News

By: Anadolu Agency Millions of voters started heading to the polls in Türkiye as the country’s first-ever presidential runoff election began Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT). More than 64.1 million people...

Inspire Group is arranging First ever Somaliland Presidential Election Debates 2017 As Somaliland remains a rare example of functioning democracy in the Horn of Africa. Somaliland will have its first ever Presidential Election Debates in 2017, organized by Inspire Group. Somaliland Presidential Election Debates will increasingly...

Is it all right here? Is everything under control, feels it is safe and secure? Police on the street in the city of Berbera on the coast of the Gulf of Aden smiles and convincing. He wants proof that we feel safe and like...

Qatar plans to allow some expatriates to obtain permanent residency, state news agency reported, in the first move of its kind among Gulf Arab states. A draft law approved at a cabinet meeting will allow permanent residence to the children of Qatari women married to...

Unusually heavy rains and floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and destroyed crops in the Horn of Africa. CNN international correspondent Jomana Karadsheh travelled to Somaliland where people were already suffering before the latest rains hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTmMkbJbMc&feature=youtu.be

Horndiplomat Editorial On the 13th of November, the Republic of Somaliland went to the polls to elect its fifth president in its third one person one vote Presidential Election. In this election Somaliland made history by becoming the first country that uses iris recognition biometric...

By Jim GaramoneDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, May 12, 2017 — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis came away from yesterday’s British-sponsored conference on Somalia in London with renewed hope for the peace process in the African nation. Mattis told reporters flying with him back to Washington,...

By James Jeffrey Horndiplomat-It seems obvious that fasting between sunrise and sunset for the month of Ramadan would hurt productivity. But in the port city of Djibouti, East Africa’s premier trade hub, there can’t be any letup, even during Islam’s most holy month. The pressure is especially...

  Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged the Arab League to leave African matters for Africans as the Nile River is an African water resource. In his weekly media briefing today, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Dina Mufti said internationalizing the issue of GERD is the usual...

MOGADISHU (HOL) - The President of semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland, Abdiweli Ali Gaas said over three millions USD of the funds confiscated at Mogadishu Airport was salaries of over 2000 Puntland soldiers. Somali officials had seized plane carrying three unmarked bags stashed with 9.6...