Over the past three months the authorities in Somaliland appear to have stepped up their attack on dissenting voices by shutting down media houses, arbitrarily arresting and prosecuting individuals perceived as critical of government policies and officials, Amnesty International...
The Somaliland delegation led by President Muse Bihi Abdi have arrived to a warm welcome in Guinea. The delegation was met at the airport in Conarky by a high level delegation led by the Guinean Foreign minister, Mamadi Toure.
The...
The Somaliland President, Muse Bihi Abdi and a coterie of senior officials departed for an official visit to the Republic of Guinea and several other stops in West Africa.
The President leaves, just as the talks between the three Somaliland...
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Press Statement
The Government of the Republic of Somaliland notes with regret and alarm the undiplomatic actions taken by the Somalia Government in officially intervening in bilateral relations between the Governments of Somaliland and Kenya, as it publically declared...
Somalia's Foreign Affairs ministry on Sunday summoned Kenya's ambassador Lucas Tumbo over what it termed an offensive tweet by PS Macharia Kamau.
In a statement on Monday, the ministry said it handed Tumbo a protest letter and said it considered...
Somaliland has achieved extraordinary things during the last 30 years. We have achieved a level of peace, stability, democratisation and economic development in a way that the rest of Somalia can only dream of…But despite all of this, the...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
Hargeisa -Mr. Farhan Aden Haybe, chairman of Somaliland civil service commission today in his office received a delegation from the World Bank group based in Nairobi and Washington DC.
The head of the civil service commission and...
Kenya’s foreign ministry has referred to Somaliland as a “country” in a controversial tweet.
Since Somalia’s civil war and the collapse of government in 1991, Somaliland has been a self-declared independent state and has its own democratically elected government.
However, it...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
The government of Somaliland has retracted an earlier decision to indefinitely ban on two privately owned television stations, Horyaal 24 TV and Eryal TV.
The Minister of Information Mr. Mohamed Muse Dirye met with the owners of...
We have high hopes of holding elections in time, they say as they resume stalled dialogue
By M.A. Egge
In what the political stakeholders described as a “confidence building” round table meeting, the three official political parties are geared to resume...