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,...

Somaliland Budget 2023: Glimpse of Hope and Ambiguity

Characteristically, before I look at the budget in detail, I must say a word or two about the definition of budget. Budget is a...

Taiwan needs WHO, WHO also needs Taiwan

By Ambassador Allen C. Lou Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland During the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan effectively mitigated the spread of the disease, leveraging...

Sustainable Health Development in Post-Pandemic Era

By: Dr. Hsueh Jui-yuanMinister of Health and WelfareRepublic of China (Taiwan) As the world enters the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most border restrictions...

Distinguishing Truth from Myth: Exposing the Falsehood of Plastic Rice Claims

A letter to the Somaliland Public Authors: Eng. Abdirashiid Muhumed and Eng. Maxamed M. Jibril We have been tempted to write about rumors as a powerful...

Dialogue into Oblivion: Is Somaliland Sleepwalking into a Re-union with Somalia?

If you are the sensitive type that is allergic to inconvenient and harsh reality checks, you should probably stop reading, our intention is not...

Navigating the Uncertainties of the New Political Economy War: How Developing Nations Can Empower Themselves.

Sayidcali Ahmed As the world’s biggest economies continue to battle for economic supremacy, developing countries have become increasingly vulnerable. The so-called “new political economy war”...

Critical Scholarship or Political Attack on Somaliland

Having reinstated its sovereignty in 1991, Somaliland has exhibited empirical sovereignty for more than three decades but continues to lack de jure recognition as...

Hurre Walanwal & Cambaro: The famous Somali Folklore Dance Story

Muna Ahmed The art of flirting and courtship takes many forms, each with its own fascinating cultural history and traditions. In the past Somali culture,...

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