Somaliland

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed and six other Ethiopians, including Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam and CEO of Ethio Telecom, Frehiwot Tamiru have made it to New African magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential Africans." According to New African magazine, the annual...

(Horn Diplomat News Desk ) Boodhari Mills sent Somalilnchronicle.com an email in protest of a report on fund raising activities of the company. “I have been alerted to inaccurate information you published this morning about Boodhari Mills. We kindly ask you to remove this...

The government’s new communication strategy deserves praise even if it brings to the fore inequities embedded in the centralism Hargeysa champions, writes Liban Ahmad Innovations the incumbent Somaliland government introduced when President Muuse Bihi assumed power last year put government efforts in good light. The...

By Mohamed Dualeh Horn Diplomat (Hargeisa) On Nov 28, Somaliland's National Election  Commission (NEC) announced the postponement of parliamentary and local councils scheduled to take place in March 2019. Somaliland opposition parties, UCID and Waddani, criticised  Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and the National Electoral commission for the...

Dahabshil Bank International (DBI) is committed to implementing apt suggestions made by its customers. This was revealed during a dinner that DBI hosted for its clients in Hargeisa during which the inaugural Customer Service week was also officially brought to a close. The weekly even,t which...

The Government of Somaliland together with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has planned a Trade and Investment Conference in Nairobi to market Somaliland as an investment destination. NAIROBI, KENYA, November 28 — Somaliland is exploiting regional and international trade deals in Kenya, as the capital-...

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...

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...