Africa

By: Abdirizak Haybe Pastoralists live in areas often labelled as peripheral, remote, conflict-prone, food insecure and linked with high levels of vulnerability. Pastoral communities of Ethiopia occupy 61% of the total landmass and 97% of Ethiopian pastoralists found in low land areas of Somali, Afar,...

By:XINHUA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Sunday visited the Adama Industrial Park as well as the Eastern Industrial Zone. According to the Office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, the two leaders during their...

Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) have inked a bilateral labor agreement which would ensure the protection of the rights of Ethiopian nationals and help them work in the Emirates legally. The bilateral labor agreement was...

COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General have passed new regional legal instruments among them, the COMESA Airspace Agreement and the Agreement on Admission of Somalia to COMESA. The regional airspace Agreement and its enabling regulations aims at achieving a seamless upper airspace for the...

By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief @HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat-Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi have congratulated Sahlework Zewde on her election as the new President of Ethiopia. Ambassador Sahlework was elected as President of Ethiopia yesterday, replacing Mulatu Teshome, who resigned on the same day. Read more: What you need to know about...

By:Hassan Jama,HornDiplomat Contributor Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presided over the signing of MOU’s between the Federal Ministry of Innovation and Technology and the e-Commerce giant Alibaba Group, establishing an eWTP Hub in Ethiopia (eWTP). With the rapid development of digital technology in diverse fields globally,...

By: Taiwan focus Against Beijing's strong objections, an official delegation from the Czech Republic, headed by Senate President Miloš Vystrčil, arrived in Taiwan Sunday on a six-day visit aimed at strengthening economic and cultural ties between the two countries. The 89-member delegation arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Horndiplomat-Nigeria's Chief of Intelligence Ahmed Rufai Abubakar on Tuesday arrived in Mogadishu and will be in the country on a 2-day visit. The spy chief, Abubakar, has met his Somali counterpart, Fahad Yasin, according to the Somali National Intelligence &...

Press-Release The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will officially inaugurate it's Regional Cancer Centre of Excellence (RCCE) at a ceremony in Addis Ababa to be presided over by the IGAD Executive Secretary, Ambassadors of the IGAD member states, senior Government of Ethiopia officials, and development...

Somalia is facing a very real risk of famine, with more than 6 million people, half of Somali population, facing acute food insecurity in the country, three UN agencies have warned. According to the latest findings, by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit(FSNAU) in...