Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
Somalia's main export market reopened
afrol News, 5 November - Saudi Arabia officials have announced that the 9-year ban on import of livestock from Somalia, including Somaliland, is lifted. Thus, Somalia's main export trade may be resumed, promising much needed revenues for Somali farmers.
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Politics | Society
Somaliland peace pact hailed
afrol News, 2 October - The top United Nations envoy to Somalia has today congratulated officials in the self-declared autonomous region of Somaliland for striking an agreement to end a stalemate on delayed presidential elections. Read more
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Politics | Human rights | Society | Media
Crackdown on independent media ahead of election
afrol News, 25 August - The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an end to an ongoing government crackdown on independent journalists in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland, ahead of the election scheduled for 27 September. Read more
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Politics | Society
Opposition warns government against delayed polls
afrol News, 6 July - Somaliland’s two opposition parties have warned government against further delays in the holding of presidential election, saying the elections are long overdue. The Somalia's separatist republic of Somaliland has postponed elections four times. Read more
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Politics
Somaliland voter registration resumed
afrol News, 2 December - In the breakaway republic of Somaliland, voter registration resumed yesterday amidst heavy security, following a delay caused by an October terrorist attack. Presidential and local elections are planned for early 2009.
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Politics
Somaliland under terrorist attack
afrol News, 29 October - The presidential palace, the Ethiopian embassy and UN offices in Hargeisa, the capital of the democratic breakaway republic Somaliland, were bombed today in what is described as the biggest coordinated terrorist attack in the Horn of Africa so far. At 21 persons were killed.
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Politics
Voter registration upcoming in Somaliland
afrol News, 29 July - The breakaway republic of Somaliland, which will hold presidential elections in April next year, to be followed by local elections, will start voter registration in October, according to a presidential decree. Somalilanders thus hope the country's democratic image abroad will prevail, but trouble is looming.
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Health | Science - Education
First HIV surveillance programme in Somaliland
afrol News, 28 July - The first-ever HIV surveillance programme in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has been launched. The surveillance is set to explore key findings of the earlier research, with a focus on most-at-risk populations.
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» 24.06.2008 - Somali pirates kidnap German tourists
» 18.06.2008 - Somaliland elections slated for April 2009
» 17.06.2008 - Somaliland state economy rapidly expanding
» 10.04.2008 - Somaliland parliament bombed
» 06.02.2008 - More Somalis flock Djibouti
» 29.10.2007 - Somaliland introduces displaced support tax
» 08.08.2007 - AI petitions Somaliland over opposition arrest
» 26.06.2007 - Somaliland now centre for illegal female cutting
» 05.06.2007 - Somaliland closer to recognition by Ethiopia
» 29.03.2007 - Somaliland journalists freed after 86 days
» 23.03.2007 - Locusts threaten Eritrea, Sudan, Somaliland
» 04.01.2007 - Somaliland journalists spend third day in detention
» 03.01.2007 - Djibouti, Somaliland in bitter port feud
» 17.10.2006 - Suicide bombers "heading for Somaliland"
» 16.10.2006 - Islamists burn Somaliland newspaper
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