Somaliland Strengthens relations with Kenya to build broader trade ties
The Government of Somaliland together with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has planned a Trade and Investment Conference in Nairobi to market Somaliland as an investment destination.
NAIROBI, KENYA, November 28 — Somaliland is exploiting regional and international trade deals in Kenya, as the capital-...
U.S. Committed To Partner With Ethiopia To Promote A Business, Investment: Tibor Nagy
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy met with Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide to discuss U.S. support for Ethiopia’s long-term economic growth.
He expressed the United States’ commitment to partner with Ethiopia to promote a business and investment climate that encourages...
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: “Horn of Africa is now Hope for Africa”
Horndiplomat-U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy underscored that the Horn of Africa is now the Hope for Africa. Minister of Foreign affairs, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu received Assistant Secretary Nagy later today (November 29) at his offices. On the occasion, Secretary Nagy thanked...
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...
Oil to cash in Somaliland: a debate whose time has come
Horndiplomat-Oil to cash in Somaliland: a debate whose time has come. by Mr SCOTT PEGG Department of Political Science, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Abstract
Somaliland might start producing oil in 2019. Yet, it has done little to prepare for the arrival of oil revenues which...
Commander of U.S. Africa Command Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser Visits Somalia
"The objective is to support the Somali government as it progresses towards delivering the future that the people of Somalia deserve.” -- Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. AFRICOM.U.S. Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), met with senior government officials...
Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’
Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails
By:Tom Wilson in Hargeisa
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in...
Somaliland:CPA regrets the delay of the scheduled March 2019 Elections
Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) herby regrets the delay of the scheduled March 2019 local council and parliamentarian elections Announced by Somaliland National Electoral Commission. Somaliland is different from many African countries due to its mature politics and democratization process. But this election delay...
Will Somalia give Ethiopia “a base”?
A tweet by Martin Plaut, the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies, left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...
ONLF Senior Leadership To Arrive In Ethiopia On Saturday
A 20-member delegation composed of senior leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) will arrive in Ethiopia on Saturday.
Among members of the delegation include chair of the Front, Mohamed Umar, according to Spokesperson of ONLF.
The Front’s army last week returned to the Somali...