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A second protester was killed in Kenya on Friday as anger raged a day after a divisive election boycotted by the opposition, taking the death toll from two days of protests to eight. The latest victim was shot dead by police in the Kawangware slum...

Horndiplomat-The AfricaCom Awards show, supported by Founding Awards Sponsor, PCCW Global, was a colourful and festive Mardi Gras themed event. Held in Cape Town during AfricaCom, guests celebrated and acknowledged those trailblazers who are leading digital inclusion, connectivity and digital development on the African...

Abbas Abdullahi, public works and reconstruction minister, dies after bodyguards for auditor general shoot at his car. Bodyguards for Somalia's auditor general shot dead a government minister in an apparent accident near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, police said. Auditor general Nur Farah's bodyguards opened...

Today, the European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially handed over the new Information Management Centre (IMC) to the Government. The launch is part of ongoing joint efforts by FAO in conjunction with the Government to enhance...

A former refugee who has taken over as Sheffield's Lord Mayor says he hopes to bring the role "into the 21st Century". Magid Magid is the city's first Somali mayor, first Green Party mayor, and, at 28, the youngest mayor. He came to Sheffield aged five...

Last year just 11.4% of registered nurses in the UK were male. Continued stereotyping is partly to blame Efforts to promote gender equality in workplaces of all kinds may be widespread, but the number of men in nursing remains stubbornly low. Last year just 11.4%...

By: MoDuale Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday received young Somalian inventor Guled Adan Abdi in Ankara. "When we saw the plane models that he made with limited means in Somalia, we said that this talent should be in Teknofest. Abdi Guled in Turkey and...

By M.A. Egge The VP H.E. Abdirahman Ismael Seili’i gave a token of 20 sheep and goats to inpatients at Borama hospital on Friday. The VP who was on an official trip to Awdal toured the hospital where he visited 23 patients who suffered acute watery...

The elections marked an important moment for democracy in Somaliland: after significant delays to both polls, they marked the first time that national and local elections have been held together. Look here the Independent international team observing Somaliland’s final report Says Professor Michael Walls of DPU,...

Horndiplomat-Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to Ethiopia next week at the invitation of Foreign Minister Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu. The Chinese Foreign Minister will also visit the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Burkina...