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Somaliland office on hold until pandemic eases and flights resume
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) Plans to open a Taiwanese representative office in Somaliland and a Somaliland representative office in Taipei are on hold due to COVID-19. That was the word from the foreign ministry’s chief of African...
Friday, July 10, 2020 -
UK, Denmark and Netherlands approve agreements with Somaliland Government on critical infrastructure to improve people’s lives
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) The new agreements, supporting projects on roads, agricultural systems, water facilities and fisheries, will spur economic growth, helping to support a secure and prosperous Somaliland. Under Phase II ...
Sunday, July 5, 2020 -
Taiwan could set up military base in Somaliland
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) Taiwan could establish a military base in Somaliland as part of a second-phase agreement between the two countries, according to a Somaliland news site. On July 1, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (...
Friday, July 3, 2020 -
Horn of Africa diplomacy will fail without serious investment
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) Last weekend, diplomats, presidents, and prime ministers gathered in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti. The meeting was apparently initiated by the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, o...
Saturday, June 20, 2020 -
A Recognized Somaliland Will Play An Even Bigger Role In Promoting Peace In The Horn Of Africa
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) In August 2018, Somaliland President Musa Bihi appointed me to come and head the Liaison office in Nairobi. My previous mission was in the United Arab Emirates where I played a similar role as head of the...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 -
Berbera Port Set To Be The Most Modern In East Africa Coastline
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) The Somaliland Port of Berbera is set to become the most modern port in the Horn of Africa and East Africa coastline once inaugurated. Facilities and services will surpass those in neighboring Djibouti...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 -
Somaliland president calls for independence recognition
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) The president of Somaliland has called on the international community to recognise the independence of the region and warned that unless Somalia “accepts the reality of two independent nations,” his g...
Monday, May 25, 2020 -
Somalia: Top Two Puntland Leaders at Loggerheads Over Admin Issues Again
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) A disturbing administrative schism has again surfaced between the President and Vice President of the Somalia Federal State of Puntland, Saeed Abdullahi ‘Deni' and Ahmed Elmi Osman ‘Crash', respectively. ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020 -
WHO Offered Me $20,000,000 To Put Toxins In Coronavirus Cure’ Madagascar President Andre
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has declared that the World Health Organisation (WHO) offered him $20,000,000 to put a little toxin in their remedy for Coronavirus as the Europeans hacked their formu...
Sunday, May 17, 2020 -
An Ambassador’s Careless Freelancing Risks East Africa Security
Hargeisa:(Marsanews) Power is intoxicating, but Donald Yamamoto’s increasing tendency to act like a colonial governor will backfire. Rushed and uncoordinated diplomacy and individual free-lancing often do. It is a truism...
Thursday, May 14, 2020