Africa

 President Sahlework Zewde has called on women to fulfill their responsibilities and play the leading role for the success of the ongoing nationwide reform. The President made the remark here today at the official launch of countrywide Ethiopian Women’s Peace Conference and ‘Jegnit’ (heroine) Social...

BY: REUTERS An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The insurgents used car bombs in the assault on a military base in Galmudug's...

The IGAD Council of Ministers held its 61st Extra-Ordinary Session on March 26, 2018 in Addis Ababa under the Chairmanship of ; H.E Hirut Zemene, State Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia representing the Chairperson of IGAD Council of...

HornDiplomat-The President of the Republic of Somaliland H.E. Muse Biihi Abdi has met with the chairmen of the two houses Parliament (Elders and Representatives); the chairman of the House of Elders Hon: Saleban Mohamoud Adan  Accompanied by his Deputy Chairman Hon:Saed Jama Ali and accompanied...

By: The Star Somaliland is calling for African solidarity through the Hargeisa International Book Fair Celebrating its 15th anniversary of the famed Hargeisa Book fair with the theme of solidarity, the self-declared independent...

By: BBC AFRICA The European Union (EU) intends to invest 1bn euros ($1.2bn; £859m) to build Covid vaccine-manufacturing hubs in Africa. It will also donate at least 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to low- and middle-income countries by the end of the year, Ursula von...

Mohammed Ahmed Othman Al Hammadi, UAE Ambassador to Somalia, has met with Special Representative of UN Secretary-General to Somalia, Michael Keating. During the meeting, Al Hammadi and Keating discussed cooperation ties between the UAE and the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, UNSOM, as well as...

By:Shafaat Shahbandari, Staff Reporter Dubai: Competition at the 21st Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA) is heating up as the annual programme reaches the half-way mark. Several contestants, including Esmail Omar from Somalia, Magomedov Gadzhimurad from Russia and Naadih Abdul Hameed from Maldives, have made their...

The first phase of talks for the Republic of Somaliland and Khatumo officials have been successfully concluded in Addis Ababa, Yesterday. The talks followed initial contacts the two sides made in Addis Ababa and Dubai, resulting in the talks formally starting on the 17th at...

By: Euronews To mark World Refugee Day, Euronews profiles two Somalis and traces their journeys from arrival in the Nordics to their breakthroughs as politicians. _In the Nordic region, the first Somalis arrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later, as Somalia's civil war became more intense,...