Somalilanders’ Quest for Independence Isn’t ‘Neocolonial’ Plot. It’s Self-Determination
By:Joshua Meservey
Salon.com ran a piece recently warning that the American right is “waging a stealth, neocolonial assault on Somalia.” The supposed “assault” is a growing campaign within the U.S. and elsewhere to recognize Somaliland’s independence from Somalia.
The author, Mohamoud Gaildon, included as evidence a report that I wrote...
Unelected House of Legislation, Uneducated Parliamentarians and a government on the end of its term; could they take us to the road to recognition or achieving a modern government...
By:Hersi Ali H. Hasan
The challenges and burdens our people faced during the last three generations, including colonialism, bad governance, massacre by a dictatorial regime, neglect and being scattered all over the world as refugees makes one inherit painful memory and a worrisome past empty...
Op-Ed: Somaliland’s informal institutions: challenges and opportunities
According to North, informal institutions such as norms, routines, and political processes are more durable than formal rules. There is no single viewpoint on the genesis of institutions. Similarly, there are numerous explanations for why institutions fail to function efficiently and under what conditions...
Somaliland president pardons 360 prisoners on occasion of Eid al-Fitr
By:Staff writer
The president of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi has granted pardon to 360 prisoners on sunday , due on the occasion of Eid
In a presidential degree, president Muse Bihi Abdi ordered the state attorney general starting from sunday to release 360 inmates through Somaliland...
Somaliland VP Returns US$6.7 Million to Traders Who Lost in the Waaheen Market Fire
By:Horntribune
the Vice President of the Republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Abdullahi Ismail ‘Zeyli’i’, apportioned US$ 6,766,418 to traders made destitute by the Waaheen market fire of Hargeisa on 1 April 2022.
This is the second round...
Canada’s Somaliland community calls for federal support after massive fire in Waheen Market
By:The Global and Mail
Members of Canada’s Somaliland community have been meeting with MPs to push for federal emergency funding relief in the region after a fire devastated its largest commercial market.
The Canadian Alliance to Rebuild Hargeisa Market is calling on Ottawa to provide $10-million...
Somaliland: Taiwan pledges $550K to support Waaheen market fire traders
Press-Release
Taiwan's government has pledged to donate US$550,000 to Somaliland to help Waaheen market fire traders.
On behalf of the Taiwan Government and two Taiwan’s NGOs, Ambassador Allen LOU of the Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland hands over USD550,000 plus a container of...
Taiwan trains Somaliland seed teachers and donates medical equipment
Press-Release by Taiwan
Since Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland established in August in 2020, the "Maternal and Infant Health Care Improvement Project" plays a key role of bilateral medical cooperation. This project aims to increase the...
EU brings relief to the victims of the Hargeisa Market Fire in Somaliland
The European Commission has provided EUR 100 000 in emergency humanitarian funding to assist the most vulnerable families affected by the fire that broke out at the Waaheen market in Hargeisa on 1 April 2022 – PRESS STATEMENT
The fire, suspected to have been caused...
The arrests of journalists for “seditious” statements during the Hargeisa Prison Incident
Press-Release by Human Right Center
Journalism is not sedition, nor is it a politicized event. However, the past couple of weeks in Somaliland has shown that the detention of 15 journalists in Somaliland has been exacerbated. Although of the 15 journalists were released, three are...