Africa

By: MoDuale Djibouti’s Ministry of Health has announced 38 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Horn of Africa nation to 4,207. The Djiboutian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Sunday, disclosed that from a total of 439 people who...

By Ahmed N. Amin H In recent week Somaliland, foreign policy ventured into some troubled waters by taking some bold and unexpected steps when it went against well- established red lines drawn by the Chinese government when it made diplomatic ties with Taiwan. The high-profile signing...

By: Qatar Petroleum The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals by the government of Kenya. Following such approval, the partners comprising the consortium will consist of affiliates of each of Eni (the operator) with a 41.25% participating interest, Total with a 33.75% participating interest,...

By: Reuters  Preliminary results from Kenya's presidential election showed a tight race between the two main candidates vying to replace President Uhuru Kenyatta, with citizens praying an announcement of a winner would not unleash violence as in...

Horndiplomat-Somalia and its international partners agreed on a Mutual Accountability Framework to narrow their joint focus to priority areas for action and resources in order to achieve key priority outcomes before December 2020. The following statement was issued today by the Somalia Partnership Forum COMMUNIQUÉ Somalia...

Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA) demands Somaliland Non-State Actors Forum (SONSAF) to clarify its position towards the safety and work of the human rights defenders of Somaliland. Having considered a written complaint submitted by a human rights defender, and after analyzing the comments he...

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Michael Keating, joins the country’s President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmaajo” in calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities between ‘Somaliland’ and Puntland forces following recent fighting in the Tukaraq area of the Sool region. The United Nations urges...

By:REUTERS NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya’s opened a $1.5 billion Chinese-built railway line linking Nairobi to Naivasha on Wednesday, despite delays in building an industrial park in the Rift Valley town to encourage freight. The extension links to another Chinese funded and built $3.2 billion line...

By: Staff writer Djiboutian President, Ismael Omar Guelleh, Kenyan President, William Ruto, and  Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday arrived in the Somali Capital Mogadishu to attend the regional security Summit. The...

By: UNHCR More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of...