Somaliland

By: MoDuale The United Arab Emirates (UAE) second of a cargo plane from the UAE has landed in Hargeisa, Somaliland, where cases of the Covid-19 pandemic have been rising in recent days. This medical aid includes several tonnes of medicines and Covid-19 testing machines. The Minister of...

Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) Released paper aims to scrutinize how patriarchy influences and shapes Somaliland governance and marginalizes women, creating a democracy that benefits only men.Horndiplomat Reports By:Maria Abdilahi Gaheir and Guleid Ahmed Jama CPA Introduction Eighteen years ago, the people of Somaliland on overwhelming majority approved...

Last month, voters in Somaliland, a country in the horn of Africa, bigger than England and Wales combined, went to the polls to elect a new president. In many respects, Somaliland is a place apart. Unique amongst two-dozen states in the wider region, it is...

Following up on the response which Aid Partners gave of a letter the FGS Minister for Planning sent off to donors on June 9, in which he argued that the Special Aid Arrangement accorded the Republic of Somaliland be not renewed and must be viewed, and...

Troops from the Puntland state of Somalia’s federal government, led by Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, launched two heavy-arms attacks on two fronts in areas where Somaliland forces are stationed in the Tukkaraq area. Two attacks in one week targeting Somaliland forces, in a new breach of...

By:Mohamed Duale Somaliland President Muse bihi Abdi has granted pardon to 574 Prisoners in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. President Bihi has ordered that prisoners that have committed major crimes like trading illicit alcohol, piracy acts, terrorism acts, murder and rape won’t be...

By M.A. Egge The President H.E. Ahmed Mohammed Mohamud Silanyo has sternly warned against hooliganism, violence and illegal demonstrations as the tallying of votes at the headquarters of the national Electoral Commission (NEC) is underway. The President who hailed all and sundry in the whole nation...

HARGEISA (HornDiplomat)-The government of Somaliland annoying the unfairness of BBC Somali reports has sent a complaint letter to BBC AFRICA Editor, Solomon Mugera in London and BBC office in Nairobi as state-affiliated news agency confirmed. The news comes two days after 1-hour debate between Somaliland...

By: The Star Somaliland has confirmed that oil has been discovered in the Sallahey area of the Marodi-Jeh region, its ministry of energy and mineral resources said in a statement on Facebook. The ministry said...

By:  Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Mohamed Farmaajo has publicly apologized to the people of Somaliland over massacres by the former autocratic regime of Siad Barre in the late 1980s. Speaking during the conclusion of the annual judiciary conference in Mogadishu, President Farmajo...