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Yemeni refugees find safety and hope at school in Djibouti

Horndiplomat-Education drive at camp in the tiny African state is impoving lives of those who fled war  James Jeffrey in Djibouti City Yemeni boys in the refugee camp prove an energetic bunch. Photograph: James Jeffrey Previous ImageNext Image Previous ImagesMore Images   Using a scrunched up...

Breaking :President Trump sacks Rex Tillerson, replaces him with Mike Pompeo

Trump thanks Tillerson for his service as secretary of state, adding CIA director Pompeo will 'do fantastic job'. US President Donald Trump has sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. "Mike Pompeo, director of the CIA, will become...

Kenya a declared Guinea Worm Free country

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 23, 2018/ -- Kenya has become the latest Guinea Worm free country in the world after the WHO directorgeneral Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus accepted recommendations made by the International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (ICCDE). Dr. Ghebreyesus signed the recommendations and...

U.S. to Send Troops to Somalia Amid Blowback

BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN The global security picture is growing ever more complicated for the new U.S. president. The United States will send several dozen troops to help train Somali forces in their fight against the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabab, Pentagon officials said Friday, the...

Somaliland’s women show their entrepreneurial spirit

In the sprawling market of Somaliland’s capital city, Hargeisa, women clad in headscarves or abaya shawls from head to foot engage in volatile haggling with shoppers, and woe betide any man that crosses them – the volume becomes deafening. Somaliland’s religious conservativism – sharia law...

Full text of Donald Trump’s speech on Jerusalem

Here is the full text of US President Donald Trump's Wednesday speech on Jerusalem, in which he recognised the disputed city as Israel's capital: When I came into office, I promised to look at the world's challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. We...

United States Ambassador to Somalia Presents Letter of Credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs

Horndiplomat-The United States Ambassador to Somalia Stephen M. Schwartz presented a copy of his letter of credence from President Barack Obama to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdisalam Omar Hadliye on August 9, 2016, at a meeting in Mogadishu. The letter of credence formally...

Somali Bantu cab driver mourned as suspects remain at large

  Hundreds of people mourned the Somali Bantu cab driver who died after he was beaten in Beltzhoover, offering a solemn prayer Sunday afternoon at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh. While two of the four suspects were still at large, many at the Oakland mosque helped...

Somalia opposition lawmakers reject extension of president’s tenure

Somalia: More than 100 opposition lawmakers reject extension of president’s tenure
By: Anadolu Agency More than 100 opposition members of Somalia’s parliament held an emergency meeting Tuesday at the Jazeera Palace Hotel in the capital, declaring the formation of a national salvation cluster. They said the current president’s term expired Monday and they would not accept an...

Somaliland Civil society Press Statement on election campaign

Campaign implementation process for the Somaliland Presidential Election -13 November 2017. Horndiplomat- 30th October 2017, members of the Somaliland Civil Society Organizations have convened half day meeting held at the Somaliland Non - State Actors Forum (SONSAF) office on 30 October 2017. The objective of the meeting was...