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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,...

Sink or Swim for Somalia: The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy and the End of the Mogadishu Underwriting

A policy analysis The White House released the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in May, Washington's first comprehensive counterterrorism doctrine since 2018 and the Trump administration's...

Is Somaliland a Democracy? The Guurti’s Answer Is Yet Another Election Delay.

NEWS ANALYSIS The Republic of Somaliland's House of Elders voted Tuesday in a nationally televised session to extend the mandates of the House of Representatives...

Israel Names Veteran Diplomat as Ambassador to Somaliland; Somalia Threatens to Close the Bab el-Mandeb

Formally, the appointment of Michael Lotem as Israel's first ambassador to the Republic of Somaliland is an administrative act, the credentialing of a diplomat...

Iran Pressures. Turkey Sustains. Somaliland Exposes.

by Shay Gal The war with Iran did not begin in the Gulf. It exposed the system. Hormuz is not the story. It is the...

Dahabshiil and Telesom Took Fuel Delivery From a U.S. Treasury-Sanctioned Iranian Revolutionary Guard Vessel

How a shadow fleet found safe harbour in Berbera Port — and how someone made sure you wouldn't know about it KEY POINTS A U.S. Treasury-designated...

The Free World Needs Taiwan

Why Solidarity Will Protect Prosperity Lin Chia-lung, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan (Republic of China) February 4, 2026 Sitting in the shadow of authoritarian China, Taiwan has...

Jets Without Endurance: Why Turkey’s F-16s in Mogadishu Won’t Ground Somaliland’s Moment

Israel's decision to recognize Somaliland on December 26, 2025 did not merely alter a diplomatic equation; it exposed a long-standing misreading of Somaliland itself....

Somaliland President Attends Davos as Recognition Momentum Builds

President of the Republic of Somaliland, Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi "Irro" is attending the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at a moment of...

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