By Mohamed Ubo
Somaliland is sitting on a gold mine that needs to be tapped to break the cycle of extreme poverty—and that is the youth who accounts for 70% of the population. Do we educate, inform, engage, empower and...
A doctor and a nurse prepare a ward for COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo by: REUTERS / Feisal Omar
From Jan. 20th to April 17th, 2020, 672,300 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed and over 33000...
By M.A. Egge
The above title is the essence contained in the following open letter congratulations to the President of Somaliland H.E. Musa Bihi Abdi by former Vice-President Hassan Isse Jama, who is the top-most notable in SNM hierarchy.
Dated 17th...
The Lower House’s decision on 25 July to sack Prime Minister Kheyre reeks of politics of sacrificial lamb and the notorious factionalism in Somali politicians’ culture.
In mythical stories mainly religious, a lamb is sacrificed to please Gods or to...
Campaign posters in Mogadishu tout candidates for president of Somalia. Mohamed Abdiwahab/ AFP/Getty Images)
By Zakariye Hussein
The federal government of Somalia and its member states have, after lengthy discussions and consultations, agreed to an indirect electoral formula to conduct the upcoming...
Somalia is positioned on one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty
by Vava Tampa
Frantz Fanon once quipped: “Africa is shaped like a revolver, and Congo is the trigger.”
More than 60 years later, I think the...
By Abdiaziz Arab
The recent execution of twenty-one Al-Shabaab terrorists and affiliates in Galkayo was a step forward in the fight against terrorism in Somalia. Defeating Al-Shabaab militarily alone, though, is not enough, we must defeat their poisonous and un-Islamic...
Why is Somaliland government deporting foreign National from Las Anod, capital of Sool region.
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Recently, Las Anod has become a trading hub in a very short time, but sees a shocking increase in killings.
Elders and intellectuals of Sool region strongly...
When aid agencies push false narratives to make a case for funding, it’s not just accuracy that’s the casualty. It’s the people that suffer, in very real terms.
Recently, Save the Children reported that 90% of families in Somaliland and...
by Abdisalam Garjeex
May 15, 2022, became a day that would go down in infamy and as a supreme disgrace through our failure by electing Hassan Sheikh as Somalia’s second president. I was in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia...