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Mogadishu, May 19h, 2019   At least 1.7 million people in Somalia face acute food shortages due to delayed and insufficient seasonal rainfall, humanitarian aid agencies have warned, calling for urgent humanitarian support to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of families at risk. The...

By:REUTERS Somalia awarded its first mobile money licence to Hormuud Telecom on Saturday, in a move aimed at formalising the Horn of Africa country’s digital payments system and integrating it with the global financial infrastructure. Hormuud Telecom began operating in Somalia in 2002 and has some...

By:Somaliland Daily Today, the council of the ministers of Somaliland chaired by the president and attended by the vice president and cabinet ministers made decisions related to Somaliland and Somalia dialogue and the operations of diplomats and international humanitarian and developmental organisations. In a press statement...

HARGEISA, November 1, 2017— Authorities in Somaliland, along with the World Bank, have launched the first round of funding in the Bank’s flagship job creation program, the Somali Business Catalytic Fund (SBCF). The fund will support 150 to 200 businesses, with one third of...

Dr. Hussein Mohamed Nur Throughout the 1980s a scorched earth policy was effectively in place in the whole of the Northern regions (Somaliland). One of the decisive factors that increased the tension and dissidence in the North and which accelerated the formation of an all-war open...

Horndiplomat-International observers of Somaliland’s presidential election on 13 November 2017 arrive in Somaliland-Press statement   International observers communique Ahead of Somaliland’s third presidential election on 13 November 2017, the first members of a team of 60 international election observers have arrived in Hargeisa. The international election observation mission (EOM)...

BEIJING — A massive typhoon left one person dead in eastern China on Wednesday, a day after killing four and injuring 260 in Taiwan. Typhoon Megi weakened to a tropical storm after hitting the coastal city of Quanzhou in Fujian province before dawn, packing winds...

By:Taiwan Focus A Taiwan-Somaliland trade fair aimed at strengthening business links and market opportunities across Africa will be held Nov. 4, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Tuesday. Isaac Chiu (邱陳煜), the deputy head of MOFA's Department of International Cooperation and Economic Affairs, said that...

Horndiplomat-The Explosion Targets to Somali Government Soldiers in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne Killed 2 and Other 7 Wounded. Horndiplomat Reports Somali police Shade-Centre near the textile shopping complex in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne suburb today targeted land-Mine BLAST , Two soldiers were killed and seven others wounded . Meanwhile The Somali security...

By:The Spectator Twenty per cent of the country’s GDP has been wiped out in the fire On the eve of Ramadan at the start of this month, the epic Waaheen market at the centre of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, caught fire. The flames engulfed the entire...