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Month: December 2022
Somalia ‘Orders’ Genel Energy to Cease Oil Operations in Somaliland
Somalia’s government declared Genel Energy Plc’s operations in Somaliland illegal and said the company should cease claiming to hold rights for oil exploration and exploitation in the country. Genel Energy owns oil blocks in Somaliland, a territory that unilaterally declared independence in 1991, but isn’t recognized as a sovereign state…
DP World turning Somaliland into a major trade hub
Dubai-based DP World is expanding its operations in Somaliland as part of a plan to turn the country into a major trade hub. Though Somaliland has relinquished commercial power, it may gain political weight. The two new cranes towering over a huge cargo ship are tall enough to reach even…
Voter registration gets underway countrywide
Chairman of the National Elections Commission Hon. Muse Hassan Yusuf says the voter registration exercise started smoothly on Wednesday The National Electoral Commission led the nation in efforts of readiness to embark on the exercises of registering potential voters countrywide. Various delegations sent by the government to the regions of the…
Irro terms police action against Las Anod protesters as barbaric
Wadani party presidential candidate Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Irro has described the Somaliland government's response to Tuesday's protest in Las Anod as a barbaric act. Irro’s comments came after police forcibly quelled a protest with live gunfire. The demonstrations were in response to the uptick in killings in Las Anod. It…
Biden signs act allowing Somaliland to ‘participate in US military programs’
United States President Joe Biden on Friday signed the Defense Authorization Act allowing for the first the break-away Somaliland region in northern Somalia to participate in US military programs. The act requires the defense and state departments to submit an annual report detailing assistance, diplomatic engagement and security initiatives in…
Why It Is Time to ‘Africanize’ Somaliland’s Foreign Policy
By Moustafa Ahmad Few of us were surprised by the fact that the United States did not invite Somaliland and Eritrea to the U.S - Africa Leaders meeting, which was concluded last week in Washington D.C. The U.S said it did not invite Eritrea due to strained diplomatic relations and…
Journalist Coldoon freed after two years of illegal incarceration
Journalist Abdimalik Muse Coldoon was released today from the central prison in Hargeisa, after two years of what some have called illegal imprisonment. The reporter was accused of criticizing the President of Somaliland and Abaarso and Barwaaqo private schools but was initialy acquitted of any crime by the Marodijex Regional…
Voter registration to kick of on Dec. 28
The national registration of voters will commence on Wednesday the 28th of December 2022, slightly over a fortnight away. The kick-off of the exercise was declared by the Head of State H.E. Musa Bihi Abdi on Sunday as per a press release from the Presidency. Through a Decree no. 18/122022,…
Somaliland’s seven conditions before dialogie with Somalia
Somaliland has set seven conditions if talks with Somalia are to resume. Somaliland President Muse Bihi in a statement said Somalia and the mediating team must first recognize his country as independent from Somalia. “The Republic of Somaliland insists on finding a two-state system and a solution that ends in…
Drought, conflict force 80,000 Somalis to shelter in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps
An estimated 24,000 people have arrived at the camp complex since the end of September, some of the more than 80,000 taken in there during the past two years, according to UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov. He said that despite a recent drop in the pace of daily arrivals at Dadaab,…