UK Secretary of State for Defence first visit to Somaliland
Horndiplomat-UK Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson Arrives in Somaliland-Horndiplomat reports
The Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi receives in his office UK Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson.Horndiplomat
The two sides discussed issues related to strengthening Somaliland-UK bilateral and Historical relationship.
The meeting accompanied by the president...
Somaliland Launches it’s First Maternal Booklet
Press release by Taiwan Representative Office
Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland coordinates with Somaliland’s Ministry of Health Development, Taiwan ICDF, and Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital launches the first maternal booklet in Somaliland...
Hargeisa, Somaliland – Invisible City
By: Dr. David Kilcullen, the Brenthurst Foundation
The city of Hargeisa, capital of the Republic of Somaliland, was almost completely destroyed by the Siad Barre regime in the late 1980s, as Somalia slipped into the state collapse that resulted in famine, clan violence, civil war,...
Blinken, in Ethiopia, Highlights Importance of Tigray Peace Deal
BY: VOA
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen on Wednesday as part of his one-day working visit to the country.
During brief...
Somaliland attorney general pursues journalists acquitted of publishing false news
New York, January 20, 2017--Somaliland Attorney General Hasan Ahmed Hasan should immediately drop his appeal of a court's acquittal of two journalists charged with publishing false news and operating an unlicensed newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
An appeals court in Hargeisa, the...
US:Barack Obama returns to public life
Having largely remained silent since Donald Trump succeeded him as US president in January, Barack Obama will make his first public appearance on Monday in his adopted hometown of Chicago.
The former president will participate in a discussion with students from Chicago schools on community...
Ethiopia PM Appoints Officials
Horndiplomat-The Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed today appointed the following officials:
1. Hailay Berhane- National Security Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister
2. Dr Epherem Tekle- Commissioner of Job Creation Commission
Amid security challenges, Somalia removes 1,500 intel officers
Somalia’s intelligence chief fired 1,500 intelligence officers including the Mogadishu chief in a new major shakeup of the country’s spy agency which is struggling to contain a deadly insurgency by al-Shabab militants, sources told Alleastafrica Saturday.
Gen. Abdullahi Gafow told the officers to abandon their...
Somalia Prepares for One Man, One Vote Polls by 2020
By:Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI
African and Arab election experts are in Kenya this week meeting with Somalia's electoral commission to help the country prepare to move to “one person, one vote” elections in 2020.
The year 2004 marked the beginning of the end to more than two...
UN fires senior Somalia mission official for ‘fraud’
by Jeff Mwaura, jeff@alleastafrica.com
NAIROBI – The United Nations’ Somalia Mission has fired one of the organization’s longest-serving officials over allegations ranging from black market transactions to fraud, sources told Alleastafrica.
Amadu Kamara, the director of Mission Support, UNSOM and Director of UNSOA, an office that...