Africa

A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant. Some of you may have noticed that it is the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. My stomach has. I can hear it groaning as I type...

By:· CBC News  On Tuesday, the United Nations officially marked the day the global population reached eight billion people. It's not an exact science. It may have happened weeks or months ago or may not even...

By:BBC Monitoring Somalia's immigration department has issued a directive stopping the issuance of visas to Kenyans on arrival in a bid to "ensure security and improve immigration management," state radio has reported. Radio Mogadishu published a letter from the immigration authorities, which asked all Kenyan passport holders travelling...

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. — Nadia Mohamed made history Tuesday night as St. Louis Park elected her as its new mayor, making her the first Somali-American to be elected mayor in the United States. Approximately 59% of voters voted for...

By:Sarah Ahmed Yusuf Integrity, transparency, equality of opportunity and equality are headlines that governments are trying to inject into the ears of their overwhelming people, but the case, as the old Arab proverb said: I hear grinding and I do not see a mill, I...

By Sam Howard  |  Nov. 4, 2017 at 8:28 AM Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Mission to Somalia on Saturday issued a directive for its non-essential American employees to leave the east African country's capital of Mogadishu. In a security message, the mission identified "specific threat information against...

By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat-Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi receives United States  Ambassador to Somalia Amb. Martin Dale at Presidential Palace. The meeting discussed issues related to democracy, security economics and Aid as well as the strengthened relationship between Somaliland and United States of America. The President accompanied...

Horndiplomat-Waddani Party Chairman Abdirahman Mohamed Abdilahi Irro Meets with UK Ambassador to Somalia Benfendor in Hargeisa on Monday. During the meeting, Waddani leader and UK Ambassador discussed the issues related to elections and violation of basic principles of constitutional rights and arrest of MP Dhakool. "It...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Yesterday's announced the appointment of Nicholas Haysom of South Africa as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).  He will succeed Michael Keating of the United Kingdom effective 1 October, to...

Kenya Airways has postponed the launch of its direct flight from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to the Somali capital Mogadishu indefinitely. The national carrier which had initially planned to fly to Mogadishu beginning November 15 was to launch its direct flights to Aden...