SOMALILAND popularity and SOMALILAND trends

The United Nations envoy in Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, today expressed concern over recent violent clashes in the northern city of Hargeisa, located in Somaliland, between Somaliland security forces and citizens which allegedly resulted in the deaths on both sides.

A military court in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has sentenced 17 people to death for attacking a military base over a land dispute one day earlier, an official said on Thursday.

Somalia gilt als eines der gefährlichsten Länder der Welt. Im Landesinneren wütet ein Bürgerkrieg und vor den Küsten kapern Piraten Schiffe. Doch zwei abtrünnige Provinzen im Norden wollen einen anderen Weg gehen. Somaliland und Puntland setzen auf Bildung und eine bessere Zukunft.

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Somaliland, the northern part of Somalia, has accomplished semi-autonomy without foreign assistance. Now it's caught between disdaining the help and needing it.

PM: "The Somalia Conference is an opportunity to show that we fully support the efforts of the Somali people themselves to build a stronger, safer, more prosperous country."

Somali businessman says profits higher at home than UK

The Somaliland authorities should cease forcibly returning refugees and asylum seekers to possible persecution in Ethiopia. On December 28, authorities returned 20 Ethiopian refugees and asylum seekers in violation of the fundamental international refugee law prohibition against “refoulement,” the forcible return of anyone to persecution or to a place wher...