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Landmark Memorandum of Understanding Signed in Somaliland

The MOU was signed in Hargeisa by the Minister of Investment and Industrial Development, HE. Abdirasak Ibrahim Mohamed, and Abdirahman Hashi, the Somaliland Director of Shuraako. This initiative aims to boost investments in Somaliland’s production sector, fostering economic opportunities and job creation.

July 27,2024

Transforming Waste Management in Somaliland

Waste management has long been a pressing challenge in Somaliland. Recent studies paint a stark picture: in Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital, only 65% of daily waste is collected due to inefficient equipment. This gap in sanitation services not only affects public health but also hampers economic growth and quality of life.

September 20,2024

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November 10, 2022

Season Three of Seeking Peace Podcast Released

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), in partnership with Our Secure Future (OSF) and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, released season three of the Seeking Peace podcast.

October 31, 2022

Ice Machine Arrives in Bander Beyla, Marked by Momentous Opening Ceremony

The long awaited ice machine made landfall in Bander Beyla, Somalia, and on October 29 2022, Secure Fisheries field staff held an opening ceremony for the momentous occasion.

October 25, 2022

Scientific Training, Fisheries Conflict, and Bottom Trawling at the WIOMSA Scientific Symposium

One Earth Future’s Secure Fisheries program implements a science-based approach along the Somali coastline to eliminate unmanaged competition over fisheries and reduce fisheries conflict. Research Associate Colleen Devlin attended the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association’s 12th Scientific...

Robert Sokol

October 20, 2022

Learning How to Transform our Conflicts

No Bigger Challenge, No Bigger Opportunity

So says Rob Sokol, the new Managing Director of OEF’s eXperimental Negotiation Initiative (xNI). Learn about Rob’s journey to OEF and the vision he is pursuing with William Ury to awaken our innate capacity to transform conflict into creative negotiation.

Andreas Persbo

October 19, 2022

OEF Welcomes New Leadership for Open Nuclear Network Program

Welcome to OEF Andreas! Learn about why he’s excited to guide the ONN team toward its goal of reducing the risk that nuclear weapons are used in response to error, uncertainty or misdirection.

October 18, 2022

Founding the eXperimental Negotiation Initiative: An OEF Incubation Story

In 2017, as the conflict between the US and North Korea was escalating, the founder of OEF, Marcel Arsenault, partnered with Harvard’s co-founder of the Program for Negotiation, William Ury, to see if there was any way to interrupt the path to the growing potential of a nuclear exchange.

October 18, 2022

Ice Brings Opportunity to Bander Beyla

The 1,430 fishers of Bander Beyla, Puntland, Somalia now have access to flake ice thanks to a partnership between OEF’s Secure Fisheries program and the Global Food Cold Chain Council (GFCCC) who funded and recently installed a three-ton ice maker in the coastal town.

October 18, 2022

Madagascar Mangroves Model Potential for Future Conservation in Somaliland

Secure Fisheries and partner organization Blue Ventures recently completed a learning exchange to Madagascar for members of the fishing community in Zeila, Somaliland, as well as representatives from Somaliland's Ministries of Fisheries and Environment and members of the local non-profit organizatio...

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