Africa

By Mohamed Dualeh Horn Diplomat (Hargeisa) On Nov 28, Somaliland's National Election  Commission (NEC) announced the postponement of parliamentary and local councils scheduled to take place in March 2019. Somaliland opposition parties, UCID and Waddani, criticised  Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and the National Electoral commission for the...

By: National The bodies of four members of the UAE armed forces killed in a terrorist attack in Somalia were repatriated on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence announced. An officer from the Bahrain...

By: Abdiaziz Ali Hussein The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. The celebration of this day is coming this year while the world witnessed the very pandemic...

Police in Sweden are warning the public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones. A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to the police between May 26th...

EDAM’s latest analysis covers Ankara’s military basing strategy beyond its borders, that currently consists of military bases in Northern Cyprus, Qatar and Somalia, as well as deployments in Iraq and Syria. The report finds that the political-military rationale is different in each case, presenting a...

After a four year process of background checks and other vetting, 18-year-old Asial was able to come to Portland, Oregon, while the block on President Trump's immigration order is in place.   SOURCE:NBCNEWS

From November 21st to 23rd EUCAP Nestor, in cooperation with EU NAVFOR (Somalia) Operation Atalanta, organised a Legal Maritime Workshop for prosecutors and police officers in Mogadishu. The eleven participants, including a female prosecutor, learnt about and exchanged views on several legal and maritime security...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a German nurse from the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday night, police and the ICRC said. Abductions and killings of Somali aid workers are common in the Horn of Africa country,...

By: Staff writter Somaliland Minister of investment Mohamed Ahmed (Awad) has tested positive for the coronavirus. Awad announced his infection in a post published on Twitter on Monday. "I have tested positive for Coronavirus after showing mild symptoms, my condition was fine and Inshallah  I'll recover soon," said on twitter Somaliland health...

Over the past two months, the very public rivalry between China and Taiwan has moved into the Horn of Africa over-representation in unrecognized Somaliland. On July 1, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had signed a deal with Somaliland to establish reciprocal representative...