Africa

By:Nation Africa President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Djibouti Saturday to witness the inauguration of President Ismael Omar Guelleh, who is set to start his fifth term. The event, which is being held in the country’s capital, started at  9.30am local time. Other leaders in attendance are: Ethiopian...

By: REUTERS The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had reached a staff-level agreement with Sudan on completion of the second and final review under its staff-monitored programme, in a step towards debt relief. A strong performance under the year-long IMF economic reform programme is...

PRESS-RELEASE DP World, a leading global provider of end to end logistics solutions, and the Ministry of Transport, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of developing the Ethiopian side of the road linking Ethiopia to Berbera into one of the major...

By: Abdiqani Suleiman It was mid-Feberuary when the first cases of coronavirus were made public in Wuhan. Less than a month March 10, WHo declared it a global pandemic. In a globalized world, no place on the earth is 24hrs apart. By the time,5 million...

By:British Embassy Mogadishu The British Ambassador, Kate Foster, visited Hargeisa this week to reaffirm the strength of the UK’s partnership with Somaliland including in the trade and development sector. In her first visit to Somaliland since her appointment in February, Ms. Foster joined President Muse Bihi...

By:Qatar news agency the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a written message to President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, pertaining to the bilateral relations and ways of enhancing and promoting them, in addition to the recent political...

By: State department U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan from May 4 to May 13, 2021.  Special Envoy Feltman will hold meetings with officials from the respective governments as well as the United...

Mogadishu, 3 May 2021 – On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, James Swan,  reaffirmed the importance of this annual celebration, as it provides an opportunity to advance the principles of press freedom and...

Human Rights Centre (HRC) condemns the detention of opposition candidates and calls on the government of Somaliland to respect the Constitution, the Elections Act and the Code of Conduct for the Political Parties. In its quarterly report covering from January to April 2021, HRC documented...

By:ANADOLU AGENCY Turkey welcomed a decision by the Somali parliament on Saturday that would see elections held in the Horn of Africa nation as soon as possible. "We welcome the decision of the Lower House of the Somali Parliament today (1 May), which endorses holding the...