President of the Republic of Somaliland, H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Cirro), today held a high-level strategic meeting in Hargeisa with Major General Claude K. Tudor Jr., Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa (SOCAFRICA), and his delegation.
The discussions focused on strengthening security cooperation and advancing shared strategic interests, particularly maritime security in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the wider Horn of Africa. The President reaffirmed Somaliland's strategic importance in safeguarding critical international shipping routes and expressed Somaliland's readiness to deepen cooperation with U.S. security institutions in combating terrorism, piracy, organized crime, and other regional security threats.
Major General Tudor emphasized the shared security interests between the United States and Somaliland and reaffirmed the United States' commitment to expanding cooperation, intelligence sharing, and strategic engagement. The meeting concluded with both sides agreeing to further strengthen their partnership on mutual security priorities.
The Somaliland National Army recently conducted a logistics training exercise in the vicinity of Hargeisa in support of humanitarian assistance and disaster response preparedness.
Working alongside international military advisors, this exercise strengthened coordination, improved logistics planning, and reinforced the Army's commitment to national readiness and regional stability.
The training reflects the professionalism of the Somaliland National Army and further enhances its capability to respond effectively to future humanitarian assistance and disaster response needs.
It's obvious how the government of Somalia was directly responsible for the 2023 Las Anod conflict by putting Somalilanders against each other. This former rebel turned MP in Las Anod parliament and now defected to Somaliland, and many others were victims of this; they were told that Somaliland was responsible for the unresolved assassinations in their city. Then there are the many others who were bought and paid for to stir the pot.
I'm happy that the conflict is over and people are realizing the wickedness of the Mogadishu/Somalia government and returning to their country, Somaliland.
Let's give peace a chance. Today, I'm also hearing that another 6 MPs from Las Anod town are coming back to Hargeisa. Let's put this all behind us and work together to make our country prosper.
Dear all,
I know one of the main reasons we are all over the place on Reddit is because our official sub Reddit r/Somaliland has been hijacked by a radical person from Somalia who only allows anti Somaliland posts, and mass bans Somalilanders or any foreigner who says a positive word about it, its also full of koonfur anti Somaliland people as you can clearly see from the upvote/downvote ratio for comments and posts.
This was one of the reasons that discouraged me from using Reddit as often, it felt like a hostile place to us Somalilanders, I also totally forgot about my 7 years account here, many Somalilanders stopped using Reddit all together because of this, however other people joined, saw the problem, and created their own subs to tackle this issue, however they didn’t have knowledge about the other subs which kind of created this mess.
I choose this sub because the mod has done a spectacular job moderating and seems like he/she knows what they’re doing, I say this as a mod for r/Soomaaliland and a previous mod for r/SomalilandRepublic. Both which I totally stopped posting at because of the reasons above.
Let’s create a nice community and get landers from other social media like X or Facebook etc to join us. Let’s make this big and stop with the negativity of not using Reddit at all, maybe one day we can get back r/Somaliland.
This is not to be confused with the 20 men pictured above that gang raped a girl in Las Anod 2025, here is the details for the incident from last year https://youtu.be/thHC8yUKdaU?si=CCswy8Sbpsy01Lln
Info is still coming from this story.
Its noteworthy that rape cases are at an all time high after the withdrawal of the Somaliland forces from the city, also there was almost 100 cases of assassinations of prominent individuals in Las Anod in just two years, that a stark contrast of the handful of cases during the control of Somaliland where locals fiercely criticized Somaliland at that time for “ not doing enough” yet these same critics are now silent, I wonder why.