As member of the Swedish parliament, I am delighted to send best wishes to the people of Somaliland as you celebrate your 22nd independence day this May 18. Over the past years, progress has been made toward stability and good governance. Free and fair elections have been held. Since 2000, five national elections were held, [...]

(When unity is our strength, then diversity is our beauty-Yusuf Deyr)   Dear my country-mates, I enthusiastically congratulate all Somalilanders on Independence Day of the Republic of Somaliland. This is the most memorable and glorious date in the history of our nation, which symbolises our people’s heroism, their courage and selflessness displayed in fighting against [...]

Educators play a great role when it comes to developing a society that live in a particular country. In our country Somaliland, many our nomadic agro-pastoralist people are becoming more and more urbanized and many farmers are selling their land to move to the cities.  Being urbanization require input knowledge to educate the people to [...]

Having officially concluded its transitional period, Somalia is set to embark on another. Somalia and the international community face a critical test as the country seeks to exert greater control over policy development and implementation, in light of recent progress and its support for the ‘New Deal’ initiative. The requisite shift in the nature of [...]

I read with disappointment  a report published in Qarannews a month ago about the results of the distribution of the Business Fund among the Somaliland businesses (small grant awards rd 1). Incidentally I received an invitation today to  attend an event in London on May 9 for an outreach SBF Round 2 Events during which SBF will be arranging information sessions for [...]

The International Somalia Conference final communique.   The Somalia Conference took place at Lancaster House on 7 May 2013, co-hosted by the UK and Somalia, and attended by fifty-four friends and partners of Somalia. We met at a pivotal moment for Somalia. Last year Somalia’s eight-year transition ended and Somalia chose a new, more legitimate Parliament, President [...]

Somaliland government has had preliminary talks with Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Petroleum, and even signed a memorandum of understanding with International Petroleum Investment Company, another Abu Dhabi investor. No estimates for oil and gas reserves exist, but Somaliland is proximate to countries that are producing or are gearing up to do so. Nearby South Sudan is [...]

Somaliland needs badly agricultural policy encouraging technology transfer to increase local crop productions both for small scale farmers and large scale farmers in the country. It is not an easy task; it requires endeavors regarding formulation of policies on food self-sufficiency, by boosting domestic production of major food staples with technology transfer and mobilizations of [...]

The chief constable of Norfolk Constabulary has been named the deputy director general of the National Crime Agency (NCA).   Philip Gormley will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the crime-fighting agency which will spearhead the fight against serious and organised crime.   The law underpinning the NCA received Royal Assent on 25 [...]

Millions more people will be protected against disease by improvements to the UK’s world class immunisation schedule, announced today, including three vaccination programmes to protect against flu, shingles and diarrhoea. All children aged two – around 650,000 in total – will be offered a nasal flu vaccine from September 2013 as part of a comprehensive [...]