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Somaliland Vice President Meets Civil Society Network for Scaling-Up Nutrition

Somaliland Vice President Meets Somaliland Civil Society Network for Scaling-Up Nutrition
Press-release Somaliland vice president Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail Meets with Somaliland Civil Society Network for Scaling-Up Nutrition (SLCSN-SUN) in Hargeisa. The Vice president's office has organized The consultative meeting focused on the program's performance and how to accelerate this project in 2021. officials from Government institutions, Donors, and the Civil...

Somaliland:Pioneering Somaliland Journalist Looks Beyond Present-Day Horizons

Somaliland's pioneering first woman print journalist urges other women to believe in themselves and look for new horizons to break the mould of male-dominated media. "It is what you think about yourself that makes you who you are," says Fahma Yusuf Essa. "I ask many young ladies...

Somaliland journalist detained without charge over false news claim

Police in Gabiley arrested Abdirisak Dayib Ali on December 5, 2017 for allegedly publishing a false report on the news website Gabiley News earlier that month, according to his lawyer, Guleid Ahmed Jama, and Mohamud Abdi Jama, chair of the Somaliland Journalists Association (SOLJA). Abdirisak was arrested...

Somaliland Foreign Policy and the Equation of Existence and Thought

In philosophy as well as in the science of logic there has been a fundamental question about which one comes first, Existence or Thought. This question has been one of the most critical theoretical issues about life that confronted humanity in general and scholars of...

Somaliland: Democratic Stability and Strategic Location – Strong Potential for Recognition

Since 1991, Somaliland has made steady democratic gains and is attracting foreign investment, given its strategic location along the Gulf of Aden. Its democratic stability and its economic interest allow for some optimism regarding a potential international recognition of Somaliland’s sovereignty. While the international community has...

Somaliland: 17 conainers with appliances for construction of culverts arrive

Somaliland: 17 conainers with appliances for construction of culverts arrive
By M.A. Egge 17 containers holding direly needed culvert construction facilities meant for water-way transvers drainages for the Burao-Erigavo roads have reached the port of Berbera. While disclosing the fact the Transport and Roads Development Minister Hon. Abdillahi Abokor Osman said that there were 163 seasonal...

Is political integration in the Horn of Africa possible?

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Abiy Ahmed, prime minister of Ethiopia, attend a meeting in Juba, South Sudan on March 4, 2019 [Jok Solomun/Reuters]
Following his recent efforts to achieve normalisation with Eritrea, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked on a shuttle diplomacy mission across the Horn of Africa. Since the signing of the landmark June 2018 peace agreement between the two long-warring nations, Abiy held several bilateral and tripartite...

The Rebirth Of Somaliland (11): Scorched Earth Policy In The North And The Letter Of Death

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...

Seawater Greenhouse reaps first Somaliland veg crop grown with just sea water

EXCLUSIVE: Pioneering project in Somaliland delivers first harvest of lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers - all grown using only sea water A ground-breaking project to grow vegetables with seawater has produced its first harvest in Somaliland, green tech start-up Seawater Greenhouse announced today. The UK firm has reaped...

Somaliland govt challenged to source internal ways of generating income

Leading East African female entrepreneur Amina Hersi Mogeh who pushed for the recognition of women in Somaliland development during the international conference in Hergeisa/COURTESY
 HARGEISA, Somaliland, Oct 12 – The two-day International conference on Somaliland came to a close in Hargeisa with challenge to the government to source internal ways of generating income as it continues to push for international recognition. Remittances were identified as one of the main...