The Taiwanese envoy to Somaliland Allen C. Lou hosted its second National Day ceremony on Friday. Over 150 people attended the event, including Abdulrahman Ismail Saylici, Vice President of Somaliland, ministers, government officials, MPs, members from the business sector,...
Minister of Energy and Minerals of the Republic of Somaliland Mr. Abdillahi Abdi Farah, today closed the inaugural meeting of the Power Africa project, a program to improve the quality of electricity service and knowledge of service providers, with...
The Diaspora Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) of the Republic of Somaliland in collaboration with the Amoud Foundation organized a one-day consultative meeting held on Thursday evening (25th of Nov, 2021) under the...
The House of Representatives released a report on its performance in the first session, which lasted three months from August 3 to October 3. The Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Abdirizak Khalif Ahmed who opened Saturday’s session...
The President of the Republic of Somaliland, H.E. Muse Bihi Abdi, today officially attended the inauguration ceremony of a new groundwater management system and dams established by the Hargeisa Water Agency. The ceremony was attended by members of the...
Voters queue outside a polling station in the Somaliland 2021 elections. Credit: Somaliland International Election Observation Mission 2021.
While rightly lauded for its elections, the self-declared states’ lack of female representation points to a deep problem in its democrazy
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The UK parliament hosted a debate on 18th of January 2022 about the political recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state. The debate was organized and led by the Rt Honourable Gavin Williamson MP, a Member of Parliament for...
Following a series of setbacks going back more than a year, Somalia is nearly wrapping up parliamentary elections (Lower House) leading to presidential elections. The Horn of Africa country uses a complex indirect model, whereby state legislatures and clan delegates pick lawmakers for...
My research
Enrolled as a (French) Ph.D. candidate at the University of Montréal in Canada, I have been in Hargeisa for two weeks to conduct fieldwork for my thesis. Though, it is not my first time in Somaliland. I came...
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has elected Dr Edna Adan as its General Assembly president.
Apart from being the first citizen of Somaliland, she is also the first woman ever to hold that position.
The UNPO is an international movement...