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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 Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Updated 1134 GMT (1934 HKT) June 7, 2017 Washington (CNN)US investigators believe Russian hackers breached Qatar's state news agency and planted a fake news report that contributed to a crisis among the US' closest Gulf allies, according to US...

The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has come in support of the talks between Somalia and Somaliland initiated by the United States and hosted by Djibouti. At the 36th IGAD Summit attended online by the leaders of member states, development on the talks was discussed...

Saudi and other Arab nations ask Qatar to shut Al Jazeera, close a Turkish base and scale down Iran ties within 10 days. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that have cut ties to Qatar have reportedly issued a list of demands to end a major...

By: Taiwan Representative Office of the Republic of Somaliland The 1st Taiwan-Somaliland Joint Working Group on Energy and Mineral Resources Cooperation Meeting was held at the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MOEM) of the Republic of Somaliland...

By: SPACE IN AFRICA The Republic of Djibouti has launched its first satellite, Djibouti 1A, today, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 dedicated SSO rideshare mission. Developed through a...

INTRODUCTION According to dominant paradigms of international relations theories, a country’s foreign policy consists of the self-interested strategies chosen by the state to protect its national interests, and the deployment of the various tools of diplomacy and statecraft in order to...

By OBED SIMIYU More by this Author Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has told African states to guard against forces with selfish motives which he says could be fuelling turmoil on the continent. President Magufuli, who is also the chairman of the East Africa Community (EAC), said...

By WALTER MENYA More by this Author US-based Kenyan scholar Calestous Juma, who was in June named as one of the most reputable people in the world, is dead. Prof Juma, who until his death was teaching at Harvard University, was the only Kenyan to be listed...

Saudi Arabia has dismissed a number of senior ministers and detained nearly a dozen princes in an investigation by a new anti-corruption committee, state media reported on Saturday. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire businessman who owns investment firm Kingdom Holding, was among those held,...