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,...

Pentagon Acting Chief Miller Saught Qatar’s Help to Negotiate with Al-Shabaab

In a little-noticed story published by the New York Times in the aftermath of the US Presidential elections, the currently US Acting Secretary of...

European Union to Cut Budgetary Support to Somali Federal Government

According to multiple sources, the European Union has suspended budgetary support to the Somali Federal government due to the government's attempt to rig the...

United States Urges Citizens to Evacuate Somalia or Shelter in Place due to COVID-19

The United States Embassy in Somalia issued a statement that it has arranged a chartered flight from Mogadishu in collaboration with Ethiopian Airlines to...

Somaliland Strongly Rebukes Somalia’s attempt to Implement A World Bank Project in its Territory

Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a strong statement warning Somalia's Federal Government to refrain from interfering in its sovereignty. The...

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...

Coronation Fit for a King – Heavy Weight Delegations Converge on Jubaland for President Islam’s Inauguration

The Federal Government of Somalia has gone to an extraordinary length to ensure the President of Jubaland State of Somalia Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe)...

Somalia’s Auditor General Reports Massive Corruption Under President Farmajo

The Auditor General of the Federal Government of Somalia Mr. Mohamed M Ali has uncovered large scale corruption in his latest financial audit report...

United Nations Orders Reduction of Staffing Footprint in Mogadishu, Somalia

In a broadcast from United Nations Support Office in Somalia and particularly Mogadishu. According to travel advisory email that was sent to all the...

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