Hargeysa, Somalia News

A wave of suicide car bombs hit high-profile targets in Somaliaa s breakaway regions of Somaliland and Puntland on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding many more, officials said.

Since Somaliland unilaterally broke away from the rest of Somalia in 1991, it has prided itself on its relative peace and the development of democratic institutions, but political events in recent months have rocked its stability.

The sailors were freed this month only to be arrested by the authorities in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland and accused of being part of an illegal prisoner swap.

The president of breakaway Somaliland called on the opposition on Sunday to show restraint after violent demonstrations killed at least three people in the capital Hargeysa.

Hargeysa - Police in the breakaway state of Somaliland swarmed into parliament after lawmakers fought among themselves and one drew a pistol, a police officer said on Wednesday.

Hargeysa: The electoral commission in Somalia's northwestern breakaway state of Somaliland announced yesterday that a presidential election due at the end of the month had been indefinitely postponed.

Police in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland deported a Chinese cyclist who tried to cross the restive country as part of his worldwide cycling tour, officials said on Sunday.

The dusty, potholed streets of Hargeysa in Somaliland are filled with battered cars and ambling pedestrians.