Africa

By : THE STANDARD The Kenyan passport is the seventh most powerful in Africa with its citizens able to visit 72 out of 104 countries without a visa. Kenya, which ties with Swaziland in...

By: Staff Writer Somalia Prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has announced a new Cabinet consisting of a Deputy Prime minister and 26 ministeries with 4 female ministers. 15 of the ministers (over 50%) are from the outgoing cabinet. Mahdi Gulaid, Ministers of finance Abdirahman Dualeh...

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemarian Desalegn, has reiterated that contrary to pressure by the international bodies to send independent investigators to look into the death of protesters, the country will empower its institutions to probe the deaths. The United Nations (EU) and European Union (EU) have...

Massawa, 09 February 2019-  President Alpha Conde of the Republic of Guinea arrived in Massawa today, 9 February, for an official visit in Eritrea. Upon arrival at the Massawa International Airport, President Alpha Conde was awarded warm welcome by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other...

By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat-Somaliland Minister of Information Abdirahman Abdillahi Farah (Guri-Barwaqo) told the government news agency SOLNA, alleged Somalia's semiautonomous region Puntland early on Thursday launched an attack on Somaliland troops in Frontline. The Somaliland government spokesman Mr Abdirahman Guribarwaqo blames the semiautonomous region of Somalia Puntland...

Every nation in the world belongs to economic institutions whose main activity is on how to shoulder the responsibility of stabilizing of its macroeconomic policies in order to avoid the economic problems that could distort the entire system of economic functionality. The prudential regulatory...

By: Daily Sabah Turkish companies have continued their work in Africa with devotion despite logistical issues and coronavirus-related measures, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday. Erdoğan's remarks came during his speech at the opening ceremony of the virtual Turkey-Africa Economy and Business Forum, which kicked off...

During a UK Commons Chamber debate on the situation in the Red Sea, Sir Michael Ellis MP asked the Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps whether he considered engaging with Somaliland. In response, the Secretary of State...

The Eritrean President, Isaias Afeworki has downplayed reports alleging his country’s deepened ties with Egypt are intended to sabotage the construction of Ethiopia’s massive hydro-power dam project. The Nile River is a lifeline to some 80% of Egyptians and the desert North African nation fears...

By:Hassan jama, Horndiplomat Contributor Ethiopia has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus. Horndiplomat reports Takele Uma Banti, the mayor of the capital Addis Ababa, tweeted that a Japanese citizen was the person affected. "We should avoid meetings and hand contacts," the mayor wrote on Twitter. According...