Somaliland, the land of Camels and Milk, you will fall in love with this place as soon as your plane touchdown, it will happens without you realizing it. The first thing you will notice is how humble, kind and...
March 23, 2016 The terrible scenes in Brussels following a terrorist attack now claimed by Islamic State are a reminder of just how vulnerable airports can be. In the years since the September 11 attacks in the US in 2001, a...
At the end of 2015, Operation Atalanta protected a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) vessel, MV Kestrel, from potential pirate attack as it deployed twenty five Fishing Aggregation Devices (FADs) off the coast of Somalia. The FADs’ unique design...
By Goth Mohamed Goth The Academy for Peace and Development held a Workshop in Media reporting on the electoral processes and an assessment on media code of conduct. The workshop was attended by all forty heads of local media outlets. The...
Posted in Al Mariam's Commentaries By almariam On March 20, 2016 President Barack Obama is in Cuba!  On a mission. Liberate Cubans from “communist” mental slavery! Hooray! Cuba libre! Free Cuba! Back in 1898, another American president-to-be, Teddy “The Rough Rider” Roosevelt and crew caught a...
The article in the Sunday Telegraph was more akin to a piece that would have expected one would have expected to read in “Private Eye” than in a responsible, broadsheet newspaper, committed to responsible journalism and fair reporting.   Firstly, to...
The United Nations General Assembly meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has declared March 22nd as World Water Day (WWD). This important day was first proposed on Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development....
By Abdirahman M. Dirye Hargeisa—on 20, March 206, the political parties’ leaders participated in the inauguration of Djibouti office in Somaliland. Muse Bihi of Kulmiye the ruling party made startling statement “Djibouti is the only country recognized Somaliland, I knew...
The drought in Somaliland is very severe and widespread and nearly ¼ million families in the countryside may need help soon. Therefore, we have to take an urgent action and save our dying people before the number of deaths...
DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has distributed urgent aid comprising 400 food baskets in drought-hit areas in Somaliland. Some 3,000 people affected by the severe drought have benefitted from the largesse of RAF. A delegation from...