Africa

The Somali regional state in Ethiopia has officially announced the closure of its main prison facility, located in the capital, Jijiga. The Jijiga Central Prison also referred to as ‘Jail Ogaden,’ has been at the center of a Human Rights Watch, HRW, report that exposed...

Egypt’s Petroleum Ministry is intensifying efforts to explore oil and gas in new parts of the Mediterranean and Red Sea, as the country’s Tharwa Petroleum Company, and Italy’s Eni corporation, prepare to drill their first exploratory well at Noor offshore gas field, North Sinai. Drilling will...

“A robust regulation that addresses de-risking issues to reduce vulnerabilities associated with the widespread use of mobile money transactions as put forward by the World Bank is a win-win proposal for all stakeholders,” Abdirashid Duale, CEO of Dahabshiil companies told the Voice of America’s...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will visit Ethiopia and Eritrean next month, according to R.it. The Prime Minister will be in Addis Ababa in the first half of October, most probably the 11th, for a bilateral agreement with Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed. After Ethiopia, he...

Police in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, should rigorously investigate the killing of Abdirisak Said Osman, a reporter and photographer with the privately owned radio station Codka Nabada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Abdirisak died on September 19 in the city of...

The Ambassador of the Republic of Somaliland in the United Arab Emirates, Hassan Hirad Yassin, said the UAE and Somaliland have close and long-term relations. "In the last 30 years, the UAE has been the only commercial port of Somaliland in all fields," he said...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Is upgrading its ties with Kenya, a big player in East Africa, with one eye on regional politics and the other focused to attract foreign investments and aid. When Somaliland appointed Bashe Awil Omer a Month ago as its new envoy to Kenya as it aims...

Horndiplomat-Press Statement released by Freedom Center for Strategic Studies on Preventing Possible Renewed Border Conflict. Press-Statement • The Federal Government of Somalia and the Republic of Somaliland had an armed confrontation, several skirmishes and a military stand-off in the eastern Sool and Sanaag regions for the last...

Horndiplomat-The President of Puntland State of Somalia Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Gaas) visited Wednesday in Badhan Sanaag region of Somaliland for the first time since when he becomes Somalia's region of Puntland president. Badhan, about 90 kilometers east of Erigavo, the capital of the largest region of Somaliland, Sanaag, The...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 21 – Kenyan investors stand to gain hugely should the ties between the country and Somaliland improve. Already there is a Somaliland liaison office in Nairobi but efforts are being made by the two countries to improve the ties for Kenya to...