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Djibouti is finalising an agreement with Saudi Arabia to allow the Gulf state to build a military base in the Horn of Africa nation as Riyadh takes a more assertive approach to regional security. Djibouti, a Muslim nation that is strategically located on the Red...

By: Anadolu Agency A national consultative council in Somalia on Tuesday announced the country's election timeline after 48 hours of talks, with the country's president to be elected on Oct. 10. July 25 will mark the election of members of the country's upper legislative chamber, the...

By: The East African Kenya says it is prepared to reopen its embassy in Somalia, following an invitation by Mogadishu on Saturday. In a note sent to Mogadishu on Monday, the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kenya also asked Somalia to reopen its mission in Nairobi, which...

By: Jama Farah Horndiplomat Contributor Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed launched the ‘Beautifying Sheger’ section of the project to be built by the Chinese construction giant (CCCC). In his remarks at the event, he thanked the Government of China for the continued support provided...

By:Zakariye Ahmed, On Thursday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urged the United Nations Security Council to approve reforms that would give Africa permanent UN security council representation. Opening the 9th ministerial-level meeting of the African Union committee of 10 on the reform of the UN security council...

By:Mohamed Duale tweeted by @MohamadDuale Horndiplomat- Hamza Mahdi Hassan, Abaarso alum and current Dean of Boys, for being accepted to Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and St. John's College as a transfer student. Hamza spent two years at African Leadership Academy and then Deep Springs...

Jack Ma, Asia's richest man and founder of Alibaba Group is on a two-day trip to east Africa, visiting Kenya and Rwanda with 38 fellow Chinese billionaires, all no doubt poised with expensive fountain pens, ready to ink billion dollar deals. East Africa has become...

At the Somalia Police Transport headquarters in Mogadishu, ‘elections’ of the remaining seats for people who claim to be representing the people of the Republic of Somaliland, and supported in full by the United Nations in Somalia (UNSOM) resumed. https://twitter.com/UNSomalia/status/810807482725568512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/UNSomalia/status/810766597564596224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Despite the well-founded protestations of the...

Two electoral delegates have been executed in Somalia, the latest in a string of attacks related to the country’s troubled elections. Radio Shabelle reported Tuesday that the two delegates were killed by Al Shabaab militants as they returned from a lower house polling place...

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has said he would like to become a fitness coach for Premier League side Arsenal. British distance runner Farah has supported the Gunners since he was a boy and said he would be open to working for the North London...