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BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

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Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...
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Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

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At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...
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Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

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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,...
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A Government of Fake Doctors, Real Patients — and a President Who Brought Cameras, Not Answers

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KEY POINTS Dialysis patients protested Wednesday over broken machines and inflated supply costs; a suspiciously well-timed counter-showing of supportive patients followed within hours. The health minister...
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Somalia Says It Rejected Ties With Israel. Its Lobbyists Were Pursuing the Abraham Accords.

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By his own account, Somalia's president keeps turning Israel away — a weakened suitor, refused on principle — while warning that Somaliland's recognition is...
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Recognition Abroad, Reckoning at Home: President Irro Takes Somaliland to Jerusalem and into the Abraham Accords — Now Comes the Hard Part

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President Abdirahman "Irro" departed for the UAE on June 9th — confirmed by Chronicle reporting from the scene. No official itinerary. No statement from...
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As Mogadishu Descends Into Conflict, Washington’s Representative to Somalia Visits Somaliland

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On Wednesday in Mogadishu, forces acting under orders from Hassan Sheikh Mohamud — whose constitutional mandate expired on May 15, 2026 — fired on...
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What the State Department’s Somaliland Assessment Actually Says — and Why It Matters

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There are few voices worth listening to on the State Department's newly published assessment of Somaliland, and the most useful way to read the...
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Sink or Swim for Somalia: The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy and the End of the Mogadishu Underwriting

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A policy analysis The White House released the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in May, Washington's first comprehensive counterterrorism doctrine since 2018 and the Trump administration's...
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Is Somaliland a Democracy? The Guurti’s Answer Is Yet Another Election Delay.

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NEWS ANALYSIS The Republic of Somaliland's House of Elders voted Tuesday in a nationally televised session to extend the mandates of the House of Representatives...
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Israel Names Veteran Diplomat as Ambassador to Somaliland; Somalia Threatens to Close the Bab el-Mandeb

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Formally, the appointment of Michael Lotem as Israel's first ambassador to the Republic of Somaliland is an administrative act, the credentialing of a diplomat...
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