Africa

At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, a senior regional official said, in the latest spate of violence driven by ethnic divisions. On Monday, the Oromia regional administration's spokesman Negeri Lencho said heavily armed members of a paramilitary force...

By:Fatuma Ahmed Ali A political settlement between the Federal Government of Somalia and terror group Al-Shabaab has eluded both parties for years. Now newly elected Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo has indicated that he would be open to talks with the militants. But he also made...

By M.A. Egge The Minister of Education and Science of Somaliland Ahmed Mohamed Diriye (Toorno) Who was on a  trip and has since returned from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, held a meeting with the Saudi institution of...

By:Jama Farah , HornDiplomat Contributor  Humanitarian Journalist Abdimalik Sh. Muse Oldoon was on Saturday released in a presidential pardon a year into a three year jail term. On April 17, Abdilmalik Oldon was arrested  in Buroa City . On July 2019, Hargeisa regional court sentenced Journalist Abdimalik...

Kenyans started casting their votes Tuesday in an exercise characterized by long queues. Voting started at 6am in most polling stations where voters started trooping in as early as 3am. Kirinyaga gubernatorial candidate Martha Karua was among the first people to cast their vote at Mugumo...

Congratulatory messages from Somali and other parts of the world are being shared on social media following the election of Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf as president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Somali judge was elected to the court’s Chamber of Summary Procedure...

By: THE NATIONAL Somali pirates with links to Al Qaeda have released the Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah and its 23 crew members after receiving a ransom payment of $5 million, locals and officials in Somalia said on Sunday. The payment followed...

By: Abdirahman Abdillahi Jibril (Awliyo) May is one of the most important months for Somaliland, it is the month when Somaliland regained its independence from Somalia. Historically Somaliland’s independence goes back to June 26th 1960 when the...

 Horndiplomat-Ethiopia has restructured its defense force. Accordingly, it has downsized the number of regional commands to four from six. The new regional commands are Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern. It has also set up a committee tasked to reestablish a naval force and a special operation...

Somaliland – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, with support from the Government of Japan earlier this month held a training on trafficking, irregular migration and the establishment of a referral mechanism for irregular migrants and Victims of Trafficking (VoTs) in Somaliland. Thirty-two trainees were drawn from...