Taiwan on Thursday (June 29) donated two ambulances to Hargeisa Group Hospital and Gabiley General Hospital through the bilateral Maternal and Infant Health Care Improvement Project, in order to integrate case management between different facilities to refer and track reported cases, as well as increase mobile healthcare capacity. The Maternal and Infant Health Care Improvement […]
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Somaliland, with support from International Finance Cooperation (IFC), has launched an online one–stop–shop business registration and licensing system (BRLS)to speed, simplify, and reduce costs for businesses and entrepreneurs. The new system, found at www.brls.govsomliland.org, is part of Somaliland’s wider strategy to strengthen its private sector and encourage economic growth and job creation. Reducing lengthy registration and […]
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Differences over plans to reshuffle Somaliland’s licensed political parties and the sequencing of elections have cast doubts over the electoral calendar since December 2021. In light of the legal and technical timelines, it is now an “open secret” that Muse Bihi’s elected term would expire before presidential elections can be held. Based on past experience, […]
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Chairman of the Somaliland opposition party UCID Faisal Ali Warabe now says the country is on the verge of civil war due to the misrule of President Muse Bihi. Speaking in Nairobi after meeting with members of the international community, Warabe said he had briefed the envoys on the current situation in Somaliland and the […]
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President Musa Bihi Abdi has sacked two minister as he made mini-changes in his cabinet on Monday. Sent home is the Planning minister, Hon. Omar Ali Abdilahi and agriculture minister, Mr. Mohamed Haji Osman Jama. Replacing them are Ahmed Adan Ahmed Buhane who assumes the planning docket while Abdikadir Iman Warsame to take up the […]
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Somaliland Human Rights Center is demanding for the release of illegally imprisoned journalists and politicians in Mandheera who were arrested over 20 days ago during the protests called by the opposition to push the government to hold presidential elections in time. The Human Rights Center said the continued incarceration of the journalists and politicians was […]
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One of the young protestors arrested three weeks ago during demonstrations called by opposition leaders is fighting for his life in police cells after allegedly being tortured by security officers. Sources inside the police cells indicate the young man (name withheld) has been brutally beaten by officers and has lost one of his testicles. Police […]
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The international community is showing great concern on the violation of human rights in Somaliland. Eleven representatives from various embassies that work closely with Somaliland met President Musa Bihi on Wednesday and expressed their displeasure at how the government has treated opposition leaders and supporters in the recent past. The representatives from the United States […]
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Mediation efforts to have the Somaliland government hold presidential elections on time went a notch higher with the traditional leaders and members of the house of elders (Guurti) forming a combined Commitee. The team is now expected to meet with the government and opposition to chart a way foward on the political impasse occasioned by […]
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Somaliland President Muse Bihi has told a committee of traditional leaders and the civil society to keep off the issue of the election dispute between his government and the opposition and leave the matter to the Guurti (House of Elders). The President held a meeting with the traditional leaders and the civil society members on […]
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