Somaliland

On Saturday, international football came to Peckham Town as Somaliland travelled to the Menace Arena to play an end of season charity friendly. The Somaliland team comprised of Diaspora from London, Bristol and Cardiff. At half time the score was 0-0, but the greater fitness of the...

Somalia's new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, was to visit Ethiopia on Wednesday in a much-anticipated meeting aimed at smoothing over decades of mistrust. Farmajo has been criticised for waiting three months before going to Addis Ababa. The Ethiopia trip is by far the most important...

Horndiplomat-Following the recent heavy rainfall which happened within the past fortnight, Sanaag residents have at least lost almost all of the remaining livestock that survived the long spell of drought and famine. At least 18 to 19 thousand sheep, goats and associated livestock have perished...

By M.A. Egge The VP H.E. Abdirahman Ismael Seili’i gave a token of 20 sheep and goats to inpatients at Borama hospital on Friday. The VP who was on an official trip to Awdal toured the hospital where he visited 23 patients who suffered acute watery...

By M.A. Egge The director of Daryeel Hospital, which is the largest in Buhoodle region, Dr. Abdirahman Ali Muse has declared that they have contained the fatal acute watery diarrhea which recently hit the area. Buhoodle is one of the places that registered highest mortality in...

ADDIS ABABA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia is undertaking feasibility studies to export electricity to South Sudan and Somaliland. Bizuneh Tolcha, Public Relations and Communications Director at Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity said on Wednesday the plan is part of integrating the East...

In Somaliland, medical workers are in a desperate race against time to save millions of children from death. The children are at risk of starvation in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria. According to Carolyn Miles, the CEO of Save the Children, of the 20...

It was April 2016, and Anderson Cooper was in the middle of a busy campaign season, covering debates and presidential primaries, when 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster proposed doing an education story in Africa. Would he want to fly to Somaliland—a trip requiring an...

Educated at a unique and demanding school in Somaliland, these students are bound for top U.S. colleges and, they say, leadership of their young country SOURCE:CBSNEWS

Women in drought-ravaged Eastern Somaliland are being pushed to the edge, desperately searching for food for their children. Some have lost family members, and many have lost their livestock which is their means of making a living. A lot of women are alone with their...