By Noah Arre
Back in 2013, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) hired me from Baltimore, Maryland, USA and posted me to Hargeisa to help the Ministry of Water Resources there in its pursuit of establishing a trained work force....
Have you been somewhere in Somalia in the night of February 8th, 2017?! Certainly if you were, you must have had engaged in one of those street celebrations with those jubilant young, old, men, women and kids who came...
According to Transparency International Somalia was ranked the most corrupt country in the whole world.
“. . . Not all governments are looking out for the best interests of their citizens. In fact, many countries have been caught up in...
If the central bank and ministry of finance had diligent and skilled academics, the government revenue would have increased by two folds. $550 million of taxes are not collected statistically.
Nicholas Kay— the former UN envoy to Somalia, said in...
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost, but peace based on principle, on justice".
Corazon Aquino
Farmajo’s apology for the atrocities committed in Somaliland...
On the 14th of June 2020, (representatives from) Somaliland and Somalia met in Djibouti for a four-day summit.
The summit, the first since the two sides started talking in 2012, in London, stirred up so much social media frenzy about...
By Medha Dutta Yadav
Somaliland has its own government and its own currency. To enter, one should also have a Somaliland visa. You might say that this is the case with all countries. But there is a catch. No other...
Muhidin Libah, farmer and director of the Somali Bantu Community Association. Photograph: Greta Rybus/The Guardian
Muhidin Libah stretched his arm overhead, tapping the head of a corn stalk and sending its leaves quivering in the August sun.
“About seven feet,” he...
Somaliland Situated along the Red sea in East Africa, Somaliland has an estimated population of 4 million people. The country is known to have great stability among the African countries. Somaliland is admired all over the globe for its...
A community teacher provides instruction to students in Somalia’s Gedo, Bay and Bakool regions (© Sebastian Rich/UNICEF)
By Stephen Schwartz
In January 2021, I published a paper on U.S. policy towards Somalia in which I expressed concern that the rapid withdrawal of U.S....