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 Minister of Foreign Affairs Yasin Hagi Mohamoud Concludes Inaugural Diplomatic Mission to the United States

Foreign Minister advocates for stronger relations in meetings with U.S. officials, lawmakers and experts WASHINGTON, D.C. – Somaliland Foreign Minister Yasin Hagi Mohamoud today concluded...

United States Scrambles to Counter Chinese and Russian Influence in Africa

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a sharp refocus of its Africa strategy to counter what it called the “predatory” practices of China and...

Statement by Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Following today's speech at the Heritage Foundation by U.S. National Security Advisor Amb. John Bolton on The Trump Administration's New Africa Strategy, Foreign Minister...

The Uniter in Chief – Somaliland President’s Visit to Eastern Regions and Message of National Unity.

Somaliland President His Excellency Muse Bihi Abdi has been on a whirlwind tour of the country east, starting with Berbera followed by Burao and...

Somaliland Government Welcomes UN Security Council’s continued Weapons Embargo on Somalia

A newly energized Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued press statement welcoming the United Nation Security Council's continued weapons embargo...

Exclusive – In Gondor Summit, Ethiopian PM Abiy Asks Farmajo For Naval Base in Zeila, Somaliland

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed concluded a second round of intense negotiation with Presidents of Somalia and Eritrea Mr Mohamed Abdillahi Farmajo and Asias...

Broken Promises: Hargeisa Mayor “Soltelco” Fails to Deliver Land Promised to Military Families

Mayor of Somaliland’s capital city of Hargeisa Abdirahman Aideed “soltelco” failed to deliver land he promised to Somaliland military and their families on the...

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