Africa

By:SOLJA Somaliland journalists Association is condemning today’s court decision of Sanaag region against Journalist Abdirahman Xidig who was charged with one year and nine months and also $300 fines. The Somaliland printing press vice-chairman have filed a case against the journalists appeared in court. However, it’s...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Somaliland Government on Wednesday executed six convicts who had been sentenced to death for murder. Khadar Abdikarim, a police officer in Somaliland told Anadolu Agency over the phone."All of them were convicted of murder. Two of them were additionally accused of...

By:DAILYSABAH & HORNDIPLOMAT The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has launched a programme to help boost the quality and amount of crops and livestock in Somaliland. The recently-launched project aims to boost the quality and amount of crops and livestock in Somaliland, including measures against...

Somaliland is set to resume exporting livestock to the United Arab Emirates this week. A shipment destined for the middle east nation is set to leave the Somaliland port of Berbera with a load of over 5,000 heads of sheep and goats. Already the animals have...

Dahabshiil Group was among the entities contributing to the launching of the Electronic -Shiling Service's, provided by the Central Bank of Somaliland and Somtel whose aim is to enable SL Civil Servants to receive salaries through the Somtel and eDahab service. Somaliland Civil Service...

By:ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — DP World said Tuesday it has won another arbitration ruling against Djibouti over the African country’s seizure of a container terminal managed by the Dubai-based global port operator. The company said a London tribunal ordered Djibouti to restore its...

By:HOL Government employees in Somaliland will now receive their salaries through their mobile phones following the launch of an electronic payment platform Monday. Somaliland vice president Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail (Saylihi) said the launch of the service marked was remarkable step in moving governance online. “To move the...

By:SOMTRIBUNE The leaders of the two national opposition parties of the Republic of Somaliland, separately, revealed that the President went back on his promise that he would fully abide by the proposal of the mediation committee regarding a mutually acceptable early reschedule of the oft-postponed...

By:Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Sultan Qaboos of Oman, who died on 10 January 2020, at the age of 79 after almost five decades on the throne. Since the news broke around the world, condolences have been pouring in. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has sent on...

The Republic of Somaliland is a sovereign, democratic State in the Horn of Africa, sharing its borders with Djibouti to the West, Ethiopia to the South, Somalia to the East and the Gulf of Aden to the North.  It has been running its own...