Somalia

Horndiplomat-Today, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s (IGAD’s) Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) in collaboration with Sahan Foundation has officially launched the study report conducted on “Al-Shabaab as a Transnational Security Threat”. Al Shabaab has aspired to become a truly regional organization, with the membership and...

BY JASON PATINKIN  @JasonPatinkin NAIROBI — After being all but stamped out by international naval forces following its late-2000s heyday, piracy has made a sudden return to the Horn of Africa. In the past month, there have been six suspected piracy incidents near Somalia, five of...

Somali envoy to Ethiopia speaks to Anadolu Agency prior to AU summit By Addis Getachew ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Somalia has appealed to the United Nations and the United States to lift the arms embargo they imposed during the civil war. Anadolu Agency caught up with Somali Ambassador to...

By: XINHUA Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 14 people, displaced thousands more, and destroyed property in southern Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency said. The UN Office for...

MOGADISHU, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Suspected al-Shabab militants on Saturday launched an ambush at a checkpoint manned by government forces in Afgoye town about 30 km northwest of Mogadishu, police and witnesses said Saturday. A police officer who declined to be named told Xinhua that...

Horndiplomat- Mary Harper Africa Editor at the BBC World Service take interview wih Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım about Somalia and Africa.  

QNA/Brussels Qatar has invited the international community to join forces to find radical solutions to the crisis in Somalia so that it can maintain its sovereignty and achieve national reconciliation, noting the efforts and concrete steps taken by the east African country for the benefit...

At least eight people have been killed and 14 others wounded after a car bomb attack at a military base in Mogadishu and the militant group al Shabaab claimed responsibility. Salad Mohamed, a senior police officer in Mogadishu told Anadolu Agency by phone, that a...

This edition of the program is about US continued interventions in Somalia. It talks about recent killings of 10 innocent civilians, including 3 children, in Somalia at the hands of US soldiers. http://178.32.255.194/ptv//program/20170905/0905_aft.mp4 SOURCE:PRESSTV

By. Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale   Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Foreign Minister  Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu and Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed Arrive in Mogadishu.Horndiplomat Reports Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,  Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu and the Foreign Affairs Minister of Eritrea,  Osman Saleh Mohammed where warmly received...