# Hargeisa to Kala Baydh Road Foundation Stone Laid

> Somaliland Standard reported on 8 February 2019 that President Musa Bihi Abdi laid a foundation stone for the Hargeisa to Kala Baydh road and pledged…

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 30 September 2026
- Format: News story (reported from one named public source)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Infrastructure and Services
- Place: Somaliland
- Tags: roads, somaliland
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/hargeisa-kala-baydh-road-foundation-stone-laid

## Key points

- Somaliland Standard reported on 8 February 2019 that President Musa Bihi Abdi laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the road linking Hargeisa and Kala Baydh.
- The outlet reported the government pledged to renovate 60KM of road, without stating a cost, contractor, funder or timeline.
- The report does not establish whether any restoration work followed the ceremony.

On 8 February 2019, [Somaliland Standard](https://somalilandstandard.com/president-lays-the-foundation-stone-of-the-restoration-of-road-linking-hargeisa-and-kala-baydh/) reported that the President of Somaliland, Musa Bihi Abdi, had laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the road linking Hargeisa and Kala Baydh. Attributing the event to the day before its publication, the outlet placed the ceremony on or about 7 February 2019, though the article itself states no explicit ceremony date.

## What the report says happened

According to Somaliland Standard, the event drew government ministers, engineers and other guests. The same outlet reported that the government under President Bihi pledged to renovate 60KM of road. That figure is a pledge as reported by Somaliland Standard, not a contracted or completed scope of works.

## What the report does not establish

The article does not state a project cost, contract value, budget or currency. It names no contractor, consultant, implementing agency or funding source. It gives no contractual start date, duration or completion date.

The report describes a stone-laying ceremony, not the start of construction. It provides no evidence that restoration work began after the event, whether any work continued, stopped or finished, or whether the road is in use. No road name, route alignment, segment breakdown or confirmation that the 60KM figure covers the full Hargeisa to Kala Baydh link appears in the article.

The account is not corroborated in the material by an official gazette, ministry statement, tender notice or other primary government record.

What the reader is left with is a single dated report of an official ceremony and a pledge. The questions that matter for road users, logistics operators and contractors, which sections will be restored, who is paying, who is building and by when, are not answered by the report. Nothing establishes what has happened to the road since. The page that carries the article also shows a current-site timestamp of Wednesday, September 30, 2026 and a live news feed dated September 2026, according to the page served at the Somaliland Standard URL. That timestamp is a property of the website, not evidence of anything that happened to the road.

> **Note:** SCR has no independent confirmation of the ceremony or of any works on the Hargeisa to Kala Baydh road beyond this single Somaliland Standard report of 8 February 2019.

## Questions

### Which sections of the Hargeisa to Kala Baydh road will be restored?

The Somaliland Standard report does not say. It gives no road name, route alignment or segment breakdown, and does not confirm that the 60KM figure covers the full link.

### Who is funding the road restoration?

The report names no funder, contractor, consultant or implementing agency, and states no cost, contract value or currency.

### What is the timeline for completion?

No start date, duration or completion date is given. The report describes a foundation stone laying on or about 7 February 2019 and does not establish that construction followed.

## Sources

- [President lays the foundation stone of the restoration of road linking Hargeisa and Kala Baydh](https://somalilandstandard.com/president-lays-the-foundation-stone-of-the-restoration-of-road-linking-hargeisa-and-kala-baydh/) — Somaliland Standard, 2019-02-08