# Hargeisa solar street lights installation reported under way

> On 8 December 2015 Goobjoog News reported Somaliland began installing solar-powered street lights in Hargeisa, with a ribbon-cutting and an unquantified…

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 1 October 2026
- Format: News story (reported from one named public source)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Infrastructure and Services
- Tags: roads, drainage
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/hargeisa-solar-lights-start-2015-report

## Key points

- On 8 December 2015 Goobjoog News reported that the Somaliland administration started installing solar-powered lights in Hargeisa.
- The same report says Ali Mohamed Ali Waran-Adde cut a ribbon on Monday and that a minister said the project would erect hundreds of solar lights along the town's roads.
- The report records a start and a ceremony, not completion, and does not give a contractor, funder, budget, light count, completion date or operating status since.

On 8 December 2015, Goobjoog News reported that the Somaliland administration had started installing solar-powered lights in Hargeisa. The same report says Ali Mohamed Ali Waran-Adde officially cut the ribbon of the street illumination project on Monday. It describes the Somaliland administration as a "breakaway" administration, the publication's wording.

The report states the purpose of the installation: to improve security and allow business activities along the roads to boom during the night. That is the stated rationale, not a measured outcome. Goobjoog News does not report any assessment of what the lights did.

According to the same report, a minister said the illumination project is being implemented by the government and will erect hundreds of solar lights along the roads of the town. The quantity is the minister's, unquantified beyond the word "hundreds" and framed in the future tense: will erect. The report does not name the minister or give a portfolio. It records that the minister called on residents to make use of the lights and to guard them against harm by criminal elements.

Goobjoog News also reported that street illumination projects have been going on in Somalia for the past years and that solar-powered lights have been successfully installed in Mogadishu, Adaado, Bossaso and many other towns. That comparison is the publication's, not an independent verification, and it says nothing about the scale, cost or performance of the Hargeisa work.

## What the 2015 report does not establish

The report records a start and a ribbon-cutting. It does not state completion. No number of lights actually installed is given. No contractor, supplier, implementing company or consultant is named. No funder, budget, contract value or total project cost is stated, and no currency or payment source appears. No completion date or target completion date is given. No location details within Hargeisa, such as specific roads, districts or intersections, are provided, and no technical specifications: capacity, model, grid or off-grid configuration, or maintenance arrangements.

The report is dated 8 December 2015. It does not establish what happened after that date, whether the lights were maintained, expanded or stopped, or whether they are currently functioning or still in place.

## Questions

### Which areas of Hargeisa received the solar lights?

The 8 December 2015 Goobjoog News report gives no location details within Hargeisa: no specific roads, districts or intersections are named. It refers only to "the roads of the town" in the minister's attributed remarks.

### How many solar lights were installed?

No number of lights actually installed is stated in the report. The only quantity reference is the minister's attributed, future-tense statement that the project will erect "hundreds" of solar lights along the roads of the town.

### Who funded or installed the Hargeisa solar lights?

The report attributes the project to the government, described by the minister as implementing it. It does not name a contractor, supplier, consultant or funder, and it states no budget, contract value or total project cost.

## Sources

- [Solar Powered Lights Installed In Hargeisa](https://en.goobjoog.com/solar-powered-lights-installed-in-hargeisa/) — Goobjoog News, 2015-12-08