Somaliland:A timely appeal to the Government of the UAE
If, I was asked to define the era in which we are living, and the character of the events we are witnessing, I would have said ‘it is the era of the greatest event of the time, the agreement of the two governments, Somaliland...
Op-Ed: 13 November: A Time Bomb Set to Explode in Somaliland
By: Mubarak Geeddi
For the last few years, all clocks in Somaliland have been fixed to 13 November 2022 - the day presidential elections were due to take place in Somaliland. The date was envisioned to be...
Is political integration in the Horn of Africa possible?
Following his recent efforts to achieve normalisation with Eritrea, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked on a shuttle diplomacy mission across the Horn of Africa. Since the signing of the landmark June 2018 peace agreement between the two long-warring nations, Abiy held several bilateral and tripartite...
Op-Ed:How Waddani Changed Somaliland Electoral Landscape
In 2017 Somaliland conducted a successful third presidential elections. Waddani party deserves credit for an exemplary election campaign based on civic values, writes Liban Ahmad
Last year Somaliland successfully conducted third presidential election since the second Somaliland President, Mohamed I. Egal, introduced multi-party system in...
Why Somaliland could where others failed: A call to the Democratic World!
By Adam Muse Jibril
The Freedom House has recently issued its annual report about democracy in the world with a world map, where a clear distinction between democratic countries and others were shown. In our region, the Horn of Africa and the world around including...
Punishment of good deeds
One event can change the history of lives, counties, continents or the world. In the late 1970’s, a loose group of Doctors, Engineers, Teachers, business people with the name of Uffo tried to contribute to the development of the Republic of Somalia, by volunteering...
Somaliland – A model for democracy in Africa
The first-ever Somaliland Presidential Election Debate has been held in Hargeisa last Thursday, October 19, 2017. All three presidential candidates from the three political parties, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilllahi from Waddani, Musa Bihi Abdi from Kulmiye and Faisal Ali Warabe from Ucid participated in the...
Op-Ed: Ethiopia’s School Reopening Narrows the Widened Inequalities During COVID-19 School Closure
By: Abdiaziz Ali Hussein
Ethiopia in bid to protect and reduce the spread of Covid-19 closed schools on 16 March 2020 and sent 26 million-plus pre-primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary-level learners at home. It was last week when this 100 million-plus complex nations and nationalities...
Somaliland: The registration of political associations is a constitutionally protected political right
By: Yousef Timacade
Somaliland's Constitution is the country's supreme law. It declares clearly that the country's political system is open to all citizens, and that everyone has the right to participate in accordance with the constitution's provisions.
Many people desire political associations to establish, but the...
Geopolitical Change, a Rising Hegemon, and Berbera Port Deal
Berbera Port deal has been groundbreaking; at the stroke of a pen, Somaliland took a massive step towards international recognition and permanent separation from Somalia
By Dr. Brendon Cannon and Dr. Ash Rossiter
- Brendon Cannon is Assistant Professor at Khalifa University’s Institute of International and...