Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi on Thursday held a closed door meeting in the capital Hargeisa with opposition chiefs in what observers believe was to discuss about the upcoming presidential elections. In the meeting were the Presidential candidate of the Wadani Party, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro, the Chairman of the…
Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi now admits meeting members of the business community involved in unlocking the impasse between the government and the opposition parties. However the president did not divulge any information from their meeting nor did he commit to support the proposal by the business people to have…
Somaliland opposition parties have announced that the talks between parties and government, which were aimed at resolving the dispute in the elections, have collapsed. At a press conference in Hargeisa on Tuesday, UCID chairman Faisal Ali Warabe and Waddani chairman Hirsi Ali Haji Hassan said President Musse Bihi Abdi had…
There was another stalemate a traditional leaders mediating the electoral dispute between President Muse Bihi Abdi and the official national opposition parties met in Hargeisa on Wednesday. While the opposition maintain that the president must commit to holding the presidential elections in November, the president has vehemently refused to give…
In what could signal hope to avert the simmering political tension in Somaliland, leaders of the three parties met on Wednesday morning at the Presidential palace and agreed to resume negations to solve their dispute. This came after a mediating committee facilitated today’s face-to-face meeting. The speaker of the Guurti…
As political tensions in Somaliland continued to escalate over the delayed presidential elections process, President Muse Bihi has stated that the Political Associations registrations will be held ahead of the presidential elections in November 2022 throwing more confusion into the process. This comes just a day after the main opposition…
Amid escalating pressure to set the roadmap for the Presidential elections, Somaliland leader Musa Bihi on Monday in Hargeisa met leaders of the opposition to in a bid to forestall the growing political tension in the country. According to sources, the meeting was initiated by the European Union though the…
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