Africa

A group of Turkish volunteers who arrived in Somalia as part of an initiative by the Turkish development agency have started renovating an orphanage and school, reports said Sunday. Consisting of 200 students, the 2017 Africa Experience Sharing Program led by the Turkish Cooperation and...

They have been clinging to the hope that their relatives, captured by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab fighters, are alive and well. But that hope for the soldiers’ families is fading as they are caught between a silent government and the terrorist group across the border. Day in day...

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi stressed Egypt's support for Somalia at a meeting with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo on Sunday in Cairo, a presidential statement read. This is the first time El-Sisi has received his Somali counterpart since he was elected in February 2017 El-Sisi hailed...

200 Turkish students visit several African countries as part of exchange program By Zuhal Demirci ANKARA -A group of Turkish students participated in renovation works at an orphanage-cum-school in Somalia on Sunday, as part of a visit to several African countries under an exchange program. The 2017...

The breakaway north-east African state of Somaliland is claiming that neighbouring Somalia is trying to assert authority over its telecoms sector through a new law. Somalia passed a new telecoms law last week. The National Communications Act is designed to regulate the country’s telecoms sector,...

By.M.A.Egge Residents of Lasanod in Sool enjoy a better energy services supply and billing system than the rest of the country, hence pay 70% to 80% less than practically elsewhere. According to correspondent Ahmed Mohammed Suleiman who has just returned from the region, the power lighting...

By Birhanu Fikade Following his official visit to the Sudan this week, Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has inked an agreement that would enable Ethiopia to develop a port facility at the Port Sudan through which the government contemplates to handle half its foreign trade volume. Asked...

The Somaliland Fire Brigade trained twenty officers from the Somaliland Coast Guard (SCG) in a First Aid and Firefighting training that was held at the Berbera Maritime and Fishery Academy and concluded on Thursday 17 August 2017. The EU Capacity Building Mission EUCAP contributed in...

Attacks on aid workers delivering supplies in Somalia have increased this year with some resulting in deaths of staff, a senior UN humanitarian official said on Friday. Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Peter de Clercq said more than 100 incidents targeting humanitarian workers had been reported...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland-Ethiopia relationship:an initiative for regional economic integration and deepening political stability in the hornof africa (By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud “Barawani”). ABSTRACT-This paper is going to analyze and light on the political, economic, and trade cooperation between Somaliland and Ethiopia, the paper explores how Somaliland and...