Africa

By: Abdiqani Ainan Perspective: As the country struggles and juggles to deal with mass aggression of high transmissibility of SARSCOV-2 through super spreading by community contact, it is yet to lay the strategic plan out with a weak informative operational approach. Back to the concept...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor Kenyan diplomat arrives in Somaliland last week to establish the country's consulate. anonymous official confirms the Kenyan diplomatic delegation was to oversee the preparations of inaugurating Kenyan consulate in Hargeisa. The Kenyan delegation has met the top officials of Somaliland foreign affairs...

America's bruising presidential campaign have regularly been called upon to defend their embattled partners. Nigeria's president is probably wishing his wife had kept quiet. In a candid interview with the BBC, Aisha Buhari revealed Friday that she may not back her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, if...

Hundreds of Somalians in the capital Mogadishu trooped to the Banadir Stadium on Friday evening to witness the country’s first football match under floodlight in three decades. Since the start of the civil war, no football match has ever been played at night and the...

MOGADISHU (REUTERS) - Two car bombs exploded in the Somali capital on Friday (Feb 23) and shooting broke out near the president’s residence, police said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the incidents. In the past, Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents have claimed responsibility for bombings...

By M.A. Egge The President of the Republic of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi on Monday received the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mrs. Catriona Laing, at the Presidency. They...

By: BBC AFRICA Mali's former Prime Minister Boubèye Maïga has been arrested over alleged corruption during the purchase of a presidential plane seven years ago. His lawyer Kassoum Tapo said details about his Thursday arrest were still unclear. Mr Maïga is said to have been involved in...

By CORRESPONDENT,  NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Pressure is mounting on Somaliland and Somalia to sit on a round table and sort their political and border disputes. The international community wants talks between the leadership in Hargeisa (Somaliland) and Mogadishu (Somalia) to re-open dialogue to end the...

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) strongly condemns the raid and the closure of Universal TV headquarters in Hargeisa by Somaliland police on Saturday 27 June, 2020, the second station shuttered in three days. Around 1:45 pm (local time), armed police stormed the privately-owned independent TV and suspended...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor The number of coronavirus cases in Somalia stands 928 following the minister of health Fawziya Abikar report on Thursday that confirmed 55 new cases in the past 24 hours. The minister also said during the daily briefing, five patients succumbed to...