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People suffering in Somalia's latest drought have fared better when donors deftly shift funding to emergency projects that help residents save money and stockpile food, a charity said on Tuesday. Severe drought in the Horn of Africa nation is expected to deepen until the October...

By: BBC AFRICA The death toll from Somalia's ongoing floods has risen to 110, the UN humanitarian agency UN OCHA said on Sunday. More than one million people have been displaced and 2.4 million...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Human Right Center submitted a petition to the Supreme Court to challenge the yesterday's NEC decision banning social media . On the 10th of November, in a press conference by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) was declared the closure of Social Media starting from the voting...

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...

Somalia and the UN in collaboration with other international partners have unveiled a joint policing model to strengthen peace and security at national and regional levels. The UN-backed Joint Policing Program (JPP) supports the two-tier policing structure and sets future development of strong national and...

By: BBC AFRICA Rebel forces from Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region have accused the African Union of bias, days after the bloc appointed the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as a mediator. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Getachew Reda, accused the AU of...

President Uhuru Kenyatta today held talks with President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo of Somalia who is on an official visit in the country. The two leaders discussed bilateral issues and security matters including the continued support for African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in which Kenyan forces...

The Council approved the lifting of their immunity unanimously. In an extraordinary session it conducted yesterday, the Council of Ethiopian Somali regional state stripped immunity of seven of its members. The Council lifted their immunity on suspicion of having links with recent violence in the regional...

By:Anadolu Agency Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO) the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has provided food packages to 427 families in need in Somalia during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the charity said Monday. "We are in...

( Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Paris-based Indian Ocean Newsletter reports the European Union and Britain are on the same page as to who will fill the vacuum to emerge when Amisom mandate ends in Somalia. With no Somali Army to take over from Amisom, Ethiopia...