Africa

By Jibril Jirde Somaliland is a democratic and peaceful country where the people always live in the dreams of hope and waiting for better days in the future ahead, but they are struggling to catch the leader who can turn the visions into factual. Somaliland people...

Irish Prime Minister Mr. Loe Varadkar will pay an official visit to Ethiopia next week, 9 January 2019. During his visit Prime Minister Mr. Loe Varadkar is scheduled to hold discussion with President Sahlework- Zewdie and Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed, on Bilateral and Multilateral...

Horndiplomat-The United Nations  Secretary-General António Guterres deeply regrets the decision of Somalia to declares UN Envoy persona non grata.-Horndiplomat reports The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General deeply regrets the decision of the Government of the Federal Republic of...

Addis Ababa, January 4, 2019 (FBC) – Minister of Urban Development and Construction, Jantirar Abay, said his office is preparing a 30-year spatial plan of Ethiopia. This was revealed at a meeting organized here today to raise awareness on the plan. The event attracted members of...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with  Mr. Wang Yi, State Counselor and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China on January 3, 2019. Acknowledging the longstanding relationship between the two countries and China’s immense contribution to Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy highlighted that in...

Ethiopia Foreign Minister Dr.Workneh Gebeyehu welcomed Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister H.E Wang Yi earlier this morning. (January 03) The State Councilor and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Wang Yi noted the historic and solid relationship between the peoples and...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned Tuesday’s attacks against the UN compound in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, saying that intentionally attacking UN personnel may constitute "a violation of international humanitarian law.” Seven mortars landed inside the compound, injuring two UN staff members and one contractor....

Horndiplomat-Statement of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-general for Somalia, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, to the UN Security Council on 3 january 2019- Following is the Statement : Thank you Mr. President, I arrived in Somalia on 3 October and have been well received by prominent officials...

Horndiplomat-On January 1, Somalia has expelled the UN's top envoy, Nicholas Haysom, accusing him of "shaming" the world body by acting like the country's ruler. The Somalia Foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad told BBC Africa said the UN envoy was "no longer welcome" in the country. "Mr...

Mr  Haysom will find it difficult to reconcile the 2014 UNSOM-Federal Government Agreement with the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy he had invoked in the letter to the Security Minister, writes Liban Ahmad In 2014 the former Somali Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Abdirahman Beyle,  and Former SRSG  to Somalia Nicholas...