Somaliland Vice-President Ahmed Yusuf Yassin has attended a government organized gathering in his home region intended to boost support for his UDUB party.

Hargeisa (Somaliland Globe) — Dozens of Somaliland teachers demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Education in Hargeisa, complaining about the lack of payment.

Madagascar, an island nation off the south-eastern coast of Africa, enters a political uncertainty after the Southern African Development Community nations, SADC, refused to recognize Madagascar’s new leader Andry Rajoelina.

The Somaliland Shilling (SlSh) has fallen against main foreign currencies including the U.S. dollar in the last few days amid reports of newly printed money arriving in the country.

Hargeisa (Somaliland Globe) — The Hargeisa Regional Court has sentenced Mr Mohamed Abdi Guled (Curad), the editor of Yool daily paper, to 5 months in jail for running “an unregistered” newspaper and printing what the prosecutor called a “fabricated information”, a politically loaded term that often refers to publicizing information that is critical of government [...]

Hargeisa (Somaliland Globe) March 17 – The Chairman of Somaliland’s leading opposition party, KULMIYE, has called for a caretaker government to be appointed to lead the country when the President’s term of office terminates on the 6th of April, Somaliland Globe reports.

There president of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh whose second term in office ends in two years, is reportedly seeking a third term. Mr Guelleh, is currently serving his second six-year term in office, and is constitutionally prevented from running for a third term.

Kampala (Somaliland Globe) — A chartered cargo plane carrying supplies for the African peacekeepers in Somalia crashed shortly after take off killing all 11 on board.

Hargeisa (Somaliland Globe) — The opposition political parties are calling the Parliament to convene a national conference on the future of the country. The opposition call follows the fourth postponement of the presidential election by the National Election Commission (NEC) within the last 12 months.

Presidential elections were due to be held in Somaliland on the 29th Martch 2009. However these have been postponed amid rumours and allegations from opposition parties that the government is not ready to contest in free elections.