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The global giant in port operations takes a 30-year lease on Port of Berbera DP World’s landmark deal with authorities in Somaliland to jointly develop the Port of Berbera is a welcome development for Ethiopia, according to a senior Ethiopian government official. The Dubai-based company has...

The Peninsula-The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) recently sponsored ‘Shida’, the Fourth Annual Forum of the Somali Community in Qatar, organised by Weyak, a Doha-based voluntary organisation that works to foster understanding of mental health issues with outreach activities both regionally and within...

MARTIN SEEMUNGAL: Djibouti is one of the hottest, driest, places on Earth. Vast areas are semi-arid desert. There are no natural resources. The official unemployment rate is 50 percent. Life for many is difficult. But Djibouti does have one very valuable asset — its location. Where...

by Patrick Gathara When Kenyan troops crossed the proverbial Rubicon and entered Somalia nearly six years ago, it caught almost everyone by surprise. It was Kenya’s first sustained and significant foray into its troubled neighbors territory and ran counter to the country’s historic pacifism -at...

By JEFFREY GETTLEMANMAY 13, 2017 Nairobi — During my first trip to Mogadishu, Somalia, on my last night in town, as I was packing up my things, someone unexpectedly knocked on my door. It was the hotel manager, and at first I thought he had come...

Trump has already ordered greater US support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen, but the deputy crown prince will be primarily bidding for US backing for his confrontation with Iran. Many people view Donald Trump as the most dangerous man on the planet, but...

By Hajer M'tiri PARIS Emmanuel Macron was officially inaugurated as France's president during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace on Sunday, thereby becoming the country’s youngest head of state since Napoleon. The pro-Europe centrist leader has vowed to reform his country with a moribund economy and rebuild...

Somaliland has some of the best-preserved rock paintings in Africa but only a few intrepid travellers have seen them. French archaeologists discovered them in 2002, more than 5,000 years after they were made. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports from Hargeisa, Somaliland. Catherine Soi SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Over 20 million people are threatened by drought in the Horn of Africa, Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan. In Somalia over six million need humanitarian assistance, around 680,000 people have fled the drought there since last November and around 1.4 million children are expected to...

By Jim GaramoneDoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, May 12, 2017 — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis came away from yesterday’s British-sponsored conference on Somalia in London with renewed hope for the peace process in the African nation. Mattis told reporters flying with him back to Washington,...