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The Hargeisa International Book Fair (HIBF) concluded Thursday evening, the 27th of July, with a vibrant and jam-packed closing ceremony. This was after an entire week of countless mind-engaging and heart-warming activities and events held throughout the city in ten different locations to mark...

By:Zakariye Ahmed,horndiplomat correspondent  (Mogadishu, Somalia). Somalia’s presidential palace chief of staff Hussein Sheikh Mohamud and his deputy Mohamed Amin Sheikh, who was recently appointed by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, took the office from the previous Villa Somalia directors.

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor based in Nairobi Somaliland House of Representatives has amended the Somaliland Telecommunication Law, the amendment dropped the Fiber Optic Quota of Somcable Company. 68 MPs voted in favor of the amendment, while only one MP rejected it and the Chairman did...

Press-Release by SDF The Ministry of Transport and Roads Development (MoTRD) has today officially launched the Burao-Berbera Road Rehabilitation Project which is funded by the second phase of the Somaliland Development Fund (SDF). The launching of the project...

Addis Ababa, June 15, 2018 (FBC) –Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today signed a 3 billion US dollars loan and investment agreements, including a one billion foreign currency support. Accordingly, the UAE will deposit 1 billion US dollars in the National Bank of...

The International Investment Consortium (IIC) of Malaysia is seeking to take Malaysian investors to Somaliland. The IIC says there is so much opportunity in Somaliland which Malaysian businessmen can tap into and help create employment in Somaliland to build its economy. IIC Chairman Dato’ Arshad during...

Somali officials at Bosaso airport insisted that 'heavy bags' be checked, resulting in hours-long row, local media say. Somali officials are said to have stopped a plane from the United Arab Emirates from leaving the country after Emirati military trainers on board refused to hand over their...

By: Staff Writer The court in Hargeisa has released this morning the two musicians who have been in prison since 20 April 2020. The Human rights Centre in Somaliland welcomes a Hargeisa court's decision to release the two musicians Hamda Yousuf Ibrahim and Barwaaqo Mohamed Hashi. "We...

Written by: Awale.I. Shirwac Somaliland must continue to seize every opportunity to ensure that other countries become aware the success story of this peaceful and democratic country and should capitalize the backdrop of this successful diplomatic ties with Guinea Conakry. Diplomatic ties, I am referring...

By M.A. Egge Hargeisa – An event to unveil the last stage of oil exploration, organized by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, was held in Hargeisa on Sunday yesterday, which was announced in the oil well...