Saudi blockade eased in Yemen, food and aid arrives
The Yemeni port of Hudaida has seen the arrival of the first ship carrying 5.5 tonnes of flour and relief materials, while Sanaa airport has received the first humanitarian convoy carrying essential vaccines for children across Yemen. But with Yemen facing a large-scale famine...
Trafigura to invest in improving Berbera Oil Terminal to become a regional supply hub
Press release
Geneva, 7 September 2020 – Trafigura Group Pte Ltd. (“Trafigura”), a market leader in the global commodities industry, has this week delivered a first shipment of low sulphur gasoil to the Port of Berbera, following the signing of a milestone storage agreement earlier...
Somalia kicks off diaspora conference to tap investments
By: Xinhua agency
The second annual diaspora conference kicked off in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on Monday with the government seeking to tap investment opportunities from its citizens abroad.
The conference, attended...
New Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed, youngest in Africa, sparks hope of reform
For more than two years, as his health deteriorated, Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba was locked up in a notorious high-security prison on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, accused of “terrorism” for leading anti-government protests.
This week, the authorities needed him for a different reason....
Summer Olympics Begin With Uplifting Spectacle in Gritty Rio
By SIMON ROMERO
Horndiplomat-The Summer Olympics, fraught with financial and political difficulties, began at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
RIO DE JANEIRO — If there was a nation in need of an uplifting spectacle at this moment, even...
Somaliland is a beacon of democracy in an unstable region: Ali Mohamed (Opinion)
By Guest Columnist/cleveland.com
Ali Mohamed is founder and editor of GubanMedia, an online source of news and commentary about the Horn of Africa.
LEWIS CENTER, Ohio -- In November, the voters of the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland in the volatile Horn of Africa region went to the polls to elect...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s heads to Kuwait to help resolve GCC crisis
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip marks a new level of involvement in US efforts to help end the Gulf dispute.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to arrive in Kuwait on Monday to help seek a resolution to the crisis between...
EU boosts aid to drought affected countries in HornofAfrica
This additional assistance brings EU humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region (including Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti) to nearly €260m since the beginning of the year.
“The situation in Horn of Africa has drastically deteriorated in 2017 and it keeps getting worse. Millions...
Somaliland: three civil society organizations condemn the killing of Somalian and Somaliland refugees in helicopter attack off Yemen coast
Human Rights Centre, Centre for Policy Analysis and COMPAD, civil society organizations based in Somaliland, demand independent investigation to determine who was behind a deadly attack on a boat near Bab al-Mandeb strait, off the coast of Yemen, where more than 40 civilian people...
US military reports killing five Al-Shabaab militants in new airstrike
By: AFRICOM
In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab terrorists in the vicinity of Bush Madina, Somalia, April 3.
“Al-Shabaab’s goals, rhetoric, and it's over-reliance on both coercion and violence mirror al-Qaida,” said U.S. Marine Corps Bradford J. Gering, deputy...
