Africa

By:XINHUA The international partners on Tuesday welcomed reforms in Somalia's security sector to help flush out the al-Shabab militant group. The partners from the United Nations, African Union, European Union, Britain, and the United States welcomed the initiative by Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire to brief...

Horndiplomat- Ethiopian Ambassador to Djibouti,  Ambassador Abdulaziz Mohammed held talks with President of the National Assembly of the republic of Djibouti, Mohamed Ali Houmed. During the meeting Ambassador Abdulaziz noted that Ethiopia attaches particular importance to its long standing ties with Djibouti and is keen...

By M.A. Egge The state has initiated the educational programmes of in-mates in the country’s prisons. At par to the pledges the Kulmiye administration highlighted in the Presidential campaigns, the education programmess for both mainstream and vocational apprenticeship was un-veiled officially by the VP Abdirahman Abdillahi...

By:UrduPoint News / Sputnik 21 Mar 2019 – (EP) Ethiopia and Eritrea will sign an agreement to rebuild the road infrastructure connecting the two countries as part of an EU-funded project in a few months, Mehreteab Mulugeta, the director general for European affairs at the...

By M.A. Egge The powerful Upper House of bicameral parliament, the GUURTI, has averred that the expected forthcoming general elections recently re-scheduled by nine months as to be held by December 2019 will again not have its holding in time feasible. This was divulged to the...

BY:NEWS AGENCIES Survivors say traditional Donzo hunters carried out the deadly raid in Ogossagou early on Saturday. More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, the United Nations has said, as a delegation visited the country. Survivors accused traditional Donzo hunters...

BY:HOL Mogadishu-The Somali government has recalled its ambassador to UN Human Rights Council on Friday, barely a day after Somalia abstained to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Ambassador Faduma Abdullahi Mohamed was summoned to Mogadishu by the Somali Foreign...

BY:REUTERS MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia’s al Shabaab stormed a government building on Saturday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed during the ensuing gun battle. In the latest bombing claimed by...

BY:REUTERS Al-Shabab fighters stormed a Somali government building in Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least four people in a suicide car bomb attack and an ensuing gunfight. A large explosion shook the centre of the Somali capital in the latest bombing by the group, which is fighting...

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...