Opinion/Analysis

In this article, I will elaborate on the power of the youth and areas require widely consideration and frequently keep in mind. According to Somaliland national population survey in 2014 shows that 72% of Somaliland’s population is below the age of 35 years, so the...

The Republic of Somaliland has successfully completed its sixth election and third presidential election. In this last election, there were many firsts including: the first time an incumbent president chose not to seek a second term, the first presidential debate and most impressively the...

By: Guled Ahmed Hashi Since Somaliland re-asserted its independence from Somalia in 1991, the private school sector played an important role in education in Somaliland. In the early 90s and 2000s, Arabic based schools (Maca-hid) were the leading educational facilities in Somaliland whereby girls and...

On 12 February 2017, the government of Somaliland accepted the formal application seeking permission from the Somaliland government to open a military base in Berbera. This application followed the 440 million dollar investment – 30-year contract for UAE’s international ports operator, DP World, take...

By : Hudayfe Osman Daror Somaliland is on the brink of food insecurity due to various factors such as urbanization, outdated agricultural practices, dependency on food-import. Although the country has ample fertile land, local production is unable to meet the present demand. The country’s current...

Writes By: Sherin Helal While Somalia has achieved notoriety in Africa as the most striking example of a failed state and the continent’s biggest battlefield, it has nevertheless also been able to present a model in the form of the autonomous Republic of Somaliland in...

By:Mohamed O. Guudle (PhD) Introduction The past decade has witnessed a complex dance of dialogue and divergence between Somaliland and Somalia. From initial cautious engagement in 2012 to recent high-level meetings facilitated by...

Any visitor to or resident of Somaliland will be aware of the Somaliland Police, a force/service whose presence is largely reassuring. Policing even when generously resourced is difficult at the best of times, but in Somaliland where many things have to be done on...

Written by Abdirahman Aideed  Salaams to All respected readers of this Article Majority of the public in Somaliland welcomed and aired their congratulations for the president of Somaliland (H.E. President Muse Behi) for his remarkable decision, August 2018, to recall the national oil storage facilities in...

Mary Harper, the veteran BBC reporter on Africa and now its section editor, has written a truly timely book which cuts through the political posturing, diplomatic niceties and, often, stereotypically violent narratives and imagery, to present a book which examines Al-Shabaab more accurately through...