Following a series of setbacks going back more than a year, Somalia is nearly wrapping up parliamentary elections (Lower House) leading to presidential elections. The Horn of Africa country uses a complex indirect model, whereby state legislatures and clan delegates pick lawmakers for...
My research
Enrolled as a (French) Ph.D. candidate at the University of Montréal in Canada, I have been in Hargeisa for two weeks to conduct fieldwork for my thesis. Though, it is not my first time in Somaliland. I came...
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has elected Dr Edna Adan as its General Assembly president.
Apart from being the first citizen of Somaliland, she is also the first woman ever to hold that position.
The UNPO is an international movement...
Lose talk directed to the public can be very harmful to a nation especially during times of calamities.
The sentiments by the Somaliland interior minister Mohamed Kahin Ahmed were made during an operation to clean up debris from the fire...
24 April 2022
By Jamal Ibrahim Mohamed
On 6 February 2022, Somaliland security forces – especially the intelligence unit – arrested me while I was dining at Daily Doze restaurant in Hargeisa. I was detained by eight men dressed in plainclothes...
Special guests for the night include Loula Isman, representative of Somaliland to Canada, and Ahmed Hersi, the secretary of finance for Somaliland’s Wadani Party
Somalilanders in Edmonton can celebrate the 31st anniversary of the region’s independence on Saturday.
Independence Day is an...
Minister for Finance, Dr. Saad Ali Shire, who has himself admitted on Thursday at the Ministerial Council meeting that life was becoming harder and more difficult for low-income families with prices of oil and essential food items soaring, detailed...
Somalis have experienced years of struggle, climate shocks and disease outbreaks in recent years. COVID-19 has worsened the situation as well, with up to 20 percent of Somalia/Somaliland’s population expected to suffer from direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic. According to officials,...
Mr Ali Abdi BEM, stated Welsh Government are ready for the inclusion of Somaliland in their International Learning Opportunities programme.
Mr Abdi, who has been a member of the Welsh Somaliland Diaspora has arrived in Hargeisa, Somaliland on a scoping...
The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Works, Lands and Housing, Hon. Mohamud Warsame Jama, officially handed over the master plan of Gebilay Farms.
In an event held Gebilay local government, Vice-minister Mohamoud along with the Director General of...