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By: Yusuf M Hasan

WAJAALE (Somalilandsun) – VP Sayli's prolonged 17 days tour abroad ended with pomp and glory at both Jigjiga town in Ethiopia and Wajale in Somaliland.

Vice president Hon Abdirahman Ismail Sayli who has been on official visits first to Djibouti then Ethiopia and finally Sweden received a warm welcome from state officials at Jigjiga town from where he was then escorted to a massed multitude of Somalilanders waiting for him at the Wajale border town.

By Hassan Darar Houffaneh

Minister of Interior and Decentralization of the Rep. of Djibouti

Paper presented at 11th Horn of Africa Conference in Lund Sweden

8th – 10th June 2012

1. Regional Dilemma: The region under discussion is the Northeastern part of Africa. It composes in a narrow sense the countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. However when considered the spread of the people, their history, language and culture also Kenya, Sudan (the North and the South) and Uganda belong to this Region. This region has an area of Km2, a population of about 178 Mio and a combined coast of 6962 km. Among the eight States, Somalia has with over 3000 Km the longest and Djibouti with 314 km the shortest coast.

By: Mohammed Ahmed Ali

Somaliland achieved independence from Somalia through the struggle against the rein of the late dictator, Siyad Barre that has ruled the county for more than 20 years after SNM forces from Somaliland deposed his socialist government.

Although some of the people that are in the current Somaliland geographical state have not contributed much to the struggle towards the independence of Somaliland, the succession conference in May 18, 1991, adopted that all people in Somaliland are equal.

Below is an article (Why I think Somaliland quest for international 'recognition' has hit a dead end) posted by RBC Radio website which is reposted due to the disgust it elicited and the belief that the writer was hallucinating.

When the Nile runs dry.... ( The Grain )

Few countries in Africa have received more foreign interest in their farmland than those served by the Nile River.

Africa's longest river, the Nile is a lifeline especially for Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda and is already a source of significant geopolitical tensions aggravated by the numerous large-scale irrigation projects in the region. In 1959, Great Britain brokered a colonial deal that divided the water rights between Sudan and Egypt. Egypt gained more than Sudan while other countries were excluded completely. Egypt was allocated three quarters of the average annual flow while Sudan was allocated a quarter. Massive irrigation schemes were built in both countries to grow cotton for export to the UK.

"As of today and henceforth the gap between Somaliland and Somalia is like the sky and earth thus no ground for neither unification nor discussions of re-unification" Hon Boobe ,Information Minister

By: Yusuf M Hasan

HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The TFG prime minister has been informed that re-unification with Somalia was an untenable dream.

This was said by the minister of information Hon Abdirahman Yusuf Duale "Boobe" during a press briefing in his office in Hargeisa where he stressed on the irrevocable sovereignty of Somaliland.

The information minister who also doubles as the official government spokesperson told TFG prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, to desist from continued insinuations that the main agenda of the proposed talks with Somalia was reconciliation as a prelude to re-unification of the two states.

ADDIS ABABA, – Aid agencies are calling for more food assistance for areas in southern and northeastern Ethiopia where erratic rains have adversely affected the mid-February to May 'Belg' crop.

"We have a very significant shortage of food in much of [the] 'Belg' season dependent areas of the country particularly in SNNPR, [Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Region]" Mike McDonagh, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ethiopia, told IRIN.

By: Amb. David H. Shinn

Below are Ambassador David Shinn's comments posted on his blog (http://davidshinn.blogspot.com )on an article titled Sustainable Peace: Why Somaliland Matters.

(Quote)-Abukar Arman, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) special envoy to the United States, posted a provocative commentary on 13 June 2012 titled Sustainable Peace: Why Somaliland Matters.

His basic argument is that there is now more discussion, at least in the Somali diaspora, among Somalis from both Somalia and Somaliland about ways "to end the status quo and settle our differences."

by HHZander

A breakaway, semi-desert territory on the coast of the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland declared independence after the overthrow of Somali military dictator Siad Barre in 1991.

The move followed a secessionist struggle during which Siad Barre's forces pursued rebel guerrillas in the territory. Tens of thousands of people were killed and towns were flattened.

by Abukar Arman | Horn of Africa|

Like in wars between states and other organized groups, civil wars and other protracted domestic conflicts are seldom caused by a single factor. Over time, even those that prove to be the exception to the rule eventually evolve into a much more complex conflict- hence the entity known as Somaliland.

A Brief History