Somaliland

By:RAGEH OMAAR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR For most of this year, I have been reporting on the catastrophic drought which has gripped Somaliland for almost three years, a drought which has also affected huge areas of Puntland and Somalia. I travelled across the length and breadth of the country -...

It is a minor miracle that countries have kept to their borders as resentments simmer DAVID PILLING A remarkable thing about Africa is just how stable its borders have been. Unlike Europe, where frontier-altering wars raged for centuries, where Yugoslavia shattered into pieces just a generation...

HARGEISA, Somaliland - The Foreign Minister of Somaliland, Sa'ad Ali Shire has talked about issues related to the contest between Presidential Candidates vying for Presidency, Garowe Online reports. Speaking to Somaliland TV, Shire has called on all political leaders to maintain peace during the campaigns...

A foundation stone-laying ceremony of a new ultra-modern Conference Hall for Hargeisa University conference hall to be constructed on funds donated by Dahabshiil Group of companies was held on Saturday, the 28th of October, 2017. Mr. Maulid Mohamed, the chief operating officer of SOMTEL, and Dr....

Campaign implementation process for the Somaliland Presidential Election -13 November 2017. Horndiplomat- 30th October 2017, members of the Somaliland Civil Society Organizations have convened half day meeting held at the Somaliland Non - State Actors Forum (SONSAF) office on 30 October 2017. The objective of the meeting was...

Horndiplomat-(Hargeisa)-Somaliland ministry of aviation and air transport have successfully installed and launched the "MESA" weather system at the Egla International Airport,Hargeisa. A formal ceremony meant to mark the launching of the new weather system was held at earlier today the ministry of aviation headquarters. Hon:Farhan Aden...

Now that the political campaign season is well under way, what kind of political leadership does Somaliland need? In order to determine what kind of political leadership the nation requires, lets first establish how leadership is defined. The term ‘leadership’ was first coined in the...

"OUR SOMALILAND” –CAMPAIGN FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS Horndiplomat-Inspire Group and SONYO Umbrella are calling on political parties and their supporters to ensure peaceful campaigns across the country during the campaign period. We urge our political leaders to desist from inflammatory announcements that could incite fellow citizens...

In the sprawling market of Somaliland’s capital city, Hargeisa, women clad in headscarves or abaya shawls from head to foot engage in volatile haggling with shoppers, and woe betide any man that crosses them – the volume becomes deafening. Somaliland’s religious conservativism – sharia law...