This May Somaliland is celebrating more than its 24th self-declared Independence Day; it is celebrating its newly found spirit of self-reliance and overall sense of confidence. It was only two years ago when president Ahmed M. Mohamoud Silanyo made...
By: Khaled Mohamoud
Since the Somali discourse of Dhako-Cadaan commenced their propaganda project through social media platforms and posting absurd articles on popular Somali-owned news outlets, it had been a great opportunity to scrutinize and dismantle the core...
My fellow citizens both in the country and in diaspora just sit back and think of the ongoing IC criticism of our local politics in recent months, since the election issue has surfaced and the subsequent Guurti Term Extension...
A long-drawn-out debate about the inaugural issue of the Somaliland Journal of African Studies has been pontificating by a group of people, who imaginarily believe as they are the only existing Somali academic warriors. To a certain extent, it...
By: Khaled Mohamoud
It has really been a tough moment for those who are against the emancipation of Somali-studies knowledge production since the recent Cadaan-Studies activism has started critiquing the themes of whiteness prejudice in Somali-Studies academia.
This recent...
“Each and every year on the 18th May, we the people of Somaliland remember, we will always remember the mothers and fathers who laid down their lives for peace and progress of this honorable nation. We always remember these...
Somalilandlaw.com Commentary: The term extensions are wrong in law and wrong for democracy: A call for an immediate Constitutional Court review and a statutory reform.
15/05/2015: House of Elders (HoE) latest three term extensions on 11 May 2015- Copy...
The Somaliland presidential election that will have been expected to take place on 26th June 2015 has been postponed 17 Months by the upper house of the Somaliland known as Gurti. Although the National Electoral Commission set out the...
By Liban Ahmed
The on-going tragedy of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean has left many people asking why so many choose to risk their lives attempting to travel to Europe in boats piloted by unscrupulous or incompetent human traffickers. A...
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness and appreciation makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. The decision of extending the term of the government and the parliament for...