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Somali Diaspora The Only Donors

Somalia is facing a very real risk of famine, with more than 6 million people, half of Somali population, facing acute food insecurity in the country, three UN agencies have warned. According to the latest findings, by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit(FSNAU) in...

Somaliland:Berbera basing politics: Understanding actors, interests, and animosities( Full Length Research Paper)

Full Length Research Paper BY: Najah M. Adam Department of Diplomacy and International Relations, EUCLID University, Gambia. Received 8 May, 2017; Accepted 5 June, 2017 Key words: National security, basing politics, interests, actors, animosity, deterrence, collective security,collective defense. HORNDIPLOMAT-The presence of forward forces in foreign soil is not...

Op-Ed: Hargeisa needs infrastructure improvements

Hargeisa
By Abdihakim Mohamed Hargeisa is the capital city of Somaliland and the most populous city across the country. The city lies between the strategic towns of Berbera port and the commercial border town of Wajaale which have made it to become the economic hub of...

Shameful Silence on Donald Trump’s Lies About Vote-Rigging

It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the party’s top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening example...

Somaliland’s Foreign Policy Analysis: The First Four Administrations In Perspective

INTRODUCTION According to dominant paradigms of international relations theories, a country’s foreign policy consists of the self-interested strategies chosen by the state to protect its national interests, and the deployment of the various tools of diplomacy and statecraft in order to...

Somaliland and Covid 19: Government Response and Socio-Economic impact

Somaliland announces 11 additional COVID-19 cases, 1 Death
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, the infection of this outbreak was first reported in December of 2019 in Wuhan – the seventh largest city of china. This contagious disease infected thousands of people of the globe. The World Health Organization...

ISRAEL AND SOMALILAND – LONG-LOST BROTHERS?

BY F. HUSSEIN Israel and Somaliland have much in common. Israel faces many adversaries that don’t recognize it or its right to self-determination; Somaliland is also unrecognized as a state by most countries. Both share a history with Britain. The British defeated the Ottoman Empire, captured Palestine and...

To Fight Hunger In Africa, The African Union Heads of State Summit Must Prioritize Conflict Resolution

Climate shocks in Ethiopia, like the recent drought, make it hard for families to find clean water photo by Lys Arango Action Against Hunger, Ethiopia
By Albert Siminyu Nearly 60 years ago, our founding fathers, led by Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Haile Selassie, Milton Obote, and other independence African leaders, met in Addis Ababa for the very first Organization of African Unity...

Washington’s “One Somalia” Delusion by Dr. J. Peter Pham

Hargeisa , Image: Shutterstock.com.
by J. Peter Pham Follow Twitter on TwitterL Writing in this forum, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. and Joshua Meservey made an eloquent case for why the agreement granting Ethiopia—the world’s most populous landlocked country—naval access on Somaliland’s 740-kilometer coastline “has the...

The Rebirth of Somaliland (7): Operation Birjeex (SNM Rescue Unit)

By Dr. Hussein Mohamed Nur The SNM had strong networks of cells operating inside the country. The principal goal was to facilitate operations and support networks for the movement. Those networks consisted of a diverse people of different backgrounds including business people, traders, petty street workers,...