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Meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed lasts for over an hour. Turkey’s president on Friday met with his Somali counterpart in Istanbul for talks, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency. The closed-door meeting between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Somalia’s Mohamed...

Horndiplomat-US Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs Tibor P. Nagy will travel to Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, and Germany from November 27 to December 8, 2018. During his trip, Assistant Secretary Nagy will focus on promoting stronger trade and commercial ties between...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) last Monday approved additional resources to Ethiopia’s Basic Services Transformation Program in the form of a 123- million US dollars grant. The Basic Services Transformation Programme Supplementary Financing (BSTP-SF) will be for the fiscal years 2018/19 to 2019/20, according...

Horndiplomat-On Nov 19, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched the La Gare integrated community development project. Eagle Hills, an Abu Dhabi-based private real estate development company, has announced its foray into the Ethiopian market with the launch of its 360,000-sq-m project La Gare. Located in the capital of...

BY F. HUSSEIN Israel and Somaliland have much in common. Israel faces many adversaries that don’t recognize it or its right to self-determination; Somaliland is also unrecognized as a state by most countries. Both share a history with Britain. The British defeated the Ottoman Empire, captured Palestine and...

Horndiplomat-The Bidding farewell to Turkish Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ambassador Fatih Ulusoy later today (November 19), State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dr. Markos Takle underscored that Turkey is Ethiopia’s key economic partner. Noting that Ethiopia and Turkey have enjoyed strong trade and investment relations,...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Hirut Zemene met with Mbagnick Ndiaye, Minister of African Integration, NEPAD, and Francophonie of the Republic of Senegal, on the sidelines of the 11th Assembly of the AU on today (18 November 18), during which, the two sides have agreed to...

HornDiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed met and held discussions with Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly on Sunday (November 18) on the margins of the 11th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union, being held in Addis Ababa. Dr. Abiy noted the existing strong cooperation and...

Horndiplomat-The AfricaCom Awards show, supported by Founding Awards Sponsor, PCCW Global, was a colourful and festive Mardi Gras themed event. Held in Cape Town during AfricaCom, guests celebrated and acknowledged those trailblazers who are leading digital inclusion, connectivity and digital development on the African...

The region needs more ports, and there’s a race to build and control them. This February, the small African nation of Djibouti took control of the Red Sea container port of Doraleh from DP World, completing what it considers the final act in a lengthy...