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...

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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,...

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....

FDI in Somaliland: A Vehicle for Prosperity or a Source of Social Inequality?

The Republic of Somaliland, has not yet acquired a de jure recognition from the outside world since May 18, 1991 when Somaliland decided to...

Wanton Violence Against Somaliland Military POWs in Lasanod, Somaliland Government remains Quiet.

Following the catastrophic military retreat by Somaliland armed forces from their bases in Lasanod, a gruesome picture of treatment has emerged from Lasanod against...

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...

Trafigura Investing $50 Million on Berbera Fuel Storage

Muse Bihi Abdi, the Somaliland president, today formally set the foundation stone for the construction of new fuel storage tanks in Berbera invested by...

Justice for Fallen Somaliland Police Officers is Must

Last year, the Wadani party leaders including presidential nominee Cirro attended a reception that took place at a local hotel in the Dumbuluq ward of Hargeysa. The Keynote...

The Two Colonels & their Cronies Failed Somaliland

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance, wrote in his best-known book, the prince,...

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