Africa

By:Staff Writer The Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki today left for Sudan on a Three-day Working visit at the invitation of Sudan's President of Sovereign Council, Gen. Abdel Fatah al Burhan. Afwerki delegation includes Eritrea Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and President Adviser Yemane G/ab. According to Yemane G....

Somalia’s Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly that “Somalia is rising” from decades of conflict and political dysfunction. While addressing UN General Assembly in New York on Friday, Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre acknowledged that Somalia is still struggling to address serious issues...

Last month, voters in Somaliland, a country in the horn of Africa, bigger than England and Wales combined, went to the polls to elect a new president. In many respects, Somaliland is a place apart. Unique amongst two-dozen states in the wider region, it is...

The Somaliland Ambassador to the Africa Union and IGAD H.E Adan Musa Jibril has tendered his resignation. The envoy also confirmed the reason behind his resignation. The Ambassador forwarded his resignation letter to President Bihi and also sent a copy to the Foreign minister. The...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of James Swan of the United States as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). He will succeed Nicholas Haysom of South Africa to whom the...

By: Zakeriye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent The President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has visited the Turkish military training school in the province of Isparta, where new recruits of Somali National Army’s special forces are undergoing Commando Basic...

By: The Star Somaliland has confirmed that oil has been discovered in the Sallahey area of the Marodi-Jeh region, its ministry of energy and mineral resources said in a statement on Facebook. The ministry said...

Horndiplomat-Somalia Minister for Public Works Abdifatah Ibrahim Geesey resigns over alleged federal Government interference into Southwest election proceeds and the detention of Mukhtar Robow. On December 13, Mukhtar Robow, once al-Shabab’s spokesman, was arrested by Ethiopian troops that are part of the African Union peacekeeping...

By:Mohamed Duale Somaliland President Muse bihi Abdi has granted pardon to 574 Prisoners in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. President Bihi has ordered that prisoners that have committed major crimes like trading illicit alcohol, piracy acts, terrorism acts, murder and rape won’t be...

By:BBC AFRICA More than 200 people have been killed following fighting in western Ethiopia. The state-appointed Ethiopia Human Rights Commission said the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) had killed about 150 people. Local officials told the BBC that fighters from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups clashed...