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,...

Taiwan and Somaliland Deepen Ties with the Expanded Military Scholarship Program

The expansion of Taiwan's military scholarship program to Somaliland signifies a concrete step toward bolstering the latter's defense capabilities while deepening bilateral relations. Taiwan's...

Somali President’s Desperation Escalates: Issues Threats to Ethiopia and Somaliland over MoU, Takes Off for Eritrea

In a recent speech, President Hassan Sh Mohamoud of the Federal Republic of Somalia asserted that his country is ready to defend its sovereignty...

Somaliland Minister of Defense Resigns in Protest of MoU with Ethiopia

In a statement, Mr. Abdiqani Mohamoud Aateye, the Minister of Defense has resigned his post in protest of the Memorandum of Understanding that Somaliland...

leaders of Somalia & Somaliland Meeting in Djibouti

In resuming talks between Somalia and Somaliland after 11 years, the governments of Djibouti and Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and Somaliland's president, Musa...

YEMEN | America’s New Threat?

While largely neglected for the past decade, the situation in Yemen and the Red Sea has suddenly received considerable attention. But while Houthi attacks...

Somaliland solves the geostrategic problems of Ethiopia and the United States

Berbera sits in a strategic commercial and security position, where 30% of world trade passes through with a deep-water port and the longest airstrips...

Is Abiy’s Delusional Pursuit of Red Sea Access An Existential Threat to Somaliland?

The alarm bells are ringing as Ethiopia's unrelenting quest for port access raises the troubling specter of the annexation of Somaliland's strategic Zaila port....

Sool Situation Compels Quick Military Strategy Execution

This past week, we witnessed the worst battle loss the Somaliland army ever suffered in our history. We saw disturbing photos of the mistreatment...

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