Somaliland

By Bashe Awil Omar Some time in March this year, Scott Perry, a member of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee submitted a proposal to the House of Representatives seeking recognition for Somaliland as an independent country.

A budding dispute over plans to develop a port in Somaliland risks destabilizing the Horn of Africa region, the semi-autonomous territory’s foreign minister said. Saad Ali Shire’s comments raise the stakes in a standoff between Somaliland and Somalia, which this month declared the planned harbor...

Hundreds of people danced the night away at an Edmonton party to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Somaliland on Saturday. Somaliland is a semi-autonomous region in the northwest of Somalia that declared itself an independent country in 1991. For expats, Independence Day is an opportunity to celebrate...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Upper House votes in favor of the new anti rape law recently passed by the House of Representatives.Horndiplomat Reports Somaliland Upper House “Guurti” approves legislation outlawing rape Under the new law, all forms of sexual offences would be criminalised, including rape, gang rape, sexual assault,...

Horndiplomay-The opposition National Party chairman Hon.Abdirahman Mohammed Abdillahi  (Irro)  speaking during an interview with Horn Cable television journalist Mr. Hamse Ali Bulbul confirmed his party stance on  Somaliland independence. Hon. Irro stated that his party fully supports the independence of Somaliland, he went further...

By M.A. Egge Somaliland Minister of Minerals and Energy Abdillahi Farah Abdi said that the future of Somaliland will depend on mountains and seas. The minister pointed out that the mountains of Somaliland...

The launching and inauguration of first ever fire-fighting force When the incumbent President passes over the button he will do so leaving a solid and progressively developing nation behind, says By M.A. Egge The Head of State H.E. Ahmed Mohammed Mohamud Silanyo presided over a milestone event...

Article by Cheetah Conservation Fund In 2021, CCF took significant steps forward with the development of the Somaliland Cheetah Rescue and Conservation Centre (CRCC). I joined the CCF Somaliland team in May 2021 and have been focused on this development project since. Earlier in the...

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...

The Somaliland Civil Society Organizations held series of meetings from 5th to 9th of August 2018, which members of civil society have discussed the upcoming elections of House of Representatives and Local Council that was scheduled to be held simultaneously in March 2019. These...