Investigative Reports

Another Fake Degree Scandal Rocks Somaliland Presidency: Director General Caught With Diploma Mill “Masters”

Repeat of 2022 Central Bank Fraud Scandal Exposes Somaliland...

AFRICOM Commander Admits Somalia Al-Shabaab Policy Failure in Final Briefing 2025

Special Report | AFRICOM Commander General Michael Langley acknowledges...

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...

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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...

Let’s talk about “it”: arbitration or reconciliation?

In July 2019 Somalia’s president his excellency Mohamed Abdillahi “Farmaajo” set up a commission to revive talks with Somaliland. His move came three years...

As Al-Shabaab Gains, More Somali Forces Abandon their Positions For Non-Payment of Salaries

The payment dispute between the Somali Federal Government and front line units of the Somali National Army comes at a time when Al-Shabaab has been gaining territory and has increased the frequency of its deadly attacks on Mogadishu.

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