Investigative Reports

Inside Somalia’s Visa-for-Sale Cartel — Meet Somalia’s Human Smuggler MP

How Ayub Ismail Yusuf and a network of parliamentarians...

From Controversy to Cornerstone: DP World’s Lesson for Egal Airport

Many got DP World's Berbera deal wrong, but Berbera...

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

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

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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,...

Building a United Somaliland: Why Tribalism Threatens Our National Development

By Mohammed A. Gaas Somaliland, a country which has restored its independence, has forged a remarkable path towards stability and self-governance in a region often...

Somaliland’s Hidden Treasure: Can Minerals Fuel Prosperity or Fuel Conflict?

Introduction Somaliland, a self-declared but unrecognized state in the Horn of Africa, stands at a critical juncture. For three decades, it has defied the odds,...

Trump’s Geo-Transactional Effort to Resolve the GERD Dispute Between Ethiopia and Egypt Confronts the Energy–Water Dilemma

On June 20, former President Donald Trump claimed on his social media channel, Truth Social, that the massive Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was...

Safeguarding Public Interest in Somaliland’s Market: A Call for Balanced Regulation

How Somaliland Can Leverage Public Protests to Strengthen Fair Competition and Inclusive Growth Introduction Somaliland’s constitutional commitment to a free-market economy, as enshrined in Article 11,...

Somaliland’s Cities Are Growing But Where Are the Sidewalks?

After 32 years of self-declared independence, Somaliland has made remarkable progress in many areas peacebuilding, elections, and private-sector growth. Cities like Hargeisa, Burao, and...

Ilhan Omar’s Father and the Isaaq Genocide: The Truth Revealed

Between 1981 and 1991, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal...

Solving Berbera’s Electricity Crisis: A Roadmap for Sustainable Energy

Berbera, a coastal city located along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, is one of the hottest cities in Somaliland in terms...

Clarifications on ‘Somali-Weyn’

In my recent article about Somali-Weyn and Islam-Weyn, I examined how these two ideologies, rooted in ethnonationalism and belief orientation, have been politicized in...

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