The Latest Breaking News from Somaliland

On February 6, 2003, Stella Obasanjo, the then First Lady of Nigeria and spokesperson for the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation, made the official declaration on “Zero Tolerance to FGM” in Africa during a conference organised by the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices. Since that day, activists, world leaders and…

At least 34 people were killed in clashes between soldiers and anti-government fighters in a disputed town in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday, doctors and officials said.

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland will postpone its scheduled presidential election to next year, rather than holding it in November when the incumbent president's term ends, the region's electoral body said on Saturday.

Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools

Berbera port is the main overseas trade gateway of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. The port city is located on the Gulf of Aden – one of the globally most frequented seaways connecting the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean.

Sir Mo Farah reunited with his mother in 2000 after over a decade apart. His mother tracked him down, sending a cassette tape for him to listen to and a phone number that allowed him to call her for the first time in years.

In the documentary Mo Farah, 39, recalls the moment he heard his mother’s voice for the first time in over ten years. The show follows Mo as he returns to his birthplace of Somaliland to ask the hard questions about why he was trafficked to the UK.

In BBC One's documentary The Real Mo Farah, the long distance runner explains how he was trafficked to the UK from Somaliland. Here's where the autonomous region is located and its troubled history with Somalia.

A relative of the woman accused of keeping Sir Mo Farah as a 'child slave' upon his illegal arrival into the UK has denied that the Team GB athlete was trafficked into the UK