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Somalia: Somaliland police arrest editor

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Authorities in Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland have detained a journalist without reason, Radio Garowe reports.

Mr. Mohamud Abdi Huto, the editor of Waaheen newspaper in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, was detained by police and taken to the CID jail in Hargeisa, local journalists said.

Somaliland officials have not publicly commented on Mr. Huto's arrest, but he has spent the past two nights in jail, according to Garowe Online correspondent in Hargeisa, Mr. Mohamed Jamal.

According to our correspondent, Mr. Huto's newspaper Waaheen supported former Somaliland President Dahir Riyale's re-election bid. In June, Mr. Riyale lost the Somaliland presidential election to Mr. Ahmed Silanyo.

Somaliland, located in northwest Somalia, unilaterally declared independence in 1991 from the rest of the country but has not been recognized since.
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