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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: Ali Noyan COŞKUN Syria is the southern neighbor of Turkey and the two countries share a 911 kilometre-long border. Turkey has suffered deeply from the attacks perpetrated by the terrorist organizations in Syria. Turkey is firmly committed to fighting against terrorism and has a...

By:Middleast Monitor Sudan and Ethiopia agreed on Friday to establish a joint oil pipeline, to serve the two countries. This came during a meeting held by Sudanese Minister of Energy and Mining Adel Mohamed Ibrahim, with his Ethiopian counterpart, Seleshi Bekele, in the capital Addis Ababa,...

By:NYTIMES Article by Turkish Foreing Minister Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu published in The New York Times titled “Why Turkey Took the Fight to Syria” ANKARA, Turkey — It is dismaying that Turkey’s military operation in northeastern Syria is being spun in the American news media as an...

By M.A. Egge In an effort to keep up to systemic ultra-modern communication, the government of Somaliland is going electronic. In being set to establish the E-Government technology program (Somaliland E-Government) in upgrading the state communication system, the telecommunications and technology minister detailed the methodology at...

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...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke for the first time on the issue of Somaliland’s recognition, after a Somaliland woman Suhur Muktar requested Rwanda to recognize Somaliland. Paul Kagame called the Somaliland Independence issue a difficult question, saying that when recognition is required it’s usually through...

By:Mohamed Duale Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia for being awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. PM Abiy, the first Ethiopian to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, was recognised for his efforts to achieve...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea....

Horndiplomat- Norway should provide a short-term bridging loan of NOK 3.135 billion to Somalia in 2020 to clear Somalia’s debt arrears to the World Bank’s International Development Association. The following statement was issued today by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Government has proposed that Norway...