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( Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Somaliland Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasin Mohamud Hiir arrived in Washington earlier today.Horndiplomat Reports The Somaliland Representative in the United States, Bashir Goth, and members of the Somaliland community in Washington received the Minister at the airport. Hiir will hold...

Mogadishu, December 04 , 2018 -Somalia Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,  Amb. Ahmed Isse Awad, received  in his office at the ministry a copy of the credentials of His Excellency Mr. Mehmet Yilmaz, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey...

Horndiplomat-Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament Matthew Offord calls British government take to lead at the UN to actually accept to Somaliland as a country it's own right to given it's own national identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSwcPWKVa54   © Horn Diplomat 2018

Kenya Airways has postponed the launch of its direct flight from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to the Somali capital Mogadishu indefinitely. The national carrier which had initially planned to fly to Mogadishu beginning November 15 was to launch its direct flights to Aden...

BY TOM GARDNER The Ethiopian prime minister’s opponents fear that he’s an African Erdogan. His rhetoric and policies suggest he’s more of a liberal democrat. Earlier this year, when Abiy Ahmed was seeking the leadership of Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), he...

Indian officials hailed the deal, which was signed during an official visit to the UAE by the country’s foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj, as 'sig The UAE has agreed to collaborate with India to launch joint aid projects in Africa. Indian officials hailed the deal, which was...

The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repatriated 400 Ethiopian nationals whose lives were at jeopardy in Yemen. About 300 of the returnees were males, it was noted. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in tandem with IOM, provided medical facilities to the returnees. The Ministry is also...

Nairobi-The United States has renewed a "permanent diplomatic presence" in Somalia, the State Department said, nearly 30 years after the U.S. embassy was closed as a civil war raged in the Horn of Africa country. Somalia has been trying to recover from the conflict that...

Horndiplomat-Asmara, 04 December 2018- Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki received and held talks yesterday, 4 December at Denden Hall with the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Mr. Tibor Nagy. President Isaias and Mr. Tibor discussed on bilateral as well as regional and global issues...

GAROWE – The semiautonomous northern Somalia state of Puntland faces a potential leadership split just a month before the region holds the much-awaited presidential election after the vice president challenged the president over the formation of a new electoral dispute resolution committee, appointing his...