Kenya

By:REUTERS NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya’s opened a $1.5 billion Chinese-built railway line linking Nairobi to Naivasha on Wednesday, despite delays in building an industrial park in the Rift Valley town to encourage freight. The extension links to another Chinese funded and built $3.2 billion line...

By: Mohamed Duale The Executive Secretary of IGAD Amb. Mahboub Maalim meets with Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs. Horndiplomat reports During the high-level talks, the IGAD Executive secretary and Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs...

By Caroline Chebet for The Standard in Kenya   Conservationists warn more than 300 cheetah cubs captured from the wild each year in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Fewer than 7,500 remain globally Global conservation networks raised Alarm the intensifying smuggling of cheetahs trafficked out of East Africa...

BY: BLOOMBERG Somalia summoned Kenya’s ambassador after a Kenyan-registered plane landed in the port city of Kismayo in the southern state of Jubaland without “official permission,” amid a simmering maritime-border dispute between the neighbors. Jubaland won some political autonomy in 2013 and is among Somalia states...

By: HOL  Somalia has stood ground against any talks with Kenya over the maritime case at the International Court of Justice noting it had vested its confidence on the UN court. Deputy PM Mahdi Guled who led the Somali delegation to the ICJ at the Hague,...

By: BUSIWEEK Somaliland through its embassy in Nairobi will in November host an Energy and Infrastructure conference in the Kenyan capital. This is part of Somaliland’s long term mission to woo Kenyan investors in the energy sector to the mineral-rich area that is thirsting for foreign...

By:Mohamed Duale Horndiplomat-Amid frosty relations resulting from maritime dispute, the leaders of Somalia Mohamed Abdilahi Farmajo  and Kenya Uhuru kenyatta met in New York for the first time since March . The Two leaders agreed to restore relations to previous status and take diplomatic steps to...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat contributor Kenyan diplomat arrives in Somaliland last week to establish the country's consulate. anonymous official confirms the Kenyan diplomatic delegation was to oversee the preparations of inaugurating Kenyan consulate in Hargeisa. The Kenyan delegation has met the top officials of Somaliland foreign affairs...

By: Madar Duale Nairobi(Horndiplomat)-Somaliland National Human Rights Commission Study Tour Visit to Kenya meets with Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights. Somaliland National Human Rights Commission meeting with Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) discussed issues related to Human Rights and Migration. The study seeks to...

By:VOA The Kenyan government is seeking to postpone a hearing on a maritime dispute with Somalia, according to a diplomatic source. Both countries claim control over a 100,000-square-kilometer area in the Indian Ocean that is said to be rich in natural resources. The source told VOA's Somali...