By: Adal Institute Introduction and Background: Zeila's Glorious Past:  Zeila stands as a testament to the ebbs and flows of history. Located at merely 25 KM from the Djibouti border, this coastal town once pulsed with life, bustling with the comings...
Lewis Center, Ohio—This week, in a poorly shot video,  Mr. Suleiman Ali  aka Ramaah, the former Sahel region governor during the Silanyo administration, was inciting violence. He was calling for chaos and disorder, and he was even threatening to...
On 11 September 2019, the British Government has signed in Hargeisa a generous aid agreement worth £31 million with the one-clan secessionist enclave calling itself Somaliland. The ceremony was conducted with aplomb. The message it gave was unmistakable that this was...
Tensions between Somaliland and Puntland have increased over the past two years, with risks of further instability and militarisation if not adequately addressed. The discord centres on competing claims to the Sool and Sanaag (and Cayn) regions by the...
Embedding the Ministry of Finance with 19 talented and skillful academics, 95 tax inspectors and 350 taxmen will envisage overhauling the tax system in which more than $550 million of tax due is not collected every year. It is...
The consultation summit which took place in Djibouti and attended by the leaders of Somaliland, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia, as well as, representatives from the African Union, the United States of America, the European Union, the United Nations and...
Introduction An inclusive democracy means that all citizens should feel represented and be heard. However, many political systems sometimes exclude women and minority from the decision-making platforms, while other countries elect women to be their head of states or head...
By Guled Ahmed The People's Republic of China (PRC) has long held influence in Africa. Throughout the 1960s, the PRC supported anti-colonial movements then swiftly established diplomatic relations with newly independent African nations. These relations were predicated on a South-to-South...
By Abdirizak M. Diis The current election/selection impasse in Somalia between the Federal Member States and the Federal government is the symptom of a country that is deeply polarised with divergent clan interests, political ideologies, foreign interests, and pseudo-nationalistic slogans....
Now that the parliamentary and municipal elections are behind us, and in light of the poor results scored by Kulmiye Party, it is time that the genuine supporters of the party should air their voices with the main of...