Somalia

By:The Peninsula Qatar Airways has announced the resumption of three-weekly flights to Mogadishu, Somalia from September 6, 2020. Service to the capital city of Somalia will be operated by an Airbus A320 featuring 12 seats in Business class and 120 seats in Economy class. The airline will...

Somalia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal on Tuesday from former national intelligence director Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir to overturn the federal election commission's cancellation of his electoral victory. The Supreme Court agreed with the Attorney's General Office, who argued the court has no jurisdiction...

By: Zakaria Ahmed, Horndiplomat correspondent Bossaso, Somalia – After days of fighting and displacement, yesterday the situation of the city has returned to normal, but many people fled away from the city of Bossaso, the commercial capital of Puntland state of Somalia. Puntland state President Said...

Doctors at a city-based private hospital were astonished when they found hundreds of small stones in a Somalian’s kidney. They suspect the man suffers from a unique condition that causes his kidneys to produce more stones. The patient from Galkayo in Somalia Abdi Rahman had...

By: Staff Writer Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmajo has expressed his solidarity with Turkey in commemorating the fourth anniversary of the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt. Horndiplomat reports This came in a tweet posted by President Farmajo on his Twitter account, today, Wednesday, on the...

By:Reuters A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services said. Mogadishu resident Mohamed Osman said the shock of the blast hit the walls and...

Horndiplomat-Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar arrives in Mogadishu. Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi M Guled receives the delegation at the airport. Horndiplomat Reports The defence minister is accompanied by the Chief of the Turkish Army, Chief of Staff and the head officials of TIKA. According to Goobjoobnews...

By : Zakeriye ahmed Horndiplomat Correspondent The National Military Court of Somalia executed Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi for killing the late minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, during Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre's tenure on...

Virender Kumar Paul on Wednesday has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Somalia, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). "Dr Virander Kumar Paul, High Commissioner of India to Kenya, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Somalia, with residence in Nairobi," MEA...

By: Zakeriye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrives in Baidoa, the transitional capital of Somalia's southwest state, this is his first trip outside Somalia's capital city Mogadishu since his re-election on the 15th of this month. President Hassan's visit comes as he...