Somaliland

A team from the Cornish charity Shelterbox is in Somaliland where a savage drought is threatening millions of people. The self-declared state on the Horn of Africa has seen its rains fail for the last three years, and is now facing a famine as millions...

Somaliland's pioneering first woman print journalist urges other women to believe in themselves and look for new horizons to break the mould of male-dominated media. "It is what you think about yourself that makes you who you are," says Fahma Yusuf Essa. "I ask many young ladies...

As she watches her home Somaliland stand on the brink of famine, a senior official has put out an emotional plea to the world to "not wait until people die." With more than one and a half million people facing the prospect of starving to...

By:Joshua Gross Horndiplomat-Following the Executive Order restricting travel to the United States issued by the White House on January 27, Somaliland’s Foreign Minister Dr. Saad Ali Shire wrote to the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security to seek an exemption for Somaliland from the...

BY:Jason Patinkin BERBERA, SOMALILAND — Using metal hand tools, a team of forensic investigators scrapes away soil covering a mass grave in the town of Berbera, Somaliland. Nearly two meters below are the bodies of 17 men who are believed to have been rounded up,...

A team of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid is inspecting the progress of works in the projects financed by the Center in Somaliland through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and International Organization for Migration. The projects aim to provide job...

Abdirahman Osman Raghe, our friend, colleague and mentor, passed away in the early hours of 7 March, 2017, at Toronto, Canada. Raghe was a tireless warrior in the cause of peace, an inspirational figure who never wavered in his faith in the dignity of the...

In Somali culture, women were very precious and respected. In fact, they were among the three things that the tribes used to fight over. The dowry of a Somali woman was one hundred camels, one horse and a gun, this was a fortune at...

Message from Somaliland’s people to intergovernmental, international organizations and donors Let us express our appreciation, gratitude and thanks to the UN, international organizations and donors for the lengthy and productive close working relationship as major partners of development process to the Somaliland’s people. Our partnership has...

RAGEH OMAAR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar has travelled across Somaliland as severe drought brings the unrecognised east-African nation to the brink of a preventable humanitarian catastrophe. Somaliland is a place that doesn’t officially exist, a self-declared independent country in the...