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Somalia is struggling to meet the 30 per cent quota for women in the ongoing elections as local and security agencies remain vigilant to ward off threats by the Al-Shabaab to disrupt the polls. So far, both the elections of the Upper House or the...

KISMAYO, SOMALIA — Some 18,000 former refugees have poured into the Somali city of Kismayo this year, with most struggling to find adequate shelter, food, health care and jobs. Abdullahi Mohamed, a former refugee in his 20s, is hoping he can buck the trend. Unlike most...

Horndiplomat-(Press Release)Rushanara will be holding a press conference at 12:00 PM on 21st November at 347 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA. With around five million people in Somalia in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,...

By Chris WoodBBC News There may appear to be few similarities between Wales and a war-ravaged self-declared African republic where people suffering from mental health problems are chained up. Yet, a group of Cardiff men raising £100,000 to help them is just the latest chapter of...

By Ami Miyazaki and Tom Westbrook | TOKYO/SYDNEY An Asia-Pacific trade deal stands almost no chance of working now that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pulled the plug on it, proponents of the pact said on Tuesday, opening the way for China to assume the...

BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn met Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh yesterday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral relations in all fields and ways of developing them as well as regional and international issues. A number of senior...

By:Ismail Akwei Somalia’s ongoing parliamentary election ahead of the presidential on November 30 is characterized by vote buying, fraud and violence by candidates. The country’s auditor general Nur Jimale Farah told Voice of America (VOA) that the over 14,000 Electoral College delegates are voting for the...

20 November 2016 – Noting that the electoral process in Somalia is “going much better than many predicted,” the United Nations envoy in the country underlined the need to ensure that the legitimacy of the process is preserved and called on electoral bodies to...

By JOHN NJAGI More by this Author President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday urged the international community to respect decisions made by Kenya in pulling out of international missions and agreements that no longer worked in its interests. The President regretted the replacement of the Lt-Gen Johnson Ondieki...

ROCHESTER – A college student from Minnesota is among the 32 Americans who have been chosen as Rhodes Scholars to pursue postgraduate studies at Oxford University in England. Ahmed M. Ahmed of Rochester will pursue a master’s degree in research in organic and medical chemistry...