Amoud University sits a few kilometres outside the city centre on a low ridge with mountain views. The campus is modest by any global standard but is impressive in context — a clean, ordered set of brick and concrete buildings serving a country that was effectively starting from zero in the late 1990s.
You can walk onto campus and most staff are happy to talk to a curious visitor. The medical faculty is the largest and the most ambitious — it runs a teaching hospital and has produced a generation of doctors who staff clinics across Somaliland. The university press has published a respectable amount of regional scholarship and is one of the better places in town to pick up books on Somali history.