Strategic Thinking on East Africa

An open letter to UK Prime Minister, His Excellency Mr. David Cameroon Requesting the British Government of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Take the Credit of Re-affirming the UN Membership of the Republic of Somaliland Dear Mr. Prime Minister, With all due respect, Sir, we request the Government of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, which […]

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From Planet Biometrics Somaliland’s electoral commission has begun trials of an iris-based voter registration system in preparation for a national election system. The chairman of the National Election Commission confirmed the launch to reporters last week, adding that the trials will concentrate on Hargeisa and Toghdeer regions. Last year, election specialist Roy Dalle Vedove approached […]

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From The Guardian by Nadifa Mohamed Be it women wearing trousers or men with earrings, there is growing antagonism from those who want to maintain a ‘pure’ culture Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, is transformed between June and September every year as Somalilanders arrive from Europe, north America, the Gulf and the rest of Africa. […]

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  Below is an article by All Africa Bar Seed is the only female member in Somaliland’s 82-person Parliament, but activists hope upcoming national elections may end her isolation. Gender equality advocates in the self-declared nation are currently renewing a push for a quota for women in government that has been over a decade in the […]

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From DevEx By Anna Patricia Valerie Men waiting in a queue hold up their voter’s identification cards during the 2010 presidential election in Somaliland. A self-declared state since 1991, it owes its stability largely to a peace process that was led and funded locally. Photo by: Teresa Krug / CC BY-NC The dramatically divergent paths […]

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From The Somaliland Sun By: Yusuf M Hasan HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – I hereby request the Constitutional court to provide legal interpretations related to articles 3&4 as pertains the inter-parties agreement and section B Article 5 of the Guurti decision both of which proposed different dates for holding presidential and parliamentary elections Thus read a letter […]

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The European Union has closed down its office in Hargeisa, the capital of Somali self-declared state of Somaliland. The union also ordered its staff out from the unrecognized break away Northern republic of Somalia region. It is not immediately clear what precipitated the move but according to self-declared state foreign minister Mohamed Yunis Bihi, financial […]

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JAMAL OSMANReporter Jamal Osman reports on the boom in Somaliland attracting migrants seeking jobs and opportunities from Yemen, Ethiopia - and London. Faisal Kiber used to be an estate agent in Wembley, now he is a camel herder: “Over there, I worried about the letters, council tax, electricity bills, water bills. [In London] you worry […]

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Cardiff council approved a motion to endorse recognition of Somaliland during a meeting at City Hall, following in the footsteps of Sheffield council By Ruth Mosalski Cardiff has become the second local authority in the UK to recognize the Republic of Somaliland. The council approved a motion to endorse recognition of Somaliland during a meeting […]

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Somalilandsun - A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa shows Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi lobbying for a ‘semi-recognition’ status for Somaliland, a breakaway northern territory of Somalia. In a January 30, 2009 meeting with Assistant Secretary Phil Carter, the Ethiopia Premier was quoted as saying that: he(Meles) has already broached the notion of […]

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