Vol 64 No 3 | SOMALIASOMALILAND Clashes damage recognition campaign 2nd February 2023 The security force shootings in Las Anod have highlighted the grievances of Somaliland residents who don't want independence for the statelet The security force shootings in Las Anod at the turn of the year are having major repercussions in the region, including on the disputed Sool region and on Hargeisa's long-running ...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 2 | SOMALIASOMALILAND Washington's K-Street lobbyists take on Hargeisa 17th January 2023 Worried by Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi's bid to get the US to recognise his government as independent from Somalia, some clan leaders have hired advisors The political and diplomatic battle between the federal government of Somalia and Somaliland has been given an unusual twist. Washington lobbyists, Von Batten-Montague-York, led by... READ FOR FREE
Vol 63 No 23 | SOMALIASOMALILAND Closing down the opposition 17th November 2022 President Muse Bihi Abdi looks to be succeeding in his campaign to neutralise the opposition and consolidate the extension of his own presidential term by two years, regardless of ...
Vol 63 No 8 | SOMALIASOMALILAND Washington eyes a base at Berbera 12th April 2022 Intensifying competition between the US, Russia, China and the Gulf states boosts the strategic importance of Somaliland's port Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi's trip to Washington DC last month may not have resulted in an exchange of ambassadors, but it looks as though the statelet will achieve de fact...
Vol 59 No 5 | SOMALILAND Any port in a storm 9th March 2018 Both the structure and the timing of the deal between the United Arab Emirates' DP World and the Somaliland port of Berbera on 1 March raise big questions. The deal gives DP World ...
Vol 56 No 11 | SOMALIASOMALILAND Polls poser for politicians 29th May 2015 A delay to the elections is damaging Somaliland’s democratic credibility as Mogadishu’s electoral timetable takes a knock Somaliland's reputation for dependability and as the most democratic entity in the Horn of Africa has been on the slide since Parliament decided this month not to go ahead with Jun...
Vol 54 No 3 | SOMALILAND The recognition blues 1st February 2013 Elections make Somaliland more democratic but don’t make international recognition more likely or end a simmering row with Garowe When the United States officially recognised the new government of Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on 20 January, there was dancing in the streets of Mogadishu but there ...
Vol 54 No 3 | SOMALILAND The Puntland problem 1st February 2013 In March 2013 Puntland, the semi-autonomous region in the north-east of Somalia, will hold its first local elections using the Somaliland model (see Feature, The recognition blues)...
Vol 53 No 10 | SOMALILAND Unrecognisable 11th May 2012 The Hong Kong oil company PetroTrans now looks unlikely to invest in the key port of Berbera after negotiators pressed too hard for formal recognition of Somaliland, we hear.
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | ETHIOPIACHINASOMALILAND To Berbera and beyond 15th September 2011 A Chinese company is backing infrastructure projects to develop secessionist Somaliland and give Ethiopia greater access to the sea Port and energy deals signed between a private Chinese company and the breakaway government of Somaliland should provide the region with the most important boost it has ever receiv...
