Investigative Reports

Another Fake Degree Scandal Rocks Somaliland Presidency: Director General Caught With Diploma Mill “Masters”

Repeat of 2022 Central Bank Fraud Scandal Exposes Somaliland...

AFRICOM Commander Admits Somalia Al-Shabaab Policy Failure in Final Briefing 2025

Special Report | AFRICOM Commander General Michael Langley acknowledges...

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...

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With All Due Respect Mr. President – You May be an Idiot

Mr. President: We need to talk, we need to talk about your behavior. Mr. President, your trip to the Hajj, the pictures and videos of...

Somaliland President Attends Hajj on Official Invitation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi is leaving for Saudi Arabia tomorrow on official invitation from the Kingdom to...

Commander of US Africa Command: Al-Shabaab is the Deadliest And Largest Violent Extremist Organization In Africa

General Stephen J. Townsend who has taken command of the US Africa Command based in Djibouti on July 28th has described Alshabaab as the...

President Bihi Reshuffles his Administration

President of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi has made a minor reshuffle to his administration. https://www.facebook.com/XafiiskaSaxaafaddaMadaxtooyadaJSL/photos/a.339819329465260/2298562290257611/?type=3&theater One of the people the President sacked today is...

United Nations Special Representative James Swan Visits Somaliland

The United Nations Special Representative to Somalia and Head of UNSOM Mr. James Swan paid his first visit to the Republic of Somaliland since...

Breakthrough! Somaliland Political Parties End Election Stalemate

The three political parties of Wadani, UCID and Kulmiye have agreed to end the stalemate by agreeing to increase the number of Electoral Commissions...

American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone in the same waterway and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike.

China: Muslim-Majority States Whitewash Abuses

More than a dozen member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) signed a statement supporting China’s policies in Xinjiang that ignored widespread repression of the region’s Muslims, Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese government-promoted letter was in response to a joint statement by 22 countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council last week expressing concern at massive rights violations in Xinjiang and urging unfettered access by international monitors.

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