Africa

The Somali Partnership Forum, a major conference on the Horn of Africa state, has opened in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day forum is jointly chaired by the Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo and the European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Federica Magherini. The meeting is a follow...

By: Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat political editor Horndiplomat-Somaliland President has granted presidential pardon to 19 ex-pirates transferred from Seychelles. Horndiplomat reports According to the Presidential statement, Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has pardoned 19 prisoners who were convicted for pirate acts in Seychelles and were serving their...

  Kenya and Somalia Thursday opened a new charter of cooperation by announcing plans to open two border posts and a re-launch of direct flights between Nairobi and Mogadishu. President Uhuru Kenyatta said Kenya and Somalia have agreed to revitalise their engagement in all areas of...

By:Jama Farah ,Horndiplomat Contributor Eritrea has confirmed its first coronavirus case, in a traveler arriving from Norway, its information minister said on Saturday. "The Ministry of Health announced this evening the first confirmed case of a coronavirus patient who arrived at Asmara International Airport from Norway...

By: Sudan Tribune The Sudanese government formally declined Kenya’s leadership of the  IGAD Quartet tasked with the mediation of the armed conflict in the country.,accusing the East African nation of lacking neutrality. In...

INTRODUCTION According to dominant paradigms of international relations theories, a country’s foreign policy consists of the self-interested strategies chosen by the state to protect its national interests, and the deployment of the various tools of diplomacy and statecraft in order to...

butted out, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki thinks Africa is in trouble. The continent needs progressive leaders and such leaders are simply nowhere to be found, he says. Mbeki made the remarks at a question-and-answer session organized for the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute by the Thabo...

By:Jama farah ,HornDiplomat Contributor Former Somalia Presidents Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud visit hospitals to meet with victims of the bombing. The two leaders accused the govt of “failing its responsibility” to protect civilians from terror attacks. After the visit, the former of head of...

By:BBC Uganda's president has downplayed the US' decision to expel the East African country from a major trade deal. Last week, Joe Biden announced Uganda and three other countries would be dropped from...

The Somali regional state in Ethiopia has officially announced the closure of its main prison facility, located in the capital, Jijiga. The Jijiga Central Prison also referred to as ‘Jail Ogaden,’ has been at the center of a Human Rights Watch, HRW, report that exposed...