Africa

By: Prensa Latina  Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez thanked on Monday his Somali counterpart, Ahmed Isse Awad, for the efforts of his government to guarantee the return of the two Cuban doctors kidnapped more than a year ago in Kenya. On Twitter, Cuba's foreign minister referred...

In his first ever press conference as Prime Minister, which was attended by many local and international journalists, Abiy Ahmed revealed information that shocked Ethiopians to the core. Somali regional government arrested political prisoners along with Lions and Hyena. And it was meant to be...

Somaliland Vice President Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismael Sayli’i met with several prospective UAE investors who paid him a courtesy call in his hotel at Dubai on Friday. The Vice President who was flanked by Somaliland UAE representative Ambassador Munir Abdillahi Abusite welcomed the entrepreneurs who proposed...

Horndiplomat-Ambassador Bashe Awil  Omar, Somaliland’s new Representative in Kenya and Head of the Somaliland Liaison Office in Kenya has embarked in Ernst in diplomatic activities, engaging with various actors including Kenya government officials and Somaliland’s International Partners based in Nairobi. Today, at the invitation of...

By:Mohamed Duale Somaliland government confirms first two cases of Coronavirus. Somaliland minister of health of Somaliland, Omar Ali Abdilahi, has announced that a Chinese national that was living in the city  of Berbera and Somaliland citizen that has recently returned from the UK have tested positive...

The Human Rights Centre condemns the suspension of local media house, CBA TV by the Somaliland government. According to the order sent to CBA TV, the Ministry of Information, National Guidance, and Culture utilized a non-existent article.

A report by the Heritage Institute of Policy  Studies (HIPS) has painted a grim picture of President Mohamed Abdualhi Farmajo performance, two years of his term. In a study examining the performance of the current government, the institute says the government has effectively used traditional...

Now that we fasted during the holy month of Ramadan and the dust of the drought settled, a dialogue that aims to discuss how to prepare for future drought is imperative in the mainstream discourse. Somaliland is geographically positioned in areas prone to insufficient rainfall. Due to...

Brendon J. Cannon, Khalifa University and Ash Rossiter, Khalifa University When Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Ethiopia became landlocked and therefore dependent on its neighbours – especially Djibouti – for access to international markets. This dependency has hampered Ethiopia’s aspiration to emerge...

By Estelle Shirbon | LONDON Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al Shabaab militants. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group...