MIDGAANS AND ETHIOPIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR LAST PLACE IN SOMALILAND.

Jaylani Barbershop - Hargeisa

The Jaylaani barbershop in the center of Hargeisa, Somaliland, does good business. It’s nothing special as far as barbershops go—actually it’s a little raggedy. The counters are littered with tufts of hair and discarded khat leaves, broken and mismatched trimmers and razors, and creams and ointments with crusty containers and labels in languages no one in the shop can read. But it’s an institution. It’s the kind of place where people come just to sit outside and chat. The Jaylaani barbershop has developed enough of a following that it’s one of the few businesses in Hargeisa that stays open in the afternoon, when everyone’s off chewing khat.

Living on the edge of a forgotten land

Faded from the searing sun, snagged on bushes, fences, tumbling on the dusty breeze or lying in clusters across waste ground, the turquoise and pink plastic bags so nicknamed by locals litter the city of Hargeisa.

Their presence in Somaliland's capital is no respecter of rich or poor, uptown or downtown life, though inevitably it is the poorest communities where the worst garbage is to be found.

Daami neighborhood is one such place. In this sprawling slum that is home to some 3500 people, many belong to Somaliland's minority clans, and are among the most marginalized in the region.

Hargeisa Minority Street Children received Reintegaration support from Save Children and USWO

On July 7, 2013 USWO minority right based NGO with precence Minister of Labour and Familiy Affairs, Child Rights Community Committees (CRCCs) from Dami A and B villages, and Ismail Yahya-Coordinator of Child Protection of Save the Children International (SCI) has begun the distribution package of support to the 60 Hargeisa minority street children in Dami A and B settelments in Hargeisa. Today, the first group of 20 street children had received one package of support containing 1 mattress plus 1 bed sheet for each every child.

During the street children sleeping package distribution event, the USWO chairman Mr. Abdilahi Hassan Digaale requested the parents of these minority street children to commit that their children shall no more continue staying and working in the streets.

Madaxweynaha Somaliland Md. Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud (Siilaanyo) ayaa maanta dib u furay Garoonka diyaaradaha ee Egal International Airport ee Magaalada Hargaysa oo dib u casriyayn iyo balaadhin lagu sameeyey.

Munaasabad si weyn loo soo agaasimay oo lagu qabtay xarunta Madaarka caasimadda ayaa waxaa ka qayb galay mas’uuliyiin ka tirsan dawladda Somaliland oo ay ugu horeeyaan Gudoomiyayaasha labada gole baarlamaan Md saleebaan Maxamuud Aadan iyo Cabdiraxmaan Maxamed Cabdilaahi ( Cirro) Marwada madaxweynaha Somaliland Marwo Aamina X Maxamed Jirde, xubno ka tirsan golaha wasiirada, wakiilada dalalka shisheeyaha u jogga Somaliland, hawlwadeenada xafiisyada hay’adaha samafalka ee caalamiga ah ee ku sugan Somaliland iyo marti sharaf kale.