By Barkhad Kaariye,
Years and years ago, on a beautiful night as the sun sets down, I was sleeping on my mother's lap and have enjoyed her voice as she was reciting a 'Buraanbur– a poetry usually composed by Somali...
By Dr. Ali Osman
I am neither a political scientist nor a sociologist, but my expertise is the in the field of education. As a social scientist, I do not deal with hearsay, but require empirical data to make informed...
2 July 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Girls Not Brides welcomes the adoption of this historic resolution which recognises child marriage as a violation of human rights and calls for a holistic, comprehensive and coordinated response to end child marriage.
On Thursday 2...
Two Al Jazeera journalists have spoken out after Israeli navy forces assaulted and abducted them while covering the 'Freedom Flotilla III' heading to Gaza.
Mohamed El Bakkali, Al Jazeera’s reporter accompanying the flotilla, said that the attack on the ship occurred in international waters, which...
What: The first substantive Human Rights Council resolution on child, early and forced marriage is expected to be adopted imminently
When: By COB Thursday 3 July 2015
Where: Geneva, The United Nations Human Rights Council
Why it matters: Child marriage holds back...
Asymmetries in the regulation of global trade in goods and services as well as finance have serious implications for Africa. Reuters/Toby Melville
July 2, 2015
By Léonce Ndikumana
One of the challenges facing African countries is that the global environment is...
LAW and UN-Habitat in collaboration with the Somaliland’s Ministry of Interior and Public Works organised and facilitated two important consultative meetings aimed at increasing the capacity of Somaliland’s Land Dispute Tribunals.
The first was a one day consultative meeting was...
The EU has unveiled plans to offer counter-terrorism training to help east African security agencies improve cross-border investigations and prosecutions in a region hit by deadly raids carried out by Islamist militants.
The new program, to be implemented later this...
By Mohamed Kunle
Republic of Somaliland has a population of 3.5 million and locates horn of Africa. It is bordered by Somalia to the east, Djibouti to the northwest, and Ethiopia to the south and west.
Somaliland got its liberty from...