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By:Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi welcomes recent apology given by Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo for 80s atrocities by previous government of Mohamed Siyad Barre. While addressing a joint session of Parliament in Hargeisa, President Bihi said Farmaajo’s apology was the first...

Addis Ababa, May 3, 2018 (FBC) –Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed to jointly develop and manage Port Sudan. Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed, who arrived in Khartoum for a two-day working visit yesterday, held talks with President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan on bilateral and...

China has offered to mediate in the lingering border dispute in the Horn of Africa region, where Eritrea and Djibouti are both claiming ownership of the Dumeira mountains and Islands. The Chinese Ambassador to the African Union suggested that China will consider sending troops to...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Politicians have been peeling off wads of hundred dollar bills to buy votes. Others have shown up for parliamentary races standing next to a political nobody who was bribed or coerced into running against them, to make the race look fair....

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators accused a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition of carrying out a deadly March attack on a Somali migrant boat off Yemen and said the alliance had become a cover for some states to avoid individual blame, according to a...

By: SKY NEWS Ramla Ali's historic appearance for Somalia at the Olympic Games ended in a unanimous decision defeat to Claudia Nechita in Tokyo. The 31-year-old became the first boxer ever to represent Somalia at the Olympics, but Ali was unable to progress further in the...

Horndiplomat-Traditional leaders, women groups, civil society organizations and scholars from minority communities in Hargeisa on Tuesday urged the parliament of Somaliland to approve the quotas already endorsed by Council of Minister on 7th June 2018. They also suggested the number of seats allocated for the minorities...

On Thursday, 45 Somali refugees returned to the Horn of African country from Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya as part of the voluntary repatriation program, the United Nations Refugee agency announced. The repatriations come following a move by the Kenyan government to close the refugee...

By: Finnish Foreign ministry Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto appointed Member of Parliament Suldaan Said Ahmed as his Special Representative on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa. In his work as Foreign Minister’s Special...

By:Mohammed Dahir Ahmed Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean started in 2005 by Somalia parities and reached its climax in 2011 when they have attempted to hijack 237 vessels and at year’s end, seized 11 vessels, keeping a total of 216 people...