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Somaliland:Vice President Donates Livestock To Borame Hospital

By M.A. Egge The VP H.E. Abdirahman Ismael Seili’i gave a token of 20 sheep and goats to inpatients at Borama hospital on Friday. The VP who was on an official trip to Awdal toured the hospital where he visited 23 patients who suffered acute watery...

Somaliland:Buhodle Contains Fatal Acute Watery Diarrhea

By M.A. Egge The director of Daryeel Hospital, which is the largest in Buhoodle region, Dr. Abdirahman Ali Muse has declared that they have contained the fatal acute watery diarrhea which recently hit the area. Buhoodle is one of the places that registered highest mortality in...

Ethiopia mulls electricity export to South Sudan, Somaliland

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ADDIS ABABA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia is undertaking feasibility studies to export electricity to South Sudan and Somaliland. Bizuneh Tolcha, Public Relations and Communications Director at Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity said on Wednesday the plan is part of integrating the East...

Meet the doctors and nurses behind the fight against starvation in Somaliland

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In Somaliland, medical workers are in a desperate race against time to save millions of children from death. The children are at risk of starvation in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria. According to Carolyn Miles, the CEO of Save the Children, of the 20...

Somaliland:Anderson Cooper talks with Abaarso School students

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It was April 2016, and Anderson Cooper was in the middle of a busy campaign season, covering debates and presidential primaries, when 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster proposed doing an education story in Africa. Would he want to fly to Somaliland—a trip requiring an...

Somaliland:A young man’s journey from nomadic goat herding to MIT

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Educated at a unique and demanding school in Somaliland, these students are bound for top U.S. colleges and, they say, leadership of their young country SOURCE:CBSNEWS

Women of Somaliland

Women in drought-ravaged Eastern Somaliland are being pushed to the edge, desperately searching for food for their children. Some have lost family members, and many have lost their livestock which is their means of making a living. A lot of women are alone with their...

Somaliland: From Hunger And Thirst To Deadly Sickness

Hannah Wilkinson Media & PR professional, SOAS Alumni and CIPR Best Not-For-Profit PR Campaign Winner for the viral ‘If Men Had Periods’ campaign Dust swirls around our 4x4 as we speed across an open plain in remote Somaliland heading to an emergency: a suspected cholera...

Wall Streeter turned Somaliland school headmaster speaks in Greenwich

By Emilie Munson GREENWICH — After four years running his own $170 million hedge fund, Jonathan Starr decided it was time for a change of career — and continent. The highly competitive business man jetted to Somaliland, a poor region in Northern Somalia, where, appalled by...

Local Nonprofit Lighting Way for Midwives in Somaliland

On International Day of the Midwife, Friday May 5, Santa Barbara-based nonprofit Unite to Light will be celebrating midwives across the globe as crucial to reducing childhood mortality and improving maternal health. Edna Adan (Edna Adan Hospital Foundation) The work of midwives is especially important in...