Following to the near total failure of the main Gu rainy season, in the month of June 2009, Horn Relief (HR) conducted two successive rapid emergency assessment in all livelihoods zones of Sanaag region.
The government of Somaliland expelled the representative of the organization called Interpeace from Hargeysa, amid a row over election registrations, on Thursday.
On Thursday, a press release by Puntland authorities called for more aid from the international community and aid agencies in drought effected areas, in Karkaar region.
African Union peacekeeping in MogadishuA strange disease has killed two Ugandan peace-keepers in Somalia and affected 17 others who were flown to a hospital in Nairobi yesterday, according to the UPDF.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, says the Obama administration is committed to supporting international peacekeeping operations, including reforms to address issues such as misconduct by peacekeepers. Rice also addressed specific trouble spots in Africa, including the conflict in Somalia.
The top United Nations envoy for Somalia today called on the Security Council to take “concrete” steps to help bring stability to the strife-torn nation, stressing that the support of the international community is more important now than ever.
On 20th of July, the President of Puntland Abdirahman Farole met with executives from oil companies in Dubai, UAE. The meeting was, planned to be held in Puntland, but later changed to Dubai.
Over the past three years, the self declared Republic of Somaliland (North west of Somalia), was gearing up for the Presidential elections in 2009, which many in Somaliland called, the last leap of democracy into recognition for the new Republic.
Thousands of Somalis fleeing fighting around the capital, Mogadishu, have massed in the northern town of Bossasso, trying to cross the Gulf of Aden and sneak into Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday. Up to 12,000 civilians have taken shelter in Bossasso, the base where smugglers take them to Yemen, the agency’s spokesman, [...]
Canadian Somali Congress condemns the unjust conviction of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal in Ethiopia | read this item Canadian Somali Congress condemns the unjust conviction of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal in Ethiopia and calls on the Canadian government to save Bashir from possible execution
Press Release
July 28, 2009
The Canadian Somali Congress is extremely disappointed by the conviction of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal in an Ethiopian court on July 27, 2009. Mr. Makhtal could [...]
IRIN NEWS/SOMALIA
Rapid Assessment Report on the Current Drought Emergency in the Sanaag Region | 
Dahir Riyale Kahin, The President of Somaliland | 
Puntland: Karkaar region severly effect by Drought | 
Susan Rice | 
International support for Somalia more crucial than ever before – UN envoy | 
Puntland leaders still in secret negotiations with Oil companies | 
Somalia: Somaliland and the bizarre Election-Server tale | 
Picture taken March 13, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (SOMALIA) | 
