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By:Zakariye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent The leaders of the Horn of Africa countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, and Kenya who gathered in Mogadishu on Wednesday for a day-long security summit agreed on a joint final push for...

WASHINGTON —In 2016, Ilhan Omar made history when she was elected to Minnesota's House of Representatives, becoming the first Somali-American to win a state office in the United States. Omar had humble beginnings, as her family was uprooted from her home country as a child...

What would Russia's support for Assad cost Vladimir Putin? By:Roman Dobrokhotov @dobrokhotov Roman Dobrokhotov is a Moscow-based journalist and civil activist. He is the editor-in-chief of The Insider. This week the world witnessed yet another chemical attack in Syria. After horrendous footage from Khan Sheikhoun showed children suffocating...

By Ambassador Allen LOU, Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland UN as the Platform for Global Unity Taiwan widely acclaimed as democratic bastion in the East Asia is also in the face of looming military threats posed by the...

many Somali-Americans in Minnesota, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's fundraising visit to the state on Friday is the culmination of a tough week, a reminder of recent hostilities against people like them. They believe Trump's rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants is emboldening hate, and they...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has discussed the recent developments in Jerusalem with the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Lebanon in separate phone calls early Saturday. Erdoğan emphasized in the phone calls that the decision of the U.S. government to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital would...

HornDiplomat-A GROUP of soldiers suspected to have been involved in the failed Turkey military coup have claimed asylum in Greece after flying into the country in a helicopter. A number of soldiers thought to be involved in the coup have requested asylum in Greece Officers have...

UN Women announced the appointment of renowned activist Jaha Dukureh of The Gambia as Regional Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women   NAIROBI, Kenya, February 6, 2018/ -- On the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), UN Women announced the...

For more than a decade, a new kind of 'newspeak' - coded racism - has become prevalent in France By Thomas Guenole - The writer is political scientist and author of Islamo-psychose , Fayard Publishing, 2017. In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen reached a...

By: Xinhua Agency  The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the African continent has reached 2,196,257 as of Thursday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll...