The British Ambassador, Kate Foster, visited Hargeisa this week to reaffirm the strength of the UK’s partnership with Somaliland including in the trade and development sector In her first visit to Somaliland since her appointment in February, Ms. Foster joined...
Thirty years after declaring independence, Somaliland is still at the margins of the international system despite its considerable successes. 30 years ago, on 18 May 1991, the Republic of Somaliland declared independence from Somalia. This bold move lacked preparation and...
Supporters hold banners of candidates during a rally in Hargeisa ahead of Somaliland’s elections scheduled for May 31, 2021. By Peter Kagwanja Democracies, they say, are less likely to go to war with each other. A new bout of Cold War-era...
By Michelle Gavin On May 31st, the people of Somaliland went to the polls to participate in long-delayed parliamentary and municipal elections. The largely autonomous region in the north of Somalia, which had a different colonial history from the rest...
-Kenyan senator says it’s time for Somalia to accept facts and Somaliland to join community of nations -Guurti Speaker tells off Somalia and asks them to be mature By M.A. Egge It is quite dumbfounding just as it is infuriating to see...
  Somaliland's June parliamentary elections were praised yet again for their strong democratic character. Suhaib Mahamoud asks if this will advance claims to statehood and secure the international recognition sought for three decades Somaliland has succeeded in building a democratic system...
Nadifa Mohamed and the cover of her novel The Fortune Men By Twm Owen A NOVEL centred around a notorious miscarriage of justice which saw an innocent man hanged has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Fortune Men, by Nadifa Mohamed, tells the story of Mahmood Mattan, who was...
Defamation is a “false statement presented as a fact that causes injury or damage to the character of the person it is about.’ “Lately, the so-called Somaliland Committee for the Promotion of Virtues and the Prevention of Vice (SCPVPV)...
EUCAP’s Field Office Hargeisa Senior Maritime Adviser has started to work bi-weekly embedded in the Operations Room / Command Centre of the Somaliland Coast Guard (SL CG) headquarters in Hargeisa on Sunday 29th August. “Already after his first days working...
Without fanfare and much to the surprise of many observers, on February 26, 2020, the foreign ministers of Taiwan and Somaliland met in Taipei and signed an agreement establishing representative offices in Taipei and Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, an...