Oil to cash in Somaliland: a debate whose time has come
Horndiplomat-Oil to cash in Somaliland: a debate whose time has come. by Mr SCOTT PEGG Department of Political Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Abstract
Somaliland might start producing oil in 2019. Yet, it has done little to prepare for the arrival of oil revenues which...
Commander of U.S. Africa Command Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser Visits Somalia
"The objective is to support the Somali government as it progresses towards delivering the future that the people of Somalia deserve.” -- Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. AFRICOM.U.S. Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), met with senior government officials...
Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’
Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails
By:Tom Wilson in Hargeisa
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in...
Somaliland:CPA regrets the delay of the scheduled March 2019 Elections
Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) herby regrets the delay of the scheduled March 2019 local council and parliamentarian elections Announced by Somaliland National Electoral Commission. Somaliland is different from many African countries due to its mature politics and democratization process. But this election delay...
Will Somalia give Ethiopia “a base”?
A tweet by Martin Plaut, the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies, left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...
ONLF Senior Leadership To Arrive In Ethiopia On Saturday
A 20-member delegation composed of senior leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) will arrive in Ethiopia on Saturday.
Among members of the delegation include chair of the Front, Mohamed Umar, according to Spokesperson of ONLF.
The Front’s army last week returned to the Somali...
Somaliland Set To Host Investment Forum In Nairobi
NAIROBI – Somaliland government, through its Liaison office in Nairobi, will on Friday hold a major investment conference in the Kenyan capital to woo investors to the Horn of Africa nation.
Somaliland is targeting top Kenyan and East African investors to Hargeisa and Berbera, the...
A New book on Somaliland-Somalia Talks Launched in Hargeisa
( Horn Diplomat News Desk ) Khadar Muhumad, the author of a new book on Somalia-Somaliland talks, launched it at Hargeysa Cultural Centre.Horndiplomat Reports
The book, Kalamaan ( Opposing Views ) discusses the genesis of the talks in London in 2012 and the diametrically opposing...
Somaliland: Ucid Chairman Calls for Business Competition
(Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Chairman of the Somaliland opposition party, UCID, Faisal Ali Warabe, called for the government and businesses in Somaliland to embrace a culture of competition. "Our constitution stipulates free trade. We must bring to an end monopolies in Somaliland" Faisal...
The first China-Africa Expo to open in Addis Ababa
Horndiplomat-Representatives from Ministry of Trade, China International Expo Center and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association jointly briefed the media on the upcoming first China-Africa Expo due to open between December 3 and 6, 2018 at the Addis Ababa Exhibition Center.
The expo...