Somaliland

In the second week of July, I was in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. There, I organized Huricap, a program of Amnesty Netherlands, committed to human rights education in Africa, a workshop on the investigation and documentation of human rights violations. There is, probably, a...

Brig. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Swahili, the Commanding officer of the Somaliland Fire Brigade, accompanied by top representatives of privately owned firefighting firm Somaliland Fire Safety company conducted a building inspection and compliance of the new premise housing the Damal  Hotel and Dahabshiil bank in...

Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) released press statement about the threats of Somaliland's election proccess is the violations of election rules and regulations. PRODUCED BY Election Monitoring Office (EMO) & Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) The newsletter from the Election Monitoring Office provides brief description of the...

Five-thousand-year-old rock art is tucked into an outcropping 40 miles northeast of Hargeisa, the capital of this breakaway region of Somalia. But its ambiguous political status has made protecting the site especially challenging. LAAS GEEL, SOMALILAND—Hidden in the Somali desert, beneath stunning, ancient rock cave...

Horndiplomat-BRIEFING PAPER:Somaliland voter cards distribution 08/02/2017. Background The long awaited presidential election in Somaliland is scheduled on 13th November 2017. The voter cards distribution started on 29th April 2017. To provide voters cards to the registered citizens, the electoral body started the first phase of distributing voter...

Hardly a week goes by without more news of yet another foreign power looking to establish a presence in the Horn of Africa. Not since the dark days of the Cold War has the region received such interest, little wonder then that some have...

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: bringing care to women in a country whose medical facilities, already scarce, were destroyed by years of civil war. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the mission of one woman in Somaliland. It’s part of his series Agents for Change. She...

Horndiplomat-The President of the Republic of Somaliland H.E Ahmed M M Silanyo Congratulates HE.Uhuru Kenyatta  for winning the elections in Kenya.   Presidential Congratulations Message  H.E. UHURU KENYATTA, The President re-elect of the Republic of Kenya. You’re Excellency, On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Somaliland and its...

'Our government will not allow any new church to be built in Somaliland' by Rose Gamble Somaliland's only Catholic church closed days after re-opening due to 'public pressures' Somaliland’s only Catholic church has been closed due to “public pressures”, just eight days after it was officially reopened...

Horndiplomat- Somaliland's higher education fair and networking 2017 held at the Guleid hotel in hargeisa from 1nd to 2nd August ,This year attracted more than 20,000 participants among them students, parents and educators over the two-day event presentations by Country's university stood out from...