Somalia

By: PDONLINE Somaliland has asked Somalia to keep off the developments of the Port of Berbera by the United Arab Emirates company DP World. Somaliland liaison office in Nairobi speaking on behalf of the government said Somalia had no moral authority interfering with the expansion of...

BY: INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES On 1 June, Somaliland’s President Muse Bihi Abdi officially inaugurated the first 12 km of Berbera Corridor, a trade and transport route that connects landlocked Ethiopia to Somaliland’s Port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. The Addis Ababa-Berbera highway is...

The Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) has finalized a month-long effort to monitor and analyze local media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Somalia. By the end of this month, FESOJ plans to publish the first report highlighting firsthand findings and analysis of COVID-19 media...

Mogadishu – Ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients are being supplied by IOM, the International Organization for Migration, to help thousands of Somali’s affected by the disease. The ventilators, donated to the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), and funded by the multi-donor Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), will be used...

Mary Harper, the veteran BBC reporter on Africa and now its section editor, has written a truly timely book which cuts through the political posturing, diplomatic niceties and, often, stereotypically violent narratives and imagery, to present a book which examines Al-Shabaab more accurately through...

By: MoDUALE Djibouti on Wednesday reported 229 new COVID__19 cases and four more deaths, taking the total number of cases in the country to 2,697. Djibouti has conducted a total of 24,129 COVID-19 tests so far with 18 deaths and 1185 recoveries. According to the Djibouti Health...

By: MODuale Djibouti on Tuesday reported 198 new COVID-19 cases and four more deaths bringing the total confirmed cases to 2468. Horndiplomat reports The new cases were reported out of 1043 laboratory tests. Djibouti has conducted a total of 23,140 COVID-19 tests so far with 14...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 20 May 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) welcomes the statement on Tuesday 19 May, by Maria Arena, Chair of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights, on the continuous attacks on journalists and restrictions on media freedom in Somalia. Journalists in Somalia...

By: Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat regional contributor Djibouti on Monday reported 117 new COVID-19 cases taking the total number of cases in the country to 1,518. This figure represents a major increase in new cases after the Ministry of Health recorded fewer cases in the past week....

By: XINHUA Somalia's health ministry on Sunday confirmed 64 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total tally of infections to 1,421. Fawziya Abikar, the health minister said the majority of the latest cases were recorded in Banadir which have 33, Somaliland 16, Galmudug eight, and Southwest...