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By Mary HarperAfrica editor, BBC World Service News This Thursday, the great and the good will descend on London to discuss Somalia, a country that has topped the Fragile States Indexfor eight of the past 10 years. The London Somalia Conference, co-chaired by the UK, Somalia...

By:Daily Sabah Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has received his Somali counterpart President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Istanbul, Turkish diplomatic sources said Friday. The pair discussed bilateral relations and international developments at a...

Somalia's lower house of parliament voted to reject a deal by Somaliland and UAE ports operator DP World to grant a stake in the Port of Berbera to Ethiopia, aggravating the spat between the central government in Mogadishu and the country’s semi-autonomous northern region. The...

 Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed yesterday met and held discussion with presidents of universities and regional leadership on the sideline of the 11th Congress of EPRDF. The discussion mainly focused on ways to conduct a peaceful teaching in the current academic year, according to Fitsum...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The United States ambassador to Somalia says the U.S. once again will have a permanent diplomatic presence in the country after it opens offices in Mogadishu later this year. The U.S. embassy was closed in 1991 as the Horn of Africa nation...

Israeli police shoot dead three Palestinian suspects after they allegedly opened fire on Israelis near Al Aqsa compound. Three Palestinians reportedly opened fire near Al Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City, wounding three Israelis, before they were killed. Israeli police said the three gunmen reached one...

ParalympicsGB's Abdi Jama on his wheelchair basketball career A British Paralympian who plays wheelchair basketball has said he wants to inspire other young people to take up sports. Abdi Jama, who is from the self-declared republic of Somaliland, fell out of a window at the age...

The benefits for Ethiopia and for many electricity-importing countries in East Africa from the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam are clear. However, the implications for downstream countries aren’t all positive – and need to be better understood. In 2016, about 30% of Ethiopia’s...

November 2016 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) is mandated with many tasks in the east African nation as it continues to make significant strides in its peace process after two decades of lawlessness and conflict. These tasks include helping the Federal...

NAIROBI, 29 March 2017 (PSCU) – Direct flights between Mogadishu and Nairobi resumed today with the first commercial plane carrying 49 passengers from the Somali capital landing at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) shortly after 1.00 p.m. The re-launch of direct flights between Nairobi and...