Investigative Reports

Inside Somalia’s Visa-for-Sale Cartel — Meet Somalia’s Human Smuggler MP

How Ayub Ismail Yusuf and a network of parliamentarians...

From Controversy to Cornerstone: DP World’s Lesson for Egal Airport

Many got DP World's Berbera deal wrong, but Berbera...

Another Fake Degree Scandal Rocks Somaliland Presidency: Director General Caught With Diploma Mill “Masters”

Repeat of 2022 Central Bank Fraud Scandal Exposes Somaliland...

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 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...

Unite for Peace in the World and Taiwan’s Inclusion in the UN

Jaushieh Joseph WuMinister of Foreign AffairsRepublic of China (Taiwan) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reminder of how autocracies care little about causing death and...

From Hope to Conflict: Assessing Biden’s Policy Towards Somaliland

Background: Shifting Policies Exacerbating Ongoing Conflict In February 2008, the U.S. and Somaliland achieved a significant milestone with the visit of Jendayi Frazer, former U.S. Assistant...

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