Africa

By:ETHIOPIA HERALD ADDIS ABABA – The first phase expansion project of world-class Port of Berbera is to be finalized this year, Somaliland Permanent Diplomatic Mission in Ethiopia Deputy Amb. Barkhad Mohamoud Kaariye told The Ethiopian Herald. He said in an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald,...

By: MoDuale Ethiopia's Somali region Vice President Aden Farah elected Speaker of House of Federation (HoF), replacing Keria Ibrahim, who resigned from her position last Monday after serving for the past two years. Mr Etsegent Mengistu was elected Deputy Speaker of the Federation, replacing Mohammed Reshid....

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: Staff Writer Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Gedu Andargachew appreciated the recent briefing made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the situation of GERD for calling the tripartite to resolve issues according to international law and accepted...

By: MoDuale Djibouti’s Ministry of Health has announced 38 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Horn of Africa nation to 4,207. The Djiboutian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Sunday, disclosed that from a total of 439 people who...

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) welcomes the release of journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon from the jail in Hargeisa on Saturday 6 June, 2020 after spending one year and 49 days in prison. Somaliland police in Burao arrested freelance journalist Oldon on 17 April 2019 over critical Facebook articles....

By: Mohamed Olad Hassan, Sahra Idle Nur Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi says authorities in Mogadishu pose the biggest challenge for the autonomous region’s fight for recognition as an independent state, 29 years after the region broke away from Somalia after the overthrow of military ruler...

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...

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...

By:constructionreviewonline The construction of the Grand Bara solar power plant has been green-lighted by the government of the Republic of Djibouti, following the adoption of a preliminary assessment of the project. Located at the Grand Bara region, of the East African country situated at the horn...