Somaliland

Dubai-based port operator DP World has announced plans to spend $442m on the expansion of its port at Berbera in Somaliland. The investment – which is about the same as the annual GDP of Somaliland – follows the official opening of its Doraleh Multipurpose...

For the third time since 2012, leaders from around the world met to talk about Somalia in London earlier this month. Somalia’s new president requested a lifting of the arms embargo on the country’s army, but Western countries worry those weapons could fall into the hands...

The UAE's controversial military base in Somaliland could become operational within the very near future, the autonomous region's foreign minister said on Friday. The base is still being constructed in Berbera, located 100km north east of the capital, Hargeisa, but UAE ships have already started...

Somaliland's Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire is clearly frustrated. Somaliland is being hit by a regional food crisis that the U.N. has described as one of the largest humanitarian emergencies since 1945. More than a million of Somaliland's four million people are at risk of...

Horndiplomat-Executive Summary Somaliland Non- State Actors Forum (SONSAF) was closely monitoring the process of the voter registration since January 2016 through Domestic Voter Registration Observers and wider civil society engagement on the electoral process. This has paved the way Somaliland civil society to conduct sequences...

Jasmin, who grew up in Vejle, says she was chained for up to 14 days at a time while staying at the school. Two Danish-Somali girls have been freed from an extremist Muslim Koran school in Somaliland by a large police operation. Along with them were...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo Congratulates Ethiopians on the 26th anniversary of Ginbot-20 Victory day Said on that Press-Release from Somaliland Presidency. Somaliland Presidency statement On the Occasion of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia's National Day On behalf of President Republic of Somaliland H.E Ahmed Mohamed...

A top official said Friday that forces from the United Arab Emirates could soon be flying fighter jets from a new base in the breakaway republic of Somaliland. Somaliland Foreign Minister Saad Ali Shire said the UAE could use the base in the town of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 25, 2017 – Somaliland Foreign Minister Dr. Saad Ali Shire on Tuesday officially opened a Somaliland Representative Office in the United States. This new office will serve as a liaison to the Somaliland expatriate community nation-wide and represent Somaliland's interests...

By:Hibaaq Osman, Contributor A country’s national day affords its people a chance to look back at their past, and consider where they might be headed to in the future. Many Somalilanders celebrating independence day today will remember the first, it took place just 26 years...