Opinion

BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

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Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...
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Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

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At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...
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Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

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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,...
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Editorial

THE LEGAL AND COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS DISTINGUISHING SOMALILAND FROM SOMALIA

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A Comprehensive Academic Analysis with Strengthened Legal Argumentation and Annexes Author: Edna Adan IsmailFormer Foreign Minister of Somaliland (2003–2006)Location: Hargeisa, Republic of SomalilandDate: 22 April...
Geopolitics

Iran Pressures. Turkey Sustains. Somaliland Exposes.

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by Shay Gal The war with Iran did not begin in the Gulf. It exposed the system. Hormuz is not the story. It is the...
Opinion

Decline and Political Transformation of the Somaliland House of Elders (Guurti).

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The Somaliland House of Elders (Guurti) decline stems from its transition from a grassroots peace building body to a stagnant legislative relic. Originally hailed for...
Opinion

Why the Indo-Pacific Must Embrace, Not Just Follow, Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland

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By Hiroko Kasai On December 26, 2025, the State of Israel made a decision that many in the West and East Asia had whispered about...
Opinion

When Sunni Muslims Pray for Israel

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By Michael Freund In an era when social media often amplifies hatred and outrage, something remarkable happened recently on X (formerly Twitter). It began with a...
Opinion

The Region Denies Somaliland. The Region Relies on It.

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by Shay Gal On 26 December 2025, Israel did what every capital at the Red Sea’s southern gate had modelled privately and dismissed publicly: it...
Diplomacy

The Free World Needs Taiwan

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Why Solidarity Will Protect Prosperity Lin Chia-lung, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan (Republic of China) February 4, 2026 Sitting in the shadow of authoritarian China, Taiwan has...
Opinion

A Jewish Case for Recognizing Somaliland 

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gidion Sa'ar in the Republic of Somaliland with President Abdirahman Abdillahi "Irro".
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