Africa

"The objective is to support the Somali government as it progresses towards delivering the future that the people of Somalia deserve.” -- Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander, U.S. AFRICOM.U.S. Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), met with senior government officials...

Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails By:Tom Wilson in Hargeisa It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in...

Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) herby regrets the delay of the scheduled March 2019 local council and parliamentarian elections Announced by Somaliland National Electoral Commission.  Somaliland is different from many African countries due to its mature politics and democratization process. But this election delay...

A tweet by Martin Plaut,  the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies,  left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...

A 20-member delegation composed of senior leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) will arrive in Ethiopia on Saturday. Among members of the delegation include chair of the Front, Mohamed Umar, according to Spokesperson of ONLF. The Front’s army last week returned to the Somali...

NAIROBI – Somaliland government, through its Liaison office in Nairobi, will on Friday hold a major investment conference in the Kenyan capital to woo investors to the Horn of Africa nation. Somaliland is targeting top Kenyan and East African investors to Hargeisa and Berbera, the...

( Horn Diplomat News Desk ) Khadar Muhumad, the author of a new book on Somalia-Somaliland talks, launched it at Hargeysa Cultural Centre.Horndiplomat Reports The book, Kalamaan ( Opposing Views ) discusses the genesis of the talks in London in 2012 and the diametrically opposing...

(Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Chairman of the Somaliland opposition party, UCID, Faisal Ali Warabe, called for the government and businesses in Somaliland to embrace a culture of competition. "Our constitution stipulates free trade. We must bring to an end monopolies in Somaliland" Faisal...

Horndiplomat-Representatives from Ministry of Trade, China International Expo Center and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association jointly briefed the media on the upcoming first China-Africa Expo due to open between December 3 and 6, 2018 at the Addis Ababa Exhibition Center. The expo...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopia State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Hirut Zemene receives UK Director for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( Foreign Office) Ms Harriett Baldwin, on Monday (November 26), and the two sides have agreed to expand the bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and the...