Somaliland

By: William Yang Since Taiwan and Somaliland announced in July that they were going to establish mutual representative offices, the international community has been paying attention to how these two governments that are not recognized by most countries in the world will nurture this unusual...

By: Somtribune Mohamoud Hashi Abdi, a long-standing politician and one of the best-known leaders and founders of the Unity and Development party – Kulmiye, today, boycotted participation of the on-coming convention, accusing the President-cum-Chairman of early rigging tailored to his whims and personal wishes alone. Mr...

 The self-declared East African nation of Somaliland will open its representative office in Taipei on Wednesday (Sept. 9), starting a new chapter in relations between Taiwan and Africa. While neither side has yet agreed to move on to the next stage and open full diplomatic...

Press release Geneva, 7 September 2020 – Trafigura Group Pte Ltd. (“Trafigura”), a market leader in the global commodities industry, has this week delivered a first shipment of low sulphur gasoil to the Port of Berbera, following the signing of a milestone storage agreement earlier...

By M.A. Egge Somaliland has vehemently denied that there is the propagation of Christianity in the country. The Ministry of Religion and Endowment lamented that he has been asked from within and without on the allegations that churches have been set up in the country and...

Over the past two months, the very public rivalry between China and Taiwan has moved into the Horn of Africa over-representation in unrecognized Somaliland. On July 1, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had signed a deal with Somaliland to establish reciprocal representative...

A former Danish minister and a Non Governmental Organisation operating in the Horn of Africa are planning to set up a fish production plant in Somaliland. Christian Friis Bach who served as the minister for development cooperation in Denmark says Somaliland has a great potential...

By:Dr Mohamed Osman Guudle Recognition is not automatic in the theory of the constitution. It is instead based on other states’ discretion (Guudle, 2019; Janis, 1996; Lauterpacht, 1955). In addition, the new state exists, at least legally, only when recognized by those other states. Certain...

By: Taiwan Focus Taipei, Aug. 26 (CNA) Somaliland is set to officially open its representative office in Taiwan in early September with a staff of five, the representative of the self-declared East African state to Taiwan, Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud, said Wednesday. Mohamoud told a CNA...

By Deqa Aden On July 1st, I landed at Egal International Airport, in the capital of Hargeisa, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia that declared independence in 1991. Like my flight, the airport was not packed, though all of us passengers were wearing masks and...