Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 after the collapse of Somali dictator Siad Barre’s regime and a subsequent civil war. Despite lacking global recognition, Somaliland has ...

The opposition leader of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has won the territory’s ...

The recent presidential elections in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland have concluded with a landslide victory for ...

The recent presidential elections in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland have concluded with a landslide victory for Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, commonly known as Irro. He competed against the ...

But Hargeisa is reportedly not happy with the results of the vote. Abdullahi’s political career dates back to the Siad Barre ...

In a conflict leading up to the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, tens of thousands of people were killed in Somaliland and its main city of Hargeisa was completely flattened in aerial ...

In his memoir, Sandi Sijake writes about the beginnings of uMkhonto weSizwe and the ANC’s efforts to train new recruits in ...

Somalia has never had a nationwide electoral system. Since General Siad Barre took power in 1969, clan affiliations have ...

Somalia’s path to democracy has been long and fraught with setbacks, yet moments of hope have periodically emerged.

If held as planned, three other regional states in Somalia, whose mandates have ended and are also due for direct elections, ...