Somalia

By : Zakeriye ahmed Horndiplomat Correspondent Somalia's Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre lands in Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa ahead of the 10th Tana Forum, which takes place in Bahar Dar on 14-16 October.

Horndiplomat-Jubaland regional leader Ahmed Mohamed Islam known as “Ahmed Madobe” wins re-election in a regional parliamentary vote. Ahmed Madobe was declared winner in 1st round after receiving 56 votes, more than two-third of the 74 MPs who voted; Anab Mohamed Dahir got 17 votes....

Mogadishu(HornDiplomat)-The opposition’s Forum for National Parties say they are withdrawing talks with President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo on upcoming elections and political process. Statement accuses President Farmajo of “dishonesty”, alleges he “did/does not have appetite for dialogue”. The following statement was issued today by the Forum...

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...

Horndiplomat- Norway should provide a short-term bridging loan of NOK 3.135 billion to Somalia in 2020 to clear Somalia’s debt arrears to the World Bank’s International Development Association. The following statement was issued today by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Government has proposed that Norway...

Somalia’s government says the mayor of Mogadishu has died after being badly wounded in an al-Shabab extremist attack in his office last week. The spokesman for Somalia’s president said Abdirahman Omar Osman died Thursday in Qatar, where he had been airlifted for treatment after the...

The region needs more ports, and there’s a race to build and control them. This February, the small African nation of Djibouti took control of the Red Sea container port of Doraleh from DP World, completing what it considers the final act in a lengthy...

An al-Shabaab defection raised hopes in Mogadishu, but violence, and lessons from another conflict, suggest little has changed By Yaroslav Trofimov MOGADISHU, Somalia—When a former deputy head of al-Shabaab turned up last August in a Mogadishu hotel to denounce the extremist armed group, government officials were...

By:Horndiplomat staff Somalia on Wednesday confirmed 105 new positive Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 6,549. 2 more people were reported to have recovered from the disease, hence the total number of recoveries is now at 3,783. Three people have...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Asmara 10 January 2019- Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed arrived in mid-morning hours of today, 10 January for a two-day working visit in Eritrea. Upon arrival at the Asmara International Airport, President Mohamed and his delegation were accorded a warm welcome...