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,...

Somaliland Government Announced additional cases of COVID-19

The Ministry of Health Development announced three additional cases of COVID-19 in Somaliland, two in Hargeisa and one in Borama in addition to the...

President Bihi Sacks the Hargeisa Group Hospital Manager, Reappoints former Manager

On Thursday April 9th, the President of the Republic of Somaliland, HE Muse Bihi Abdi sacked the Manager of Hargeisa Group Hospital Dr. Yassin...

COVID-19 Update: Somaliland Receives First Medical Aid from UAE

The Republic of Somaliland received its first shipment of medical aid from the United Arab Emirates today. The heavy Ilyushin Il-76TD Russian transport plane...

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...

Bluff, Call, Blink: President Bihi and Opposition Parties Reach Yet another Agreement Brokered by the EU Ambassador to Somalia

Somaliland President HE Muse Bihi Abdi and opposition leaders of Waddani and UCID have reached a new agreement where the President will back off...

Opposition Accuse the President of Becoming a ‘Dictator’ and Call for Early Presidential Elections in 2020

The Chairmen of the two opposition parties of Somaliland Mr. Abdirahman Abdillahi Cirro and Mr. Faysal Ali Waraabe, flanked by other party officials held...

Ministry of Education and Science Officials Deny staff Discrepancy and Corruption Report

The Minister of Education and Science Hon. Ahmed Mohamed Diriye Egeh and other officials have denied our February 2nd report regarding the staff discrepancies at...

President Bihi Departs for Addis Ababa On Official Visit where African Union Summit is Underway

The President of the Republic of Somaliland His Excellency Muse Bihi Abdi has departed today from Egal Internal Airport heading to the Ethiopian capital...

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