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...

Geopolitics

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,...

UN and Somaliland start Negotiations on Special Arrangement for Somaliland

According to multiple Somaliland government sources, the United Nations and the government of Somaliland have started negotiations on new terms that will allow the...

The impasse with the United Nations: How Far is Somaliland Willing to go to Assert its Sovereignty?

On October 25th, the Ministry of Planning and National Development issued a directive halting all discussions and consultation of the UN Country Program with...

President Bihi rejected Chinese Delegation’s Offer of Conditional Development Package

According to sources from Somaliland government, The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi met with the Chinese delegation from the...

Breaking – Somaliland is preparing to recognize Taiwan

According to sources, the President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi has instructed close confidantes to explore ways to strengthen Somaliland’s bilateral ties with Taiwan and explore the possibility of mutual recognition of Taiwan and Somaliland.

China and Somalia agree to joint patrols on Somaliland’s territorial waters on the Red Sea

According to diplomatic and defense sources briefed on the matter, The People’s Republic of China and the Somalia Federal Government have agreed to conduct...

High-Level Ethiopian Delegation Visit Somaliland

An Ethiopian delegation led by the Minister of Finance Mr. Ahmed Shide arrived today in Hargeisa, the capital of the Republic of Somaliland. The...

Breaking – Somaliland rebuffed a Chinese Government offer to prevent a diplomatic relationship with Taiwan

According to multiple sources, the Chinese Ambassador in Somalia Mr. Qin Jian visited the Republic of Somaliland twice to try to convince the Somaliland...

Breaking – President Bihi Appoints a Somaliland Representative to Taiwan

According to sources briefed on the matter, the President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi appointed a Representative to the Republic...

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