Although the international media has under-reported it, the world has recently witnessed a major event in the Horn of Africa - a free, fair and generally peaceful election in Somaliland.

On July 2, Isse Yusuf Mohamud, the chairman of Somaliland’s election commission, announced that Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo, the leader of the opposition Kulmiye Party, won the presidential election with 49.59 per cent of the 538,246 votes cast. The incumbent president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, came a distant second with 33.23 per cent of the votes.

International observers declared the election “free and fair” and praised the conduct of political actors and stakeholders involved in the election campaign.

Even more significantly, unlike many leaders in the region, Kahin embraced the popular verdict and accepted defeat gracefully.

A peaceful transfer of power is now underway.

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Plastic guns and shouting: two children with short hair chase one another among the cheeses of ricotta of bazaar in Nazran, Russian Republic of Ingushetia.

They play at cops and robbers that here is in «menty and waha», «cops and islamists». The problem for Moscow is that «goods» of play are the «waha», or wahabiti, islamic foundamentalists.

It’s not yet Afghanistan, but Ingushetia is already a Russia talibanization. Vladimir Putin commands during the day, Dokku Umarov, Emire of North Caucasus, during the night.

Moscow patrols go fast, spies of clandestine Emirate watch every movement.

I «governments» live under siege, like in a occupation land. Also first city, Nazran, is changing face like is happened in Bagdad during faida between shiites and sunnis: there are districts pro-russia and others pro-islamics.

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At least one grenade has exploded in northern Mitrovica after a crowd of several hundred local Serbs gathered to march towards a Republic of Kosovo newly established civil registration center at the Albanian and Bosniak-inhabited Bosniak neighbhorood.

According to media reports, one person has died from the explosion, one has recieved life-threatening injuries while nine others light injuries.

It is believed the grenade was thrown from within the crowd into a manhole. The explosion was followed by gunshots from armed Serb groups.

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According newspaper El Pais has been biggest demonstration of democratic history of Catalonia.

The verdict of yesterday of Costitutional Spain Court has pushed mor than one milion of catalonians to the streets in Barcelona demonstrating for autonomy of own Country.

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A subsoil endowed with riches; a metropolis with controlled development; a distinctive identity maintained by its political elite; and a secessionist heritage …The most opulent province of the country cultivates its difference without complex.

Welcome to Kamalondo, the popular residential area of Lubumbashi, Katanga`s provincial headquarters. Here, life goes on quietly, peacefully, like maize that sway in the breeze on plots of land, orderly like shacks aligned in laterite streets. Sitting in garland in the talus, young women place their odds and ends on the floor.

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