Africa

The Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier will make a three-day official visit to Ethiopia at the end of this month. The President will meet FDRE President H.E Sahle-Work Zewde and Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed and discuss on ways of...

Addis Ababa, June 21, 2018 -Leaders of IGAD memeber states are arriving in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part at the 32nd Extra-Ordinary Summit of IGAD scheduled to take place today. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and President of Djibouti, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, have arrived...

BY: Abdirahman Abdullahi Jibril (Awliyo Although we all know that life is temporary, at the same time death is inevitable and cannot be delayed. I personally feel great sorrow when I heard the passing of Ibrahim Hashi Jama.

By M.A. Egge, Horntribune Allied insurgency and invasion groups have prepared a plan to disrupt the security of Somaliland and the entire Horn of Africa region. These charges contained in a dossier with...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Independent Civil Society Organizations express concern over the extension of terms and postponement of elections. The following statement was issued today by the Somaliland independent civil society organizations.  We, the under signed Independent Civil Society Organisations, do hereby express deep regret over the continuous extensions...

By:CPJ Nairobi, July 12, 2021 — Somali authorities should investigate the recent attack on journalist and press freedom advocate Hanad Ali Guled and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On the night of June 23,  four unidentified men attacked Hanad,...

By: THE VICE When the U.S. Navy received a distress call Sunday from an Israeli-owned commercial ship off the coast of Yemen, the assumption was, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials, that Iranian-backed Houthi militants had targeted the...

By JAMA NOOR I’ve always dreamt of studying at Oxford University, and that dream came true when I began my studies at Saïd Business School. After being accepted onto the Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership, I was initially reluctant to start the course immediately due to...

By Dawit Endeshaw Ethiopia is to start extracting the first ever natural gas deposit from Ethio-Somali Region as of tomorrow, The Reporter learnt. It is to be recalled that back in March 2018, Poly-GCL, a Chinese company engaged in oil and gas exploration and development project in the...

Somalia's MPs are due to elect the country's president at the heavily guarded airport complex in Mogadishu, as the rest of the capital is not safe. Traffic has been banned, schools have been shut and a no-fly zone imposed over Mogadishu to prevent attacks.Despite this,...