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By: Hassan Jama, Horndiplomat political editor  Somali state President Mr.Mustafe Muhummed Omar and Oromia regional Deputy Chief of Administrator Mr.Shinmelis Abdisa have visited development projects in Degehabur, Shimelis was presented with a gift of Camel from President Mustafa. The two regional states held a consultative forum...

By: Mohamed Duale The 2nd Conference on Reconciliation and Strengthening Cooperation in Somali and the Oromo Regional States has kicked off in Jigjiga capital of Somali state of Ethiopia, Sunday. The officials of the two regional states led by Somali state President Mr.Mustafe Muhummed Omar and...

In recent decades Ivory Coast has proved to be something of a bell-weather country for political and economic stability across West Africa, which makes the fact that there is such an alarming knowledge deficit about it in the Anglosphere particularly regrettable. Politically the situation...

Between the 16th and 20th of July, a delegation of diplomatic officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) of Somaliland attended the annual International Youth Diplomacy Conference held in Accra, Ghana.  This Conference is the flagship event of the educational...

By: Hirsi Ali Haji Hasan The bad economy is a product of bad politics (policy), and bad leadership is the root cause of all. It is most unfortunate that our African continent has generally become a symbol for starvation, dictatorship, and political failures. Another specific...

By: Xinhua MOGADISHU, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Somalia's gross domestic product (GDP) could remain broadly unchanged at around 2.9 percent in 2019 if normal rains resume later this year. The IMF, whose board completed review of Somalia last month,...

Horndiplomat-Seychelles condemns the early release of the 19 convicted pirates by Somaliland Government. The following statement was issued today by the Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Seychelles has written to express its strong disapproval of the decision of Somaliland authorities to release, yesterday, the 19 pirates...

Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo renounces his United States citizenship despite Somalia constitution allowing for dual citizenship. According to Senior Journalist Harun Maruf, a statement released by Villa Somalia says legal experts, and nationalities and citizenship authorities from Somalia and US were involved in the...

Somalia’s government says the mayor of Mogadishu has died after being badly wounded in an al-Shabab extremist attack in his office last week. The spokesman for Somalia’s president said Abdirahman Omar Osman died Thursday in Qatar, where he had been airlifted for treatment after the...

By: Mohamed Duale Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer and author of the 2010 novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze and The Shadow King. Mengiste has published fiction and nonfiction dealing with migration, the Ethiopian revolution, and the plight of sub-Saharan immigrants arriving in Europe. Her debut...