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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There is No Point in Beating a Dead Horse unless the Dead Horse Wants to be Your Mayor. Again.

We have been exceptionally harsh and critical of the current Mayor of Hargeisa Mr. Abdirahman Mahmoud Aideed SOLTELCO and went as far as crowning...

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...

International Partners praise Somaliland political parties’ agreement to hold the parliamentary and local election in 2020

JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON SOMALILAND’S POLITICAL PARTIES AGREEMENT The International Partners (listed below) supporting Somaliland’s democratization process welcome the Somaliland Political Parties agreement, signed on...

The Political anxiety and tension in Somalia election 2021.

The tensions between the Federal Government of Somalia, regional States, and oppositional parties are getting each day more complicated while the election is approaching,...

Ethiopia’s poll has been pushed out by COVID-19. But there’s much more at play

Mulugeta G Berhe (PhD), Tufts University The decision by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to postpone the elections in Ethiopia has created a constitutional crisis. The...

Somaliland Government Rebukes Statement by United Nations SRSG James Swan

Somaliland government issues a strong condemnation to the United Nations Special Representative of Secretary General Mr. James Swan following a statement he made at...

Opposition Parties Accuse the President of Refusing to Dissolve the New Election Commission

In the latest sage of the parliamentary and local council election delays in Somaliland between the ruling party of Kulmiye and the opposition parties...

Imperfect Democracy: How Somaliland’s Political Parties got the Elections back on Track

Despite 30 years of independence and five peaceful transfers of power, Somaliland has gotten democracy basics wrong. It has had a history of...

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