WORCESTER — Nineteen-year-old Deqa Abdirahman Aden likes
politics, and, after completing her studies in the United States, she said she
would like to someday return home to Somaliland to run for public office. However, raised in an African societal and religious culture that drastically
limits opportunities for women, she recognizes that career option probably
won't be available to her. Only two women have ever risen to national ministerial posts in Somaliland, and
Ms. Aden said there will probably never be a female president in her lifetime.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Wrangle splits Somaliland Ruling Party as President Siilaanyo seeks re-election
HARGEISA, Somalia
May 26, 2013 (Garowe Online)-Prominent figures within Somaliland Ruling Party
of Kulmiye are at the loggerheads as President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud Siilaanyo
is seeking re-election ahead of the region's general elections by 2015, Garowe
Online reports.
The magnitude of the dispute emerged after President
Siilaanyo on Saturday sacked his Commerce Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Omar by
presidential decree-a move related to wrangle over the next candidate for
Somaliland presidency.
The Chairman of Kulmiye party Musse Bihi Abdi- army veteran
who served as air force pilot in Siyad Barre regime in 1970s and the current
Somaliland President disagreed on their candidacy, with Musse Bihi Abdi
announcing that he would vie for the separatist administration's top political
job.
Podcast: Independent media silenced in Somaliland
It's been a month and a half since two independent
newspapers were shut down in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland. On 7
April 2014, police occupied the offices of Haatuf
newspaper and its sister publication, The Somaliland Times,
in the capital, Hargeisa.
The closures came shortly after the newspapers had published articles that allegedly insulted government officials, and soon snowballed into the arrest of Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, chairman of the Haatuf Media Network, and Ahmed Ali, chief editor of the network.
These events have not occurred in a vacuum. In the past few years, authorities in Somaliland have increasingly cracked down on media outlets that criticise the authorities, or report on sensitive issues such as corruption.
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The closures came shortly after the newspapers had published articles that allegedly insulted government officials, and soon snowballed into the arrest of Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, chairman of the Haatuf Media Network, and Ahmed Ali, chief editor of the network.
These events have not occurred in a vacuum. In the past few years, authorities in Somaliland have increasingly cracked down on media outlets that criticise the authorities, or report on sensitive issues such as corruption.
Read Full Article
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Provoker and Professor of Hostility: Ali Khalif Galayr Did It Again
The politician-in-exile, the provoker and professor of
hostility, Ali Khalif Galayr once again reiterated his intention of brewing and
preaching hostility in the Eastern part of Somaliland.
Ali Khalif Galayr who was in Kala-baydh, a small town in the
east of Las Anod – the Capital of Sool Region – has spoken to the residents in
that area and encouraged them to pick up arms and fight with Somaliland forces,
the same power that brought the peace and brotherhood among the communities
therein.
“As long as Las Anod is occupied (by Somaliland), the power
and prestige of your local civic authority in Kala-baydh will always remain
challenged. You might say to me if you are not trying to free Las Anod let us
enjoy our peace and quiet and don’t keep reminding us her again and again. But
if we don’t do that, I am afraid that Las Anod would be probably forgotten.
They are not here only for engaging wars, toting guns, and causing hatred to
harass the people in the region but also they are here in Las Anod to erase our
legacy and destroy our future” he said, while trying to manipulate their
emotions to fill hatred and violence.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Militants Attack Somalia’s Parliament
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Militants attacked Somalia’s
Parliament building on Saturday, with a bomber detonating a car filled with
explosives at the building’s entrance followed by several other explosions and
an assault by gunmen, witnesses and Somali officials said. At least 15 people, mostly assailants, were killed, and
more than a dozen guards were wounded, an official said. The assailants were repelled by members of the Somali
security forces and the African Union’s peacekeeping
mission in Somalia, known as Amisom. Witnesses said that after the car bomber struck the
African Union and Somali troops who were guarding an entrance to the Parliament
building, a gun battle erupted as militants stormed the building, where a
session of Parliament was underway. Read Full Article
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