Africa

Hargeisa- 7th January 2018- The Human Rights Centre today condemned the conviction and sentencing of journalists Mohamed Abdilahi Dabshid, a journalist at Kalsan TV, and Ahmed Dirie Iiltire of SBC television and Xeegonews. A regional court in Borama sentenced the two journalists today, 7th January...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Journalist Association Condemns the Suspension of Foore Newspaper by the Maroodijeh regional court.Horndiplomat The following statement was issued today by Somaliland journalist association(Solja) This is a quick alert upon the court decision against Foore Newspaper which has been on-going recently. After Foore newspaper published14/10/2018 a news article regarding...

By:Subeir A. Salah Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, has been a rapidly growing city for the last three decades as Somaliland returned to its sovereignty from so-called greater Somalia. Slightly flashing back to the late 80s, Hargeisa has experienced a vast and unprecedented large-scale...

The electoral commission set a date for October 17 but Raila Odinga wants his legal and constitutional conditions met. Raila Odinga, Kenya's opposition leader, has set conditions for taking part in a presidential vote rerun in October after the Supreme Court annulled last month's poll won...

By: BLOOMBERG Somalia’s central bank aims to replace the only high-value currency note still in use by next year to deal with counterfeit bills, excess cash in circulation and inflation. The redesigned 1,000-shilling notes will...

Horndiplomat-Somali lower House of Parliament is wrestling with politically motivated motion against its speaker, Mr Mohamed Osman Jawari. The motion accuses the speaker of inability and power abuse, a case that speaker denies. Mr. Jawari, 72 Norwegian citizen of Somali origin, is in his second term of the...

By: BBC AFRICA The death toll from Somalia's ongoing floods has risen to 110, the UN humanitarian agency UN OCHA said on Sunday. More than one million people have been displaced and 2.4 million...

The Governor of Somaliland’s drought-ravaged eastern province of Togdheer stood calmly against a backdrop of flimsy shelters created out of thorn bushes and scraps of plastic and torn cloth that had sprung up in the two months that I’d last been in the villages...

International Prisoners’ Justice Day In 2019 Bukhari Abdi, 15, was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing a phone in a small town between Hargeisa and Berbera. The phone he stole was worth $50 USD. While serving his sentence at Mandera prison, Bukhari met Nimco,...

Mubarak Farah was eight years old when he began teaching himself to play the piano. A refugee who came to Ottawa with his family when he was three, Farah listened to the Somali folk music played from his family’s cassettes, matching the notes on...