Staff

Analysis

What the State Department’s Somaliland Assessment Actually Says — and Why It Matters

Staff - June 2, 2026

There are few voices worth listening to on the State Department's newly published assessment of Somaliland, and the most useful way to read the...

Analysis

Sink or Swim for Somalia: The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy and the End of the Mogadishu Underwriting

Staff - May 9, 2026

A policy analysis The White House released the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in May, Washington's first comprehensive counterterrorism doctrine since 2018 and the Trump administration's...

Analysis

Is Somaliland a Democracy? The Guurti’s Answer Is Yet Another Election Delay.

Staff - April 29, 2026

NEWS ANALYSIS The Republic of Somaliland's House of Elders voted Tuesday in a nationally televised session to extend the mandates of the House of Representatives...

Editorial

THE LEGAL AND COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS DISTINGUISHING SOMALILAND FROM SOMALIA

Staff - April 23, 2026

A Comprehensive Academic Analysis with Strengthened Legal Argumentation and Annexes Author: Edna Adan IsmailFormer Foreign Minister of Somaliland (2003–2006)Location: Hargeisa, Republic of SomalilandDate: 22 April...

Analysis

Israel Names Veteran Diplomat as Ambassador to Somaliland; Somalia Threatens to Close the Bab el-Mandeb

Staff - April 18, 2026

Formally, the appointment of Michael Lotem as Israel's first ambassador to the Republic of Somaliland is an administrative act, the credentialing of a diplomat...

Geopolitics

Iran Pressures. Turkey Sustains. Somaliland Exposes.

Staff - April 9, 2026

by Shay Gal The war with Iran did not begin in the Gulf. It exposed the system. Hormuz is not the story. It is the...

Opinion

Decline and Political Transformation of the Somaliland House of Elders (Guurti).

Staff - April 5, 2026

The Somaliland House of Elders (Guurti) decline stems from its transition from a grassroots peace building body to a stagnant legislative relic. Originally hailed for...

Opinion