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By IBRAHIM ORUKO More by this Author Opposition leader Raila Odinga has vowed to form a rival government when he is sworn in on January 30 even if it is based outside the country. He spoke as 13 opposition MPs said they will have all the National...

Jailed Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina has been freed after more than a year in detention. The leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress was released on Wednesday morning and allowed to go home, where he was welcomed by thousands of people. He has been in prison...

A major geopolitical crisis is set to erupt over who controls the world’s longest river When Ethiopia’s prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn visits Egypt this week to discuss bilateral cooperation in sectors like health, education, and agriculture one contentious issue will stand out: the completion of Africa’s largest...

Kenyans are big buyers of second-hand clothes at bargain prices. Thousands of tonnes are imported every year. But some have had enough and want to see their own textile industries make it big instead. Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller reports from Nairobi.

 By Muse Jeeh A lot of things are waiting for the cabinet ministers approved in Somaliland. The most pressing matters to be faced by the ministers are included by inflation, poverty, poor healthcare, education, corruption, lack of water in Hargeisa and tremendous youth unemployment which...

Horndiplomat--The Ethiopian  Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Somaliland President Muse Behi Abdi held discussions on various issues here in Addis yesterday.Prime Minister Hailemariam stated his country's commitment to Somaliland’s peace and stability, saying, “Ethiopia is working aggressively to dismantle Al-Shabaab from the surrounding since...

Horndiplomat-The Somaliland President HE. Musa Bihi Abdi has arrived in Addis Ababa today for a two-day official visit. The Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Workneh Gebeyehu has welcomed Abdi who won the election in November 2017, upon his arrival at the Bole International Airport. The president said that...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said his country was not meddling in the internal affairs of Sudan and Ethiopia, as he sought to defuse rising tensions in the Red Sea region. Sisi, in a televised broadcast on Monday, said Cairo was not planning to go to war with the...

Qatar's human rights committee says the detention of a member of the royal family by the United Arab Emirates is illegal and violates human rights laws. Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al Thani is the latest in a line of public figures to accuse Abu...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has held talks in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, before heading to Egypt for a four-day state visit. The leader is trying to defuse tension over a giant hydroelectric dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile. Ethiopia aims...