Investigative Reports

Another Fake Degree Scandal Rocks Somaliland Presidency: Director General Caught With Diploma Mill “Masters”

Repeat of 2022 Central Bank Fraud Scandal Exposes Somaliland...

AFRICOM Commander Admits Somalia Al-Shabaab Policy Failure in Final Briefing 2025

Special Report | AFRICOM Commander General Michael Langley acknowledges...

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...

Editorial

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: From A Failed Union to A Thriving Democracy

The independence of British  Somaliland (north) came into being on 26 June 1960. Five days later, Italian Somaliland (south) attained independence. Both north and south merged for irredentism agenda – to unify five different Somali regions under one ethnic umbrella. The merger of the two territories faced legal obstruction. Both sides signed no identical unifying law. Italian Somaliland never passed an act of union drafted by British Somaliland. Instead, it passed a different act named Atto di Unione, which was substantially different from British Somaliland's original marriage act. According to Rajagopal and Carrol (1992), the act of union law did not have legal validity in southern Somalia, and the subsequent but different passed Atto de Unione was legally insufficient. Therefore, the declaration of independence was legally invalid.

A rigged election in Somalia could open the door to civil war

The May 1 vote by Somalia’s caretaker lower house of parliament to scrap the illegal extension of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s presidential term and back fresh elections...

Hargeisa: a city craving for a leadership

It’s almost 20 years since the first local council elections were held in the Republic of Somaliland – a country that emerged out of...

Offshore gas finds offered major promise for Mozambique: what went wrong

Theo Neethling, University of the Free State Recent events in Palma, a town in the volatile Cabo Delgado province in the north of Mozambique, have...

Leveraging Somaliland’s Blue Economy

SLPA Quarterly Op-Ed by Deqa Aden The blue economy is one of the least exploited sectors in Somaliland contributing 0.3% to GDP despite the fact...

COVID-19 VACCINES AND CORRUPTION RISKS: PREVENTING CORRUPTION IN THE ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF VACCINES

With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe Covid-19 Vaccine Transparency matters. The global pandemic has already caused the loss of...

Analysis of the Long-Term Negative Impacts of The Active involvement of Tribal Elders in The Parliamentarians Selection Process With The Absence of Political Parties...

Somaliland had experienced sustained peace, growing Democracy, and fruitful conflict resolution among Somaliland tribes to maintain unity. Furthermore, Somaliland held free and fair presidential,...

Training government officials in Cybersecurity in Somaliland is a remarkable move

Dr Jama Musse Jama, PhD, Hargeysa Cultural Centre, @JamaMusse I attended the launch of the cybersecurity training program for 35 government officials, responsible IT departments...

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