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By: Horndiplomat & africanews Somalia – Somaliland relations have gained traction on social media with the current buzz centering around a photo. Top cabinet ministers of Somalia including the Foreign Affairs and Finance Ministers met and took a photo with a Somaliland delegation – led by...

Somali graduates are proud, inquisitive and, in many cases, innovative. They are certainly ambitious and should be confident about their future in a country blessed with so much natural resources and potential.  Yet, at the best of times, there is a tragic disconnect between the...

By: Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea was set to dispatch a fresh batch of troops to the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday for anti-piracy efforts, the Navy said, amid speculation the contingent could also undertake missions in the Strait of...

By:BBC One in 20 girls and women in the world has had some form of female genital mutilation, according to the UN. The former first lady of the self-declared republic of Somaliland and midwife Edna Adan Ismail has been to meet some of those that live...

By: OXFAM Climate change is real. In this country it is real.” Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare is the Minister of Environment and Rural Development in Somaliland. Somaliland is facing climate change now and Shukri is taking action.  “In the last 10 years, it like drought after drought. Climate...

By:newbusinessethiopia Ethiopia’s export performance which has been declining since 2012, has dropped by $170 million for the fiscal year concluded July 7, 2019 as compared to the previous year. The country has earned a total of $2.67 billion from July 8, 2018 – July 7, 2019....

By: Bangkokpost Eighteen Thai fishermen rescued from reportedly slave-like conditions on a trawler in Somalia returned to Bangkok on Monday as labour officials considered opening a human trafficking probe. The fishing crew arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thai Airways flight TG581 from Dubai, where 14 of...

By:Anadolu Agency   Great number of Muslims in capital Addis Ababa flock to mosques to perform Eid prayer Muslims in Ethiopia has been celebrating the first day of the Eid al-Adha, a four-day religious holiday, on Sunday. In the capital Addis Ababa, hundreds of thousands of Muslims turned...

By:XINHUA NET Berhane Haileyesus is excited to board the Chinese built 756 kms Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified rail line even though he has been a regular customer of the rail service ever since it was commissioned in January 2018. Contracted by two Chinese companies, the first 320 km...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland Military Officers graduate from Ethiopian Military Academy, Won medals . According to Fana, Ethiopian Defense Command and Staff College today graduated 100 senior military officers for the 13th time. About 21 of the graduates are from Djibouti, Somaliland ,Somalia and South Africa. The Prime Minister and...