Investigative Reports

Security Reform vs. Security Risk: Weighing the Implications of Somaliland’s Military Biometric System

Key Points Somaliland's biometric registration of security personnel aims to...

The Diplomacy of Gullibility: How Somaliland’s Foreign Ministry Keeps Falling for International Fraudsters

In what has become a familiar scene in Somaliland's...

Ex-US Ambassador to Somalia Lobbies for Hormuud’s Access to American Banking System

Questions mount as André partners with Somali MP who...

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Horizon Institute Criticizes and calls for Investigation of Marodojeh Regional Court Chairman for Judicial Intimidation

In a report published on February 25th, the Horizon Institute has criticized the Chairman of Regional Court Judge Hon. Abdi Qawdhan for his handling...

Atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

PRESS STATEMENTANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATEFEBRUARY 27, 2021 The United States is gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in the...

Chief of Police Must Fire his Disasterous Spokesman and Replace him with a Credible and Calming Voice

The spokesman for Somaliland Police, Mr. Faisal Hiis has been a disaster and is singlehandedly responsible for the harsh and tyrannical image of the...

Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen, Technical University of Mombasa The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment...

Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity

Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in NovemberTroops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread lootingSatellite imagery analysis shows...

Somalia’s Embrace of Counterfeiting puts it in Bad Company

Ali Jama Baqdadi, governor of Somaliland’s central bank, announced last week that an influx of counterfeit dollars had entered Somaliland first from Mogadishu and...

United States Navy Seized Illicit Weapons Off the Coast of Somalia

United States Defense Department announced that the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill have intercepted and seized a large shipment of weapons aboard two...

Statement by the Somaliland National Electoral Commission (NEC) on Somaliland’s forthcoming Parliamentary and Local Council Elections in May 2021

The Somaliland National Electoral Commission welcomes the official announcement by the president that Somaliland’s local and parliamentary elections will take place on the 31st of May 2021, thereby reaffirming Somaliland’s longstanding commitment to the democratic processes and ideals espoused on our inception three decades ago. As highlighted in today’s joint statement by our international partners, these forthcoming elections indeed present the perfect opportunity to showcase Somaliland’s democratic credentials evidenced by previous local and presidential elections in years gone by.

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