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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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NAIROBI – Somaliland government, through its Liaison office in Nairobi, will on Friday hold a major investment conference in the Kenyan capital to woo investors to the Horn of Africa nation. Somaliland is targeting top Kenyan and East African investors to Hargeisa and Berbera, the...

( Horn Diplomat News Desk ) Khadar Muhumad, the author of a new book on Somalia-Somaliland talks, launched it at Hargeysa Cultural Centre.Horndiplomat Reports The book, Kalamaan ( Opposing Views ) discusses the genesis of the talks in London in 2012 and the diametrically opposing...

(Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Chairman of the Somaliland opposition party, UCID, Faisal Ali Warabe, called for the government and businesses in Somaliland to embrace a culture of competition. "Our constitution stipulates free trade. We must bring to an end monopolies in Somaliland" Faisal...