Tag: Somaliland

Business News Somaliland 4 Min Read

Somaliland launches Online business registration and licensing services

Somaliland, with support from International Finance Cooperation (IFC), has launched an online one–stop–shop business registration and licensing system (BRLS)to speed, simplify, and reduce costs for businesses and entrepreneurs. The new system, found at www.brls.govsomliland.org, is part of Somaliland’s wider strategy to strengthen its private sector and encourage economic growth and job…

Stress Test for Somaliland’s Democracy

Differences over plans to reshuffle Somaliland’s licensed political parties and the sequencing of elections have cast doubts over the electoral calendar since December 2021. In light of the legal and technical timelines, it is now an “open secret” that Muse Bihi’s elected term would expire before presidential elections can be…

Commentary/Opinion News Politics Somaliland 11 Min Read

The African Union Should Resolve Somaliland’s Status – Analysis

By Stephen M. Schwartz Joshua Meservey, senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, advocated in a recent policy paper that the United States recognize Somaliland as an independent state. This serious proposal is overdue for consideration. Meservey recounts that Somaliland ended its voluntary union with Somalia in May 1991 and has been…

News Politics Somaliland 7 Min Read

Jendayi Frazer: Bush administration should have granted Somaliland recognition

Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs of the United States Jendayi Frazer now says she feels the George Bush administration should have recognized Somaliland two decades ago. In an interview with Michelle Gavin in the Council on Foreign Relations blogpost about the evolution of U.S. policy toward Somaliland,…

health Hon of Africa News Somalia Somaliland 5 Min Read

Severe drought in Somalia and Somaliland is worsening multiple health crises

Somalia and Somaliland are facing one of the worst droughts in decades after four consecutive poor rainy seasons. Failing crops and rising food prices, combined with ongoing insecurity and a massive invasion of locusts that swept across the Horn of Africa, have forced hundreds of thousands of people to move…

International Relations News Somaliland 16 Min Read

Somaliland legally doesn’t exist, but Taiwan has spied an opportunity to make its mark

"It's a secret," smiles Allen C Lou, when asked how many Taiwanese personnel are based in Hargeisa, capital of the unrecognised state of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa. Taiwan is committed to recognising the de facto state and Lou is Taipei's chief diplomat. But he is coy about just how…

EU delegates in Hargeisa to help break presidential elections deadlock

The political impasse in Somaliland created by the government unwilling to commit to holding the Presidential elections in the stipulated constitutional date of November, the international community is now showing its concern. On Wednesday, a delegation from the European Union and Sweden paid a visit to Somaliland to facilitate a…

International Relations News 3 Min Read

US Senate authorizes direct cooperation with Somaliland

The United States Senate has unanimously approved the implementation of the Somaliland-US Cooperation Act, which was previously approved by the House of Representatives. During a session at the US Capitol Hill, members of the Senate approved the Somaliland-US Cooperation Act. The 100-member US Senate approved the Somaliland Cooperation Act, a…

Taiwan, Somaliland sign deal on energy and mineral resource exploration and drilling

Taiwan and Somaliland signed an agreement on energy and mineral resources cooperation Monday that Taiwan's office in Somaliland said provides a legal foundation for joint resource exploration and drilling activities and other related initiatives. The agreement was signed by Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-hua in Taipei and Somaliland Energy and…

Commentary/Opinion News 9 Min Read

Somalilanders’ quest for independence isn’t ‘Neocolonial’ Plot, it’s Self-Determination

By Joshua Meservey Salon.com ran a piece recently warning that the American right is “waging a stealth, neocolonial assault on Somalia.” The supposed “assault” is a growing campaign within the U.S. and elsewhere to recognize Somaliland’s independence from Somalia. The author, Mohamoud Gaildon, included as evidence a report that I wrote back in October.…