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Tribal Homelands- lessons from the SSC Wars

Somaliland: The SSC war is definitely not a war for Somalia
Edit | 03 March 2011 | News
Tribal Homelands- lessons from the SSC Wars
Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar
jowharabdi@gmail.com
April 30, 2011

SSC- Objectively Defined: A well armed and fierce political-military organization. Acronym: SSC; Sool, Sanaag and Cayn, two regions and one district considered alternatively within Somaliland/Somalia/Puntland state borders; but also [...]


Al Shabaab linked SSC terrorist group Assassinated Somaliland Officials

(Las Anod, Sool, Somalilandglobe.com) On Friday night Unidentified masked men armed with pistols shot and wounded three people including a Somaliland police officer in the town of Las Anod , officials and witnesses said Saturday.


U.S. Monitors SSC Militants as They Step up Assassinating Somaliland Officials

Dalmar KaahinApril 18, 2011
“Currently, the NSUM [SSC] members are busy collecting money not for rebuilding schools and hospitals but for detonating explosive against Somaliland politicians, police and army officers in Sool region. Mark my words! The NSUM [SSC] has its assassinations contrived.” I wrote in May 2009.


Somaliland, a generally law-abiding de facto state; Puntland, which is the home base for most of the pirates

Somaliland does not serve as a haven for piracy
The fact that a Danish family is now being held captive on the coast of the de facto state of Puntland by Somali pirates is an illustration of the unrealistic attitude of the international community toward Somalia – or rather the former country of Somalia.


Somaliland Battles against Three Deadly Wars—Clan, Jihad, & Pan-Somalism

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 [...]


Somaliland and Puntland authority views the (SSC) group as a threat to the region’s stability

 
The United States remains righteously concerned about Somali-American boys travelling to Somalia to join Alshabab. But the U.S. seems oblivious of the Somali-American adults whom not only generously contribute to the Horn of Africa’s miseries but also evidently form violent Alshabab-affiliated rebels that attack Somaliland. Should they be deemed equally dangerous—a real threat to peace [...]


Somaliland: Seeking A Deserved Recognition

 Beginning from the restoration of the Somaliland state in 1991, Somaliland has been working hard to prove to the world its ability to bring about fundamental structures and policies of a modern state. Somaliland gave first priority to peace and security. This peace and security has provided Somaliland population to enjoy law and order, uninterrupted [...]


Former Somali Ambassador to US Abdikarim Ali Omar accused Somaliland for being hired agents for Ethiopia

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Columbus(SomalilandPress)–The SSC organization has held a meeting in Columbus, Ohio last week; the meeting was chaired by Mr. Suleiman Esse Ahmed (Xaglatoosiye), Chairman of SSC, and Mr. Suleiman Samater (Wajixaad), Treasurer of SSC, and Mr. Abdikarim Ali Omar, leading supporter of ONLF in the USA and a former Ambassador to the USA for Siad [...]


“Accept the reality that a unified Somalia is not possible” Professor NIKOLAS GVO U.S. Naval War College

We accept the reality that a unified Somalia is not possible. “Up to this point, U.S. policy, EU policy has been to try to create a functional, central government for Somalia to control the entire country. We may now be moving to a situation where we move away from that and accept the reality that [...]


Puntland officials arrest SSC Terrorist Commander

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GALKAYO — Puntland Security personnel arrested SSC terrorist commander Yasin Ali Tamaad in the central Somali town of Galkayo where he was a transit on his way back from Mogadishu. Yasin Tamaad is in charge of the military wing of the terrorist group Sool Sanaag and Cayan (SSC) and in the recent days has [...]