Somaliland Pushing the Mobile Money CVA Frontier
By Maha Khan
In November 2018, GSMA M4H Insights team went to Hargeisa to understand the success of mobile money cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in humanitarian...
Somalilander Named French African Young Leader
The French-African Foundation today released its list of 30 of Africa’s most promising young leaders to join its prestigious Young African Leaders Program. Among...
Somaliland: New UN Envoy, Amb. James Swan and His Approach to the Region
On Thursday, May 30th, 2019, the United Nations Secretary General appointed Ambassador James Swan of the United States of America, as the new envoy...
Somalia’s Jamila Osman crowned African Poetry Prize Winner
Somalian poet Jamila Osman is today named joint winner of the attention-grabbing Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
Jamila, who writes and teaches in Portland, Oregon,...
Russia in Africa: can it offer an alternative to the US and China?
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. In...
Somaliland:Wadani is against holding the upcoming elections say’s foreign minister
Somaliland Minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Hon Yassin Haji Mahmoud Hir “Faratoon” has said that he hopes Puntland authorities will follow suit...
Somaliland:Bridges in the Dark, who is responsible?
Residents of Hargeisa have expressed their displeasures with the government and local government’s authorities for failing to lit up the two main bridges in...
Somaliland: Regional partnership underway to help Somalia enforce the ban on illegal charcoal trade
Seven years ago in 2012, a United Nations Security Council Resolution placed an embargo on the export of charcoal from Somalia. The embargo sought...
Mental Health issues in the Somali spoken territories and in the Somali Diaspora
The situation of the mentally ill in all Somali spoken territories is very alarming. The same is in the Somali communities in Diaspora.We hear...
Somaliland:Electricity restored in Las Anod after rains cause black-out
By M.A Egge
The Lasanod Regional Governor has said that the electricity power supply has now been re-established following major black-out that was caused by...
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