Africa

By :KBC Correspondent Ethiopia is set to become the 9th member state of East Africa Community (EAC), just a few months after Somali’s admission to the bloc. This was disclosed by Peninah Malonza,...

Horndiplomat-Since China started market reforms in 1978, under the leadership of "Deng Xiaopin," China shifted from a centrally planned economy to a market based economy. GDP growth has averaged nearly 10 percent annually, and has driven poverty out of 1.3 billion populations. The increase...

By: Globe Newswire More about DZSI, a global leader of access, optical and cloud-controlled software-defined solutions, today announced that Somtel, a leading telecommunications service provider based in Hargeisa, Somaliland and subsidiary of Dahabshiil, a global finance organization, is deploying DZS Saber compact...

By James JEFFREY Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with the international community’s funding of military operations in Africa. The Ethiopian troops had been assisting the internationally funded African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The draw-down could imperil Somalia’s...

The capital of Somalia is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, but this week fear of blasts has been overcome by a love for books. Organizers say about 2,000 people turned out on the first day of the Mogadishu Book Fair to...

BY: NEWYORK TIMES  The promise and perils of America’s counterterrorism campaign were on full display at a remote training base in central Somalia. It was graduation day for 346 recruits who would join...

By: Staff Writer Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has on Thursday appointed Abdinur Mohamed Ahmed as the Deputy Chief of Staff. Abdinur has until this appointment served as the Director of Media and Communications, in the Office of the President as well as the Spokesperson of...

By: MoDuale The United Arab Emirates (UAE) second of a cargo plane from the UAE has landed in Hargeisa, Somaliland, where cases of the Covid-19 pandemic have been rising in recent days. This medical aid includes several tonnes of medicines and Covid-19 testing machines. The Minister of...

 By: MoDuale  Twitter.com/MoDuale An Ethiopian delegation led by Finance minister Ahmed Shide has arrived in Hargeisa the capital of Somaliland. Horndiplomat reports The Ethiopian delegation will meet Somaliland President and discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral relations between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The trip by the...

  Application Deadline: September 29th 2017 The Building Entrepreneurs Today (BET) is a capacity building and business education initiative aimed at generating interest in entrepreneurship and designed to support budding entrepreneurs of all ages. Since its inception in 2010, The BET programme in partnership with the Enterprise...