Recent Knowledge, Attitude & Practice (KAP) survey commissioned by UNICEF released on August 2015 indicates Somaliland is off-track in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH), which is one of the indicators of development. Somaliland...
From port competition to the Somaliland issue, China and the UAE’s conflicting interests in the region are not easy to reconcile.
By Samuel Ramani
On April 26, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makhtoum, the ruler of Dubai, signed $3.4 billion in investment deals between...
The printing machine for visually impaired people otherwise known as a Bralle press has been acquired for the first time in the country.
This is a respite that comes with a great sigh of relief since, for the first time...
A survey of voters in central Ethiopia revealed opposition victory inside Oromia state and Addis Ababa city. The exit poll was carried out by a coalition of university student volunteers from Addis Ababa, Jimma and Adama, the regional capital...
Dr. Edna Adan has been working to end FGM in Somaliland for decades. The first step in that process was overcoming the strong societal pressure to not discuss FGM.
Friday, February 6 was International Day of Zero Tolerance for...
Stockholm, 24 May 2016
Sexual Violence in Africa: Reversing the Trends
In honour of Africa Day 2016, three Right Livelihood Award Laureates from Africa are speaking out to reverse the current trends of sexual violence on the continent.
As the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, “about...
Hopes of a good harvest of dates after a year-long wait for farmers in a village in northern Somalia’s Sanag region were dashed last week after a fire spread through their farms reducing everything to ashes.
50-year-old Habib Haji Yusuf...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
H.E President Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Silanyo for the second time this week on Friday at the Presidential palace hosted a dinner for religious scholars and religious students who participated in this of year’s national Quran Recitation...
Somaliland is on the verge of joining the league of oil producing nations according to the country’s minister for energy and minerals.
Oil production, he says will turn around the economy of the globally unrecognised country and push its quest...
This column is this week elated by the fact that the ongoing voter registration exercise has been put on hold, albeit for four weeks for the sake of the people. We had spiritedly called for the plight of the...