Africa

My friend Berenika Stefanska, who has died aged 33 in a light aircraft accident in Kenya, was a freelance journalist and modern-day adventurer. Living in Nairobi, she reported for Reuters from South Sudan on the first day of its independence in 2011, and often...

Three Somali startups have shared US$15,000 in investment after coming out on top of the demo day that was the culmination of the inaugural Innovate Ventures accelerator programme. Disrupt Africa reported earlier this year Innovate Ventures announced the 12 early-stage Somali startups accepted onto the...

Is it all right here? Is everything under control, feels it is safe and secure? Police on the street in the city of Berbera on the coast of the Gulf of Aden smiles and convincing. He wants proof that we feel safe and like...

More than 900 youths from Garissa county will be recruited to clean the town and in the NYS youth empowerment programme. Deputy President William Ruto launched the project at Garissa Primary School yesterday. He said Sh30 million has been set aside for programmes in Garissa county...

By Mila Koumpilova Star Tribune NONFICTION: A striking portrait of modern Somalia — told through the job and life of Mogadishu's mayor. BBC foreign correspondent Andrew Harding’s book “The Mayor of Mogadishu” opens with an arresting scene: An attack by the militant group Al-Shabab is underway...

BEIJING — A senior Chinese officer has met Djibouti's military chief-of-staff in Beijing and thanked him for supporting China's construction of a military base in the Horn of Africa country, the second such high-level meeting in a month. Djibouti's position on the northwestern edge of the...

Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said that his country welcomed a Saudi military base to be built on its territory. “I took Saudi military leaders to some of Djibouti areas for Saudi Arabia’s military bases,” Youssouf said, adding that the agreement will be signed...

Somaliland, located in the Horn of Africa, is a semi-desert land with minimum rainfall in two rainy seasons, Dayr and Gua. The latter is expected to give more water in March to May every year. Majority of Somaliland people live in rural areas1 with...

Monday 28 Nov 2016-Somaliland’s justice system took another leap forward towards its goal of “Justice for All” with the handover a computerised system to track criminal cases and make the previous system of paper files and notes obsolete. “This is fantastic. It will be so...

By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of aid into war-torn Somalia – despite accepting there is ‘certain’ risk of funds being diverted by terrorist groups such as Islamic State and al-Shabaab. The revelation comes...