Doha, Qatar – Somalia is working closely to restore peace in Somaliland amid heightening tensions between the region’s authorities and local clan forces, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told Al Jazeera. “We believe that unity is the only solution… but we don’t want this unity through violence, which makes matters worse,” Mohamud told Al Jazeera on Monday. Violence erupted […]
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The Somaliland Roads Authority has received road construction and maintenance machineries to aid in infrastractural development in the country. The Minister of Planning and National Development Dr. Ahmed Adan, the chairman of the Somaliland Development Fund, SDF on Wednesday handed over the modern equipment for the construction of roads to the Minister of Transport and […]
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, on Wednesday called for coordinated efforts to end trafficking in persons from the Horn of Africa to Yemen and the Gulf states. The IOM called on governments, law enforcement, public services and civil society to enhance efforts to strengthen prevention, identify and support victims and […]
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The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced Monday that it has decided to withdraw all its services from Las Anod General Hospital in the Sool region due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents that have impacted the safe delivery of medical care. It said repeated attacks on medical facilities and the level […]
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Somaliland House of Representatives elected Yassin Hajji Mohamoud Faratoon as the new Speaker of the House during a voting session held in Hargeisa on Sunday. Faratoon secured 46 out of 81 votes, defeating his opponent MP Mohamed Khadar Dahir, who received 35 votes. He will lead the House of Representatives of Somaliland next four years. […]
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The Somaliland Electoral Commission is now hugely divided once again following this week’s announcement that thye presidential elections will now be held in November 13, 2024. But the opposition has termed thye schedule as illegal while the international community shared their views over the elections time table. Two members of the Electoral Commission have opposed […]
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In what observers see as a blow to President Muse Bihi’s plans to extend his stay in office, Somaliland’s Constitutional Court has rejected the interpretation requested by the Electoral Commission, relating to the dispute electoral road map. According to the statement issued by the court, it denied the request made by the Electoral Commission on […]
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The hearing in the case against journalist Busharo Ali Mohamed (known as Bushaaro Baanday) was postponed by the Hargeisa court on Sunday, marking her eighth appearance before the Marodi Jeeh Court, according to the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS). Busharo, a British-Somali journalist, was arrested on May 15, 2023, upon her return to Somaliland via the […]
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This year has not been the best for Somaliland’s international reputation. After breaking away from Somalia in 1991, the de facto independent country cultivated an image as an “oasis of stability” in the Horn of Africa, conducting disarmaments and democratic elections despite lacking international recognition. But presidential elections scheduled for last year were delayed, and in February, […]
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By Nasir M. Ali, Ayan Yusuf Ali and Jutta Bakonyi Somaliland’s main port, at the city of Berbera, accounted for two-thirds of the country’s revenues in 2020. Over the years, these revenues have mostly gone into the central state coffers, while the development of Berbera has been neglected. When we visited the city for our research project […]
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