Naima Qorane

Naima Qorane is a writer, poet and pan-Somalist activist. She was arrested in January 2018 at Hargeisa Airport by Somaliland security personnel for promoting Somali unity.

Arrest The cause of the arrest by a Somaliland court was calling the self-declared republic a "region" rather than a "country" in her poetry. They sentenced her to three years after her return from Mogadishu. She had claimed that she had previously received death threats for her advocacy.