* Security beefed up after Somalia suicide attacks Oct 31, 2008
At least 20 people were killed in addition to the three bombers when three suicide car bombs struck Hargeysa, the capital of Somaliland ... We are still conducting investigations and many of our security forces are deployed in Hargeysa to check all moving vehicles, police officer Ahmed Hashi told reporters. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
5 car bombings kill 22 in northern Somalia Oct 30, 2008
In Hargeysa, capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland, truck bombs struck the presidential palace, the Ethiopian Consulate and a United Nations compound, killing 21 people, including a senior presidential aide. An additional 26 were wounded, hospital officials said. (Boston Globe)
Somalia: UN Compound Attacked Oct 30, 2008
"At approximately at 10 o'clock this morning the UNDP compound in Hargeysa, Somaliland, was hit by an explosion, caused by a vehicle which forced entry into the compound," according to a statement issued by the Office of the UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, which is based in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi ... The UN said it is aware of reports of other explosions in the Hargeysa area, as well as in Puntland. (allAfrica.com)
US Says Somali Bombs Resemble Al-Qaeda Attacks, AFP Reports Oct 30, 2008
The explosives were detonated at the presidential palace, the Ethiopian Embassy and a United Nations Development Program compound in Hargeysa, the capital of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland. They were carried out by people from ``outside Somaliland,'' Mohammed Hassan, the region's ambassador to Ethiopia, said yesterday, without providing further details. (Bloomberg)
UN confirms blast deaths in Somaliland attack Oct 29, 2008
AFP Graphic Map of Somalia locating attacks in Hargeysa and Bossaso ... "At approximately 10 o'clock this morning the UNDP compound in Hargeysa, Somaliland, was hit by an explosion, caused by a vehicle which forced entry into the compound. There are known casualties as well as deaths," the UN said in a statement. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Notes From a Failed State Aug 19, 2008
HARGEYSA, SomaliaWhen I first decided to quit my job in New York and head off to Somalia, I went out for drinks with a friend who has an astute command of geopolitics ... Barre's army bombed and razed Hargeysa, Somaliland's capital ... I stay for three weeks in Hargeysa. (Slate)
Somaliland leaves Somalis in limbo May 22, 2007
Mohammed Adow, in Hargeysa, Somaliland. Those arriving in Hargeysa, fleeing war insouthern Somalia, live in makeshift camps ... An estimated 40,000 of those have fled to Hargeysa, Somaliland's capital, with thousands of others scattered in other settlements throughout the territory. (Aljazeera.Net)
