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Puntland Sends former Somali PM Packing after Halting his Campaigns
By: Yusuf M Hasan
BOSASO (Somalilandsun) - Officials of The Somali regional administration of Puntland have ordered former Prime minister Prof Adbiweli Gaas to leave the enclave.
According to sources within Bosaso central police station Dr Adbiweli Gaas was ordered to leave the city during a meeting that ensued at the area governor's headquarters following summons regional enclave authorities.
Dahabshiil ‘Honoured’ to Sponsor Somali Week Festival
By Africa Business
LONDON, /PRNewswire/ --
Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer company in the Horn of Africa, has sponsored the 2012 Somali Week Festival in London - a week during which the diaspora community celebrated and honoured its heritage.
Nashville’s Somalis Embrace Election
New citizens recall life under anarchy
Written by/Heidi Hall
About Somalia
Background: The protectorates British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland joined in 1960 to form the nation of Somalia. In 1969, Mohamed Siad Barre took the title of president in a military coup and ruled as a dictator until 1991, when the nation fell into anarchy.
Somaliland: MOE Releases 2011/2012 Examination results
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – Only three students failed the final secondary school examinations while 187 did not participate.
The minister of education Hon Zamzam Abdi Aden revealed this during a press conference in her office in Hargeisa where she released results of the 2011/2012 final national examination results for primary and secondary schools.
Somaliland: Case against Parties Registration Committee Commences
By: Yusuf M Hasan
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) - The controversy surrounding the non-approval of 9 political is about to be resolved.
The high court sitting in Hargeisa has commenced hearing of a case between 9 political groups and the Political Parties Registration and Verification Committee-PPR&VC.
Though the case that opened at the high court was jointly presented by five of the 9 political groups namely NDB, UDHIS, GURMAD, JAMHURIGA and HORYAL
Somaliland: Somalis do not use Proverbs to Lie- Georgi Kapchits
By; Yusuf M Hasan
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The Somali language with over 100,000 proverbs is among the richest languages in the world.
This was said by Dr. Georgi Kapchits during an interview with the Horn newspaper in Hargeisa where he also disclosed that lengthily studies he has undertaken reveal that the Somali language has no proverbs for lies.
Big money in little Mogadishu
By Katrina Manson/Daily Nation
On a visit to a bank in Eastleigh, a Nairobi neighbourhood, Richard Etemesi was taken aback by the appearance of a customer. "He had dollars all over his body – in his socks, his belt; he was just piling out cash, half undressed in the branch manager's office," says the chief executive of Kenya's Standard Chartered bank.
Making Muslim aid more effective: Donate meat during religious festivals?
DUBAI, – Between the foreign aid of oil-rich Gulf States and the billions of dollars spent by Muslims in "mandatory" alms and charity every year, the Muslim world is by all accounts a huge reservoir of potential in the world of aid funding.
But players in Muslim aid say much of the money spent on aid and charity here is mismanaged, wasted, lacking in strategy or ineffective. (See IRIN's in-depth article on this)
Here are a few new attempts to change that:
