Africa

A girl whose mother fled war-torn Somalia in the 1980s has won a scholarship to the leading private school that Kate Middleton and Samantha Cameron attended. Nadia Hassan, 16, a comprehensive school girl from one of London’s poorest areas, has been accepted to Marlborough College. She...

On 15 December 2016, an AMISOM Police vehicle was involved in a fatal road accident along KM4 road, Mogadishu, resulting in the death of a civilian. Preliminary report indicates that the victim, who was walking on the right hand side of the pedestrian lane, suddenly...

Horndiplomat- The Ducmentary it was 2011 after the South sudan's gained its independence from Sudan . The South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. It is a United Nations member state, a member state...

Amina J. Mohammed, the minister of environment of Nigeria, has been announced UN Deputy Secretary-General - Incoming UN Secretary-General António Guterres has also appoined two other women into top UN positions Amina Mohammed, Nigeria's minister of environment, has been appointed the UN Deputy Secretary-Genera António Guterres, the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today expressed concerns and condemned the restrictions to the coverage of the ongoing indirect elections in Somalia by journalists of the independent media. Presidential elections are due to be held on 28 December 2016 in Somalia, as decided by National Leaders Forum...

The prison in Garowe, Puntland state, in northeastern Somalia, facilitates the rehabilitation of convicted Somali pirates and suspected Al-Shabaab jihadists. SOURCE:DARKROOM

A decade after the Somali pirate threat began to paralyze the maritime trade off East Africa, harming Seychelles’ tourism numbers in the process, NATO on Thursday will formally end its counter-piracy operation known as Operation Ocean Shield. Seychelles should see the end of the international...

By James JEFFREY Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with the international community’s funding of military operations in Africa. The Ethiopian troops had been assisting the internationally funded African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The draw-down could imperil Somalia’s...

By:Harun Maruf The panel that rules on election disputes in Somalia has thrown out the results in races for 11 seats in recent parliamentary elections because of numerous irregularities, including gunfire at a polling place. The decision by the Independent Electoral Disputes Resolution Mechanism is likely...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was...