Hadraawi: The Somali poet whose readings were like rock concerts
By Mary Harper – Africa editor, BBC World Service News The Somali people are known as “a nation of poets” and there is no greater poet of modern times than…
By Mary Harper – Africa editor, BBC World Service News The Somali people are known as “a nation of poets” and there is no greater poet of modern times than…
A last-minute agreement to pay 100 camels as compensation has spared a murderer’s life in Somaliland. The unnamed man was among five convicts set to be executed in the Madheera…
SOMTEL Telecommunications International, one of the leading companies of the giant Dahsbhiil Group of Companies has donated a full-pack Telecommunications Systems Laboratory (TSL) to Amoud University. The TSL equipment is…
Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and the Somali Media Association (SOMA) strongly condemn the suspension against the privately-owned independent CBA television in Hargeisa by the Somaliland Ministry of Information on Wednesday.…
Somaliland President Musa Bihi insists the political party elections will be held ahead of the presidential elections, an indicator that he will be in power beyond his term that is…
The family of a British Somali man executed in a British prison after being wrongly convicted of murder 70 years ago has formally received a police apology for the “terrible…
The Somaliland House of Representatives (HoR), has approved three new names to join the electoral commission. The three Ahmed Hassan Osman, Musa Hassan Yussuf and Ahmed Yussuf Mohamed. Their inclusion…
Somaliland government, today, executed four who had been convicted of wanton killing earlier. A firing squad carried out the executions at Mandheera of the Sahel region early Tuesday morning. The…
Somaliland government has officially banned planned demonstrations organized the Community Development and Human Rights Organization. The Interior minister Mohamed Kahin Ahmed says the government is at liberty to ban any…
Somaliland police has been put on the spot for human rights abuses on prisoners. A former senior police officer who recently resigned from the force accuses his colleague of brutally…