Somaliland

Edna Adan Ismail, 85, from Somaliland, won the 2023 Templeton Prize on Tuesday – the first African woman to win the prestigious award, Anadolu News Agency reports. The nurse,...

At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional...

Somalia's breakaway region, Somaliland, on Tuesday banned the BBC from operating in its territory, citing the British public broadcaster's refusal to recognise the territory as a democratic republic, Anadolu...

China cannot dictate who Somaliland can have relations with as it is a sovereign nation and "born free", the foreign minister of the breakaway Somali region said today during...

The two starving cheetah cubs squeak and tug at their string leashes in the white dust of Somaliland, as a government vet pushes needles through the fluffy fur to...

Police in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region have arrested a man at an airport as he tried to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt, they said today. Reuters reported that it was...

Following the lowest ever recorded voter turnout in Algeria’s parliamentary election history, Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad has resigned

When the Foreign Minister of Somaliland, Yasin Faratoon, mentioned the first official meeting between Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and his Somaliland counterpart Muse Bihi Abdi in February, there...

More than 1,000 migrants and refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the sixth year in a row that this "bleak milestone" has been reached, the United...

Yemen declared a state of emergency on Socotra today after a tropical storm flooded several villages and capsized boats on the island and left at least 17 people missing,...

Somalia's prime minister owns shares in a controversial port currently at the centre of a crisis with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Garowe Online reported today. An investigation conducted...

A court in Somaliland has sentenced a female poet to three-years in jail after she called for unity with Somalia amid ongoing regional tensions, Garowe Online reported yesterday. Naciima...

Somalia's security forces have seized $9.6 million after a long stand-off with United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the search of a Royal Jet aircraft travelling from Abu Dhabi yesterday....

Anxious and hungry, hundreds of African migrants lie cramped together on the ground of an open-air warehouse in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Most are from desperately...

Somalia is taking a bold step against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the regeneration of a port in Somaliland it considers "belligerent and illegal". In a tripartite agreement...

Somaliland's security forces will be trained by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of an agreement to build a military base in the breakaway country, Garowe Online reported...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is going ahead with setting up a port in Somaliland in spite of the ongoing dispute over the deal between Somalia and the breakaway...

Saudi Arabia has offered to mediate a rift between Somalia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over a Berber Port deal in Somaliland, according to Garowe Online. Somalia submitted...

The federal government of Somalia has rejected a United Arab Emirates (UAE) logistics company port deal, claiming that it undermines its unity, sovereignty and is a violation of its...

Somaliland has passed its first law against rape, in a bid by the new government of the breakaway region to crack down on violence against women, a senior official...