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...

Opinion

BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...

Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...

Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

Minister Wu took questions from pool of international media reporters in Taipei on October 12th, 2022. The session was moderated by Catherine Y.M Hsu,...

Guban View: Judicial corruption fuels the deadly violence of the land disputes; an attorney shot dead

This past Saturday, July 16, Jamal Jimaale, an attorney, the son of the first SNM leader, the late Ahmed Jimale, died of a gunshot...

Somaliland Politics – Where are the Women?

Lack of women politicians is not only hurting Somaliland’s economy and society, it is also damaging Somaliland’s recognition efforts abroad. Somaliland women are the...

Moscow will have to choose either butter or guns

Since Russia deliberately violated international law by invading Ukraine, the EU has adopted six packages of sanctions against Moscow. Our measures now target nearly...

Nabadgelyo Siciid: A leading scholar and true enlightenment thinker passed away – Said Jama Hussein (1942 – 2022)

Jama Musse Jama | @JamaMusse There is no right way to grieve and each of us reacts in our own way to the loss of...

Is Larry André serving in the Best Interest of the United States in Somalia and Somaliland?

On May 26th, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met to discuss several legislations. One item on discussion is one of the most consequential Acts...

Regular Elections Can Save Somaliland from a Crisis It Cannot Afford

Somaliland is marching towards a full blown political crisis precipitated by fears of electoral delays.  This crisis risks plunging the country into instability, undermining...

Somaliland celebrates 31st anniversary of regaining its sovereignty

This year, the Somaliland’s national 18th May 2022 fall on a Wednesday. It is time that the people from all over Somaliland celebrate their...

The Great Promise of Closer US – Somaliland Ties & AFRICOM recent Visit.

The visit goes by this name and it has started with President Muse Bihi official tour to Washington DC. His visit – the first by...

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