Somaliland

New York, June 1, 2017--Authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland should immediately release Mohamed Adan Dirir, the editor of the online news portal Horseed Media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Mohamed has been jailed without charge since Somaliland Health Minister Saleban...

BY AFRICA CENTER On Tuesday, May 23, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted Dr. Saad Ali Shire, minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation of the Republic of Somaliland. In his remarks, Shire emphasized Somaliland's continued status as an island of peace and stability in the...

Any visitor to or resident of Somaliland will be aware of the Somaliland Police, a force/service whose presence is largely reassuring. Policing even when generously resourced is difficult at the best of times, but in Somaliland where many things have to be done on...

By Muluken Yewondwossen Ethiopia is looking to be part of the tripartite investment and shareholders in Berbera Port of Somaliland that was previously managed by the Dubai based DP World and the Somaliland government. Recently Somaliland media outlets quoted Hussein Ige Dayr, spokesperson for the president...

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...