EU Ambassador launches the inaugural Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Programme
HornDiplomat-The EU Ambassador to Somalia Nicolas Berlanga launches the inaugural EU Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Programme at an outreach event held at Hargeisa University.
Ambasador Berlanga encourages students to apply ERASMUS: “ I have ambition: at least 20 students of University of Hargeisa to have scholarship...
Political Rift Can Deprive Somalia of Fragile State Rating
Constructive engagement between the executive and legislative branches is the viable option to prevent undoing progress in Somalia , writes Liban Ahmad
The Somali Federal Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, issued a statement to the effect that the impeachment motion against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo still stands. The Speaker's intervention...
Ethiopia: Foreign Ministry Continues to Update Diplomats On Recent Violence
By Desta Gebrehiwot
The government has been discussing with the public and the demand would be addressed step by step.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the government would continue to work relentlessly to update members of the diplomatic community on the recent violence in...
KENYA’S RAILA ODINGA ON WHY 2017 WILL BE HIS YEAR
BY CONOR GAFFEY
Kenya’s establishment as an independent nation, free from British sovereignty, was dominated by two nascent political dynasties.
Jomo Kenyatta, affectionately remembered as the father of the East African nation, spearheaded a long campaign for independence, eventually becomingKenya’s first post-independence president in 1964. In...
Somalia Parliament Approves New Cabinet
By:Mohamed Selh
Somali lawmakers have approved the strong cabinet of Prime Minister Hamze Abdi Barre.
277 MPs were present at the Parliament session, and there was an uproar over the manner in which...
In Somalia, A Female Taxi Driver Defies Convention
By:Agence France-Presse
At 19 years old, Asha Mohamed is divorced and drives a taxi in Somalia, defying conventions to support her family in one of the world's most conservative and dangerous countries.
For the past year, the young woman has crisscrossed the capital Mogadishu in her...
Breaking UK parliament rejects May’s Brexit deal
Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a crushing defeat despite last-ditch effort to rally support from parliament.
Members of the UK parliament voted against Theresa May's Brexit agreement on Tuesday, complicating UK's departure from the European Union on March 29.
The vote plunges the already divived country...
Somaliland: An open Letter to Dr Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia PM and Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea president
By: Mohamud Aden Samatar
Somaliland welcomes the waves of political change taking place in the Horn of Africa, the democratization of Ethiopia spearheaded by Dr Abiy Ahmed and the normalization of relation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and also the easing of the alleged accusation of...
International Partners Call for Somali Leaders to Reach Agreement
Mogadishu, 21 March 2021 – International partners* welcome the arrival of participants for the summit of the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member State leaders, to be held in the protected area of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport, and announced to begin on 22...
Somalia to screen disengaged ex-Al-Shabaab militants
Somalia's security agencies have kicked off plans to screen disengaged Al-Shabaab combatants who want to be reintegrated into communities.
The UN mission in Somalia (UNSOM)-backed two-day conference that ended in Mogadishu on Thursday reviewed standard operating procedures and building the capacity of the National Intelligence...
