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...

Government

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,...

Exclusive: President Bihi Will Not Support Mayor SOLTELCO’s Bid for Reelection

According to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the subject, President Bihi is concerned with the public perception that he is supporting Mayor of...

Auditor-General Arrests Multiple Government Officials on Corruption Across Somaliland

In the last few weeks, officials from the Somaliland Auditor-General have been conducting investigations at multiple government agencies including local governments, and have announced...

Sugar. Cellphones. Corruption: The Container that Claimed the Entire Leadership of Berbera Customs

In April 2020, a cargo container was taxed and cleared out of Berbera Customs only to be intercepted outside of Hargeisa city limits by...

Life in the Lap of Luxury: How Somaliland Spends Lavishly to Covers the Living Expenses of Top Government Officials.

According to government records examined by Somaliland Chronicle, Somaliland is spending lavishly to cover the living expenses of top government officials including the Chairmen...

How to Govern Inefficiently: How Lack of Continuity Between Government Appointees Keeps Agencies at Constant State of Reboot

In this series, we will examine inefficiencies and duplication of efforts in our government, where multiple agencies perform similar and sometimes exact functions and...

Business or Pleasure – How Somaliland Government Officials Spent $765,000.00 on Travel Expenses

According to government records examined by Somaliland Chronicle, Somaliland government officials spent more than $765,000.00 on travel-related expenses on 2019.  There is no sufficient information...

President Bihi Reshuffles Director Generals

The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi has reshuffled his administration today for the fifth time since taking office two...

Somaliland Government Launches An Electronic Direct Deposit Service for Public Servants

Somaliland Vice President HE Abdirahman Abdallahi Ismail Saylici has officially launched a new service called E-Shilling that will be used to electronically direct deposit public...

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