Investigative Reports

Security Reform vs. Security Risk: Weighing the Implications of Somaliland’s Military Biometric System

Key Points Somaliland's biometric registration of security personnel aims to...

The Diplomacy of Gullibility: How Somaliland’s Foreign Ministry Keeps Falling for International Fraudsters

In what has become a familiar scene in Somaliland's...

Ex-US Ambassador to Somalia Lobbies for Hormuud’s Access to American Banking System

Questions mount as André partners with Somali MP who...

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BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...

Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...

Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

Minister Wu took questions from pool of international media reporters in Taipei on October 12th, 2022. The session was moderated by Catherine Y.M Hsu,...

False Advertising – SOMCABLE Chairman Lies About his Philanthropic Activities in Somaliland

On October 29, 2019 Mr. Mohamed Said Guedi, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Somaliland, the owner of somcable, MSG and other businesses was...

Power Boost – Somaliland President Inaugurates a 20 Million Dollar Solar Power Plant by Sompower

The President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi inaugurated a new solar power plant by Sompower, the largest electricity producer and...

False Advertising – Did Dahabshiil Group Bring SAMSUNG to Somaliland or Open an Electronics Store?

On October 22nd 2019, the Vice President of Somaliland HE Abdirahman Abdallahi Ismail Saylici inaugurated a flagship SAMSUNG store in Hargeisa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=DPx7tk5LY8s Also in attendance at...

Multiple Fatalities in a Head-on Collision East of Berbera

A fatal car accident involving a people carrier and a truck transporting the popular narcotic of Khat have claimed 15 lives and wounded another...

Somaliland fulfilled many of the basic requirements to attract foreign direct investment and winning investor confidence.

Stability, strategic location, government pro-Investments policies are good Ingredients to attract foreign investors. Horn of African Country (Somaliland, separated from the Former Somali Republic after the collapse...

GEOSOL: How Mayor SOLTELCO and his Friends Plan to Make Millions in Unlawful Taxes from Hargeisa Property Owners.

On March 26th, 2018 President of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi unveiled a program by Hargeisa Municipality to modernize and manage property and land...

Murky Refinery – How Realistic is the Proposed Oil Refinery in Berbera, Somaliland?

On April 10, 2019 the Vice President of the Republic of Somaliland Mr. Abdirahman Saylici and a delegation of cabinet ministers and other high-ranking...

Salt in Our Eyes – How The Minister of Investment conceded 150 km2 of Berbera Beach to a Shell Company

In October 2018, Somaliland's Ministry of Investment and Salternas signed an agreement to develop the world's largest solar salt production facility in Somaliland. This...

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