For Nadifa Mohamed, visiting homeland Somaliland is out of “Loyalty Rather Than Love,”

“This is your country.” That’s what everyone tells me and it’s true, my mother tongue does not surround me anywhere else, and in no other country does my face blend into the crowd so seamlessly. But is Somaliland my country? I don’t know. I left my hometown of Hargeisa at the age of four. As […]

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Art With Heart: How Saed sees therapy through his lence

HOW DO ARTISTS view work? Take Mustafa Saeed, a self-taught Somali photographer and creative based in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, for whom work is therapy. For him, with the stress of a deadline comes euphoria, and his favorite aspect in combining different mediums to explore socio-political issues? The whole process itself – from pre-production […]

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UNFPA committed to support in the development of midwifery profession in Somalia and Somaliland

The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNPFA) has committed to continue its support to midwives and the midwifery profession in Somalia and Somaliland  to ensure better health for all. UNPFA states that there is however the need for education to provide a highly competent, qualified workforce, to regulate midwifery and also for members […]

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