Somaliland

The Republic of Somaliland Representative Office in Taiwan held a reception to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the Republic of Somaliland on May 20, 2022.  Around 120 guests from the government, business, media, diplomatic corps, and non-governmental organizations attended the reception. Mr. Harry Ho-Jen...

By:Jama Farah , HornDiplomat Contributor  Humanitarian Journalist Abdimalik Sh. Muse Oldoon was on Saturday released in a presidential pardon a year into a three year jail term. On April 17, Abdilmalik Oldon was arrested  in Buroa City . On July 2019, Hargeisa regional court sentenced Journalist Abdimalik...

Horndiplomat-Center for policy analysis released report on Sources of campaign financing in 2017 Somaliland  presidential election.   INTRODUCTION The linkage between money and politics is a powerful one, with implications for democracy, especially in new democracies. Political parties financing laws and regulations, through which political parties and...

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...

Somaliland is on the verge of joining the league of oil producing nations according to the country’s minister for energy and minerals. Oil production, he says will turn around the economy of the globally unrecognized country and push its quest for recognition by other countries. Drilling...

HORNDIPLOMAT-EUCAP Nestor organized a Maritime Legislation Workshop in Hargeisa, Somaliland in partnership with the Attorney General’s Office from October 24th to 26th. Thirty-one participants – three of them women- came from the Prosecution Office, the Somaliland Coast Guard and Immigration Department. The Acting Head of the...

By: Staff writer  in a joint communique by Uhuru Kenyatta and Somaliland President Muse Bihi where they directed their respective senior officials to work together to develop a general cooperation framework agreement. In the agreement, Kenya is expected to open its Consulate in Hargeisa by end...

International recognition is one of many issues for the nation, says president-elect By:Muse Bihi Abdi Last week, the Republic of Somaliland’s independent National Electoral Commission announced the result of our country’s presidential election, which took place on November 13. For a sixth consecutive occasion since 2003, Somaliland’s...

By: Michael Rubin Africa is ground zero for the struggle to consolidate democratic gains. While the continent underwent a democratic revolution in the 1990s and early 2000s, the past decade has been difficult. It is in this context that Somaliland, an autonomous region that...

Horndiplomat-Human Rights Centre expresses concern over forceful eviction by the presidency . The following statement was issued today by the Human Rights Centre.  Human Rights Centre (HRC) is concerned a forceful eviction of families driven out of the land “allocated” by the government for building a...