Africa

By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief @HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat-Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi officially launches the Global Partnership for Education grant 2018-21 to provide quality education and boost the enrollment of girls and boys from different marginalized communities in primary and secondary schools. The three-year grant will support Somaliland’s Education Sector...

Horndiplomat-ONLF commander Abdikarim Sheikh Muse better known as Qalbi-dhagah has arrived in Hargeisa; capital of Republic of Somaliland on Tuesday morning, he was welcomed by some ONLF admirers in Somaliland, MPs, elders and other officials.HornDiplomat reports. Although most of his speech was thankings, Qalbi-dhagah stated...

Horndiplomat-The Somaliland's The Department of Immigration,Ministry of interior released new order new order to changes regarding visa requirement process and applications Department of Immigration Press Statement:The Department of Immigration,Ministry of interior of Republic of Somaliland would like to inform all travelers to Somaliland about changes regarding visa...

Horndiplomat-Somalia fires top army chiefs, including the military commander Major General Dahir Adan Elmi and police chief Gen Bashir Mohamed. According to Senior Journalists Harun Maruf ,Yet another reshuffle of security chiefs; all sectors will have their 3rd commander in less than 3 yrs: 1....

Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has called for unity talks between his country and Somaliland. Farmajo said during Somalia’s 57th independence anniversary speech on Saturday that the government is committed to relaunch talks with Somaliland as soon as possible, Somali news agency SONNA reported. He expressed...

By : East African  What is the genesis of the problem between Somalia and Kenya? It is the territorial dispute over the delimitation of a 100,000 square kilometres territory in the Indian Ocean. Somalia and Kenya are claiming part of the territory off the Indian Ocean. While...

Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia is keen to further boost its bilateral ties with Italy at a State dinner hosted in honor of the visiting Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, at the National palace later on Thursday (October 11). The Premier said,...

By:Gulaid Yusuf Idaan In 1960, Somaliland gained its independence from the United Kingdom and become an independent state, but the parliament voted to join former Italian-ruled Somalia. In 1961, a national referendum was held wherein a majority of northerners...

By: BBC AFRICA Algeria has announced it will not renew a gas-supply agreement with Morocco days after severing diplomatic relations with its North African neighbour. Rabat is currently taking 900,000 cubic metres per year of Algerian natural gas from the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, which runs from Algeria...

By: UNHCR More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of...