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...

Somalia

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,...

United Nations Secretary General Rebukes PNG of Haysom by Somalia

The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in a statement released by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General that and attributed to him...

UN Special Representative to Somalia and Head of UNSOM is “Persona Non Grata” – Somalia’s Foreign Ministry

In an unusually short statement by Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation stated that Mr. Nicholas Haysom has been informed that "he...

Mogadishu: Where Hope Goes to Die

Mohamed Mohamoud Sheik is the latest casualty of a war that continues to claim thousands of innocent lives in Somalia, what is different this...

Somalia’s Prime Minister Hassan Khaire Visits Garowe

Somali's Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire arrived in Garowe today the capital of Puntland regional administration amid heavy security. The purpose of the Prime Minister's...

Deadly Al-Shabaab Attack on Somalia’s Interior Ministry in Mogadishu

At 12 people were reported to have died in an attack on Somalia's Interior Ministry today in Mogadishu. Ministry employees are among the casualties...

Fighting Between Somalia’s Al Shabaab and Clan Militias Leave 17 Dead

By Reuters MOGADISHU — At least 17 people have been killed in fighting between militants from Somalia's al Shabaab group and clan militias in the country's...

I Was Kidnapped, Tortured, Stripped Naked and Photographed In the Name of Farmaajo and Khaire.

The Spokesman for the Galmudug Regional Administration of Somalia and social media activist, Mr. Abdillahi Hashi Roob da'ay, in a stunning statement to Goobjoob...

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