Somaliland Forum is a non-partisan independent think-tank organisation that brings together Somalilanders, mainly in the Diaspora.
Written by: Jamal Ali Hussein, An International banker with an MBA from Harvard University, USA.
It was January 28th, 2007 as I boarded my plane from New York to London on my way to South Africa. I was reading the Financial Times when I noticed an article about Kosovo to declare Statehood, and how the European …
Ref: SF/EC-PR 9
Mr. Gedi asserted, “Somaliland is a Somalia entity first of all. They claim to break away from the unity, but that is not the reality today”. I don’t believe in different entities. The act of union of the 1960 is still there… It is within the transitional federal charter of Somalia that …
THE REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND: CHRONOLOGY OF A NATION
Pre-amble:
Somali clan-families have inhabited the region of North-eastern Africa, better known as the Horn of Africa, for close to three thousand years, as some historical records indicate. The people were organized in nomadic clans of herders. Therefore, there had never been any rigidly-organized authority in the form …
Introduction
It was to be hoped that Kofi Annan, the current UN Secretary-General, would better inform the Security Council on the realities in the ex-Somali Democratic Republic for once. But nothing of the sort has happened with his latest report to the Security Council. This is a report that picks and chooses certain images and facets …