Somaliland has opened a diplomatic liaison office in Nairobi with the quiet blessing of President William Ruto – despite a ...

National day in Somaliland means joy, pomp and machines of war. On May 18th the president and assembled dignitaries watched, from the grandstand, the annual parade in the capital, Hargeisa ...

A woman and child relax next to a mural of Somaliland’s flag, in Hargeisa, Somaliland, Feb. 9, 2022 (AP photo by Brian Inganga). Since early February, Somaliland, a small self-declared republic ...

Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland dismissed a plan by Mogadishu to hand the US control of two ports on the Gulf of Aden as “desperate and misguided.” The comments by Somaliland’s ...

The pails will be loaded into the back of an estate car and reach Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, with the setting sun. Mr Duale watches over his reading glasses, looking every inch the ...

Somaliland has been a self-governing region of Somalia for more than three decades, but its claim of independence is not recognized by Mogadishu or any foreign government. While this has limited ...

HARGEISA (Reuters) -- The self-declared Somaliland Republic, which has yet to gain international recognition, has signed agreements with neighboring Ethiopia to boost trade and communications ...

Even before the election returns were complete, unruly mobs began to surge through the streets of Djibouti, the sun-bleached and impoverished capital of French Somaliland. Then they heard the news ...

HARGEISA, Somaliland, June 5 (Reuters) - Wrapped in the tricolour flag of her homeland, 21-year old captain Hafsa Omer bounces the basketball between her legs, dribbles, lays it up off the ...

Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, to gain access to the Red Sea in exchange for a stake in its flagship carrier Ethiopian Airlines ...

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, the region's former opposition leader who was elected in the November vote, became the sixth president of Somaliland, taking over from Muse Bihi Abdi in an ...