Somaliland

By:Staff writer Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi today welcomed to Somaliland General Stephen Townsend, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), for consultations to advance mutual security interests in East Africa. General Townsend, the highest ranking U.S. military official to visit Somaliland since 1991,...

Somaliland President Musa Bihi Abdi’s Annual Address to Joint House of Parliament Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great honor and privilege for me to deliver the 2020 Annual Constitutional joint House of parliament, especially members of the House of Representatives, who were elected in the...

By:Hiiraanonline The joint parliamentary committee tasked with organizing the presidential election began registering the candidates for the 10th president of the Federal Republic of Somalia on Sunday. The first candidate to register was former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.  Several other candidates are expected to register...

By:Joshua Meservey Salon.com ran a piece recently warning that the American right is “waging a stealth, neocolonial assault on Somalia.” The supposed “assault” is a growing campaign within the U.S. and elsewhere to recognize Somaliland’s independence from Somalia. The author, Mohamoud Gaildon, included as evidence a report that I wrote...

By:Hersi Ali H. Hasan The challenges and burdens our people faced during the last three generations, including colonialism, bad governance, massacre by a dictatorial regime, neglect and being scattered all over the world as refugees makes one inherit painful memory and a worrisome past empty...

According to North, informal institutions such as norms, routines, and political processes are more durable than formal rules. There is no single viewpoint on the genesis of institutions. Similarly, there are numerous explanations for why institutions fail to function efficiently and under what conditions...

By:Staff writer The president of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi has granted pardon to 360 prisoners on sunday , due on the occasion of Eid In a presidential degree, president Muse Bihi Abdi ordered the state attorney general starting from sunday to release 360 inmates through Somaliland...

By:Horntribune the Vice President of the Republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Abdullahi Ismail ‘Zeyli’i’, apportioned US$ 6,766,418 to traders made destitute by the Waaheen market fire of Hargeisa on 1 April 2022. This is the second round...

By:The Global and Mail Members of Canada’s Somaliland community have been meeting with MPs to push for federal emergency funding relief in the region after a fire devastated its largest commercial market. The Canadian Alliance to Rebuild Hargeisa Market is calling on Ottawa to provide $10-million...

Press-Release Taiwan's government has pledged to donate US$550,000 to Somaliland to help Waaheen market fire traders. On behalf of the Taiwan Government and two Taiwan’s NGOs, Ambassador Allen LOU of the Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland hands over USD550,000 plus a container of...