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Families are being torn apart amid reported atrocities in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Many of the Rohingya civilians who are fleeing to Bangladesh are being forced to leave behind elderly relatives who were not fit enough to make the journey. Al Jazeera's Divya Gopalan reports...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland’s Local Councils were elected November 2012; in five years term which ended November 2017. On 6th March 2017, Guurti House extended their time to 28th April 2019. Presently; they are executing their day to day activity with no legal mandate. In Somaliland’s Democracy,...

By Nadifa Mohamed It’s hard to not to imagine myself into those flats, in the days and hours before the fire. To not imagine the stacks of wedding clothes, jewelry and new-home paraphernalia at the home of Hosna Begum’s family, as she prepared to marry her fiancé...

By:Financial times Thirty years ago, Ismail Ahmed snuck from then war-ravaged Somaliland into neighbouring Djibouti, hidden on the back of a tipper truck. His brother, who was working in Saudi Arabia, sent him money to pay for a flight to London to take on a...

By: Staff writer The president of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi and his delegation arrived in Djibouti and warmly welcomed by Djibouti government officials. President bihi received an official invitation from the President of the Republic of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh. But the main agenda of the visit...

On Thursday, 45 Somali refugees returned to the Horn of African country from Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya as part of the voluntary repatriation program, the United Nations Refugee agency announced. The repatriations come following a move by the Kenyan government to close the refugee...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopia State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Hirut Zemene receives UK Director for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( Foreign Office) Ms Harriett Baldwin, on Monday (November 26), and the two sides have agreed to expand the bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and the...

The Somali Partnership Forum, a major conference on the Horn of Africa state, has opened in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day forum is jointly chaired by the Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo and the European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Federica Magherini. The meeting is a follow...

Horndiplomat-Final Communique of The council of Oromo traditional leaders( Abba Gada ) and Somaliland traditional leaders . Final Communique © Horn Diplomat 2018

Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i on Sunday met Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo in a bid to ease cross-border tensions between the two nations. Matiang’i was sent by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to lead a delegation of top government officials for the visit as both...