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By M.A. Egge Somaliland Minister of Investment Development and Industry Amina Elmi Farid and ministry officials held a meeting with potential investors’ delegation from Taiwan consisting of AFTA group and Sky Intl Trading, which was led by...

MP Abdulkadir Jama Hammud, Deputy Chair of the House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC), who is, presently, the Acting Chairman following the unceremonious expulsion of MP  Nassir Ali Shire as Chair, said his Committee had every right to correct erroneous parts of the...

The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab said on Saturday it had carried out an attack on a restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, targeting members of the security forces eating there. "We are behind the Blue Sky restaurant attack," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi’s president on Friday threatened to pull out almost 5,500 troops contributing to the African Union mission in Somalia over nearly a year of unpaid allowances, in another sign of tensions with the force’s largest donor, the European Union. If there...

By STELLA CHERONO More than 90 Somali nationals and two Kenyans on Wednesday arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after being deported from the United States. The deportees, believed to have been affected by US President Donald Trump’s implementation of his pledge to crack down on...

'We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands' says the German chancellor, the day after a G7 summit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the US, Britain's...

DUBAI—Dubai-based ports operator DP World on Monday said it has won a concession to manage and develop a port at Berbera in Somaliland, adding to a global portfolio of more than 75 terminals. The Somaliland concession lasts for 30 years, with a 10-year automatic extension,...

Ethiopia’s parliament will meet on Friday to decide whether or not to extend the state of emergency imposed since October last year. Originally imposed for a six-month period, the state of emergency is in its tenth month after it was extended by four months upon...

Feliz Solomon 3:54 AM ET Abas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, Somalia’s 31-year-old public works minister and a rising star of the country’s politics, has been shot dead by security forces who officials say mistook him for a militant. The youngest person ever to be elected to Somalia’s parliament,...

Ahmed Hussein’s perfectly white teeth seem too big for his mouth; his upper arms look like they belong to a little boy, not a 23-year-old man. Propped up on an iron bed, Hussein laughs and says he always was slim. But he is clearly malnourished....