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By: Mohamed Duale The 2nd Conference on Reconciliation and Strengthening Cooperation in Somali and the Oromo Regional States has kicked off in Jigjiga capital of Somali state of Ethiopia, Sunday. The officials of the two regional states led by Somali state President Mr.Mustafe Muhummed Omar and...

BY YUSUF HASSAN For Somalia to achieve peace and democracy, state-building must be the new federal government’s cornerstone policy. Somalia was supposed to have a new parliament in August, followed shortly thereafter by parliamentarians voting in a new president on September 10. This imperfect system has...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Somaliland has rejected a planned joint visit by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. On 15 February,  Unconfirmed source indicates a proposed visit to Hargeisa by Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed and Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmaajo...

Letter written by Kenya MoFA says a recent letter by the UN envoy to Somalia James Swan was not based on “consensus” by the international community. Kenya is demanding that the letter be “withdrawn”. Kenya says Amb Swan only copied Ethiopia and was “selective”...

GAROWE, PUNTLAND 23 May 2019: Just one in four children in Puntland, Somalia, have access to sufficient food, a new assessment by Save the Children reveals today. These children are far more likely to succumb to the impact of yet another drought which is...

Villagers in Ethiopia are celebrating the “resurrection” of a man who was thought to be dead. Hirpha Negero, a father of five, was pronounced dead on Tuesday at around 10:30 local time (07:30 GMT). According to local tradition in the remote village in Sibu Sire district...

Press Release “Love from Taiwan” - Taiwan provides 560 tons of quality rice to Somaliland to mitigate the impact caused by drought Ambassador Allen C. Lou of the Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland hands over 560 tons of quality rice to Chairman Faisal...

by ZUHURSAMRIYE Hargeisa is a colorful city with insanely moderate weather. It’s never too hot, it’s never too cold, and the sun is always shining. These are 12 things you only understand if you grew up in Hargeisa, Somaliland. 1. Land of entrepreneurs. You know you grew up...

By: VOA Ethiopians living in Somalia have become the subject of physical violence, verbal threats and intimidation since Somaliland consented to give Ethiopia access to its coastline at the beginning of this year, members of the Ethiopian...

By: Staff Writer Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmajo has expressed his solidarity with Turkey in commemorating the fourth anniversary of the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt. Horndiplomat reports This came in a tweet posted by President Farmajo on his Twitter account, today, Wednesday, on the...