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It may no longer be making the news – but in East Africa, the famine persists. Rains have come at last, easing the drought, but also bringing the risk of flooding and the spread of diseases like cholera in the crowded refugee camps.

“I was once passing through Entebbe airport in Uganda,” recounts Suad Abdi, “and the official looked at my passport and said ‘My word! You are from Somaliland, a country much smaller and poorer than ours and yet you’ve got through 3 presidents in less than 20 years while we have been stuck with the same one for so many many years! How do you make sure they move on when their time is u

The Horn of Africa region, including Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan, is currently experiencing a severe food security crisis. How is this affecting Somaliland, and how is Progressio responding?

Women and young people are playing a key role in building a democratic society in Somaliland, says a report on Somaliland's 2010 presidential elections by the international election observation team. The report, Somaliland: Change and continuity

 Somaliland’s young people are embracing democracy as the way forward to a better future for their country and its people, writes Progressio development worker Stephen Mwalo

Dr Adan Abokor, Progressio’s country representative in Somaliland, reflects on the day he returned to his home city, Hargeisa, in May 1991 – and on how Somaliland has risen out of the rubble in the 20 years since then

Regina Nyirenda, Progressio development worker with the Horn Youth and Development Association (HYDA), reports on how young Somalilanders are ‘flying’ their flag in style online! The occasion is Somaliland’s National Day and Somaliland youth are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Somaliland's

“If you tell me my wife’s HIV positive, I’ll kill her! And I’m going to kill all of you people who are working at Talowadag, because you are the organisation who are helping people to spread HIV in our town!” This threat from an armed man was an exceptional challenge for the Progressio development worker and the Director at Talowadag, an organisation supporting people living wi

Five years ago, Mustafa never dreamed that he could make something of his life. Mustafa, who lives in Somaliland, is blind. But that’s not all. Thanks to a stray land-mine, he also lost both of his arms below the elbow. “I wished I was dead that day,” he says, thinking back to the accident. The prospect of a life without sight, and then without limbs, was just too much to bear.

Somaliland’s new president inaugurated in Hargeisa following final confirmation of June election results