Africa

Mogadishu 21 December 2016 – AMISOM is finalizing plans to hand over Somali National University, which has been under its control for more than half a decade, to the Federal Government. The Burundi AMISOM military contingent, has been using the university as its command headquarters...

The first phase of talks for the Republic of Somaliland and Khatumo officials have been successfully concluded in Addis Ababa, Yesterday. The talks followed initial contacts the two sides made in Addis Ababa and Dubai, resulting in the talks formally starting on the 17th at...

By GALGALO BOCHA, WINNIE ATIENO Security will be heightened around the Coast where thousands of international and local tourists are expected to throng various holiday destinations to celebrate Christmas and New Year. Coast Regional Coordinator Nelson Marwa told Nation that elaborate security measures were in place...

The Gambia's top court on Wednesday said it was adjourning until January 10 a case filed by strongman Yahya Jammeh, who is seeking to annul the results of the country's presidential elections. The Supreme Court, presided by Nigerian-born Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle, ordered the adjournment...

BUJUMBURA  – The Burundi head of state, Pierre Nkurunziza, has announced that his government is to open judicial proceedings on the issue of unpaid wages of more than five thousand Burundi military personnel who are in the African Union Peace keeping Mission in Somalia,...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will not face prosecution on leaving office, a spokesman for the opposition coalition that backed president-elect Adama Barrow told AFP late Tuesday. Jammeh led the Gambia for 22 years but conceded defeat in polls this month before reversing his position and...

Somalia's political leaders on Tuesday called on aid agencies, the international community and donor countries to respond to what they described as “a very alarming drought situation." During an emergency meeting in Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the drought situation in Somalia in...

Saudi King Salman ordered the country's officials to stop implementation of all agreements between Riyadh and Cairo until further notice. Al-Bawaba al-Fajr news website quoted an Egyptian diplomatic source as saying that most agreements signed between Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been suspended at the...

By Awad Mustafa in Dubai   The United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement to establish a second foreign military base in the Horn of Africa. The new base, according to the source present at the negotiations, will be established at the coastal city of Berbera in...

Seven more candidates have been voted into the House of the People to represent Somaliland and northern regions in the latest round of voting, bringing to 26 the total number of members of parliament (MPs) thus far elected from that part of the country. Six...