Africa

This study was prepared ahead of the second African girls' summit on ending child marriage organized by the African Union in Ghana. It is adapted from a recent global study on the cost of not educating girls (Wodon et al., 2018), and also relies...

A crisis in the Gulf has had an unexpected consequence - a rush to build ports all down the Somali coast. But, as Mary Harper writes, some fear it could tear the Horn of Africa apart. Somaliland's port town of Berbera is sleepy and somewhat...

By:ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES Surfing the internet with seamless reliable connectivity has now become the new normal onboard Ethiopian Airlines flights thanks to the onboard WiFi internet connectivity the Airline introduced on its A350 fleet using the latest broadband satellite technology (Ka-band). With the state-of-the-art broadband satellite technology,...

By the Peninsula  Qatar Fund for Development sent 45 tons of food aid baskets to assist 750 affected families in the Somaliland region, in order to address the difficult conditions as a result of drought, in addition to the fire that erupted in the main...

Horndiplomat-The Somaliland Government has accused the Somalia federal government of "inciting acts of violence" in Sool Region of Somaliland. Horndiplomat Reports The Reports from Sool Region Says that fighting erupted in TukaRaq district in Sool, and it was not known exactly what caused the clashes...

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...

Horndiplomat- Somaliland government released two journalists Mohamed Bidhanshe and Abdirahman Tungub that was arrested on Tuesday while covering a protest march in Las Anod, Sool region in southeastern Somaliland. Somaliland Journalist Association SOLJA confirmed Horndiplomat that they're managed and negotiated with the Sool regional officials the release...

By: Anadolu Agency At least seven people were killed and several others wounded by a suicide bomber targeting a busy restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia on Friday evening, a police official said. The attack took place near Mogadishu Airport at a popular restaurant frequently visited by government...

I am a mom. But to me that has never meant only caring for my three daughters. I knew that to be true even as I fled my Somali homeland with my girls following the assassination of their father by Somali warlords. My husband’s...

Somalia‘s Minister of Finance, Dr. Abdirahman Beileh and the African Development Bank‘s Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, Khaled Sherif on Monday signed a $122.55 million grant agreement to advance Somalia’s national development agenda, consolidate peace and ensure inclusive economic growth...