Opinion/Analysis

By: POLITICO Somaliland's delegation swept through Washington, promising to support Taiwan and ditch China. All it wants is a little recognition. As China floods Africa with billions of dollars in development aid, massive infrastructure investment, and even talk of a new military base, a tiny East...

Digging Roots of Mistrust between the Government and Citizens Somaliland has come across challenges to achieve grassroots of development, functioning institutions and  democratic governance. Lessons learned from different authorities over the last two decades highlighted the need for more efforts to...

By Mohamed Adan Samatar The Republic of Somaliland entered the New Year, 2022 a period of constitutional ambiguity, stemming from an announcement made by the minister of information Mr. Koore during ceremonial speech saying that the terms of the existing political parties and licenses are...

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 Adam Muse Jibril Historically, the concept of the State formation process has cut a long way over the evolutionary course from tribal aristocracy to modern authoritarianism up to contemporary democracies and experienced formidable challenges and huge...

By:Dr Jama Musse Jama, PhD Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame ‘HADRAAWI’, one of the most popular Somali contemporary poets passed away Thursday 18th of August 2022 in Hargeysa, Somaliland. Recognized for his unmatched role both within his native people and...

Today his Excellence Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, the Somalia president is going to Eritrea for three day official visit as declared Eritrea ministry of information in his twitter account. If we look back the history, Eritrea tended to host the dissidents who are against the Somali...

In the grand scheme of things the heated words or actions of politicians before and after Somaliland's Presidential Election will soon begotten. What will be remembered will be the remarkable spirit of unity that existed throughout the campaign. Somalilanders have embraced demographic debate with...

by Mohamed Shire Sunday, October 23, 2016 This week, the long-awaited 2016 Somali election- the upper and lower House- had begun and the day of reckoning is here. The country is in the grip of election hysteria, and for some, it is nearly becoming an obsession....

By Deqa Aden In theory, urban women should have access to better services and more employment opportunities than women in rural areas and refugee camps. With less societal restrictions and higher literacy rate, urban women generally exercise more privileges in the labour force as opposed...