Africa

By:Hassan jama, Horndiplomat Contributor Ethiopia has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus. Horndiplomat reports Takele Uma Banti, the mayor of the capital Addis Ababa, tweeted that a Japanese citizen was the person affected. "We should avoid meetings and hand contacts," the mayor wrote on Twitter. According...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat regional contributor The Somaliland government has refuted the Ethiopian capital newspaper report that stated the Ethiopian government suspended its 19 per cent share on the new development of Berbera Port. Somaliland Minister of foreign affairs Yasin Hagi Mohamud Faraton told The local newspaper...

By:Jama Farah,Horndiplomat regional Contributor Somaliland Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yassin Hagi is on a working visit to Kampala where he met his Uganda counterpart Sam Kutesa and Rebecca Kadaga Speaker of the Ugandan parliament. Kadaga said Uganda will make a follow up on Somaliland’s request to...

Sudan’s prime minister survived an assassination attempt on Monday after a blast in the capital, Khartoum, Sudanese state media said. Abdalla Hamdok’s family confined he was safe following the explosion, which targeted his convoy. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Hamdok was appointed prime minister...

By.Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat Contributor The European Union announces the very first international support for the conservation and protection of the Laas Geel cave paintings located in the rural outskirts of Hargeisa in Somaliland. The caves contain some of the earliest known paintings in the Horn of...

Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i on Sunday met Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo in a bid to ease cross-border tensions between the two nations. Matiang’i was sent by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to lead a delegation of top government officials for the visit as both...

By M.A. Egge The 20 years Somcable quota to distribute fibre-optic internet service has just had their monopoly curtailed. Following a parliamentary amendment whose motion was reportedly tabled by 20 MPs, the Telecommunication Law No 50/2011 was re-aligned to meet the statutory constitution of free-market enterprises. The...

By: FANABC The Addis Ababa Police Commission is investigating the cause of a dispute that left three people dead in  Addis Ababa Bole sub-city this morning. The Commission said three security guards of Enat Bank’s Dr Jenber Tefrea branch, aged between 30 and 35, were killed...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor based in Nairobi Somaliland House of Representatives has amended the Somaliland Telecommunication Law, the amendment dropped the Fiber Optic Quota of Somcable Company. 68 MPs voted in favor of the amendment, while only one MP rejected it and the Chairman did...

By:Hassan Jama, HornDiplomat Regional Contributor  Following a special session chaired by Pres Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya is accusing Somalia of “violating” its sovereignty; alleges that Somalia Army on 2nd March, 2020 were in “flagrant breach”. Somalia last week accused Kenya of “violating” sovereignty and destabilising border...