HARGEISA

Hargeysa, or Harghessaall: härgāˈsä, town (1984 est. pop. 70,000), N Somalia. It is a commercial center and watering place for nomadic stock herders. The town is a transportation hub and has an international airport. The town was taken in 1870 by Egyptian forces, who withdrew in 1884 to fight the Mahdi in Sudan. The British later took control and, in 1941, made Hargeisa the capital of British Somaliland. The city is the capital of the rebels who declared northern Somalia independent as the "Somaliland Republic."

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books on: Hargeisa  - 65 results

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Culture and Customs of Somalia
Book by Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Ethnology--Somalia, Somalia--Social Life And Customs
...Modern multistory building in downtown Hargeisa 105 Downtown Mogadishu combines...that survived the bombing of 1988 in Hargeisa shows the arches and embellishments of an earlier period 106 Hargeisa square: downtown squares are usually...
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A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa
Book by I. M. Lewis; Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1961
Subjects: Ethnology--Somalia, Somalia--Politics And Government, Somalia--Social Life And Customs
...former based on Burao, and the latter on Hargeisa, the old capital. Glasgow University...a. and b. Demonstrations at Hargeisa in April, 1956, called to show the...the Jibriil Abokor Habar Awal of Hargeisa. Three years later government was transferred...
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Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis
Book by Kevin M. Cahill; Basic Books, 1995
Subjects: Human Rights, Mines (Military Explosives) (International Law)
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A Modern History of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
Book by I. M. Lewis; Westview Press, 1988
Subjects: Somalia--History
...which includes the important centre of Hargeisa pop. 60,000 , capital of the former...especially in the northwest where, between Hargeisa and Harar, sorghum is cultivated. Here...clans of the north. To the south of Hargeisa, the northern plateau opens into that...
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De Facto States: The Quest for Sovereignty
Book by Tozun Bahcheli, Barry Bartmann, Henry Srebrnik; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Sovereignty
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journal articles on: Hargeisa  - 8 results

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Living without a Government in Somalia: An Interview with Mark Bradbury: Development Processes in Somalia Exist Not as a Result of Official Development Assistance, but in Spite of It
Journal article by Stacy Feldman, Brian Slattery; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 57, 2003
Subjects: Bradbury, Mark--Political activity, Economic development--Planning, Somalia--Economic aspects, Somalia--Military aspects, Somalia--Political aspects, Somalis--Economic aspects, Somalis--Social aspects
...policy is encouraging this to change. In Hargeisa in Somaliland, the city electricity supply...economy. In Somaliland, for example, Hargeisa and Berbera airports have been renamed...northern urban centers like Bosasso and Hargeisa is indicative of this. The impressive...
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State Integration and Human Rights in Africa
Journal article by Julia Maxted, Abebe Zegeye; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 38, 1997
Subjects: Africa--Civil rights, Human rights--Analysis, National state--Africa, Nationalism--Analysis
...and "liberate their clan territory" the Hargeisa, Berbera and Burao Triangle. The result...heavy artillery fire, seventy per cent of Hargeisa was destroyed. Tens of thousands of civilians...UNHCR withdrew totally at one stage. Hargeisa and four other towns as well as numerous...
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Milking Drylands: The Marketing of Camel Milk in North-East Somalia
Journal article by Michele Nori, Matthew B. Kenyanjui, Mohammed Ahmed Yusuf, Fadhumo Hussein Mohammed; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 10, 2006
Subjects: Herders--Management, Herders--Research, Milk--Economic aspects, Milk--Marketing, Somalia--Economic aspects, Somalia--Social aspects
...corridors in the Somali ecosystem are: * Issa: Shinille (Ogaden)--Djibouti--Awdal (Somaliland) * Issaq: Jijiga--Hartisheikh--Hargeisa--Berbera * (Darod) Ogaden--Majerteen: Warder (Ogaden)--Puntland (Somalia) * (Darod) Ogaden--Marehan/Majertein: Garissa (NE...
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The U.S. Military Intervention in Somalia: A Hidden Agenda?
Journal article by Jeffrey A. Lefebvre; Middle East Policy, Vol. 2, 1993
Subjects: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East, Middle East--Foreign Relations--United States, Middle East--Politics And Government--1979-, United States--Foreign Relations--Middle East
...to destroy the SNM and punish civilian sympathizers. 9 Four years later, a U.N. technical team visiting the town of Hargeisa, where the worst of the fighting occurred, remarked that it "appeared very much as Berlin did at the end of World War II...
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Conflict Resolution in Africa
Journal article by M. I. Khalil; Journal of African Economies, Vol. 9, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Economic Conditions--1960-, Africa--Economic Policy
...former Somaliland bore the brunt of the various forms of injustice. A resistance movement formed in the northern capital, Hargeisa, under the name of the Somaliland National Movement (SNM) soon developed into an armed rebellion. Spreading to other parts...
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magazine articles on: Hargeisa  - 18 results

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Welcome to Somaliland: Just Back from Somaliland, Alex McBride Sings the Praises of an Unrecognised Country, Somewhere in the Horn of Africa, Which Is Doing Everything to Survive
Magazine article by Alex Mcbride; New African, August 2006
Subjects: Diasporas--Forecasts and trends, Economic conditions--Forecasts and trends, Somalia--History, Somalia--International relations, Somalia--Political aspects
...constitution and established democracy. Hargeisa, the capital, is safe but Somaliland...by South African mercenaries, bombing Hargeisa from the citys own airport. The governor...not much to declare independence over. Hargeisa was almost completely destroyed. The...
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Somalia: The North Must Continue to Govern Itself; with Somalia's New President Looking to Return and Unite the Country, Abdullahi Dool Takes a Sideways Look at the Prospect of a Future, United Somalia
Magazine article by Abdullahi Dool; New African, May 2005
Subjects: Democratization--Evaluation, Political systems--Evaluation, Somalia--Political aspects
...independent-governance. I went to school in Hargeisa, the self-proclaimed capital of Somaliland...people in other parts of the country. Hargeisa today is populated not only by Northerners...company laying cables in the streets of Hargeisa is owned by someone from the Somali regions...
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Somalia's Phileas Fogg President: As Somalia's Interim Government in Nairobi, Kenya Announces the Composition of Its Cabinet, Our Guest Commentator Takes a Wry Look at the Activities of the President-Elect, Abdullahi
Magazine article by Ahmed Mohamed; African Business, January 2005
Subjects: Kenya--Political aspects, Presidential elections--Evaluation, Presidents (Government)--Evaluation, Presidents (Government)--Political activity, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--Evaluation, Presidents--Political activity, Yusuf, Abdullahi--Evaluation, Yusuf, Abdullahi--Political activity
...manipulate, please and beg live in Mogadishu, Hargeisa and Baidoa, not in unwelcoming foreign...destroy Hargeisa, Somalilands capital. 1991...America. The Somaliland government in Hargeisa refused to participate in the Nairobi...
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Letter from Somaliland
Magazine article by George Packer; The Nation, Vol. 274, April 22, 2002
Subjects: Islam and state--Somalia, Islam--Somalia, Muslims--Somalia, Religion and state--Somalia, Somali foreign relations--United States, Somalia--Religious aspects, United States, United States foreign relations--Somalia
...rugged highlands east of the capital, Hargeisa. Burao is the last city under the Somaliland...shareholders; now he owns another shop, in Hargeisa, importing most of his supplies from...hardware exporter. On the way back to Hargeisa, my two traveling companions asked how...
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The Green Zones: Where Failed States Work
Magazine article; Foreign Policy, July 2009
Subjects: Countries--Economic aspects, Countries--Political aspects, Pakistan--Economic aspects, Pakistan--Political aspects, Somalia--Economic aspects, Somalia--Political aspects, Sudan--Economic aspects, Sudan--Political aspects
...strewn across the regional capital of Hargeisa. Then again, says Human Rights Watchs...October on foreign and U.N. missions in Hargeisa make clear that one shouldnt be too optimistic...national capital of Mogadishu, at least Hargeisa has foreign missions. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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Home Truths; Abbie Wightwick Meets the Freedom Fighter Forced to Leave Somalia Who Has Made a New Welsh Life for Himself
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 24, 2008
...to me. A country that was destroyed; Hargeisa, a city that was 90% destroyed, had everything...and helped set up the secret opposition Hargeisa Group. When the Somalia Liberation Movement...with his wife Sahra, he based himself in Hargeisa and travelled around the country searching...
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Bittersweet Independence; Somaliland after 47 Years
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 26, 2007
...former protectorate of British Somaliland, with its capital in Hargeisa, gained independence. It was a day of celebration. Freedom...along the banks of the Maroodijeex river that flows through Hargeisa and opened fire on them with machine guns. The skeletons are...
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Sentenced to Death
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), November 15, 2005
Subjects: Capital punishment--Cases, Murder--Cases
...from Pelton Fell, and his 61-year-old wife, from Fencehouses, were killed in Somaliland, 87 miles north east of the capital Hargeisa. The attack is thought to have been part of a violent campaign mounted against Westerners by Islamic extremists linked to al...
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African Aid Tribute for Murdered Teachers
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 2, 2006
Subjects: Instructional materials, Teaching--Equipment and supplies
...62-year-old Mr Eyeington took over as headteacher in September 2002, in the village of Sheikh, 87 miles north east of the capital Hargeisa. Mr Eyeington, from Pelton Fell, and his 61-year-old wife, originally from Fencehouses, both near Chester-le-Street, worked...
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Somaliland's Plight
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2006
...that hasnt stopped the government at Hargeisa from making progress, as I saw on a recent...Djibouti and Dubai have direct flights to Hargeisa, and, on trips abroad, the democratically...statement following a fact-finding mission to Hargeisa last year and called on members to "find...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hargeisa  - 4 results

 
 
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Hargeisa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARGEISA Hargeysa, or Harghessa all: harga sa, town (1984 est. pop. 70,000), N Somalia. It is a commercial center and watering...by Egyptian forces, who withdrew in 1884 to fight the Mahdi in Sudan. The British later took control and, in 1941, made Hargeisa the capital of British Somaliland. The city is the capital of the rebels who declared northern Somalia independent as the...
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Hargeysa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARGEYSA see Hargeisa , Somalia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Harghessa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARGHESSA see Hargeisa , Somalia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Somalia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...highlands. The Jubba and the Webe Shebele are the only important rivers. In addition to Mogadishu, other important cities are Hargeisa , Berbera (the main northern port), and Kismayo (the principal port of the south). The vast majority of the republics...


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