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...

Politics

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 Parliament Votes Against Women and Minority Quota in Election Bill

In a raucous session, the Somaliland Parliament has passed the much-anticipated election law without the critical components that were intended to give women and...

Somaliland Parliament set to Vote on Election Bill and Gender Quota

The current Somaliland parliament has been in office for 15 years due to elections postponed several times. Elections were scheduled to be last year...

National Election Commission and Political Parties Agree to Hold Parliament and Local Council Elections in 9 Months

Somaliland National Election Commission and the three political parties agreed to hold Parliamentary and local council elections in 9 months. The agreement between the...

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...

Opposition Parties Accuse the President of Refusing to Dissolve the New Election Commission

In the latest sage of the parliamentary and local council election delays in Somaliland between the ruling party of Kulmiye and the opposition parties...

Victim or a Traitor? A look at Villa Somalia’s latest Recruit from Somaliland

Almost a year ago, we reported that Mr. Sharmarke Jama, a well known Somalilander and a technical consultant who has worked closely with multiple...

Major Reshuffle Imminent

According to multiple sources President Bihi is finalizing a major reshuffle of his administration. If it materializes, this would be the third reshuffle President...

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