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Horndiplomat- A suicide car bomb hit a security checkpoint outside the national theatre in central Mogadishu, deaths and injuries reported. Explosion has damaged nearby buildings including a media house . At least three dead after car bomb explosion in...

Horndiplomat-The Somaliland’s Council of Ministers has approved the budget for the year 2017 today  during their weekly Council of Ministers’ meeting. The Minister of Finance Ms.Zamzam abdi aden , presented the draft budget on Thursday in council’s weekly meeting chaired by President Ahmed Mohamed...

Somaliland has unequivocally rebuffed a recent statement made by Somalia regarding the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The following statement was issued today by the Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Horndiplomat-Somaliland national human rights commission organised ceremony commemorated international human rights day at the Mansoor hotel in Hargeisa. The Somaliland national human rights commission, government ministers, opposition officials ,MPs and other high profile guests have attended the...

UN Women is partnering with the Somaliland Women Lawyers Association (SWLA) to improve women’s access to the local justice system and enhance their legal empowerment. “UN Women is pleased that the partnership with SWLA will support legal empowerment interventions for the most marginalized through the...

Center for Policy Analysis condemns the decision made by the Somaliland House of Representatives to reject the approval of the Quota for women and Minority groups.   The following statement was issued today by the Center for Policy Analysis We are deeply concerned and disappointed that the...

Kenyans are fleeing the Ethiopian border for fear of a clash between the Dassanach community of Ethiopia and the Turkana following the killing of an elder last month. Ethiopian elder Lobakate Lobolemai was shot dead on July 31 by a Turkana gunman during a church...

Press-Release By CPJ The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland to unconditionally release three journalists detained for reporting critically on the administration of the Sool region, and to guarantee that the media can cover politics without retaliation. On December 26,...

Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed meets with the leaders of Afar and Somali regional states to discuss security-related issues - reports state-affiliated media. The meeting comes amid deadly clashes over border areas between Afar and Somali regions. October 14/2019 – Armed men killed at least 16 people...

This additional assistance brings EU humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region (including Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti) to nearly €260m since the beginning of the year. “The situation in Horn of Africa has drastically deteriorated in 2017 and it keeps getting worse. Millions...