Africa

Aden, Yemen (ANN)-Hamed Jama Hussein (aka حامد جامع) , a cultured intellectual, died in Aden, where he lived and lived the lives of ordinary people as a whole, her subsistence life. He only left for Aden on Monday when he died. He did not leave...

By: Busiweek This is a departure from the Kingdom’s previously long-held position of issuing visas on Somali passports holders and not Somaliland passports. The issuance of the visas to Somalilanders starts with those who will be heading for pilgrimage in Mecca this month. Already, the president of...

By: Hiiraan The Thai government announced this week that about 50 migrants have been detained on the beaches near Bossaso, Bari region. Thailand's foreign ministry spokesman Busadee Santipitaks said Wednesday that Puntland authorities and the federal government have responded positively to a request by their embassy...

By: REUTERS NAIROBI (Reuters) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $98 million financial package for Ethiopia for a road transport corridor project to neighboring Djibouti, it said late on Tuesday. The project’s total cost is $255 million, comprising an AfDB grant of $98...

By: MoDuale Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki today, 6 August, received and held talks with senior Saudi delegation led by Let. Gen. Prince Fahad bin Turki bin Abdulaziz, Commander of the Coalition Forces against Terrorism. The meeting that was held at the State Palace was focused on...

By: Yusuf Hassan, Horndiplomat Correspondent in Mogadishu Horndiplomat- US Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale met today with Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre in Mogadishu, Somalia. According to the US Mission to Somalia, The Under Secretary reaffirmed America’s commitment to assist Somalia with political...

By: Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat political editor  Somali state President Mr.Mustafe Muhummed Omar and Oromia regional Deputy Chief of Administrator Mr.Shinmelis Abdisa have visited development projects in Degehabur, Shimelis was presented with a gift of Camel from President Mustafa. The two regional states held a consultative forum...

By: Mohamed Duale The 2nd Conference on Reconciliation and Strengthening Cooperation in Somali and the Oromo Regional States has kicked off in Jigjiga capital of Somali state of Ethiopia, Sunday. The officials of the two regional states led by Somali state President Mr.Mustafe Muhummed Omar and...

In recent decades Ivory Coast has proved to be something of a bell-weather country for political and economic stability across West Africa, which makes the fact that there is such an alarming knowledge deficit about it in the Anglosphere particularly regrettable. Politically the situation...

Between the 16th and 20th of July, a delegation of diplomatic officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) of Somaliland attended the annual International Youth Diplomacy Conference held in Accra, Ghana.  This Conference is the flagship event of the educational...