Senior Somaliland officials among them the Minister of the Interior, Minister of Justice, Minister of Planning, and Deputy Foreign Minister received a senior UN delegation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss how to tackle drought and how to...
With the humanitarian response to Somalia’s food crisis lagging, communities have turned to social media to identify families in need of urgent help
Unable to wait for help from their own government or the international community as they face the...
I was born in Somalia and it breaks my heart to hear stories of how families are suffering.’ As Olympian Sir Mo Farah calls the world’s attention to East Africa’s drought and famine, Cornwallbased ShelterBox is making partnership plans...
As U.S. President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban takes effect, an upcoming Fault Lines documentary on Al Jazeera highlights the consequences of a blanket policy that closes America’s doors to those with the most to lose. Last week, Trump...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
A one day forum on rebuilding the confidence of land issues in Somaliland organized by the Academy of peace and Development (APD) and FAO was held on Wednesday at the Mansoor Hotel.
Among those attending the one...
Failing to help imperils world peace and security as extremist groups will use the suffering of the people to their advantage by attracting unemployed youth to their ranks
By Bashir Goth
We often hear the platitude “water is precious” while we...
PIONEERING SOMALILAND JOURNALIST LOOKS BEYOND PRESENT-DAY HORIZONS
By Abdikadir Askar, Communications Lead
Somaliland’s pioneering first woman print journalist urges other women to believe in themselves and look for new horizons to break the mould of male-dominated media.
“It is what you think...
On the parched plains of Somaliland, the latest victim of the drought is not even old enough to have a name. By local tradition, a sheep ought to have been slaughtered to name Khadra Saaed’s baby boy, but none...
ADDIS ABABA, - Throughout a Sunday afternoon in the Ethiopian capital, Yemeni émigré men in their fifties and sixties arrive at a traditional Yemeni-styled mafraj room clutching bundles of green, leafy stalks: khat.
As the hours pass they animatedly discuss...
Secret to our Survival & Strength of our Success!
On this international Women’s Day, no nation is more indebted and thankful to the enduring sacrifice of its women, who truly are their unyielding backbone In the face of all the...