An open letter to the Security Council, the African Union, the European Union and IGAD
We, concerned Somaliland communities in Europe, want to draw your attention to the escalating tension between Somaliland and Somalia. We are concerned because the fledgling authority of Somalia has recently upped its expansionist policy to forcefully bring Somaliland back into the fold of the...
Disunity, in-fighting, foreign interventions and bad policies help al Shabaab
In last week, Somalia was in the headlines once again. At least 26 people, including a prominent journalist, Hodon Naalleeye, have been killed in an attack in Kismayo.
Al Shabaab is a daily life reality in Somalia. Its murderous and indiscriminate attacks claim the lives...
Somaliland:Sool Conflict Requires Political Solution
Asking questions about political advantages and political marginalisation in Sool could lead to formulation of policies to deter the troublesome youths from feuding subclans in South Sool, argues Liban Ahmad
Recurrence of South Sool conflict has defied the ability of Somaliland government and elders to...
Refuting Baadi Goob: The international election observers respond
By Dr Michael Walls, chief observer of the international election observation mission (IEOM) to Somaliland’s 2017 presidential election
25th July 2018
Eight months after Somaliland’s presidential election, and five months after we launched our final report in London, we are delighted to be back in Hargeisa...
The Lost Love of Unity in the Horn of Africa Won’t be Back Again
Somaliland is a country that has achieved many issues in this fragile region. Its leaders are locally elected through democratic elections and this has made it possible to live and run its affairs alone in a peaceful way rather than Somali federal government. For...
Fighting Corruption: on the Peak priority of Somaliland New Government
In Somaliland, corruption is found almost everywhere, and now is considered one of the highest corruption rates in Africa that increases the poverty rate of Somaliland people. Corruption has been an epidemic and daily practices during the outgoing administration of President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud...
Education during Covid-19 lockdown: the Challenges and Consequences of Online Teaching Approach in Somaliland
The Coronovirus disease (Covid-19) is caused by widespread socio-economic impacts in almost all spheres of life throughout the globe. This fatal virus has so far infected more than 2.5 million people and caused about 177,000 deaths in almost all countries around the world. Due...
Somaliland’s case: Why should the U.S be truthful to its founding principles & support a sovereign Somaliland?!
By: Abdisalam Rageh
For more than hundreds of years, the U.S., under its declaration of independence, chose to employ unique attributes and values that have remained over the years to be the guiding principles of the American assertion of statehood. Values that so many people...
New Proxy Wars in the Horn of Africa
It is a war fought indirectly between superpowers with the aid of Third World nations. During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union allied with many smaller nations as a way to fight these wars. Third World nations were not allowed to...
Op-Ed: ONLF and Ethiopia: A tug-of-war
By: Anwar Abdifatah Bashir
Somali region is the second-largest in terms of land, and the third most populous in Ethiopia. Throughout history, the region and its inhabitants are the most downtrodden across the country, and Ethiopia treats the region in a subterranean manner.
Somalis in the...
