“The Horn of Africa States is a region of only four states, namely Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti (the SEED countries), and the closer these countries come together, the easier it would be to solve some of the intractable problems of the region.” President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of Somalia was again in Eritrea on March […]
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BY TESFANEWS President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who is on a four day working visit to Eritrea, presided over a military parade by members of the 5000 Somalia National Army who completed their 3-year military training in Eritrea.
Continue ReadingA new deal has recognised Jubaland, a strip of land in southern Somalia and bordering on Kenya and Ethiopia, as yet another quasi-independent entity in the region. By Martin Plaut, After nine days of late night meetings and plenty of arm-twisting, the fragile government of Somalia was finally forced to accept that a further slice […]
Continue Reading“Practically speaking, no one in Somalia actually voted for anyone who chose the new President of Somalia” By Thomas C Mountain, While the international media might trumpet “Somalia’s First Free and Fair Elections in 50 Years” reality on the ground in Mogadishu reveals a truly grand farce of an “election” process. First of all, the […]
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