Africa

Somaliland, located in the Horn of Africa, is a semi-desert land with minimum rainfall in two rainy seasons, Dayr and Gua. The latter is expected to give more water in March to May every year. Majority of Somaliland people live in rural areas1 with...

Monday 28 Nov 2016-Somaliland’s justice system took another leap forward towards its goal of “Justice for All” with the handover a computerised system to track criminal cases and make the previous system of paper files and notes obsolete. “This is fantastic. It will be so...

By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of aid into war-torn Somalia – despite accepting there is ‘certain’ risk of funds being diverted by terrorist groups such as Islamic State and al-Shabaab. The revelation comes...

Hargeisa, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Somalia's Somaliland region, which has been seeking independence, said Sunday it is not party to the ongoing elections in Somalia. Somaliland Information Minister Osman Abdullahi Sahardid told reporters in the region's capital Hargeisa that Somaliland was keen on pursuing its...

By:Kate Douglas When Mohamed Abdilahi Dahir finished his high school education at 17, he left his home in Somaliland to learn English in Malaysia, before studying medicine in China. But nearly three years into his medical degree, his father died, and Dahir could no longer...

By Kerry Brewster A Somali-Ethiopian man says relatives in his home country are still feeling the aftermath of a Melbourne protest that occurred earlier this year. In June, Shukri Shafe, a former lawyer and judge, demonstrated along with dozens of other Somali-Ethiopians now living in Australia...

A new study by the London-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) puts the record straight on the role of Iran in arming non-state actors in Yemen. The findings presented in the study, titled Maritime Interdictions of Weapons Supplies to Somalia and Yemen: Deciphering a link to...

Kenya - First aid is quickly given to an unconscious woman lying on the floor. The room is dark. Even though she cannot see clearly, the nurse can tell that all is not well by the state of the room. The woman on the...

Guest host Esther Githui-Ewart explores U.S. President Obama's legacy in Africa with Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders, C.E.O. of FEEDS, Ngozi Bell, Advocate for U.S. Small Business Administration and Kwaku Nuamah who is a political analyst and professor at American University. SOURCE:VOA

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Ethiopia has disclosed that it will back the candidature of Kenya’s foreign affairs chief in the race to elect the new chairperson of the African Union (AU). Kenya’s topmost diplomat Ambassador Dr. Amina C. Mohamed is one of five candidates hoping to...