Investigative Reports

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...

Major Corruption Allegations Rock Somaliland Finance Ministry’s Recruitment for World Bank’s Public Resource Management Project

According to documents examined by Somaliland Chronicle, serious allegations...

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Short-sighted US Policy on Somalia Emboldened Terrorism against Somaliland

Somalia's strategic importance in the Horn of Africa has sparked a fierce competition for influence in recent years among outside actors like the U.S.,...

U.S. Designates Five Al-Shabaab Leaders in Somalia as Specially Designated Global Terrorists

In a statement issued today, the United States Department of State announced today that it has designated five al-Shabaab leaders as Specially Designated Global...

Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen, Technical University of Mombasa The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment...

United States Navy Seized Illicit Weapons Off the Coast of Somalia

United States Defense Department announced that the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill have intercepted and seized a large shipment of weapons aboard two...

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...

Somalia: The Shrinking Jurisdiction of Villa Somalia

“...The calls from an unknown number had been coming for weeks, but Osman, a household-goods trader in the Somali capital’s largest market, disregarded them...

The Tale of Two Cities: Halane Compound vs Mogadishu

Facing the Indian Ocean, a beautiful beachfront Halane Compound houses foreign dignitaries and their embassy staff members, over 300 NGOs, contractors, and AMISOM mission...

Opening the Gates of Hell – How Somaliland/Somalia talks Endanger Somaliland’s Peace and Security

For the third time in its 30 years existence, Somaliland has once more restarted talks with Somalia this time with an inexplicable urgency and...

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