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,...

Ethiopia Reiterates its Quest for Red Sea Access as Djibouti Presents a Counterproposal

In a recent media address, Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Taye Atske-Selassie reaffirmed Ethiopia’s position on Red Sea access, stating, "There has to be safe, reliable,...

Dancing with Predators – Somalia’s Proxy War Tango in the Horn of Africa

In the intricate chess game of Horn of Africa geopolitics, Somalia has embraced a strategy so myopic that it threatens to reduce the entire...

SL-SAG STANDS WITH SOMALILAND: DEFENDING SOVEREIGNTY, DEVELOPMENT, AND AVIATION INDEPENDENCE

PRESS RELEASE August 26, 2024 – Somaliland Strategic Advisory Group (SL-SAG) stands firmly with Somaliland, a nation that has shown resilience, stability, and a commitment...

FlyDubai Flight Diverted Due to Runway Issues at Somaliland’s Egal International Airport

HARGEISA, Somaliland – On August 20, 2024, FlyDubai flight FDB617, en route to Hargeisa, was forced to divert to Djibouti due to runway damage...

Sir Mo Farah: My Humbling Homecoming

On World Humanitarian Day, Sir Mo Farah describes how people in drought-stricken Somaliland are working together to fight hunger British Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah...

More Somaliland Students Heading to Taiwan for Coveted Scholarships in Diplomatic Milestone

HARGEISA, Somaliland—In a move that underscores growing diplomatic relations, Taiwan awarded scholarships to 32 Somaliland students on August 14, 2024, at a ceremony hosted...

Red Sea Mirage: Turkey’s Snake Oil, Somalia’s Empty Promises, and Ethiopia’s Only Real Path Through Somaliland

The current geopolitical machinations in the Horn of Africa, with Turkey's attempts to resurrect Abiy Ahmed's failed 2018 strategy for Ethiopian sea access via...

Wadani-Kaah Coalition Restructuring Somaliland Political Landscape

A coalition formed by political association Kaah and opposition party Wadani has the potential to change Somaliland's political climate before the elections in November....

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