Africa

Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed has been released from detention by Somali security agents in the capital Mogadishu. Mohamed, a British national, was detained on Tuesday afternoon along with a driver, fixer and cameraman. He had been in Somalia for a week on a reporting assignment. Mohamed...

Mr Slater said that he had to earn the trust of the monkeys over several days before venturing close enough to get the selfie A photographer has won a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a "monkey selfie" photograph. Naruto the macaque monkey...

Taiwan Ambassador Allen Lou of the Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland and Mohamed Ali Daarood, General Manager of Hargeisa Water Agency co-host the completion ceremony of Drilling & Equipping of K15(2) groundwater project in Ged-deeble...

By: John Steenhuisen writes  A visit to the Port of Berbera on the coast of Somaliland is certainly not for the faint hearted. It is blistering hot in summer with temperatures that regularly breach the forties, a journey made more challenging by the occasional camel...

Three years of drought in Somaliland has now left it in the grip of a cholera epidemic caused by dwindling and polluted water supplies. UK based disaster relief agency ShelterBox has been distributing water filters and carriers, as well as shelter materials to its...

Ethiopia accused neighboring Somaliland of illegally displacing more than 3,000 long-term Oromo residents in the wake of clashes on the boundary between two of Ethiopia’s regional states. The semi-autonomous northern territory of Somalia displaced the Oromos, who belong to Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group and are...

Ethiopia said, its flag carrier will resume commercial flights to Eritrea starting in September as a sign of improving relationship between the two countries two decades after a border conflict upended relations between the Horn of Africa neighbors. “Ethiopian Airlines get ready because soon you’ll...

Horndiplomat-Yesterday's UAE large delegation arrives in Somaliland and met with President of the Republic of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi. The Emirates delegation regrets the misunderstanding of BBC interview with the UAE state foreign minister and said they would respond to the matter in writing. https://twitter.com/MohamadDuale/status/988122175008903168 On the other hand,...

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is in mourning after receiving confirmation of the death of three of our colleagues who were working in Tigray, north Ethiopia. Emergency coordinator Maria Hernandez, assistant coordinator Yohannes Halefom Reda and driver Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael were travelling yesterday afternoon when we lost contact...

Hordniplomat-An Information Day organised by the Somaliland Coast Guard on request of the House of Representatives was facilitated by EUCAP in Hargeisa on April 18th. The aim of the event was to promote and support the adoption and implementation of a Coast Guard Law in...