Somaliland Police caught between a rock and a hard place
The Somaliland public and political class clip wings of Somaliland Police Force writes Liban Ahmad
On Saturday 1 December Somaliland MPs voted to amend some articles in the Police Act. Amendments will make Somaliland Police service more draconian, according to Guled Jama, Director of Human...
Diminishing Influence of Traditional Elders on Peace and Reconciliation in Somaliland
Similar to many other African countries, Somaliland enjoyed traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution and peace-building processes led by Somali traditional elders in the past centuries. The elders had exercised comprehensive informal systems and regulations to address the community conflicts including clan conflicts, land disputes...
Somaliland: National Development Priorities Buried in Semantic Ambiguities
The government’s new communication strategy deserves praise even if it brings to the fore inequities embedded in the centralism Hargeysa champions, writes Liban Ahmad
Innovations the incumbent Somaliland government introduced when President Muuse Bihi assumed power last year put government efforts in good light. The...
Helping Somaliland Nomads Through a Drought Preparedness and Mitigation Policy
By Liban Ahmad
Editor's note
This article was published in 2016. We think issues raised in the piece are as burning today as they were two years ago.
Recurrent droughts in Somaliland expose the vanity of the Somali political class when it comes to drought preparedness and...
Somaliland: Jirdeh’s Conflict Resolution Initiative
Horndiplomat-Changes in the Horn of Africa has caught Somaliland by surprise. Lifting sanctions on Eritrea and concerted efforts by the International Community to prevent disintegration of Ethiopia mean placing a premium on sovereignty. In these tumultuous changes Somaliland finds itself disoriented, in a territorial...
The Missing Link: Improving access to justice in Somaliland
by Guleid Ahmed Jama, Jordan Street
In Somaliland, judges and civil society have never had the opportunity to sit down and discuss how to improve justice provision for all citizens. But in September 2018, these two groups sat down together in September in a participatory workshop funded...
Somaliland: An open Letter to Dr Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia PM and Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea president
By: Mohamud Aden Samatar
Somaliland welcomes the waves of political change taking place in the Horn of Africa, the democratization of Ethiopia spearheaded by Dr Abiy Ahmed and the normalization of relation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and also the easing of the alleged accusation of...
ISRAEL AND SOMALILAND – LONG-LOST BROTHERS?
BY F. HUSSEIN
Israel and Somaliland have much in common.
Israel faces many adversaries that don’t recognize it or its right to self-determination; Somaliland is also unrecognized as a state by most countries.
Both share a history with Britain. The British defeated the Ottoman Empire, captured Palestine and...
Islam, Peace-building & Somalia/land
This essay will cover the reason for my attendance at the upcoming UNAOC Global Forum in New York, the topics I will be focusing on and plan to bring to the forefront of discussions.
UNAOC Global Forum 2018
On 19 - 20th November 2018 United Nations...
Op-Ed:The Election Deadlock Between The Political Parties Can Put Somaliland’s Stability Under Threat
Somaliland is a place of stability in comparison with many African countries since it has regained its sovereignty from Somalia in 1991. Despite having no legal recognition from international community, it has been able to show a high-level of stability which does not exist...
