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By Bashir Goth, Special to Gulf News Somalis see no reason to trust this week’s conference in London after similar initiatives in the past did little to address the core issues. n a deja vu situation that does not excite many Somalis, the United Kingdom announced...

Religious leaders send letters to Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate praising reopening of Hagia Sophia as mosque Leaders of Muslim communities around the globe are welcoming Turkey's decision to make Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia a mosque again and congratulating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the move. In...

By Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  At least 20 people were killed and 60,000 displaced in ethnic clashes flaring since last week in the western region of Benishangul-Gumuz. A government official said the clashes occurred in the areas of Kamashi zone. “The number of the deceased could be...

Djibouti's president says African leaders believe President-elect Donald Trump will pay little attention to Africa, but is hopeful that Djibouti can continue a strong bilateral relationship with the U.S. “Africa does not appear on the foreign agenda of the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump, but as...

Plane attempting to land at Kyrgyzstan's main airport in thick fog crashed in populated area, authorities say. A Turkish cargo jet has crashed near Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport, killing at least 32 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as...

By: Hassan Jama, HornDiplomat regional Contributor Somalia on Monday registered 34 new coronavirus infections  that were tested in the past 24 hours. Somalia minister of health Fowziya Abikar Nur said, a total of 756 cases have been confirmed since mid March when the country recorded...

President Obama has admitted for the first time, that he and his family are “seriously considering” moving to Canada if Donald Trump is elected the 46th president of the United States. The news comes after Obama launched a scathing attack on Trump,calling him“woefully unprepared”...

BY:Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it is “now abundantly clear to all” that Eritrean troops are operating throughout Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and “well-corroborated” reports suggest they are responsible for atrocities. “Eritrean Defence Forces must leave Ethiopia, and they must...

BY ANDREW DUFFY, POSTMEDIA NETWORK In June 2015, Somali national Ali Omar Ader was arrested in Ottawa at the end of a remarkable five-year undercover operation designed to lure him to Canada. He will stand trial in October for his alleged role in the kidnapping...

Full Length Research Paper BY: Najah M. Adam Department of Diplomacy and International Relations, EUCLID University, Gambia. Received 8 May, 2017; Accepted 5 June, 2017 Key words: National security, basing politics, interests, actors, animosity, deterrence, collective security,collective defense. HORNDIPLOMAT-The presence of forward forces in foreign soil is not...