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Somalia: UN Deputy Secretary-General encourages sustained progress on women’s political participation as well as peaceful forthcoming elections

The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (foreground right) meets women leaders in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed undertook a visit to Somalia today in solidarity with Somali women's calls for full and equal participation in political life, and to express the support of the international community for timely, inclusive, peaceful and credible elections. The Deputy...

TIKA Builds Water-Collection Pools for Somaliland Countryside Villages

TIKA Builds Water-Collection Pools for Somaliland Countryside Villages
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) built water pools in Somaliland, which is facing the danger of famine because it is one of the regions that receive the least rainfall in the African continent. TİKA implemented water pools project in Somaliland, which is suffering from...

Somaliland: The Quarterly Report of Human Right Centre

The Quarterly Report of Human Right Centre
Human Rights Centre is publishing its second quarterly report for the months of May-August 2021. The report emphasizes human rights abuses have occurred for the past 4 months in Somaliland. These violations comprise police brutality, arbitrary detentions, issues related to freedom of expression and...

Kenya appoints its head of liaison office to Somaliland

By: Staff writer Kenya has deployed Benson M. Mwaliko as Head of Liaison office in Hargeisa. Horndiplomat reports last week, a high-level delegation from the Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs visits in Somaliland capital of Hargeisa to finalise plans to open up a Kenyan consulate in the...

My experience & trip in Hargeisa and across Somaliland

People wave flags as soldiers and other military personnel of Somalia's breakaway territory of Somaliland march past during an Independence Day celebration parade in the capital, Hargeisa on May 18, 2016. MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
By:M. Mohamed Abshir When speaking about Somaliland, Hargeisa has become a metonym for it, a symbolic representation of SL’s hopes and realities. I have always wanted to sightsee and travel there. This year, my dream came true. I went to participate in the 14th annual...

Somaliland President receives visiting Ethiopian State Minister

Somaliland President receives visiting Ethiopian State Minister
By:@MoDuale Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi on Friday received Ethiopian State Minister political Affairs Redwan Hussien accompanied by Ethiopian Ambassador to Somaliland, Amb Said Mohamed, at his residence at the Presidential palace. The two sides discussed security and immigration issues at border areas and ways to...

Ethiopia state minister of foreign affairs arrives in Hargeisa for Official Working Visit

By: MoDuale Ethiopia's state minister of foreign affairs Redwan Hussein has arrived in Hargeisa for an official working visit. Upon arrival at the Hargeisa Egal International Airport, he was received by Somaliland Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Liban Yousuf Osman https://twitter.com/RedwanHussien/status/1433397398919864321?s=19 During his visit, The...

Somaliland: Kenyan Delegation In Hargeisa Finalise Consulate Set Up Plans

By:BUSIWEEK A delegation from the Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa to finalise plans to open up a Kenyan consulate in the Horn of Africa nation. Reports indicate the team has been in Hargeisa over the last fortnight working on the final plans that...

Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans

Afghanistan's deputy ambassador to Qatar, Barakat Rahmati, left, and Zach Van Meter at the Willard Hotel in Washington, working on rescue efforts in Afghanistan.
By: The Wall Street Journal Zack Vanmeter, a private equity investor in Naples, Florida, called the Somaliland government last week asking if he would accept thousands of Afghan refugees. “He suddenly called me,” said Bashir Goth, Washington’s representative for the Somaliland. Two days later, on August 25,...

Somaliland Ready To Take In Afghan Refugees: Official

Evacuees stage before boarding a US C-17 Globemaster III [Nicholas Guevara/US Marine Corps/AFP]
By AFP - Agence France Presse Somaliland has agreed "(in) principle" to take in refugees from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official said Friday, as tens of thousands of people desperately flee the war-torn nation following a Taliban takeover earlier this month. The militants have repeatedly promised...