Africa

By: M. A. Egge The Minister of Information, Culture and National Guidance has written an ultimatum in a circular to all staff ordering them to adhere to keeping of working hours timely. In a stern warning ultimatum to the workers the minister Hon. Abdirahman Abdillahi Farah...

Hailing from the beautiful city of Hargeisa in Somaliland, WorldRemit founder and CEO Ismail Ahmed’s rise to running one of the world’s up-and-coming, most groundbreaking money transfer services is nothing short of impressive. WorldRemit allows users to transfer money internationally via its online and...

Horndiplomat-The people of Somaliland have been encountering serious inflations. The dollar rate has reached unprecedented rate. The living conditions have been invariably inflated by the increase of dollar rates since the livelihood is based on Dollar currency. On 25th January 2018, Centre for Policy Analysis...

The government of Ethiopia has announced the release of 2,345 prisoners, who were sent to jail following the 2015 and 2016 protests in the country's Oromia region. Addisu Arega Kitessa, a government spokesman on Oromia affairs, said prisoners have been pardoned and would be released within "a...

The Horn of Africa, a region often synonymous with conflict and political uncertainty hosts Somaliland, a relatively peaceful breakaway costal region that declared its secession from Somalia in May 1991. The collapse of the central government destroyed infrastructure and displaced thousands of civilians...

Horndiplomat-The special representative of un secretary-general to Somalia Michael Keating briefs the Security Council meeting on Monday the current situation of Somalia. Mr.Keating on his annual security council report has especially noted the situation of the clashes between Somaliland-Puntland forces in Tuko-Raq, “There is a serious...

Mr. President It is now almost one year since Somalia underwent a peaceful transition of power and the election of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ‘Farmajo’. Like many new governments, his has been through a steep learning curve. In the process, it has crafted a commendable national...

Security Council Press Statement on Somalia: On 24 January, the members of the Security Council were briefed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Michael Keating and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Madeira on the...

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...

Machakos governor Alfred Mutua has disparaged Nasa leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka's planned swearing in. Raila's oath-taking is scheduled for Tuesday but Mutua termed it a recipe for chaos. He further described it as the planting of seeds of civil war "which will turn our nation...