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By: Mohamed Duale Horndiplomat-New Executive Secretary of IGAD  Workneh Gebeyehu has formally assumed duty On Thursday.  Earlier on November 6, during his meeting with delegates from IGAD Member States, Dr. Workneh expressed his eagerness to work for the betterment of the region. The Executive Secretary commended...

By: Mohamed Duale First Two Somali women, Safiya Khalid and Nadia Mohamed, win two seats in Lewiston City Council in Maine and Park City in St. Louis. Safia and Nadia thus become the first two Muslim women on the municipal council of these two cities...

Mevlut Cavusoglu’s remarks come at Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Somalia Contact Group meeting in Doha ANKARA/DOHA The Turkish foreign minister on Sunday said Somalia needs Turkey’s help to ensure political stability, to restructure national security forces and to create an environment that will allow economic...

By: Daily Sabah Officials and businesspeople from Turkey and Somalia emphasized developing economic ties between the two countries and called for more initiatives to enhance cooperation in every field. Speaking at a Turkey-Somali Business Council meeting organized by the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) on Wednesday,...

By: MEMO The speaker of Egypt’s parliament has asked the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to mediate its dispute with Ethiopia over the Renaissance Dam, reports Bloomberg. In a meeting yesterday with the Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Ali Abdel Aal said that relations between Egypt and Nigeria...

By: BBC and Horndiplomat Ismail Ahmed, the founder and chairman of WorldRemit - a global digital money transfer service operating in six continents - has been named the most influential black Briton. The Powerlist 2020 covers the most powerful people of African and African Caribbean heritage...

The Somali Week Festival, held at the British Librarian Center in London, attended by a large crowd of people from Europe and elsewhere, as well as the Somali creative community. invited by writers, Scholars, artists, musicians, Film Makers and other members. The launch of the...

By: Xinhua SOCHI, Russia (Xinhua) — Russia and Ethiopia signed on Wednesday an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said. The deal, inked on the sidelines of the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, will...

BY:DW The Russian president has welcomed thousands of African leaders to discuss politics and business "worth billions of dollars." Unlike China, Putin has promised to refrain from 'political or other' influence. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi before the two leaders opened the...

By: Global News Global News is declaring that Liberal candidate and incumbent MP Ahmed Hussen has been re-elected in the Ontario riding of York South—Weston. Hussen has served as Canada’s immigration minister since January 2017, when former Liberal MP John McCallum stepped-down from the role to...