The self-declared republic of Somaliland voted this past weekend for a new president. Somaliland is the one corner of Somalia that functions, but the international community refuses recognize it as a nation-state. Is the West scuppering its best chance for democracy in the region?
KULMIYE’S FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT,
Jun 06th, 2010
Dr. Mohamed A Omar (Hargeisa Somaliland, SomalilandGlobe.com) In the run up to the upcoming presidential election scheduled Jun26 2010, KULMIYE Foreign Affairs Secretary, Dr. Mohamed A Omar, released statement discussing the Kulmiye Party foreign affairs policy.
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2010, SomalilandGlobe.com — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
Somaliland: ISG Situation Paper May 2010
Somaliland 2nd Democratic Presidential Election in Sight: 26 June,2010
Introduction
In their 29th of May, 2010 meeting, the ISG members discussed the preparation for the upcoming Presidential election to be held on the 26th of June, 2010, and the recent process of the Voter List Display and Replacement of cards conducted in [...]
A Descent Into the Absurd
Distortion, Lies and Hyperbole: In Response to Gregory R. Copley’s article “Somaliland’s Presidential Election Assumes Growing Priority as Major Powers Sense Strategic Urgency of the Horn Situation”.
Press release:
Democracy: a Freedom Unshared
As Election Day draws closer, many all around the UK are contemplating whether they should vote or not. Some naively argue that all politicians are corrupt, while others very simply ‘can’t be bothered’. But all around the world there are people who have struggled for and who still yearn for the [...]
Somaliland president secretly flies to Djibouti, Ethiopia and France
President Dahir Rayale Kahin has flown out off the country yesterday to the Djibouti Republic for a surprise visit to the Red Sea nation, Ethiopia and France.
The president was accompanied by the first lady, Huda Barkad Adan, minister of Post and Telecommunication, Ali Sandule, Director of port [...]
In a statement, the Canadian Somali Congress said: “This report is deeply troubling…. We condemn the human rights abuses by the Al-Shabab terrorist group, the Transitional Federal Government and the troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia. This credible report shows that the various players in the Somali conflict have violated the laws of [...]
Columbus, OH (HOL) – The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP have filed a lawsuit against the former chief of Somali National Security Service (NSS). The lawsuit alleges that Col. Abdi Aden Magan ordered the detention and torture of a professor and human rights lawyer in 1988.
Somaliland Vice President, Ahmed Yousuf Yasin, was warmly received when he returned from 3 months treatment in France, at Berbera Airport yesterday.