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Horndiplomat-Poet Naema Ahmed Ibrahim AKA (Naema Abwaan Qorane) who has been serving 3 years jail term is released from prison with Presidential Pardon. On April 15, the regional court in Hargeisa has sentenced Naema Ahmed Ibrahim to three years in prison over charges related to...

Rural people cutting down trees for charcoal production Deforestation is permanent clearance of trees from land without replacing them. During 1998 to 1991, civil war broke out in Somalia resulting total damage in the Northern region of Somaliland which caused absolute devastation of forests and...

Hundreds of people danced the night away at an Edmonton party to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Somaliland on Saturday. Somaliland is a semi-autonomous region in the northwest of Somalia that declared itself an independent country in 1991. For expats, Independence Day is an opportunity to celebrate...

Horndipomat-on Sunday the 6th May 2018, the Somaliland Parliament approved the passage of the Procurement Bill. This was the last remaining PFM Bill to be passed by Parliament and, with the President’s signature, will mean that all the PFM Bills will become the law...

The new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will arrive in the country on Sunday for a two-day State visit to bolster already strong relations between Kenya and Ethiopia, State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu has announced. This will be Mr Ahmed's first visit to Kenya since his elevation...

By LABAN WANAMBISI, NAIROBI, Kenya May 5 – Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed is expected in the country on Sunday for talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta on regional integration, peace and security. President Kenyatta had in April invited Ahmed for a State Visit to discuss ways of...

  Fathi Initiative has issued an open letter to government bodies asking them to evidence their commitment to delivering the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in Somaliland. The letter was sent to Somaliland political parties, parliamentary committees, the Somaliland Cabinet and all Somaliland’s local authorities. The...

A security guard who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Somali capital of Mogadishu kidnapped the German nurse who went missing earlier this week, the country’s security minister revealed yesterday. Garowe Online reported Abdalaziz Ali Ibrahim saying: “One of the security...

The States of Djibouti and Somalia have signed a cooperation agreement in the field of air and land transport. According to the Djibouti Information Agency (ADI), which relayed the news on Wednesday (May 2nd), the agreement will allow the two countries to exploit the Djibouti-Mogadishu...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States formally complained to China after Chinese nationals pointed lasers at U.S. military aircraft near Djibouti in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Thursday, an account strongly disputed by China. Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, hosts a U.S. military...