Africa

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The United States will send FBI experts to Ethiopia to help investigate a grenade attack at a rally for new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, state-affiliated media said on Monday. A grenade exploded on Saturday moments after Abiy had finished addressing the...

BY:Mohamed Haji Ingiriis Author Abdi Samatar’s muddled account of the history of Somalia is full of errors and inconsistencies. For reasons probably known to him alone, he avoids engaging with the existing scholarship on the post-colonial period. The author seems to be pursuing a certain...

Nativist  politics  in Somalia leaves half of Somalis without citizen rights, argues Liban Ahmad In January 2019 twenty eight years will have passed  since armed opposition fronts ousted the military dictatorship in Mogadishu. A new type of  politics, I will  call nativist,  filled the vacuum....

By: Abdirahman Adan Mohamoud Prof. Sulaiman Ahmed Gulaid, president of Amoud University retired today from active public service after five decades. He also steps down from university leadership after he delivered 25 years of solid performance with...

By: Mohamed Duale The Somaliland Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported the country's second death from the deadly coronavirus. The deceased was an old man lives in Hargeisa who did not travel to any other country. This latest fatality comes a day after the Somaliland Health ministry...

By:MoDuale Horndiplomat-A delegation of Somaliland SDG16+ Coalition is in New York to present to the UN High-Level Political Forum "Somaliland SDG16+ Progressive Report," a report outlining progress made by Somaliland in 4 identified SDGs targets. International Peace Institute (IPI) together with Saferworld, TAP Network and eight...

By Dr. Hussein Mohamed Nur Abdulrashid Ali Shermarke was elected as President of Somali Republic on 15 October 1967. Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal became the Prime Minister. Two years later, on 15 October 1969, the president was assassinated by one of his guarding soldiers, a member of...

Kenya has nominated Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed for the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Ms Mohamed will contest against five other candidates, including two from Africa, to secure the seat that eluded her seven years ago. The WTO announced on its website...

Dubai-based port operator DP World has announced plans to spend $442m on the expansion of its port at Berbera in Somaliland. The investment – which is about the same as the annual GDP of Somaliland – follows the official opening of its Doraleh Multipurpose...

By:Abdirahman Mustafe Ali On 26 Feb.2020 the government of Somaliland and the government of Taiwan signed a bilateral protocol agreement between the two countries. This was seen as  a forward step for Somaliland diplomacy...