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However, South Africa has formally declared that Somaliland fulfils the Montevideo Convention criteria for statehood in addition to it accepting the Somaliland passport. [31] The African Union (AU) is considering Somaliland's application for membership to the bloc and has indicated a willingness to deal with it as an 'outstanding case'. [31]
Abdi Warsame – Somali American member-elect of the Minneapolis City Council; Saado Ali Warsame – singer-songwriter and politician; former MP in the Federal Parliament of Somalia; Adan Keynan Wehliye – Kenyan politician and long time member of parliament from Wajir; Ahmed Yusuf Yasin (b. 1957) – former vice president of Somaliland
Members are socially contracted to support each other in jural and political duties, including paying or receiving dia or blood compensation (mag in Somali). [50] Compensation is obligatory in regards to actions committed by or against a dia-paying group, including blood-compensation in the event of damage, injury or death.
Four to eight al-Shabaab militants were killed in the raid. It was the first time a US service member died by combat in Somalia since 1993 [99] [13] [100] [101] June 11; An airstrike killed eight al-Shabaab militants 185 miles southwest of Mogadishu. [102] [103] July 2; A kinetic strike killed one al-Shabaab militant in the Lower Shabelle ...
In 1997, he returned to Somaliland and became Speaker of the House of Representatives. [7] In May 2002, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, the incumbent president of Somaliland, died during surgery in South Africa; a funeral service was held in Berbera, where Egal's father is buried, and Qaybe attended. [9]
AFP, reported in Africa Research Bulletin, said Burundian military chief General Godefroid Niyombare said on 14 March 2011 the soldiers had been deployed a week before. [59] In February 2012, the U.N. Security Council boosted the number of troops deployed from 12,000 to 17,731.
[20] [1] Journalist and aid worker Michael Maren challenged the United Nations' claim that 4.5 million people in Somalia were on the verge of starvation, and asserted that the figure was created with the intention of galvanizing an international response. According to Maren, this portrayal significantly overstated the crisis.
This is a list of notable Somalilanders from Somaliland, ... Muse Bihi Abdi - current President of Somaliland; Mohamoud Hashi Abdi; Member of Parliament