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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,...

Somaliland Budget 2020: A cautionary note.

As usual, before I look at the budget in detail, I must say a word or two about the definition of budget. Budget is...

It’s the Government & People of Somaliland who decides their Country’s Future; NOT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY!!

By Eng. Hussein Adan Igeh (Deyr): Since the dawn of the history, the people of Somaliland has been shaped by outside forces and faced ever...

SOLTELCO: Hargeisa’s Delusional Mayor

The Mayor of Hargeisa Mr. Abdirahman M. Aideed “Soltelco” has embarked on a media blitz to explain away why Somaliland’s capital city of Hargeisa...

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...

The Chongqin Foreign and the Corruption-Polluted Contracts

By Edward John Some Chinese firms had invested mainly in Africa’s ongoing development but Choqqin Foreign (International) Construction Corporation (CICO), a state-owned firm exploited...

Somaliland Security: How a brazen religious zealots took over the Burao city government

Lewis Center, Ohio—It’s a very rare in a male dominated and poverty stricken Somaliland for women to move head and run a business. But,...

They Wish to See a Democracy in Decline

Less than a month from the day it was established, a 12-member loosely formed coalition of so-called independent civil society organizations, published a briefing entitled: “THE CHALLENGES...

How Somalia’s Pen is Mightier Than Somaliland’s Sword

It’s been nearly three decades since the Republic of Somaliland re-asserted its independence by declaring the end of its unratified fusion (not union)...

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