Opinion

Direct election or ‘enhanced indirect’ election for Somalia? Analysis of the relevant regulations

JUN 26, 2020

On 7th June, the joint 17-member parliamentary committee tasked with the preparation of election regulations – which requires only parliamentary app...

Somaliland’s sacrosanct borders and territorial integrity

JUN 25, 2020

Among other things, leaders of Somaliland base their claim for statehood that Somaliland was once British protectorate and gained its independence on ...

Our Land is not Yours to Appease Somalidiid

JUN 24, 2020

Appeasement has become a dirty word in the lexicon of the English language and all because of its historical connotations. On 30 September 1938, a for...

Somalia Must Save Itself from Qatar

JUN 23, 2020

Somalis, both at home and abroad, were optimistic when Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was elected Somalia’s president in February 2017. Diplomats and the...

The legal wrangling over the Act of Union between the two States of Somaliland and Somalia in 1960.

JUN 23, 2020

The constitutionality of the Act was not entirely clear, as no formal Act of Union had been signed in time....

The Djibouti Conference and its ramifications for Somali Unity

JUN 22, 2020

Somaliland came to the negotiating table with an attitude that smacks of what Kennedy was talking about in a speech that addressed the Berlin Crisis....

Black Lives Matter - Somaliland Version

JUN 21, 2020

After the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, the world witnessed the worst riots ever. The protesters cry "Black Lives Matter...