Africa

After decades of war, Somalia has risen and it keeps going. Business is thriving and the economy is growing, a fact even the World Bank acknowledged in its report this year, Transition Amidst Risk. In the report released in April, the World Bank says the...

Fixing fragile nations: lessons from Afghanistan and South Sudan IN THE middle of 2016 a suicide-bomber blew up a minibus full of judicial staff in Kabul. The injured were rushed to the Emergency Hospital in the Afghan capital. One was married to a nurse there,...

The New Year started on a mixed note with a number of lives lost in Iraq, Turkey and Somalia. But to conservationists, 2017 began in an excellent way: China pledged to stop the ivory trade, a move that is widely seen as a possible game-changer...

HAMBURG (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government has issued an international tender to purchase 70,000 tonnes of milling wheat, European traders said on Monday. The tender deadline was January 5, they said. Finance for the purchase has been provided by the World Bank, traders said. Ethiopia has issued...

By Mary Harper BBC News, Hargeisa, Somaliland During every visit to the self-declared republic of Somaliland, I notice something new. This time, there are even more multi-storey shopping malls, hotels and luxury villas in the capital, Hargeisa. Just two decades ago it was known as The Dresden...

By LARISA BROWN and JASON GROVES FOR THE DAILY MAIL Pop group Yegna received £4m as part of project to empower women in Ethiopia Despite warnings of public money being wasted a further £5.2m was promised  However ministers pulled the plug on the band...

ACCRA-Nana Akufo-Addo is to be sworn in as Ghana's new president on Saturday after beating incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama in elections last month. The 72-year-old former human rights lawyer will take the oath of office at a ceremony in Independence Square in central Accra...

The heat is being turned on the Leader of Majority in the National Assembly, Mr Aden Duale, in the wake of a sound clip circulating on social media where a voice is calling for the barring of a neighbouring Bantu community from registering as...

Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It...

Even without reading the entire article, the headline is piercing enough. This is one of the stingers from veteran Ugandan scribe, Charles Onyango –Obbo, who needs no further introduction. We quote him here verbatim: ‘What do Somalia Sheep, goats and Ugandan doctors have in...