PRESS RELEASE GAROWE, February 15, 2016 EU launches 7 million Euros education programme for Puntland The European Union jointly with the Government of Puntland launched the second phase of the Puntland Education Sector Support Programme. The Waxbarashadu Waa Iftiin (Education is Light) phase II programme launched today is implemented by a consortium of NGOs comprising […]
Continue reading …The Nexus between Somaliland and Al-Shabaab Written By Swedish Investigative Journalists Peter Wolfson & Greta Backstrom Many accounts misapprehend the nature of the relationship between Somaliland and al-Shabaab. The relationship, in fact, goes far beyond contact and coexistence, with significant financial assistance by Somaliland’s Ministry of Interior and Intelligence Agency providing the bulk of al-Shabaab’s […]
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Continue reading …Berbera port: Bollore clashes with DP World. he port of Berbera in Somaliland that lies across from Aden in Yemen has stirred the lust of France’s Bollore and Dubai-based DP World. The two groups are strongly lobbying Somaliland president Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud, a k a Silanyo, for a contract to manage the port. Silanyo has […]
Continue reading …Somalia’s Int’l partners welcome the Federal Government’s decision on an electoral model for 2016 Mogadishu, 28 January 2016 – Somalia’s international partners welcome the decision taken by the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) on an electoral model for the electoral process to be conducted later this year. The United Nations, the African Union Mission in […]
Continue reading …About 4,000 asylum seekers had already withdrawn their applications, according to reports. Finland expects to expel nearly 20,000 migrants out of the 32,000 who sought asylum last year, a senior official from interior ministry said on Thursday, around the normal percentage but many more people. “20,000 is the estimate we are working with at the […]
Continue reading …Prominent Kenynan businessman Jacob Juma accused Ethiopia on Sunday of supporting the terrorist group al-Shabab to destabilize Kenya. “Uhuru [Kenyan President] needs to ask African Union & UN to investigate Ethiopia on its secret supply of arms and support to Al-Shabaab. Ethiopia is a suspect.” Said Juma via Twitter. “Jubilee government must deal with Ethiopia […]
Continue reading …If history is dictated by the concerns of the historian’s day, then it’s surprising more of us haven’t heard the story of the Halbmondlager, or “Half Moon Camp”, a small First World War prisoner-of-war camp in Zossen, near Berlin. It was like no other PoW camp in history. Reserved primarily for Muslim prisoners, detainees lived […]
Continue reading …Marehan Local clan in El Adde might have betrayed KDF: President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathethe: A team tasked with probing the attack on KDF soldiers in Somalia has started its work. [Photo: File] The board of inquiry formed to probe what really happened during the attack […]
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