Op-Ed: Hargeisa Local Government’s Revenue Generation Conundrum; the Prevalence of Tax Evasion
By:Subeir A. Salah
Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, has been a rapidly growing city for the last three decades as Somaliland returned to its sovereignty from so-called greater Somalia. Slightly flashing back to the late 80s, Hargeisa has experienced a vast and unprecedented large-scale...
My Call to Action to the Global Leaders at COP26 and Next Steps in My Climate Activism
Press Release by Kamaal Hassan Adnan
In the last few days over 300 youth from all over the globe gathered in Milan, Italy for the first time in history to discuss the major challenge against humanity RIGHT NOW; Yes! of course, the climate crisis. This...
Op-Ed: Somalia is between Farmajo’s Way or the Highway
The constitutional mandate of the incumbent president has expired in February this year while the parliamentary and presidential elections were contentious. The embattled president and the federal member states several times had meetings on the type of the elections, but all their efforts ended...
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...
Somalia: Another Afghanistan is imminent
By:Anwar Abdifatah Bashir
The two countries share gigantic issues. Both are Muslim nations with Sunni sect. As “Angus Hamilton” who was a British war correspondent who had visited in early 20th century both countries, had written two memoirs. Afghanistan Book in 1906, and Somaliland Book...
My experience & trip in Hargeisa and across Somaliland
By:M. Mohamed Abshir
When speaking about Somaliland, Hargeisa has become a metonym for it, a symbolic representation of SL’s hopes and realities. I have always wanted to sightsee and travel there. This year, my dream came true. I went to participate in the 14th annual...
Reimagining A More Resilient UN System With Taiwan In It
By: Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan)
After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the COVID-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has created a profoundly devastating socio-economic impact on our interconnected world, with...
Op-Ed: Tips to Cultivate Better Reading Habit
By:Bashir Mohamed Bashir
Introduction
I would like to share with students and those who are interested in reading this article, which will greatly benefit the present and future life. Before I look “Tips to Cultivate Better Reading Habit” in detail. I must say a word...
Somaliland Ruby and Emerald Occurrences
By:Ahmed Tahir
1.0 An overview of Somaliland Geology
Somaliland, a former British Protectorate in the Horn of Africa, has a very interesting geology and remains relatively underexplored. It is considered to be part of the Mozambique belt (Kinnaird & Jackson, 2000). The extension of Mozambique belt...
Op-Ed: ONLF and Ethiopia: A tug-of-war
By: Anwar Abdifatah Bashir
Somali region is the second-largest in terms of land, and the third most populous in Ethiopia. Throughout history, the region and its inhabitants are the most downtrodden across the country, and Ethiopia treats the region in a subterranean manner.
Somalis in the...