Prosecutors in Muslim-majority Somaliland were granted extra time on 10 February to detain in custody a Christian couple and their new-born baby and two other Christian women on suspicion of “spreading Christianity”. The time extension allows prosecutors up to 45 days from...
Police complaints must be dealt with in accordance with the law, says Police Chief Hargeisa:-  The Commander of the Somaliland Police Force Brigadier General Mohamed Aden Saqadhi (Jano-gale) has apologized to Hoodo Garays and her mother Suleekha Aqil for the...
Samsam Jama, a nurse working in Somaliland’s Edna Hospital and Hargeisa General Hospital, has published a book in Somali about the Somali public’s harmful misconceptions on health issues. The book, titled Faraadin, (‘Herbalist: medical myths’), discusses some of the...
The Somaliland government and the business community have agreed to partner up to purchase 300,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking at a meeting with business leaders in Hargeisa, Somaliland's Minister of Finance Sa'ad Ali Shire said the Vice President. "The...
After thirty years of bandaging the country’s political leadership, institutions, and federal system, the current atmosphere of Somali politics portrays that the best way forward is moving backward. Understandable, there are those who find this kind of thinking appealing...
PRESS RELEASE Ministry of Transport of Ethiopia and DP World sign MoU for the development of the Ethiopian side of the Berbera Corridor DP World, a leading global provider of end to end logistics solutions, and the Ministry of Transport, have...
The people of Somaliland have been electing their political representatives for almost two decades. From 2002 to 2017, Somaliland held a number of different elections, including Presidential, local council and parliamentary elections. The process had begun with formation of...
Somalilanders line up to vote. (Taiwan Representative Office in Somaliland photo) Taiwan representative praises Somaliland's landmark election as 'admirable' TAIPEI (— Taiwan’s envoy to Somaliland, Allen C. Lou (羅震華), on Monday (May 31) congratulated the East African nation for successfully holding...
In the context of international relations and diplomacy between neighbouring countries, Somalia and Kenya cannot be in open hostility in its perpetuity. Our geography with Kenya is not by choice, although in the context of Kenyan’s recent belligerent aggression,...