Somalia and Somaliland to benefit from new UK support to tackle locusts
By:British Embassy Mogadishu
Somalia is set to benefit from new UK funding to tackle this year’s unprecedented locust outbreaks across Africa and Asia.
The UK’s International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan today announced a further £18 million in response to the crisis. She made the announcement during...
Halimo: Somali Single Mother, Refugee and Person Living with HIV
Kenya - First aid is quickly given to an unconscious woman lying on the floor. The room is dark. Even though she cannot see clearly, the nurse can tell that all is not well by the state of the room. The woman on the...
The 64th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers held in Khartoum to discuss the South Sudan Peace Process
Horndiplomat-The 64th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers which took place in Khartoum on the 9th of August 2018 deliberated on issues that should be dealt with to prepare a full document of a Comprehensive Revitalized ARCSS based on the yearlong HLRF...
Somali supermodel Iman thanks Turkish first lady
Erdogan attends Fashion for Development event during UN General Assembly
Somali supermodel and entrepreneur Iman has thanked Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan for Ankara's humanitarian aid efforts towards Somalia.
Erdogan attended the Fashion for Development (F4D) event as part of the launch of the annual UN...
Productive labor and Employment Creation for Somalia: Key Challenges and Strategies —HIPS
By: HERITAGE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
Somalia is a low-income country — one of the least developed in the world. However, there has been a slight acceleration in economic growth in the past few years. In 2018, real GDP growth increased to 2.8% from 1.4%...
Ethiopia reports its first death of a COVID19 patient
By: Mohamed Duale
Ethiopia has reported its first death of a COVID-19 patient, a 60-year old woman who was in treatment at a hospital in the capital since March 31. Horndiplomat reports
The country's Health minister Lia Tadesse has confirmed the first death of a COVID-19...
Unveiling the Political Intentions of Somalia and Understanding the Value of Recognizing Somaliland
The fact that Somaliland thrived in a 27 year long process of viable political transition started with the declaration of seperation from the failed union of 1st of July 1960 with the Italian Somalia, and immediate reinstatement of its sovereighnty. At independece, on 26th...
Somaliland: From fighting famine to election fever
By:RAGEH OMAAR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
For most of this year, I have been reporting on the catastrophic drought which has gripped Somaliland for almost three years, a drought which has also affected huge areas of Puntland and Somalia.
I travelled across the length and breadth of the country -...
French election 2017: Marine Le Pen leading the race as polls open
by:Rory Mulholland, paris
23 APRIL 2017 • 12:54PM
Polls have opened in the first round of France’s mostunpredictable and high-stakes presidential election in decades,with far-Right leader Marine Le Pen and the maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron leading the field.
A Le Pen victory could...
The case for gender equality in the Muslim world
In the Muslim world, economic advancement depends upon women's empowerment.
by:Maha Akeel
Maha Akeel is the Director of the information department at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
"If you want to go forward, you have to give education to girls. And once you educate girls, you change...
