Somalia

Armed group attack Bula Hawo on the Kenya-Somalia border claiming they killed dozens of soldiers. Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base there, the...

Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Guinea, accusing it of violating sovereignty and unity of Somalia. Guinea gave a red carpet welcome this week to the president of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi who is visiting Conakry. Announcement was made by Foreign Minister of Somalia Ahmed Isse...

Mr  Haysom will find it difficult to reconcile the 2014 UNSOM-Federal Government Agreement with the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy he had invoked in the letter to the Security Minister, writes Liban Ahmad In 2014 the former Somali Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Abdirahman Beyle,  and Former SRSG  to Somalia Nicholas...

By: East African Somalia’s Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will be in Uganda next week for a two-day State visit, in a trip seen to drum up regional support and bolster business ties as he enters the third month of...

By: Staff writer European Union praises The resumption of dialogue between Somalia and Somaliland that occurred in Djibouti on 14 June. Horndiplomat reports The following statement was issued today by EU High Representative/Vice President Josep Borrell The resumption of dialogue between Somalia and Somaliland that occurred in...

By: BBC AFRICA The speaker of Somalia’s lower house has vowed to “cancel any bill that violates Islamic values” ahead of the tabling of a controversial bill on sexual offences. The bill is...

MOGADISHU (HOL) - The President of semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland, Abdiweli Ali Gaas said over three millions USD of the funds confiscated at Mogadishu Airport was salaries of over 2000 Puntland soldiers. Somali officials had seized plane carrying three unmarked bags stashed with 9.6...

BY:Journal Star PEORIA — The phrase, “You can’t gsSomo home again,” is too much of a reality for Bradley soccer player Saadiq Mohammed. The redshirt senior is listed as a midfielder from Somalia. But he actually has two home countries — Kenya, where he was born, and Somalia,...

By: Jama farah,Horndiplomat Contributor Somalia has announced 51 new cases of the Coronavrus during the last 24 hours. This takes the national COVID-19 tally to 722. Somalia Minister for Health and Social Care Fowziya Abikar Nur announced in her daily briefing that 37 of the cases...

By: Hassan Jama, Horndiplmat contributor from Nairobi  the number of infections in Somalia rose to 873 after the country's minister of health Fawziya Abikar has confirmed 38 new cases in the past 24 hours. Abikar said one patient succumbed to the deadly disease, bringing the total...