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Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, commonly known by his nickname of Farmajo, attends the special assembly for abandoning the two-year extension of his presidential...

30 years after declaring independence, Somaliland is still at the margins of the international system despite its considerable successes.   30 years ago, on 18 May...

The prime minister’s contradictory task will come against the hard realities of Farmaajo’s machination In the world of disinformation, four “Ds” are important. You first...

If Somaliland’s democratic transition is to last, there must be strict regulation of the behaviour of political parties and the National Election Commission must...

The grand designs of the major political and military actors lack an important ingredient: the views and the hopes of ordinary Somalis. Getty Images By Abdi...

bY Harbi Farah It has been over 30 years since Somalia descended into full civil war which turned the country into a failed state. Of...

After thirty years of bandaging the country’s political leadership, institutions, and federal system, the current atmosphere of Somali politics portrays that the best way...

By Mohamed Ibrahim As an outside observer on the tumultuous events surrounding the Somali elections, I cannot help but remember a time I was served...

Somali legislators of the lower house of parliament raise their hands to vote to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's term for another two years,...

A new actor is jostling in the Horn of Africa. Somaliland, a self-declared breakaway republic of northern Somalia, scaled up its foreign policy in 2020 following years...