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On 21-22th September 2019, Somaliland Counter Piracy Coordination Office (CPC) together with Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) launched Maritime Resource and Security Strategy Meeting at Mansoor Hotel Hargeisa. The main agenda of the meeting was to discuss, suggest and recommend policies towards six thematic...

Ababa, Oct 6 (IANS): The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ursula Mueller, has urged the international community to take immediate action to confront the climate crisis that is heavily affecting Djibouti and the rest of Horn of Africa. Mueller, who is also Deputy Emergency...

By: Staff writter Former Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed opposition party Himilo Qaran announced on Sunday that the party will sue Federal government for its travel restriction on the party leader from Mogadishu to Kismaayo. Ilyas Hassan, Member of the Somali Parliament and Foreign Affairs...

By: Jama Farah Horndiplomat Contributor Horndiplomat-The government of Ethiopia commends the Water Affairs Ministers of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt for convening in Khartoum to continue with the trilateral dialogue on Nile waters. Horndiplomat reports The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Prime...

By M.A. Egge The Government of Somaliland is focused on upgrading, streamlining and advancing the chores of collection of taxes and its management. While informing the council of cabinet members under the chairmanship of Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi on Thursday on the preparation of the...

By: Jama Farah Horndiplomat contributor Horndiplomat- Somaliland  Ministry of Environment and Rural Development announced the took possession of 12 cheetah cubs confiscated from a boat off the Somaliland coast on Friday. The cubs were intercepted by the Somaliland military and recovered in plastic hampers in deplorable condition. 4...

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,...

Somaliland is broadening its relations with Austria to explore ways of developing synergy on trade and infrastructural development. Somaliland is also seeking support from the European nation on education and health. Representatives of the two countries met this week in Nairobi and discussed ways of pulling...

On October 2, 2019, Diana Putman, a Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced that the U.S. Government is providing nearly $257 million in additional humanitarian assistance in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to help the people of...

Horndiplomat-Somalia and its international partners agreed on a Mutual Accountability Framework to narrow their joint focus to priority areas for action and resources in order to achieve key priority outcomes before December 2020. The following statement was issued today by the Somalia Partnership Forum COMMUNIQUÉ Somalia...