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Sorry, but when I decide who to vote for on Election Day, it will be the person I think can best represent the country, not the candidate that will most impress my boyfriend.

Super tanker anchored off Yemen coast is likely to sink or explode at any moment, UN says

Stock photo of a supertanker / AFP via Getty Images
The vessel was abandoned as the Middle Eastern country descended into civil war in 2015 and is now starting to fall apart. If the tanker explodes, it could cause an environmental disaster in the Red Sea. A...

French President Emmanuel Macron Set to Visit Ethiopia on Tuesday

French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed support for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ambitious reforms and diplomatic peace efforts.
Horndiplomat-French President Emmanuel Macron is due to arrive in Addis Ababa on Tuesday (March 12) for a two-day state visit to Ethiopia. https://twitter.com/MohamadDuale/status/1105170689118617605 According to Ethiopian Foreign Ministry During his visit, President Macron will meet with Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy...

The Deficit and Discontent of Governance and Democratic Process in the Horn of Africa Region

Mohamed A. Mohamoud-Barawani University for Peace, Costa Rica
By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud According to governance tenets, knowing and unknowingly the African state as a whole emanated from the colonials set up and Eurocentric notion of state-building through decolonization. The indigenous systems in Africa versus the modernity have had specific tensions and contestation in...

Saudi Arabia fires 5 officials, arrests 18 after admitting Khashoggi killed in consulate fight

Security guards stand outside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
By The Washington Post ISTANBUL -- The Saudi government acknowledged early Saturday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, saying he died during a fist fight. The announcement, which came in a tweet from the Saudi foreign ministry, said that an...

Turkey, Somalia sign MoU to boost cooperation on investments

Turkish Investment Office Signs Mou with Somalia Investment Promotion Agency
By:Horndiplomat staff Turkish Investment Office and the Somalia Investment Promotion Agency-SOMINVEST sign an MoU to boost cooperation on investments, promote collaborative ventures, and provide technology transfer between the two countries. The Turkish ​Investment Office and the Somalia Investment Promotion Agency (SOMINVEST) signed a memorandum of understanding...

South Africa:President Ramaphosa congratulates Mr. Abiy Ahmed on his election as head of the ruling coalition of Ethiopia

The interests of the countries and people of Africa remain at the top of South Africa's strategic priorities, as evidenced by the commitment to forging closer cooperation with Ethiopia PRETORIA, South Africa, April 4, 2018/ -- President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended his warm congratulations to...

Eritrea,Egypt leaders discuss bilateral relations and regional cooperation

Horndiplomat-Eritrea President Isaias Afwerki arrived in Cairo in the morning hours of today, 8 June on a two-day working visit to Egypt. Upon arrival at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in the Yesterday afternoon, President Isaias was accorded warm welcome by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi accompanied...

Sudan and Ethiopia agree to establish joint oil pipeline

File photo of a gas pipeline
By:Middleast Monitor Sudan and Ethiopia agreed on Friday to establish a joint oil pipeline, to serve the two countries. This came during a meeting held by Sudanese Minister of Energy and Mining Adel Mohamed Ibrahim, with his Ethiopian counterpart, Seleshi Bekele, in the capital Addis Ababa,...

Meet Mansa Musa: The Richest Man to Have Ever Lived

When asked about rich people, you probably think of Bill Gates, Rockefeller, Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim, or the Rothschild family. But according to historians, the richest man to have ever lived was an Islamic Malian king named Mansa Musa. Mansa meaning King. Mansa Musa...

How Ahmed Hussen rose to become Canada’s border man

ERIN ANDERSSEN AND MICHELLE ZILIO As a young boy, Canada’s new immigration minister fled war-torn Somalia to forge a new life in Toronto. Now, with U.S. anti-Muslim rhetoric on the rise and Canada facing an influx of desperate refugees, Ahmed Hussen must balance his hard-won...