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By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat political editor Horndiplomat-Somaliland House of Representatives rejected a bipartisan motion tabled to approve an agreement reached by the political parties over the composition of the NEC. The agreement was signed by the three parties in Somaliland and was submitted to the house...

Horndiplomat- Somalia's Jubbaland Parliament re-elects Sheikh Abdi Mohamed Abdirahman as Speaker ahead of the region’s leadership election. Abdirahman got 55 votes out of the 73-member parliament, his rival Hussein Shiinow Ali received 18 votes.according to Harun Maruf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VPwBeZBKU The members of the parliament have also unanimously elected...

BY:VOA Analysts warn that tension could rise as a U.N. hearing nears on a Kenyan-Somali territorial argument. Kenya's parliament recently called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to send troops to the Indian Ocean to protect the country's territory from what it calls Somalia's aggression. "In the event that...

By: XINHUANET The African Union and UN have called for peaceful and credible elections in Jubaland, southern Somalia, saying the polls slated for Aug. 24 are critical for the country's stability. Senior representatives from African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the UN reiterated the...

How schools are kept afloat in Somaliland First school Sunshine of Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital city. Free Wind 2014/Shutterstock Tobias Gandrup, University of Antwerp and Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp In 1991, following a civil war that led to the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic, the northern part...

By: PRWeb Somtel, a leading telecommunications company from East Africa, and Kirusa, a global leader in communication solutions over data networks, today announced the launch of Somtel ReachMe, the first-ever unlimited calling package to Somalia making it easy and affordable for Somalians living abroad to...

By: Horndiplomat & africanews Somalia – Somaliland relations have gained traction on social media with the current buzz centering around a photo. Top cabinet ministers of Somalia including the Foreign Affairs and Finance Ministers met and took a photo with a Somaliland delegation – led by...

Somali graduates are proud, inquisitive and, in many cases, innovative. They are certainly ambitious and should be confident about their future in a country blessed with so much natural resources and potential.  Yet, at the best of times, there is a tragic disconnect between the...

By: Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea was set to dispatch a fresh batch of troops to the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday for anti-piracy efforts, the Navy said, amid speculation the contingent could also undertake missions in the Strait of...

By:BBC One in 20 girls and women in the world has had some form of female genital mutilation, according to the UN. The former first lady of the self-declared republic of Somaliland and midwife Edna Adan Ismail has been to meet some of those that live...