Mecca(SD)-The president of the Republic of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi was for the first seen posing with Somalia’s cabinet ministers while at the Hajj pilgrimage. The governments of Somaliland and Somalia have been exchanging verbal […]
Mogadishu(SD)-The President of the Federal government of Somalia had last week announced that he voluntarily renounced his US citizenship. Some speculated that this was (as it was intended) an act of patriotism, while […]
I spent last week at arguably the most well-organised and longest running book festival in East Africa, the Hargeysa International Book Fair. It was my first time to visit Somaliland despite being […]
Mogadishu(SD)-The President of the Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has renounced his naturalized US citizenship today. “This work has been ongoing for a long time and has been involved by both the legal and ethical […]
AIROBI — A new report says Kenya’s military has done a brisk business in sugar and charcoal in Kismayo, Somalia, since pushing al-Shabab from the southern port city in 2012, but the […]
Hargeisa(SD)-The director of the Somaliland National Service, Mohamed Hussein (Mu’addin), has fired four young men who exposed an alleged nepotism to the media, accusing them of disobeying the rules and regulations of the national […]
Toronto(SD)-A Somali Freedom Party announcement event was held in Toronto, Canada. Various people, including officials from the province of Ontario and Toronto-based organizations, participated in the event. The party’s chairman, Ahmed Omar […]
Hargeisa(SD)-President Muse Bihi is said to have started talks with a Colonel who had fled his administration to areas of Puntland controlled regions. Negotiations are on going in a positive way between members of the Colonel […]
When Somalia’s largely-appointed parliament and senate elected Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, or Farmajo as he is better known, president, there was optimism in the West. Farmajo was young, he was a former prime […]
About Somaliland Somaliland is an unrecognized country in the Horn of Africa. No other country has recognized its unilateral declaration of independence, and therefore consider Somaliland to be part of Somalia. Given […]
By the end of this August, clan elders from Somalia’s Jubaland region will select a new assembly whose parliamentarians will vote for a regional president. It is accepted as a virtual certainty […]
The National Electoral Bill is currently under parliamentary review. Once approved, the law will be the foundation for one-person-one-vote (OPOV) national elections scheduled to take place in Somalia in late 2020 and […]
Mogadishu July 25,2019(SD)-Sources close to the investigation of yesterday’s blast at Mogadishu’s local government center reveal that a women carried out the suicide attack. The source claimed the woman suicide attacker who died was named […]
Hargeisa July 24,2019(SD)-EU envoy Nicolás Berlanga Martinez, is liaising with President Bihi and the leaders of the opposition Parties Wadani and UCID, to bring together the three opposing views on elections. EU envoy […]
The beginning of this month saw the Transitional Federal “Government” of Somalia, residing in a highly fortified Villa Somalia, cut non-existent diplomatic ties with Guinea Conakry because the latter accorded what looks […]
Mogadishu July 21,2019(SDN)-The Islamic insurgent group of ISIS has published a new image of their Leader of Somalia and its Fighters. It is not known when and where he was filmed, Abdiqadir Muumin, who was […]
This short article sheds more light on Somaliland’s gold potential and the greater possibility of becoming one of the last mining destinations in East Africa. Apart from Somaliland’s interesting geology- which offers […]
Exxon and Shell could return to Somalia ahead of an oil bid round that the East African country plans to hold later in 2019, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a statement from […]
Kenya is exploring diplomatic relations with Somaliland after dispatching an emissary to set up a mission in the capital city of Hargeisa. Kenya will join Ethiopia and Djibouti as some of the […]
Mogadishu July 18, 20199SD)-The Horn of Africa newspaper confirms that the Somali government suspects an Arab country took a crucial part in President Muse Bihi Abdi’s visit to Guinea this month and the warm welcome he […]
