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Healthcare, Education Gains As Somaliland Marks 20th Anniversary
The self-declared republic of Somaliland has made key improvements in sectors such as health, education and infrastructure in the past two decades, its leaders say, despite its lack of international recognition.
Clashes Displace More Than 3,000 People From Settlements in Somaliland
More than 3,000 people have been displaced from settlements in Somaliland’s eastern region of Toghdeer following a five-hour-long battle on 7 February between the Somaliland National Army and clans loyal to the Sool, Sanag and Cayn (SSC) milita...
Rising Number of Child Landmine Victims in Somaliland
Somalia’s self-declared independent region of Somaliland has experienced an increase in landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) explosions in the recent past, with officials calling for mine awareness education in schools, as children have been the...
Stability in Somaliland Boosts Education Prospects
Somalis from south-central Somalia and those in the diaspora have taken advantage of the stable environment in the self-declared republic of Somaliland to put their children through school there, boosting enrollment in private and public education institutions...
United States Government Praises Somaliland for Conducting ‘free And Fair’ Elections
With international observers describing last week’s presidential elections in Somaliland as “free and fair”, the United States government has praised the break away Somali region for conducting real democracy.
Somaliland Votes for New President
People in the break away north-western Somali region of Somaliland have voted in the presidential elections amid tightened security throughout all regions in the breakaway region. According to a communiqué from the electoral commission, more than 1 million...
SOMALIA: Somaliland Needs Own Plan for Climate Change
The human and environmental disruption wreaked by drought in Somaliland, where more than 60 percent of people raise livestock for a living, means the self-declared, but barely recognized, independent state should draw up its own plan for climate change...
SOMALIA: HIV Education Goes to School
A new program is targeting about 800 primary and junior high school students in northwestern Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland with HIV/AIDS messages for the first time. Read more of the story here at the IRIN news service: SOMALIA:...
