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,...

Somaliland Government Suspends Talks with Somalia

In an interview with the Voice of America, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Dr. Issa Kayd stated that the Somaliland government...

President Bihi to Visit Addis Ababa

According to multiple government and diplomatic sources, the President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi will travel to Addis Ababa in...

President of Somaliland Will Visit the United States of America – Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

According to multiple sources present at the confirmation hearing of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Dr. Essa Kayd Mohamoud, the President...

Turkey’s Ties with Somaliland Must be Reciprocal

Somaliland is on a roll. Early last month, a U.S. Congressional staff delegation visited Hargeisa, the first such trip in more than a decade...

When Interests Align: New Defense Bill Calls for Direct Security Cooperation Between the United States and Somaliland

As reported by Somaliland Chronicle over the weekend, the most high-profile American delegation in over a decade is currently in Hargeisa, capital of the...

Chairman of Waddani Opposition Party Questions Somaliland – Taiwan bilateral Ties and Called for Improved Ties with China

The Chairman of the Opposition party of Waddani Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi "Cirro", in a speech to the party's second general assembly questioned the...

US Congressman Chris Smith Urges State Department and USAID to Recognize Somaliland

In a hearing by the House Foreign Relations, Sub-Committee for Africa, held on September 28, ranking member Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey once...

President Bihi Calls on The United States for a Direct Engagement With Somaliland

In an opinion piece published on News Week, the President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi called on the United States of...

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