Somaliland politicians do not officially support the electoral model of Somalia. Somaliland government claimed it had an input in the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in September 2012. Last month Chairman of UCID Party, Faisal Ali Waraabe, vowed to play...
What is to come of the next Somaliland elections? If our good friend, the Somali version of Mr. Ten Percent Man, is to rig the next election and claim presidency through corrupted tactics (similar to Hamid Karzai’s illegitimate victory...
By Mohamud M Hassan- Interim Country Director, Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland
Protracted conflicts and natural disasters, have conspired over the years to keep Somalia under the unrelenting grip of poverty. The disintegration of public administration systems, over the years, seriously...
As most observers acknowledge, seismic changes are now underway in the Horn of Africa. As a result of an unexpected rise of a new Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, from the Oromo ethnic group, a novel and breathtaking...
Ibrahim Mead
political analyst
Ottawa, Canada
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Note: As the date above shows this article was published in 2010; however, as the same situation repeated itself now in 2019, the author decided to republish the piece as it is relevant...
Somaliland was an independent state for five days in 1960 before it merged with the former Italian Somalia. Since the Somali Democratic Republic became a failed state in 1991, Somaliland is the one part of the former entity that...
By Abdiqani Ahmed Farah (Dala’aan) PhD
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” John Maynard Keynes
Thabo Mbeki got unsettled by the trek of the debate on a scheduled gathering by African...
Before I look at the budget in detail, I must say a word or two about the definition of budget. Budget is a financial plan that articulates the objectives and goals of a government for a certain period usually...
For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected on high hope of him fostering the state-building project (not leading established...
It can be incentivize investment and savings by changing relative cost of either action, in an economy. Both savings and investments have a positive correlation and impact to over all economy of the nation. For example if the economy...