The Somaliland National Electoral Commission, the NEC, received a new patch of voter registration cards that will replace the cards currently in the hands of the registered voters.

The new cards, which the NEC says were printed in South Africa after the voter registration list clean up process was concluded, are much more difficult to fake.

NAIROBI, April 21 (Reuters) – United Nations sanctions imposed on Eritrea last year will stop it interfering in Somalia, Djibouti’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told reporters in Nairobi he was confident Eritrea would be forced to alter its foreign policies but it would likely remain the region’s pariah state.

Who is Ismail Omar Geilleh?
On March 1st 2010, Somali community in East Africa and all over the world witnessed a new history being made in the dusty streets of ruined but historic town of Saylac in Awdal Somalia.

(SomalilandGlobe.com London, England) (Opinion) Much has been written over the past years about the demise of the objectivity and impartiality of the programmes of the BBC Somali Service since Yussuf Garaad was appointed its editor in the late 1990s.

Four members of the Electoral Commission, including the chairman, resigned a day after two other members also resigned bringing the total that resigned to 6 out of the 7 members of the commission. Their refusal to resign, as demanded by the opposition parties and the Donor countries that assist Somaliland’s democratisation process, has been a [...]

HARGEISA, Somaliland (Somaliland Globe) — The opposition UCID party of Somaliland released a press statement in Somali denying “unconfirmed reports” of agreement between it and the other opposition party KULMIYE on the formation of an interim government.

HARGEISA, Somaliland (Somaliland Globe) – The leader of Somaliland’s opposition KULMIYE party has categorically ruled out that their officials will have any face-to-face meeting with president Rayale, saying there will be no talks unless the president fully honours what has been agreed upon by the three major political parties shortly after the six-month presidential term [...]

HARGEISA, Somaliland (The Somaliland Globe) — The Riyale administration accused Suleiman M. Adam — the leader of the Guurti, the Upper House of Parliament — of planning to depose president Riyale. The Foreign Minister Abdillahi M. Duale, interviewed by Universal TV today, accused Suleiman M. Adam of planning to topple the government “illegally by creating [...]

HARGEISA, Somaliland (Somaliland Globe)- The leader of Somaliland opposition KULMIYE party, Ahmed Mohamoud Silanyo has paid a visit to the civilians who were injured in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the closure of parliament by president Rayale on Saturday.

Every time that the president faced a political crisis of his own making in the past, he conveniently ordered the army and the police into the streets imposing a curfew throughout Hargeisa city.
Uncharacteristically, however, the night following the morning of the massive demonstration that led to the deaths and injuries of  several civilians, not a [...]