Investigative Reports

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...

Major Corruption Allegations Rock Somaliland Finance Ministry’s Recruitment for World Bank’s Public Resource Management Project

According to documents examined by Somaliland Chronicle, serious allegations...

Elections

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,...

Start of Voter Registration Signals End of Political Stalemate to Elections in Somaliland

Under the Somaliland constitution, the political parties are allowed to serve a maximum of 10 years in office, and the tenure of the current...

Somaliland Opposition Parties Declare Government’s Executive Branch as Illegal

In a press conference, the leaders of Somaliland's two opposition parties Waddani and UCID stated that they no longer recognize the government led by...

Somaliland Opposition Parties Reject The Guurti’s Term Extension for President Bihi

The Chairmen of the opposition parties of Waddani and UCID, in a speech, rejected Guurti’s decision to extend President Bihi’s term by two years...

Somaliland Guurti Extends President Bihi’s Term by two years

In a close session, the Somaliland Guurti led by Chairman Suleiman Mohamoud Adan has voted to extend President Muse Bihi Abdi's presidential term by...

National Election Commission Announced Nine-Month Delay of Presidential Elections

In their first press statement since sworn in, the new National Election Commission has announced that the constitutionally mandated presidential elections scheduled for November...

Somaliland Parliament Approves Four Out of Seven Proposed Election Commissioners

Somaliland Parliament voted today to approve four out of seven new commissioners slated to replace the recently dissolved Election Commissioners. Three proposed Election Commissioners...

President Bihi Submits New List of Election Commissioners to Parliament for Approval

Following the resignation and effective disbandment of the last National Election Commissioners, the President of the Republic of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi has submitted...

Discord in Somaliland Election Commission Deepens, Auditor General Launches Investigation

According to members of Somaliland's Election Commission who spoke on background to Somaliland Chronicle, the conflict among the commissioners that arose from the replacement...

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