Africa

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nine cheetah cubs and one sub-adult were confiscated from illegal wildlife traders by the Somaliland Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (MoERD) with assistance from Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in El Sheik and Wajel, respectively, on 19 April. The...

  Dahabshil Bank International (DBI), today, officially opened its doors to business in Kismayu of Jubbaland. Farid Jama Suleiman, Minister Commerce of the Federal State of Jubbaland, stated that he was honored to be part of the DBI event since the Bank symbolized another notch up...

Police arrested Mohamed on February 17 and have been holding him without charge NAIROBI, Kenya, February 22, 2018/ -- Somaliland authorities should immediately release Mohamed Aabi Digaale, the Hargeisa bureau chief for the London-based broadcaster Universal TV, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police...

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...

By:Rageh Omaar  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Somaliland is a country which doesn’t officially exist. It broke away from the rest of Somalia after a bitter civil war in 1991, a conflict which plunged the rest of Somalia into violent conflict and instability and a war with the...

Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A YOUTH POLICY FOR SOMALILAND Type of Contract: MIDA(2 individual expert) Duration of contract: Two and Half Months Date of Issue: 30th September 2016 Closing Date: 14th October 2016 Organizational Unit: IOM Somalia in collaboration with UNFPA Somalia. 1. Background Somaliland is one of the youngest countries in...

By:Magdalene Mukami and Mohammed Dhaysane   Somalia is thriving due to aid from Turkey in mostly development and social projects through the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, TIKA‘s coordinator in Somalia, Galip Yilmaz, noted that Turkish projects in Somalia have...

By:Charter Cities Institute A charter city-operated via a public-private partnership at the Port of Berbera, Somaliland will substantially increase the positive impacts of Somaliland’s already effective national development strategy. Executive Summary Download the paper attached. Download The city of Berbera, Somaliland has some of the greatest growth potentials...

PRESS RELEASE On 11 August 2020, the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development hosted the contract signing event for the construction of the new Maydh jetty in Erigavo city, Sanaag region. The construction of the jetty is among the recently approved projects funded by the...

Riyadh- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo have discussed aspects of bilateral cooperation and the developments in the region. Farmajo’s trip to Riyadh was his first official foreign visit after his Feb. 8 election. Thursday’s...