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By: Staff Writer Somaliland Cabinet of Ministers today met on their normal weekly meeting chaired by the President Muse Bihi Abdi and vice president Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail approves Somaliland National Internship Policy. The Bill will go to Parliament. "The Somaliland National Internship Policy is approved by...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Horndiplomat-Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi attended a function marking World Food Day commemorations held in Hargeisa on 16 October. The event, organized by Somaliland Ministry of Agriculture Development, agricultural productions were showcased by various agencies that support the Ministry of Agriculture,...

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:Magdalene Mukami and Mohammed Dhaysane   Somalia is thriving due to aid from Turkey in mostly development and social projects through the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, TIKA‘s coordinator in Somalia, Galip Yilmaz, noted that Turkish projects in Somalia have...

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...

The International Investment Consortium (IIC) of Malaysia is seeking to take Malaysian investors to Somaliland. The IIC says there is so much opportunity in Somaliland which Malaysian businessmen can tap into and help create employment in Somaliland to build its economy. IIC Chairman Dato’ Arshad during...

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...