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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,...

A Critique of Sheikh Mustafe’s False Equivalency: From Defending Siad Barre (Afweyne) to Opposing Somaliland Recognition

An Open Response by Hassan Dahir (Weedhsame) At the outset, two points: First, Sheikh Mustafe Haji Ismail is entitled to his views on Israel's recognition...

Breaking the Cycle of Foreign Assistance Enabling Corruption

U.S. Department of StateAmbassador Michael C. GonzalesSenior Foreign Service Officer & U.S. Ambassador to ZambiaJanuary 21, 2026 Moral Hazard - A situation where one party assumes...

State Recognition Is Not a Group Order: The Somaliland Case

I recently watched someone on TikTok argue that Israel's recognition can only be explained through realism. That observation misses an important point: Somaliland's case...

The State the World Pretends Not to See

By Shay Gal From afar, it is easy to lecture Somaliland about patience and realism. Distance makes such advice costless. What is harder is to...

From Extermination to Erasure: Somalia’s Digital Rebranding of the Isaaq Genocide

Dr Fundji Benedict-VL25/01/10(lvs-foundation.org) Genocide denial in the Horn of Africa is no longer confined to the familiar repertoire of silence, euphemism, and diplomatic evasion. It...

Somaliland Is a Recognized Country. It is Time to Act Like One.

Israel's recognition of Somaliland changes everything. Now comes the hard part: expelling hostile diplomats, regulating banks, and ending corruption.

Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland: Why now and what next?

By Mohamed Abdilahi Duale A line has been crossed, and there is no going back. On 26 December, Israel became the first country to recognize...

RECOGNITION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND IS FAIT ACCOMPLI.

From Three Decades of Non-Recognition to a Historic Breakthrough. After 34 years of state-building and institutional and human capital development, Somaliland has remained without international...

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