We, the undersigned regional and international partners* of Somaliland, recall the significant agreement between political parties in July 2019 which recognised the “critical importance of holding the long due Parliamentary and Local Council Elections” and “agreed to hold the elections as soon as they will be politically and technically possible”. We are concerned that events

Photo/Somali Times Hargeisa, Nine foreign nationals from the United Arab Emirates has been arrested and detained in Hargeisa this morning. The Somaliland police arrested the mens who were trying to leave the airport on their way to the UAE and were arrested at Hargeisa airport. The UAE foreign nationals are accused of illegally hunting wildlife

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has appoints Mr. Suleiman Mohamed Mohamud to the position of Attorney General and sacked former Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir. The nomination came on the recommendation of Chief Justice Bashe Yusuf Ahmed, the need to accelerate judicial reforms and ensure a

Photo/Somali Times Hargeisa, The chairman of the Somaliland Supreme Court, Justice Adan Haji Ali Ahmed, has sworn into the presidency of newly elected National Electoral Commission in the presence of President Muse Bihi. The new members of the National Electoral Commission, just recently approved by the Somaliland House of Representatives, have been sworn under the

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his Prime Minister Hassan Khaire Somalia’s President Mohamed Farmajo and his Prime Minister Hassan Khaire spent most of their adult lives abroad; the former as a diplomat who later attained American citizenship (which he claims to be renouncing) and the latter as a refugee in Norway who became an

Photo/Somali Times The president of the Jubaland state, Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe, and a delegation led by the president departed the capital, Nairobi. Ahmed Madobe and his delegation were received at the airport by Kenyan officials Cabinet ministers, military officials and other members of  kenyan. Ahmed Madobe will meet Kenyan officials is said to be

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, More reports come from a car bomb near the Zoobe in Mogadishu, which was heard neighborhood in Banadir region. Security forces in Mogadishu Saturday arrested a man identified by members of the public for detonating a car bomb that injured a passerby. According to sources at the scene, the man was spotted

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Somalia. November 21, 2019 With Somalia scheduled to hold “one-person, one-vote” elections next year, leaders must act now to break the “stalemate” between the central government

Mogadishu, Almaas Elman the sister of the renowned human rights activist Ilwad Elman was Wednesday afternoon shot dead in the Halane compound in Mogadishu. The circumstances under which the Almaas was killed remained unclear, but sources said a bullet ripped through a vehicle she was. Sources said . Reports said Almaas Elman was pregnant at

Photo/Somali Times Police in Hargeisa have opened fire on the chairman of the party and some of the party’s leaders. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro who spoke to the Somali Times said that he and his party members were shot on their way to the party headquarters. Speaking to Abdirahman Irro, he stated that this morning