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...

COVID-19

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,...

Ethiopia’s poll has been pushed out by COVID-19. But there’s much more at play

Mulugeta G Berhe (PhD), Tufts University The decision by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to postpone the elections in Ethiopia has created a constitutional crisis. The...

Ministry of Education announces Exam dates for Somaliland schools

Despite rapid raise in COVID-19 cases, the the Ministry of Education and Science announced that nationwide school exams will be held on Saturday June...

President Bihi Updates the Nation on COVID-19

The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi spoke to the nation on COVID-19 and gave details on the numbers and...

Ministry of Health Confirm 6 Additional COVID-19 Cases and One Death

The Ministry of Health Development announced an additional 6 COVID-19 cases and one death. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen for the...

A novel idea: integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa during the pandemic

Astrid R.N. Haas, International Growth Centre and Rachel Strohm In countries across Africa, the public health restrictions imposed to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic have...

Ministry of Health Confirms 11 more cases COVID-19 and One Death in Somaliland

The Somaliland Ministry of Health Development, today has confirmed the third death of COVID-19 and additional 11 cases of the disease in Somaliland. The Minister...

United States Urges Citizens to Evacuate Somalia or Shelter in Place due to COVID-19

The United States Embassy in Somalia issued a statement that it has arranged a chartered flight from Mogadishu in collaboration with Ethiopian Airlines to...

Does nicotine protect us against coronavirus?

Adrian Bauman, University of Sydney; Leah Shepherd, University of Sydney, and Melody Ding, University of Sydney If you noticed headlines recently suggesting smoking could protect...

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HARGEISA—Somaliland government have detained Rashid Nur Absiye, commonly known...