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...

Special Reports

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,...

Sugar. Cellphones. Corruption: The Container that Claimed the Entire Leadership of Berbera Customs

In April 2020, a cargo container was taxed and cleared out of Berbera Customs only to be intercepted outside of Hargeisa city limits by...

How to Govern Inefficiently: How Lack of Continuity Between Government Appointees Keeps Agencies at Constant State of Reboot

In this series, we will examine inefficiencies and duplication of efforts in our government, where multiple agencies perform similar and sometimes exact functions and...

Petty Theft: How One Somaliland Women Organization Officials are Embezzling Aid Intended for the Internally Displaced in Hargeisa

Somaliland Women and Child Development Organization (NOW) was established in 1997 by the former First Lady Ms. Kaltun Haji Dahir, the spouse of late...

Business or Pleasure – How Somaliland Government Officials Spent $765,000.00 on Travel Expenses

According to government records examined by Somaliland Chronicle, Somaliland government officials spent more than $765,000.00 on travel-related expenses on 2019.  There is no sufficient information...

Somaliland Civil Service Commission Continues to Spend on Foreign Consultants for Basic Services

Somaliland Civil Service Commission has unveiled its five-year strategic plan on December 5th, 2019 in a glitzy event attended by many government officials and...

False Advertising – SOMCABLE Chairman Lies About his Philanthropic Activities in Somaliland

On October 29, 2019 Mr. Mohamed Said Guedi, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Somaliland, the owner of somcable, MSG and other businesses was...

False Advertising – Did Dahabshiil Group Bring SAMSUNG to Somaliland or Open an Electronics Store?

On October 22nd 2019, the Vice President of Somaliland HE Abdirahman Abdallahi Ismail Saylici inaugurated a flagship SAMSUNG store in Hargeisa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=DPx7tk5LY8s Also in attendance at...

GEOSOL: How Mayor SOLTELCO and his Friends Plan to Make Millions in Unlawful Taxes from Hargeisa Property Owners.

On March 26th, 2018 President of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi unveiled a program by Hargeisa Municipality to modernize and manage property and land...

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