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By: Anadolu Agency A motion calling for the extension of Turkish forces' deployment in the Gulf of Aden, Somalia, and the Arabian Sea until Feb. 10, 2023, was published in Turkey's Official Gazette early Saturday. By deploying naval elements, effective protection of Turkish flagged vessels and...

Somali envoy to Ethiopia speaks to Anadolu Agency prior to AU summit By Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Somalia has appealed to the United Nations and the United States to lift the arms embargo they imposed during the civil war. Anadolu Agency caught up with Somali Ambassador to...

Horndiplomat-Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmajo welcomes Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali at Mogadishu Aden Ade airport and the two leaders headed to the presidential palace.   https://twitter.com/fitsumaregaa/status/1007888512073551872?s=19 https://twitter.com/M_Farmaajo/status/1007909320128950272?s=19 This is a developing story, Please check back at the Horndiplomat for Updates. By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale SOURCE:HORNDIPLOMAT

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea....

By KEVIN J. KELLEY More by this Author New York The State Department's Africa Bureau is failing to ensure that US funding for the Somali government is not diverted to Al-Shabaab terror group, the department's watchdog unit warned on Monday. “The bureau had not established policy and procedures...

Ethiopia has repatriated 357 migrants from Riyadh, the Capital of Saudi Arabia, today (October 15). According  to Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, Of the returnees, 262 are women and 95 children. Senior government officials welcomed the returnees at Bole International Airport.

By M.A. Egge Somaliland and the UAE have had a discussion on the ways and means of bolstering energy and mining investments in the country. This follows a government delegation led by the...

By:The African report Somalia has a tough legacy. Two decades of civil war and ongoing natural disasters, including droughts and flooding, have triggered the displacement of two million citizens. Almost 70% of Somali people live under the international poverty line of $1.90 a day. The country...

A joint military operation of the Somali National Army and African Union forces AMISOM has felled at least four militants from the Somali-based militant group Al-Shabaab in the country's southwest region, a local administrator has said. Abshir Moalim Sharif, district deputy commissioner in Dinsoor district...

By: REUTERS The dominant party in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has nominated its spokesman Getachew Reda to be president of a regional interim administration called for in a peace deal that ended a two-year war in the...