Africa

  Somaliland wants to reopen talks with the newly elected government of Somalia on security, economic cooperation and development, according to the autonomous region’s foreign minister. Speaking at a conference in London to mark the 26th anniversary of Somaliland’s contested declaration of independence, Saad Ali Shire...

At least 15 people are dead after a suicide car bomber posing as a milk delivery van detonated at a district headquarters in Somalia’s capital, police said on Tuesday. The death toll may rise, as some were badly hurt in the explosion at Wadajir district...

Horndiplomat-President Ahmed Mohamed Silaanyo leaves office on December 13, 2017, after seven years and his presidency will become part of Somaliland history. How will you remember our current president? What is his legacy as a leader? As President Silaanyo prepares to end his seventh-year...

The renewed Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute is the first ripple effect of the Gulf crisis in Africa. by:Sultan Barakat @BARAKAT_Sultan Sultan Barakat is the director of Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute. by:Sansom Milton @SansomMilton Sansom Milton is a senior research fellow at the Doha Institute for...

Mogadishu (HOL) - A military court in Mogadishu sentenced a soldier to death on Monday over the killing of a Somali cabinet minister the soldier is expected to face a firing squad. The military tribunal concluding it’s hearing on Wednesday and rendered its verdict this...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – At Gideon Pond Elementary, the morning greeting is delivered by the principal. “Make a positive choice,” Chris Bellmont counsels his students over the school public address system. The principal may deliver the message, but a 23-year-old teachers’ aide makes it stick. “He is the...

The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, KF, has distributed food baskets to the students of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan School for Orphans in Somaliland. The gesture is in line with the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al...

By PSCU, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 17 – President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed a 14-member Task Force on the Development of the Miraa Industry. The task force has three months to complete its assignment, according to a gazette notice published Friday. Geoffrey Nchooro M’mwenda will chair the task...

Djibouti has accused Eritrea of occupying disputed territory along their border after Qatar withdrew a peacekeeping force earlier this week. Djiboutian officials say Eritrean troops took control of Dumeira Mountain and Dumeira Island on Wednesday, a day after Qatar removed 450 soldiers who had controlled...

By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA The African Union urged Djibouti and Eritrea to remain calm and exercise restraint on Saturday after Djibouti accused its neighbor of occupying disputed territory along their border following the withdrawal of Qatari peacekeepers. On Friday, Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali...