Big hopes for the New Gambia
By:Robin Sanders
Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders is CEO of FEEEDS and former US Permanent Representative to ECOWAS.
What is next for Africa's newest democracy?
The Gambian political crisis appears to be over with President Adama Barrow having taken the reins of power, successfully and peacefully, with the...
Somaliland: Ideal days of Somaliland Politics
For two decades Somaliland people has witnessed a great progress of internal government building progression without international help and making a progressive nation, that their people has one mission to improve their country with transparency and affection among the community, the prove is that...
UAE Strategic Power Projection in Somaliland
Partners provides a practical policy recommendations for UAE primarily to counter Iran rather than engage it ,UAE policy in east Africa, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere is driven largely by the UAE’s strategy miscalculates to weaken Iran. But a violation of international laws and shame...
Op-Ed: Somaliland must learn how to play by the global geopolitical rules!
(A note to the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation of the Republic of Somaliland.)
Written by Hussein Adan Igeh (Deyr),
In a rapidly changing geo-political dynamics as well as security, political and economic challenges in the Horn of Africa Region, where Somaliland...
Somaliland: Elections are a one_day sale
Election campaigns are stressful, costly and time consuming. While nothing can eliminate the stress of the countdown to Election Day, there are campaign fundamentals that can be the difference between winning and losing. No matter what level of race one is running, campaign fundamentals...
Somaliland:Youth Unemployment and Security in Hargeisa
By:Muse Abdilahi Muhumed, August, 2017
Abstract
Youth represent a very vital organ in any society. They are not only the future of Somaliland, but also a major stakeholder and useful resource in the nation-building. However, it has been suggested that a large rate of youth...
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...
Somaliland:Waddani takes in new blood, ‘dupes’ old guard in one move
One of the two opposition parties of the Republic of Somaliland, Waddani, welcomed to its fold, Wednesday, defected, erstwhile members of the ruling party.
Among those who joined forces with Waddani were Hersi Ali Haji Hassan who once held the most powerful position of the...
My Parents’ Country, in the Grip of the Shabab
By ASAD HUSSEINOCT. 21, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya — One evening in August, I climbed onto a dusty old truck in the Dadaab refugee camp in the eastern Kenyan desert, about 50 miles from the border with Somalia. A tarpaulin in the truck bed covered the...
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...