Qatar FM meets Somalia Prime Minister
By:GulfTimes
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met on Monday with the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia Hassan Ali Khayre during Sheikh Mohamed's visit to Somalia.
During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations...
Burkina Faso to sign nuclear power deal with Russia
By:BBC
Burkina Faso and Russia are on Friday due to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the west African nation, according to the state-run AIB news agency.The agreement...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced an attempted coup from a military group
Horndiplomat-Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced an attempted coup from a military group, saying that those who had participated in the uprising would “pay a heavy price”.
President Erdogan, whose location was unclear, used a video livestream on a mobile phone to respond to the...
UN: More than 130 killed in Mali ethnic attack on Fulani village
BY:NEWS AGENCIES
Survivors say traditional Donzo hunters carried out the deadly raid in Ogossagou early on Saturday.
More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, the United Nations has said, as a delegation visited the country.
Survivors accused traditional Donzo hunters...
Hundreds of children released by armed groups in South Sudan
An estimated 19,000 children continue to serve in the ranks of armed forces and groups more than four years after conflict erupted in December 2013
YAMBIO, South Sudan, February 7, 2018/ -- More than 300 children, 87 of them girls, were released by armed groups...
Malala Yousafzai made an honorary Canadian citizen
BY:Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
The advocate for girls' right to education worldwide is only the sixth person to ever receive the symbolic title.
Toronto, Canada - Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has become only the sixth person, and the youngest, to receive honorary...
Dahabshiil CEO calls for support for victims of Jigjiga Taiwan Market in Ethiopia’s Somali regional State
By: Nairobi News
Dahabshiil Group is calling on the business community in the Horn of Africa region and the international community to come together and help small businesspeople who lost their properties in the fire at Jigjiga New...
The 46th Ordinary Session of IGAD Council of Ministers Concludes
Horndiplomat-The 46th Ordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers which was held in Djibouti under the Chairmanship of Foreign Minister and Chair of the IGAD Council of Ministers, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu wrapped up later today (February 27).
The session was attended by Mahmoud Ali...
Ethiopia secures land for port facility in Sudan
By Birhanu Fikade
Following his official visit to the Sudan this week, Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has inked an agreement that would enable Ethiopia to develop a port facility at the Port Sudan through which the government contemplates to handle half its foreign trade volume.
Asked...
Trump Recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital and Orders U.S. Embassy to Move
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and setting in motion a plan to move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to the fiercely contested Holy City.
“Today we...