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The Security Council today extended until 31 May 2022 the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), requesting it to strengthen its presence across the country “as the security situation allows”. Unanimously adopting resolution 2592 (2021), the Council further decided that UNSOM should continue to...

By: The Wall Street Journal Zack Vanmeter, a private equity investor in Naples, Florida, called the Somaliland government last week asking if he would accept thousands of Afghan refugees. “He suddenly called me,” said Bashir Goth, Washington’s representative for the Somaliland. Two days later, on August 25,...

By: BBC AFRICA The war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has forced more than 1.42 million students out of school and damaged more than 7,000 schools, the country's education minister says. Getahun Mekuria said neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions had also been affected as the fighting...

By: BBC AFRICA Rebel forces from Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region have accused the African Union of bias, days after the bloc appointed the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as a mediator. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Getachew Reda, accused the AU of...

By: Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of China (Taiwan) After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the COVID-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has created a profoundly devastating socio-economic impact on our interconnected world, with...

By:REUTERS  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and "a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes." Ethiopia has been embroiled in a conflict that flared nine months ago in Tigray...

By:BBC AFRICA A suspected suicide bomber has been arrested in Uganda for planning to blow up mourners at the funeral of an army commander known as “the Lion of Mogadishu". Maj-Gen Paul Lokech earned his nickname from the time he headed the African Union force in...

By: BBC AFRICA Algeria has announced it will not renew a gas-supply agreement with Morocco days after severing diplomatic relations with its North African neighbour. Rabat is currently taking 900,000 cubic metres per year of Algerian natural gas from the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, which runs from Algeria...

By AFP - Agence France Presse Somaliland has agreed "(in) principle" to take in refugees from Afghanistan, a foreign ministry official said Friday, as tens of thousands of people desperately flee the war-torn nation following a Taliban takeover earlier this month. The militants have repeatedly promised...

This paper will examine the challenges that the women faced during the parliamentary and local council elections, the key lesson learned, statistics about the role of women in Somaliland Politics, and timely and context-based recommendations from the 2021 elections. Even though Somaliland civil society...