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By: SONNA Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a fruitful meeting with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed the future of bilateral...

ANKARA Several African nations offered condolences Saturday to Turkey after a deadly earthquake hit the Aegean coast. Thirty-nine people were killed and nearly 900 injured after a magnitude-6.6 earthquake jolted Izmir on Friday, the country's health minister said Saturday. Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo said: “We...

Horndiplomat-Representatives from Ministry of Trade, China International Expo Center and the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association jointly briefed the media on the upcoming first China-Africa Expo due to open between December 3 and 6, 2018 at the Addis Ababa Exhibition Center. The expo...

The TV journalist on a happy childhood in Mogadishu, his first taste of a British boarding school, and the first, unbelievable taste of fatherhood Our family home in Mogadishu was in an area lined with trees, very green and the sun was always shining. I...

By: MoDuale Djibouti's Ministry of Health on Sunday announced 15 new COVID-19 confirmed cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Horn of Africa nation to 1023. The Djiboutian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Sunday, disclosed that from the total 310...

  Internet access across Ethiopia has been blocked to prevent national exam papers leaking online, a government spokesman has claimed. "The shutdown is aimed at preventing a repeat of leaks that occurred last year," Mohammed Seid at the Office for Government Communications Affairs, told the Reuters...

KHARTOUM A European special envoy is set to arrive in Sudan on Sunday for talks aimed at easing tension with Ethiopia over their border dispute. “The High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union, Josep Borrell, assigned the Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs,...

Horndiplomat- Livestock production accounts for between 60–65% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), employs over 70% of the population and contributes 85% of export earnings (MoNPD 2012). In 2014, a total of 3.4 million heads of livestock were exported, of which 3.1 million were...

By:BBC AFRICA Serious allegations of sexual violence are being reported in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, including a high number of alleged rapes in the city of Mekelle, Pramila Patten, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, says. Government forces seized control of Mekelle, the regional...

24 September 2021 - Next week is Africa Climate Week, the regional week run by the UN ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. During the week, countries will come together to develop their national strategies and plans to tackle climate change. On the first day of Africa...