Africa

76 more men to be released next month in two batches FIFTEEN SOMALI nationals, who were arrested during anti-piracy operations in January 2011, have been released, after they completed seven year jail sentence, on January 2. They were convicted by a sessions court on August...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile. The two countries are at odds over the construction...

By: M.A. Egge Horndiplomat-The President H.E. Musa Bihi Abdi has reiterated that the security and peaceful stability maintenance in the country was a paramount factor that the nation would always be focused on. He also revealed that the government would in due course avail a comprehensive...

Horndiplomat-The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and international Relationship Mr.Liban Yusuf Osman and Somaliland Minister of Education and science  Mr.Yasin Mohamoud Xiir Receives with two different delegations from USA and Sudan. The Sudanese delegation consist of an ex-Foreign Minister and the American delegation consisted of...

By Samuel Getachew The newly-elected president of Somaliland led a high-level delegation to Addis Ababa for two days on Tuesday looking to expand the bilateral relationship between Ethiopia and Somaliland. President Musa Bihi Abdi held an audience with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn and a slew of...

Somaliland – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, with support from the Government of Japan earlier this month held a training on trafficking, irregular migration and the establishment of a referral mechanism for irregular migrants and Victims of Trafficking (VoTs) in Somaliland. Thirty-two trainees were drawn from...

Horndiplomat-The European Union (EU) jointly with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development of Somaliland, the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources of the African Union (AU IBAR), the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), officially...

Daniel Mumbere The Dutch government has told the highest representative of Eritrea in the Netherlands to leave the country, minister of Foreign Affairs Halbe Zijlstra said on Wednesday. Tekeste Ghebremedhin Zemuy has been declared persona non grata, Zijlstra wrote in a letter to parliament, as the...

The U.S. military says it has carried out an airstrike in Somalia that killed four members of the al-Shabab extremist group. A statement Friday from the U.S. Africa Command says the strike was carried out Thursday about 50 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of the port...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged on Thursday not to let differences over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river ruin relations with Addis Ababa. Ethiopia hopes the hydroelectric Grand Renaissance Dam will make it Africa’s largest power exporter. Egypt says...