For Immediate Release
After sixteen years of repeated failures our breakaway northwestern region which calls itself “ Somaliland” made a desperate and, we hope, final move to force the African Union to recognize it.
Last year (June, 20-21) a delegation of the secessionist region arrived at the AU meetings in Banjul uninvited but was, understandably, denied admission. They tried, nonetheless, to lobby for recognition in the hotels where delegates stayed but had no one to listen to them.
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January 19, 2008
The leader of the secessionist Administration in Hargeisa, Col. Dahir Riyale Kahin, formerly of Siad Barre's dreaded 'National Security Service', paid a visit last week to Washington, D.C amid speculations and euphoria in Hargeisa that the United States was on the verge of finally extending diplomatic recognition to the breakaway region of our country. This provoked an angry response from pro-unity Somalis who demonstrated in front of the State Department protesting against presumed machinations to dismember their country; and they handed a protest note to the Department.
Noakes, Greg
January 18, 2008
In the wake of U.S. and other international troop withdrawals, Somalia
faces even more problems than the absence of central government,
endemic clan rivalries, civil strife and the lingering specter of food
shortages. There is also the prospect of a formal breakup of Somalia
into two separate nations based upon the former colonial boundaries
between Italian-occupied Somalia and British Somaliland.
A Washington DC Rally for Somali Unity
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January 14 , 2008
Washington DC, January 14, 2007 (NSPU News) - A large peaceful demonstration was held today at two locations in Washington, DC: The United States Department of State and United States Capitol Hill, to protest the visit to the Nation’s capital by politicians from the secessionist enclave in Northwest Somalia, led by Colonel Dahir Rayale, a former officer of Siad Barre’s dreaded National Security Service (NSS).
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For Immediate Release
November 28, 2007
The Northern Somalis for Peace and Unity (NSPU) welcomes the appointment of Nur Hassan Hussein as Prime Minister of Somalia. We are encouraged by the commitment of the Prime Minister to work towards the restoration of peace, stability, and good governance in Somalia.
We call for the new Prime Minister to urgently tend to the humanitarian needs of the refugees who have fled the fighting and destruction in Mogadishu and to alert the world community about the massive humanitarian need in Somalia. In addition, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) should pay attention to the suffering of thousands internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were ousted from Las Anod, the capital of Sool Region, by militia loyal to the secessionists enclave (Somaliland) in the North West of our country.
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For Immediate Release
November 25, 2007
The people of Somalia’s Northern Regions of Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn (SSC) have spoken. In a clear and unequivocal Statement, echoed throughout the Horn of Africa country and distributed to the international media, the Traditional Leaders of SSC, the only genuine authority in that region today, issued a stern warning, demanding the immediate withdrawal of secessionist Somaliland’s militia from their clan territory.
November 23, 2007
Ato Tamrat Nega, an Ethiopian journalist, published an article titled “Meles Proposes a Two State Solution for Somalia” on Wardheernews.com on October 28, 2007, and the article appeared on other Somali websites as well. The article informed its readers that Ato Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, having been frustrated by the worsening situation in Somalia, formed a committee of Ethiopian experts on Somalia to review the obstacles to success and propose to him viable solutions. The Committee, reportedly chaired by Dr. Alemu Tekede, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, comprised senior officers of the ruling EPRDF, several generals, as well as security and intelligence officers. The Committee tendered its report after five months of deliberations with the following recommendations:
Mohamoud A Gaildon
November 23, 2007
In the aftermath of Somaliland’s capture of Las Anod, and the deafening cacophony that followed, it is refreshing to hear the voice of the people as expressed through their own traditional leaders and elders. The Bo’ameh message is loud and clear: Somaliland must get out.
Mohsin Mahad
October 24, 2007
The capture of Laascaanood by the secessionist militia of Somaliland and their local collaborators has, as was to be expected, unleashed widespread jubilations and unbecoming gloating among all sections of the population in the separatist heartland. Indulging in vainglorious heroics and phoney triumphalism has always been innately ingrained in the psyche of the people of that part of Somalia. Although there is nothing new about this, it has this time gone over the top.
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Eng. Mohamed Ali Mirreh
October 23, 2007
October 23, 2007
The capture of Laascaanood by the secessionist militia of Somaliland and their local collaborators has, as was to be expected, unleashed widespread jubilations and unbecoming gloating among all sections of the population in the separatist heartland. Indulging in vainglorious heroics and phoney triumphalism has always been innately ingrained in the psyche of the people of that part of Somalia. Although there is nothing new about this, it has this time gone over the top.
Faisal Roble
October 22, 2007
October 22, 2007
Introduction
Following is a part of a larger study (to be published soon) which discusses local and global challenges facing the separatist region of “Somaliland” in its search for recognition. These abridged excerpts are intended to put into perspective the recent re-occupation of Las Anod by troops loyal to the administration in “Somaliland”
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Secessionist Somaliland’s Naked Aggression against the Peaceful Region of Sool
October 17 , 2007
For Immediate Release
Somalia’s Northern regions, which until recently enjoyed a relative peace, are on the verge of entering an era of internecine clan warfare similar to, and may be worse than, what has plagued the southern part of the country for over a decade.
The Hargeisa-based clan-driven secessionists’ northern enclave of Somaliland, in the early hours of October 15, 2007, launched unprovoked armed aggression on the peaceful town of Las Anod, the capital of Sool region in the northern pro-unity State of Puntland. This naked aggression caused the death of at least 12 people and displacement of large residents of the city, as well as injuring unknown number of civilians. The local people are in arms defending their families and their properties against these invaders from their distant stronghold, Hargeisa, which is more than 900 Kilometers from Las Anod
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August 01, 2007
In a recent editorial note, Awdalnews in bold headlines proclaimed the discovery of a “clandestine conspiracies” against Somaliland, the secessionists’ enclave in Northern Somalia. The “clandestine conspiracies” supposedly uncovered by Awdalnews is a copy of an advocacy letter sent by the Northern Somalis for Peace and Unity (NSPU) at the wake of the AU Summit in Accra to Ghanaian officials, local media and civic society groups, educating them on the true color of the secessionist movement and the reality on the ground in that part of the Somali Republic.
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Secessionist ‘Somaliland’ Embarks on a Dangerous Course of Desperation
April 14, 2007
For Immediate Release
The unfortunate, but internecine, conflict raging in Mogadishu between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its opponents as well as developments elsewhere in the country have apparently thrown the secessionist camp in Somalia’s Northwestern Region (‘Somaliland') into disarray and confusion.
Early this year the secessionist camp made a series of demonstrations in the UK, followed by a petition to the British Prime Minister to recognize the enclave – a petition which was naturally denied.
Please read here the full version of the Press Release
African Union Shuts the Door of Recognition to “ Somaliland ”
Posted on February 20, 2007 by NSPU
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