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...

Editorial

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,...

Lack of Access to Reproductive Health for Young Girls is Why Babies End up in Toilets.

I am heartbroken over the news that a baby was rescued from a toilet in Hargeisa few days ago and relieved that the baby...

Let us return to the Politics of Negotiations

The most significant factor that made our revival journey distinct and, by far, sets us apart from our chaotic neighbours was the fact that...

The Djibouti VS Guelleh Pantomime: The Only Losers are People of Somaliland

Public opinion in Somaliland is currently preoccupied with the case of Mr. Ahmed Osman Guelleh, a prominent Somaliland-Djibouti tycoon and owner of Somaliland Beverage...

Somaliland: Areas We Can Improve without Recognition

Often we heard the following oft-repeated, but empty, rhetoric from our politicians: “we cannot make improvements in many areas because we are not yet...

Ambassador Yamamoto is the Personification of America’s Shrinking Stature in the Horn of Africa

Ambassador Donald Yamamoto assumed the role Somalia Ambassador right around the time President of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi was elected. Yet Mr. Yamamoto...

Why Hasn’t Anyone Fact Check the President’s Speech?

The President’s annual address to the joint session of Congress was informative and showed the breakneck pace with which his administration has accomplished many...

Safer Streets are Possible in Somaliland

Somaliland’s cities are vibrant and full of life and growth; why are the streets so dangerous? What do we need to do to make sure that...

Somaliland: UK Defence Secretary Visit A Reminder Of Historic Ties

The United Kingdom Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson MP paid a visit to Somaliland to discuss areas of mutual interest between the two parties.  Mr. Williamson was met...

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