Hargeisa

It's good to be back in Hargeisa. I first visited in 1995, and again in 2012-2013.

Najib speaks humbly of his achievements, but there is unmistakable pride when he shares plans for the future - increasing Somali teaching and administrative staff, a teacher-training university for Abaarso alumni to support the struggling education system in Hargeisa, boosting recruitment drives in more remote regions and neighboring countries, and blue-sky plans to add a primary school someday.

"As the UK Minister for Africa made clear in Hargeisa last October, the UK enjoys a warm and historic relationship with Somaliland and is working to support the shared security and prosperity of people across the Somali region, including in Somaliland.

Back in Hargeisa, Professor Ahmad Dughleh Jameh, Head of the Archaeology Research Unit associated with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, said that carbon dating had shown the paintings go back to at least 3000 BC.

The project will operate and rehabilitate 5 primary health centers in the cities of Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Groy, Boussa and Afjoui, and benefiting 253,800 people annually.

Back in the capital Hargeisa, tiny Ahmed Dheej is being treated at a specialist malnutrition clinic run by doctors.

The aim of this article was to compare the prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity among Somalis in Oslo, Norway, and Somalis in Hargeisa, Somaliland.

In the sprawling market of Somaliland's capital city, Hargeisa, women clad in headscarves or abaya shawls from head to foot engage in volatile haggling with shop- pers, and woe betide any man that crosses them -- the volume becomes deafening.

In the sprawling market of Somaliland's capital city, Hargeisa, women clad in headscarves or abaya shawls from head to foot engage in volatile haggling with shoppers, and woe betide any man that crosses them--the volume becomes deafening.

"There isn't money to look after the site better, our tourism department is tiny," says Abdisalam Mohamed who works for the department operating out of a few ramshackle offices in the centre of Somaliland's capital, Hargeisa.

Air Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa's first and largest low-cost carrier, is looking to expand its international route network with a new service to Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.

QC's office in Somalia has also organised group Iftar dining tables for thousands of Somalis in different parts of Somalia, particularly Hargeisa, Bosaso, and Mogadishu, where the number of people displaced by drought in villages and towns is increasing.