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The Decision To Extend The Guurti Term Has No Constitutional Validity

Published on May 15, 2006

We, the Somaliland Forum, have been discussing the forthcoming end of the term of the House of Elders (Guurti) in October 2006 and the Guurti Indirect Elections Bill, which is currently being considered by the House of Representatives. We were therefore extremely surprised to learn that on Sunday 6th May 2006, the Guurti considered a presidential decree extending their term of office for another 4 years up to October 2010 and promptly voted to endorse it.


Somaliland Forum Elects A New Executive Committee

Published on May 6, 2006

The election of the new Executive Committee of the Somaliland Forum for the year 2006 - 2007 has concluded on 2nd May, 2006. This is the 9th Forum executive committee that is officially elected by the members of the Forum since its inception.


Unelected Somalia leaders venture to mislead the world about Somaliland

Published on December 14, 2005

Ref: SF/EC-PR 9               
Mr. Gedi asserted, “Somaliland is a Somalia entity first of all. They claim to break away from the unity, but that is not the reality today”. I don’t believe in different entities. The act of union of the 1960 is still there… It is within the transitional federal charter of Somalia that …


Somaliland Forum Welcomes The Lawsuit Against Ali Samater And Yusuf Abdi (Tokeh)

Published on January 1, 2005

SLF/EC/01/05/
Somaliland Forum warmly welcomes the case against accused Somali War Criminals, Mohamed Ali Samatar and Yusuf Abdi Ali (a.k.a. Tokeh), both residents of Virginia. These two military officers have committed war crimes and other human rights abuses against civilians; they have committed their crimes in the 1980s during the brutal military regime of Somali dictator …


Attacks on Somaliland Have Started:Somalilanders Abroad Echo their Government’s Warning to the World

Published on November 1, 2004

REF: SLF/Media Release/ 01/11/ 2004 
Many, including the international think tank, the International Crisis Group, have predicted that the pre-occupation with bringing peace to the warring factions of Somalia without at the same time addressing the independence of Republic of Somaliland will only lead to the spread of the war in Somalia to peaceful Somaliland. This …


YET ANOTHER SOMALIA “PRESIDENT” CROWNED IN A FOREIGN CAPITAL

Published on October 16, 2004

REF: SLF/Media Release/ 10/16/ 2004
In the beginning of the 14th Somalia peace conference, organized at Kenya, we, Somaliland Forum, an independent organization whose members hail from the independent Republic of Somaliland, wished the Somalia conference well. At the same time we reiterated that in order to be successful, any outcome about Somalia should:
a) address the …


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