Somaliland

A 21-year old Somalilander who represented Somalia in the annual DIHQA (Dubai International Holy Quran Award) competition has been arrested by Somaliland’s Security Forces, an official has confirmed. In an interview with SomalilandSpan.com, Somaliland’s representative to the United Arab Emirates, Bashe Awil Haji Omar, said Ismail...

HARGEISA, Somaliland, Oct 10 – Somaliland continues to push for its recognition internationally as it held an international forum in the capital Hergeisa on Wednesday. President Muse Behi Abdi said time is ripe for the international community to recognise and appreciate the role Somaliland is...

It is a minor miracle that countries have kept to their borders as resentments simmer DAVID PILLING A remarkable thing about Africa is just how stable its borders have been. Unlike Europe, where frontier-altering wars raged for centuries, where Yugoslavia shattered into pieces just a generation...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Dr Sa'ad Ali Shire met with Turkish consular to Somaliland Ali Niyon at his office the meeting was discussed a key important issues between the two countries. The Turkish counsular underlined how Turkish government is committed to...

By: HornDiplomat & BBC Mosques in the Republic of Somaliland have been urged to turn down, or turn off, their loudspeakers for overnight prayers. The director general of the ministry of religious affairs, Aadan Abdillahi Abdalle, told the BBC Somali service that imams and mosque authorities...

INTRODUCTION According to dominant paradigms of international relations theories, a country’s foreign policy consists of the self-interested strategies chosen by the state to protect its national interests, and the deployment of the various tools of diplomacy and statecraft in order to...

Horndiplomat-Maroodi-jeex Regional court sentenced lawyer Asad Nur Elmi to three years in prison for accepting US$ 900 dollars as bribe from a woman who had been in jail. The court revoked Asad’s license to practise as a lawyer in courts for five years. The chairman of...

The first-ever Somaliland Presidential Election Debate has been held in Hargeisa last Thursday, October 19, 2017. All three presidential candidates from the three political parties, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilllahi from Waddani, Musa Bihi Abdi from Kulmiye and Faisal Ali Warabe from Ucid participated in the...

By: Ilyas Hussein, Horndiplomat contributor Horndiplomat(Nairobi)Somaliland delegation attends the Pre-conference workshop for the upcoming 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) in Nairobi. Somaliland delegation led by Dr Saad Ali Shire minister of finance accompanied by Eng. Hussein Ibrahim Vice Minister of...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi received in his office Saudi ambassador to Somalia Mohammed Abdi Khayat. President Bihi and ambassador Mohamed Khayat discussed how Saudi Arabia would assist Somaliland in the areas of economy, investment, lifting the ban on Somaliland livestock export and ways to...