Opinion/Analysis

By Ali E. Duale The Kenya elections’ results and the violence that befell the country in the aftermath should serve as a practical warning to the Somaliland people in the oncoming elections. Although the international observers declared Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee Party the winner,...

By Ishaan Tharoor In recent days, thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Burma have made their way to neighboring Bangladesh, fleeing an aggressive Burmese military campaign that ravaged dozens of villages in the country’s restive state of Rakhine. An official from the International Organization for Migration told...

Somaliland National Election Commission (NEC) is performing voter registration process in eastern regions, Sool and Sanaag, where citizens will receive election cards to elect parliament and president. NEC implemented biometric based election system where citizen will be fingerprinted, in order to avoid vote rigging. ...

All wars by their nature are ragged, and sadly seasoned watchers of the Horn of Africa have had ample proof of this down the years.  What often starts off with reasonably clear objectives ends up being nebulous and opaque. The Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525...

by Heikal I. Kenneded Monday, July 24, 2017   President Farmajo came to office scarcely five months ago.  His election was a transformational moment for Somalia has rarely appeared more united than when he was elected as a president.  He campaigned to eradicate corruption from the ranks...

Horndiplomat-Today is the last day of the Book Fair. I can already see tears on cheeks, sorrow on some faces and excitement at the same time. A number of International guests would say goodbye to Somaliland and others will be here waving at those...

Horndiplomat-When Jama Muse Jama announced ten years ago that he is holding a Book Fair in Somaliland’s capital (Hargeisa), eyebrows were raised. People were not sure if he was planning to sell books, give them away for free or do an NGO style presentation...

By Michael Gerson Opinion writer July 17 at 7:33 PM BAIDOA, Somalia This town was liberated from the control of al-Shabab (an Islamist insurgent group) five years ago. But “liberated” is a relative term. The security bubble created by the presence of U.N. and Ethiopian military...

“Currently, campaigning for some named Islam whether cosmopolitan/American is a waste of time and dangerous…” Last night (Thursday 13/07/17, Friday 20/10/1438H) this lecture was given in Mansoor Hotel: a work over fifteen years transmitted to over fifty countries worldwide. The diagnosis was Islam is in decline, Muslims are...

Now that we fasted during the holy month of Ramadan and the dust of the drought settled, a dialogue that aims to discuss how to prepare for future drought is imperative in the mainstream discourse. Somaliland is geographically positioned in areas prone to insufficient rainfall. Due to...