Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisBerbera
Berbera phase 2: a 1,000 m quay and 2 million TEU, timing uncertain
A BII and Itad study of December 2025 reports phase 2 of Berbera port is planned to reach 2 million TEU, with timing still uncertain.
Insights
Analysis, method and practical guidance for building across Somaliland and Puntland: what the evidence supports, what it costs on site, and what to do differently tomorrow.
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Business and CostsAnalysisGarowe
Puntland asked the World Bank to pause SESRP works
World Bank's February 2025 aide-memoire records Puntland's ministry asking to suspend SESRP activities until scope and implementation arrangements were agreed.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisBosaso
Bosaso power: 24.18 MW installed, 14.59 MW available, mostly diesel
African Development Bank appraisal, November 2025: Bosaso has 24.18 MW installed but about 14.59 MW available, mostly diesel.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisGalkayo
Garacad corridor: 270 km and USD 216 million from port to Galkayo
Horn Review reported on 17 March 2025 a proposed 270 km Garacad corridor estimated at USD 216 million, linking Garacad port to Galkayo and Galdogob.
Business and CostsAnalysisGalkayo
Garacad corridor: security, funding and political questions
Horn Review reported on 17 March 2025 that security, funding and political cooperation must be addressed for the Garacad corridor to be completed.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisGarowe
Garowe Road Quality: Why Resident Testimony Is Not a Technical Acceptance Test
World Bank's 2024 report records Garowe residents' satisfaction with SURP-II roads, user feedback rather than pavement testing.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisGarowe
Resident Satisfaction in Garowe: SURP-II Consultation Evidence
A 2024 World Bank report records generally positive Garowe responses to SURP-II, covering roads, flooding and access.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisGarowe
Garowe's Jilbab Road: a wheelchair user's account of improved access
World Bank consultation records, in its 2024 report, a Garowe resident saying the repaired Jilbab road is now comfortable to ride by wheelchair.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisGarowe
Garowe residents on new tarmac roads: what the consultation recorded
World Bank recorded Garowe residents describing a visibly changed city after road works, in its 2024 SURP-II community consultation record.
Business and CostsAnalysisHargeisa
Questions over the airport investor: firm not found in Dubai registries
Hiiraan Online reported on 17 September 2025 that reporters could not find the International Maharat Investment Company in Dubai business registries.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisHargeisa
Officials pledge the remaining Balligubadle sections without a date
Somaliland Standard reported on 5 July 2025 that asphalt laying began on the first 10 km of the Balligubadle to Hargeisa road; the rest is pledged but undated.
Infrastructure and ServicesAnalysisZeila
The AfDB plan for western Somaliland roads: Zeila first, then Asho Addo
Somaliland Standard reported that the AfDB project head said the Djibouti link would start with Zeila to Lawyo Addo, then Zeila to Asho Addo.
Business and CostsAnalysisQardho
Qardho: Puntland Post's Published Flood-Diversion Claim, April 2020
Puntland Post reported on 29 April 2020 that development inside Qardho's watercourse diverted seasonal flood flows into other neighbourhoods.
Business and CostsAnalysisGarowe
Garowe road investment and property values: a resident's claim
A Garowe participant told World Bank consultation recording that the project raised local property values, the report says.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho flood channel: the 2020 relocation warning
Puntland Post reported on 29 April 2020 that letting flood-affected families return to Qardho's watercourse area is as dangerous as leaving it built over.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho's two watercourses: local reporting on a flood-prone town
Puntland Post reported on 29 April 2020 that one watercourse avoids Qardho and another runs through it, with building on the channel blamed for flood impact.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho business annexes along the watercourse: Puntland Post, April 2020
Puntland Post reported on 29 April 2020 that businesses near Qardho's watercourse built annexes along the channel as the area became a spot for developers.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho Floodplain Development: What Puntland Post Reported in 2020
Puntland Post reported on 29 April 2020 that properties occupy a natural watercourse in Qardho that carries seasonal rain floods.
Business and CostsAnalysisQardho
Qardho flood recovery: procurement problems changed the shelter response
IFRC and Somali Red Crescent report that procurement delays forced a switch from shelter supplies to cash assistance after the 2020 Qardho floods.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho flood response: IFRC records exposure in the lowlands
An IFRC and Somali Red Crescent final report on the 2020 Qardho floods records that the most affected households lived in high-flood-risk lowlands.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho floods: IFRC counted 750 shelters destroyed in 2020
The IFRC and Somali Red Crescent final report of 18 December 2020 put 750 shelters or houses destroyed and 50,000 people affected by the Qardho floods.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho floods: fifty volunteers trained in safe shelter construction
IFRC and Somali Red Crescent's 18 December 2020 final report records training of fifty volunteers in safe shelter construction after the Qardho floods.
Engineering and MethodsAnalysisQardho
Qardho's April 2020 Floods: Documented Road and Comms Damage
IFRC's final report records infrastructure damage in Qardho after the 27 April 2020 floods, with roads and telecommunications hit.
Business and CostsGabiley
How do site logistics gaps block work in Gabiley?
With site logistics gaps, work cannot start: blocked gates, late deliveries, idle crews. How to spot the gap on a Gabiley site and close it early.
