Somaliland

Whether Americans or Africans, my friends reacted in much the same way when I disclosed I was headed for Hargeysa, the capital of Somaliland, to participate in an international book festival. Whether Americans or Africans, my friends reacted in much the same way when I...

Horndiplomat-Innovate Ventures has announced the ten early stage startups for this year’s Innovate Accelerator in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Innovate Ventures is the leading Somali start-up accelerator and technology fund, working with VC4Africa and Oxfam under the Work In Progress! Alliance to support and invest in...

Every four months, Human Rights Centre issues a quarterly report on the situation of the media in Somaliland. The report is based on monitoring and documentation carried out by the Centre. This quarterly report covers the period from 11th April to 7th August, 2017,...

Three years of drought in Somaliland has now left it in the grip of a cholera epidemic caused by dwindling and polluted water supplies. UK based disaster relief agency ShelterBox has been distributing water filters and carriers, as well as shelter materials to its...

Horndiplomat-UK Minister of State for International Development and Minister of State for Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office  Mr. Rory Stewart visited in Somaliland . The UK Minister met with the vice president of Somaliland Mr. Abdirahman Saylici and cabinets from the government. Both sides...

The breakaway north-east African state of Somaliland is claiming that neighbouring Somalia is trying to assert authority over its telecoms sector through a new law. Somalia passed a new telecoms law last week. The National Communications Act is designed to regulate the country’s telecoms sector,...

By.M.A.Egge Residents of Lasanod in Sool enjoy a better energy services supply and billing system than the rest of the country, hence pay 70% to 80% less than practically elsewhere. According to correspondent Ahmed Mohammed Suleiman who has just returned from the region, the power lighting...

The Somaliland Fire Brigade trained twenty officers from the Somaliland Coast Guard (SCG) in a First Aid and Firefighting training that was held at the Berbera Maritime and Fishery Academy and concluded on Thursday 17 August 2017. The EU Capacity Building Mission EUCAP contributed in...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland-Ethiopia relationship:an initiative for regional economic integration and deepening political stability in the hornof africa (By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud “Barawani”). ABSTRACT-This paper is going to analyze and light on the political, economic, and trade cooperation between Somaliland and Ethiopia, the paper explores how Somaliland and...

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...