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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...

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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,...

Ethiopia’s Perception of Somaliland’s New Government and the Implications for Statehood

Guleid Ahmed Jama In a recent interview with The Reporter Ethiopia, Dr. Dareskedar Taye, a researcher at Ethiopia’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA), shared insights...

Why does Somaliland need political reform, and what might it look like?

By Guleid Ahmed Jama Introduction  Somaliland is a thriving democracy that has demonstrated a successful bottom-up approach to governance rooted in the will and aspirations of...

The Diplomacy of Gullibility: How Somaliland’s Foreign Ministry Keeps Falling for International Fraudsters

In what has become a familiar scene in Somaliland's corridors of power, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently played host to yet another dubious...

EXCLUSIVE: Banking Mogul with Strong Ties to Somalia’s President Named Somaliland’s Special Envoy

Appointment Raises Questions About Direction. In a significant political move that has sparked intense discussion across Somaliland's political landscape, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" has...

Somaliland’s Indigenous Democracy Highlighted in Nobel Economics Lecture

In his 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics lecture titled "Paths towards the Periphery," delivered in Stockholm on December 8, Professor James A. Robinson presented...

New Cabinet Orientation Concludes: Questions of Accountability Linger

Republic of Somaliland's First Post-Election Transition Brings Focus on Governance Reform Key Points: Two-day cabinet orientation emphasizes unity but lacks concrete performance metrics Notable shift from NGO-heavy...

Incoming U.S. Administration Signals New Direction on Somaliland: Will Somalia Talks Derail Cirro’s Moment?

A recent New York Times article and a statement from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee indicate significant potential shifts in U.S. policy toward the...

Liyuu Paramilitary Forces Massacre Civilians in Ethiopia’s Somali Region

Scores of civilians were laid to rest in a mass grave in Dacawaley village following a brutal attack by the Liyuu Police, a predominantly...

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