Tag: Somaliland

The Horn of Africa ushered in the new year with news of a deal that would ensure that diplomatic relations in the region got...

With a presidential election delayed for months and deadly clashes between security forces and clan militias, Somaliland’s reputation for stability lies in ruins. Violence...

The obstacles to actual recognition still seem insurmountable – unless Somalia relents and regional bodies give their blessing. Somaliland is increasing its push to win...

Two opposition parties in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region won a majority of seats in the region's first parliamentary election in 16 years, the National...

Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative...

The recent accord struck between Taiwan and Somaliland – two countries that few others recognise – seems to have rattled China and Somalia more...

On 1 June, Somaliland’s President Muse Bihi Abdi officially inaugurated the first 12 km of Berbera Corridor, a trade and transport route that connects...

Tensions between Somaliland and Puntland have increased over the past two years, with risks of further instability and militarisation if not adequately addressed. The...

The United Arab Emirates no longer plans to establish a military airport in Somaliland and the facility currently being built will become a civilian...

Fighting between clans in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region killed more than 50 a witness at the scene and an official in neighbouring...

Police in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region arrested more than 40 protesters and two journalists at a demonstration in a town whose ownership...

Dozens of people were killed in clashes between troops of breakaway Somaliland and its semi-autonomous Puntland region, medical workers and military officials...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will train Somaliland security forces as part of a deal to establish a military base in the...

A court in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland sentenced a reporter to two years in jail for what it said was endangering...

The land along the road into Berbera is barren and empty. Somaliland's small, rusty Gulf of Aden port which for centuries made...

Prolonged drought in Somaliland has killed between 65 and 80% of the semi-autonomous region's livestock, creating conditions that are "the worst time...

Somaliland's parliament has approved the establishment of a naval base by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the port town of Berbera. The...

This week 22 soldiers from the Somaliland Coast Guard boarded a small vessel in the culmination of their maritime training executed by...

On June 25th a series of mentoring and practical exercises with particular focus on Search and Rescue (SAR), organized by EUCAP Nestor...

The European Union maritime capacity building mission EUCAP Nestor has completed a two month long training course for Somaliland Coast Guard personnel. The...

On March 12, the EUCAP Nestor field office in Hargeisa, Somaliland, was officially opened by the Head of Mission Etienne de Poncins,...

The breakaway territory of Somaliland cannot access foreign aid because it has not yet been recognized internationally as a state, and that...

The break-away territory of Somaliland is open for hydrocarbon business and has a message for investors worried by its rough neighborhood: this...

Long-delayed presidential elections took place in Somaliland, a peaceful breakaway enclave of Somalia that is seeking international recognition as a sovereign state. The...

President Dahir Rayale Kahin has rejected a French government request to exchange prisoners after his return from Paris, Somalilandpress reports. The president issued...

The United States Department said that Egypt has put forward new ideas on the international working group for combating piracy in the...

A business delegation from the People's Republic of China has arrived in Hargeisa for investment in the country for ten-day trip. The Chinese...

President Dahir Rayale Kahin has flown out off the country yesterday to the Djibouti Republic for a surprise visit to the Red...

A high-level British and French diplomatic officials have arrived in Hargeisa, for consultations over the holding of forthcoming general elections in the...

Officials in Somalia's self-declared independent state of Somaliland are concerned over a rise in human trafficking in the region. Children are mainly...

A court in Berbera sentenced eight pirates to 15 years jail sentence each. The Somaliland coastguards arrested the suspects in January after...

Somaliland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed a high-powered Russian business delegation that is in Somaliland to explore investment opportunities and strengthen relations. The...

A 14-member delegation from the People's Republic of China are on official visit to the Republic of Somaliland to study the economic...

Eleven pirates have been sentenced to 15 years in jail each in the northern Somalia breakaway region of Somaliland, according to prosecutors. They...

The government of Israel is ready to restore the de jure recognition it had offered to Somaliland in 1960 as it eyes...

A group consisting of twenty-five scholars, diplomats, lawyers, military officers, shipping industry officials, and other experts on maritime piracy and Somalia from...