# Hiiraan Online

> Hiiraan Online is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Canada. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Non-aligned**.

- **Domain:** hiiraan.com
- **Website:** https://www.hiiraan.com
- **Country:** Canada
- **Region:** Africa
- **Language:** English for news; Somali concentrated in opinion, roughly a quarter of op-eds
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Non-aligned
- **Founded:** 1999

## About

Somalia's oldest news site has never been published from Somalia. Founded in Ottawa in 1999 by a former Somali Airlines pilot and now run by his son, it files original datelines from Mogadishu, Garowe and Las Anod while its readers sit in London, Minneapolis and Oslo. Its opinion page carried a serving Puntland minister's attack on the president and, eleven days later, a full defence of him.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Family-held and diaspora-run. Founded on 1 July 1999 in Ottawa by Captain Ahmed Hagi Elmi Gure, who died on 28 July 2024; his son Dalmar Ahmed Gure became managing editor. The privacy policy names Hiiraan Online Inc and declares the outlet subject to Canadian federal and provincial law. No about page, masthead or ownership statement is published.
- **Funding:** Programmatic display advertising sold through a partner's ad-manager network, plus a jobs listings section. No donations, subscriptions or disclosed grants.
- **Focus areas:** Somali federal politics and the electoral impasse, the federal member states, Somaliland, security and al-Shabaab, Horn of Africa diplomacy, the economy, diaspora affairs, and a large open opinion section.


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

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- [Somaliland adds 12 dialysis machines at Hargeisa General Hospital](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206131/somaliland_adds_12_dialysis_machines_at_hargeisa_general_hospital.aspx) — 2026-08-31T12:36:16.000Z
- [Somali army kills several senior al-Shabab leaders in joint military operations](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206129/somali_army_kills_several_senior_alshabab_leaders_in_joint_military_operations.aspx) — 2026-08-31T07:38:22.000Z
- [Probe after man shot dead on way to mosque near Kenya-Somalia border](https://www.hiiraan.com/security4/2026/Aug/206127/probe_after_man_shot_dead_on_way_to_mosque_near_kenyasomalia_border.aspx) — 2026-08-31T07:22:15.000Z
- [Somaliland announces recruitment drive to replace retiring public employees](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206126/somaliland_announces_recruitment_drive_to_replace_retiring_public_employees.aspx) — 2026-08-30T20:19:49.000Z
- [South West cabinet declares Laftagareen loyalists a terrorist group](https://www.hiiraan.com/security4/2026/Aug/206125/south_west_cabinet_declares_laftagareen_loyalists_a_terrorist_group.aspx) — 2026-08-30T20:13:52.000Z
- [Mongbwalu: Resilience in a little gold-mining town engulfed by Ebola](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206124/mongbwalu_resilience_in_a_little_goldmining_town_engulfed_by_ebola.aspx) — 2026-08-30T09:09:54.000Z
- [Somaliland president meets former Northeastern MPs after defection to Hargeisa](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206123/somaliland_president_meets_former_northeastern_mps_after_defection_to_hargeisa.aspx) — 2026-08-30T07:28:29.000Z
- [Puntland state accuses Somalia, Türkiye of paying pirates after MV LUTUF freed](https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2026/Aug/206122/puntland_state_accuses_somalia_trkiye_of_paying_pirates_after_mv_lutuf_freed.aspx) — 2026-08-30T07:16:49.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 9 (5 themes).

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