African courts, shoot them and hail trigger-happy Marine snipers as heroes as well as deploy International navies to Somalia run their course, yet no solution to sea piracy. And U.N. condemnations and anti-piracy resolutions remain a mere symbolic while the International [...]
Efforts to link Somali pirates to terrorism, capture and showcase them in American, European, and African courts, shoot them and hail trigger-happy Marine snipers as heroes as well as deploy International navies to Somalia run their course, yet no solution to sea piracy. And UN condemnations and anti-piracy resolutions remain a mere symbolic while the International [...]
While the International community revives Somalia, an ominous storm gathers at Somaliland´s borders. The storm gains momentum, and so does the invasive war with ghastly stories to tell. And unlike Somalia´s “Transitional Federal Government” (TFG) that fights against only Jihadists, Somaliland faces three violent groups with conflicting ideologies but with one common goal: achieving Somali [...]
For no apparent reason the so-called leaders of Puntland region in Somalia consider themselves Somalia’s Iraqi Kurdistan and they try to play a political role similar to that of Iraqi Kurdistan. They are ignorant of the fact that Kurdistan is a region whose natives belong to the wider Kurdish nation, which is spread all through [...]
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Good morning & Good evening fellow Somalilanders [wherever you live-in]. We have been chasing our tail for quite a long time, and I believe its about time we hire Internationally acclaim Lawyers to highlight our endeavor and fight for us. The undertaking of this steps should be coordinated between you and our government and present [...]
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The news that the editor of the Somaliland based Waheen newspaper, Abdi Jama, was fined six million Somaliland shillings on top of a three year criminal sentence by a court of law in Hargeisa has infuriated many in the Somali media professions. Mr. Jama was charged and convicted of a libelous act against a public [...]
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