Africa

By: National The bodies of four members of the UAE armed forces killed in a terrorist attack in Somalia were repatriated on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence announced. An officer from the Bahrain...

Powerful blasts followed by heavy gunfire send plumes of smoke billowing into the air in Somali capital. At least 20 people have been killed and 17 wounded in explosions followed by heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to police. Plumes of smoke billowed into the...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemeriam Desalegn and two other government officials have been summoned by a federal high court to serve as witnesses in the ongoing terrorism and criminal trials of two Oromo opposition leaders and 15 others. The Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament Abadula Gemeda...

On Friday’s marathon and 10-kilometer races held in Hargeisa, Somaliland, 200 athletes from around the world participated. Not only was the run colorful and exotic to the international runners but, to them, it was also an event that beautifully merged the excitement of visiting new...

By Hawa Ebrahim A. Koshen The recent agreement this month between Dubai Ports World (DP World) and the Somaliland government to expand and invest in the port of Berbera was celebrated by Somalilanders all over the world. My recent visit to Somaliland and Berbera confirmed...

On representatives from Somaliland Civil Society Organizations have assembled for half-day meeting held at the Somaliland Non – State Actors Forum (SONSAF) office in Hargeisa. The objective of the meeting Yesterday was to discuss the latest developments in the selection of National Election Commissionaires (NEC)....

The Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International today sent a joint letter to the president of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, expressing concern over a restrictive amended media law and asking the president to take concrete steps...

by Tirsit Yetbarek Seme Hargeisa’s Saryan Museum is a small wonder . The peaceful atmosphere around the white buildings of its compound, not far from the Hargeisa Cultural Centre, in the Sha'ab neighbourhood of Somaliland’s capital, gives a feeling of nothing much happening, but the...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed will hold discussions on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, with leaders of opposition parties registered in Ethiopia. Those parties that have returned back to the country at the invitation the Prime Minister will also take part at the discussion, according...

In May, Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken was killed in a raid on a terrorist compound in Somalia. He was the first US service member to die in combat in the Horn of Africa nation since the infamous Black Hawk Down incident in 1993, when...