Africa

By Carla Babb, Jeff Seldin, Harun Maruf, VOA ABOARD US MILITARY AIRCRAFT - The United States is again targeting fighters with the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab terror group in Somalia, launching its second airstrike in the past four days following a nearly six-month hiatus that began when President...

The Somali government cannot persuade EU countries to stop commissioning Sahan Research to write on Somali politics, writes Liban Ahmad The Federal Government of Somalia banned Sahan Research from operating in Somalia. The government accused the research company of...

By:fanabc Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed along with high ranking government officials has today launched a 300 Km road Project in Somali Region. Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, President of Somali Region, Mustafa Oumer, President of Oromia Regional State Shimelis  Abdisa and other dignitaries have attended...

Ahead of the May 2017 London Somalia Conference, the UK welcomes Somali agreement of a National Security Architecture, and announces £21m in additional support. On 17 April the Federal Government of Somalia and the Presidents of Somalia’s Federal Member States agreed a historic political agreement, to...

By: Staff writer Somaliland Minister of post Mr Abdiweli Sufi Jibril has tested positive for COVID19. Abdiweli Sufi becomes the second cabinet member to be infected with coronavirus in Somaliland. Earlier Today, Somaliland Minister of investment Mohamed Ahmed (Awad) has tested positive for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, Somaliland Ministry...

By:Reuters Somalia's government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion in the capital suspected to have been set off by a suicide bomber, a Reuters photographer and state-run media said. The photographer at the scene of the explosion reported seeing body parts lying on the...

By Laurie Goering LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Prolonged drought in Somaliland has killed between 65 and 80 percent of the semi-autonomous region's livestock, creating conditions that are "the worst time in our lives" and could threaten regional security, says the region's environment minister. With 70...

Horndiplomat-The Third Ethio-France Political Consultation began today (February 10) in Addis Ababa with the discussions covering wide range of bilateral regional and global issues of mutual concern. Ethiopia State Minister Dr.Markos Tekle opened the session, noting that the relationship between Ethiopia and France as longstanding...

The Peninsula-The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) recently sponsored ‘Shida’, the Fourth Annual Forum of the Somali Community in Qatar, organised by Weyak, a Doha-based voluntary organisation that works to foster understanding of mental health issues with outreach activities both regionally and within...

By:The Reporter Ethiopia 85 per cent of the construction of the cross-boundary road project which links Somaliland's port city of Berbera with Ethiopia's border town of Togochale has been completed. The road is expected to make Somaliland an emerging competitor, along with Djibouti and Kenya, in...