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By: Abdiaziz Ali Hussein The first meeting of the sixth Somali regional council that held October 18, 2021, in Jigjiga, the capital of Somali Regional State elected Mustafa Muhumed Omer (Mustafa Cagjar), as the president of the Somali regional state after his party (Prosperity Party)...

BY:FANA Ethiopia and Russia plan to sign a number of cooperation agreements on trade, tourism and nuclear cooperation at an intergovernmental commission meeting in Addis Ababa in April. Mehreteab Mulugeta, the director general for European affairs at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, held talks with Andrei Kemarsky,...

By:Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat Contributor U.S. Department of State issued a statement today (February 5) announcing that U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Germany, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Oman from February 13-22, 2020. According to the statement, the Secretary will travel...

A new police unit has been unveiled to patrol remote sections of the Kenya-Somali border in efforts to combat banditry. The pioneer camel patrol unit under the Border Patrol Unit of the Administration Police Service will be based in Isiolo County and will involve 50...

The Somaliland Health Information System (Somaliland HIS) officially launched at Hargeisa Group Hospital in March 2023. This system was developed by Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) together with Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital(KMUH). It marks a milestone in...

Architecture from the colonial era left an "exceptional example" of modernism, judges say.     SOURCE:BBC

In the past week, Halima Aden's face has been everywhere, from newspapers to magazines to television here and abroad. But Aden, 19, is fitting in time to be a normal teenage girl between interviews and video shoots, arriving to the Times offices having just...

Miraa farmers could lose 90 per cent of the market if the diplomatic spat between Kenya and Somalia is not resolved. According to Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, Somalia remains Kenya’s key miraa market, taking in about 50 tonnes of the commodity daily. The miraa sold...

By: addisstandard Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Adam Farah as the new Head of the Democracy Building Center Coordinator Office with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister effective 01 April 2024. The...

The Council approved the lifting of their immunity unanimously. In an extraordinary session it conducted yesterday, the Council of Ethiopian Somali regional state stripped immunity of seven of its members. The Council lifted their immunity on suspicion of having links with recent violence in the regional...