Dalmar Kaahin
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November 03, 2009
Last year, on October 29, 2008 Alshabaab terror group carried out a devastating terrorist attack against Somaliland. Over twenty-two Somaliland citizens—not Ethiopians or foreigners—perished in the blast. The majority of Somalilanders have never seen anything but peace because they were ...
October 18, 2009
Ridiculous! You would think. Welcome to Alshabaab´s world. Imagine strolling along the road with your mother, sisters, and wife. And as if you have violated some kind of a pedestrian rule (not a traffic law) Alshabaab zealots pull you to the side. And then just as police officers inspect vehicles, t...
September 18, 2009
Almost a decade ago, in 2002 after President Ibrahim Mohammed Igal passed away, many political analysts predicted that no way will Somaliland honour its constitution and sworn the vice president Dahir Riyale Kahin in as the third president without bloodshed. Never! It was unthinkable for such a smoo...
August 28, 2009
For almost two decades politically polarized warmongers, acting like spoiled children who refused to share a sandbox, held Somalia hostage. But never before have Somalis seen a terrifying group like Alshabaab cult. From a victorious group that evicted Ethiopian troops from Somalia to a barbaric enem...
August 29, 2009
The recent visit of the Ethiopian delegation to Hargeisa, Somaliland capital, may be disguised as a routine diplomatic tour to strengthen the relationship between Somaliland and Ethiopia, but the rosy pictures painted by Hargeisa could be misleading. In fact the visit could be a prelude to a devasta...
July 21, 2009
The year is 1988. At the height of the brutal assault by forces of the former Somali dictator Gen. Mohammad Siad Barre against the people of Somaliland, MiG fighters bomb civilian targets and thousands of bodies of dead and wounded litter the streets of major cities. Panicked survivors flee in dro...
July 10, 2009
Somali MPs, chased from their houses in Mogadishu, unable to find a secure den to convene meetings or venture into the streets, flee in droves. Some escape to Kenya; others, to North America and Europe. But a small group of MPs who originally hail from Somaliland, time and time again, when they sens...
June 30, 2009
As I watch the video of U.S. congressional hearings convened in Washington DC in June 25, 2009 about the current turmoil in Somalia, a hostile voice echoes in the conference room: "If they [Somaliland people] want to be isolated, they can be assured that I will do all I can to isolate them…" an infu...
June 06, 2009
Although U.N. efforts to rebuild Somalia´s shattered military invokes nostalgia and reminisces about Somali National Army´s SNA glorious days in the battle fields, once a mighty African force that its enemies trembled with fear—the SNA´s dark side, the atrocities it inflicted not on the enemy ...
May 26, 2009
What an irony? But as if spreading disinformation about Somaliland and hurling insults at its leaders don´t suite Dr. Megalommatis´s venomous outbursts, in his latest lethal baits masqueraded as a remedy to sea piracy in Horn of Africa he proposes the unthinkable: strangle Somaliland people throug...
May 18, 2009
Titles: "Mission Report" and "Special Report" often decorated on wardheernews.com (or warandheernews.com) as news articles supposed to be fair, authentic and informative to convey their message. But what happens when the message is lost within itself? What happens when the author scribbles 3000 wo...