Sources: BBC
Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use 20 km of coastline, including the port of Berbera, in exchange for eventual recognition of the Somaliland Declaration of Independence, which would make it the first country to do so. 2024-01-1
The National Electoral Council reports that in Somaliland's first parliamentary election since 2005, oppositional parties Waddani and Justice and Welfare Party won 31 and 21 seats respectively, while the ruling Kulmiye Peace, Unity, and Development Party won 30 seats. The victorious oppositional parties subsequently announce that they will form a government together. 2021-06-6
Taiwan announces that it will open a representative office in Aix-en-Provence to serve southern France. This is the second Taiwanese representative office in France and the third office to open this year, coming after the establishment of an office in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and the re-opening of the office in Guam. 2020-08-25
Taiwan announces it will mutually establish representative offices with the unrecognized breakaway state of Somaliland. While relations are not diplomatic at this point, further establishment of diplomatic relations would make Taiwan the first sovereign state to recognize Somaliland and the first new diplomatic ally that Taiwan has gained in 13 years. 2020-07-1
A court in Somaliland jails poet Nacima Qorane for three years for bringing the state into contempt by writing a poem calling for reunification with Somalia. 2018-04-15
Secessionists battle with forces from Somaliland near the border with Puntland in northern Somalia. 2012-02-10
Ethiopian forces, supported by Somaliland, kill 123 members of the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front in the east of the country and surround a further 90 rebels. 2010-09-15
Ahmed M. Mahamoud Silanyo is elected president of Somaliland by defeating incumbent Dahir Riyale Kahin. 2010-07-1