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A miraa exporter has sued the state for declaring him a prohibited immigrant. Ethiopian businessman Abdullahi Said, said the decision will have painful ramifications for his children who were born in Kenya and will affect their right to education. He said he is apprehensive he will be...

By:Marie-Luise Schueller and Michael Walls with contributions from Amina-Bahja Ekman, Anna Rader and Jama Musse Jama The Somaliland voter registration process began on 16 January 2016, concluding on 26 September 2016, and was conducted by the Somaliland National Electoral Commission (NEC) in all six regions...

By: Xinhua MOGADISHU, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Somalia's gross domestic product (GDP) could remain broadly unchanged at around 2.9 percent in 2019 if normal rains resume later this year. The IMF, whose board completed review of Somalia last month,...

By: EXPRESS A major opportunity to tackle the Red Sea crisis is “staring Britain in the face” if it is willing to end 33 years of an “unfair” diplomatic isolation of a former outpost of the Empire....

Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed today had a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, the Speakers of the two Houses and Chief Administrators of Amhara and Tigray regional states over the current situation in Raya and its surroundings. The meeting concluded that any...

The US secretary of state visited Qatar on the second stop of his Gulf tour.   SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Hargeisa, Somaliland: A Dubai-based health care group last week reached out to thousands of famine-hit refugees and distributed food in the east-African country of Somaliland ahead of Eid Al Adha. A group of volunteers from Aster DM Healthcare distributed meals in Buraco town, east of...

Amid tight security Somali MPs have chosen a new president. Casting their vote in an aircraft hanger the representatives chose ex-Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" to lead the war-torn country. Abdirashid Duale the CEO of Dahabshiil the largest Africa-based money transfer company, gave us...

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, together with his delegation, arrived in Khartoum, Sudan this morning for talks with the Chief of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, Lt. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. During his Sudan visit, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also held discussions with members of...

BY:BBC AFRICA Tech giant Facebook says that it has removed more than a dozen accounts and pages on Facebook and Instagram "from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey. "We removed 17 Facebook accounts, six Pages, and three Instagram accounts from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan,...