Africa

By : BBC AFRICA The chairman of Uganda's electoral commission, Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, has hailed the fiercely contested presidential and parliamentary as a success. At a news conference in the capital Kampala, he said Ugandans had turned up in large numbers and voted peacefully in spite...

by Megan Iacobini de Fazio After a seven-year wait, Somaliland will go to the polls to elect a new leader. Here are five things you need to know: Why is this election important? Somalilanders will finally be choosing their new president on November 13 after inadequate funding,...

Bekele Gerba, a leading opposition chief in Ethiopia, has been granted bail by a Federal Supreme Court after months of being held in detention. Gerba who is facing criminal charges is a secretary general of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) whose main leader Merera...

By Kareem Fahim, Missy Ryan DUBAI — As a vicious civil war erupted in Yemen two years ago and triggered international alarm, the United States warned the combatants to step back. But its efforts were quietly undermined by one of the most trusted U.S. regional...

International aid agencies are warning that six million Somalis need urgent help to avoid starvation. Somalia is now facing the most severe drought in living memory; half the population is going hungry. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from Mogadishu, Somalia. Reported by Mohammed Adow SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Suhayb Abdirahman, 12, works as a porter in Gobanimo market in Hargeisa. He works more than 12 hours a day ferrying goods weighing up to 40 kg for customers on his handcart. He takes around $5 home with him. The family lives around four kilometres...

At 21, Sultan Mehmed II defeated the Eastern Roman Empire and took over Istanbul, an epic victory that led to the Ottoman Empire spanning territories on three continents for centuries to come. Great hopes make great men, as...

By: UNSOM Baidoa – South West State was the latest stop for the recently-appointed top United Nations official for Somalia, who today met that Federal Member State’s (FMS) leadership for a wide-ranging exchange on collaboration and support.

Nearly every woman in Somaliland was subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a child. Usually, a razor blade was applied to them without an anesthetic. Campaigners want the practice stopped. Halima Hassan cannot forget the day she was forced to undergo FGM. Now aged...

By: BBC AMHARIC Ethiopia's state minister of foreign affairs, Misganu Arga announced that the Ethiopian government will accept the statement that it has reached an agreement to obtain "global recognition" from Ethiopia, which would establish the independent...