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...
Kenyans living in the diaspora want the government to open up centres to offer services at their bases abroad. Kenyans living in Somaliland and in the Oceania region say they cannot access certain services due to lack of centres. Particularly disenfranchised...
The Somaliland Foreign minister, Yasin Haji Mohamud Hir, "Faraton" met with the Permanent Secratary at the Kenyan Foreign Office. Ambassador Peter Macharia in Nairobi. The two diplomats discussed areas of mutual interests, including trade, security in the region, good governance...
Academics from Cardiff University are visiting Somaliland to develop research collaborations on some of the country’s most pressing issues. The Cardiff-Somaliland Working Group was set up to forge closer links between members of the Somaliland community in the city, academic...
‘People are denied treatment or even prevented from receiving treatment.’ Despite high rates of mental illness in Somalia, the country is unable to provide the most basic of care to those in need – many of whom are isolated, chained...