Africa

In the second week of July, I was in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. There, I organized Huricap, a program of Amnesty Netherlands, committed to human rights education in Africa, a workshop on the investigation and documentation of human rights violations. There is, probably, a...

Brig. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Swahili, the Commanding officer of the Somaliland Fire Brigade, accompanied by top representatives of privately owned firefighting firm Somaliland Fire Safety company conducted a building inspection and compliance of the new premise housing the Damal  Hotel and Dahabshiil bank in...

Horndiplomat-Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) released press statement about the threats of Somaliland's election proccess is the violations of election rules and regulations. PRODUCED BY Election Monitoring Office (EMO) & Center for Policy Analysis (CPA) The newsletter from the Election Monitoring Office provides brief description of the...

Somalia’s neutralitiy in the ongoing Gulf region crisis has generated a lot of pressure for the Horn of Africa country to join the Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates faction against Qatar. The latest call is from the autonomous Somali state of Puntland which on...

  Thirty-four Swedish soldiers are heading to east Africa as part of international efforts to prevent attacks from Somali pirates. The soldiers, from Gothenburg, will be stationed off the coast of Somalia as part of Sweden's fifth mission to the region. Two small Swedish combined transport and...

“Nothing is impossible.” These three words are on a plaque that Aliko Dangote keeps on his office desk in Lagos, Nigeria, constantly reminding Africa’s richest man how to approach the world. Dangote, who was worth $12.3 billion as of mid-August, according to the Bloomberg...

Kenyans using the current generation of passport will not be able to use them once the new e-passport is fully rolled out. Issuance of the current generation ends on September 1, and the electronic passport will be given to applicants onwards. However, holders of the current...

Five-thousand-year-old rock art is tucked into an outcropping 40 miles northeast of Hargeisa, the capital of this breakaway region of Somalia. But its ambiguous political status has made protecting the site especially challenging. LAAS GEEL, SOMALILAND—Hidden in the Somali desert, beneath stunning, ancient rock cave...

Horndiplomat-BRIEFING PAPER:Somaliland voter cards distribution 08/02/2017. Background The long awaited presidential election in Somaliland is scheduled on 13th November 2017. The voter cards distribution started on 29th April 2017. To provide voters cards to the registered citizens, the electoral body started the first phase of distributing voter...

Hardly a week goes by without more news of yet another foreign power looking to establish a presence in the Horn of Africa. Not since the dark days of the Cold War has the region received such interest, little wonder then that some have...