More than 300 kilometers south of Zeila are the hills of Las Geel. Hidden within the hills are ancient caves. Their walls contain paintings estimated to date from 4000 to 3000 B.C.

Hailing from thousands of years ago, Laas Geel in Somaliland is Africa's best-kept secret. While africa is famous for wildlife and national parks , stretching deserts, incredible waterfalls, heart ...

LAAS GEEL, Somaliland — The cave walls here are alive with masterpieces of ocher on sandstone, our oldest paint on our oldest canvas. It is safe to say the ancient pastoralists who created this ...

In ten caves in Laas Geel, Somali for “camel watering hole”, outside Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia's self-declared Somaliland state, vivid depictions afford a peek at a pastoralist history ...

Somalia authorities have over the past week been dealing with yet another mass displacement of people as conflict raged in Las Anod following an intensified confrontation between Somaliland forces ...

Las Geel is the most compelling tourist attraction in Somaliland, topping the Department of Tourism & Architecture's list of potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

HARGEISA, Somalia - Somaliland regional military leadership insists it shall retake the city of Las Anod, and the larger Sanaag and Sool regions, which fall under the SSC-Khatumo leadership, a ...

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a time of diplomatic tensions in the Horn of Africa.

Beyond singing and dancing together, men and women walked, worked and ate together in restaurants in Hargeisa and even in the village of Las Geel where we went to see the cave paintings.