Somalia

By: UNSOM Mogadishu –  The United Nations in Somalia confirms today that an international employee of a private company operating under contract to the UN has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The individual is employed by a private commercial firm operating within Aden...

By : East Africa Ethiopia prime minister has sent emissaries to Kenya and Somalia seeking to have their maritime border dispute resolved without worsening flagile diplomatic ties in the Horn of Africa. Officials in Nairobi and Mogadishu said Abiy, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Authority on...

The Somalia Mogadishu Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training and Research Hospital announced the birth of quintuplets, one of the rarest births in the world. “A mom gave birth 5 little babies (quintuplets) in our hospital, one of the rarest births in the world,” the hospital...

Security Council Press Statement on Somalia: On 24 January, the members of the Security Council were briefed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Michael Keating and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Madeira on the...

The Chairman of the Upper House, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, yesterday appointed an interim committee tasked with solving the rift between the presidency and the Speaker of the Somali Parliament. Made up of ten members, Abdirizak Jurrile, a Senator, is the Chairman of the Committee. Mr...

By: Zakeriye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent Somalia's government forces ended Mogadishu's Hayat hotel's siege last midnight, after more than 24 hours, Al-Qaeda's terrorist-linked group Alshabab militants claimed responsibility for the Hayat hotel attack, per a statement the...

By: Zakeriye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been officially inaugurated on Thursday. Various delegations from different countries in the region and Somalia’s international partners attended the inauguration of the 10th President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the Afisyoni...

Asmara, 06 September 2018- Foreign Ministers of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia have travelled to Djibouti. The joint high-level committee is composed of Mr. Osman Saleh, Foreign Minister of Eritrea, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Foreign Minister...

By:INDIA TODAY doctors at Yashoda hospital in Hyderabad saved the life of Faduma, a 5-year-old girl from Somalia, who was suffering from Wilm’s tumor, a very rare type of kidney cancer. The 5-year-old patient was brought to the hospital by her family where she got diagnosed...

Horndiplomat-On January 1, Somalia has expelled the UN's top envoy, Nicholas Haysom, accusing him of "shaming" the world body by acting like the country's ruler. The Somalia Foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad told BBC Africa said the UN envoy was "no longer welcome" in the country. "Mr...