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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is re-contesting early August's election after the original vote was invalidated by the country's Supreme Court His main — and long-term — political rival, Raila Odinga, is boycotting the race Despite short-term political uncertainty, analysts CNBC spoke to seem...

Horndiplomat--Could France and Portugal one day be joined by Abkhazia and Somaliland? Euro 2016 will be remembered for the heroics of smaller countries like Wales and Iceland. But can football blaze a path to nationhood? Abkhazia fans at Dinamo stadium © Max Avdeev If nobody can agree...

Hargeisa-Dahabshiil group of companies on Sunday handed over the second consignment of medical equipment to help the government of Somaliland stem the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Fouad Ahmed Nuh, the director of operations at Dahabshiil remittance handed over the second consignment of medical equipment to the...

Somalia's al-Shabab militants have been distributing food to drought-stricken Somalis in what appears to be a bid to win public support. A similar initiative by the militants during the last famine in 2011 failed to boost their image. Not only did the UN blame al-Shabab...

Horndiplomat-Two men who took several people hostage in the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church shot by police, officials say. At least one hostage has been killed by two knife-wielding men in a church in France's northern Normandy region, the interior ministry said. The Paris-based AFP news agency, citing the...

By : Anadolu Agency More than 64.1M people registered to vote to elect president, parliamentarians for next 5 years Millions of voters started heading to the polls in Türkiye as the country's presidential...

The nation's first elected Somali-American lawmaker says she was harassed and called "ISIS" by a taxicab driver in Washington, D.C. Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar detailed the incident on her Facebook page on Wednesday. She said the cab driver called her ISIS, lobbed sexist taunts and...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland house of elders have voted to officially postpone of Somaliland parliament election originally scheduled for march 2019.Horndiplomat reports The House of elders extends the term of the House of Representatives up to January 2020. while The election will take place on December 2019. It was...

Humans living in Africa used heat to break stones and make sharp blades tens of thousands of years before the technique was developed elsewhere, according to a study published Wednesday. The new evidence, in the journal Plos One, shows that humans living in South Africa...

In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap of wild frankincense trees. Bracing against high winds, Musse Ismail Hassan...