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An emotional gesture by Somalis moved a Turkish academic who was stranded in a Somali city when his flight was cancelled. Seeking to reach the capital Mogadishu from Hargeisa, some 1,500 kilometers away from Mogadishu, Enver Kapağan found out his flight was cancelled. Asking for...

South Sudanese arch-foes signed a final power-sharing deal on Sunday, aimed at ending a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions in the world's youngest country. President Salva Kiir and his bitter rival Riek Machar were in neighbouring Sudan...

  By Abdi Latif DahirAugust 5, 2018 The news of the attack was revealed first on Twitter. On Aug. 2, Mohamed Mohamoud Sheik, 31, an entrepreneur and youth activist, was assaulted by unknown gunmen near the Benadir junction in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. He was later pronounced dead...

Microphone program of the Somali section of the Voice of America radio station of Saturday, August 4, invited Abdirashid Duale, Dahabshiil Group GCEO, to recount salient points of a meeting he just concluded with 27 university graduates whom Dahabshiil financially supported with tertiary-level programs revolving around communal...

Horndiplomat-Freedom Center proposes new solutions for conflict management in the Horn: the case of Celafweyn-Horndiplomat Ceel-Afweyn conflict followed the skirmish of two sub-clans for retaliation and land disputes. Somaliland government and traditional elders attempted to solve the conflict in different occasions but unfortunately, it hasn’t been contained...

Earlier today (04 August 2018), an Eritrean Airlines carrier has arrived at the Bole International Airport carrying, an Eritrean High-level Delegation led by Eritrean Minister of Transport and Communications, Tesfasellasie Berhane. Upon arrival, the Eritrean high-level delegation led by Minister Tesfasellasie Berhane, that includes the...

By Dr Moshe Terdiman   On August 2, 2018, a London Court of International Arbitration ruled against the Government of Djibouti in its dispute with the DP World Company, based in Dubai. This ruling ended a long dispute between both sides starting in February 2018, when...

Horndiplomat-Press release from the Government of the Republic of Djibouti .Horndiplomat reports   DJIBOUTI DOES NOT RECOGNISE THE SENTENCE GIVEN BY THE LONDONCOURT OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION • The Government of the Republic of Djibouti reaffirms that the concession agreement contained severe irregularities and threatened the national interest...

Addis Ababa, August 2, 2018 (FBC) –Ethiopia’s year-on-year inflation fell to 14 percent in July 2018, from 14.7 percent in June, according to the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA). The prices of bread, meat, milk, cheese and eggs, butter and sugar, honey and chocolate...

Djibouti, an increasingly strategic nation in the Horn of Africa, has condemned last week’s call by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed for the lifting of U.N. sanctions against Eritrea. During his three-day visit to Eritrea’s capital last week, the Somali president urged an end to...