Somalia’s international partners* (listed below) welcome the recent meeting between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo and two former Presidents, Hassan…
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Kenya is playing a host to a meeting between high level officials from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (OLNF) led…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a January 2010 speech that “development was once the province of humanitarians, charities, and governments…
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi lauded on Monday 18/11/2019 the agreement signed between Kenya and Somalia on the normalization of…
Since rising to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has already overseen several impressive victories — the…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in starting peace negotiations with Eritrea. But…
The Security Council on Tuesday renewed until 15 November 2018 the partial lifting of the arms embargo on Somalia, authorization…
Kenya and Somalia agree to normalise relations, restore visa on arrival arrangement NAIROBI, 14 Nov 2019 (PSCU) – Kenya and…
The Trump Administration has brokered a secret deal between Kenya and Somalia to end a simmering tension between the two…
The Genale Dawa III hydropower project located in Southeast Ethiopia, is set to be operational soon. According to Chief Executive…
When news broke of an alleged attempt to remove the security detail of Oromo activist and media mogul Jawar Mohammed,…
When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the…
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri resigned on Tuesday. He was expected to give speech from his official residence in…
The U.N Security Council Somalia Sanctions Committee has called for an urgent update of the country to better reflect reality…
The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most…
A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Somalia’s northeastern region of Puntland mistakenly killed…
Boris Johnson has urged MPs to back a general election for December 12, in an attempt to break the Brexit…
Police fired gunshots and teargas as thousands protested in Ethiopia on Wednesday over the treatment of a prominent activist, residents…
Egypt has issued a statement on Tuesday in response to the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s alleged remarks on Grand…
Protesters in eastern Ethiopia have burnt copies of a new book by prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy…
CJ Werleman argues that the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s genocide against ethnic Somali Muslims in Ogaden should have been taken into…
Ethiopia postponed by a week a referendum on self-determination for its ethnic Sidama community that would have created the country’s…
On the second anniversary of the deadly October 14, 2017 suicide bombings in Somalia, the United Nations envoy to the…
Ethiopia Major Hayelom Tesfaye & Major Sebri Towfik, two pilots of an SU-27 fighter jet, were killed yes’day when their…
“The changes in Ethiopia and the rapprochement with Eritrea created an opportunity for Somalia’s Federal Government to join a tripartite…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Turkey of possible sanctions during a news conference at the White House Friday. He said…
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian Prime Minister who helped end his country’s 20-year…
A faction of Somalia’s intelligence agency, the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and members of the FGS political establishment,…
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from her husband, Ahmed Hirsi. Ilhan officially filed for divorce on Oct.…
Federal, Unitary, or Confederation for Somalia. Which one? Part III Part I of this article, I have attempted to give…
The annual U.N. General Assembly is an orgy of symbolism. Who meets whom on the sidelines? Who tried but failed…
Police are looking for a Somali national who flew to the country on September 24 after he had been released…
Federal, Unitary, or Confederation for Somalia. Which one? This is part II of the above topic. In Part I, I…
Federal, Unitary, or Confederation for Somalia. Which one? I will divide this paper into two parts. The first part, I…
“The group was … preparing to attack hotels, religious festivities gathering places and public areas in Addis Ababa,” said the…
A reliable sources say Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has canceled his planned trip to New York this week as…
Mogadishu – As the world marks the International Day of Peace, the UN envoy to Somalia today encouraged all Somalis to…
Have you been somewhere in Somalia in the night of February 8th, 2017?! Certainly if you were, you must have…
Egypt on Sunday said negotiations over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia have not led to any “breakthrough.”…
The president of Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, on Sunday committed to defeat militant groups in the region as…
Drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two key oil installations inside Saudi Arabia on Saturday, damaging facilities that…
Reliable sources have told Somaliaffairs that the deputy director of Qatar’s intelligence agency, Abdallah Mohamed Mubarak Salah al-Khalifi, arrived in…
General Berhanu Jula, Deputy Chief of Staff and military operations head of the Ethiopian Armed Forces told Ethiopian Press Agency that the…
In July, a crowd at a Trump rally chanted “send her back” about the Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar, parroting Trump’s…
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, once quipped that “SALT [Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty] lies buried…
The youngest son of late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi died of an alleged heart attack at a hospital in Cairo, sources told…
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry disclosed on Monday that inflation rate for consumer goods is now a double-digit number.…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for increased security coordination with Ethiopia, in what will be seen as a…
A team of researchers and humanitarian professionals have developed a unique approach to combat domestic violence in the refugee camps…
Somalia, a country dominated by warring parts including radical religious fanatics, is yet to stand on its feet despite the…
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the outgoing head of Sudan’s military council, was sworn in as head of the newly-formed Sovereign…
New York – In his first briefing to the Security Council, the United Nations envoy to Somalia highlighted the progress the…
Police in Ethiopia have made arrests over a plot for an ex-regional president to escape prison detention, the local Reporter Ethiopia have…
Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Isse Awad has signed the ratification instrument of the Convention on the Rights of…
When Somalia’s largely-appointed parliament and senate elected Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, or Farmajo as he is better known, president, there was optimism in the West.…
Qatar’s regime has created a new terrorist entity in Somalia. Terrified by the Saudi, Emirati, and Egyptian support for the…
I just concluded listening to a piece of detailed information about the foiled visit of PM Khayre to North Galkayo.…
President Said Abdullahi Deni of Puntland was an outsider of Puntland politics. He is not well versed in the history…