The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Somalia in 2011 as part of humanitarian assistance to famine-hit people, along with the First lady Emine Erdogan. The UN estimated that some 12 million people have been affected by starvation....
The invisible Coronavirus first reported in Wuhan, China December 2019 which has promptly spread across the world. The new outbreak has disrupted the world, regardless of the countries’ economy, development and technological advancement. Massive precautions to take, well-operating health...
Addressed to US ambassador to Somalia, African Union, PM Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, Ismail Omar Guelleh president of Djibouti and Delegation of the European Union Your Excellencies,
Somalilandsun: Whereas the people of Somaliland have exercised their right to self determination...
With the changes in the geopolitical context of the region, knitting together Israel, the UAE, Greece, Cyprus and Egypt in a network of shared interests, Somaliland could be an important region.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
Somaliland, a small country on the southern...
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• China through the Belt and Road Initiative, the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road has...
By Mohamed A. Suleiman
The international community’s engagement with the government of Somalia and their reluctance to validate Somaliland’s inalienable right to sovereign nationhood is being challenged by the realities on the ground in the breakaway republic.
When the military dictatorship...
No one could have predicted that the war will drag on this long and with no end in sight at the moment, it’s even harder to predict the outcome. Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, promised a swift military action...
When, in 2003, a U.S-led invasion ended the decades-long threat that Saddam Hussein posed to Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurds had reason for optimism. For more than two decades, they had run northern Iraq as a state within a state. They...
By David Nash
Large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought. An estimated 16.7 million people face acute food insecurity. That’s more than the combined populations of Austria and Switzerland.
Four consecutive rainy seasons have...
It’s afternoon in Somaliland’s second largest city, Burao. While everywhere muezzine call to prayer, Abdiraxiim Yama Yasin sits in front of his shop. Indicators, V-belts and oil bottles are stacked on the shelves. The 38-year-old trades in spare parts...