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By Alexa Liautaud Mar 6, 2018 U.S. military presence in Africa grew by more than a thousand troops over the past year, Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the U.S.’s top commander in Africa, acknowledged Tuesday. Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee, Waldhauser, the head of U.S. Africa Command, said...

By: Duale Somaliland House of Representatives elected Yassin Hajji Mohamoud Faratoon as the new Speaker of the House during a voting session held in Hargeisa on Sunday. Lawmaker Faratoon secured 46 out of...

By: Staff writer The UK elaborates on its cooperation with the Republic of Somaliland in terms of security and the use port of Berbera. MP Tim Loughton questioned the Minister of State, Foreign,...

By: CPJ Authorities in the breakaway state of Somaliland should immediately release television reporter Abdirahman Keyse Mohamed, also known as Tungub, and investigate the police officer who fired a shot that injured the journalist during his arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday. On May...

A Malian man in France has been hailed a hero and granted French citizenship after he scaled an apartment building to rescue a child dangling off a balcony. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented migrant, would become a "naturalised French" national and join the fire service, the...

Constitutional reform can help fulfil twin goals of ending political under-representation and cracking down on instability in Somaliland, writes Liban Ahmad  The Fifth Somaliland President, Muuse Bihi, is facing political and constitutional challenges. How handles those challenges will foreshadow his legacy when his term in...

An Eritrean Public and Cultural Diplomacy delegation drawn from all walks of life is due to visit Ethiopia today, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nebiat Getachew, told journalists today that the visit aims to strengthen the...

By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat-Somaliland Minister of Information Abdirahman Abdillahi Farah (Guri-Barwaqo) told the government news agency SOLNA, alleged Somalia's semiautonomous region Puntland early on Thursday launched an attack on Somaliland troops in Frontline. The Somaliland government spokesman Mr Abdirahman Guribarwaqo blames the semiautonomous region of Somalia Puntland...

By:Horndiplomat Staff Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz met in Riyadh today and discussed bilateral relations and comprehensive Red Sea cooperation. According to Yemane G. Meskel Eritrean Information Minister, President Isaias Afwerki underlined in the meeting that the profound economic...