Five new schools opened by the Jubbaland state authorities in villages around the southern Somali town of Kismayo have enabled hundreds of children to begin education for the first time…
By CrisisGroup Somaliland’s hard-earned stability is at risk. November and December were supposed to bring two important elections: one to select the president, and the other to licence the three…
By Bashe Awil Omar Some time in March this year, Scott Perry, a member of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee submitted a proposal to the House of Representatives seeking…
Somaliland opposition party UCID is now calling on the country’s military not to recognize President Muse Bihi once his term in office ends in November The party chairman Faysal Ali…
By Matt Wade An oversized red shirt covers Farhan Apti’s wasted body and pencil-thin arms. But his weak cry is enough to convey the horror of severe malnutrition. The 16-month-old…
Somaliland main opposition party WADDANI has rejected the extension of the term of President Muse Bihi as announced on Saturday by the country’s House of Elders (Guurti). Waddani and UCID…
The Somaliland Senate, the Guurti has unilaterally decided to extend the term of President Muse Bihi by two years. This comes just days after the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has…
The Speakers of the two houses of the bicameral parliament of Somaliland are speaking in different voices over the election bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last…
About 70 people remain in prison after being arrested by police during the August 11 opposition protests in different regions of Somaliland. Police chief General Maxamed Saqadhi Dabagale told a…
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud now says his government will only hold the next round of talks with Somaliland once the latter sorts it’s internal politics. Speaking in an interview…