Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In Theft, his first novel since he won the award, a teenage ...

Autonomous regions exist in many different contexts around the world. While some countries decide to embrace autonomy fully ...

This is clear evidence the roots of instability in this arc are more than colonialism. What of Somalia and short-lived British and Italian colonialism? They seem to have failed to tame the freedom ...

When the Somali state collapsed in 1991 and Somaliland unilaterally ... which assures the inviolability of colonial boundaries. Somaliland does not seek to secede but to be returned to its former ...

Somaliland offered the US military access to a strategic seaport and airfield in exchange for steps toward sovereignty.

A senior journalist in Hargeisa criticised septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians of the Somaliland administration for ...

but rather from its quest to uphold the pretense of territorial integrity on the basis of colonial-era borders. In spite of its loud protest, Somalia has not had authority over Somaliland's ...

“Sudan and Somalia are still ravaged by wars due to the colonial legacy. They [the Israeli government] have to be exposed and put on a shame list,” Qarmout added. In exchange for accepting ...

Daahir Omar Ali Dayr is an author who published several books in Somali. In his books he covers topics such as violence and abuse against women, anti-colonial struggles of Somalia. Mr Ali is also ...