Africa

Somalia will elect a president at the end of November, and that election will have a large impact on the Somali population in Minnesota. Alastair Leithead, BBC foreign correspondent in Mogadishu, spoke in a recorded interview about the build-up to the presidential election in Somalia. Professor...

By Ludovica Iaccino Majority of refugees in Ethiopia flee from war-torn South Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea. Ethiopia has been coping with a high influx of refugees from neighbouring countries, particularly from war-torn South Sudan, where millions have been displaced since a civil war erupted in 2013....

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s deputy president attended the burning of more than 5,250 firearms seized by authorities to discourage circulation of illegal weapons in a country battling extremist violence. Deputy President William Ruto presided over the blaze of rifles and pistols in three stacks about...

The BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion "since the 1940s", the corporation has announced. The expansion is a result of the funding boost announced by the UK government last year. The new languages will be Afaan Oromo,...

Born in Kenya's largest refugee camp, Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, 31, has made headlines after he defeated a prominent Somali official to become a member of parliament. These are the first parliamentary elections in the embattled nation since 1984. For over 20 years, Kenya has been...

By:Mohamed A. Gaas A tribute to Amran Mahad, lead actress in Maalmo Dhaama Maanta (A Better Life than Today), an interactive drama helping young people to talk about both the opportunities and the obstacles that they face in Somalia. She died 3 November 2016 following...

President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country on Tuesday for Morocco to attend the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - also known as COP22. State House said that the conference will focus on the implementation of...

Kenya will not meet its deadline to close a sprawling Somali refugee camp by the end of November because Somalia could not yet guarantee basic social services for returning refugees, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Monday. "On the question of deadline, definitely we will...

The top UN envoy in Somalia has called on Somalia's two warring regional states to stick to a ceasefire agreement to help end fighting which has claimed 45 lives in the past six weeks. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Somalia, Michael Keating...

By Zelalem Girma Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao is expected to pay an official visit to Ethiopia beginning next Thursday, November 17, 2016. In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Chinese Ambassador La Yifan said that the Vice President would hold bilateral talks with Deputy...