You are different, it’s normal
I’m a girl from a land where women were nothing better than valueless creature that doesn’t or can’t ever make a change or differences in any way possible but to be an asset to a man.
I have left that land to my motherland where...
Somaliland: DP World the road to re-recognition
The latest UN Report on Somalia (Ex-South Somali Republic), highlighted that Mogadishu administration needs at least another ten years to go out of current chaos. The international community spent about $7 billion on stabilizing 'Somalia' until now, and many peacekeepers lost their lives.
Despite the...
On the Horn of Africa, a tiny ‘country’ has Congress’ ear
By: POLITICO
Somaliland's delegation swept through Washington, promising to support Taiwan and ditch China. All it wants is a little recognition.
As China floods Africa with billions of dollars in development aid, massive infrastructure investment, and even talk of a new military base, a tiny East...
Disunity, in-fighting, foreign interventions and bad policies help al Shabaab
In last week, Somalia was in the headlines once again. At least 26 people, including a prominent journalist, Hodon Naalleeye, have been killed in an attack in Kismayo.
Al Shabaab is a daily life reality in Somalia. Its murderous and indiscriminate attacks claim the lives...
Somaliland:Berbera basing politics: Understanding actors, interests, and animosities( Full Length Research Paper)
Full Length Research Paper BY: Najah M. Adam
Department of Diplomacy and International Relations, EUCLID University, Gambia.
Received 8 May, 2017; Accepted 5 June, 2017
Key words: National security, basing politics, interests, actors, animosity, deterrence, collective security,collective defense.
HORNDIPLOMAT-The presence of forward forces in foreign soil is not...
Somaliland Needs a New Approach with Somalia
By:Gulied Jama and Yacqub Ismail
2018 opens a new cycle in Somaliland’s foreign policy. The result of the 2017 presidential election showed that hardliners won the election. By hardliners, it means that a senior leader from the military wing of SNM won the election by a majority of...
OP-ED:A stunning visit of Farmajo to Eritrea!
Today his Excellence Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, the Somalia president is going to Eritrea for three day official visit as declared Eritrea ministry of information in his twitter account.
If we look back the history, Eritrea tended to host the dissidents who are against the Somali...
The success of Somaliland and other examples show the limits of Western political thinking on Africa
Writes By: Sherin Helal
While Somalia has achieved notoriety in Africa as the most striking example of a failed state and the continent’s biggest battlefield, it has nevertheless also been able to present a model in the form of the autonomous Republic of Somaliland in...
SOMALILAND: REGULATORY GAPS IN MOBILE BANKING PLATFORMS
Written by Mohammed Dahir Ahmed
Horndiplomat-Somaliland is one of the leading markets in mobile banking platforms in Africa. It has been acknowledged by renowned individuals such as Bill Gates of Microsoft and international finance and development institutions as far as its innovation and customer reach...
Op-Ed: The Growing Geopolitical Importance of Somaliland and the Zero Sum Game Players’ Dilemma
By: Abdifatah Ahmed Hurre
In the mid-2020, Somaliland, a democratic de facto state in the Horn of Africa hosted an influx of diplomats from Africa and beyond with long-standing territorial integrity claims, resource-based conflicts, and other strategic interests to one another. Among were representatives from...
