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By: OXFAM Climate change is real. In this country it is real.” Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare is the Minister of Environment and Rural Development in Somaliland. Somaliland is facing climate change now and Shukri is taking action.  “In the last 10 years, it like drought after drought. Climate...

By:newbusinessethiopia Ethiopia’s export performance which has been declining since 2012, has dropped by $170 million for the fiscal year concluded July 7, 2019 as compared to the previous year. The country has earned a total of $2.67 billion from July 8, 2018 – July 7, 2019....

By: Bangkokpost Eighteen Thai fishermen rescued from reportedly slave-like conditions on a trawler in Somalia returned to Bangkok on Monday as labour officials considered opening a human trafficking probe. The fishing crew arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thai Airways flight TG581 from Dubai, where 14 of...

By:Anadolu Agency   Great number of Muslims in capital Addis Ababa flock to mosques to perform Eid prayer Muslims in Ethiopia has been celebrating the first day of the Eid al-Adha, a four-day religious holiday, on Sunday. In the capital Addis Ababa, hundreds of thousands of Muslims turned...

By:XINHUA NET Berhane Haileyesus is excited to board the Chinese built 756 kms Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified rail line even though he has been a regular customer of the rail service ever since it was commissioned in January 2018. Contracted by two Chinese companies, the first 320 km...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Military Officers graduate from Ethiopian Military Academy, Won medals . According to Fana, Ethiopian Defense Command and Staff College today graduated 100 senior military officers for the 13th time. About 21 of the graduates are from Djibouti, Somaliland ,Somalia and South Africa. The Prime Minister and...

Aden, Yemen (ANN)-Hamed Jama Hussein (aka حامد جامع) , a cultured intellectual, died in Aden, where he lived and lived the lives of ordinary people as a whole, her subsistence life. He only left for Aden on Monday when he died. He did not leave...

By: Busiweek This is a departure from the Kingdom’s previously long-held position of issuing visas on Somali passports holders and not Somaliland passports. The issuance of the visas to Somalilanders starts with those who will be heading for pilgrimage in Mecca this month. Already, the president of...

By: Hiiraan The Thai government announced this week that about 50 migrants have been detained on the beaches near Bossaso, Bari region. Thailand's foreign ministry spokesman Busadee Santipitaks said Wednesday that Puntland authorities and the federal government have responded positively to a request by their embassy...

By: REUTERS NAIROBI (Reuters) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $98 million financial package for Ethiopia for a road transport corridor project to neighboring Djibouti, it said late on Tuesday. The project’s total cost is $255 million, comprising an AfDB grant of $98...