House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights Subcommittee Lead Republican Chris Smith (R-NJ), and other bipartisan House members sent a letter to Secretary Blinken calling for increased engagement with Somaliland.
The...
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar inked the deal in an opulent hall in a five-star hotel in Dohar, Qatar. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo witnessed the signing.
The agreement lays out a path...
By Mehdi Hasan
IN 2005, Steven Rosen, then a senior official with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, then of the New Yorker. “You see this napkin?” Rosen asked Goldberg....
By M.A. Egge
The President H.E. Musa Bihi Abdi has sent National Independence congratulatory message to the people and the government of the USA on the occasion of their 244th Independency anniversary, a day popularly known as July 4th in...
U.S., Angola partner for medical readiness exercise
Luanda, Angola – The Angolan Armed Forces, in partnership with the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa and 807th Medical Command, Army Reserve, will host a medical readiness exercise (MEDREX) in Luanda...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the lower house of the Somali parliament voting to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s term by...
Somaliland Welcomes Strong Expressions of Support from U.S. Administration and Congress
“Somaliland Partnership Act,” introduced in the U.S. Senate, raises prospect of closer relations and security ties
WASHINGTON, DC., MARCH 18, 2022 – The President of the Republic of Somaliland, H.E....
Somaliland president H.E. Muse Bihi Abdi is putting the finishing touches to a trip that will take him to Washington in mid-March. There he hopes to rally his supporters in Congress to plead with the Biden administration for the...
Dr. Michael Rubin
The U.S.-African Leaders Forum winds down today. From the White House point-of-view, the three-day summit was a success.
President Joe Biden and his team met several African leaders and formalized agreements with countries across the continent. Biden also announced...
The US House of Representatives has approved the NDAA act, which includes a defense agreement between the United States and Somaliland.
U.S. Senator James Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last month introduced an amendment to...