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By: MOHAMED ABDALLE Somalia is heading to the indirect election, while the country plagued and divided by protracted social conflict, and also the current situation has been heated up by seismic waves of the electoral contest between Federal Government and the Federal Member States. Furthermore,...

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki arrived in Ethiopia for a three-day official visit on Monday. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was at Jimma Airport to welcome his Eritrean counterpart as the latter landed in Jimma – a city filled with history and is rich in natural...

Taiwan and  Somaliland will benefit from their bilateral cooperation in ways that will strengthen and diversify their development, given their strategic geographical locations, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Monday. The appointment of Somaliland's first representative to Taiwan Mohamed Hagi Mohamoud and the reciprocal opening...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivered her National Day address Saturday, in which she stressed her administration's determination to safeguard Taiwan's national security and outlined the country's post-pandemic economic strategies. The following is the full text of her speech, titled "2020 Proud of Taiwan": National Day Celebration...

By: M. A. Egge Somaliland President Musa Bihi Abdi presided over the 19th graduation ceremony of Amoud University. This 19th batch has just seen 945 graduates being churned out from the various faculties of the university. 808 students have just completed their basic degrees whereas a record 136...

By: MoDuale The newly-opened Taiwan Representative Office in Somaliland held a banquet in the capital Hargeisa on Oct. 7 to celebrate ROC National Day, the first event of its kind in Somaliland. The banquet drew over 150 people, including government officials, parliamentarians, and representatives of the...

By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud According to governance tenets, knowing and unknowingly the African state as a whole emanated from the colonials set up and Eurocentric notion of state-building through decolonization. The indigenous systems in Africa versus the modernity have had specific tensions and contestation in...

Press-Release  A new report jointly launched today by the Somaliland Minister of Planning and National Development  Hassan Mohamed Ali and the Minister of Health Development Omar Ali Abdillahi —titled the Somaliland Health and Demographic Survey (SLHDS) Report 2020—offers the decision-makers and stakeholders vital information on...

By: Daily Sabah Turkish companies have continued their work in Africa with devotion despite logistical issues and coronavirus-related measures, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday. Erdoğan's remarks came during his speech at the opening ceremony of the virtual Turkey-Africa Economy and Business Forum, which kicked off...

By: Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — The foreign ministers of Cuba and Somalia say two Cuban doctors held hostage by the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia have not been freed. Somalia’s foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad told local media that “they’ve not yet been released but...