In light of the potential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Somaliland’s economy1 , the Somaliland Economic Sub-Committee for COVID-19 requested the development of two private sector surveys, one focusing on the formal sector, and the other on the informal sector. The Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) conducted the formal business sector survey, published in May 20202 . The informal sector survey was tasked to the Ministry of Trade, and Tourism (MoTIT).

Incipit-CSIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN 2019

The archaeological site of Xiis is a tumuli field found 1 km east of the village of Xiis, under the shadow of the Majilin hill and in front of a small volcanic island which constitutes a geographic benchmark in the coast. The site was first mentioned by Georges Revoils, who visited it in 1881 and found Roman materials in some of the tombs. He also identified the site with the old Mosyllon, a trade port used by the Greek sailors which appears described in the Peryplus of the Erythrean Sea, a Greek text of the 1st century AD. In 1975 the place was visited by Neville Chittick, who excavated a couple of looted tumuli in the area.