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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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: The Civil Disturbances in Las-Anood, another critical battle for Somaliland freedom

For too long, the Las Anood communities waited patiently for Somaliland to bring justice to the perpetrators of over 40 unresolved assassinations against Somaliland...

Somaliland should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize

Upon gaining independence from Britain on June 26, 1960, Somaliland voluntarily merged with Somalia on July 1st, 1960, to create the Republic of Somalia....

Wasted Three Decades for Seeking Somaliland’s Recognition: Critical Assessment on Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Institutional Mechanisms

By: Abdifatah Ahmed Ileeye Abstract De facto states are often marginalized internationally, even in instances where they successfully manage to control their semi-autonomous jurisdictions and provide...

Egoism and Political Miscalculations Closely Brought Somaliland to the Brink. Opening New Political Organizations May Have Saved the Nation.

The newly liberated state of Somaliland has chosen to experiment conflation of modern representative democracy with its long-standing traditional tribal customs for 30-plus years....

13 November: A Time Bomb Set to Explode in Somaliland

For the last few years, all clocks in Somaliland have been fixed to 13 November 2022 - the day presidential elections were due to...

Taiwan injects momentum into the global transition to net-zero emissions

Chang Tzi-chin Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration Republic of China (Taiwan) The world has embarked on the transition to net-zero emissions. The innovative approaches to international...

Prominent Somalilanders Increasingly Under Attack On Social Media, We Must Ask Ourselves Why and By Whom?

Over the past few days Somaliland social media has been awash with highly organised and choreographed posts and tweets, attacking prominent Somalilanders. The prominent...

Call to support Taiwan’s participation in ICAO

Wang Kwo-tsai Minister of Transportation and Communications Republic of China (Taiwan) The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) develops common regulations and standards for civil aviation. Countries around...

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