Somaliland

Xaqdoon Law Firm published legal update covering two topics: 1. Legal Pluralism: Complementarity or competition; and 2. Death Penalty in the Somali Penal Code. Xaqdoon Law Firm updates are intended to contribute to the legal development in Somaliland and Somalia. The aim is to...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat regional contributor The Somaliland government has refuted the Ethiopian capital newspaper report that stated the Ethiopian government suspended its 19 per cent share on the new development of Berbera Port. Somaliland Minister of foreign affairs Yasin Hagi Mohamud Faraton told The local newspaper...

By:Jama Farah,Horndiplomat regional Contributor Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yassin Hagi is on a working visit to Kampala where he met his Uganda counterpart Sam Kutesa and Rebecca Kadaga Speaker of the Ugandan parliament. Kadaga said Uganda will make a follow up on Somaliland’s request to...

By.Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat Contributor The European Union announces the very first international support for the conservation and protection of the Laas Geel cave paintings located in the rural outskirts of Hargeisa in Somaliland. The caves contain some of the earliest known paintings in the Horn of...

By M.A. Egge The 20 years Somcable quota to distribute fibre-optic internet service has just had their monopoly curtailed. Following a parliamentary amendment whose motion was reportedly tabled by 20 MPs, the Telecommunication Law No 50/2011 was re-aligned to meet the statutory constitution of free-market enterprises. The...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor based in Nairobi Somaliland House of Representatives has amended the Somaliland Telecommunication Law, the amendment dropped the Fiber Optic Quota of Somcable Company. 68 MPs voted in favor of the amendment, while only one MP rejected it and the Chairman did...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor The government of the United Arab Emirates has Cancelled the construction of the military base in Berbera, Somaliland. Horndiplomat reports According to the UAE daily newspaper The National, The Emirates has had a military base in Eritrea since 2015 but plans...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor  Chairman of the Court of Somaliland’s Sool region Hassan Sheikh Mohamud killed in an explosion from IED attached to his vehicle in Lasanod. The chairman of the lasanod district court Hassan Mohamoud Warsame has confirmed VOA the explosion and the death...

The third Dahabshiil- Somaliland 42 KM and 10 KM Marathon races was held at the Hargeisa Stadium on Friday, with more 300 local and international participants taking part. The competition, which was co-hosted by the Somaliland Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Somaliland Marathon,...

By:BBC It's not often you hear of a security guard rising through the ranks to become a government minister, but Suleiman Yusuf Koore did just that. He started out in 1984 as a watchman at Radio Hargeisa, the state broadcaster of the self-declared republic of Somaliland,...