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First published by ISS Today Drought, a lack of security and inclusive politics, unemployment and poverty, piracy and the terror group al-Shabaab continue to plague Somalia. And while there has been progress in addressing these challenges, it isn’t enough. To this end a New Partnership for...

By:DAILY NATION Somalia’s ex-President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was an accidental politician. Now he wants to become the first man in the country to be re-elected. A graduate of law from a Libyan university, Ahmed was a teacher before plunging into Somalia’s civil war, and later politics. Many...

By:FANA  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia (MoFA) has rejected the press statement issued by the US Secretary of State Mr. Antony J. Blinken yesterday regarding Tigray regional state. “An attempt by the US to make pronouncements on Ethiopia’s internal affairs and specifically, the reference...

Horndiplomat-Bedecked with flags and celebrated with dancing, the demonstration is part of an ongoing campaign by Somalilander activists to encourage international recognition of their breakaway state, which declared itself independent of greater Somalia — the failed state recognised and propagated by the United Nations...

Bana Alabed, the seven-year-old Aleppo girl known worldwide for her tweets from Aleppo, has written an open letter to Donald Trump. "You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you," she wrote. Bana escaped Aleppo...

Al-shabaab executed three Somali men in Mubaarak, a district in Lower Shabelle yesterday afternoon, reports Warqaad, a Somali website. Al-shabaab accused two of the men of being Federal Government soldiers; the third man, Al-shabaab said, was one of elders who had selected MPs and Senators for...

BY JOSEPH TREVITHICKMARCH  New policies give troops on the ground – whoever they might be – more authority to call in fire support amid a growing commitment. s Somalia teeters on the edge of famine, the United States has announced plans to expand its secretive war...

By M.A. Egge The business relationship between Somaliland and Türkiye has overwhelmingly fledged and strengthened in recent years and are quite tangible as witnessed. The chairman of the Somaliland Chamber of Commerce, Jamal...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed the Ethiopia country manager of Nigeria’s Dangote Industries on Wednesday after he was attacked in the restive Oromiya region while returning to the capital from Ethiopia’s largest cement factory, officials said. Oromiya, which surrounds the capital Addis Ababa,...

By Mark Nestmann • December 12, 2017 In the 30-plus years I’ve been in the publishing business, I’ve seen my share of “new countries.” Some are scams, such as the Dominion of Melchizedek, which I exposed as a fraud nearly two decades ago. But most new countries are never fully...